#i dont think its self harm adjacent tbh!!! its like how i bite my nails to extremes...not On Purpose/Intent to Harm but because of ummm

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are the side gills on talon (and nyalon) a vampire thing too or whats the deal w those

talon has regenerative ability only at a slightly faster rate than a regular person, and when he hasn't fed it kinda dips into the negatives and wounds actually take a bit longer to heal... he often grabs at his sides out of nervousness/general torment and anguish and rumination, and when his claws are out he tears into himself, so he almost always has new cuts over healing ones (i jst get lazy to draw more faded ones, + drawing them more realistically/less uniform looks too messy for my tastes)

its adjacent to nail biting, skin picking etc (or jst general fidgeting) ^_^ it's also why he often has patches on the sides of his clothes (and why he took up mending to begin with, cant just be tossing away what little clothes you have when they can be fixed)

though i havent been drawing em as much on nyalon recently/this month! i shld go edit some of those scribbles ^_^