Coyote

And of course, my ideas for everyone else (so far, I think it's like most of the popular characters & some extras) + some reasoning sometimes... sometimes. Loosely based on country at least, but sometimes I just go on vibes. Definitely doesn't fit specific regions, I dunno jack about England or their accents or anything.

In no particular order sorry,, I'm genuinely just rephrasing from my notes lol

I'm also not much of a horse guy? I never was growing up, and I'm kind of scared of them to be completely honest with you. But this project has made me appreciate them a lot more!

Regardless, I could easily be missing easy picks just 'cause I don't know much about em. Feel free to give your own input

Gaz is a Thoroughbred

Ghost is a Shire, I can't help but think of the one in RDR2 lol.

Room for skeletal markings if I play w/ white spotting! I don't really care about full realism considering... centaurs

Soap is an Eriskay Pony

Wikipedia says it's "used for light draught work, driving, and as a mount for children" which is just cute honestly

Per the request of my mother, and because research proves they're super clever animals and I was really charmed by them, Alejandro is a Burro :) specifically based on feral burros

Was initially worried this one would come off in bad taste just based on the stereotypes around em, but as far as I found (albeit through pretty much surface-level forum browsing) donkeys are pretty respected once you dig past the initial stereotypes (for good reason, they're cool lil fellas) so I figured I'd go with it, but feel free to correct me or suggest something else anyways.

On that note, Rudy is a Mule to match, also pretty cool animals

Laswell is either a Morgan or a Mustang, I feel like either could fit fairly well.

Digging around shows that Urzikstan is apparently close to Georgia?? I'm a dumb American so I did my best to narrow down a region for horse breeds and came up with a few pretty fascinating options (Karabakh, Kabarda, & Karachay), but no concrete answer for Farah and Hadir.

Half-tempted to just throw in Przewalski's because they're cool and I like saying the name, but I'd like to put a bit more thought into it lol. Of the three actual breeds, the Kabarda seems like the best bet to me based on region, but I'm bad with maps & there are a bunch of "Urzikstan irl" maps with varying placement, so...

Graves is a palomino American Quarter Horse, as suggested by my mom. Looks right to me

Made Velikan a Friesian 'cause I wanted an excuse to use em...

I drew him with curly hair exactly once, based on the dog AU (I haven't shared that on here have I???), and haven't dropped it as a hc since, so it kind of fits perfectly!

Mace is a Clydesdale. Wanted to pick an American breed but I'm finding two draft breeds tops and neither felt right, so...

...also I feel like Shire & Clydesdale are like the draft horses everyone thinks about (they're my first thought anyways) and I wanted him to match Ghost

Nikolai is a Soviet Heavy Draft - dark bay

Nikto is a Russian Heavy Draft/Russian Ardennes - liver chestnut or something like that?? hard to pick a color for Nikto, considering

I don't know why I have specific coat colors for these two and none of the others so I included them to be safe. Maybe I had a point earlier

König is a Rottaler - I dunno if they actually come in this color but I have bay w/ graying written down

Krueger is a Dülmener. I appreciate feral horses

Horangi doesn't get a specific breed, I'll figure out a type eventually but more importantly he has a brindle pattern because duh

So far Shepherd, Valeria, and Alex are the only ones I have written down that don't have anything.

I also have Roach written down for fun, but he also has nothing, so.

I don't... know who else to add. I'm perfectly willing to go through all of the MP characters eventually, but I don't think I'm missing anyone aside from that??? It's been so long since I last played the campaign, I don't know.

I've done this with a few other animals too, dogs of course (reworking that one), I should probably do cats sometime now that I think of it, birds is up next 100%, and I've already got most of them down for cattle breeds because I do quite enjoy cows actually. They're cute little guys. I'll compile 'em all one of these days, and think of more.

• I like to think of Soap as a rough collie hybrid. Fluffy, herding dog, Scottish, and I feel like their fur lends well to his lil mohawk thing he's got goin on.

• Absolute menace. 100% he herds anyone and everyone he can get his hands on, primarily prey hybrids. Gaz is one of his most common herding targets, he tries to herd Ghost sometimes but usually gets nipped at for it, and Price is exempt from such instincts.

• Gaz is a deer hybrid, I think he'd look cool with antlers, specifically a red deer. Bucks are strong, man. He just gives me ungulate vibes most of the time idk what it is.

• He usually tolerates Soap's herding. :)

• Price could be lots of things. I've found that I'm actually quite fond of him just being a normal dude who sees the value in hybrids (and treating them like people) so I'll probably go with that. Otherwise I suppose another dog or something could work. Rotts are big and angry but also have a very unintimidating smile so maybe them? They're super good working dogs so. Still I'll mostly stick with the human idea.

• Ghost always depends on what I'm looking for really. Sometimes Wolf if I want the wild vibe, sometimes Dog because he just reminds me of a grumpy working dog. Definitely a GSD hybrid. I do prefer writing him as a dog hybrid anyways so I'll stick with that.

• Shepherds are technically a herding breed, but Ghost lacks any herding instincts and finds Soap's irritating. Best-case they're useful for gathering up the team in a mission to prevent unnecessary separation, though, and it's amusing to watch him weave around folks barking and snapping his teeth at people to get them to stay in line. Sometimes Ghost tolerates it, and sometimes he nips at him to get him to stop.

• I feel like outside of combat Ghost and Soap have a habit of wrestling. Like how real dogs tend to, yknow. You leave them alone for one second and suddenly someone's arm is in someone else's mouth, there's growling, it looks like they're fighting, and the only thing saying otherwise is the wagging tails and the lack of any blood or fur anywhere. It's how they bond

• Price definitely made an effort to not get any hunting hybrids because he'd rather not have infighting thanks to Gaz looking huntable, thank you. It's not even worry that Gaz would get hurt given the fact bucks pack such a punch, he just doesn't want to deal with all that tension.

• Feral, Domestic, Tame, and Wild all mean different things. A Domestic hybrid can be Feral and a Wild hybrid can be Tame, etc. It's mostly rooted in real-life terms, think feral housecats.

• Feral refers to temperament and handleability, it's a term that can change over time based on treatment. Tame is the same but flipped; so a Feral hybrid is harder to handle and acts more like their animal counterpart due to a lack of (positive) human contact, while Tame hybrids seem more intelligent in comparison just due to being easier to handle and better at communicating. Neither are fully unable to communicate by default, but personal traits can mean either are, if that makes any sense.

• Wild vs. Domestic is entirely about the species; a wolf or lion hybrid is wild, while a dog or housecat hybrid is domestic. This one's as simple as finding out if the species they're considered a hybrid of is domesticated or not. If they are, Domestic, if not, Wild. This term cannot change over time, but like their real-animal counterparts, Wild hybrids can be domesticated over time via selective breeding (it won't do much, but it is possible) and Domestic hybrids can slowly regain Wild traits only if multiple generations are exposed to conditions where they need it. So, selective breeding, but backwards. This practice is heavily discouraged as it just leads to unnecessary confusion and hybrid breeding is considered pretty cruel.

• "Hybrids" are not a literal hybrid of human and animal, because that's just kind of weird, but humans with a mutation that closely resembles certain animals. This phenomenon has only been properly recorded as of late, maybe a couple centuries, but there are implications that it might have existed earlier in history and just been ignored, seen as taboo, etc etc.

• There's a few different rules to which hybrids get what treatment. It's not uncommon for any and all hybrids to have a handler, and one handler can be in control of multiple hybrids, but they're not required to live together, and it's more like an emergency contact/trainer/guardian than an owner or something of the sort.

• It is, however, different for Wild and Feral hybrids. Tame Domestic hybrids are not required to have a handler, but Feral Domestic hybrids are at least supposed to have a trainer or therapist or something of the sort. With Wild hybrids it depends on the specific species, smaller Wilds are usually fine, especially if they seem harmless, herbivores tend to be exempt due to stereotypes, and most omnivores are fine, but medium-large carnivores and all Feral hybrids are required to have a handler and in some places required to live with them and be accompanied by them to most places. Wild carnivore hybrids are usually considered more dangerous, also due to stereotypes.

• Again, in certain places, Wild carnivores are expected to wear a muzzle and be properly handled (physical restraint in the form of a leash or the handler just being close enough and able to handle them), but this is mostly a private property/commercial spaces thing that depends on the exact place. Think like how a Petco or something (ew) might let you bring in your little dog or something, maybe a cat, but probably won't let you bring in a big rottweiler or something of the sort, depending on the location. Or how in some locations specific stores will let you bring in a pet as long as they're handled well, but others only allow in service dogs.

• This is very intentionally inhumane, as given how the real world functions I feel like yes we would base how we treat folks with carnivore-oriented traits on how we personify those animals in our minds. Going further I also imagine some places are permitted to bar certain species entirely, and species that are viewed as "unappealing" and violent (hyenas, coyotes and maybe jackals, probably foxes and raccoons in some areas, etc etc) tend to show up on this list a lot.

• Probably lots of folks advocating against this, but it sticks around like a tick because plenty of people are just little cowards about it and don't want the change. I imagine most herbivore hybrids are also against it because what's stopping them from being mistreated in the same way next, so it's mostly a non-hybrid thing.

• How much someone resembles their real-animal counterpart depends on content! This is a term seen in some real-world hybrids, most often I see it in wolfdogs as they're very easily hybridized and their offspring can breed. However, rather than being based on that, because again they're not actually hybrids it's more of a form of mimicry, it's based on the genetics deciding how much of their species they look and act like. I like to think there's a specific set of genes that causes this, and 1-2 traits that factor into how the traits look and how the behavior and instincts develop. Someone who's relatively low-content doesn't look much like the species if at all, and doesn't act much like them, while someone who's high-content will have a lot of the animal's traits and are more likely to fall into that Feral state due to how their brain is built. It isn't set in stone, but more of a big scale.

• Most of TF141 are pretty in the middle of that scale. Ghost is the highest content, Soap isn't far behind, and Gaz is about in the middle, maybe a bit below.

• Nikolai could be a human and I like the idea of normal guy Nikolai BUT he's russian, and to that I suggest: Russian Wolfhound, aka the Borzoi, because I love Borzois they're the best. And greyhounds but Borzoi is a Russian breed :) their fur reminds me a bit of his hair as well

• I just. Really like Borzois, man. I was SO excited when they started gaining popularity a while back, I know it was because of a silly joke but screw it man!! They got more love!!! Smooch smooch Borzois my beloved. They're a sighthound breed as well, and honestly, I feel like that just fits him somehow.