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Ooh, very fun idea! That scenario immediately makes me imagine two things happening:

A) Person B inevitably gets defeated because their gas isn’t magically produced. However, when they learn how A won, B insists that A cheated. B also insists on A getting some kind of “punishment.” This can be up to you depending on what you imagine A and B’s relationship to be. If you wanna go platonic, maybe it’s making A take the blame for all of B’s farts in public for a week. If you wanna go sexual, then maybe it’s B farting directly in A’s face as much as possible whenever they’re at home.

B) A casts the spell at a super high level to ensure maximum power. Unfortunately, they didn’t know that doing this doesn’t affect the power of the resulting farts; it instead increases the spell’s duration. What should’ve been a 24-hour spell has turned into a week-long charm. And farting whenever A thinks about it is all fun and games... until A realizes that they think about farting a LOT.

A suddenly has to play a game of “don’t think about pink elephants” (except with farts) everywhere they go. Even something as minor as “this smoothie usually gives B a case of the farts” can set it off.

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How would either react to their gassiness?

Good question!

Obviously, a friendship between a human and a merfolk would need to happen in or near water. The human probably takes regular swims, sails out in a boat, hangs around docks/shores, or takes spells/charms to breathe underwater. That last option is rather expensive if you’re not a magic user, so it’s probably a special occasion thing.

The gas factor provides some interesting possibilities, but they all depend on the personalities of the people involved, especially that of the merfolk. Merfolk aren’t strangers to the surface, but most of them spend a lot of time underwater. When they do come up and begin breathing air, they’re particularly sensitive to smells. Only experienced air-breathing merfolk gain a tolerance for strong smells, and that takes a while to develop.

This can be an issue with how potent merfolk gas is. While farts are partially created from the resulting gases of digestion, land-dwellers also fart to release the air that they’ve swallowed and didn’t belch back up. Even if merfolk breach the surface of the water to eat every meal, they have fewer opportunities to swallow air while living underwater. This means their farts have greater concentrations of digestion-related gas, making their stench stronger. This is something that merfolk don’t need to worry about underwater, but that can be a nasty shock to them when they’re forced to breathe air.

If the merfolk involved is sheepish or queasy about farting, they’ll probably get embarrassed every time they surround themselves with bubbles while speaking to their air-breathing friend. They wouldn’t be able to help coughing at their own smell and wondering how their friend could live having to breathe in farts whether they want to or not. Their friend might try to make them less embarrassed by cracking farts of their own, laughing at how the merfolk is affected by that smell too. It’d be a friendship full of groans and coughs, but it could work! As long as the friendship truly is worth it.

Now, if the merfolk likes farting… ooh, that’s a different situation. There are merfolk who have a fondness for the strength of their own farts, who take pride in how many bubbles they can blow and how much it can make an air-breather gag. In this case, the merfolk would intentionally fart during conversations with their human friend. They’d take every opportunity to comment on just how big the bubbles are or to joke about how they’re polluting the air to get back at people for polluting the water. They’d also say a common merfolk joke: that air-breathers are so powerless without air that they might as well smell farts all day. That’s why merfolk are better: they have the option of living underwater.

If the human friend is also gassy and farts right back, this merfolk would probably have loads of fun, joking that the human is just making their own air to breathe. You also can’t hear land-dwelling fart sounds underwater (where there’s just bubbling noises), so the merfolk would probably love hearing those silly noises over and over.

Thanks for being so interested in my ideas! :3

That answer has two parts to it. First, we'll start with Part A: all non-taurs/humanoids.

When it comes to non-taurs farting, centaurs would generally react in non-negative ways. It all depends on context, of course, such as the personalities of those involved, whether or not it was an accident, etc. But here are common responses:

Amusement: Centaurs not only fart a lot, but they fart impressively. Centaur farts are either loud and sputtering, loud and long, or silent and SUPER long (with an audible hiss and visible flapping tail). Either way, they're usually always thick and strong-smelling, not necessarily bad but always noticeable. This means that when a non-taur/humanoid farts, some centaurs will just laugh and go, "Awww, how cute. That all you got?" They find "weaker" non-taur farts kinda silly and adorable. Imagine how you feel when you hear a dog or cat farting.

Relief: In the case of the non-taur farting intentionally because they're relaxed (or they just don't care), a lot of centaurs will assume this means the other person doesn't mind a centaur relieving themselves as well. Society at large has the taboo against farting, and most non-taurs don't have bodies that make it really hard to avoid being "rude." Farting intentionally around a centaur basically says there's nothing to worry about around you, and maybe even that you're joining them in "transgressing" this idea of politeness. Don't be surprised to hear a centaur mutter, "Oh thank god," before letting out a pent-up horse fart that puts the non-taur's to shame.

Competition: This response will usually only happen around a certain type of centaur and a certain type of non-taur. If a non-taur lets out some gas that's anywhere CLOSE to the level of a centaur's, some centaurs may find they're being... challenged. Sometimes the centaur will put a little more force into a fart than usual to outdo the other person. It's unlikely that a non-taur will win if they turn this into a fart-off, but that won't stop people from trying, nor from having fun.

A sub category to competition is interest: If a non-taur lets out a fart close to the level of a centaur's, a centaur may be genuinely interested in just what that non-taur ate (or how their body works) to make such gas possible. Not all non-taurs are comfortable answering that. The ones that are... curiously, they often become great buddies with centaurs.

Of course, there's always the matter of how a centaur would feel if a non-taur farted while riding them. If a non-taur becomes a centaur's "rider" (a special bond where the centaur will always be comfortable giving them a lift for hours on end), then the centaur wouldn't mind HOW many farts get drilled into their back. "Ride or die" has never been more appropriate.

In all other cases, the reaction is how you'd expect. Unless the centaur has a great personal fondness for farts, they'd enjoy getting farted on less than somebody farting around them. Still, they'd probably just brush it off, only really getting annoyed if the farts sounded or smelled particularly disgusting. Ultimately, it's up to the personality of the centaur involved. (In most cases, the centaur will back their ass up into their rider once they've climbed off, let out a thick one against them, and claim that now they're even.)

Now we get to Part B, the one thing that occurred to me a while ago, but that I've never brought up until now. What happens when another KIND of taur farts around a centaur?

I present you with: the minotaur. The only animal hybrid whose guts are on par with a centaur's.

Minotaurs and centaurs aren't enemies, no way. But they ARE rivals. Think of it less like warring families or classes and more like... local sports teams, the kind that meet up in the park every so often and will take breaks from trying to beat each other to get drunk and have a nice time.

When a minotaur farts around a centaur, there's a 50/50 chance a centaur will either respond to it like a competition (especially if the minotaur was trying to start one) or in encouragement (the minotaur was finally letting out something that was bothering their stomachs all day; the centaur welcomes this and joins in too).

Ooh, good question!

So, since Ravi’s farts are pretty rank (hence his nickname “Rank”) and he’s half skunk, his nose is pretty well-suited for other strong smells. If someone farts around him, he won’t be disgusted on that front. And while he’s a bashful farter himself, he won’t judge if someone else needs to do it. Ravi may be a gas factory, but he’s no hypocrite.

Mostly, his reaction depends on the person who’s farting. If the farter is a stranger who let it out accidentally, or who pushed one out because they just had to let off some steam, Ravi won’t mind at all. In fact, he’ll smile or chuckle (or ignore it, if that’s what the person needs), letting the other person know there’s no reason to worry.

If it’s a friend, then Ravi will definitely respond with a joking groan or complaint, or even a compliment. If it’s a romantic partner, he’ll absolutely compliment or tease them. Farts are fun in these situations!

Now, if it’s a stranger (or someone he doesn’t like) forcing out a fart just to be gross or obnoxious, then the situation changes. He finds these people annoying, and their farts gross on moral grounds. And if he sees someone tormenting somebody else with their gas, such as doing it repeatedly despite being told to stop, or force-farting in someone's face?

Well, that’s when Ravi busts out his “spray” farts and shows the offending farter what a REAL fart is.

I like the way you think. ;3 Although, I do have ONE tweak I’d like to suggest. A human who tries to stuff themself so that they can be as gassy as a centaur will almost certainly strain the limits of their stomach. No creature would want to take a long walk in a state like that. Not to mention that the ass level of a human is so much lower than the ass level of a centaur.

Therefore… the centaur kindly offers to let their human friend ride on their back, with the human slumped forward so that their ass is fully pointing at the passenger behind them. Usually, adding the extra weight of a rider isn’t great when you’re also pulling a carriage, but in this case, the centaur will happily make an exception.

The human stubbornly tries to sound cocky as numerous farts rumble out of them, but their competitive remarks are said between groans of how their stomach is so goddamn full and how they’ve never been this bloated in their life. The centaur (who is the kind of friend who won’t mind when a bro farts so close to their back) is more sympathetic and doesn’t try to show off too much when they prove that their half-horse guts can easily match the human’s farts.