>>2197500I thought really long and hard about that one. I grabbed and messed with an actual cat's tail. I concluded that while the position is possible, it would be very uncomfortable when Aria's tiny waist is taken into account.
Aria has 22 vertebrae from her sacrum to the end of her tail; the shape of cat vertebrae just don't allow for snake-like flexibility. She can easily manage a semicircle; then it gets progressively harder and needs the assistance of her hands to twist it further. As we reach the tip of her tail, flexibility increases as the vertebrae are smaller.
She attempted the closest thing to Saiyan fashion, by having the tail coiled downwards around her left thigh. In time, Aria will get better at handling her tail and hiding it under her clothes.
>>2197471I flinched as a finger came unexpectedly in contact with my lower back. It was Lisa; she wanted to call my attention. I tried turning my head to see what she wanted, but she tried to whisper under her breath, “No! No! No!” she exhaled progressively louder until I stopped. I had a baseball cap on so my ears weren’t at their strongest.
“Aria, you are doing it again,” Medea nagged me.
“Sorry, it just… happens,” I tried to explain. I had a newly acquired tendency to walk on my tippy-toes as if I was wearing high-heels. My feet just seemed to naturally try that whenever I wasn’t paying attention. Walking like always felt somewhat off.
“You have to be more careful,” Medea insisted, not helping.
“I am being careful!” I disagreed. “It’s hard! I have to remember to keep the ears down, to keep the tail still, to walk normally, to not purr, to not look at bright or dark things and to not open my mouth too much. It’s a lot of work!” I maintained, ready to defend my point to the death.
“Yes, I realize it is hardly an easy task,” Medea submitted, “but if you want a normal life you are going to need to master your new body.”