[caliaca]

Can I ask why you couldn't just make a redtail instead? Your reason seems to have a very heavy focus on the characters personality vs having any real need for the ears and tail outside of wanting to match a playby.

I'm not too keen of promoting that all NPC homunculi creators are just these mad artists that make whatever monster mashup homunculi they feel like despite this being a rather popular trend among player creators.

I think the first part kinda covers it a bit. Filia, the character, generally works best when they've got a more nice looking outside appearance that contrasts heavily with the internal issues that make up their character. In the past, I've incarnated this as a curse before, but in Korvara it likely works pretty well as her being an amalgana or chimera, something that has issues keeping itself together.

This is partially because the character is often used as sort of a reflection of different issues that people see in the real world, issues that are often more hidden in nature. She reflects some of the mental struggles that people encounter, ones that people often don't often believe at first since the outward appearance looks fine. In that order, it makes the most sense that the character's appearance itself is cutesy. Amalgana would work better than redtail if I had to pick a race in that regard, but I think the character loses something if they're not able to be stereotyped by people on their first look.

I could even get a player character creator to probably want to make this too if that's going to be an issue. I don't think that would be that difficult though I think calling it a monster mashup goes a bit far, it's not like I'm trying to combine a bunch of different characteristics from different races. 

On a more personal level, this character is one that's a bit near and dear to me and changing up their racial characteristics would feel pretty strange. I come from the furry world so this wouldn't really be a 'thing' there and the character is established enough that without these characteristics it'd be weird for me personally.

If it helps, she was going to be a shapeshifter too, class wise.