Love love love when [insert animal/creature] hybrids act like [insert animal/creature]. You're telling me you're making character a badass animal or a mythical creature. And the only feature they get is like animal ears. God bless a tail or inhuman eyes?
You're telling me you're making a DRAGON hybrid and they act like just a regular ass dude?
I LOVELOVELOVE when they have that specific wild taste I LOVE you instincts I LOVE when they look that little bit fucked up I LOVE designs that if you passed by them in a street you would turn around. I love you ditigrade legs I love you animal like body language. I love you claws and fins and tails and scales and feathers I love you features that aren't just aesthetic, that are active cuz feathers furs scales can be itchy and need to be taken care of. I love it being written into a routine just like brushing hair is to us.
I love you species culture and miscommunication and sharing culture because sharing a rock or food can be seen as passive gestures to some yet a declaration of courtship to others. love you going out of your way to do something in the love language of the other.
I love you different species taking different body language differently because swishing a tail is happiness for some and a sign of aggitation for others, showing teeth is as equally a sign of a threat as it is a smile.
I love you characters separated from society raised in the wild that relearn how to be a person. I love you characters mistreated by society that relearn it's okay to act inhuman