In regards to #tiddygate2021
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Just repeating the thread, but it shouldn't break immersion in a fantasy setting. Do you need to pretend that life on Tamriel developed like humans and animals on Earth? That Khajit are some kind of evolved felines - the cat analogue to humans and apes?
You can literally say "a wizard did it" and it's totally immersive. Or you can say "they look like cats but technically they are biologically closer to what we call mammals". 🤓
One of the in universe myths about the khajiit was them being changed from elves by Azura. So the human-like tits could be handwaved as a leftover from that.
...but cats are mammals.
I know you can explain it but still bugs me. The closer you can get is it a result of a wizard experiment of mixing human and animals.
Cats are mammals; the difference between ape and feline tits is basically, the smaller you are, the more babies you can have. Large (over 100 lbs adult weight) mammals have fewer babies than smaller ones. Bears and elephants have two chest-tits, too. Tits tend to match how many kids you have at one time.
And frankly, what I understand of the Khajiit is that their (fantastical!) biology is REALLY weird, in that how they develop depends on the phases of the moons. Yes, those tiger and kitty-like Khajiit in TESO are people, too, and are perfectly understandable to the more humanlike (playable) Khajiit. When that one dude refers to the tiger as his brother, he's NOT being metaphorical.
Oh sure you can story sci-fi justify it away. I am not saying it is even much of a stretch, but it still is pretty darn weird when you have what is clearly mostly a cat, because people recognize it as a cat and are not going to think about the "sci-fi or fantasy in world explanations" cause it is still a freakin' cat that it is based on.
Personally I never even thought of it or cared, but it is weird now that I think about it lol.