Too strange for words...

[Captain Howdy]

Or Illithids. Hmm... there is the practice of tongue-splitting, though. I can at least fathom the notion of getting your ears bobbed, but tongue-splitting... *shudder*

Oh, and haiiro, there's enough variation in the shape of people's ears that I doubt there's any significant impact -- any variance would be within human norms. I've met someone whose ears were naturally elf-shaped and he seemed to hear just fine.

Yes, people can have naturally pointed ears. I do, actually. They aren't long like elf ears, but they are pointed instead of rounded at the top. It's called "Woolnerian Tip" or "Darwin's Tubercle". Charles Darwin named the feature after seeing the Woolner sculpture entitled "Puck". I couldn't find an example picture, but I found a pic of the scultpure. It's hard to see in the photo. As far as the body mod stuff, I've seen wierder crap... Like brow implants.

 

[Mercule]

As far as the body mod stuff, I've seen wierder crap... Like brow implants.

And, those do what, exactly? Make you look cro-mag?

Maybe they're for the people with an orc fetish.

 

[Angcuru]

Ugh. WHY!? >_<

Tolkien is rolling around like a pinball in his grave, I tell you.

 

[Captain Howdy]

And, those do what, exactly? Make you look cro-mag?

Maybe they're for the people with an orc fetish.

Most of the people (that I have seen personally) are going for the whole snake motif. They do the forked tounge and the scale tattoos, and of course the metal ball subdermal implants along their brow.
Hey, whatever makes them happy...

 

[Angcuru]

If you'll excuse me, I have to go get a stapler to keep my skin from crawling away.

 

[Hanuman]

I once met an old fellow in an outback pub that had replaced his lower canine and the tooth next to it with a small boar tusk.They called him fang........."sigh".You can meet some strange characters in the Australian outback.