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Physical or narrative representation of a character's breath.

Use this tag when a character's breath is visible, or it appears obvious from the image that a character's breathing is labored (huffing, panting), or characterized by an emphasized exhalation (sigh). Breathing effects may take the form of a puff, or cloud, appear as a fog / mist surrounding a character, or depicted using sound effects.

Other breathing effects such as the chest moving in and out might be better tagged as breathing instead of breath.

Breath's visibility in art generally attempts to convey a significant difference between the breather's internal body temperature and the ambient temperature of their surroundings. Thus, breath is often seen in cold environments and during or after physical exertion (e.g., sex, exercise, tired, etc.).

Features

• breath_cloud
• breathing_noises - Sound effect words such as huff, pant, puff, sigh, snort.

Categories

• gasp
• huff (defunct)
• panting
• sigh
• snort
• wheeze

Related tags

• breathing
• smoke_from_nose

Not to be confused with

• steam - visible evaporation of water from boiling, although the tag does not require boiling. In art, sweat may evaporate into steam. For tagging purposes, steam is not exhaled from the mouth or nose.