Harpies are some of my favorites monster-girls. They've got cool claws, warm feathers, are lightweight, can wear most clothes, can fly, and all the sexy bits are human.

I guess harpies wouldn't have a belly button, would they?

I believe they would, or at least they should. Oviparous embryos get their nutrients from the yolk the same way viviparous get it from the placenta. Although the remaining scar is often barely visible.

evellon said:
I believe they would, or at least they should. Oviparous embryos get their nutrients from the yolk the same way viviparous get it from the placenta. Although the remaining scar is often barely visible.

Huh! That's interesting, I hadn't thought of that. Wait would that mean basically *everything* has a belly button then? I always remove them from my scalies too.

terraraptor said:
Huh! That's interesting, I hadn't thought of that. Wait would that mean basically *everything* has a belly button then? I always remove them from my scalies too.

I don't really know for sure, but at least most if not all vertebrates have or had at some point a scar from when they were embryos. It's just that it's often hidden by fur, feathers, scales or barely visible.

Harpies should have them tho, given their body is mostly humanoid, so same rules apply. A scalie probably wouldn't, but that depends entirely on their design and where they sit on the anthropomorphization spectrum.