Forgot to mention he has stripes just above his wrists.

I would like to think there are stripes just before his ankles. For a brief moment, you get a nice view of him from the chest up. There may be stripes just above his hips. When I think about it, he's more built than Inuyasha *drool*. Hmm, you can only leave it up to your imagination.

The stripes are closer to maroon rather than magenta or burgundy.

1) What color are they? I've read that the most popular colors are magenta and burgundy. What color do you believe they are?

2) Do you think Sesshie has anymore stripes on his body? Where? I've seen too many *blushes* fan art in which our beloved daiyoukai is stripped down to his birthday suit. And let me tell you, those sneaky little devils are everywhere.

Since we (o, my fellow fangirls!) have never been blessed with the honor-scratch that-the privilege of having our unworthy eyes exalted by the glorious appearance of Sesshomaru in his natural state of undress, none of us know where other bearings of his heritage markings may be. That is where our imagination comes to play.

So where do you think it would be more fitting for the Daiyoukai to bear his body bands (and please keep it appropriate for minors)?

For me, I have always pictured Sesshie to have stripes hug around his waist area. And stripes that start from the back of his leg (below his under knee) downwards.

lol... with some fics I've read I wonder if his markings shift colors with his moods... like a mood ring...even in the anime they seem to shift back and forth between a wine and a violet, and in the colored manga pages they can range anywhere from black to primary red. the crescent also shifts in shades and intensities of blues and sometimes even green. his eyelids always seem to stay red though. *shrugs*

I always like to think of them as magenta or a dark reddish magenta.

And... I've always wondered and prefers that he had strips on his hips. *drools*

I either make them magenta or red....it really depends on your preference

I think that color close to dark red or maroon would look better than magenta.

At least color of his eyelids are constant in fanfics:D

In my mind the stripes are always magenta.

Although I love the idea that he would have them on his hips, it seems entirely possible that he has no other stripes. When Sesshoumaru changes to his true form, the stripes on his face remain. They change a bit, but they are still there. No other stripes become visible, at least not that I have seen and in that form, he seems to be without clothing.

Aside from that, it's really up to our (sometimes slightly perverted) imaginations.

Im a big fan of markings like Sesshoumaru's in general, but one of the main reasons i love fanfiction so much is that by reading stories by different authors you get so many different veiws on the details that are not exsplicit in the manga/anime. Sesshoumaru's markings are one of those areas. i've read fics with all kinds of color and placemant combonations and I love to see what new ones authors come up with. my favorite combonation (and also the one i find most common)is dark red stripes on his wrists, hips,cheeks, and ankles, along with a deep blue crecent in the center of his forehead. not to forget the stripe on his eyes

For the record, Magenta is a bright PINK color!!! I can't really picture Sesshoumaru with PINK stripes.

For the record, Magenta is a bright PINK color!!! I can't really picture Sesshoumaru with PINK stripes

actuall magenta is a mix between dark red and pink. but I still agree with you that it is a little too girly for Sesshoumaru.

I always found his stripes to be either a wine color or a dark magenta. As for the location I agree with most on the stripes being on his cheeks, eyes, wrists, above his hips or on his hips(depending), and on his ankles.

I always thought his strips were a combination of his mothers and fathers. His fathers strips are a light to medium purple color. I think that Sess's stripes are a combo of That purple and Blood red in color. Most animals that are poisonous have bright easy to see colors so it's not out of the realm of possibilities that his stripes are magenta after all. I believe that the stripes we see are all that he has since like someone else said you can't see anymore stripes in his true form. Then again he might since the giant dog would be enough warning to stay away he wouldn't need the bright stripes like in his humanoid form.