I really don't know how "feral" caught on as a name for characters with 4 legs over just calling them what they are, quadrupeds
i need to use quadruped more because dwagon me canonically has a full sized dragon form and like. kinda wanna talk about that or get art of that without being crucified by people on a weird crusade
I use quadruped and biped for a lot, but when I need to have synonymous terms in writing so I don’t write quadruped and biped over and over I’ve taken to calling the poses “forward” and “upright”. It’s not entirely accurate but it’s the most value neutral terms I’ve been able to find, since forward and upright both get used as positive descriptors when not used to describe movement.