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# icons

I am really possessed to make a font that abuses arbitrary ZWJ sequences to create monster icons.
it just sounds really neat, and it also has some amount of practical use in rendering text-only bop entries

...I could even add these guys to my compose key. that's crazy

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* in _Monster Rancher_, monster sprites are used rather than icons
* _Monster Rancher 2_ has square icons
* _Monster Rancher 3_ has simple faces
* _Monster Rancher 4_ has simple main-breed faces in a porthole window. _EVO_ is very similar
* _Monster Rancher DS_ has returned to no icons and monster sprites

I think the system used should be a bit more on the "cryptic" side with a main monster head in semi-silhouette and a "verb" next to it, so the image really looks like "Simurgh × Memorō" for instance
trying to draw two verbs wouldn't work very well, and drawing two faces is a little cluttered, but a face and a verb should go rather well together


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r2 "todo"  [cr. 1697592127]

[merged into "todo" entry]

```
name         path                           
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＿＿C010  sundersorce  ＿..04545637  --   Sundersorce "Sunder" 🐻💿
＿＿C190  zagros       ＿...5811604  1.2  Zagros "Overarch" / "ancient lore"  🦎🌄💿
```
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r1 "icon"  [cr. 1696401299]

```
name         path                           
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Sundersorce "Sunder" 🐕⚡💿
Zagros "Overarch"    🦖🌄💿
```

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=> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61538803/are-all-unicode-emoji-zwj-sequences-valid
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