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It's one of them Kirby emoticons. First character is his pointy right hand, then his right eye, then nose, then left eye shut tightly, then his left pointy hand.

I think.

Nup, yer close but a lil off Smackwell >.>

***edit*** I didn't actually explain how they're read. I'm an idiot.

You read them dead on - no tilting necessary. The most basic face is ^_^ (two eyes and a mouth, think anime style happy-face)

An explanation of what a Kirby smiley is is below, followed by my own little variation and explanation.

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Kirby is like this <(^_^)> or this (>^.^)> or sometimes he dances like a loon!

<(^.^<) ^(^_^)^ ^( ^.^)><(^.^ )^v(^.^)^^( )^

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But yeah, tis not exactly a kirby; it's a take-off of a derivitave of Japanese style smilies; the derivative being a decade and then some old itself (and my take on it being almost as old too - Oh misspent youth on the Internets...) But as with anything internet based it's evolved; both the original version, the derivative, and my take on it.*

In my case < > is cat ears; since I mostly play catgirls and the occasional catboy. (Putting em on top of the head never worked out for me, I sorta developed the habit back in FFXI many, many moons ago.)

So <o.<> is basically one eye open, the other eye closed, kind of an exasperated wink I suppose. (A more typical wink would be <^.~> or sometimes with a thumbs up <^.~>b - there's also the sniper or 'ace' wink <-.+> or <-.+>b (the + being crosshairs))

... I have a huge repository of smilies I can whip out on a moment's notice <'x'> <-- that one is basically "But I should shut up..." - kind of a mild level of embarassment + the fact that I know going further will get me more trouble than it's worth)

<~_~>; <-- embarassment with sweat-bead

I can't help it, I've loved em since I started using em so far back I can't even remember.

Just remember <⌐<⌐.<⌐.⌐>.⌐>.⌐> I gots back up if'n you cause me problems!

(It's the kitty mafia, with shades. >.>)

I'll shut up now; I'm sure people thought I was weird *before* I tried to explain all this <@,@> so I should probably shut up before my credibility is shot even further to death.

That last one there btw is swirly eyes - usually either 'knocked senseless' or 'feeling loony'.

Okay, seriously shutting up. Every time I explain my smilies to anyone it *usually* goes poorly for me... but; well >.> the CO community has been unusually tolerant of my eccentricity in the past; so... hopefully this will be OK.

*Of course it's worth noting that everything I do here has probably been done by other people independently too. While I only actively copied some of the most basic stuff... it hardly takes much effort to come up with a bajillion and ten variations if you've got the interest and time. Why yes, I am a total loser! >.> I'm okay with that.

Heheh!, nice and creative Mistform... I had no idea there were so many!. :)

Nuttier than the average squirrel? ;)

You could say that <,<

Our forum has no rampant speculation. Everything is hard facts with Dev confirmation ;)

Ah I see, I missed the fact that there were no parentheses in your thing.

So one I've never understood was >.>

Does that mean you have pointy eyes, or are they looking the other way? And what the hell does it mean?

It means "oh crap, my eyes are being sucked by a tiny black hole right next to my face! Send help!"

Your guess is as good as mine!