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THOUGHTS? Humans & Furries: "α to ζ", my next world-settin
8 years ago
Thank you to those who responded to my Journal, "You Got Humans In My Furry! You Got Furries In My Humans!". I appreciate your feedback on this. To elaborate on what was going through my head when I wrote that, here is my overview of an upcoming release. It is my next world-setting, "α to ζ".
I have finished story three and am still working out stories one and two. I've been sculpting this setting for just over a year after having seen and loved the world-building behind "Zootopia". This is very different from that world (with the exception that it's mammals only ... so far) and it includes Super-heroes and -villains.
In any event, this is the backstory:
“α to ζ” (aka “Alpha to Zeta” or “A to Z”) is my name for a story setting that encompasses magic, super-science, and costumed, super-powered individuals. The world is populated by humanoid animals including many humans. And although humans are the most numerous of species, they are only one of countless, intelligent, mammalian species.
It wasn’t always that way.
This Earth is like a funhouse mirror-image to our own, in which magic and science collided to retroactively re-write history and the biosphere. This was, basically, and accident that started mixing human characteristics into different mammalian species going back to the dawn of homo sapiens.
From the perspective of those in the present, restructured world, Earth has always had creatures “ascending” with spontaneous developmental characteristics. Humans spontaneously exhibited zoomorphic attributes and non-humans expressed anthropomorphic traits in a process dubbed “Spontaneous Morphic Evolutionary Punctuation”. It has heavily influenced how scientists in this “revised world”, view evolution.
But, the histories of Earth have been completely re-written.
Today, in the wake of over eleven thousand years of retroactive biology (and, also, history), the mixing of species has slowed down and settled into a vast biome in which “pure” humans make up only fifteen percent of the world population. There are still non-sapient mammals around but with hundreds, if not thousands, of anthropomorphic off-shoots. Place names and people may or may not have post-revision analogs. The changing of history has altered many people and erased others. However, the entanglement of particles in the present, spreading back into the past, has managed to keep many things the same.
In the contemporary world of “α to ζ”, magic and science are more exaggerated than in the original timeline. There is also a greater tradition of larger-than-life individuals attempting to influence the world through special abilities. This is at the cost of individuals who, before being ret-conned into the new world, would have been politicians, military leaders, religious icons, or business leaders. The more overt presence of disproportionate scientific discoveries and individual arcane ability has allowed for individuals to move forward without requiring as much assistance from others as they did before the retroactive temporal change. With a lesser need for organizations that would once have been seen as tools for implementing one’s individual plans, greater individualism is one side-effect in the ret-conned world history.
Out of this cauldron have emerged “supers” or “the costumes”: powered individuals who exercise their will in direct proportion to their unusual abilities. Super-heroes and super-villains are a worldwide phenomenon. They are made up of all manner of people: anthropomorphic mammals and humans, alike. Out of the world’s eight billion inhabitants, approximately point-zero-zero-zero-one percent (.000001 or 8,000 individuals) are powered, whether by science, mutation, or magic. Their origins may be intentional experimentation, random mutation, magical discovery, or just about anything else. But none of them know the truth: that, once, there were humans and only humans. This is the world after everything got changed.
But it's a world that they tower over like the titans of myth.
Many of their stories are set in Otawatapolis but others will reach much farther.
I hope this is of interest to you, all.
I have finished story three and am still working out stories one and two. I've been sculpting this setting for just over a year after having seen and loved the world-building behind "Zootopia". This is very different from that world (with the exception that it's mammals only ... so far) and it includes Super-heroes and -villains.
In any event, this is the backstory:
“α to ζ” World Overview“α to ζ” (aka “Alpha to Zeta” or “A to Z”) is my name for a story setting that encompasses magic, super-science, and costumed, super-powered individuals. The world is populated by humanoid animals including many humans. And although humans are the most numerous of species, they are only one of countless, intelligent, mammalian species.
It wasn’t always that way.
This Earth is like a funhouse mirror-image to our own, in which magic and science collided to retroactively re-write history and the biosphere. This was, basically, and accident that started mixing human characteristics into different mammalian species going back to the dawn of homo sapiens.
From the perspective of those in the present, restructured world, Earth has always had creatures “ascending” with spontaneous developmental characteristics. Humans spontaneously exhibited zoomorphic attributes and non-humans expressed anthropomorphic traits in a process dubbed “Spontaneous Morphic Evolutionary Punctuation”. It has heavily influenced how scientists in this “revised world”, view evolution.
But, the histories of Earth have been completely re-written.
Today, in the wake of over eleven thousand years of retroactive biology (and, also, history), the mixing of species has slowed down and settled into a vast biome in which “pure” humans make up only fifteen percent of the world population. There are still non-sapient mammals around but with hundreds, if not thousands, of anthropomorphic off-shoots. Place names and people may or may not have post-revision analogs. The changing of history has altered many people and erased others. However, the entanglement of particles in the present, spreading back into the past, has managed to keep many things the same.
In the contemporary world of “α to ζ”, magic and science are more exaggerated than in the original timeline. There is also a greater tradition of larger-than-life individuals attempting to influence the world through special abilities. This is at the cost of individuals who, before being ret-conned into the new world, would have been politicians, military leaders, religious icons, or business leaders. The more overt presence of disproportionate scientific discoveries and individual arcane ability has allowed for individuals to move forward without requiring as much assistance from others as they did before the retroactive temporal change. With a lesser need for organizations that would once have been seen as tools for implementing one’s individual plans, greater individualism is one side-effect in the ret-conned world history.
Out of this cauldron have emerged “supers” or “the costumes”: powered individuals who exercise their will in direct proportion to their unusual abilities. Super-heroes and super-villains are a worldwide phenomenon. They are made up of all manner of people: anthropomorphic mammals and humans, alike. Out of the world’s eight billion inhabitants, approximately point-zero-zero-zero-one percent (.000001 or 8,000 individuals) are powered, whether by science, mutation, or magic. Their origins may be intentional experimentation, random mutation, magical discovery, or just about anything else. But none of them know the truth: that, once, there were humans and only humans. This is the world after everything got changed.
But it's a world that they tower over like the titans of myth.
Many of their stories are set in Otawatapolis but others will reach much farther.
I hope this is of interest to you, all.
Tell me: do you think, if I wrote a novel in this universe, that it might sell? And by "sell" I mean even to relatively picky furries who don't always buy stories?
I understand the 'only mammalian furries' limitation, it makes it hard for me to have a cameo as my feathered self, but the reasoning behind it is sound, only 'close' branches of the family tree get to 'cross-pollinate.'
Then again ... "magic". That could serve to be my fundamental "reason".
(Yes, I've tarted to apply some semi-plausable pseudoscience to explain how my potions work.)
In my case, let's just say that it was a perfectly normal world with normal evolution until a spell ran into a quantum entanglement array...
Considering some of our, at least formerly, shared interests?
I can only imagine what a godlike figure someone who could grow themselves or shrink others would have. Interesting times to be sure.
The ability to, even in such a world, be considered godlike, would be a tremendous ego booster.
Something within me wants to see what would happen with somebody who believed they had no power, and suddenly ended up with scientific, magical, and "super powered" edges combined. To be a god among gods as it were.
Regardless, I definitely want to see where this goes.
Imagine all that you could scent being a overwhelming amount of scent that said "This male must mate me!"
This has two sides of course, both from the person whom inflicts such a condition upon a person, and from the persons perspective of "My... my cock is getting hard over what?!?"
That's besides the issue of size as well, if something like hyper was involved.
This is a subject I believe could be greatly, even if not erotically, expanded upon.
Regardless, big or small, hyper or normal, I'd love to see what you suggest, or even suggest alternate uses for abilities listed in current rpgs 8)
This would lead to two story-telling options: of such a character being a villain (such as Killgrave) or a reluctant hero (trying to hold back their power out of respect for others' free will).
In particular the power is usually used ot give temporary bonuses such as huge ears giving super hearing, or giant hands making mega fists. I believe however, though unintended, naughty and fun times could ensue with such a power. Then there is also the standard powers of Growth and Shrink, both of self and others.
In that particular universe there are also mages and super scientists, giving every reason from someone being exposed to radioactive lightning, to flesh sculpting magics, to a freak dimensional magic spell, to some aspect of a mutating gene experiment being able to be done.
But still, Expand Body Parts, Extraordinary Physical Beauty,and such poers could make one a "Below the radar and above suspicion" person, as I am often a fan of saying. Or even just such a person that has sexy times using their powers in a creative way, particularly if some cross dimensional hijinks ensued, as seems to be possible.
Heck, some human from "our" world transferring there, switching with their equivalent "opposite" person, and no one realizing why they thought something was strange, to one of the furry folks coming from their world to "this" one (their other half perhaps being their all too unaware human counterpart in the furry mixed world?) and being even more godly would be particularly awesome.
Yeah, there would probably be one or two folk who capitalize on their abilities in such a way. Certainly!
I wish you well in developing it and the stories you have coming along.