Plagued Animals

"I am NOT a cat. Not a small one, that is."

- Carmine Plagued is the name given to animals that have been affected by the Seraphic Plague during the 14th century, and to all of their descendants. It is basically the word that is used to make the difference between regular animals, and the human-like, anthropomorphic ones. Plagued animals only appear in the Present Verse and in the Alternative Universe One. It is to be noted that there are no insects among them, and that all of them do possess a body allowing them to deal with daily human-like life.

Much as they are pretty much human in mind, they are generally disliked by legitimate humans, and live in their own communities and towns, even though multicultural places do exist. One reason for this being, that some of them do need technology that is adapted to their bodies and way of living, which may not always be very compatible with the way regular humans function. This ranges from specific means of transportation, to other things like particular weather. Generally speaking though, plagued animals differ very little from humans in behavior.

Plagued are unable to reproduce with real animals of the same species, but are able to have offspring with humans, in which case the children will be either human or plagued, at something that is supposed to be a fifty percent chance. Human children with a plagued parent might display some animalistic behavior inherited from said parent, such as a love for certain type of foods or a dislike for specific things, but will look physically normal otherwise, mainly borrowing their looks from the human parent. On the other hand, plagued children show no particularities whatsoever and may visibly take after any of the parents.

Lastly, plagued animals have the average lifespan of a normal human and are also able to have a talent.

(Aren't they just furries? Maybe! But why not take a look at something else in this wide field of Sunflowers?)