Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35455126-20190505225136

Okay

So i’m making a race heavily inspired from Faunus for a series of mine inspired from RWBY. They’re called Therians.

Now very similar to Faunus, Therians are people with visible animals traits. Pretty original, right? Not like that’s been done a million times before in anime. Well anyway, before you call me out on being a rip-off artist, there are a couple differences.

Firstly, Therians can have multiple traits. Not just ears or a tail. Therians have animal ears, (not human ears as well) animal tails, animal claws, animal teeth, animal attributes, even some animal behaviors.

Secondly, while Faunus can be all sorts of animals, Therians only have mammalian features, even then there are only several species:

Canoids, (dog Therians)

Feloids, (cat Therians)

Lupinoids, (wolf Therians)

Vulpinoids, (fox Therians)

Musculoids, (mouse Therians)

Lepoids, (rabbit Therians)

And Ursanoids. (bear Therians)

Each with their specific attributes.

Thirdly, the way cross-breeding works is different for Therians.

One: When a Therian mates with a different Therian species, the child looks like a combination of their two species, having the physical traits of both parents. (For example a child of a Canoid and a Feloid would have dog ears and a cat tail or the other way around)

Second: When a human and a Therian mate, the child will have either some of their Therian parent’s traits/attributes or look completely human.

But by far the thing that mostly separates Therians from Faunus is number 4.

Under certain circumstances, a Therian will automatically transform into a creature known as a Vargr, a vicious beast that attacks everything in sight, fueled only by rage, bloodlust and an endless hunger for living flesh that can never be satisfied. Vargr are incredibly resilient and difficult to kill, but are vulnerable to silver bullets and fire. A Therian can turn into a Vargr under three circumstances:

Cannibalism: Eating excessive amounts of human or Therian flesh will cause the potential Vargr to develop and insatiable craving for raw meat. If this hunger is not cured, they will fully turn into a Vargr.

Infection: Vargr are strong, ferocious, resilient, terrifying and also contagious! Skin contact with a Vargr’s saliva has the potential to infect victims with a virus that causes them to turn into Vargr themselves. However, this only works with Therians.

Postmortem: After death, a Therian has a 20% chance to turn into a Vargr. This only has a chance to happen if the Therian died while experiencing a strong negative emotion, had unfulfilled desires, was killed by an animal or another Vargr, died a brutal/traumatic death, died from disease, or was shot with a silver bullet. Most people cremate their Therian dead should they die under these circumstances.

There is a fourth way a Therian can become a Vargr, but i’d have to explain some other terminology for that.

Vargr do not only have a high resistance, heightened senses, killer instinct and other monster stuff but they can even imitate voices to lure in humanoid prey. However they always sound a little...off. Most Vargr have an abnormal fear of water.

Now enough about Vargr. One more thing I want to mentions is that Therians will behave abnormally under a full moon.

So whaddya think? Is this good? What needs changing? Should I scrap it? 