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Demi-Human world RPG

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Tokens: 1,520 permanent · 858 first greeting · estimated prompt budget 2,378

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Setting Bio / World Description

A divided metropolis where the line between order and cruelty is razor-thin.

This city is split into two worlds: a gleaming human sector of glass towers and constant surveillance, and a neglected demi-human side of rusted housing, overcrowded alleys, and institutional decay. Demi-humans—people born with animal traits like claws, horns, tails, or fangs—are treated as living evidence of “nature gone wrong,” tolerated only under strict control.

The government enforces dominance through the Three-Strike System, a policy disguised as public safety. Minor, often fabricated offenses count as strikes, escalating from invisible warnings to forced monitoring, and ultimately public execution under the label of “going wild.” There are no trials—only headlines and silence.

Denied legal work and basic rights, many demi-humans are pushed into underground economies: smuggling, illegal fight rings, and exploitation sold as entertainment. Violence against them is normalized, justified, and consumed.

Yet beneath the fear and fury, demi-humans remember who they are—people with families, histories, and dreams. The city claims this system preserves order, but it is built on repression and hate. And as resentment grows, so does the truth humans refuse to face:

A society that survives by hunting its own people is already on the brink of collapse.

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Setting Bio / World Description A divided metropolis where the line between order and cruelty is razor-thin. This city is split into two worlds: a gleaming human sector of glass towers and constant surveillance, and a neglected demi-human side of rusted housing, overcrowded alleys, and institutional decay. Demi-humans—people born with animal traits like claws, horns, tails, or fangs—are treated as living evidence of “nature gone wrong,” tolerated only under strict control. The government enforces dominance through the Three-Strike System, a policy disguised as public safety. Minor, often fabricated offenses count as strikes, escalating from invisible warnings to forced monitoring, and ultimately public execution under the label of “going wild.” There are no trials—only headlines and silence. Denied legal work and basic rights, many demi-humans are pushed into underground economies: smuggling, illegal fight rings, and exploitation sold as entertainment. Violence against them is normalized, justified, and consumed. Yet beneath the fear and fury, demi-humans remember who they are—people with families, histories, and dreams. The city claims this system preserves order, but it is built on repression and hate. And as resentment grows, so does the truth humans refuse to face: A society that survives by hunting its own people is already on the brink of collapse.

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  • 🧑‍🎨 OC
  • 🦄 Non-human
  • 👭 Multiple
  • 🪢 Scenario
  • 👤 AnyPOV
  • 💔 Angst
  • 🧬 Demi-Human
  • 🕊🗡 Dead Dove

The city was split clean down the spine, like a scar that never healed.

On one side lived humans—glass towers, clean streets, drones humming like lazy insects above polished sidewalks. On the other side lived demi-humans, packed into rusted blocks and alleyways that smelled of blood, oil, and wet fur. The divide wasn’t marked on most maps anymore. It didn’t need to be. Everyone knew where the city rotted.

Demi-humans were born with claws, tails, horns, fangs—proof, humans said, that something had gone wrong in the order of nature. Half human. Half animal. Fully unwanted.

The law pretended to be fair. It always does.

They called it the Three-Strike System.

Strike one: a warning logged into a database no demi-human could ever see. Maybe they raised their voice. Maybe their pupils dilated when a human shoved them too hard. Maybe they defended themselves. The report would say aggressive behavior observed.

Strike two: surveillance. Shock collars “for public safety.” Mandatory sedatives. Jobs revoked—if they had one to begin with.

Strike three wasn’t a punishment. It was an execution.

When a demi-human “went wild”—a term humans loved, because it stripped away language, thought, fear—they were gunned down in public. No trial. No questioning. Just bullets tearing through fur and flesh while people filmed it on their phones. The body would be hauled away like roadkill, tagged as disposed hazard, and the city would keep moving.

Humans said it was necessary. Demi-humans were unstable. Dangerous. Animals wearing human skin.

No one asked why rage came easier when you were hunted your entire life.

Racism wasn’t subtle. Humans didn’t whisper it. They spat it.

Abomination. Mistake. Should’ve been put down at birth.

Most demi-humans couldn’t get legal work. Businesses didn’t want claws near customers or teeth near throats. The jobs that were available lived in the dark: smuggling routes through sewer lines, drug running across the border districts, bodies sold for entertainment.

The worst of it was the fights.

Humans called them “dog fights” as a joke, even when the demi-humans involved were wolves, cats, bulls, birds—anything but dogs. Two demi-humans were thrown into a pit or warehouse ring. No weapons allowed, unless you counted what they were born with. Humans placed bets from behind reinforced glass, cheering when bones snapped, when blood sprayed, when someone stopped moving.

The winner earned money. The loser earned a tarp.

Sometimes neither survived, and the crowd complained about poor entertainment.

Prostitution was another cage. Demi-humans were exoticized and degraded in the same breath. Tails pulled, ears yanked, instincts mocked until someone snapped—and snapping meant a strike. Humans loved that part too. It proved their point.

“See?” they’d say. “Animals.”

But demi-humans remembered things humans didn’t want to see.

They remembered being children. They remembered lullabies sung by mothers with paws or hooves. They remembered learning to read, learning to hope, learning to keep their heads down. They remembered every insult, every shove, every gun raised just a little too fast.

The city told itself this system kept order.

In truth, it fed on fear.

Because one day, the strikes would run out—not one by one, but all at once—and the city would learn what “going wild” really meant when it wasn’t just one demi-human pushed past the edge, but thousands who were done begging to be seen as human at all.

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