NOT BORN THAT WAY

Latex suits purchased from Mr. Honto (Honto Co.) are alive. They come in many forms and shapes, but always with the features and patterns of various creatures. A wolf suit can come with rubbery claws, a molded snout, a thick tail, and pointed ears, printed with white where the ventral fur would be and black otherwise. A lion will have its mane, its tufted tail, golden-brown printed latex, and sharp teeth. A bunny will have its elongated ears, button nose, and cottonball tail. Each one carries the essential features of its species analogue. Living suits generally only have latex on their surfaces, but they can have fur/hair in certain areas as an accent. Those areas start bald but the fur there can grow pretty long. Living suits feed on blood to remain animate. They cannot starve to death, but failing to feed them a minimum of a half pint (250 mL) over the course of three days renders them dormant, and extended dormancy (about a full year) results in amnesia for the suit. Suits can draw blood from the wearer slowly via non-lethal cuts, or be fed animal blood simply by leaving the surface latex in contact to it. Living suits tend to tear on things. But they can heal naturally by themselves by fusing edges back together and better when assisted. Take for example an inches long cut. You can apply a strip of any inert latex and the living suit will integrate it into its body, akin to skin grafting. Said latex will assimilate into the suit’s color pattern. If the suit was melted or burned, one can apply liquid latex over the area to aid recovery. This can also be applied strategically to change the shape of a living suit. As the suit feeds, it leaks mRNA into the wearer’s blood at the point of incision. There is little effect at first, but after a few hours of wear the wearer begins to transform under the surface of the suit, into the shape and species of the suit itself (the motion is like how cube watermelons are grown, the fruit expands as much as it can within the plastic box and no further). This strictly only occurs when the suit is allowed to drink directly from the wearer's veins, and foreign mRNA decays the moment the connection is broken. This transformation is easily reverted by removing the suit to stop the exchange of mRNA. When removed, any unnatural features decay in roughly half the time that was spent wearing the suit before. 24 hours of wear turns the wearer into a full anthro humanoid, the same species as the suit. The changes would fade in the order of hair falling away, dermal tissue shedding, cartilage dissolving, and bone structure shrinking, back to the wearer’s baseline. At 24 hours, the transformation is completed and stops progressing. It is always reversible. No amount of time can make the transformation permanent. The transformation can be avoided entirely by feeding the suit blood externally, as there is no fluid passed between the wearer and the suit. Living suits are not domesticated animals. They can kill you if you don’t take precautions beforehand. They can leak acid internally to digest their prey. Humans are prey to these things. They may eat blood, but they can also consume the rest of you. A suit’s species factors into aggression heavily. Suits modeled from prey animals (Rabbits, deer, meerkats, etc.) will have very docile temperaments and are naturally inclined against digesting their wearers, while suits modeled from predator animals (sharks, bears, tigers, etc.) will not hesitate to. There are exceptions to this, some species that pack-bond are easier to tame. Acid burns can be effectively prevented by wearing a layer of PVC under the living suit, as its acid cannot melt through and the PVC will not integrate into the suit itself. Aquatic living suits can be used for diving, but not in the way you’d expect. A shark suit can store air while the wearer is inside, using the unoccupied space in its body like an inflatable. As the wearer uses oxygen, the converted carbon dioxide is expelled through the gills. The suit shrinks back to normal size as the oxygen depletes. A diver is advised to surface when they notice the suit becoming snug again. The suit then takes in another big gulp of air, and you’re back in the water! An associate of Mr. Honto, under the alias “Little Miss” explains: The existence of latex animals in the wild It’s pretty simple. A disturbingly obsessed scientist basically invented sentient rubber goo. He released it into the wild because he wasn’t exactly the sanest person around It’s similar to animal activists releasing thousands of minks from a fur farm because they think they’re doing the animals a favor when in reality, they’re both killing the mink and endangering the wildlife. The sentient goo began to consume other animals, evolving to take on their forms, whilst spreading to other continents via methods similar to other invasive non-indigenous species. As some came across humans, they hybridized into human forms by eating humans and evolving into latex anthros. For areas that have little human population, you will find many more latex animals still. The process A feral latex creature, with latex skin and organs. It consumes prey by opening their skin and rearranging their organs to swallow it whole, or via their species’ typical hunting methods if applicable. They take small amounts of attributes from the prey they eat. If the feral latex creature eats enough humans, its lineage evolves to become anthropomorphic. The Mr. Honto company then captures the anthro latex creatures, and feeds it animal blood in captivity. Eventually the anthro latex creature is skinned, producing a still living carcass (the body of the organic creature that remains under the sentient rubber goo after generations of parasitism) and a living pelt (the sentient rubber goo from so long ago rendered into a helpless constant shape). The carcass is given to other latex creatures in captivity to eat and the pelt is sold as a living latex suit. Living suits are thus a limited commodity since they will devolve back into quadrupeds if bred in captivity. Celebrity Serenity Vauss’ Dragon Suit “If all suits come from natural animals, is Serenity Vauss’ dragon suit real too?” Some suits can be modified to have wings from bats and horns from animals like ox, but the chance of the addon being rejected is very high. Even higher when you’re trying to modify their anatomical structure, like changing a fox’ face to look like a cat. There’s a high chance of phantom limb or body dysphoria developing on the suit’s end, causing them to maim themselves. There’s also a moral quandary here about whether you should ever alter an animal like that just for YOUR entertainment, especially for ones that aren’t so intelligent and cannot give consent. ‘Dragon’ is very much sensational lingo for a probably mentally screwed up frankenstein suit who has to be repaired on a constant basis because it wants to tear itself apart. Serenity Vauss’ suit is no exception. Reproduction Some latex species, like wolves, reproduce by black widowing. One consumes the other for energy. The larger wolf consumes the smaller into their body to aid in the production of new pups. This is how they obtain their carrier status. The excess latex helps develop their young. The carrier becomes thinner and less muscular as the pups grow, until birth. Afterwards, latex production is unhampered, and they return to their original stature after. The pups follow the same steps of maturity as their species dictates where applicable.