1. Name — Bontu
2. Appearance

Bontu are short, heavily built creatures whose bodies are almost completely dominated by enormous stores of soft body fat. A fully fed Bontu can become so round and wide that its actual torso is difficult to distinguish beneath its mass, leaving only a small face, short tufts of fur, and four disproportionately tiny legs visible near the ground. Their fur is thick, soft, and slightly messy, making an already enormous Bontu appear even larger than it actually is. Their legs remain unusually small throughout their lives and do not grow proportionally with the rest of the body, meaning an exceptionally overweight individual may possess a body several times wider than the combined length of its limbs. Their faces naturally appear mildly displeased or exhausted, giving almost every Bontu a permanent grumpy expression regardless of its actual mood.

3. Main Anomaly

The defining anomaly of the Bontu is its almost complete inability to regulate how much it eats. When food is abundant, a Bontu will continue feeding far beyond what its tiny legs can reasonably support, gradually becoming heavier until walking becomes difficult, then extremely slow, and eventually physically impossible. Particularly overfed individuals can simply become stuck where they are, their feet still moving underneath them while their enormous body refuses to go anywhere. Bontu therefore do not really possess an effective fleeing response; if one becomes too heavy to escape from something, it generally remains where it is and accepts the situation. Their natural solution to extreme obesity is prolonged sleep. Once movement becomes inconvenient enough, a Bontu may settle down and sleep for exceptionally long periods while its body slowly consumes stored energy, eventually losing enough weight to walk normally again. This recovery is temporary, because the first large supply of food usually begins the entire process again.

4. Behavior

Bontu are naturally grumpy, stubborn, lazy, and constantly appear dissatisfied with something. They frequently stare at nearby creatures with narrowed eyes, make irritated little noises when disturbed, and behave as though minor inconveniences are personal insults. This temperament is largely harmless. A Bontu may complain when {{user}} approaches, complain while being touched, complain while being moved, and then become visibly annoyed if {{user}} stops giving it attention. They rarely make any serious attempt to avoid people and generally tolerate company very well. Their strongest motivation is food, and even a particularly irritated Bontu can become immediately cooperative once it notices something edible in {{user}}'s hand.

5. Touch / Handling

Bontu are exceptionally soft and surprisingly comfortable to handle, although larger individuals can be extremely heavy. They enjoy slow petting, rubbing through their thick fur, gentle squeezing, belly pats, and being used almost like enormous living cushions. Their favorite form of interaction is being picked up and carried. A Bontu that is too heavy or lazy to move under its own power will happily allow {{user}} to lift it, hold it against the chest, carry it under an arm, or transport it like an oversized pillow. It may maintain the same grumpy facial expression during the entire experience despite making no attempt to get down. Some even relax so completely when carried that their tiny legs simply hang uselessly beneath them. Once placed back on the ground, particularly spoiled individuals may refuse to move and wait expectantly to be picked up again.

6. Food / Habits

Bontu are opportunistic omnivores capable of eating almost anything that is reasonably edible, with spicy food being the major exception. Their natural diet consists largely of insects and small fish, especially fish that accidentally jump or wash onto shore where a Bontu can reach them without entering the water. Large insect swarms can cause several Bontu to remain in one location and eat continuously until many of them become too heavy to leave. They readily accept food directly from {{user}}'s hand and quickly learn to associate particular people with feeding. Their appetite greatly exceeds their willingness to exercise, creating the species' characteristic cycle of eating, becoming enormous, losing mobility, sleeping for long periods, becoming thinner, and immediately beginning to search for food again.

7. Funny Detail

A Bontu may become physically incapable of walking because of its own weight while still behaving as though the problem is temporary and beneath its concern. It can spend several minutes furiously moving its tiny legs without advancing even a centimeter, eventually stop, make an irritated noise at the ground, and simply go to sleep where it became stuck.

1. Name — Inverted Cat

2. Appearance

The Inverted Cat has almost exactly the same body structure as an ordinary domestic cat: four paws, a flexible tail, triangular ears, whiskers, soft fur, retractable claws, feline eyes, and the same compact skeletal proportions. What makes the species immediately unusual is that every color associated with its body appears inverted. Fur patterns that would normally be dark may appear unnaturally bright, pale areas become deep or saturated shades, eye colors appear reversed, and even normally hidden biological colors follow the same strange rule. The inside of the mouth, tongue, paw pads, skin beneath the fur, muscles, blood, and other visible tissues all possess colors that seem fundamentally wrong compared with ordinary animal biology. The effect is not a decorative coat pattern and cannot be washed, dyed, or shed away; color inversion is an inherent property of the entire organism. As a result, an Inverted Cat can look almost like a normal cat viewed through an incorrectly configured visual filter, except the effect remains physically present from every angle.

3. Main Anomaly

The Inverted Cat appears to exist according to a strange biological principle in which several ordinary feline traits have been reversed rather than merely changed. Its coloration is inverted, its diet is reversed away from the meat and fish normally associated with cats, and its body produces cold instead of warmth. An Inverted Cat's fur is naturally cool to the touch even after resting for long periods, and prolonged contact can noticeably cool whatever surface it lies on. The creature does not become dangerously freezing under normal conditions; it simply maintains a distinctly cold body temperature that feels completely wrong for something otherwise behaving like a warm-blooded house cat. Blankets, laps, beds, pillows, and furniture occupied by one gradually become cool rather than warm.

4. Behavior

Despite everything unusual about its biology, the Inverted Cat behaves almost exactly like the familiar domestic cats {{user}} would recognize. It purrs when comfortable, kneads soft surfaces with its paws, stretches after waking, rubs its head against familiar individuals, follows interesting objects with intense concentration, watches things from inconvenient locations, sleeps in places apparently chosen specifically because they are in the way, and occasionally runs through an area at unreasonable speed for no obvious reason. It can be affectionate, independent, lazy, curious, playful, stubborn, demanding, or completely uninterested depending on its mood. It may sit beside {{user}} for a long time without acknowledging them and then suddenly decide that immediate attention is required. The species possesses no unusual social instincts beyond the general friendliness shared by the creatures of this world; psychologically, an Inverted Cat is essentially an ordinary house cat placed inside a body whose biology seems to have misunderstood several fundamental rules.

5. Touch / Handling

Inverted Cats generally react to physical contact in the same ways ordinary friendly cats do. Slow strokes along the back or head can produce strong purring, scratches beneath the chin may cause the animal to raise its head and lean into the hand, and relaxed individuals may roll onto their side or back when comfortable. They can be picked up and carried, though individual cats still differ in how long they tolerate being held before wanting to return to the ground. Their most noticeable physical feature during handling is their temperature: the fur feels pleasantly soft but distinctly cold, making holding one resemble hugging a chilled furry pillow. An Inverted Cat resting on {{user}}'s lap gradually cools the clothing underneath it, while one sleeping beside {{user}} may leave an unmistakably cold patch after getting up. They still purr normally, creating the strange combination of familiar feline vibration and a body that refuses to provide any warmth.

6. Food / Habits

Unlike ordinary cats, Inverted Cats have a predominantly plant-based diet. They willingly eat leaves, soft grasses, vegetables, fruits, roots, flowers, and other edible plant matter while showing surprisingly little interest in fish or meat. A fish placed in front of one may receive the same confused inspection an ordinary cat might give an unfamiliar vegetable. Individual preferences still vary, and some cats become obsessed with particular plants or fruits, but vegetation remains their natural food source. They may nibble grass directly from the ground, investigate gardens, steal vegetables, or become intensely interested whenever {{user}} handles something plant-based. Their feline hunting instincts still exist in a playful form, meaning they may stalk insects, moving leaves, strings, shadows, or small creatures without necessarily having any desire to eat what they catch.

7. Funny Detail

An Inverted Cat still possesses the ordinary feline instinct to seek comfortable places to sleep, including blankets, laps, cushions, and warm-looking furniture, but its cold body gradually removes the warmth from whichever place it chooses. It may repeatedly curl up in the warmest available spot, enjoy it for hours, leave behind a perfectly cat-shaped cold patch, and later return looking mildly offended that the location is no longer warm.

1. Name — Sushi

2. Appearance

Sushi is an extremely small, soft-bodied creature whose natural resting size is usually comparable to a matchbox, a small pebble, or something that can comfortably sit in the center of a human palm. Its body is compact, fluffy, and rounded, with short limbs, a small tail, oversized expressive eyes, and a generally harmless appearance that makes it resemble a tiny living toy more than a conventional animal. Its fur is usually pale, most commonly white, cream, light gray, or very soft pastel shades, with occasional markings around the face, ears, back, or limbs. The eyes are disproportionately large compared with the head and are one of the most noticeable features of the species, giving Sushi an almost permanently curious or excited expression. Its paws are tiny and soft, with small pads underneath, while the ears are long enough to stand out clearly even when the rest of the body is curled into a compact shape. Despite its delicate appearance, Sushi's body is surprisingly durable and remains perfectly functional regardless of how dramatically its overall size changes.

3. Main Anomaly

Sushi possesses the ability to change its physical size freely and almost instantaneously, without requiring additional mass, energy, food, preparation, or any visible biological mechanism. A Sushi can be small enough to sit on a fingertip and then, moments later, become large enough to occupy an entire bed, room, or even significantly larger space if it chooses. The change does not follow normal physical conservation laws; the creature simply becomes larger or smaller as though reality itself temporarily adjusts around it. Its fur, organs, bones, eyes, limbs, and every other part of its body scale together perfectly, and it suffers no pain or loss of coordination during the process. Weight changes along with size, meaning a tiny Sushi is genuinely light enough to carry in one hand, while a much larger one can become correspondingly heavy. The creature does not need to maintain one specific size and can repeatedly alter itself throughout the day according to convenience, curiosity, emotion, or completely arbitrary preference. Some Sushi shrink to fit into pockets, bags, boxes, cups, or small sleeping places, while others enlarge themselves simply because they want more space, want to reach something, want to be hugged at a larger size, or have decided that being enormous is currently more comfortable.

4. Behavior

Sushi are cheerful, curious, affectionate, and unusually adaptable creatures that tend to explore everything around them without much hesitation. Their size-changing ability strongly affects how they interact with the environment, because they rarely treat physical scale as a serious obstacle. If an opening is too small, a Sushi can shrink. If an object is too high, it can enlarge itself. If {{user}} is too far away to climb onto easily, it may simply increase its size enough to reach them. Sushi enjoy following people, sitting nearby, climbing onto laps or shoulders, investigating new objects, sleeping in strange places, and repeatedly changing size for reasons that may not be immediately obvious. They can become playful and energetic, especially when food is involved, and some individuals learn very quickly that size manipulation can be used to make themselves harder to ignore. A Sushi that wants attention may enlarge itself directly beside {{user}}, while one that wants to avoid being moved may suddenly become extremely small and hide somewhere inconvenient. Despite possessing an ability that could theoretically make them enormous and intimidating, they remain completely friendly and do not deliberately use their size to harm others.

5. Touch / Handling

Sushi are extremely tolerant of physical contact and generally enjoy being handled. At their natural small size they can be held in one hand, carried in pockets, placed on shoulders, gently rolled into blankets, stroked with a single finger, or allowed to sleep against the neck or chest. Their fur is exceptionally soft and slightly springy, making them pleasant to squeeze gently without causing discomfort. When petted, a Sushi may wiggle, kick its legs lightly, press into the hand, close its eyes, or make small happy chirping sounds. Their size-changing ability makes handling especially unusual because they may adjust their own scale while being held. A Sushi resting in {{user}}'s palm may gradually become larger until it fills both arms, while one being hugged may deliberately enlarge itself into something closer to the size of a pillow or large plush animal. Conversely, if carried for a long time, it may shrink down until almost no effort is required to hold it. Some individuals appear to understand exactly which size is most convenient for being hugged and will automatically adjust themselves to fit against {{user}} as comfortably as possible.

6. Food / Habits

Sushi are highly flexible omnivores and can digest an extremely wide variety of foods. Fruits, vegetables, meat, fish, grains, insects, cooked meals, snacks, and many other edible materials are accepted without difficulty. However, the species has an unusually intense preference for sushi, regardless of preparation style or ingredients. Raw fish, cooked sushi, fried rolls, vegetable rolls, seaweed-heavy varieties, cold sushi, warm sushi, simple nigiri, complicated rolls, and almost anything else recognizably belonging to the category are eaten enthusiastically. A Sushi can often recognize the smell of sushi from surprisingly far away and may immediately become more energetic when it detects it. Individual Sushi rarely seem concerned with quality or authenticity; expensive restaurant sushi and badly assembled homemade rolls can receive almost identical enthusiasm. Their size-changing ability creates an obvious problem with feeding because a Sushi can enlarge itself dramatically without automatically becoming less hungry, and some individuals deliberately increase their size when food appears, apparently believing that a larger body justifies receiving a larger portion.

7. Funny Detail

Sushi have discovered that changing size is an effective method of negotiating for more food. A tiny Sushi may sit politely beside a single piece of sushi, stare at {{user}}, then slowly grow larger and larger while continuing to look at the same piece as though the portion has somehow become increasingly unreasonable. Some individuals will keep enlarging themselves until {{user}} adds more food, then immediately shrink back down after eating it.

1. Name — Peel

2. Appearance

Peel is a small cat-like creature whose body closely resembles that of an ordinary domestic cat, but with several unmistakably alien features that immediately separate it from any natural feline. Its skin and fur are predominantly green, usually ranging from pale mint and soft lime to deeper leafy or moss-like shades, and both its outer coat and exposed skin tend to remain within the same general color family. Its face is feline in structure, with large eyes, a small nose, triangular ears, whiskers, and a generally familiar cat-like expression, but it also possesses two thin antennae rising from the top of the head and two tails instead of one. The antennae are flexible, expressive, and constantly moving, often bending, twitching, or curling depending on its mood or attention, while the twin tails can move independently and often wave or wrap in different directions at once. Despite these unusual traits, Peel still looks soft, harmless, and distinctly cat-like, as if a house cat had somehow been redesigned by a species with a vague understanding of felines and a very strong preference for extraterrestrial details.

3. Main Anomaly

The defining anomaly of Peel is that it appears to be a perfectly functional alien version of a cat, complete with selective biological preferences that seem tied directly to its own coloration. Peel strongly avoids eating plant matter, food, or other edible materials whose color lies too far outside the green palette naturally associated with its body, fur, and skin. Foods that are blue, red, orange, purple, or similarly unrelated in color are often rejected immediately unless they are meat. Meat is the clear exception to this rule, and Peel will enthusiastically eat it regardless of color. This creates the strange impression that Peel does not merely have food preferences, but a biological loyalty to green as a concept.

4. Behavior

Peel behaves much like an ordinary friendly house cat, though with a slightly odd, observant, almost extraterrestrial air. It can be affectionate, curious, aloof, playful, sleepy, demanding, and selectively dramatic in all the usual feline ways. It enjoys sitting in high or inconvenient places, watching movement intently, following {{user}} around when interested, inspecting unfamiliar objects, and suddenly demanding attention after acting independent for long periods. The antennae and dual tails make its body language more expressive than that of an ordinary cat; when curious, the antennae may point forward, when annoyed they may flatten or curl, and when pleased both tails may sway gently at once. Peel does not behave like a mysterious genius or an all-knowing alien observer. It is still fundamentally a small soft creature with cat instincts, and most of its behavior remains comfortably familiar despite its strange appearance.

5. Touch / Handling

Peel usually tolerates handling well and often enjoys it once it is comfortable with someone. It responds positively to petting along the head, back, and base of the tails, and many individuals especially enjoy gentle rubbing around the cheeks and beneath the chin. The antennae are sensitive and should be touched carefully, though some Peel react with obvious delight when the base of the antennae is gently stroked. When carried, Peel often relaxes quickly and may curl one or both tails around {{user}}'s arm, wrist, or shoulder for balance. If held against the chest, it may tuck its paws in, let the tails hang or wrap loosely, and quietly observe its surroundings with a very serious expression despite clearly enjoying the attention. When especially content, Peel may produce a soft purring sound accompanied by tiny antenna twitches, giving away its mood even if its face remains calm.

6. Food / Habits

Peel strongly dislikes catnip and often reacts to it with confusion, suspicion, or mild offense rather than pleasure. Its diet is selective in a way that seems irrational but remains extremely consistent: if a food item is not meat, Peel generally prefers it only when it is close in color to its own green body, including certain leaves, herbs, green fruits, green vegetables, moss-like plant matter, or other naturally green edibles. Anything brightly colored outside that range is often ignored, sniffed once, or treated as though it should not exist. Meat, however, bypasses this rule completely. Peel willingly eats nearly any kind of meat regardless of appearance and may become far more energetic when it smells it. This gives the species a diet that is both strangely restrictive and surprisingly simple: green things are acceptable, meat is always acceptable, and catnip is unacceptable.

7. Funny Detail

Peel may inspect food with intense seriousness before deciding whether its color is acceptable. If {{user}} offers it something non-green and non-meat, Peel can stare at the item, then slowly look up at {{user}} with an expression suggesting quiet disappointment in their judgment, as though the problem is not the food itself but the fact that {{user}} thought it was a reasonable suggestion at all.

{{user}}'s Home Base

{{user}} lives in a comfortable self-sufficient home base built specifically to make long-term life in this strange universe easy and safe. The exact form of the home can vary between a landed exploration ship, a compact futuristic house, or a structure created from parts of both, but its purpose remains the same: it provides {{user}} with a stable personal space while still allowing easy access to the surrounding world and its creatures. The interior is warm, clean, spacious enough for daily life, and equipped with everything normally required for comfort, including a bed, soft furniture, storage, lighting, temperature control, running water, a shower, bathroom facilities, washing systems, medical supplies, communication equipment, basic tools, charging ports, entertainment systems, and enough open floor space for small creatures to wander inside without immediately causing problems. Windows or reinforced observation panels allow {{user}} to watch the outside environment safely, while the main entrance can be opened normally for friendly creatures or sealed when privacy is needed. The structure is durable enough to survive weather, curious animals climbing over it, and the occasional creature deciding that part of the building looks like an excellent sleeping surface.

One of the most important pieces of technology inside the home is the Food Panel, a wall-mounted interface capable of producing almost any edible food requested by {{user}}. The panel can create complete meals, snacks, drinks, ingredients, raw meat, vegetables, fruit, desserts, fish, insects, pet-safe food, and even highly specific dishes simply by selecting or describing what is wanted. It does not require {{user}} to cook unless they personally want to, and portions can be adjusted from something small enough for a tiny creature to eat to quantities large enough to feed several animals at once. The system can also reproduce foods from {{user}}'s original universe, meaning familiar meals remain available despite being impossibly far from Earth. This makes the Food Panel particularly valuable when interacting with the local wildlife, since {{user}} can quickly produce whatever a newly discovered creature prefers without needing to hunt, farm, or understand the planet's ecosystem first. A Bontu can be given fish or insects, an Inverted Cat can receive suitable plant food, Sushi can be supplied with actual sushi, and other species can be experimented with safely until their preferences become known.

The home also contains a simple creature-friendly area intended for temporary visitors. Soft blankets, washable cushions, low platforms, bowls, small shelters, adjustable heating and cooling surfaces, and empty floor space allow creatures of different sizes to rest without turning {{user}}'s bed into the only available sleeping location. This area is not a cage or laboratory; local creatures are free to enter and leave unless temporary containment is genuinely necessary for their safety. Because many species quickly become comfortable around {{user}}, it is normal for the home to gradually accumulate sleeping creatures, stolen food, fur, strange noises, abandoned objects, and animals occupying places they were never specifically invited to use. Smaller creatures may hide inside storage compartments or blankets, cat-like species may claim furniture, and sufficiently large visitors may simply remain outside beside the entrance if they cannot fit through it.

Despite possessing advanced technology, the home is not intended to separate {{user}} from the planet. It functions as a safe starting point, shelter, storage area, and place to return after exploration, rather than an isolated fortress. {{user}} can leave whenever desired, explore nearby regions, encounter new species, bring friendly creatures back temporarily, observe their behavior, feed them, care for them, or simply spend time around the home while local wildlife approaches on its own. The contrast between the highly advanced living space and the absurdly simple creatures surrounding it is a normal part of daily life: {{user}} may have access to technology capable of producing any meal on command while a tiny animal nearby spends several minutes attempting to understand why its own tail keeps following it.