Animals gain intelligence, attack on titan-like against humans?!?!

[ImportantNobody]

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Super crazy idea, I'll admit, but this can be really fun if we get past the slightly silly premise. So basically, the humans used some experimental new weapon in ww3 that ended up simultaneously destroying all of their advanced technology (electricity no longer works they way they want it too) and unleashing some weird radiation that caused most animals, from mammals to insects, to gain intelligence and start rapid evolution to more effective forms such as having opposable thumbs and standing upright, slightly more human-like in general, etc. Of course a lot of them didn't like each other so many animal species quickly obliterated themselves in war with one another using their newfound abilities, but others managed to thrive in this new situation. Thousands of years went by after this point as balances of power were being formed and the animals further developing their new potential, building grand societies. Humans didn't like this change in status quo one bit, as one can imagine, so they formed an empire out of the shambles of human society, bringing it back up to a roman empire-esque level of technology and crushed any opposing animal societies under their heel to try to regain past superiority.

Some of the animal societies have now banded together against this common threat or else they would all be wiped out while they were too busy fighting amongst themselves. Cats and dogs working together for once in their long and violent history together is one of the most notable alliances, but there are many more. A lot of the insects serve as scouts besides the cannon fodder ant and bee/wasp armies, but the now mighty grasshopper clan actually serve as soldiers, leaping high into the air and around from cover to cover, using their weapons such as grappling hooks and swords to strike at the human's weak points. Foxes, wolves, and rabbits are also important members. Some others such as tigers are rare and tend to only act for their own good and bears are arrogant, not wanting to be allied with these lowly animals.

Sound fun? Anyone have any suggestions for certain animals? This will be a largely combat based roleplay in case you're wondering.

[Jackomitus]

I'm very interested in the idea! What determines what animals are together and such?

[ImportantNobody]

Most of the animals are allied now in order to be able to survive against the humans, although many of them are just random civilians in the background because they're not very useful in combat. Before this massive alliance was formed, what determined if they were allies, enemies, or neutral is how they act in real life. Obviously the ant eaters would be mortal enemies of the ants, bears are pretty much mean to everyone, cats and dogs had a huge struggle (the emotional scars of which still run deep between them despite them being in the same alliance). Rabbits get along with almost everyone although were easy prey at first until they turned all ninja-like in their combat abilities and grew in size to about the size of foxes. The wolves were probably bad guys for a bit so might be mistrusted among many other alliance members and are relatively new members of the alliance. Most of the farm animals were slaughtered early on by the humans to avoid complications, although horses did get away.

Some dogs might still be allied with the humans. Few cats are though.

Another thing; the smarter the animal the less effective this whole scenario is, so it's not like chimps turned into Einstein or anything. Primates will not play a large role in this for whatever reason. Maybe they simply couldn't compete with some other animals now that this has taken place and they lost their primary advantage of intelligence.

[Jackomitus]

I'm game. PM me when you create the thread. I'll assume any role, I think this could be a great RP If we execute it right.

[ImportantNobody]

Maybe there were a lot of dogs supporting the humans at first (like around 90% of them), but they have been obliterated a bit before the roleplay starts. They had the upper hand against the cats when it was mainly just those two fighting, but then the wolves came in and showed how powerful they were before allying with the other animals, winning the war in record time. The dog army was probably being used to buy more time for the humans to build up their defenses. There are still some dogs on the human side, but their moral is slowly being crushed both by opposition and the humans themselves, so only the most loyal dogs remain. The rest ran away after their defeat or joined the animals, but there are not nearly as many dogs as there were originally.

Any other animals you want to know more about? What animal were you planning on being?

[Jackomitus]

I'm digging the background of the dog's situation, and i like how the discrimination of each animal is different. The dogs catch my attention right now as they have a great backstory, but as I am personally fond of cats and wolves I wouldn't mind being either. Anything is good with me, but if i had to coose, probably dogs.

[ImportantNobody]

If you were a dog it would be funny if mine was a cat and they had to work together. I imagine a stay old dog who was tired of serving the humans and a quirky, upbeat cat. Complete opposites! But you don't have to take that suggestion. I'm fine with whatever you go with.

Another character idea I'm considering is an epic grasshopper. Maybe the commander of the squad?

[Jackomitus]

Hahahaha that sounds awesome. A grasshopper would be pretty cool and if it's jumping and mobility grew with it that would make for an epic character to play as. So far I'm liking it, but I'm wondering if there are set factions and empires and such set up, and if the technology throwback created a fallback to swords and shields to combat claws and stingers and such.

[Jackomitus]

I'm surprised this hasn't gained more attention, the premise is awesome!

[ImportantNobody]

Being small and mobile is perfect for a commander the more I think about it. She can jump along the branches and view the battlefield, even taking out soldiers single handedly if need be. I want to play the cat and her, so everyone can have as many characters as they can handle.

There will be other factions then our main heroic animal faction. Ours is the largest alliance of animals but also tense due to having to combine so many different animals that have trouble working together, to put it lightly. There can be an evil animal faction who want to take over both human and animal. Snakes and spiders would obviously be a member and also termites (good opponents for the ants on our faction). There would be more then just that, but I'd have to think further about it. Basically, all the scary animals/creatures. The humans do still have individual countries, but they are forming into one large empire, most likely starting in...America?

You're right on the technology.

[Jackomitus]

Yeah Actually if america is the only human place left, we can do a lot of fighting in South/central America, which has deserts, rain forests, mountains and most climates, plus Canada from north has all the polar climates, so I say that's solid. If we can have more then one character I'm down for assuming a position as a leader for the Evil animals, preferably something rare like a white Bengal or a freaking Tasmanian Devil.

Are we allowed to have control over humans? If they go untouched it would basically be us RPing against no one you feel

[ImportantNobody]

Humans are still a worldwide threat, so it would be unlikely they would only have America left. The capital of the human empire would be somewhere there. It would be like how great Britain conquered quite a bit during it's empire years. They took advantage of the chaos to gain a lot of control to form what is desired to be a worldwide human empire and put down all of the animal rebellions. Some countries willingly joined to become part of this insanely powerful human alliance. Other human settlements will be like barbarians, Vikings, etc. Still very dangerous to the animals. The human empire will have steel armor, crossbows, and various melee weapons but no guns. Although maybe armor is rare?

We can fight the human empire in brazil, maybe, which they had taken over? Or any other location ideas around that area?

You can take the evil animal leadership position. Either of those ideas sounds really cool, at least as cool as my honey badger idea. If they join the evil animals then we're in trouble.

We can have control over some humans, yes.

[Jackomitus]

Sounds good. I like the rarity of the armor, and the technology set back is pretty sweet. So far so good and I'm in! I hope more people will see this so ill bump it up while I can. We could probably start with about 3 more people to RP with, but it's your RP so your choice really.

[ishtar]

I gotta say, this is an interesting idea. I don't know if I can join myself, since I have a hectic schedule and can't really post regularly.

In any case, am I right in summarizing that basically the animals mutated to humanoid creatures and after a period of time they banded together to avoid from being eradicated by human?
I'm curious, what would the animal kingdom settlements be like? In the wilds like cavern, on trees, underground and such, or would they build houses like humans do?

You mentioned about cats, dogs and insects, how about the avian? Maybe some of them mutated to harpy like creatures or like human with wings (I'm thinking like Hawkgirl from the comic) ?

Err... sorry for the barrage of questions. .__."

[ImportantNobody]

ishtar said
1. am I right in summarizing that basically the animals mutated to humanoid creatures and after a period of time they banded together to avoid from being eradicated by human? 2. what would the animal kingdom settlements be like? In the wilds like cavern, on trees, underground and such, or would they build houses like humans do?
3. You mentioned about cats, dogs and insects, how about the avian?
4. Maybe some of them mutated to harpy like creatures or like human with wings (I'm thinking like Hawkgirl from the comic) ? Err... sorry for the barrage of questions. .__."

1. Yes. Well, quite a bit of the animals. Some like the bears think they're too good for allies and some joined the evil animal group that wishes both human and animal to be conquered. Some animals, although rare, are just too disliked, too out of the way, or too stubborn to join.

2. They inhabit all kinds of places, a lot of them in hiding to avoid direct confrontation by the humans. If the humans ever find their cities then they're in big trouble because a lot of the animal civilians couldn't put up much of a fight, such as the caterpillars. That being said, all of your suggestions would be prime locations depending on the animal in question. All animals who prefer forests would group in forests, all who prefer underground would group in the underground sections of the forest, etc. Being intelligent they are able to leave their natural habitats with more ease so you can see some where they don't normally belong if they have a reason to relocate. They would have houses, mostly out of wood, leaves, and other natural materials. They don't want to put too much work into things if they have to run away at the first sight of a human invasion. However, some cities are more "stand and fight" in nature, being huge and having massive walls able to hold out even the really larger (to them) humans.

3. I think the insects would be afraid of the birds, but there would be plenty of good birds so that would help change the insects minds not to fear them as much. Well, the bad guy insects have even more reason to fear them. They'd be the main way to take out the enemy insects. Speaking of birds, crows and vultures can be on the evil animal team.

4. It's not like they are human looking but with wings and a tail. Rather then that they are animal looking but have a stature more like humans and sometimes with opposable thumbs and other useful qualities. If they were to look like Hawkgirl, how about a child from a human and animal pairing? That would be rare for multiple reasons but possible.

[Jackomitus]

I like the hybrid animal ideas, how they can be their own faction and such because of discrimination for the mutations

[ImportantNobody]

Yeah. Most go into hiding. Not even many of the animals accept them. Some of the animal settlements might hide and protect them from both sides.

[ishtar]

I see, so there would be like small settlements where the 'houses' are not too sturdy in case the inhabitants need to evacuate quickly, and there are places that's basically animal 'towns and cities' that will have sturdier buildings and defensive structures?

The idea of hybrid creature is actually pretty good. In that case, how many years from the mutation will this RP take place on? Like only a few decades from the radiation (or from the moment the animals starting to band together) or will it be like say 100 years after the 'Incident' where things within and between factions are more settled (everyone knows where the others stood)?

[ImportantNobody]

Exactly. Most of the animal alliance locations will be the smaller settlements.

I said 1,000s of years in my first post, but that may or may not be too long. It did take the humans back down to caveman level at the start so they had to work their way back up to medieval after all this time and all the animals had to settle in with their new abilities and build cities/form alliances. That would take at least a couple hundred years.

[ishtar]

Ah, I apologize. I missed the part where you wrote 'Thousands of years went by'. xP My bad!

What will the major factions be? I'm guessing they would be:
- Human
- Bad guys Animals (What drove them to be the 'bad guys' though? Is it in the believe that they all would be better off without humans or because they wanted to rule over all?)
- Neutral Animals (I'm guessing that they would be mostly defending themselves instead of outright aggressiveness?)
- Hermit/Lone soul Animals (I'm thinking these would be the ones with the principal: 'Leave me alone and I'll leave you alone.' )