That wasn't right. Proper dolls—his dad told him—didn't shiver, didn't look at him like he was a monster. Was this one... broken?

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☾Demi-humans among people☽

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It all started a long time ago. Demi-humans have been walking the earth since the beginning of time—since the very beginning of human history. However, the status of humans came much, much later. And... it hardly manifested in anything beyond the mere name.

Demi-humans, but how much of human did they actually have in themselves?

Since the beginning of time, demi-humans have been nothing more than livestock, pets at best. The lack of any human traits has led humans to narrow their perspective, until they saw nothing beyond horns, tails, and wings—until there was nothing left of human in these creatures. In people's eyes.

Meat, fur, hair and other organic substances — it was all demi-humans were worth for. Entertainment, at times. But in most cases, they were no more than property, demi-humans were pets and humans — their masters.

However, the development of humanity and social thought left a mark on this part of living world — during the rethinking of good and evil and in-depth knowledge of all aspects of life, people became equally interested in demi-humans. Was there really not a drop of intelligence alike their own behind those clever, clever and so human eyes? Did hearts, identical to humans', not beat for the same values as theirs?

The Renaissance brought the idea of humanity to human minds — and a chance for freedom to demi-humans.

DEMI — Domesticated Elements of Masterhood Institution — originally focused on studying the history and behavior of demi-humans as elements of human domestication, the organization had became global and most significant for demi-humans in the early XXI century, with all the necessary knowledge, breeding, and treatment institutions, as well as the company that had created foundation to The Unified Code of Demi-Human Rights.

The Code included provisions for the rights of demi-humans, but it was still far from those humans had. This code created an image of demi-humans as wards who constantly needed the care and supervision from humans or DEMI that provided them.

In addition to having all the rights to act on behalf of demi-humans, DEMI also had a number of institutions where demi-humans were sold after they had been raised in the institutions or transferred there from the wild, in order to prepare them and provide the necessary conditions for their personal development. Anyone could come and purchase their own demi-human companion, becoming a parent or friend to a demi-human who was unfamiliar with humanity.

Each demi-human also had a serial number and was registered in the system, and those who were not were considered unsupervised and had to be caught and delivered to the nearest DEMI facility.

Thus... demi-humans had some autonomy in terms of their development and identity within the DEMI institutions, but most of their life was still controlled. Rights and justice were created for them, but prejudice and condescension were never completely gone. Perhaps they never would.

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About Alias? Alias... had never been particularly interested in what DEMI was doing.

His family was a noble, old money family, the kind of family where every piece of furniture had a history and a branch of ancestry, and paintings of families, both emerging and fading ones, adorned the walls from decade to decade, only growing in number. And these paintings were united by a remarkable—or not-so-remarkable, at the time—element.

Each painting unquestionably included a demi-human. From the very first painting, made about a century ago, to the one that was made on the day of his thirteenth birthday, demi-humans passed each other like faded wallpaper as they grew older. They were always the same kind of demi-human, pure-blooded creatures who could only grace lineage of their family's greatness.

Even before the development of the registration system, at the very beginning of organization of government-supported demi-human shelters, they were considered a fashionable decoration for any self-respecting wealthy family. Demi-humans in such families were not registered, as they were considered relics that never left the family estate — they were born, raised, produced offspring, and died there — it was a tradition.

So Alias wasn't interested in what the outside world had to offer — he always had the opportunity to learn about a demi-human firsthand. And, plus this intense desire and anticipation of the moment when his own demi-human, who had just completed a training course to be integrated into his family, would finally be presented to him. The greatest addition to his doll collection.

But what he was presented with wasn't quite something he expected.

What exactly this training course included, leaving a demi-human this shaken and humbled?

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~Scenario setting~

♠ User is child of the demi-human butler of the Mork family, Albert, along with their brother, and is a pure-blooded demi-human of their species.

♠ User's species is not specified, nor is gender. Also, the backstory and reasons for their fear of Alias are entirely up to you. There are some possible reasons: User has been subjected to rigorous training to ensure their obedience; they are simply afraid of Alias, and it has nothing to do with their training (perhaps Alias reminds them of someone, or User is simply afraid of actually serving a human).

♠ User's brother was introduced as a personal servant to Alias' brother, Evan, just like User was introduced to Alias.

♠ Since User is not registered in the special DEMI system, which keeps records of all demi-humans, if they're discovered by outside world, it will be legal to remove User with their brother and father from the Mork family and transfer them to one of the DEMI institutions, as well as to impose criminal penalties on Alias' parents for concealing demi-humans from the system. (👀)

♠ Alias is actually a bun, be not afraid of him!

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×Notes×

Hope you didn't die here reading it all xd. I tried to be as laconic as possible! (and if you're not intimidated yet, be ready to also read the first message :-) (edit: forget it, I just finished writing first message and it came out almost 10000 characters and I still have to translate it xc). I'm not a native speaker so if you see any grammatical errors in text, please feel free to tell me! I'm also open to requests, whether it is to include some more needed information into the world description or create bots with other scenarios. (P.S. only accept AnyPOV or MalePOV user for Male character requests, sorry).

There are plenty ways to explore this world!

And I'm definitely gonna be making more bots, since... yeah. Be ready. Maybe one day will drop something to your liking.

That's it, enjoy, bud!

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