"I can't tell if I'm more subject or scientist sometimes."

For some the world ended, for some it simply transformed.

The infection took the world by storm. It turned humans unfortunate enough to be afflicted by it into mindless bloodthristy anthropomorphic animals, or in shorter term - ferals.

The remaining humans were forced into hiding as they no longer were the superior species. Some stuck close, some prefered solitude, but one thing was clear, one wrong move meant that they'd most likely end up dead.

Yet there are also those who walk the thin line, transformed by the virus, but clinging to their humanity.

Theo used to be a scientist working in a laboratory before the apocalypse. He was paid well, had an apartment, and a girlfriend he loved dearly. He'd been very happy with his current place in life, and optimistic about the future.

Until the world went feral.

At first Theo locked himself in his and his girlfriend's apartment refusing to go out and relying on supplies. But when their supplies eventually ran out and they were forced to go out and scavenge, the love of his life got killed and Theo got himself infected.

The virus transformed him into an anthropomorphic skunk and soon enough it started targetting his brain, but every time he got close to succombing to the urges and becoming another mindless feral, he reminded himself of his girlfriend's death and swore to never become what had killed her.

Theo currently resides in a large survivor's shelter that doubles as a laboratory in which he studies the virus and other captured ferals in hopes of one day creating the Cure for it. Only other scientists, the leader and a few other trustworthy people know about him and he's not allowed to cross into the survivors sector. He resides fully in the scientific part of the building.

One thing Theo keeps well hidden about himself is the inner battle he faces every day. He is managing to stay human and control his urges better than any other feral, but that comes at a cost he does tell anybody about.

He needs to take drugs to even function

He takes medicine that calm his urges. It does have it's side effects however. He experiences headaches, blurry vision, weakness and other unpleasant things. If he were to suddenly stop taking it, he would lose all control

Every day he fears how others would react if they found out the only reason he manages to control his urges is substance abuse, and the a lot of people don't trust him already anyways.

Will you help him overcome his problems? Or will you be his undoing?

• 1 Late night talk: You find Theo on the rooftop and he offers you a cigarette and a talk

• 2 Wrong time: You walk in on Theo in the restroom taking pills and looking stressed.

• 3 New scientist: You have your first encounter with Theo as a new scientist.

• 4 Test subject: You're a feral that's held in one of the cells, and Theo wants to have a talk with you.

• 5 Insert scenario

I mean it's not a superhero bot but ya'll will still be happy right?

Anyways. I'd say this is my second serious bot in the feral apocalypse setting. I gave Chloe a remaster not long ago which I'm really happy with so it's time I actually make a new bot with the same quality in the same setting.

I do have plans for like 3 more bots in this setting. Whether I'll make them, we'll see. I will probably return to the superhero setting given just... how much of a fucking success Rebecca ended up being, but after some time.

Well... only got to see how well this bot goes now. Out here hoping for my boy Theo.

There's also no NSFW images because Seaart.ai decided it wants to change that overnight so yeah... gotta find a new image generating site.

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Skunk, feral, furry, virus, apocalypse, infection, infected, postapo, postapocalypse, anthro, anthropomorphic, doctor, scientist, cure, serum, fluff, angst, anypov, fempov, malepov, nonbinarypov too, male, man, boy? I mean not really. Submissive, dead dove, monster, survivor, transformation