Catgirls

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Catgirls (Homo felisicatus) are a type of chimeric lifeform created by the Engineers some time in the year 2016. They are the kind of demi-human people are most familiar with, though in terms of actual numbers they are comparable to elves in rarity, with the majority of the species either perishing or otherwise disappearing during the Dokuritsu Insurrection. Among all demi-humans, they are also the least strange and aberrant, merely resembling humans with prominent feline traits, such as an additional set of cat ears on top of the head and a prehensile tail. Their behavior tends to be the oddest thing about them; though they have the ability to learn, communicate and have complex emotions and personalities, they are brainwashed through Compressed Mnemonic Imprinting and genetic programing to have cute, docile and submissive, "cat-like" mannerisms. Low intelligence is also not uncommon, all to better serve their intended role as sex slaves made by the Engineers and secretly given to influential members of society to purchase their loyalty, a role they performed very well up until the Dokuritsu Insurrection.
Like other artificial species, they cannot reproduce naturally, and must be created in laboratories. However, given that catgirls are designed according to the desires of their buyers, it's possible there may be exceptions. Similarly, catgirls are normally "born" at a certain age and retain this appearance throughout their lives without visibly growing older, though some are known to grow at the same rate as humans, or slightly faster, again depending on the desires of their owners. Catgirls required at least one year of tank growth before being "born", and as with the Watchmen, failed specimens were mulched and recycled into chemical components for further attempts. Catgirls that had negative reactions to CMI or for whom the brainwashing was otherwise not completely effective often took issue with being forced into this cattle-like existence and sought to work against the Engineers. Those that were discovered would, rather than be killed, be relocated to remote regions in South East Asia.
Uncharacteristically aware of the backlash they invited by creating a literal slave species, the catgirls remained a poorly-kept secret by the Engineers for several years. Those within ACC who were aware of them considered their existence an unappealing topic best overlooked for the sake of polite conversation and maintaining friendship with the Engineer's leadership. Outside the Pilot organization, their existence was considered incredulous. A small resistance of catgirls that had resisted brainwashing had formed aimed towards smuggling other catgirls out of the country through an underground passage to Korea, and this wound up being how the tiny catgirl diaspora began. Those catgirls unable to escape Japan before the insurrection are presumed to have perished, with the largest known surviving community residing in North America, though according to Tora Foster the survivors that she left Japan with all settled in Siberia, purposefully away from human civilization.
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Homo felisicatus sicarius is a combat-oriented subspecies of Homo felisicatus. The most prominent difference between felisicatus domesticus and felisicatus sicarius is their senses, particularly the eyes, the pupils of which are capable of contracting to slits to limit the effects of bright light on their vision, and likewise expanding much wider than that of a human's in low light conditions. Commando catgirls also possess a very thin tapetum lucidum layer within the eye that further enhances their night vision at the cost of adding a very slight reflectivity to their eyes. These modifications to the human eye also inflict mild red-green colorblindness on the catgirl. While the ears of the domestic variant are largely for appearances sake, the combat variant pinnae are fully functional and grant exceptionally sharp hearing, up to the ultrasonic range. Of course, this means that special precautions must be taken in expectation of entering a gunfight, but does make felisicatus sicarius very difficult to sneak up on. In addition to their superior senses, they are capable of performing great feats of speed and strength in limited bursts, and have excellent agility and flexibility. A sufficiently motivated "Nekommando" can bound off walls, lift multiples of their own body weight, and will usually recover their stamina faster than a human would.
The "Commando Catgirls" also underwent Compressed Mnemonic Imprinting, though of a different sort more akin to the kind Gernadders received. Despite being brainwashed with the same unbreakable subservience all Engineer creations are shackled with, they by design also possess a high degree of independence necessary for such a line of work. Their strong hunter instincts and greater range of will combined with CMI produce soldiers with a very spartan, objective-oriented mindset. Because they are intended for combat, they are considered BEOs.
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