Age of Animus

Age of Animus is a science-fantasy dramedy coming-of-age series which takes place on a futuristic Earth where human-animal hybrids started being born at the same time a deadly sleeping sickness was discovered, roughly one hundred years ago. The main setting is the titular Animus, a city where humans and hybrids can live together peacefully. While the series doesn't really have a main character, there are some central characters who follow their own plots, which sometimes overlap with one another.
== Plot ==
The series centers on six primary groups of characters, the Brunch Bunch, who travel together to find Animus so they can find a safe home that will accept them, the Herd, who work together so a soldier from Animus' guard can reunite with her friend, the residents of Hollow, who work together to create a cure for the sleeping sickness, Gaia's Rebellion, who believe that hybrids were born to inherit the earth from humans and advocate for peace between the two groups, Animus' council, who try to figure out how to run Animus so that everyone can be happy, and the Apex, a group of humans who believe hybrids are what caused the sleeping sickness in the first place, and thus work to eradicate them.
== Characters ==
=== The Brunch Bunch ===
Kipo Oak - A 13-year-old jaguar hybrid girl who is separated from her father, and heads for Animus, believing she can find him there. She is very kind-hearted, energetic, and sometimes impulsive and naïve, and has a great love for science.
Arlo Beauregard - A 15-year-old alligator hybrid boy who travels to Animus hoping to find his father, who is said to be Ansel Beauregard, a high-ranking member of Animus' council. He is very free-spirited and optimistic, and loves music and singing, to the annoyance of Wolf. He was kidnapped by Apex members Ruff and Stucky when he was a baby, and then rescued by Edmée, who proceeded to raise him alone in her cabin in the swamp.
Wolf - A 10-year-old human girl who is reluctant to join the Brunch Bunch at first, but eventually warms up to them. Nobody knows her real name, so they call her Wolf for the wolf pelt she wears. She has vast knowledge about wilderness survival, since she lived by herself in a secluded woodland for roughly half her life after she ran away from her adopted wolf hybrid family when she realized she was raised to be a hunting exercise for their children. She's been incredibly distrustful of people ever since.
Bertie - A 16-year-old human girl who is very big and strong, but has a good heart. She acts as the voice of reason of the group. She is best friends with Benson and Dave.
Benson - A 16-year-old human boy who is very cheerful and easy-going. He is best friends with Bertie and Dave. He loves music. When they reach Animus, he falls in love at first sight with a boy his age named Troy.
Dave - A cicada hybrid man who's best friends with Benson and Bertie. He thinks very highly of himself, though he doesn't really have that many skills to back him up.
=== The Herd ===
Horse - A brave, but often impulsive and temperamental, horse hybrid woman who is a member of Animus' guard force (like a royal guard/police force). She is found by the rest of the Herd after she is left unconscious by an explosion that separated her from her twin sister and fellow guard member, Rider, and now works together with them to reunite with her. Her full first name is Horsatia, but she prefers Horse.
Wanda - A cheerful, motherly alpaca hybrid woman who is fiercely protective of her friends and family, sometimes a little too much so. The reason for this is because she was orphaned by the Apex as a young child, and she doesn't want to experience that loss again. At first, she is very reluctant to leave the abandoned zoo that she and her adopted family call home (abandoned zoos are used as ghettos where hybrids are typically made to live away from humans), but after some encouragement from Horse, Durpleton, and Zulius, she becomes more willing to venture further into different lands.
Durpleton - A slow-witted but very friendly giraffe hybrid man who is one of Wanda's adopted children, despite not being much younger than her. Later on, he ends up adopting Jamack as his own son for a while, to the Mod Frog's chagrin. His full name is Richard Horatio Durpleton the Third.
Zulius - A sassy, flamboyant, overly-dramatic zebra hybrid man who cares a lot about his physical appearance.
Glendale - An anxious, neurotic gerenuk hybrid woman who is one of Wanda's adopted children. She has a bad case of kleptomania which she's been trying to get over.
Chet - A diminutive but hot-tempered finch hybrid man who is one of Wanda's adopted children. He doesn't trust people outside the Herd very much, especially carnivore hybrids since they "eat guys like us!".
=== Hollow ===
Kajortoq - A 25-year-old red fox hybrid woman who is the head researcher in finding a cure for the sleeping sickness. Her friends call her Kitty. She is multilingual, being able to speak numerous languages including French, Spanish, German, and sign language.
Huehuecoyotl - A 24-year-old coyote hybrid man who is very intelligent despite his eccentricities. Most people call him Huey because his real name is hard to pronounce.
Quetzalcoatl - A 15-year-old rattlesnake hybrid boy who is very shy and timid. He is nicknamed Corn due to his love of the plant, growing an entire field of it in front of their residence.
Ichabod - A 25-year-old crane hybrid man who is rather neurotic and very superstitious. He has a habit of calling people by their full first names, much to Horse's annoyance when he does it with her.
Jade - A 19-year-old lizard hybrid woman who was adopted by Ichabod's family after they found her living alone near a river when she was very young.
Paula Bunyan - A 27-year-old grizzly bear hybrid woman who is very jovial and easy-going. She has an blue roan ox named Babe.
=== Gaia's Rebellion ===
Edalynn "Eda" Clawthorne - An owl hybrid woman in her late 40's who is the de-facto leader of Gaia's Rebellion.
Luz Noceda - A 15-year-old human girl who becomes a member of Gaia's Rebellion after meeting Eda and King.
King Clawthorne - An 8-year-old dog hybrid boy who is Eda's adopted son.
Raine Whispers - A middle-aged non-binary bat hybrid who is Eda's second-in-command. They used to date when they were in their 20's.
Annecy "Anne" Boonchuy - A 13-year-old human girl who is taken in by the Plantar family after becoming separated from her parents. She was raised to be wary of hybrids due to the thought that they're all dangerous savages, but softened up to them as a whole after seeing for herself that hybrids are really no more "savage" than full-blooded humans.
Hopadiah "Hop-Pop" Plantar - An elderly frog hybrid man who is a member of Gaia's Rebellion.
Sprig Plantar - A 10-year-old frog hybrid boy who is Hopadiah's grandson.
Polly Plantar - A 3-year-old frog hybrid girl who is Hopadiah's granddaughter and Sprig's younger sister. She gets along well with Wolf due to their shared love of violence.
Marcy Wu - A 13-year-old human girl who is one of Anne's best friends along with Sasha Waybright. She has a vast fascination with hybrids and wants to learn as much about them as she can. She gets along well with Kipo and Gus.
Amity Blight - A 14-year-old cat hybrid girl who eventually becomes Luz's girlfriend. She is rather standoffish and cold at first, but eventually becomes nicer.
Willow Park - A 14-year-old bumblebee hybrid girl who likes plants.
Gus Porter - A 12-year-old chameleon hybrid boy who is obsessed with history.
Camilla Noceda - A middle-aged human woman who is Luz's mother. She becomes a member of Gaia's Rebellion at Luz's encouragement. She works as a veterinarian.
Vee - She is a 13-year-old basilisk lizard hybrid girl who was taken in by Camilla shortly after she escaped from the Apex.
=== High Council of Animus ===
Lavender - An old human woman who is the head of Animus' high council. She is the wife of Animus' late founder, the elk hybrid Elkerto.
Scarlemagne - A mandrill hybrid man who is a member of Animus' high council. He plots to become the new "king" of Animus so he can ban all humans from the city for eternity. His real name is Hugo, which he cast to forget about the person he was in the past. He is an orphan was taken in by Lio and Song before Kipo was born.
Ansel Beauregard - A canary hybrid man who is a member of Animus' high council. He is the father of Arlo, and is overjoyed to be reunited with him. He had presumed Arlo dead after he was stolen from his crib by Ruff and Stucky when he was just a baby.
Andrias - A salamander hybrid man who is a member of Animus' high council.
Belos - A human man who is a member of Animus' high council. He is actually Philip Whittebane
Samantha - A cat hybrid woman who is a member of Animus' high council. She is Odalia's sister and the Blight children's aunt.
Atticus - A corgi hybrid man who is a member of Animus' high council.
Aristotle - An elderly tortoise hybrid man who is a member of Animus' high council. Atticus thinks he's too old and senile to still be in office.
=== The Apex ===
Dr. Emilia Abbott - A human scientist who experiments on hybrids to continue her father's legacy.
Greta - A human woman who is Dr. Emilia's right hand. She is very strong, but not at all bright.
Zane - A human man who is part of the Apex.
Grace - A human woman who is part of the Apex. She later defects from the Apex and joins Gaia's Rebellion after developing a soft spot for Hazel, who she and Simon originally intended to lure back to the Apex's headquarters to be dissected.
Simon - A human man who is part of the Apex.
Ruff and Stucky - Two human hillbillies who are part of the Apex. They kidnapped Arlo when he was a baby.
Hoag - A human man who is part of the Apex. Despite his gruff exterior and hatred towards hybrids, he loves and dotes upon his daughter, Doag.
=== Other Characters ===
Rider - A young human woman who is a member of Animus' guard force and Horse's twin sister. She was also her partner before they ended up getting separated by an explosion and Horse was presumed to be killed.
Teeny Tiny Tony - A fast-talking gerbil hybrid man who leads a band of con artists. His lifelong dream is to become a pizza chef.
Furlecia - A sassy poodle hybrid woman who is a member of Tony's gang. She dreams of one day owning a hair salon.
Alia - A teenage tiger hybrid girl who acts as the getaway driver for Tony's gang.
Marcellus - A tuna hybrid man who acts as the muscle for Tony's gang. He and Wanda dated briefly.
Madame Waterbaby - A hippopotamus hybrid woman who the Brunch Bunch go to for help finding Animus. She took Wanda in after her family was abducted by the Apex when she was a child.
Amaroq - A 27-year-old wolf hybrid man who used to live in Hollow before leaving after an argument between him and Kajortoq. He now mostly walks the Earth alone. At least until he finds Margot.
Margot - A 10-year-old wolf hybrid girl who is found by Amaroq after escaping the clutches of the Apex. Her parents raised her and her siblings with the belief that humans were beneath hybrids, carnivore hybrids especially, and that it was acceptable to hunt humans and herbivore hybrids as food. She never really fell into that mindset, however, believing that everyone, hybrid or human, should be friends. Wolf was her adopted sister for a while until she ran away after she was to be hunted down by the wolf children as a final hunting test.
Hilda - A 10-year-old human girl who is fascinated by hybrids despite her mother's disapproval of her getting close to them.
Johanna - A human woman who is Hilda's mother. Unlike her daughter, she isn't very fond of hybrids. Of course, that doesn't stop her from being appalled by the Apex's horrible treatment of them.
Alfur - A mouse hybrid man who lives with Hilda and Johanna after his village was ransacked by the Apex.
Edmée - An old human woman who rescued Arlo from the Apex when he was a baby and raised him on her own in a secluded cabin in the swamp. She succumbs to the sleeping sickness at the start of the series.
Hunter Belos - A 16-year-old human boy who is under the tutelage of his uncle to become the new chief of Animus' guard force.
Darius Deamonne - An octopus hybrid man who is a member of Animus' guard force. He becomes something of a father figure to Hunter.
General Brian - A human man who is the chief of Animus' guard force. He is the brother of Elkerto, and has a hidden agenda.
Yumyan Hammerpaw - A cat hybrid man who is a high-ranking member of Animus' guard force. Molly is his wife and they have a lot of kids.
Molly Hammerpaw - A cat hybrid woman who is Yumyan's nagging wife. She has a lot of kids with him who she dotes on.
Lieutenant Yunan - A newt hybrid woman who is General Brian's second-in-command. She is in a relationship with Lady Olivia, and they later get married.
Lady Olivia - A newt hybrid woman who is a maid for Animus' High Council. She is in a relationship with Yunan, and they later get married.
Lilith Clawthorne - A middle-aged human woman who is Eda's older sister. She later joins Gaia's rebellion.
Raven - A raven hybrid man who becomes good friends with Lilith.
Odalia Blight - A cat hybrid woman who is Amity's mother.
Alador Blight - A rat hybrid man who is Amity's father.
Edrick and Emira Blight - Two human teenagers who are Amity's older twin siblings.
Lio Oak - A human man who is Kipo's father. He used to work with Dr. Emilia to find a cure for the sleeping sickness before being fed up with all of the unethical experiments she conducts on hybrids.
Song Oak - A monkey hybrid woman who is Kipo's mother. She is a scientist who works with the Hollow residents to create a cure for the sleeping sickness. Her vocal cords were damaged after Dr. Emilia slit her throat, so she communicates through writing or sign language.
Hazel - A 6-year-old turtle hybrid girl who is taken in by Song. She is the biological daughter of Amelia and Alrick, a fact which everyone is unaware of at first.
Amelia - A human woman who is very involved with finding a cure for the sleeping sickness that killed her husband, Alrick. She is the biological mother of Hazel.
Jamack - A frog hybrid man who is a member of the Mod Frogs, a criminal gang of amphibian hybrids who all wear mod suits. He reluctantly becomes the adopted son of Durpleton.
Sasha Waybright - A 13-year-old human girl who was one of Anne's best friends alongside Marcy Wu. She becomes second-in-command to Grime after teaching him to be more charming.
Grime - A middle-aged toad hybrid man who leads a criminal gang of reptile and amphibian hybrids (mostly reptilian hybrids, but amphibians can also join if they look reptilian enough) called the Scale Scrapers.
Harris and Kwat - Two members of the Mod Frogs who are a male red-eyed tree frog hybrid and a female toad hybrid respectively.
Mrs. Satori - A frog hybrid woman who is the boss of the Mod Frogs.
Troy - A teenage human boy who Benson develops a crush on. He lives in Animus with his father, Roberto.
Doag - A teenage human girl who is Hoag's daughter. She loves dancing.
Gerard - An orangutan hybrid man who is Scarlemagne's beleaguered servant.
The Beast - A large, intimidating dog hybrid man who is the council's bodyguard. He doesn't talk.
Comfortable Doug - A mole hybrid man who is a member of Animus' guard force.
Splendib - A tiger hybrid man who is a well-known fashion icon in Animus. He is Zulius' ex-boyfriend and current rival. Splendib is his stage name, though it is unknown what his real name is.
Kale and Shar - Two cat hybrid women who are Splendib's groupies. They used to be Zulius' groupies before Splendib stole them away.
Tad Mulholland - A hive mind of super intelligent tardigrades that can make people experience vivid hallucinations when some of him is consumed.
Lily - A lobster hybrid woman who was a member of Tony's gang before she was kicked out due to her kleptomania getting out of hand. She is eventually employed by the lost and found department of Animus' guard force, ironically enough.
Rupert - A young wolf hybrid boy who is Margot's brother. Margot was forced to leave him behind so she could escape the Apex unharmed, which she deeply regrets.
== Stories ==
=== Journey to Animus ===
The story of how Kipo and Arlo meet and decide to travel together to find the city of Animus after learning that they're both heading there to find their respective fathers. Kipo was separated from her father during an attack on their old hometown by the Apex, and she was told to meet him there, where they'll live safe from the Apex, as Animus is a place where hybrids and humans can live peacefully together. Arlo was told by his guardian, Edmée, that he's the son of Ansel Beauregard, a highly-respected member of Animus' high council, and was sent to go and find him.
=== Rise of Animus ===
A prequel story that tells how Lavender and her elk hybrid husband Elkerto founded Animus, and how Animus' high council was formed.
=== Dawn of Animus ===
Taking place shortly after the end of Journey to Animus, this story follows Scarlemagne as he prepares for his coronation as the new "king" of Animus so he can ban all humans from the city for eternity. Not wanting what the city stands for to be sullied, the Brunch Bunch, the Herd, Gaia's Rebellion, and some of the residents of Hollow band together to stage a coup against the mandrill man's tyrannical rule.
=== Heart of Animus ===
Taking place immediately where Dawn of Animus ends, the Apex launches an attack on Animus, prompting everyone we've been following throughout the series (and Scarlemagne) to fight back and defend the city so humans and hybrids can continue living together in harmony.
=== Life in Animus ===
A mostly slice-of-life installment which chronicles the various characters' lives after the events of Battle for Animus. Acts as an epilogue to the series as a whole.
Category:Crossovers
Category:Fantasy
Category:Dramedy
Category:Science Fiction