Yaban

> We are quite the dismal race.
>
> Sol Yulaan's quote to Vicente Xaxalpa

***Saiyanthropus ferus*** or ***Greater Yabansaru monkeys***, commonly known as ***Yabans*** and colloquially referred to as ***Demonoids***, are an ultra-warlike race of extraterrestrials in the Yabanverse, characterized by their humanoid form, prehensile tails, extreme aggression, and different classes of violence. Genetically and spiritually engineered for combat, Yabans range in demeanor from proud and aggressive warriors to untameably berserk ferals, but all forms of Yaban-kind live for combat.
Yabans are widely seen as savage, ultraviolent, fascistic, and crude, with Ferals bordering on the genuinely demonic. They are a trisexual race, with the hermaphroditic gamales known as yenois providing a major population anchor due to an otherwise lack of sexuality and thus allowing them to grow their forces to unstoppable proportions.

Most Yabans are vassals of the Yeren Khanate, though even within this empire, the vast majority are barbarians and ferals simply fighting amongst themselves.

## Overview

### Name

The common name "Yaban" is a direct usage of the Japanese word for "savage" (野蛮, *yaban*, lit. "savage" ) as well as the Turkish word for "wild" (*yaban*, lit. "wild"). The meanings were chosen to represent their fierce and primeval nature, as well as their often barbaric appearance. Yaban is most often pronounced as "YA-bun" by characters, including most Yabans themselves, though some give the pronunciation as "Ya-BAHN" and "YA-bahn". The Sovagulan language specifically uses "Ya-BAHN" while the Yeren language preferences "YA-bun."

The taxonomical name *Saiyanthropus ferus* derives from a pun on their creative inspiration, the Saiyajin race from the Japanese manga Dragon Ball, as well as the Greek prefix *anthropus* meaning "man" or "humanoid" as well as the Latin word *ferus*, meaning "wild" or "uncivilized."

The scientific name "Greater Yabansaru monkey" comes from the Japanese words "yaban" and "saru" (猿, lit. "monkey"). In universe, this is used by the Gosamyrs to differentiate them from Lesser Yabansaru monkeys, the far more simian extant predecessors of modern Yabans.

Their colloquial name "Demonoid" stems from the the word "Demon" and the Greek suffix "-oid," meaning "resembling," due to their commonalities with various types of Demons and their extreme reputation.

### Homeworld

Yabans are native to Planet Kollidor in Universe 23, though as of Year 2355, there are populations in countless star systems and even other universes. Their origins on Kollidor are murky, with only Getavara knowing the exact details of their creation. However, no evidence of modern Yabans exists prior to the start of the First Age of Kollidor, which lies at 20,000 years before the present. As Planet Kollidor exists as part of the Kollidor-Sarrat dual planet system, they are celestial neighbors of the Gosamyrian race.

Due to their ultra-warlike nature, Yabans frequently lay waste to Kollidor and their other homeworlds, though Getavara always restores Kollidor and certain nearby worlds to a pre-annihilation state to keep the violence ongoing and prevent the species from going completely extinct.

## Physiology

### Physical Appearance

Yabans are humanoids, possessing a similar outward appearance and general physiology to Humans and Gosamyrs, with the most obvious being their prehensile tails.

Yabans are born with muscular and well-defined build, with males and females both developing defined musculature in childhood and retaining it throughout life. Yenois also develop some musculature, but are much trimmer on average.

#### Hair

Yaban hair comes in multiple colors, with the three most prominent sharing the same scheme as the Yeren flag: black, white, and red, with black being the most common hair color.
Because of their latent bioelectrical muscles, Yaban hair is often wildly spiked and sometimes gravity-defying, especially for those born with high levels of bioelectricity, giving them an even more feral and frightening appearance.

By altering their bioelectric voltage, a Yaban can change their basic appearance, from Zero Voltage where their hair acts much as it would for a human— falling flat— to High Voltage where their hair completely defies gravity from an overwhelming surge of bioelectricity.

#### Tail

All Yabans possess a furry, prehensile monkey tail which functionally acts as a fifth limb. Much like Saiyajins, Yabans will often wrap their tail around their hip as a makeshift belt for convenience, though many others tend to leave it hanging freely. Though Yaban tails are often coiled like that of a stereotypical monkey, they appear to be just as dexterous and have as many degrees of motion as a feline tail. Tail colors always match their hair color.

Due to the tail cartilege and nerves being directly connected to their spinal column, excessive squeezing or amputation of the tail can cripple a Yaban, or at least render them paralyzed and in great distress. However, enough training can allow one to overcome this weakness to an extent, and a mastery of *qi* can allow one to overcome the crippling paralyzation of losing a tail.

### Strength

Because of their incredibly dense bones and muscles, Yabans can weigh over a ton while remaining very lean, and this weight makes purely secular Yabans unfit to live in many environments.

Owing to their great weight and dense muscles, Yabans possess extraordinary strength.

### Personality

Yaban nature is extraordinary destructive to an insane degree, even by the standards of the many warlike races of Universe 23. Driven by a nexcidious lust for battle and militant aggression, Yabans choose violence over peace with others and have been known to engage in wars for no logical reason other than the sheer impulsive need to fight. Because of their latent nexcidious psychology, Yabans need fighting much like Humans need food and water, even those considered docile.

Yaban personalities vary widely, with Docile Yabans bordering on humanlike behavioral ranges. Due to their undercurrent of nexcidium, however, all Yabans yearn for combat and competition, even if for friendly purposes. This can also fuel their spirits to be curious and adventurous for the sake of finding new opponents or new dangers. The lack of care for risks and the desire to face threats causes Yabans to be seen as foolish or dangerous to most other races who tend to prefer some measure of security and the status quo, but this perfect adventurous spirit cripples their ability to anchor themselves to civilization or history.

Their utter lack of general care for the status quo and their nexcidious aggression often combines to spark "impulse wars," or large-scale conflicts that spark from no logical cause for no purpose other than raw fighting.

### Reproduction

In contrast to most mammalian species, Yabans are a trisexual species, possessing three sexes in their reproductive cycle: the male *nagois*, the female *bollois*, and the gamale or hermaphroditic *yenois*. Despite this set-up, technically only males and females or only gamales are needed to sustain the species, as yenois exist due to the general aromantic asexuality and graysexuality of the species.

Gamale Yabans reproduce through a means of mostly-asexual parthenogenesis that still relies on female pheromones to activate fertilization.

Female Yabans are also obviously capable of giving birth, but do so at a far lower rate than gamales.

Yabans have a sexual reproduction system incompatible with those outside their race, though history knows a scant few infertile hybrids.

## History

#### Pre-Yaban Kollidor

Little is known about Planet Kollidor before the rise of Yabans, other than that an ancient and technologically advanced precursor race did once walk the surface and nearly achieved interstellar travel before succumbing to an unknown cataclysm at least 200,000 years before the present, rendering the entire species extinct.
In the interim, the non-sapient and semi-sapient beasts of Kollidor continued on their existences, adapting and evolving on an increasingly hostile world. One such species was that of the Enjin, or the Lesser Yabansaru monkeys.

#### Genesis Black

Main article: Genesis Black
20,000 years before the present-day, a scientist and martial artist named Getavara happened upon the Kollidor-Sarrat planetary system in search of a prime environment to engage in an unethical experiment to synthesize a supreme warrior race. The details of what followed are mysterious and have rarely been divulged, though what little is concretely known is that Getavara spliced His own cells with those of Enjin monkeys to birth unto the universe the Yaban race. This process was not unadulterated, as Getavara altered many traits and characteristics of His creation to satisfy His desires and achieve certain goals.
Alongside Yabans, Getavara also created multiple other races to populate Kollidor for the sole purpose of inciting future conflicts between them, most notably the Jinkai people and their last remnants, Jinkai nymphs.

#### Age of Mythology

Main article: Yaban Age of Mythology
Immediately following their creation and rise to sapience (for the most part), Yabans congregated into tribal clans and worshipped their creator, though these early civilizations soon fell apart as their spectacular violence unwound their social bonds. Realizing that Yabans would soon destroy themselves, Getavara began the first of many psycho-patches to adapt them into a more modernized form, allowing Yabans the capacity to become docile enough persist in larger civilizations so long as they possessed some means of expressing their violent urges.
Another drawback soon became apparent when female Yabans, then known as *yenois*, increasingly often refused the domestic gender roles placed upon them in lieu of engaging in combat. After Khorijin became a warrior-martyr, Getavara formally reformatted the females into their current form of *bollois* and created a new gamale/hermaphroditic sex that would be christened as the "yenois" from then onwards.

#### Modern Yabanity

Ever since the Death of Yarboggesh and the Fall of Rahal, Yabans have widely considered themselves to be living in a modern, degenerated state of history.

## Culture

Yabans are genetically disposed to war on a level greater than almost any other race in the universe, with the arguable exception of the Vedar and Viroids. All Yaban society is geared towards the war machine and sustaining violence, while those persisting outside society live brutish and often short lives of constant, endless fighting.
Yabans are split into multiple various classifications and groups, but the main five are generalizations of common behaviors and levels of aggression:

* Docile
* Civilized
* Common
* Chaotic
* Feral

Yaban children rarely play like human children, instead preferring to fight each other.

## Tarus System

Many Yabans are put through the *Tarus* (lit. "school", "cultivation") system as young children before adolescence as an analog to school.

## Relationships with other species

### Humans

Yabans and Humans share a chaotic and violent relationship in almost all known situations, with alliances and friendships being exceedingly rare.

#### Universe 23

In Universe 23, Yabans' insane warlust and cruelty have earned them the nickname "Demonoids" and are widely feared by Humans of all species, though some more aggressive and nexcidious Humans do consider Yabans to be worthy and exciting opponents who represent the purest possible militaristic society.

#### Prime Universe

Main article: Prime Universe
Human-Yaban relationships in the Prime Universe are currently only known to have begun with the exile of Sol Yulaan to Earth Prime. Because of Yulaan's docility and the level of technological advancement allowing for video games to satisfy her nexcidious impulses, Yabans eventually cultivated an unusually friendly relationship with Prime Humans,

### Jinkai

Due to sharing Planet Kollidor with them, Jinkai people and Jinkai nymphs have had a long and extraordinarily bloody history with Yabans.

### Gosamyrs

Yabans and Gosamyrs share a long and storied history, but likely possess the friendliest relationship possible for the former.

### Abolians

Because of their similar love of war and combat, Yabans consider Abolians to be a prime opponent and, in extreme situations, a valuable ally.

### Vedar

The Vedar are one of the Yaban races' most valued opponents due to possessing demonic qi and a nexcidious bloodlust to rival Ferals.

## Trivia

* Yabans derive directly from the Saiyan race from the popular manga *Dragon Ball*, taking roughly the same form and physiology, to such a great extent that creator Yuli Ban commonly refers to Yabans as the "Legally-Not-Saiyajins." However, there are several differences between the two races, such as Yabans' lack of an Oozaru or genetically-defined Super Saiyan transformation.