Froguar (Species)

Froguars are a frog/cat hybrid species nonexistent in the Pokemon world that are basically Zeratoeds if they were to exist in real life. They are the most prominent species seen in the *Shrek* parody, *Kyofu*.

## Biology

### Natural Froguars

Regular Froguars, like Zeratoeds, are very short in stature. They have green, fluffy fur, light yellow bellies (though rarely seen), and cat like ears. Their hands and feet sport unsheathed claws, but no fur grows on them, revealing lime green skin. They have long, bushy tails that respond with the Froguar's emotions, like a cat's tail in real life. Unlike Zeratoeds, their noses are black instead of pink and are able to sprout human hair on top of their heads.

### Cursed Human Froguars

When humans are cursed to become Froguars, they are very much similar in appearance, except they sport their original human noses instead of the usual black cat nose. However, a cursed Froguar can sport that physical trait permanently if they don't do anything about a limited version of a Voodoo Froguar's curse.

## Origin and Creation

### Natural Froguars

Like humans, Froguars have evolved from a previous species of jaguar that had drank from a lake that was home to many green frogs, transforming them into the first Froguars. The species had coexisted with humans when they were curious of how they had progressed in survival, and they were taught how to talk, walk, eat, build, and many other human tasks in the process. Because Froguars had thumbs, they were able to evolve to become more human-like, and in turn, create their own villages and societies like their teachers would. To create a Froguar egg, since they don't have reproductive organs, a male and female Froguar must share their saliva through French kissing. The next week, the female Froguar will crap out the egg out of nowhere painlessly with no warning signs of it to come. Sometimes, it'll get feelings of confusion of how it even came to be. The watery egg that was created is no bigger than a basketball, and contains a black silhouette of the actual baby Froguar inside. The mother or father will have to keep the baby Froguar safe until it grows and hatches into it's toddler stage. Toddler Froguars might have fur on their face, but the rest of their body is fur-less along with their tail. They are comfortable with walking around on all fours and communicating with kitten-like mews until they are taught or self-taught how to walk. Soon, they will start to talk, grow fur and gain height as they become kids. They will even obtain their own personality at this stage of development. Like humans, a Froguar hits puberty during their teenage years. During Froguar puberty, the main job of the body is to make itself look similar to that of adult Froguars by growing any lost fur and gaining their growth spurt. Once they hit the average height of 4'5" and are 18 years old, it is declared that Froguar puberty has ended and they are now considered adults. However, if a Froguar practices the dark arts, particularly curses, their height will be stunted, even after their adult stages, but will still grow all the necessary fur needed to look like an adult Froguar. Even with this stunted height, they are still considered adults by Froguar society, except they are mainly seen having a main or side profession of magic or dark arts.

### Cursed Human Froguars

However, because of how different they looked compared to humans, Froguars were constantly discriminated and were forced to live separately. Though, some have tried peaceful tactics, none have really succeeded. To mark revenge against such discriminators, Froguars who studied the dark arts, called Voodoo Froguars, were hired by every village to cast curses onto unsuspecting human discriminators or even Froguars who broke village rules. They were like the Krumpus of Froguar villages for how merciless they casted their curses as punishment. Even if someone slammed the door on them, they would still receive the curse regardless. While curses towards Froguars were really standard and complex (poison, certain death, loss of voice, mewling, etc.), punishments towards human discriminators were only Froguar transformations, permanent or nightly, and that's it. For a Voodoo Froguar to curse a human, they would have to go to the victim's house. Regardless on if the door was slammed in their face or not, the curse would be recited and take effect onto them. A few seconds after the curse is cast, the victim will undergo a werewolf-like transformation: Sprouting green fur, skin turning lime green while growing claws on their fingers, teeth becoming sharper/crooked, growing a bushy tail, and shrinking in height. Depending on the curse, the victim will either be forced to bear their Froguar form every night until they find someone that'll love them in return, or have a few days to make up with the Froguar they mocked before they become a Froguar forever and their nose becomes that of a Froguar's, the shade of their skin being a ticking time clock of sorts as it gets darker day by day. However, their personality is still kept regardless of their curse, including the permanent one if they fail and become natural Froguars. For the nightly curse, the victim does not have to undergo the werewolf transformation again, and instead, a magical yellow light surrounds them and transforms them painlessly from there. They also have as much time as needed to break the spell: Days, months, even years. Once the spell is broken, they will become the true definition of love, which boots them back to being a Froguar, making their time and effort all for not. Despite this, the spell breaker will not turn them into a natural Froguar. The time limit curse, however, is decided of how many days the Voodoo Froguar decides the curse breaking should go on for. They could even make the time limit as little as 24 hours if they really wanted to be cruel. Once the curse is permanent and their appearance becomes that of a natural Froguar, there's no going back. The curse has done it's job, and there's nothing the victim can do about it. However, if a victim wanted to be desperate of changing back to human, they'd need to seek out their true love and receive a kiss from them. If a human Froguar were to mate with another Froguar of any kind, they would make human/Froguar babies that look like natural Froguars without being cursed themselves.

## Abilities

Froguars have the same abilities as Zeratoeds, which you can find here, except hey possess few bonus quirks:

**Meowing -** Froguars have the ability to not only squeak like frogs, but also meow like cats. Though, because Froguars are so small, it sounds similar to that of kitten mews. Unlike squeaking, their mewing is more controlled and is mainly only used when they pretend to be cats.

**Emotion-tied Tail -** Like cats, a Froguar's tail can describe emotions that they are feeling, even if they say they aren't feeling it themselves. Sometimes, they will swish their tails uncontrollably out of excitement. Cursed human Froguars do not know how this ability works themselves, which ends up confusing them why their tail is swishing when they don't want it too or they instinctually start to chase it.

**Animal Instincts -** Unlike Zeratoeds, Froguars will end up having the instinct to laser focus and chase prey down when they're hungry, cursed or not. This particular instinct will make them go crazy over flies, rats, mice, birds, squirrels, deer, meese, wildebeests, or eagles.

**Super Scent -** Natural Froguars or formerly cursed human Froguars have an enhanced sense of smell thanks to their spongy, wet cat-like noses. Because they can pick up so much, they can choose to lock onto a particular scent to find objects or people.

**Enhanced Hearing -** Because Froguars have such big cat-like ears, they are able to hear things clearly and pick up sensitive sounds like those in ASMR videos. Unfortunately, this heightened sensitivity in hearing leaves them vulnerable to really loud noises or even dog whistles. Their ears can also twitch when excited or happy about something.

## Known Froguars

### Natural Froguars

Here are a few known natural Froguars found in the Kyofu series:

**Kyofu -** A jolly yet easily angered natural Froguar who is the main star of, well, *Kyofu*. He is obsessed with his muscles, anime, and cartoons. He wants to fit in with other humans, but can't since he's discriminated by them for being a Froguar Even with this predicament, he still tries to stay happy and accept what he is inside and out. Well, more than Fione, that is. He has appeared in every Kyofu movie, from the first movie to *Kyofu for Life* (AKA, *Kyofu 4: The End is Near*) and eventually *Kyofu 5: Untold Origins*.

**The Voodoo Froguar -** Also known as the "Grand Voodoo Froguar" or "Voodoo Queen," this particular short little Voodoo Froguar that was introduced in *Kyofu 3: Am I Dead Yet?* was the one who cursed Fione in the first place. She is very manipulative, using her kind words to nearly fool Fione into thinking she's a nice Froguar who only turned her into one for the sake of making her a better Ambassador. In reality, she only wanted to create a Froguar master race with whatever curses she had. Eventually, she was killed off by Fione's signature AK-47 after realizing she's better off being a Froguar than a human anyways.

**King Dolph of Dolphinopolis -** A natural Froguar formerly named Joe turned human and then back again by the Fairly Odd Conscience. Like Kyofu, he is fascinated with human culture and wants to be a part of their kind, but couldn't because of his species' discrimination. However, Joe was so desperate to become human that he sought the help of the Fairly Odd Conscience and allowed him to become human for all his life as King Dolph until sacrificing his human form for Kyofu in *Kyofu Escapes 2 Dolphinpoplis*, turning him back into a Froguar as a result. He and others still call him King Dolph after his predicament, however.

### Human/Froguar Hybrids

**Ambassador Fione of Dolphinopolis -** The main cursed Froguar human of Kyofu. Once a royal military ambassador who lead, planned, and strategized countless wars of Dolphinopolis, she was cursed as a Froguar for having a hatred towards Froguars that wasn't even sprouted out of revenge or anything, but instead, by her parents. Luckily, her curse was lightened due to the Voodoo Froguar knowing of her parents' involvement in her hatred, but she still never liked being a Froguar, even after her curse got broken by Kyofu's kiss. She's cold, regretful, calculated, stoic, no-nonsense, and sometimes unintentionally edgy due to what she's been through.

**Sayuri** - The child of Kyofu and Fione. She is the only daughter that doesn't really care about how she looks and doesn't quite understand the concept of self esteem yet, as she prefers not to know. She wears her pet snake, Kobi, around her neck as a scarf. Many people are shocked by this or are concerned for her when she's out in public, but could really care less because it doesn't hurt her and thinks it's cute.

**Ryo** - The child of Kyofu and Fione. He's the surfer dude of the trio, always trying to catch waves in Kyofu's Jungle Swamp, but doesn't realize that they don't form in lakes and rivers. He's a really good swimmer as a result of this. One day, he hopes to go to an actual beach and hang ten on some really big waves. He got his laid-back semi-sarcastic attitude from his mother.

**Kyo** - The child of Kyofu and Fione. Kyo is really fascinated by the lore regarded around cursed Froguars, and wants to find ways to make his mother happy and human. Because of this, he dipped his toe into the dark arts for good instead of evil until Fione intervened and stopped him from doing so. He still wants to cure his mom despite her warnings, which leads into him conflicting on whether or not to use it.