Known Unnatural Species

## Zannie

### **Description**

A species that feeds off of the pain of others and is therefore on the Dangerous Unnaturals List created by INHUP. The pain of children nourishes them more. If a zannie does not eat for a longer period of time, they start to feel the pain they last consumed themselves. Over time this pain gets worse if they still don't eat until eventually something internally gives out from shock or stress. The condition is hereditary through recessive genes. There seems to be a concentration of zannies in Southeast Asia because Nita apparently had dissected many in the months she'd lived there. Zannies can also consume emotional pain instead of physical pain but the effect is significantly less. It depends on how the person feeling the pain feels the severety. Therefore, the exact same wound inflicted on two different people can lead to different amounts of pain. Another ability zannies have is finding out how many people are in their immediate vicinity and where since everyone is in at least some pain at any moment.

Nita wanted to look up if anyone has ever done MRI on a zannie and wrote a reserch paper over it, because she thought their neural connections must be interesting.

### **How to recognize**

Usually shivers ecstatically down the spine when they feel the pain of others and eat it.

### **Body part usage**

A zannie's blood is immediate way to relieve pain or used for anesthesia.

## Kelpie

### **Description**

A species that typically appear to humans on the bank of lakes and oceans, sometimes rivers, as a majestic and beautiful horse. If one gets on a Kelpie, they ride into the nearest lake, drown them, and leave them to rot for 2-3 weeks before feeding. They can also shift forms to appear human-like through an illusion. INHUP does not have them on the dangerous unnaturals list despite never having found a kelpie that hasn´t murdered someone. Originally the come from the Scottish Highlands and are now only found in Scotland and at the east coast of America and Canada because the need cold water. They can´t reproduce with humans and are slowly going extinct.

They are semi-aquatic and concerning legends they look like beautiful horses or human-like.

They are described as a monster with shining black crocodile-like scales, yellow slitted and elongated dragon-like eyes without anything white in them. The nose is flat and nearly invisible. The head is long and half of it is a giant mouth. The jaw is not even remotely related to human biology and has many rows of very sharp, thin teeth, slightly yellowed and about the length of a human finger. Hundreds of them are tightly pressed together and seem to overlap each other. Kelpies have a huge mouth and can swallow hand-sized objects without chewing. Without the teeth in the way, their mouth coud fit a whole human head. Kelpies don´t have ears or hair. The body is thick and fully covered in smooth black scales. The spine is bumpy and starts between the eyes going over the head down the back. A kelpie has two arms and two legs, but the arms are closer on the torso in comparison to humans.

To be adapted to living in water, they have gills to breathe trough as well as the mouth and nose. Additionally, they have webbing between fingers, toes, and from the arms to the body.

Kelpies build their illusion out of a slimy substance which even the clothes they seem to wear are made of.

### **How to recognize**

The illusion of their human form sometimes flickers. They are hard to recognize because they can willingly appear young or old, male or female with every face they want. Kelpies try to maintain a low body temperature because they melt when their body temperature gets hot or when they come in contact with hot matter. After they come in contact with a hot substance, the illusion breaks apart and the real apperance is revealed while they shed the green slimy substance their illusion is made of and loose scales.

When they alter the appearance, their skin begins to ripple like waves on water. For a moment, the skin is clear, breaking the light, before taking on another appearance.

### **Body part usage**

Any part of a kelpie's body is stated to be a deadly poison. Other possible usages are unknown; there has never been a kelpie dissection in all of history.

## Unicorn

### **Description**

The species presumably consists of solely men since the horn is a metaphor for the male genitalia. Unicorns eat the souls of their victims through skin-to-skin contact and are therefore on the Dangerous Unnaturals List created by INHUP. If a soul is too established in the body, it needs to be destabilized before a unicorn can consume it. Raping the victim is often used to destabilize the soul. The condition of being a unicorn is named "unicornism" and is proven to be hereditary through recessive genes. Unicorns live in western Europe. After a unicorn attack, the victims are missing their irses.

### **How to recognize**

Through the path of victims they leave behind; the victim of a unicorn possesses no irises since unicorns consume souls and the eyes are considered the windows of the soul. An iris-less body signifies a unicorn attack.

### **Body part usage**

Powdered unicorn bone serves as a drug that can get you addicted faster and more effectively than cocaine as well as nullify all pain with a high enough dosage. The addiction if an issue in both Europe and the USA.

## Pink Dolphin / Boto

### **Description**

Pink dolphins can pigment their skin based on what they eat, like flamingos and life in the Amazon River. They can turn into a pink dolphin when in the water. It is hard for them to remain in their human apperance when in contact with water. There are some unproven myths about them.

### **How to recognize**

Pinkish-grey pigmented skin, and pink hair when on a diet consistent of shrimp.

### **Body part usage**

If you look at someone through their eyes, it was believed to make someone fall in love with you instantly. The eyes are capable of causing nightmares if the Boto is alive.

## Ghoul

### **Description**

Ghouls feed off fresh human bodies. The condition is hereditary. There was a case where a family of Ghouls lived off fresh corpses without killing anyone. Because of this one case in the media, they are publically tolerated. The originated in the Middle east and are one of the oldest recorded species. In ancient sumerian texts they are called "gallu".

### **How to recognize**

They look completely normal on the outside but have small and sharp teeth. To cover this up, most of them wear fake teeth.

## Aur

### **Description**

Aurs are bioluminescent people, that can let their whole body shine like a lightbulb. They are not harmful and one of the most common unnaturals. They are not rare or hard to find.

### **How to recognize**

They glow because of their bioluminescence, but this is not recognizable if they don´t shine at the moment.

### **Body part usage**

Their blood is considered to be an aphrodisiac. Pieces of them would be possible to buy or sell on the black market. In the case of Fabricio, many people on the black market bought pieces of him to eat because he was "very tasty"; this was later debunked when it was revealed that Nita's mother had been cutting off and sending pieces of Fabricio to his father as blackmail.

## Nita and Monica's Species

### **Description**

Nita and her mother, Monica, are an unnamed and rare species that can actively control their body functions. They can only alter their bodies with aspects they can do on their own. Therefore, both can control the production of myostatin—a chemical which inhibits muscle growth—and attain nearly superhuman strength but are unable to change their face or regrow body parts.

It is mentioned that they can increase or decrease specific chemicals and hormones in their own body, increase growth of harmed parts of the body, shut of the reception of pain, and heal faster. They are the only two known individuals with this ability.

### **Body part usage**

In *Not Even Bones*, Boulder assumes consuming Nita's body parts would grant him immortality, but this is never proven right nor wrong.

## Vampire

### **Description**

If following classical folklore, then vampires most likely feed off of blood. They live in eastern European, are fast and strong and have a lifespan of 700 years. The older the vampire, the weaker but the more experienced. The condition is to some extent hereditary. Young Vampires are abnormally strong so it is considered suicide in some parts of the world to try and take one on. They can also freely walk in the sun but to older a Vampire gets the weaker they get and the more harming it is for them to walk in the sun or lamps flashing UV-rays. After 700 years the Vampire become close to crippled, unable to move or feed themselves. They like to head groups of organized crime. The most dangerous time for others in the life of a Vampire is between the age of 100 to 300 years.

### **How to recognize**

Baby vampires look normal, but as they get older they develop abnormal white streaks in their hair. The amount of this white streaks enables one to guess their age. These streaks are undyeable, because the dye does not stick to the hair.

### **Body part usage**

Their blood or body parts once drunken or eaten by others (naturals or unnaturals) gives the consumer some sort of immortality.

Nita’s Mother Monica had consumed a vampire hence why she looks so young. She is stated to look like a young woman in the 1960´s making.)

## Kappa

### **Description**

Their name means river children. They are small humanoids resembling turtles or amphibians with scales and which eat internal organs of humans. Organs of other mammals should also be possible, but they are publically despised. The condition is hereditary.

### **Body part usage**

Their organs are a powerful and deadly poison and their saliva contains a chemical that liquefies internal organs.

## Dact

### **Description**

Dacts, small fluffy balls of adorableness people kept as pets. They are totally harmless.

### **How to recognize**

In the Webtoon they are depicted with the bodyshape of a platypus and rose fur with a white pattern on their cheek.

### **Body part usage**

Their fur, which Monica tried to sell but Nita intervened.

## Bannik

### **Description**

Banniks are as dangerous as any human. They live in eastern European, and are called bathhouse spirits, because they love it warm. People think they could predict the future, but they were simply excellent observers and had a perfect memory.

How to recognize: Their black fingernails, which grow curved and pointed. Most keep them cut short and painted.

## Naga

### Body part usage

The venom is sold for a high price online.

## Mermaid

### **How to recognize**

At least some of them have eight tentacles instead of legs. (In one named example they are purple.)

### **Body part usage**

People say that eating their flesh grants immortality.

## Phoenix

### **Body part usage**

Their tail feathers get sold in bundles on the market. They have exotic colours and look soft.

## Chupacabra

It is only mentioned at the beginning of book 1 that Nita would like to dissect one and left the USA for that reason.

## Pishtaco

### **Description**

A Pishtaco is a fat-eating unnatural. Liposuction promises precice body-shaping. Nita wishes at the beginning of "Not even Bones" to dissect one.

## Ningyo

**Body part usage**

People think eating them will give them immortality. Ningyo means mermaid in Japanese

## Serpent

### **Description**

They have antenna-like horns and flick their tongue in and out to taste the air.

# Unnamed Unnaturals

## A nectarine-like fruit with eyes

### **Description**

It is large and yellow. The eyes can blink. They are able to be layed down.

## A living shadow

### **Description**

One sat in a glass box at the market of Monsters in "Not even Bones". It skittered away when someone poked on the glass.