Anthry

The **Anthry** race is one of the two major races on Spinch. It is comprised of sapient, anthropomorphic animals of varying species. Anthries are considered to be the dominant race on Spinch, and can be differentiated from ferries by their ability to communicate with one another and express themselves through art and language.

## Saturation

When an anthry is traumatized, they become brightly colored. This is to emphasize the intense effects trauma has on people and how it changes them forever. The use of bright color is to represent intense emotions, and isn't just an aesthetic choice. Anthries who aren't traumatized are usually pastel or natural colors. Anybody can get traumatized, even outside of Sparklecare.

Anthries who heal from their trauma turn bright pastel colors. They do not go back to their original color, but instead a brighter one- but it's still not as eye-straining. It might be more of a pastel neon. Any Anthry not coping in a healthy way (I.e the "Chunklings") get their saturated color darkened.

The more traumatized an Anthry is the brighter their saturation becomes.

## History

Anthries are creations of Emem and Tears. They evolved from antherries, which evolved from therries. Therries were thick furred beasts that walked on four legs. They were very large and had long fur to survive the cold weather of Spinch's third major ice age. After the end of that ice age, therries evolved into a smaller size and became known as antherries. Their bodies shrank because they didn't need to stay warm anymore. However, when another ice age hit in response to another eruption from Goda mountain, antherries had to find a way to survive and they began engaging in heat retainment (also referred to as *calefaction*).

## Culture

Anthries are a fairly peaceful species. No major wars or battles have occurred in Spinch history, and discrimination against others for their qualities or beliefs is frowned upon across all anthry cultures.

## Diet

Anthries don't eat meat even though they are technically omnivores-- it's just considered unnecessary to them unless a situation is dire and they'll starve if they don't eat a ferry. They prefer to eat things made from orb products or plants. Veganism on Spinch is the preference of not consuming orb produce for food or other purposes.

## Heat Retainment

Heat retainment is anthry sex. The term "heat retainment" refers to the actual generation of heat between two anthries, but the scientific name for the act itself is calefaction (which means the state of becoming warm). During the age of antherries its purpose was to generate body heat so they could stay alive, but as that ice age ended, their need to do that also faded and the ability became vestigial. Evolution didn't phase it out simply because anthries just liked doing it. Because of their history with cold weather, anthries also have a natural body response of feeling aroused in response to colder temperatures. The holiday Kissmas has origins that are rooted in heat retainment, but the meaning has changed over time to be a wider range of love and affection.

## Reproduction

Anthries reproduce through eggs created by Emem. Emem uses the resources of Spinch, like plants and water and soil, and blends them together magically to create new life! Each egg will bear colors of the child it contains, and often have a pattern connected to who they are in some symbolic way. Or sometimes, it's random, if Emem has no idea what the kid is going to be like. Two anthries can only become parents if they want to and their love is true. Eggs arrive in a blanket and basket on the doorstep of the new parents, and they take six months to hatch into a baby! Twins and triplets and quadruplets etc will share the same egg. Sometimes, things can happen to the baby if their egg is tampered with, but eggs generally are very strong and durable and it is not possible to completely break them or harm the baby inside. However, tampering with an egg can affect and influence the appearance of the baby (such as coating it with paint or a dye or something, etc). An anthry or ferry's birthday is known as a hatchday. Half birthdays are called eggdays (the day in which your parents received your egg)!

## Naming

Every anthry has either a pun name or a palindrome name. Pun names are in the language Countrandish (whatever language the comic is read in... Earth languages) and palindrome names are in the language Countrountrish. Countrountrish is where each letter of a word in a sentence is written backwards, but each word is still in the original order of the original sentence (ex. "I love you" becomes "I evol uoy.") The pun in someone's name is something anthries call an allotpun, and the palindrome is called an allindrome. People aren't really totally conscious of their allotpuns when naming their kids. It's really only ever acknowledged for some comedic purpose.

## Species

### Bio

Magic anthries are anthries that have magic abilities, and are often mythical creatures. General anthries who use magic are simply called magic users. The existence of magic anthries on Spinch is not exactly a secret, but they aren't very well known because magic anthries tend to not draw much attention to themselves. The scientific community still hasn't really accepted the existence of magic or magic anthries for they cannot find a way to logically explain them or their powers.

### Unicorns

* Notable for having healing powers and conditional immortality, which is a healing ability in which a unicorn cannot die from illness or injury, only old age and at the hands of another unicorn.

### Dragons

* Notable for having pyrokinesis and a very high body temperature

### Werebeasts

* Werebeasts are anthries that are cursed to revert back into therries, which were the giant thick-furred monstrous ancestors of anthries. They have to learn to control their beast form from childhood. If turned into a werebeast later in life, control of the form is more difficult. Werebeasts in their anthry forms cannot naturally engage in (or want to enage in) heat retainment because they are therries, which existed before anthries evolved to retain heat.

### Vampires

* Vampires on Spinch are much like they are in horror media. They cannot survive in daylight and they survive off of attacking anthries and drinking their blood. They have mind control powers as well, and the ability to wipe people's memories.

### ESPers

* ESPers are anthries that have the ability to read people's minds. ESPers only have one eye which is often covered up by the ESPer to avoid exposing themselves. They are largely feared by people because of their incredible powers, and this leads them to hide their identities to avoid scaring people who don't want their minds read.

#### Party anthries

* Party anthries include pinata anthries, cake anthries, and paper anthries. Pinata anthries tend to have candy instead of organs, cake anthries are full of cake, and paper anthries tend to have no insides at all.

### References

1. ↑ https://www.tumblr.com/sparklecarehospital/709077994380132353/i-just-noticed-barrys-colors-just-got-more?source=share&\_branch\_match\_id=1115144196738689653&\_branch\_referrer=H4sIAAAAAAAAAyXJMQ6AMAgAwBchcXDxNxSJrbbSAE3U1zt46%2BWI7isixRSjpWoTa0PvZGcVJpOs3ktQxQLH8IBLo7BskMjscWCtav7XrgFNTfB%2Bx9JkvrfM%2Bwd4Tb7kYQAAAA%3D%3D
2. ↑ "assuming Uni knows,,how does Uni feel about the fact Barry is trans?? Or anyone else?", Sparklecare official Tumblr. Retrieved 5 May 2019.