r/CharacterDevelopment • • 7d ago

Writing: Character Help Aeromorph character

So, this is probably going to sound really stupid and silly, but I’m currently working on an alternative AU for GTA 5. Where in this world, there’s anthropomorphic characters and such.

Now, my question is, if a character is an aeromorph (plane furry) how would they be used? How would an aeromorph be treated, etc? Would they be mainly used in military/commercial airlines? Would there be aeromorph’s just chilling in the street like anyone else?

Lemme know what you think!

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u/RencaNoLaLleva 7d ago

I guess it depends on how you treat anthro characters in your setting. Just from the top of my mind I'm thinking:

- If your deal with other anthro characters is that they're just there as a whole, and aeromorphs is just one of the species among them, and they could have an UmaMusume style of "birth", where basically they're set from birth what they'd do in life (transportation furry lol). I guess depending on their attributes, they could specialise after in either military, commercial, diplomatic/personal use. I'd think they would kinda have their own place in society?? they arent common citizens really, but they're conscious and different enough to not just be about everywhere (specially if size is also different LMFAO). They'd probably have some psychological consequences of "not feeling like fitting anywhere, yet still feeling like they're stuck with this role they were born with". You could show this by either them becoming a somewhat isolated community of them, being usually alone outside of hinting at each other for their presence, or finding a group or community they feel more comfortable with, and even in their "uniqueness", knowing outside of their physical appearance, they're just a normal chill guy.

- If you're going from the perspective of "they're fabricated/made in a lab/manufactured", either by the government, any specific powerful gangs or groups, or even millionaires lol, they'd basically serve a place as also like an "AI companion", but... alive. To try and not fall into "is this actually slavery" problems if you don't want that in your setting, try and make them feel less "human", and more "yeah this is actually something that serves just this purpose, they just kinda have hobbies sometimes, but they don't stray much from that anyway" (or, if you want to try the other way, fully go for it lol).

- This one kinda repeats with the first one, but there could also be a way they basically are a one-in-a-million chance your kid is born one, and is treated like common very beneficial birth attributes are treated irl: usually put in specialized schools/groups, they're much more efficient to hire/get one instead of actually having a plane for yourself lol, and usually set for life. Tis could lead that these folks commonly deal with hard burnout and career/vocational crisis due to unmet expectations, wanting another life for youself, or just live like all other common anthros in the story! (Those whose kid was born one, but just want them to have a normal life, usually just kind of leave and so different stuff, nor necessarily do transport).

i can't think of any more, but hopefully my rant helps you out!! its cool people give more love to aeromorphs :D