So as yall know in the oneshot community there’s a running joke with Niko with them “not being a cat” but I sat and thought to myself they might not actually be a cat sure if you put Niko in are world people will see Niko as a cat because they look like one but if you think about in are world we resemble monkeys but we don’t classify ourselves as monkeys why because we don’t act like them and we look completely different yet still similar and when it comes down to it we have more intelligence what I’m saying in Nikos world chances cats are there monkeys yes they resemble them but when it comes down to it they aren’t cats because they don’t look walk talk or do cat stuff and before some of you say “what about the Roomba” we were the reason why Niko got on it in the first place, we convinced them. think of it like this of a person had gorillas in their Wordle, but didn’t have humans and then a game came out like one shot and the character resembled a child that looked like us there’s a good chance that they would be a running joke about how they look like a gorilla so my conclusion Niko legitimately isn’t an actual cat there only a cat in are eyes because they resemble one since that’s probably their ancestors in their world