I have a question about a character in some children’s books I am writing. The character’s name is gentle pussycat and he is a cat spirit in a human body. The stories are about his adventures.
He lives among humans and he looks like one of them but he is not, and it shows occasionally in the speed of his reflexes, his body language and his emotional intelligence. The stories are usually about social justice and social hospitality and relationship coaching. Mostly concerning the relationship between children and animals. Nurturers fun, that sort of thing. A cat person with a dream of a spiritual hospital.
My question is whether a cat spirit in a human body living among humans would be a human sub species, a minority race, or something else.
Maybe a homo sapiens (insert something really cool here) or the gentle people.
The problem is that in later stories the cat person can mate with human women and father offspring, a new race. The next catch is that he doesn’t necessarily father kittens, it can be a wide variety of non human spirits in human bodies. Anything from other animal spirits to elves. Maybe even a leprechaun.
That’s why I think homo sapiens gatoius or something defining him as a cat sub species is not going to work. The next generation can be anything since they are defined by not having a human spirit, not by the colour of their skin or their features, or even by having a cat spirit.
I want to get it right now so that it doesn’t come back to bite me later, especially if people like reading the books to their children and they become popular. The gentle pussycat is going to want his children to have human friends to play with one day too.
Something I probably should have mentioned earlier, the cat person is actually a leprechaun’s pet cat that has become more advanced than a normal cat and is now in a human body. So there is a leprechaun in the story too, but he is a spirit so he is nearly always invisible.
So, race, sub species, or something else or all of the above?
He lives among humans and he looks like one of them but he is not, and it shows occasionally in the speed of his reflexes, his body language and his emotional intelligence. The stories are usually about social justice and social hospitality and relationship coaching. Mostly concerning the relationship between children and animals. Nurturers fun, that sort of thing. A cat person with a dream of a spiritual hospital.
My question is whether a cat spirit in a human body living among humans would be a human sub species, a minority race, or something else.
Maybe a homo sapiens (insert something really cool here) or the gentle people.
The problem is that in later stories the cat person can mate with human women and father offspring, a new race. The next catch is that he doesn’t necessarily father kittens, it can be a wide variety of non human spirits in human bodies. Anything from other animal spirits to elves. Maybe even a leprechaun.
That’s why I think homo sapiens gatoius or something defining him as a cat sub species is not going to work. The next generation can be anything since they are defined by not having a human spirit, not by the colour of their skin or their features, or even by having a cat spirit.
I want to get it right now so that it doesn’t come back to bite me later, especially if people like reading the books to their children and they become popular. The gentle pussycat is going to want his children to have human friends to play with one day too.
Something I probably should have mentioned earlier, the cat person is actually a leprechaun’s pet cat that has become more advanced than a normal cat and is now in a human body. So there is a leprechaun in the story too, but he is a spirit so he is nearly always invisible.
So, race, sub species, or something else or all of the above?
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