Cat guys

I like cats, but I hate furries. Would you help me create a race of cat people who're decidedly not furry? My setting is high-magic and generally ligh-hearted.

>Would you help me create a race of cat people who're decidedly not furry?

That depends. What's the arbitrary definition of "furry" this time?

I really hoped I wouldn't have to explain the obvious.

Anything with hair.

People will sexualize anything. If you're trying to create something impossible to sexualize... good luck, there's Lovecraftian smut, even.

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There are still things most people tend not to sexualize, such as dwarves. Please don't post proofs of the opposite, I know there are weirdos, but I haven't met any in real life.

Just make sure the race is definitively unattractive. Specify that the generations of magical mingling and interbreeding that led to their creation makes them appear more like monsters than anything else. More cat-like than human, they struggle to integrate into any polite society, and are only interacted with due to pity and a sense of duty.

Just think about what human-animal crossbreeds would actually look like if they weren't romanticized. Limbs that always look a little misproportioned. Mouths incapable of perfectly mimicking human speech. Clumsy paws that make handling most weapons impossible.

Make a race even you refuse to play, and that's about the safest way to do it.

Or just realize how completely fucking asinine it is to devote this much thought into "how can I play a furry character without letting people call me furry" and just embrace it. Fuck. No one outside of Veeky Forums gives two shits what kind of race you play in-game, as long as you aren't dry-humping the rest of the party and commissioning sexy portraits of your character.

>There are still things most people tend not to sexualize, such as dwarves.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA.

Kwarfs, cat dwarfs. They essentially look like in OP picture: bipedal cats, but much stockier built, a bit wider than they're tall, about twice as short as a typical human, with long and bushy beards. They're nocturnal, but can spend up to a week without sleeping, which they compensate for with long periods of slumber.

They're neither as technologically advanced as dwarfes or magically advanced as elves, their thing is alchemy. Kwarfs produce a variety of plastics with almost limitless properties, which are known around the world as "Kwarf Rubber". Kwarf-made kevlar armour is every bit as resilient as dwarven mithril armour or elven enchanted armour.

They appear detached and cold to most races of the world due to their brief and concise speech as well as complete lack of understanding of social cues. In fact, this is because pheromones are an integral part of their language, through which they express nuances and humour.

Kwarfs are known for their extreme individualism and introversion. They don't form families, instead only mating to conceive children, which then take turns living with the mother and the father until they turn 40: at that age, they move out on their own. Likewise, they hardly ever make over five friends during their entire lifespan of two centuries.

Instead of forming social relationships, they concentrate fully on their work, making some of the most dedicated specialists in any field. This also makes them extremely intolerant towards lack of professionalism and arrogant towards people less knowledgeable than them. No other master will insult you so much, but no other could teach you so much

Extremely long lifespans and lack of a need for leisure time shaped the Kwarf working culture. They work extremely slowly, but very thoroughly, and without taking breaks. They also eat, walk and speak very slowly, thinking before uttering any phrase, which makes communication with them a bit frustrating for others.

Nice selective reading.

Why thank you.

By that logic then even having a furry race is fine, since most people don't sexualize half-animal people either.

Everybody's aware of furries, but most of all, it makes me personally uncomfortable.

Make them like children. Hardly anyone sexualizes kids, hardly anyone sexualizes things with fur, thus they will not get sexualized at all.

I take it you never met a loli-fag, have you.

What do you think I am, boy?

Off the Internet? No. And frankly, they're banned instantly anywhere except here.

Absolutely precious.

>good luck, there's Lovecraftian smut, even.

Written by Alan Moore too!

This works until you consider, the race must still breed otherwise they'd be extinct...

You should leave your basement once in a while, and talk to people who don't live in basements.

They'll be like Gnomes, no one will take them seriously.

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Worse than gnomes... they'll be Kender.

You should go back to your basement, your opinions upset people who don't live in basements.

No one could possibly sexualize this!

NOOO

>but most of all, it makes me personally uncomfortable.

Don't be. Nobody really gives a shit, and the execution of idea trumps idea itself. Don't sexualize them yourself and don't give them special treatment (from both sides of the scale - i'm tired of "i like this race but to mask this i'll make them into walking misery magnets").
Don't give a shit.
Realize nobody does give a shit.
If you're playing with someone sexualizing a character - it's him, not you.

Case in point - i am a self-admitted degenerate and i have a race of literally catgirls/guys in my setting. Nobody gives a shit because i treat the race as seriously as the other and don't turn them into walking joke or author's darlings.

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Elves have cat-like ears, only they're not on top of their heads (which makes sense for a humanoid). Are elves secretly catgirls?

Welp.

Felitaurs - minotaurs with a cat head. Problem solved, no furry will like it.

>Everybody's aware of furries
Not my RL group, apparently. I offered to run a game which has a setting amounting to SPACE FURRIES and their only concern was that I never make them use one of the living ships because they didn't want to get accidentally crushed by it's 'interior defense mechanisms' (read, spontaneously grown teeth).

There was also one guy who really wanted to be a naga, but he's also a massive WoW fan.

Really. Just talk to someone who isn't well-versed in board culture about it and they'll look at you like you're crazy.

From your picture, I would say you're a furry. Personally, don't give a shit because everybody's got fetishes and so long as you don't bring it into my game, I'm fine. Sadly, I've dealt with those fuckers offline as well as online. Personally, I think they're worse then furries because pedophilia makes me very angry (not going to do a blog post, don't worry faggots) and loli-fags shit things up more then the furries. Of course, it depends on who your dealing with and everyone has dealt with their own shitheads (why some people really hate furries, may be because of some furry asshole ruined their game as why more obnoxious then a 13 year old edgelord supreme).

>no furry will like it

>+ to dex
>graceful
>assholes
The line is blurry. Funny enough, in my setting they're the polar opposite to catpeople

desu side-ears on catpeople look better too.

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You literally posted my manfu and I'm not even a furry.

dickjab into GS is too funny.

Do you consider Gnolls to be "furry"? Because they're played straight up savage, feral murder-machines, and official. If the answer is "yes" then what hope do you have for anything you're going to make?

I can say for sure that the people in my current group are aware of furries. I blame TTS.

Cat centaurs.

Actually that's a Felandros, not a Felitaur.

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you're a funny man.

Gnolls are not furry, but I obviously wouldn't make cat people like gnolls because I like cats.

Chakats pls go.

>Gnolls are not furry

Who says they're not fertile?

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Well then you've got to ponder this race of child-like innocence is casually getting it on behind closed doors... and that's super creepy.

Spore-shedding childish cat people.

They're usually depicted as disgusting, sick and ugly.

>Gnolls are not furry

Oh lawdy

>Felitaurs
>Felandros
Wot's this then? Fe-li-taurs... Felandros... the Bulls of Feli? The Man of Fel?

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>but I hate furries.

Opinion discarded.

Hating on a random Veeky Forums boogeyman to show how much of an 'epik oldfag' you are doesn't make you cool. In fact it makes you look like a worthless edgy 14 year old "troll", so I will assume you are just that.

You must be 18 years or older to use this website.

Just make them gnome/halfling stand-ins.

They just play doctor and it escalates and they realize that's how babby is formed

>Gnolls are not furry
Can we have your arbitrary definition of furry already?

>They're usually depicted as disgusting, sick and ugly

And as we all know, anything gross and creepy, bleeding and scarred isn't furry- oh hey there mister Sergal.

Can you start reading the thread already?

Nice topic shift.

LEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWD

user, there was a literal furry pedophile ring around my area that just got busted.
Veeky Forums was RIGHT.

Really trying to appeal to the pedophile furry demographic there

It's furry. Your pic is furry.

You're welcome to give a personal example.

>literal furry pedophile

So they were fucking kittens and puppies or something?

It was a joke, user. Don't take it so seriously.

Have you heard of the Bulls of Cen?

Children dressed in animal costumes

No it isn't.

So it's the opposite of this?

It's really not that much of a shift. His point stands; Sergals are disgusting, alien predators which will happily hunt and eat people.

People still wunna fuck 'em.

Besides, Warcraft gnolls are pretty far removed from almost any other variant with their odd, distinctly Warcraft-style proportions. They're the only really visually distinct gnolls I can remember finding.

Base them on Lil Bub

I honestly really enjoyed the charr in gw2, though with one image search you'll rwalize the community utterly ruined their roman steampunk aesthetic. Still though, they're pretty rad.

Took me some time to realise they're cats at all.

Theyre monstrous lions with demon horns user, basically gnolls with a massive int boost who now make seige engines and tanks.

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Oh, you sweet, summer children.

No bipedal bullocks.

Normal cats, just more intelligent.
...maybe with opposable thumbs.

Unless they're magical constructs.

Why do we need to have this thread every week or two

There are Khajiit like that actually. I wish they were playable.

Blue Rose, of all things, does this. Although you'd replace opposable thumbs with minor psychic ability.

Tibbits. Sort of like gnomes that turn into housecats. They don't have any cat features in their humanoid form and as cats they aren't anthropomorphic, so no furry. Look them up, they're perfect for high magic and light hearted.

Ehh dungeon crawl stone soup has a non furry cat race, they are just basically wizard pets turned sentient.

Simple, OP: they're all Danny DeVito with cat ears. They resemble your original image, are surly assholes to those they don't trust, and eat the most horrifyingly awful garbage they can find.

But hyenas ARE cats.

Why is it that in the morning people are assholes, but in the evening they actually give useful advice?

where mah ctarlctarl niggas at

I was going to suggest anime catgirls.

They're sexual, but not furfag material because they're retarded humans with funny ears who say 'nyaa' a lot. Elves who make cat noises, to keep things simple.

No, hyenas are feliforms, but they are very much hyenas. Cats are felidae and feliforms. They split really early on from the rest of the feliforms soon after the caniform/feliform split.

1) take a bunch of normal cats
2) make them sentient
3) give them powerful magic abilities and slaves to feed them and build stuff for them
4) you're done

That or sphinxes. Those are basically reverse furries: human face, animal body.

lol

And nether are they cats. They're retarded humans with misplaced ears.

>give them slaves to feed them and build stuff for them
So, exactly like in the real world?

feliforms = cats, caniforms = dogs
deal with it

Hey, i object. You can make them not retarded.