Do catgirls have any room in Sci-Fi and Fantasy?
>>44399518
>Sci-Fi
No
>Fantasy
Yes
Next question
>>44399563
/thread
Can you stop using the same picture for your shitty threads at least? Its really obvious shitposting.
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>>44399518
Yes
>>44399710
Dem boobs
>>44399518
Yes to both.
>>44399518
Only if catmen have a place as well.
Unless a Wizard/Geneticist did it, in which case go ahead.
>>44399707
>posting in threads you dislike
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>>44400576
What about God did it?
>>44400600
Fantasy yes, Space no. Unless it is space god.
Really catfolk/catgirls aren't a problem, it's the presentation. I'm toying with the idea of having catfolk be a result of an engineered lycanthropy curse by an archmage, originally unleashed in a feud with another archmage, then used to improve conscripts in a magical war, and finally simply escaped into the wild.
There's plenty of room for delicious catgrills, but you have a society of magical contagious cat gypsies as well.
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>>44400720
>used to improve conscripts in a magical war
Muscle cats?
My group's playing a cyberpunk-esque game and there is Catgirls in that from cosmetic surgeries, cybernetic implants and gynoids.
Also a Foxboy informant NPC.
Lore wise there would be all sorts of beast-races running around but so far we've just met cats and a fox.
>>44400877
Need to be softer
>>44400445
What a butterface.
>>44400877
Yeah, they're flexible and muscular, as well as disease resistant. Even more importantly, being cursed acts as its own defense against magical maladies, so they were resistant against the magic of basically Necromancy/Lich Napoleon.
The other Archmage was a big life-magic dude, so when he had a relative turned into a cat-thing, he formed an army of loyal doberman-people, armed them all with magically crafted firearms and was prepared to go full Zulu until he was convinced killing zombies was more important than a pissing contest with the other archmage.
So my setting features both cat-people gypsies and regiments of dog-people.
>>44400226
You mean dem biceps.
If it's kind of a lighthearted setting, sure.
Either magic or aesthetic surgery, either or.
Yes.
>>44399563
Cat-People always were a part of Sci-Fi.
If you are into masochism...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UVw7cgv36A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTD-YVwWVig
>>44399707
Or maybe people use it a lot because it's a good image to use for threads about cat girls especially in sci fi
>>44399518
Yes, and yes, as long as it's done well.
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yes
>>44382275
Genetically engineered cargirl murderbots!
>>44399563
>>44400720
This is really weird. Catfolk have always been a sci-fi idea to me, and only a marginally fantasy one.
Maybe it was the Kzinti, or the Puma sisters >>44403263, or the Ktarl-Ktarl from Outlaw Star that inspired this view.
To be clear, I'm imagining them as designed things, artificially engineered creatures, or cutely designed cyborgs, either as a fashion statement by the elite, or at the opposite end of the spectrum, designer toys.
Not a distinct alien race, where anything too similar to "humans + X" seems kind of silly; excepting settings where the different "races" are all offshoots of humanity that have diverged because of mutations or true breeding genetic alterations that took over the gene pool).
>>44404799
Felinoid aliens/races certainly have a place in both SF & F. You cite the Kzinti but they go back further than that.
"Catgirls" are best, as you say, as a constructed being. More at home in Cyperpunk or settings already well on the way to furrydom (Justifiers and Albedo come to mind for SF, as well as Shirow's Puma Sisters) or as the result of curses in a fantasy setting.
Only if there are catguys too. All-female races are shallow fapbait ninety-nine times out of a hundred.
Not in warhammer.
>>44407259
p'raps, but 40k is neither fish nor fowl already.
Also, it's Chaos. Ain't gotta explain shit.
>>44407259
Felinids
>>44399518
Cat people have been part of science fiction for longer than fantasy, I think. It goes right back to the Island of Dr. Moreau in 1896. Of course, human-animal hybrids have been part of storytelling since the dawn of time.
These hybrids are literary devices, in a sense. Animal characteristics are a powerful storytelling shorthand, and our language is replete with idioms assigning characteristics to animals. After all, they don't call it "pussy" for nothing.
It's not like there's a set rule for them. Invariably they will fill a narrative niche in the setting, based on their cat-like characteristics. Making them catgirls (AKA cat people lite) is a way of having that shorthand while keeping the characters relatively human. It's also a typically Japanese trope, and people are going to have certain ideas about it.
>>44407134
Agreed, though the cat-guys should look like this.
>>44404798
Would a winter vixen suffice?
>>44399518
Play Traveler or Wing Commander nigger.
Fun fact, did you know Swat Kats was supposed to take place on an alien planet in the future?
>>44407134
Why is it so fraking hard to find good pics of male catfolk that isnt a female-yaoi-weaboo-fantasy or the incredible hulk with the head and strips of a tiger?
>>44407686
Maybe because catfolk is a fap-bait race created for porn?
>>44407567
or Fading Suns
>>44407556
fox>>>>>>>cat
>>44399518
Considering that:
1) They are some peoples' fetish.
2) They are corporations that capitalize on peoples' fetishes.
3) Bio-engineering is becoming a reality.
I say that any near to far future sci-fi is going to feature them. If not now then at the time they become reality.
>>44410046
It honestly disturbs me to a Lovecraftian level to consider what kinds of nekko-nekko monstrosities that'll pop up in Japan once bio-engineering/whatever becomes cheap enough to be a common thing.
My two heads are in very different opinions on the subject.
What a pointless thing to discuss.
