The earth has always been inhabited by humans and animals, just humans and animals but, there are times that these humans with animal attributes pop up in legends and raise questions for a while but are often regarded as a myth or fairytale. What if they were not as mythical and fairytale like as portrayed to be?

In the forests all over the world, there lies a hidden area that is charmed by ancient magic to protect the society that lives within said forests. These magical forests house shifters of all kinds and have for a long time now. Shifters were not always hidden, in fact, they walked amongst humans many many years ago and for a long time it was accepted but in the medieval time period, wars broke out between the shifters and the humans and thus, the shifters retreated into the forests and elder beings had charms set into place so that when a human came near the area that led to their society, they’d want to turn around due to a great sense of foreboding.

Still, humans could wander upon these hidden areas but it was entirely rare and usually they were scared off, on the rare chance that they were not scared off, they would leave quickly and speak of what they saw, only to hardly ever get anyone to believe them and on the rare chance they were believed and had a search party come to look for the area, they never could find the exact spot again. Thanks ancient magic.

Just as humans would wander out, there were always rebels that left the safety of the forests and ventured back out into the human world, sometimes it went fine and other times it never ended well. There were laws set into place for a long time and the number one law was to never go out and associate among the humans, it was the strictest rule and it was implemented to keep all the shifters safe.

Life continued onward like this for many many years until the last of the old elders died off in each are and new elders were elected, flesh blood was up to make decisions and thus, they decided in the 1980s that enough years had went by for them to be able to integrate back into the human world so that they could advance even further with the society just outside theirs.

The elected supreme elder of each forest got into contact and together they all decided to approach the leaders of the human world. At first approach there were shock, fear, worry and even hate from some world leaders but, there was also some acceptance, some curiosity and hope. Treaties were made amongst the countries and these hidden worlds just beneath their noses, though some treaties were more lenient as compared to others varying my country.

Thus began the integration of shifters into the human realm for the first time in many years. A lot of shifters were met with backlash and laws had to be put into place over time, protection laws, laws for misbehavior, laws against the idea of enslaving their animal like coexistors. Many laws had to be put into place leading up to where they are now, other laws were revoked due to their unethicalness and because they were replaced with a better law later on.

Many things have changed since the revealing of the hidden society of shifters, there is more acceptance in these later years being that many were born into the time of shifters already being a part of day to day life. There are still some old school people that think of shifters as just wild animals that need to go back to the forests for the safety of humans. There are cults that think the shifters are a bad omen and need to be taken down but, the good is really outweighing the bad in the year of 2020 where shifters go to school with humans, where they work amongst them, where they even marry them and start families.

Shifters. Friend or foe?



Shifters are not just animals, there are also insect shifters.

There is always one to two shifter representatives in the countries governments, usually the supreme elder of the country they reside is appointed the representative of the shifters of that country as well, though there can be another shifter taken on as representative, usually the next in line to be supreme elder should anything happen to the one currently in that position.

Shifters have three forms, there just so happens to be a fourth but it is highly rare and hardly accounted for due to the extreme rarity that it is.

First form: the animal form, the easiest form to take on for a shifter born inside the forest. For shifters born in the human realm and growing up as a human, this is often the hardest form for them to achieve due to having been amongst humans more and it is even harder should they have a human parent.

Second form: The half human, half shifter form. This form is achieved with great practice, though not as much practice to achieve the final form. Half and half is when you’re appearing human with animal attributes. There are hiccups to perfecting this form, such as having way more than normal half and half animal attributes on the human form. This is the first form you notice your respective tattoo in, the tattoo that tells what animal or insect you are.

Third form: The more challenging form to master, the fully human form with absolutely no human attributes. This form is achieved with great practice and with this form you can fully pass yourself off as a human should you ultimately want to, it is not an uncommon practice after all. Your tattoo that signifies you as a shifter is very much present somewhere on your body but the tattoo is completely at random as to where it is.
Fourth form: the rarest of rare forms for a shifter to have. It is where old blood weasels its way back into the bloodline and you become a creature from legend, dragons, selkies, kitsunes and the like. This form can happen as a complete fluke when practicing to try and reach your third form, you focus so much and if you have just the right bloodline for it, you reach a legendary form, but that also means you have to backtrack and start over on trying to get your fully human form all the way down.

For a long time, it was frowned upon for shifters and humans to enter into a romantic relationship on both sides, to older generations it is still highly frowned upon but to the younger generations, they’re much more accepting and enthusiastic at the idea.

Children born between a shifter and a human often have a hard time embracing the animal side of their heritage and sometimes never are able to embrace it, thus living as a human instead, though the shifter connection could very well pop back up in a later generation and a child down the line could embrace their animal side easily and shift back and forth with no issues.

Shifters of different species marrying and having children is not uncommon, but it makes for interesting subspecies of shifters with traits on both sides of the animal shifters that their parents were.

When people get into trouble with law enforcement, they’re immediately checked to see if they’re a shifter, the way that they tell is by looking for the tattoo on the shifters body and shining their eyes. What happens when you shine their eyes you ask? You’ll see sparks or glitter like specks appear in their eyes for a brief moment, confirming they are indeed a shifter. Identification is too easily forged nowadays and you have shifters trying to pass off as completely human and humans trying to pretend and be shifters.

There is some backlash with criminal shifters, often shifters are being hit with remarks such as ‘well what did you expect, they’re a wolf/bear/wild animal deep down.’

There are schools that are shifter & human friendly and then there are some areas in the world that separate humans and shifters, making them go to schools for their specific beings and then expecting them to coexist properly later which is a failure in itself.

Some shifters lose their way and fall into their animalistic urges and never come back from them, others do come back and try and right themselves, there are rehabilitations for shifters to help them find a grasp on themselves again, these places are often named shifters care and their goal is to help shifters every way they can to get them back into society safely if they are willing to let themselves be saved and they work with the law enforcement for punishment if they’ve done things very wrong.

When a shifter dies, on their tombstone, much like the tattoo that was on their human form, their respective animal is placed somewhere on the tombstone, usually at the top.

Some shifters usually have a longer lifespan than humans do which makes for friendships and relationships tough for those shifters that do.





| Face Claim: Yuto Adachi | Name: Haru Shinahara | Age: 21 | Shifter or Human?: Shifter| Animal: Wolf | Sexuality: Bisexual |

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