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Hey, everyone. Uh, so...

[Have a bunny, Ellipsa. She's dressed in what appears to be an officer's uniform, but clearly for Nightwake City and not Zootopia. She's actually off-duty, so don't worry about her doing this on taxpayer hours.]

This is a really awkward question and I sincerely hope I don't offend, but it's honestly been on my mind since I got here.

Is there a reason why the majority of people who arrive are uh... the same or similar species? Human, I think was the name? I don't see very many, uh, creatures... animals(?) here. Like myself.

[Was creature the right word?]

And not just myself as in bunny, I mean myself like, well, not human, I guess? Or human-like, I think? [She lets out an awkward laugh.] I seriously hope I didn't just put my foot in it and if I've offended, please say so! I'm really asking all this out of genuine curiosity.

[Not to mention some of these humans had animal-like features? Cat-like humans, bunny-like humans... that was just confusing things even further.]

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Sometimes magic is pattern-seeking without any rhyme or reason. In my former world, every kidnap victim has, or once had, a name beginning with W, and there were at my last estimate twenty-five of us. Astronomically unlikely to have happened at random.

It might be helpful if you took a poll on human/creature/humanoid, but you'd have to define those categories to make them useful for any analysis.

Hm, a poll probably wouldn't be a bad idea but you're right, the kind of criteria would be pretty vast and not very simple. But that's why- Wait, hold up, kidnapping victims? And the pattern was the letter of your name? Was the culprit finally found? Are you okay?

In general terms, 'vanilla' humans (no creature traits), 'vanilla' creatures (no human traits), and humanoids (at least two readily identifiable traits from each category)? I think we all have opposable thumbs?

[ Oh no she's more focused on the kidnapping thing now. And it would almost be easier to be aloof about it if Judy hadn't finished off with are you, specifically you, okay. That concern, so casual and so overwhelming, reframes it as, yeah, not just a funny story but a legitimate trauma. ]

It's... complicated to explain. But now I've brought it up, it's hardly genteel not to. As far as I know, I was the first. I brought many of the others myself.

At the time I thought I was doing it of my own volition, so it isn't as though I'd blame you for retracting that compassion.

I'd like to know this too, honestly! There are more people who aren't human here than at my home, but it still seems pretty lopsided. And humans are kind of boring.

Well, I wouldn't say boring. Not to me, anyway. You guys don't exist at all back home.

I guess that'd make anybody more interesting? But there's not really anything cool about us.

[She couldn't help but chuckle a little and shrug.]

I think everyone says that about their own kind. And no one ever thought I could be a cop precisely because I'm a bunny and yet, here I am! Not that I think I'm anything special, of course. But sometimes you can defy expectations, like supposedly being uncool.

I don't really know a lot about how cops work, we don't have them in the Backstreets. Is it hard to be one as a rabbit?

[ well,

if Judy wanted someone non-human, here's a video with a snake-like (but furry?) snout filling the camera for a few moments before the owner pulls back to reveal what looks roughly like someone slapped wolf ears, fur, and patterning on a snake. ]

...I have no fucking clue, but it's nice seeing some more normal faces? It's definitely a thing, though. Last place I was at was almost all humans, too.

Ma'am, language. There are children on this network!

[She couldn't help but huff with a hand on her hip.]

Really? This isn't your first time being transported?

[ she snorts in response. should have expected that with the cop outfit... ]

If a kid's old enough to be on the network by themself, they're old enough to hear swearing. There are more important things to protect them from.

But— no. Only one other time, but that place was a lot worse than this one. ...There are a couple of other people who've been through the same sort of thing.

It's because we adapt to almost any environment, improvise in any circumstances, and overcome any obstacle. We're found all over the multiverse because of that.

[He sounds vaguely smug... is this #humanpride?]

And I guess being omnivores also helps.

You... do know you could have described many of the animals of my world, right? Except the omnivore part, anyway.

[Then again, no one really ate meat anymore so it probably didn't count, anyway.]

Hm... fair point. I mean, I've seen rabbits like you - or, uh, not like you; I mean the little ones - live pretty much everywhere I've been in the multiverse.

[Was that offensive to say..? Hopefully not!]

That aside, we're workmates! Welcome to the team.

I noticed it, too, which doesn't come as a surprise. And yes, it's humans.

It might just have to do with the number of worlds that have humans as their dominant populations. Or how populations evolved.

That's a little fascinating, I'll be honest, but also kind of scary? Like, one specie evolved to take over rather than many? What happened to all the others, in that case? Did they just... not?

I think they still exist. I've heard of people having cats and dogs and ...others as pets. They just evolved differently, I think.

[Hello, bunny, here's ~~a muppet~~ well, definitely not a human!]

There do seem to be a lot of humans around, but also a lot of people who aren't human?

I don't mind it either, but it's a little strange... Back home, no one I know personally is human, just other emotions and mind workers, but out in the world it's only humans. But they don't really know about or ever meet us, which is also strange to think about that way, so... meeting anyone new here has been different in, um, separate confusing ways.

I- I'm sorry, I don't think that answered your question at all. Maybe a lot of worlds out there only or mostly have humans, but I don't know why that would happen either.

Yeah, it's really weird that there are so many humans. But it doesn't really bother me - back where I'm from, there are both animal and humans living around together.

[Here's a lion lady.]

Now that you mention it, there are a lot more hyur than I'm used to seeing. Or, err, human as you said. You would think there would be more diversity, considering how many different worlds there are.

[Have a delighted looking small child, Judy!]

Bunny!

[Mary, don't be rude...]

That is normal, I think... at least in the modern world I was summoned from, most people are human. Gods and monsters of my time are a rarity.

[A small shrug.]

...And of those of us here, not all the ones who look human truly are.

[Herself, for example.]

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