Soooo… I decided to draw my Kirin, Song, again. Then I kinda realized, after all this time, trying to create a story around her, I already had one that she’d fit into. And she finally has a name; Abashi Setsuko.

She is a vat grown person (derogatorily referred to as; Pooka), VGP’s were originally created by combining human and animal DNA, to create an expendable workforce/military by industrialized nations. Unfortunately over time, these corporations realized they would make even more money on the private market, and arose “comfort Pooka”. The good thing, people rose up and demanded these people to be freed. Sadly the Hybrids (as they come to call themselves) were originally engineered to be sterile, but nature finds a way, as about 20% of early generation Hybrids were able to reproduce. Other Hybrids who wanted offspring would be able to have non-sterilized children grown from their DNA. To some people’s surprise, while amazingly rare (about 1 in 400,000), non-sterile Hybrids and humans have had children together.

Satsuko is what is called a “Vanity Pooka”, as her mother grew older, she wanted a companion, and used her own DNA as a donor to create a daughter. Mythic-type Hybrids were originally created just as living sales brochures, now they only seem to exist as high end vanity offspring. She lives with her “mother”, on the satellite colony Joukai (official name Abashi-Wyatt LP5A1 Permanent Orbital Colony) who insists she lives a traditional Japanese life. Satsuko tends to be a bit stand-offish around others, she is also formal in speech and manners, which sets her out of place at The Academy. (More on The Academy later)

At this point, she’s about 15-16, her skin is going to be a shimmery silver, and the texture will be, fine, soft scales similar to certain kinds of salamanders. Her body temperature is generally higher than average (around 99.8°F), yet her heart rate tends to be a bit slower. I haven’t decided yet if she has fetlocks or if she is tri or tetradactyl.