O2 ★ [VIDEO; UN - SEASHELL]

[justsomeshrimp]

[The feed turns on and at first only the surface of a desk can be seen--it seems the communicator is propped up against something. There's a scuttling sound and somewhere behind the communicator, out comes a bright red shrimp to settle down in front of the camera. It only just barely manages to be an inch long and it raises its two front legs in an unmistakable wave.]

Good morning, Lunatia!

My name is Lobco and as you can see I am a shrimp! [Well. Technically it's a little more complicated than that but details aren't needed]

This is not an effect by any of the Moons, nor a curse--I am in fact a shrimp. This is my natural form. Thanks to some hereditary magic I am able to change my body to be more 'human' I suppose you can say.

The reason I am coming out today is because there's something I've been very curious about in all my time here in this world. The thing that was the most shocking for me coming here was to see how other animals here are treated and...that none of them seem to be capable of speech. Or even much critical thinking.

While not all the animal folk from my world can change as I do, all of them can speak and think so needless to say it was, and still is, a little disturbing to see how different things are here. From the little I've gleaned this seems to be the norm rather than the exception among worlds so I'm curious to know what it's like on other people's home planets. What are animal folk like where you come from? How are they treated?

I'm especially interested to hear from other people like myself.

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[justsomeshrimp]

[Oof. She hasn't heard of any worlds in which they are treated as equals yet, but this is the first one where she's heard things are as bad as in Pitch.]

No. Unfortunately the place that comes closest that I've heard of so far seems to be a world in which there are only animal folk. [And she's still getting details on that one so she doesn't one to say anything for certain.]

Are there any movements to change this in any of the countries?

[resenting]

Not specifically. The next queen might be able to do something about it when she comes of age, but... Well, I don't know if it'll be so easy. That world has interests dug in so deep they even tried to kill their own summoned heroes, in the middle of an apocalypse just because I was a little inconvenient to their plans.

[justsomeshrimp]

Summoned hero?

[resenting]

This isn't the only world that yanks people from their lives without any warning.

That world just happened to also stick us with a bunch of BS and expected us to save their asses. They were only able to summon four of us, so it's not even like we had much backup. Not that I could even rely on the other three in the first place, I guess...