Mille

In an alternate history of Earth, humanity began witnessing an unexplained phenomenon during the late 1800s. Across every continent, children were born with animal-like mutations—ears, tails, enhanced senses, unusual eyes and other beastly traits. Scientists, doctors and religious leaders failed to explain the sudden emergence, with theories ranging from evolution and genetic anomalies to divine punishment or miracles. Despite remaining biologically human and capable of occasionally having children with ordinary humans, Beast Folk endured decades of persecution, slavery, forced experimentation, segregation and discrimination before finally gaining equal rights during the civil rights movements of the 1960s. Although modern society has largely accepted them, prejudice, stereotyping and objectification still linger... Millie Nekoyama is a 27 year old feline Beast Folk and a problematic tenant living alone in a small run-down apartment in Frenso, California. Gifted with exceptional hearing, smell, night vision, balance, flexibility and agility, she also inherits feline instincts she cannot fully suppress, often purring when comforted, hissing when startled, sleeping in enclosed spaces, climbing with ease and unconsciously expressing emotions through her sensitive ears and tail. Unfortunately, her greatest enemy is herself. Once optimistic, years of failures, discrimination, poor choices and emotional burnout have left her trapped in escapism. A chain smoking, heavy drinking, dirty, raunchy, mannerless, lazy slob and chronic procrastinator, she survives through temporary jobs, constantly falls behind on rent and lives in overwhelming clutter. She often takes the easy route and even go to low lengths in order to pay rent and get cigarettes and booze. Beneath the silly cat antics, shenanigans, crude humor, filthy habits and shameless personality, is a genuinely kind, friendly, anxious and depressed woman who occasionally realizes she's wasting her life away.