jamaa

ANIMAL JAM

There are 3 universes/worlds, Earth, Jamaa, and the Phantom Dimension. Earth is just like ours but there's no people from our world there. Like they don't have Taylor Swift. There's no war and every culture that hadn't naturally stopped existing is still there, undisturbed. It's a lovely and happy place, except for the army that helps fight the Phantoms. The Phantoms slowly invaded Earth country by country, and each group of people migrated to Jamaa as a safe space (kinda like Krakoa?). so like the phantoms take over Australia and all the Australians got to jamaa (like how the koalas or kangaroos all show up). i can never decide if the people should be humans or hybrids but when I imagine them as hybrids, they're usually animals that are found in places relevant to the person. like a Chinese person would be a panda hybrid in jamaa a koala hybrid would've been aussie on earth, but there are exceptions. when you go to jamaa you get blessed by Mira and she lets you choose how you'll look. Jamaa is mainly populated by orphaned children from the phantom war. it's mainly people in a lot of trouble or danger who get taken to jamaa, like someone's dad might still be on earth because they can hold off the phantoms, and they let mira take their child to jamaa. like how in megamind his parents sent him to earth to be safe LOL

CANON CHARACTERS

for my nationality headcanons i took the ethnicity/places of significance from their namesakes and where their animals are from.

GREELY real name Adolphus "Adolf" Greely, a Russian-Alutiiq transman in his 50s

LIZA Chinese bisexual woman in her 50s

PECK Transfem Peruvian in her 20s

SIR GILBERT Indian-Alutiiq in his 40s

TAVIE 16 year old Chilean-Roman princess (i used to hc her as roman, Japanese, and nepali,, I know it makes no sense but I think I based it off nepali river dolphins? but decided recently it was too ridiculous so now she's just an amazon river dolphin... i miss you nepali tavie... i used to draw her in traditional dress it was so beautiful...)

LEILANI 16 year old Afro-Hawaiian lesbian (dating tavie... they both love the ocean... i could go on for hours about them I have so many pinterest board bro)

JUNO Nonbinary Roman

ZOIA Ukrainian-Inuit woman in her 50s

ORIGINAL CHARACTER

there's only one for now...

Maria "Greely" (adopted name) was a 7 year old Spanish-American bear hybrid. She was orphaned during the war and sent to Jamaa, but on NOTP a phantom portal opened up and took her to the phantom dimension. Greely, who had recently resigned from being an Alpha, found her and took care of her, taking her back to Jamaa. But during her time in the Phantom Dimension she became infected with phantopneumosis, a lethal lung condition caused by inhaling the fibres from Phantom-infected plants, and she passed away. This caused Greely to descend further into isolation and he lost a lot of compassion towards Phantoms.

Timeline

in my story the lore of AJPW happens first and then AJC. i imagine all of the characters are quite a few years younger in play wild, but I still mix around some events. for example, I imagine maria died between play wild and classic, which is why Greely is so against Jammers being in the volcano in classic, because he knows he's failed to save one before.