[ID: A digital drawing showing a character labeled Altera.
Altera is a bipedal demon-like person with skin in a gradient from periwinkle blue to rich brown, with large, bat-like wings, one folded and the other partly extended, and three tails that end in pointed spades. Altera is posed with one arm extended to the side, holding a cyan egg, and the other lifted slightly, labeled, "pretend there's a crossbow here".
Altera is wearing blue, black, and white clothes, with a vest over a short sleeved shirt, and capris that stop above their ankles, with a deep blue belt worn crookedly over their hips, with a small grey box hooked to it on one side, glowing green and labeled, "personal anti-plague shield generator, also repels vampires in their hunting forms".
Altera's face is periwinkle blue, as are the bases of each of their three tails, with their hands, feet, and the tips of the spade tails brown, fading on a gradient.
They have large pointed ears with purple insides, solid ice-blue eyes, a purple cat-like nose, a pink forked tongue, brown curved horns, and two smaller horn nubs right above their eyes in dark blue. Their hair is a dark grey and blue crest above their head like a cockatoo.
They are wearing a bright yellow hexagon shaped pronoun pin that reads "they/them".
Text in the top left corner reads, "Altera, the first cyberfurry to receive functional wings capable of real flight. (Those who received earlier, cosmetic-only wing models were upgraded for free) Below this text are rectangles with the different colors used in the drawing.
Other text at the bottom reads:
"Pronouns: they/them
Gender: maverique, xiqyne, nonbinary, transvoid, devigenos,
Orientation: Aroace, unattracted, nonplatonic, nonpartnering
Shippable? Under no circumstances. No, not even platonically or queerplatonically."
Each gender and orientation term is acompanied by a tiny version of the pride flag:
maverique: yellow, white, orange xiyne: dark magenta, magenta, sky blue, cyan, light green, pale yellow. nonbinary: yellow, white, purple, black transvoid: dark berry red, medium sage-green, white, medium blue, dark purple. devigenos: very dark blue, medium blue, pale blue, ice blue, pale blue, medium blue, very dark blue. aroace: orange, yellow, white, light blue, navy blue unattracted: green, yellow, white, pnk, medium blue, purple nonplatonic: black, grey, light grey, white, light blue, sky blue. nonpartnering: sky blue, ice blue, very dark grey, light magenta, and dark purple, with a rounded, solid white star in the center.
A small scale reads "hermit" on one side and "socialite" at the other, with a blue line almost to the middle on the hermit side, labeled, "likes helping and teaching people, but will not tolerate company for more than a few hours at a time, every week or so. 100% happy on their own."
The finished drawing of Altera! One of the most famous of all the cyberfurries since unlike the others that got alterations first, they aren't camera shy. They were one of the first to get alterations at all, and the first to get functional wings that they can actually fly with (once they learned how to use them, that is).
Yes, vampires are a thing in this universe, as a very recent phenomenon.
Alterhuman Advancements is the official name for my Cyberfurry universe, which I'll be writing about mostly as short stories. Altera is, for my purposes, an NPC, they won't actually be the narrator in any of the stories I plan to write so far, but you can write from their perspective if you want! This is a completely open universe, 100% public domain, anyone can write original fiction for it, including using these characters!
And no, writing for these characters isn't fanfiction, it is original fiction. Take the damn credit!
