#canonically nonbinary characters

[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!

No, you're legitimately just bad at writing! That's a personal problem! Improve yourself instead of saying it's a hurdle that's impossible to overcome!

Anyways here they are, naked because they'll have multiple outfits throughout the stories.

Link if you want to play dressup.

I wish they offered closed beetle wings....

[ID: A screenshot from Hero Forge labeled, "The Wanderers naked", showing two characters standing next to eachother, heads tilted up to smile at something in the sky above them.

The one on the Left is a minotaur-like person with black fur, and red and orange lines and markings, with large, orange and red ladybug-like wings open on its back. On one of its hands perches a grey squirrel, also looking up.

The figure on the right is a bipedal african wild dog, with short folded feathered wings. It is covered in fur that is pattern with gold-tan, and splotches of very dark brown and cream, like an African wild dog, with large rounded ears to match. It holds a brown toad close to its chest in one hand, and has colorful piercings on its ears and eyebrows.

Turns out Hero Forge does not yet have any spindles, or yarn, or even knitting needles. So we're just gonna pretend these hairbrushes are carding brushes. Lol.

Jayla uses nameself pronouns, so Jayla's pronouns are just Jayla and Jayla's, whichever applies.

In this mini universe, Jayla's the only that finally convinced Murderbot it could, in fact, buy and wear a headscarf if it wanted to, without it seeming suspicious or anything that would get it captured and shipped back to the Company for spare parts.

Here's hoping Martha Wells lets Murderbot wear the clothes it was looking at so longingly in that catalogue in book 7.

Jayla and Murderbot get stuck in quarantine together after a virus infects Jayla's disability-related augments, and, like, most of Murderbot's higher-functioning mechanical systems.

[ID: A screenshot from HeroForge.com, showing a character named Jayla, wearing a pale purple dress with brown, red, and orange zig-zag stripes, and a matching purple hijab and face mask. Jayla has dark brown skin, and is holding two wooden brushes with metal bristles, posed so the bristles are facing eachother with one upside down, and the other right side up. Jayla is looking off to the side as though distracted. End ID.]

Scream's pronouns are it/its.

It's an alien androgynoid. Because why would humans be the only ones who build robots that look like themselves? It's a free baby.

[ID: A digital drawing of an alien robot against a blank white background. It has four legs, an upright torso, and a long tail that is segmented like bone. It is leaning on a thin grey railing, its claws wrapped around it as it looks at something slightly to the left and forward off screen.

The torso is sat in the center and above the four legs, with are sharp and pointed and descend out of sight below the camera. The robot's body is covered in a complicated, random pattern of interlocking plates of various sizes and shapes, in shades of mostly grey, light grey, dark grey, and a few places are yellow.

The neck and tail are both made of segmented peices of metal that look like a spine. It has a short rounded muzzle, two rectangular yellow eyes, and two points on a large yellow crest behind its head. Two plates on its face and in the center of its chest are orange. Its tail ends in a shape like an arrowhead.

Maskull pulled himself out of his trancelike meditations and, viewing the newcomer in greater detail, tried with his understanding to account for the marvellous things told him by his intuitions. Ae possessed broad shoulders and big bones, and was without female breasts, and so far ae resembled a man. But the bones were so flat and angular that aer flesh presented something of the character of a crystal, having plane surfaces in place of curves. The body looked as if it had not been ground down by the sea of ages into smooth and rounded regularity, but had sprung together in angles and facets as the result of a single, sudden idea. The face, too, was broken and irregular. With his racial prejudices, Maskull found little beauty in it, yet beauty there was, though neither of a masculine nor of a feminine type, for it had the three essentials of beauty: character, intelligence, and repose. The skin was copper-coloured and strangely luminous, as if lighted from within. The face was beardless, but the hair of the head was as long as a woman’s, and, dressed in a single plait, fell down behind as far as the ankles. Ae possessed only two eyes. That part of the turban which went across the forehead protruded so far in front that it evidently concealed some organ.

Maskull found it impossible to compute aer age. The frame appeared active, vigorous, and healthy, the skin was clear and glowing; the eyes were powerful and alert—ae might well be in early youth. Nevertheless, the longer Maskull gazed, the more an impression of unbelievable ancientness came upon him—aer real youth seemed as far away as the view observed through a reversed telescope.