What You Didn't Know About Monad

 Hello. C J here. There are two worlds out there. The in person and the online. Both contain wisdom. I’m trying to get them to share it. In order to do this goal we need a place where everyone can hang out on the internet. Enter Monad. It’s a top down pixel game that lets you build a base and invite friends online over to it to view art and read stories you’ve stocked on shelves. I want it to be a grown up, adult friendly pixel game.

There will be combat. It will be cute pixel characters having sword fights. I really want some LGBTQ+ content in it and that means I need to finally discuss sexuality and consent in the public eye. Furries, like myself, have an intricate language about these subject matters. I want all of that in the game. The issue is that furries, like me, don’t understand what everyone else deems acceptable to view. Or if that phrase about acceptable has meaning at all. Here’s some fun fandom art conventions.

Muscle
A lot of artists can depict characters with larger than human body types and unnaturally large amounts of muscle. These are often male although I’ve experimented with drawing female or intersex characters with the style and they look great. Often if there’s one hyper large character in a scene there’s more than one. The Legend Setting has animal folk called animalia but their genome sometimes produces these larger breeds in normal families. These behemoth are normal citizens and can learn magic under the same rules as everyone else.

Genders
The fandom has a wide range of biological genders that I keep forgetting everyone outside of us doesn’t know. Every combination of male and female, upper and lower body has images and I’ve named them for use in my setting. The Legend Setting has five biological genders named male, female, andromorph, gynomorph and hermaphrodite. The word hermaphrodite is a common one in the fandom that I didn’t alter due to its use in Carl Jung’s Archetypes.

Hypnosis
This is one of the most beloved contentions of the fandom and is also literally impossible to draw. Hypnosis exists in real life and so does consent. Put them together and you get art of characters using its magic to enjoy intimacy more. This is technically real. Actually, according to neuroscience it’s realer than normal waking perception. This is possible in real life, especially in a consenting relationship. How does it work? No idea.

These are probably the three most common art concepts in the fandom. It’s rare to see art without at least one of these three. All of these are in the Legend Setting and I’m working on putting them in Monad. We need more consensual intimacy in video games between happy people. Also for those viewing this who don’t speak furry, none of this equates to violence. We don’t use that word in the fandom much. It’s not relevant.

I’m going to need come characters, potentially playable ones, with large body types and higher combat statistics. The genders have to be factored into the game on a mechanical level as not all of them are capable of every position or action. Hypnosis will have to be hard wired into the game’s script as a whole. This is a starting point. We’ll see where it goes.

C J Mcpherson