Attack of the catgirls!

[Strangebuddy]

I've always been amused, though not specifically turned on by catgirls. Whether it be Aisha Clan Clan, Katt from Breath of Fire 2, or the bisexual incestous catgirls from Escaflowne whose names I forget at the moment, I kind of get the appeal and like when I get to see a catgirl/nekomata in a big role, even though most of the time they're there to annoy everyone, including the audience, or are just there for comic relief.

But what if there was a more sinister side...that still had them acting outwardly cute while hiding insidious motivations? Or what if regular people started to be turned into catgirls?

For example:

In the future, an astronaut gets pulled through a wormhole and must land on a planet inhabited by cat people. They're still trying to get their first international space program going, so they can only offer limited help and the astronaut is limited in how much he's allowed to help them. With some time, he comes to learn their language and begins interacting with them, even striking up a relationship with a comely feline. Almost a year passes and the guy decides to start helping them with their space program. The guys in the town he has residence in throw him a huge party as thanks and get him trashed.

Waking up the next morning, he finds a video that thanks him for his help and that they have a surprise for him later, so he shouldn't leave his house. He decides to go out anyway, and finds that the town is seemingly abandoned. Knocking on his girlfriend's door only results in frenzied scratching on the other side of the door and his girlfriend saying she'll be seeing him soon enough. He even notices that some of the doors are boarded up and that the schools are closed. Taking advantage of the quiet, he decides to go get some reading done. He picks up a newspaper and sees that an alert is on it. He still has trouble reading the thing so he takes it back to his home and gets an encyclopedia.

When he finally figured it out, he's shocked. While the species followed similar paths to humans, the cat women go into an uncontrollable list state that can last up to a week. They have sex normally outside of this period but they become insatiable during this period and extremely aggressive. The alert was for all male citizens to take their underage families and themselves away for a week as this area's women are about to Go lust crazed. Our lead then looks outside and sees his girlfriend with her eyes glowing in the twilight as she races towards his house completely nude with her claws outstretched.

2. The aliens have arrived! Good news: They are peaceful! Better news: they want to serve mankind and not in the Twilight Zone way! Depends on your kink news: They're all attractive cat girls of many different body shapes and interests. Bad news: they subtly start to end heterosexual reproduction and are slowly convincing the human race that babies should only be made with their new catgirl servants, slowly ending the human race over the course of generations.

3. Suzy stole an artifact. The artifact has a curse on it, as is the case with many curses, ruins far more lives than it really should. Because now Suzy is transformed into a catgirl and she must seek out more people to turn them into catgirls. Even men who are bit become catgirls until their is a whole army of rapidly growing catgirls.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Hmmm I like the concept in a kinda sorta this sounds fun if you can get around the silly.

On idea one you seem to have a lot of extra parts that are kinda pointless. That being they are on the cusp of space flight themselves. I doubt most astronauts could really help with the initial construction of that stuff. It's not a car and besides car guys know what part goes where and how to install it, now how to actually forge a piston much less design the finer instruments. And unless you plan on having a long story or a lot of time skipping it's probably better if Catgirl's either speak English naturally because reasons or they've developed translator microbe/collars whatever.

I kinda like your almost horror set up aside from the glaring problem of why the fuck did that not come up in casual conversation! "Oh yes, in a bout a day you need to not be here because I will literally fuck you to death. Not figuratively, not definition 2 of literal because people used the world incorrectly so often. Literally. Fuck. You. To. Death. Crushed pelvis, broken thighs, bruised ribs.

See one thing I've always thought was a nice idea for the catgirls is that they are nice to look at but bad to touch. They are super strong, they do have claws and sharp teeth and jaws. All that scratching and nipping that humans do doesn't hurt (do lasting damage) to other humans because we have flimsy nails and dull teeth. It doesn't hurt male cats because they have thick fur and thick skin. But a catgirl losing control could seriously injure, even kill if she bit down on your shoulder and got more throat than shoulder. (Even if she hit her mark you're gonna feel it.)

In your set up they have enough experience with humans for whatever reason that they can keep it under control but not now. Of course I think you'd be infininitely better served with a sort of zombie horror set up. He did/does know but messed up the date/woke up late,/ thought they were exaggerating how crazy shit gets assumed (if he really is the only human they know) that they would never see him that way. Sure they flirt but he's seen them flirt with cold bottles of milk, warm sweaters and the occasional laser pointer. It's just how they say hello. Maybe he just failed to make it to the minimum safe distance or that one he calls a girlfriend REALLY wants him. The rest of the story is. . .essentially a Pepe Lepew cartoon in reverse.

2. Uh. . .you mean ending. . .is there even a word for sex with your own species? As opposed to interspecies erotica? I think your problem is going to be making this seem sinister without wondering why they didn't just do this the easier way. If they have enough catgirls to win by force they why not? If they don't then unless feline DNA is retardedly dominant that sooner or later the humans are gonna basically "win" via attrition. Especially if it's only catgirls. Still the set up is fun and who cares about the conclusion. Hell that could be part of the joke that they didn't really think this through properly. They were basically

1) Seduce men
2) Produce Kittens
3) ????
4) Planetary Conquest.

3. Could be interesting. I find this to be your weakest of the three. It's an ancient artifact why go with the Zombie story when you can instead have one of the epic fetch quests. The artifact isn't whole. Then you follow Catwoman on her quest to gather the Eyes of Iris, the Tail of Bast and. . .I can't name a third cat God off the top of my head. Then take them all to the peak of the highest mountain in the Castkills on the year of the tiger and everybody turns into cats. *cue evil laughter*. Of course she can make more servents along the way as the plot demands but this vampire/zombie problem just seems like it would get solved.

 

[Hypoxia]

Then there's the Cordwainer Smith approach, with humanoids hybridized from animals into cat-people like lost C'Mell or dog-folk like D'Lann -- the laboring underclass of an arrogant humanity, wetbacks of the future. The animal people retain some of their species' powers, like acute hearing, and cats' night vision and dogs' high-speed vision. Relations with true humans are taboo and thus spicy. Vivid comi-tragedies can be built from this.

A note on pet-vision: Canines and felines don't have great visual acuity (resolution and color sensitivity) but they see fast. Human visual frame-rate is about 15-20 fps vs about 70 fps for canines and 100 fps for felines. To them, everything we humans do looks like slow-motion. That's why dogs can catch frisbees easily and cats can snare birds.

A setting comes to mind with dog-people as detectives and cat-people as spies. I guess the raccoon-people are thieves. A naive true human (maybe a returnee from a colonial planet) gets mixed up with various of the critter-folk. Hilarity ensues.

I won't try for cephalopod people. Ooh, the tentacles...

 

[emap]

I remember an anime mini series that went seriously hentai for the third installment. Don't look at me like that there is a reason I am talking about it.

It is a sort of poke fun of D&D series, in there is an adventure party, mages and fighters. Also has one member that is a catgirl slave. Her master is the fighter and leader of the group. I thought it was a rather well thought out little spoof type, I mean the catgirl can't get a nice outfit to please master because she is a catgirl.

Sounds rather like the humans turned into cat and doggirls idea of above. Course since it is fantasy and adventurers there would fights with monsters and stuff. Which is in the series and being a comedy anything that can go wrong does, and a few things that probably shouldn't.

Third episode adds sex galore, so the mages, there are two for some reason, have to fuck each other to do magic. Perhaps it was recharge their magic, the third episode hadn't been subtitled when I found it. Will mention it was a guy mage and a gal no guy pounding into another guy.

 

[Sean Renaud]

The Hentai is called Pink and it's. . .entertaining. It watches like a complete spoof almost to the point where the characters are aware they are being watched.

 

[Hypoxia]

Consider various types of catgirls.

* The females of Larry Niven's KZINTI are mindless and not fuckable by humans. Whew.

* Hybridized animal-folk as in Cordwainer Smith's INSTRUMENTALITY underpeople -- a hominid sub-class with inhuman powers, abilities, and senses -- sexually taboo and thus deadly enticing. Such catgirls would stereotypically be cast as sexworkers and spies.

* Comix I recall of R. Crumb's from FRITZ THE CAT and onward seemed to inspire OMAHA THE CAT DANCER: ordinary human girls who happened to have cat's eyes and ears. And maybe tails and fur. And somewhere between two and a dozen tits. And raspy tongues.

* The catgirls you're probably envisaging are, like the above, mostly hominid (depending on the breast count) but with cat-like dispositions and facial features, sharp teeth and claws, and hot libidos. Aggressive, playful, immoral, predatory, fast-reacting, yada yada.

* The above might be cast as were-panthers or the like -- hungry part-time catgirls.

* Or they may be succubi or other demons taking hominid+feline form, just for fun.

So, what have you? Mutants, hybrids, aliens, shapeshifters, spirits, or unexplained? Oh yes, the last. Don't explain the cat people; they just *are*. Don't confuse readers with backstory and weird science. "Cleo was a catgirl and we know what *that* means!" should do the trick. Throw the backstory into sequels if your audience demands such.

 

[emap]

Bad sean, bad.

I went and looked for it, I wanted to watch it again since I remember it being rather good and funny. It is not named pink, it is named Dragon Pink. At least it was in 2007, I got a torrent version since I was so not going to search through stores for something I barely remembered and probably not sold in most anymore.

Not watched yet but it said subtitled so perhaps I can know what the heck happens in episode three besides lots of sex.

 

[Sean Renaud]

you are correct it is Dragon Pink. Tis entertaining as I recall.

 

[Hypoxia]

What, no follow-ups on catgirls? They should be at least as entertaining as vampires and were-critters, and moreso than unicorns, dragons, and orcs.

Play on the tension between their organic amoral nature and Catholic-like guilt introduced by their human masters, if any.

Or let the sophisticated aliens (all genders) play freely among the human herd, maybe hidden, maybe openly.

Or humans visiting a cat-people planet are amazed and exploited.

Or (as with pod people) a human finds all around them slowly replaced by cat people.

I can't even begin to consider all the possible hentai variants. Oh, those wily and perverted Nipponese!

 

[Bramblethorn]

Reminds me of the SP story arc that starts here: http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp11152008.shtml

 

[Strangebuddy]

Lots of good ideas. Also, dragon pink...did not expect to hear about that old title for awhile. Btw, don't read the manga: apparently the series creators were so stoked about the anime that they leave things on a cliffhanger/downer ending (pink gets impaled by a possessed party member who is transformed into a monster)

I like Sean's idea of catgirls that look hot/cute but have monstrous strength...kind of like a planet of Tigras (marvel character).

As for the idea I first posted, the idea was that the men got him drunk and left him behind as bait for their wives.

The second idea was that the catgirls aren't malicious, they just unintentionally are driven to take over their "masters'" lives and slowly replace them before spreading out to more planets.

 

[Sean Renaud]

I think catgirls just aren't as popular as vamps. I mean ignoring the "stigma" against furries that exists and who knows exactly where that line is anyway catgirls exist to be sexy. Vampires exist to be cool. You can tell your mom you think vampires are cool but you're not going to show your mom your collection of catgirls under any circumstances.

I do like the concept quite a bit though.

 

[PervOtaku]

Cat ears and tails make everything more cute.

Girls especially.



Although you know what they say, cats are the only pet that would eat you if they could.

 

[Hypoxia]

You can tell your mom you think vampires are cool but you're not going to show your mom your collection of catgirls under any circumstances.

Unless she's one herself. Then she'll understand.

I've recently watched (a LOT!) a video of Jeff Beck with Imelda May and her Irish rockabilly band doing an incredible tribute to Les Paul and Mary Ford. One hot number is their recreation of Les and Mary's TIGER RAG. In one coda, Jeff plays dissonant high chords whilst Imelda makes a wry face and sings MEOW! (Or maybe that's MIAO!) A catgirl stares at the camera for a moment.