Yrcen on Earth (week 1000)
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Excepts from a quick report on the Yrcen communities on Earth.
(week 1000)
The Yrcen, better known to most Earthlings as Catpeople are one of the most populous Wonderland Ethnic Groups on Earth, and easily one of the most visible in society as far back as Disclosure in 2014. Despite this, there are less than a thousand known Yrcen on Earth in 2032, with an average age of ten to fifteen years old.
Known primarily for having cat ears and tails, Yrcen display a very wide range of phenotypes. The most common phenotypes are the tailed, eared and adorably feral looking girls working at the (in)famous Nekomimi Cafes (猫耳カフェ) in Akihabara and Nipponbashi and their much more leonine brothers, with the relative level of display ranging down to Arwi Johnson's blonde hair, gold eyes and fangs. Most Yrcen will have any number of the following: fur, cat ears, a tail, cat eyes, fangs (particularly prominent canine teeth,) enhanced muscle fiber density, and hair/fur colors that may include blue-grey, blonde and tiger orange. Yrcen in general are significantly stronger than a baseline human their size, age and fitness level, and as adults have the strongest bite of any known ape. Most Yrcen on Earth however fall on the more feline side of things as a result of selection criteria by Japanese employers. Most Yrcen emigrating to earth are also female, and have come to work in the service industry, as Male Yrcen full-bloods have fewer pull factors and more often prefer reaving the southern kingdoms to working on Earth.
According to the Joint Wonderland Foreign Service Statistics Section, four countries at present have Yrcen populations. China has a dozen working at a newly founded (2030) Cat-ear cafe in Hong Kong. The Czech Republic has sixty one Yrcen, almost exclusively the spouses and children of Česká zbrojovka Uherský Brod and Tatra employees, or are part of the Czech foreign service and most Czech Yrcen live in Uherský Brod. The United States, host of the portal to Wonderland and the nation to make first contact with the Yrcen, has a population of one hundred and ninety three at the time of publication, of which the overwhelming majority are the spouses and children of servicemembers and have the resulting population geographic distribution. The largest populations are in Fort Drum, New York; and Asheville, North Carolina (the fifth and sixth largest Yrcen communities on Earth.) Japan has the largest population of Yrcen on Earth, an artifact of a number of businesses importing Yrcen in bulk, and of Yrcen population dynamics. The largest community of Yrcen on earth is in Tokyo, where five hundred twenty three Yrcen reside (or a little more than the rest of the Yrcen population on the planet combined) while another one hundred and five live in Osaka, and eighty one live in Takahata, Yamagata Prefecture.
While the populations in the rest of the world have obvious reasons for being the size they are and for existing, the Takahata community is an interesting example of service industry driven Yrcen migration. While Yrcen Mikos may have initially having been begun as something of a gimmick to get attendance at the Inunomiya-Nekonomiya Shrine (something helped by the Yrcen being polytheistic animists to begin with,) within a few years many of the mikos had married local farmers and began having families. While the turnover might not be as extensive as it is for a Nemomimi Cafe, about twenty Yrcen have worked at the shrine in the last eighteen years. The Takahata Yrcen have also been responsible for the creation in much of Japanese media of the Yrcen farmwife being the sort of profoundly practical and somewhat crude woman who would hold a child on one hip and a calf under the other arm while talking about the weather. Interestingly, this is a stereotype not shared- the American and Czech views are far different and the stereotype of urban Yrcen in Japan tends to be an overpaid and barely literate girl working in a cafe or as a cook, while China hasn't developed any specific native views due to how small and recent their Yrcen population is.
The Czech and American Yrcen populations are comparatively invisible, given their smaller size, and lack of a pre-existing fetish in Czech and American culture. Where they are shown in media, American and Czech views of Yrcen tend to portray them as semi-feral trophy wives and problem children or student athletes. Assuming they aren't celebrities like the Author Arwi Johnson, Olympic Archer Sheti Johnson and Pop singer Matsui Rumi.
Yrcen population growth on earth has been nothing short of explosive, but much of this comes from their relatively unique physiological responses to the conditions present in the developed world. Although not quite litters, healthy Yrcen women with no recent history of food scarcity will consistently give birth to twins or triplets, unlike their counterparts in Wonderland who usually have single children. This, combined with cultural expectations around infant mortality and what constitutes a proper family size mean that the 'normal' Yrcen family on Earth has between two and six children, with two to four being the norm in an urban community, and five or six children being the normal stopping point in Takahata. Given the dietary needs of Yrcen children (who frequently cannot digest wheat in childhood aside from the usual Wonderlander egg-white and tomato intolerances) and the special clothing needed for tailed Yrcen, this can be quite expensive, and part-Yrcen households often live closer to poverty conditions than their neighbors with similar incomes and numbers of children. A universal preference for co-sleeping and breastfeeding by Yrcen women, as well as a predilection for organ meats helps offset this, but the costs of this is stil immense. In Japan family assistance can offset this, although grandparents are usually not prepared for how strong, numerous and troublesome Yrcen children may be. Few people expect a three year old to be able to climb up a tree, eat a live dove, or deadlift fifteen kilograms overhead.
Although popularly conceived as being particularly promiscuous, most Earthside Yrcen women are within the norms for their society or career. There are admittedly some in Tokyo and Osaka who have moved into prostitution or pornography as a second job, but in retrospect may be expected in a community with no meaningful taboo on the subject. Equally importantly, the financial incentives are immense, with the scarcity driving up prices to the point where one point five million yen is reasonable for a day of side work. Considering the commonplace nature of remittances and certain expensive foods preferred due to the Yrcen's differences in taste palate, many female (and some male) Yrcen dabble as models. Although some of the girls at a Nekomimi Cafe may sleep with particularly handsome customers, most Yrcen women interviewed admitted it was more shopping around for a possible husband and permanent residency than anything profit driven. Yrcen underwear is frequently considered indecent, with ultra-low-rise panties and jockstraps being produced for even preschool aged children by companies specializing in clothing for Yrcen. This is unfortunately a side effect of trying to make a lower body garment cooperate with a tail. Both this unfortunate anatomical quirk and popular perceptions of promiscuity may have led to heightened levels of groping and sexual violence by strangers and non-parental authority figures towards Yrcen, but given the small sample size this is mostly conjectural and is often attributed as a reason for Yrcen children seriously injuring or maiming adults with their bites, along with taking food away from said child or yelling particularly loudly.
For those brave souls willing to try it, finding Authentic Yrcen food anywhere on earth is extremely difficult as is finding any other food from Wonderland. Some of the Nekomimi Cafes in Tokyo and Osaka offer a few dishes to go with the usual curry and omurice expected from a theme cafe, but many of these dishes are moderated and modified for Earthling palates. This is changing somewhat as more Yrcen women take up working back of house positions in those restaurants, which now offer some unadulterated dishes for the truly adventurous. Being a tourism hotspot for Japanese Yrcen seeking to escape the city, a couple of restaurants and ryokan in and around Takahata serve some authentic Metellan cuisine and adaptations of Japanese and western food to a Yrcen palate (often with the addition of Shiokara and other condiments) in addition to the usual fare. Given that the vast majority of Yrcen cannot taste sweet, the other basic tastes are emphasized, particularly savory, fatty and starchy. Otherwise, fermented foods like kimchi, natto and sourdough are favorites aside from traditional Yrcen/Meledli foods and organ meats...
(week 1000)
The Yrcen, better known to most Earthlings as Catpeople are one of the most populous Wonderland Ethnic Groups on Earth, and easily one of the most visible in society as far back as Disclosure in 2014. Despite this, there are less than a thousand known Yrcen on Earth in 2032, with an average age of ten to fifteen years old.
Known primarily for having cat ears and tails, Yrcen display a very wide range of phenotypes. The most common phenotypes are the tailed, eared and adorably feral looking girls working at the (in)famous Nekomimi Cafes (猫耳カフェ) in Akihabara and Nipponbashi and their much more leonine brothers, with the relative level of display ranging down to Arwi Johnson's blonde hair, gold eyes and fangs. Most Yrcen will have any number of the following: fur, cat ears, a tail, cat eyes, fangs (particularly prominent canine teeth,) enhanced muscle fiber density, and hair/fur colors that may include blue-grey, blonde and tiger orange. Yrcen in general are significantly stronger than a baseline human their size, age and fitness level, and as adults have the strongest bite of any known ape. Most Yrcen on Earth however fall on the more feline side of things as a result of selection criteria by Japanese employers. Most Yrcen emigrating to earth are also female, and have come to work in the service industry, as Male Yrcen full-bloods have fewer pull factors and more often prefer reaving the southern kingdoms to working on Earth.
According to the Joint Wonderland Foreign Service Statistics Section, four countries at present have Yrcen populations. China has a dozen working at a newly founded (2030) Cat-ear cafe in Hong Kong. The Czech Republic has sixty one Yrcen, almost exclusively the spouses and children of Česká zbrojovka Uherský Brod and Tatra employees, or are part of the Czech foreign service and most Czech Yrcen live in Uherský Brod. The United States, host of the portal to Wonderland and the nation to make first contact with the Yrcen, has a population of one hundred and ninety three at the time of publication, of which the overwhelming majority are the spouses and children of servicemembers and have the resulting population geographic distribution. The largest populations are in Fort Drum, New York; and Asheville, North Carolina (the fifth and sixth largest Yrcen communities on Earth.) Japan has the largest population of Yrcen on Earth, an artifact of a number of businesses importing Yrcen in bulk, and of Yrcen population dynamics. The largest community of Yrcen on earth is in Tokyo, where five hundred twenty three Yrcen reside (or a little more than the rest of the Yrcen population on the planet combined) while another one hundred and five live in Osaka, and eighty one live in Takahata, Yamagata Prefecture.
While the populations in the rest of the world have obvious reasons for being the size they are and for existing, the Takahata community is an interesting example of service industry driven Yrcen migration. While Yrcen Mikos may have initially having been begun as something of a gimmick to get attendance at the Inunomiya-Nekonomiya Shrine (something helped by the Yrcen being polytheistic animists to begin with,) within a few years many of the mikos had married local farmers and began having families. While the turnover might not be as extensive as it is for a Nemomimi Cafe, about twenty Yrcen have worked at the shrine in the last eighteen years. The Takahata Yrcen have also been responsible for the creation in much of Japanese media of the Yrcen farmwife being the sort of profoundly practical and somewhat crude woman who would hold a child on one hip and a calf under the other arm while talking about the weather. Interestingly, this is a stereotype not shared- the American and Czech views are far different and the stereotype of urban Yrcen in Japan tends to be an overpaid and barely literate girl working in a cafe or as a cook, while China hasn't developed any specific native views due to how small and recent their Yrcen population is.
The Czech and American Yrcen populations are comparatively invisible, given their smaller size, and lack of a pre-existing fetish in Czech and American culture. Where they are shown in media, American and Czech views of Yrcen tend to portray them as semi-feral trophy wives and problem children or student athletes. Assuming they aren't celebrities like the Author Arwi Johnson, Olympic Archer Sheti Johnson and Pop singer Matsui Rumi.
Yrcen population growth on earth has been nothing short of explosive, but much of this comes from their relatively unique physiological responses to the conditions present in the developed world. Although not quite litters, healthy Yrcen women with no recent history of food scarcity will consistently give birth to twins or triplets, unlike their counterparts in Wonderland who usually have single children. This, combined with cultural expectations around infant mortality and what constitutes a proper family size mean that the 'normal' Yrcen family on Earth has between two and six children, with two to four being the norm in an urban community, and five or six children being the normal stopping point in Takahata. Given the dietary needs of Yrcen children (who frequently cannot digest wheat in childhood aside from the usual Wonderlander egg-white and tomato intolerances) and the special clothing needed for tailed Yrcen, this can be quite expensive, and part-Yrcen households often live closer to poverty conditions than their neighbors with similar incomes and numbers of children. A universal preference for co-sleeping and breastfeeding by Yrcen women, as well as a predilection for organ meats helps offset this, but the costs of this is stil immense. In Japan family assistance can offset this, although grandparents are usually not prepared for how strong, numerous and troublesome Yrcen children may be. Few people expect a three year old to be able to climb up a tree, eat a live dove, or deadlift fifteen kilograms overhead.
Although popularly conceived as being particularly promiscuous, most Earthside Yrcen women are within the norms for their society or career. There are admittedly some in Tokyo and Osaka who have moved into prostitution or pornography as a second job, but in retrospect may be expected in a community with no meaningful taboo on the subject. Equally importantly, the financial incentives are immense, with the scarcity driving up prices to the point where one point five million yen is reasonable for a day of side work. Considering the commonplace nature of remittances and certain expensive foods preferred due to the Yrcen's differences in taste palate, many female (and some male) Yrcen dabble as models. Although some of the girls at a Nekomimi Cafe may sleep with particularly handsome customers, most Yrcen women interviewed admitted it was more shopping around for a possible husband and permanent residency than anything profit driven. Yrcen underwear is frequently considered indecent, with ultra-low-rise panties and jockstraps being produced for even preschool aged children by companies specializing in clothing for Yrcen. This is unfortunately a side effect of trying to make a lower body garment cooperate with a tail. Both this unfortunate anatomical quirk and popular perceptions of promiscuity may have led to heightened levels of groping and sexual violence by strangers and non-parental authority figures towards Yrcen, but given the small sample size this is mostly conjectural and is often attributed as a reason for Yrcen children seriously injuring or maiming adults with their bites, along with taking food away from said child or yelling particularly loudly.
For those brave souls willing to try it, finding Authentic Yrcen food anywhere on earth is extremely difficult as is finding any other food from Wonderland. Some of the Nekomimi Cafes in Tokyo and Osaka offer a few dishes to go with the usual curry and omurice expected from a theme cafe, but many of these dishes are moderated and modified for Earthling palates. This is changing somewhat as more Yrcen women take up working back of house positions in those restaurants, which now offer some unadulterated dishes for the truly adventurous. Being a tourism hotspot for Japanese Yrcen seeking to escape the city, a couple of restaurants and ryokan in and around Takahata serve some authentic Metellan cuisine and adaptations of Japanese and western food to a Yrcen palate (often with the addition of Shiokara and other condiments) in addition to the usual fare. Given that the vast majority of Yrcen cannot taste sweet, the other basic tastes are emphasized, particularly savory, fatty and starchy. Otherwise, fermented foods like kimchi, natto and sourdough are favorites aside from traditional Yrcen/Meledli foods and organ meats...
