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We've got the miniboss squad for the Crows Den Dungeon, hell yeah. I took some STRONG inspiration from a couple of sources to cover up my weaknesses at furry stuff, and well, just for fun lol.

Anyways I felt like Project Red didn't do a good enough job at establishing the basic world going forward. Alice In! was always the story that was created first, and that story always required some level of human/animal hybrid style people. And I don't think that work ever felt questionable in nature since right off the bat you were meeting people like the White Rabbit and Cheshire to immediately settle you into what sorts of denizens you can expect in Wonderland.

But Red doesn't really feature animal characters. The fable itself only stars the Wolf, who, I couldn't really characterize for obvious reasons. Her mother, Grandma, the Woodsman, they're all humans in the story. So, I decided to stick with that sort of idea for the most part.

Unfortunately, Red ended up being the first work that REALLY got out there. And so, things ended up a little more confused than planned. Within Red as it was, the only real animal character was Cheshire. Since I had the room to expand it a bit, I wanted to make the Crow Bandits more "mixed race" so to speak, and there will be some lore in particular about this group of 4, and Beast Men's status in society. Of course, the Horseman has always been there as well, but only if you REALLY ventured into the lewd content, but seeing how he's a slave, I'm sure you can get an idea of how these guys are treated by society at large.

For a brief lore reveal, generally the more "human" you are, the higher your status. You can see this with beings like The Queen of Hearts or the Wizard of Oz. The common folk have pointy elflike ears, like Hati and Skoll, as well as all the campers you can find. Witch herself has longer ears that are more distinct. Then there's characters like Cheshire, who have overt animal features, but are largely still human. There would be discrimination and unease towards her. But it's the people like these guys, and the horse that are distinctly animal in nature that would receive harsh discrimination and be at the bottom rung of society in Wonderland.

But yeah, you can explore more of that for yourself as you read the journals related to this plot line in Chapter 6. And expect to see MUCH MORE OF IT, in the sequel games as Alice and Dotty are not confined to a single night in a relatively small forest.