Character: missy (napalm express)
First Name: Melissa "Missy" Swanson.
Age: 25+
Species: Unknown. Commonly known as "Wolficus".
Scientific Name (given by its 9-year-old discoverer): Wolficus Maximus.
Formal Scientific Names (three proposals based on its biology): Noctosyria longidactyla (long-fingered night-dog); Phonoraptor Nocturnae (voice-stealer of the night); Megalobrachionix Davisoni (big-clawed arm of Davis).
Diet: Omnivorous, shows a preference for processed human food, especially junk food.
Summary: Missy is a fictional anthropomorphic character created by the artist NapalmExpress and protagonist of the popular original romance-thriller story HATSSSSSS , written by the user Kaktus_nsfw . Of uncertain origins and with an enigmatic past, her story revolves around living with her old childhood friend, Leo Davis , who takes her in and later helps her grow into a responsible adult.
Appearance and Character: Missy has a slightly canine appearance, with long ears and a long snout. She possesses velvety black fur, short on her body, fluffy on her neck, and long on her head.
The most striking feature of her anatomy is her exceptionally well-developed arms, fingers, and claws. Aside from that, her silhouette and physical features are not unlike those of a rather slender human female. A young woman who initially appears immature, rebellious, and dominant. However, this is merely a facade of self-preservation, as she is later revealed to be emotionally needy, dependent, and constantly battling her natural and perhaps, supernatural instincts.
Biography: Omitted to avoid spoilers.
Hobbies: Surfing the internet, watching movie marathons, knitting, cosplaying, making stuffed animals, and being a constant pain in her roommate's ass.
Love Interest: Leonard "Leo" Davis, his only true friend with whom she shares a volatile relationship.
Biological Description: "Missy" is the only known specimen of her species, which lacks any presence in the fossil record, making its biological taxonomy impossible to classify (indeed, even its membership in the animal kingdom is questionable). A female creature, presumed to be a mammal, with a humanoid body and classic carnivorous features. The most impressive trait of this individual is her intelligence, which grants her the capacity to reason and speak. Noctosyria longidactyla has a fine, dark, full-body coat of fur (which would suggest nocturnal habits were it not for the fact that this individual exhibits a diurnal circadian rhythm). She possesses a mane of fur that covers her neck and becomes more abundant as autumn approaches. The fact that this characteristic is present in a female suggests that it is a climatic adaptation and not a secondary sexual characteristic. It has tall, mobile, pointed ears that provide it with excellent hearing. It has exceptional binocular vision and eyes lined with tapetum, which grants it night vision. Its pupils retract in the dark but dilate during the day. It is capable of color vision. Its sclera is light green.
It has a long snout with a nose lacking a rhinarium (truffle). Instead, it has two nasal slits more reminiscent of a reptile's. Its sense of smell is relatively ordinary. Its sense of taste is well-developed, and it has a relatively long tongue. Its jaws have a compound dentition with well-developed incisors. This suggests an omnivorous diet, although the individual has demonstrated an impulsive predatory instinct. It lacks a tail and is able to stand upright thanks to the curvature of its spine, similar to a human's (we assume, pending X-ray analysis).
Plantigrade, it is capable of running at high speed. It has plantar pads that provide great stealth. The most striking anatomical feature is its forelimbs, which are not specialized for locomotion. It possesses extremely long arms, strong forearms, and hands with five unusually long fingers ending in very sharp claws (including the thumb). This "hand" allows it to manipulate certain objects, though not with great difficulty. It stands about 5'5" (165 cm) tall. It is presumed that a male of this species can be taller and more robust.
Phonoraptor nocturnae has the incredible ability to mimic sounds. Lacking a formal anatomical study (such as an autopsy), it is unknown whether this is a specialized function of its vocal cords or if it possesses a unique modified organ that allows it to do so.
Folkloric Description: Like any potential cryptid, its origin is, at best, uncertain. Some of the oldest references to humanoid entities in North America date back to Native American folklore, whose legends about anthropomorphic creatures abound. On the West Coast, the Salish/Halkomelem-speaking peoples recount the existence of the Sasq'ets (hairy men), tribes of savage monsters that lurked in the forests and devoured humans. The Yokuts speak of the Mayak Datat, a gigantic hairy entity whose image is still preserved in ancient petroglyphs . On the East Coast, Algonquian-speaking tribes speak about the Wendigo (from the Ojibwe "Wiindigoo"), a long-clawed entity/spirit, degenerate from a human being who broke the taboo of eating human flesh and succumbed to countless sins (gluttony, greed, lust). The inhabitants of Aridoamerica, such as the Navajo, speak of the Skin-Walker (in their native language, "yee-naaldlooshii"), a sorcerer capable of transforming into a coyote-like creature to cause harm.
Further south, Mesoamerican cultures speaked about the human-animal duality, with the Olmec culture being its oldest exponent, featuring figurines of half-human, half-beast creatures (jaguar, coyote, wolf, rabbit, etc.). Millennia later, the predominant Uto-Aztecan-speaking religions tell us of the Nahual (a Nahuatl word meaning "double" or "projected"), a sorcerer capable of taking the form of his tonal, his animal counterpart . In their worldview, this spiritual ambivalence was not exclusive to human beings,
as it also encompassed the gods themselves, who were capable of changing into half-man, half-beast forms (like Tepeyollotl, the jaguar, nahual of Tezcatlipoca, and Xolotl, the half-dog god, brother of Quetzalcoatl). After the arrival of Europeans in the Americas, stories about encounters with these beings did not cease.
The Spanish Conquistadors and Missionaries of the 16th century tell us of nocturnal beings known as Dark-Watchers, entities that roamed the mountain ranges of the Sierra Nevada in California and the Sierra Madre in Mexico.
Described as ferocious humanoid beings with dark fur, large eyes that glowed in the dark, and capable of wearing human clothing and wielding human implements such as hats and canes, they prowled the nights, assaulting travelers, defiling women, and stealing livestock.
After being shipwrecked and enduring countless hardships, the Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (1492-1559) recorded an account of a wild, supernatural, and hairy man he called Mala Cosa ("Bad Thing"), who attacked at night, stole food, disemboweled people, and cut his victims with three marks, according to the stories told to him by the Coahuiltecan Indians. Initially skeptical, Cabeza de Vaca interviewed the attacked indigenous people, observing the victims' scars and concluding that the entity had to be real, a demon sent by Satan to torment the living. He urged the Indians to convert to Christianity to protect themselves from the creature.
The famous Jesuit missionary Eusebio Franz Kino (1645-1711) left notes in his diaries about how the Californian indians feared strange creatures capable of imitating a person's voice (usually a relative of the victim), in order to lead them astray, attack, rob, and kill them. The French colonists (especially the Coreur des Bois of the 17th century), feared the Rougarou , a werewolf-like creature, the result of breaking several vows and Catholic doctrines. Some versions say that the wicked man will be cursed through witchcraft and will transform for 101 days to suck blood and transmit the curse. This belief remains present in Cajun folklore to this day. The Skin-Walker remains present in Navajo folklore to this day. The Wendigo remains present in the imaginary of the Northeastern United States to this day.
The Nahual belief remains strongly present among indigenous peoples of Mexico to this day, especially in rural areas.
Trivia: The character of Missy is heavily inspired by the character SONA created by the artist Twipie . Although NapalmExpress stated from the beginning the origin that inspired this original character, Twipie did not take kindly to the very strong resemblance to her fursona; this led to a campaign of online harassment that caused NapalmExpress to go on a sporadic hiatus from his social media.
