A Superkitty is a bipedal cat person with a thick head of humanlike hair and certain extrasensory or enhanced mental abilities. They generally have four fingers on each hand, three toes on each foot, and stand plantigrade, though this is up to artist preference. They're generally very curious and savant-like, with a huge variety in their physical appearances and superhuman abilities, though this can all lead to as much trouble in their travels as it can opportunities to perform great feats.
Coats and features
The most noteworthy physical feature of a Superkitty is the long mane they grow out from the tops of their heads, similar to human hair. These can be straight and long, wavy, curly and bushy, messy, and their color need not match their fur, though it's not uncommon for it to. Superkitties don't exhibit mane or fur loss with age, and because it acts more like fur than hair, the mane tends to reach a certain length and then stop growing. Some Superkitties opt to trim their manes to a preferred length, or to style them. If damaged or shaved, manes do regrow, just slowly (noticeable growth happens over a period of about a month).
Superkitty coats are as diverse as the cats here on Earth. Spots, bands, stripes, sandy and grey and brown and orange—natural Superkitty colors and fur patterns mimic both domestic cat breeds and wildcat breeds. Through various means (say, cursed flowers in Pinede, or their own dye technology), Superkitties are able to come in bright or dark, unnatural colors as well, though these are cosmetic, not genetic, and their children will exhibit their natural fur color, length, and patterning of the father cat.
Ears are usually pointed, but can also be tufted, rounded, or folded as desired by the designer.
Real world breeds and species can be a great way to start out a character if you're stuck, but there's no requirement a Superkitty be based on a real breed of cat! Miranda was based off a Beanie Baby cat, and Prince was just pink. They're cat people—there's not a lot to get wrong with 'em if you're having fun.
Sizes
Superkitties grow to be roughly human heights of 4' and change to slightly over 6'. Overly large Superkitties, like you'd expect a bipedal tiger to appear like, or overly small ones a la an anthropomorphic ocelot, are rare enough to be unheard of. (That said, tiger and ocelot fur patternings are plenty common on Superkitties of regular size!)
Sensory abilities
Flexible and generally very nimble even into a fairly advanced age, Superkitties are strong climbers. Their hearing is very good, able to hear well beyond where humans can. While all Superkitties have rather good night vision, that doesn't prevent them from having other vision issues, such as nearsightedness or astigmatism. This isn't an excuse to get you to design Superkitties wearing glasses because I think it's cute, totally not.
Clothing preferences
Comfy reigns supreme with Superkitties. Whatever they can easily move around in is what they prefer to wear. Flowy garments like robes and skirts are favored by some; others prefer sweaters and jeans. Even when a Superkitty aims to look sharp or smart, like the uniforms worn by the Novaling Defense Forces in their home world, fabrics are breathable and layers are generally plenty. Most Superkitties have little need for shoes, especially those who regularly use their back paws for climbing, though footwear is still decently common in rougher or colder terrain.
Superkitties have no real regard for gendered clothing, and either sex will wear each other's clothing. It's less of a statement and more that they genuinely don't perceive gender in clothing, and comfy is comfy.
Blessings
Each Superkitty has one each out of a pool of two blessings, or buffs. Each pool represents a different half of the original Superkitty lineage, one for Muffins' scientifically experimental intelligence and the other for the ancient Novalians' magical extrasensory abilities.
In short, these add up to one magical buff and one intelligence or mental buff apiece. What stats do they buff? None! There's no game system here, it's just fun to give characters extra traits. They can mean as much or as little to your Superkitty as you desire. I'll give some examples of how these blessings play out with two of my own characters after I've listed them out.
These are also not exhaustive. I will probably come up with more or take suggestions for others.
Muffins' blessings
- Eidetic Imager
- Inhumanly good working memories, Eidetic Imagers are able to see complex scenes once and remember and analyze them forever.
- Logical Lockstep
- Cats with Logical Lockstep are instantly acutely aware of the finer details of complex systems and machinery. These become your genius mechanics, lawyers, and chess players.
- Lightning Language
- Swift polyglots and excellent orators. The chattiest cats.
- Nimble Navigator
- Can hone in on exact locations long or short distance with minimal error. These cats know where they are, and they know this because they know where they're not.
- Perfect Pitch
- They don't just possess a set of golden ears—Superkitties with Perfect Pitch have an uncanny ability to imitate noises and voices very accurately.
- Persnickety Perception
- Intensely detail-oriented, these cats can and will notice the little things immediately, whether that's on an outfit or in a huge illustration.
- Rapid Recall
- Nmemonic couriers, able to store in their heads and accurately recall terabytes of data and information instantaneously.
Novalians' blessings
- Doolittle's Delight
- Ones with the tongue of beasts, these Superkitties can communicate with non-sapient creatures of all stripes.
- Future Foresight
- Chronic worriers (or perhaps the most cavalier of us all), they see the future well before it happens, provided someone doesn't change its course first.
- Heart of Healing
- Healers! From their fingertips, they can mend fractures, seal and sterilize wounds, and stem bleeding.
- Latent Luck
- Hey! $50!
- Oneiric Ostler
- Capable of manipulating their own dreams or those of others by entering their dreamscapes. Able to quickly fall asleep standing up, in order to facilitate the latter.
- One Orange Braincell
- Extremely dangerous, these cats are—able to remove all but one very orange braincell from the head of another cat.
- Pretty Persuasion
- Able to subtly and impercetibly influence people's auras and emotional states. Cats with Pretty Persuasion are either warm and comforting or the smuggest thieves you'll find, and you would be too.
- Same Wavelength
- Provided two Superkitties have this blessing, they can remotely communicate, view, and have access to each other's sensory inputs at will.
I have two Superkitties at the moment, Prince and Miranda. Prince is a fruity pink cat with the Persnickety Perception and Pretty Persuasion blessings—his keen eye for detail helps when coordinating or copying complex outfits, and he's highly emotionally perceptive and is quite good at soothing the hurt or upset. Given that his thing is his chameleon-like acting ability, both of these come quite in handy.
Miranda, meanwhile, is a striped grey kitty with the Rapid Recall and Doolittle's Delight blessings. As she is Somnolescent's archivist and librarian, her ability to remember vast swathes of arcane knowledge like dates, manuals, and specifications help in Web research and restoration efforts. The latter just helps her understand her guinea pigs better.
The Multiverse and Superkitties
All normal rules of the Greater Somnolescent Multiverse apply to Superkitties. They survive largely on how defined they are as characters, and their forms will shift with the norms of their target world—in Pinede, for example, Superkitties become much shorter, digitigrade, and largely maneless, save for a potential tuft between the ears. They'll have a propensity towards being mages, though Superkitties don't favor any particular elemental leaning in Pinede.
As for their blessings, because these superpowers have the potential to break major holes in unsuspecting Multiverse worlds, they get nerfed to various degrees depending on which world the Superkitty enters. The mechanism that controls power scaling isn't quite known.
In reality, it depends on the realism of the world. A Superkitty with, say, Pretty Persuasion only becomes particularly charismatic in Pennyverse instead of a master aura manipulator, because auras don't exist in Pennyverse.
Superkitties will turn into otherwise unaware feral cats in worlds that cannot support anthros, like Wisp. You will probably need a cat carrier to get them back out into the Multiverse.