Quokkantine (Species)

     Wow-wee! It’s a made-up species inspired by quokkas and clementines! And this species is an open one!

     Although it might be a little complex. 

     Feel free to make quokkantine characters if you wish, just give proper credit for the species idea. If you have any questions about this species, or if you think your quokkantine character might differ from how the species works, feel free to ask! 

     So, here y’are, y’all, have a half-plant/half-animal species amalgamation.

Biological Sex: Quokkantines‘ biological sex can be male, female, or intersex. 

While being intersex is significantly less common than being male or female, both for humans and quokkantines, it’s not nonexistent. Being intersex is more common for quokkantines than for humans, though— ~20% of quokkantines are intersex, ~40% male, and ~40% female. 

Since quokkantines are part-plant (and since I’m the non-binary creator of the species and want the fictional species that represents aspects of my identity to be relatable to me), the differences between their biological sexes are more subtle than the differences that humans have.

Gender Identity: Gender identity for quokkantines works as it does for quokkas, and gender identity for anthro quokkantines works as it does for humans!

Sexuality/Romantic Orientation: Works the same as humans, although asexuality is more common for this species.

• Anthro v. Feral: Anthro quokkantines may develop romantic/sexual feelings for other anthros or humans, but not feral critters. Feral quokkantines may develop romantic feelings for other feral quokkantines, or for other feral animals who are at about the same intelligence, but not for anthros or humans. 

I draw Glucose as anthro or feral sometimes, just to experiment & have fun drawing. They’re my persona! I want to experiment with ‘em! However, if you have a quokkantine character who is solely & always meant to be anthro/not feral, or feral/not anthro, then they’re not going to fall for someone who’s not at that same kind of level. 

Reproduction: Quokkantines grow on trees. Bwa ha! Asexual reproduction! Quokkantines are capable of having sexual relations, but are always incapable of giving birth. Most quokkantines don’t have any sexual desire and don’t care about it, and that’s okay. However, there are some who do have sexual relations consensually, and that’s also okay. 

Sometimes older quokkantines find younger ones who they want look after after forming some sort of bond, but there‘s not really any ”quokkantine parenting” going on, there. Just quokkantine leadership or guiding as a result of bonding.

More Tree Info: As previously mentioned, quokkantines grow on trees. This tree is called a “Quokkantine tree”— it’s not incredibly rare, but falls more on the uncommon side than common. Quokkantines are basically the fruit of the tree, like how a clementine is the fruit of a clementine tree. Five to twenty quokkantines may grow on each tree. Their tails work as stems that attach them to the branch from which they hang and grow for about six months (that’s how long a quokka joey stays in the pouch).

Now, you, dear reader, may be wondering— how do the trees come to be? All right, I’ll tell ya. Quokkantines have seed-hearts that pump chlorophyll-blood throughout their bodies. When a quokkantine dies, the dead body decomposes into the ground, leaving the body’s seed ready to sprout out a new Quokkantine tree. Reduce, reuse, recycle, kids! 

Tree Detachment: A quokkantine detaching themself from their tree is difficult; they have to squirm around on their branch, and nibble their tail off from their branch. So, once one quokkantine detaches their own tail, they will climb and scurry around the tree to help detach the tails of other quokkantines. The quokkantines eventually all help each other out and go down the tree.  

When humans find Quokkantine trees, they like to help out, too. They go “Quokkantine-Picking”, plucking off the quokkantines from their trees and placing them on the ground, saving the critters a lot of struggle.  

Once they’re detached, a quokkantine might just scurry off on their own, or they might make some new quokkantine pals to scurry off with. If a quokkantine gets into a quokkantine squad, though, they’re not going to rely on one another. They’ll just go about their own business, have fun or bond here and there, and live their own lives. 

Age: Feral quokkantines have quokka lifespans, so about ten years. Quokkantine anthros have human lifespans.

Aging: Anthro and feral quokkantines both start out looking like the youngster-feral ones. Not too long after they detach themselves from their trees, though, they start to age differently, with the feral ones staying feral and the anthro ones growing to look anthro. 

Intelligence: Feral quokkantines usually have intelligence a bit above dolphins. Feral quokkantines can also learn human languages like how we humans do, and sometimes other animals if they spend enough time with them. Anthros are basically at human level.

Size: Feral quokkantines are the size of normal, real-life quokkas, which is about the size of a house cat. Anthros are people-sized. 

Appearance: Full grown quokkantines (aside from the shape of quokkantine anthros being different) look exactly like full grown quokkas with these exceptions: They have more eye colors than brown, they have prehensile vine-like tails (tails can have no leaves, or at most a few), and their fur is different shades of orange instead of brown. 

Their tongues and paw pads are green due to their chlorophyll blood. Their tails can be green or brown.

Like clementines, quokkantines are green in color before they’re “ripe” enough to come off the tree and grow more orange as they mature on the tree.

Feral Diet: Like quokkas, quokkantines mainly eat grasses and the leaves, stems and bark of a variety of plants. Unlike quokkas, clementines are also a major diet component.

Anthro Diet: The same as the feral diet, but human food is thrown in, too. Anthros are also more likely to be vegans or vegetarians compared to real-life humans, but that isn’t a given. It’s all right for peeps to be vegans or vegetarians or not to be as long as that’s the best choice for them, and the being-vegan/vegetarian-part is often, but not always, the case for anthros of this species.

Basic Abilities (All of these apply to both anthros and feral ones!): 

• Sharp claws which help them climb trees (like real-life quokkas)
• Good night vision (like real-life quokkas)
• Great at scurrying around quickly on the ground (like real-life quokkas) 
• Prehensile, vine-like tails 
• Ability to speak human languages and learn them like how humans can, & have the natural-born ability to communicate however quokkas communicate 

A quokkantine does indeed naturally smell like a clementine fruit. 

Example of a Quokkantine: Glucose 

*Last Updated: Friday, April 21st, 2023