The 'Wildly Illogical' Collection

What is the Breaking, you ask? An event often referred to, but never fully explained. The reason is simply that nobody know why it happened, and in fact, most people would call it a hoax, a sham, an elaborate worldwide prank. Perhaps a cover-up of something worse.

After all, it is after this event that Animaloids started appearing. A worldwide phenomenon where humans, mostly children, began having animal-like appendages, abilities, senses.. and eventually, a full animal body. A phenomenon that started off seemingly randomly, but in the end it became a global constant. It ceased being random appendages, abilities or senses, and instead became a sort of involuntary transformation.

The more animal-like one acted, the more animal like their body became. But also vice versa, the more they did thinking things through, the less animal-like behavior meant they became more like humans. And it wasn't limited to just humans.

Once it had become a global constant, animals too started exhibiting this transformation. Becoming more human-like, allowing for human speech. Due to the fact that everyone was pretty much equally confused, this led to a awkward but steady revolution. Humans and animals could now converse, and rather than fighting for supremacy it lead to a mostly peaceful relationship.

This lasted until the first human discovered they could no longer change back to human, and steadily lost their ability to communicate with spoken languages. They had crossed a threshold, a point of no return in animal behavior, causing them to become a full animal and irreversibly so. Upon this revelation, humans panicked as they found out they could lose their humanity far too easily, and this widespread panic was actually quite the instinctual behavior, resulting in some humans turning into full animal form even faster than before.

Strangely, the reverse didn't really happen. Some animals were glad that the had the ability to change to their 'normal', but others wondered if this perhaps meant they could be a full human as well. A few experimented with this thought and it was soon proven correct. Being led by thought rather than instinct caused some animals to become fully human, unable to change back.

Some believed for the better, they had experimented with the idea that this could happen anyway, so none were surprised. Others led to experiment with being 'in-between'. It was perhaps cheating the system, planning to follow your instinct, but it worked fine. As such, in-between Animaloids became the most normal sight, with both former humans and former animals living side by side.

Ah, but I digress. You asked about the Breaking, not the effect, correct? Frankly, the Breaking is literally that. Our planet broke.. and then it suddenly wasn't. It was just a normal day, nothing seemed wrong, and just like that, the planet split right in two.

It was a terrible ecological disaster, millions of people and animals living on or near the line where it broke died instantly and those remaining wouldn't last long either. And then everyone collectively woke up that morning and it just didn't happen.

There is footage recorded from this disastrous day, that's how we know it happened, but even digital recordings of the Breaking just lapsed back to hours before as time stamps just reset themselves. There is no scientific explanation. Before too long, scientists discovered another effect..

but I'll leave that story for another time.