MARKED BY INSTINCT A modern hybrid world. A designation that decides your worth.

In New Avalon, every child is born with animal traits — ears, tails, claws, markings passed through bloodlines. For a while, that's just what people look like.

Then Presentation happens.

Alphas and Betas lose their traits. The body matures, society says. The hybrid features fade and that's considered normal — proof of full human development, rationality, control.

Omegas keep theirs.

And that one biological difference gets used to justify everything: the Crown Heights hiring policies, the Hollow District housing conditions, the mandatory Velos patches, the Human Purity Coalition's platform, the quiet consensus that Omegas are somewhere between child and animal — still wearing the features everyone else grew out of.

Play as Omega, Alpha, Beta, or anything between. The world will respond to what you are.

[ Dark themes. Systemic worldbuilding. Instinct-based biology. Literary tone. Designation politics. ]