Sorry if this has been asked before, I feel like it has but I can't find it

Do we have official pronouns for NPCs? (Nestor, Whiskers, Brian, Peppa, Raine and Bow)

Edit: and Snowflake! and Snowflake's rival who's name I forgot

@mothbrainz Yes, not-cats were absolutely subjected to all of the things humans get up to. Not-cats groups often took it upon themselves to take human jobs as a way of "working" for food in a sense - for example, a lot of not-cats used to work on old sailing ships specifically.

That said, there probably weren't a ton of not-cats living as modern house pets because it would be a very isolating experience that they would likely struggle with. Not-cats tend to cling together in larger groups to tell stories and make friends and work together, so avoiding becoming trapped in a house or shipped across the country would be pretty high priority. They wouldn't want to be separated from their families and friends - and if they did, it's likely a heist would get them free.

Fortunately, they have thumbs, so they're very difficult to contain. It's not unlikely that there were at least a couple not-cats living as pets for the free food and then opening up the door to go back out to their families as soon as the humans went to bed. Plus, with cats mostly being like barn cats and such even 100 years ago, they were probably much more open to the coming and going lifestyle of the past.

It's also not unlikely that they were breaking and entering into homes and businesses to steal free food, so there's also that.

As far as interacting with real cats.... well, they legitimately thought they were cats. They just didn't really think too much about it, assuming that the cat cats just spoke a different language. Maybe they figured something was a little off but... if you look like a cat and you sound like a cat, and nobody's sat down and told you 'hey you're not a cat'.... what else is there to suspect?

Not-cats did get pretty decent at reading and communicating with cat cat vocalizations and body language so they did interact with each other, they just didn't seem to speak quite the same language and kept to their own.




Lots of NPC questions, I'm gonna save those for when I get a chance to write up a lore article on them since it seems like a common point of interest.

So I was reading over the Wind information, and noticed something.

“When the first Northern cat was born…”
“When the first Southern cat was born…”
“ When the two winds joined together, a cat of the Trade Wind was born.”
“ The three original cats raced throughout the stars, leaving the Null cat behind to look after their home.”

So the first two cats were apparently null carriers, which is neat. But what birthed them? Do all not-cats share this family as common ancestors? And finally, are they still around?

quite random but will there ever be other eye colors?
what color is the sky on not-earth?
do they have names for their moons?

Is there nobility/aristocracy in not-cat society? If so, what defines them?

@Untitled The original cats were spawned out of the primordial bean cloud, a swirling haze of magical space/aspect dust that drifts through the galaxies and is faintly in the shape of a cat.


@Tsunami

1) The albino cats in each white pattern group will have a different eye color. Not-cats will always have their distinctive dark brown eyes, but different species may be different!
2) It's a hazy bluish/purple. You can see it best on the lake scene during clear weather!
3) Yes! See below:



@rockheart0103 Not really since there's no centralized government structure. Not-Cats have only been on Not-Earth for 6 years so society is mostly small independent makeshift villages. Gardenhome, as the only major city, does have an elected mayor and city council, but that's about the closest you'd get. There are also some assorted infrastructure-related independent organizations, like the courier/postal service, but they don't really answer to anyone and are more doing it because it's useful.

Not-cats aren't a particularly authority-focused type of species. They more or less do their own thing. Trying to rule over them would be, well, like herding cats.

Individual villages may have different dynamics going on, but any nobility structure in a specific village would probably not apply outside of that village. Essentially, a cat could theoretically be a king in their village... but the village next door would probably not actually see them any differently from any other random neighbor. A conversation between a king in village A and a random cat in village B would probably run more like

cat A: I'm the king of village A.
cat B: that's cool but could you not leave fish in your mailbox at our shared post office location? it's starting to smell kind of funny... thanks for understanding.

are there any kinds of daily rituals not-cats like to observe?

what kind of idioms and expressions are unique to not-cats or not-earth?

On not earth are the seasons 50 days, or is that simply a game mechanic?
If they aren't 50 days, how long are they?

In the future, I believe that it's been alluded to that there might be more Winds than North/South/Trade/Null for different breeds of '''cat''' across Not-Earth.

Will this mean that some species will not be able to be bred with others, or are there plans for even more combo variations of different Winds? Or is this still in the 'talk it through with the other Devs/look at Suggestions/yet to decide' stage?

Hello~
- Seeing that not-cats can have beans with almost anyone they want, even trades can have beans with other trades. I got curious on the idea of why cats of the same wind (excluding trades) can't have beans with each other?
Do not-cats have reproductive organs based on wind that makes having beans with not-cats of the same wind impossible? Or is there another reason that, since we don't know exactly how beans are made, I can't think of right now.
It's fine if I get no answer on this though. I'm worried I may sound like someone trying to ask random people what's inside their pants and that's a no-no

- Another thing that I got curious about is the fact that Raine sells transgender flags... but what does a not-cat define as transgender? Since they don't seem to have the same mentality than humans about biological sex and such. It doesn't seem like they're assigned something at birth that they may end up deciding they're not. They're born and seem to already know what they are (unless that's just gameplay-wise, and lore-wise they do take some time to decide, but still, nothing assigned)
Is there any lore reason for the transgender flag to exist in not-earth? Does the player decide what they want? It's only there because... well, you can't have a pride shop without including the T in LGBTQ+?

Sorry if my grammar is kinda... weird, I'm not a native english speaker