#this isnt even mentioning the interspecies DATING in beastcomplex

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They're a bit more thick-built, both in bone, muscle, and to an extent fat

They don't have the white chest like some deers do,

they're a solid, milk-chocolate brown furred with a lion’s mane and smaller than average antlers

they have amber eyes with green flecks (eyes shaped more like lion eyes)

their tail is cropped off along with parts of their ear, makes it a little hard to tell the original shape

they were declawed

they are a lion-deer hybrid,

They have to wear leg brasses knee down that lets them walk a little easier

very fun very dramatic, I like how clear it is you've thought this through. were the body mods intentional, like the lion mayor? or were they forced upon them at a young age so they could "fit in" better? since they grow antlers AND a mane I'm assuming from a young age they were made to pass primarily as a deer, since manes don't grow in until puberty. generally, anyway, beastars animals work a bit differently from irl animals, Paru is pretty flexible with it and works primarily with a more "realistic" twist on cartoon animal logic.

one big paragraph of rambling under the cut.

there's a lot about mixed children we just don't see in beastars, entirely because our 3 points of perspective are from Legoshi (second generation, almost fully passing), his mother Leano (passing until she hit middle age), and Melon (only passes thanks to covering his mixed traits). we do see the children in the Hybrid Kindergarten and the family portraits the kids drew that are hanging up near the ceiling, and because of this chapter we can assume the majority of mixed families live on the edge of the back market because they are most likely to be discriminated against socially and economically. they even have to worry about individuals bent on "understanding hybrids" through nonconsensual means, like taking blood samples from children without a parent or guardians permission. lol.

we learn pretty early on that interspecies marriage was only legalized relatively recently, and also that same species couples get government funding to ease the burden of raising children. and, legally speaking, an animals last name is their species (which we see on all student I.D.s), which makes special cases like Melon easy to miss in the system. in the manga at least, his legal last name is the species of the animal he passes as the most, his father the Gazelle. Leano would be Leano the Grey Wolf just like Legoshi. it's emphasized over and over again that society expects everyone to fit into A Box, A Type Of Person, a species a subspecies a carnivore or herbivore strong or weak. these are the pressures that forced Leano to kill herself, these are the pressures that gave melon... numerous... mental illnesses. to put it simply. which is all just to say life as a mixed individual in society is very very difficult, which it is! and reasonably comparable to the real life difficulties of mixed families in the real world (which I am the child of, hi)

if I wasn't actively at a party I'd be looking up chapters and posting sources for everything I've mentioned. alas.