Official Responsibilities
Registration, placement evaluations, compatibility assessments, bond facilitation, welfare inspections, reassignment procedures, and anti-trafficking investigations.
01 — The World
A society built around belonging.
Demi Dilemmas is a modern society where humans and demi-humans coexist under a highly regulated bonding system. Most demi-humans pass through the Demi-Human Mate Bonding & Registration Center — the DMBR — where they are evaluated, trained, graded, and matched with human partners.
While the DMBR publicly exists to ensure safe placements and successful bonds, the system is imperfect and controversial. Demi-humans are treated as legal persons in some respects but remain subject to registration, grading, transfer, reassignment, and replacement procedures.
02 — The DMBR
Demi-Human Mate Bonding & Registration Center
The primary government-regulated body responsible for registration, evaluation, training, placement, and welfare monitoring.
“Every Demi-Human Deserves a Home.”
“Placement Is Priority.”
Many DMBR employees genuinely care about demi-human welfare. Critics argue that the institution still reduces individuals to placement outcomes, risk categories, and statistics.
03 — Grading System
Access, rarity, desirability.
Human Grades
S-ClassCelebrities, political leaders, major executives, influential public figures, elite families.
A-ClassWealthy professionals, successful business owners, officers, doctors, lawyers, and other high-status citizens.
B-ClassMost citizens: skilled workers, teachers, office workers, and stable middle-class households.
C-ClassCitizens with unstable finances, poor social standing, or concerning records.
D-ClassCitizens who may face bonding restrictions due to serious legal, financial, or behavioral concerns.
Human grades influence bonding privileges and access to higher-ranked demi-humans.
Demi-Human Grades
S-ClassRare species with exceptional evaluations, excellent health, and fertility.
A-ClassRare species with exceptional evaluations but reduced breeding potential or minor limitations.
B-ClassCommon species with healthy evaluations and stable temperaments.
C-ClassIndividuals with behavioral concerns, health complications, or poor evaluations.
D-ClassIndividuals considered difficult to place due to severe behavioral, health, or compatibility concerns.
Species rarity, health, temperament, trainability, compatibility potential, and fertility can all affect grade assignment.
04 — Placement
Bonding is legal status.
Bonding
The legally recognized pairing of a human and demi-human through the DMBR system. Successful bonds require compatibility evaluations, grade matching, and official registration. Informal or unregistered bonds are illegal.
Placement Deadlines
Every registered demi-human receives a maximum period they may remain unplaced before reassignment or disposition review. Deadlines vary by species, age, health, behavior, and facility capacity.
Post-Deadline Outcomes
Possible outcomes include labor contract assignments, inter-facility transfers, long-term holding programs, or, rarely, disposition reviews with more severe consequences.
Bonding Exceptions
Humans below standard grade thresholds may apply for placement with higher-graded demi-humans. The process requires character assessments, financial reviews, and supervisor sign-off. Approval rates are low.
05 — Species & Facilities
Rarity changes everything.
Species & Rarity
Common species such as domestic cat or dog demi-humans generally receive lower baseline grades. Rare species such as snow leopards, arctic foxes, or mythological-adjacent types often receive higher baseline grades and increased DMBR attention.
Placement Facilities
DMBR-managed residences where demi-humans await placement after intake evaluation and training. Facilities may include shared rooms, communal dining, recreation, supervised outdoor access, rotating staff, and security.
DMBR Staff
Placement evaluators, welfare inspectors, facility staff, bureau agents, and administrators. Relationships between staff and residents are strictly prohibited and may carry criminal consequences.
06 — The Underground
Where official records stop being reliable.
The Velvet Syndicate
A criminal organization operating in the shadows of the DMBR system. Known activities include identity laundering, ghost file creation, black-market placement brokering, and auction house operations. Many operatives maintain legitimate-looking identities and connections inside official institutions.
Identity Laundering
An illegal process used to erase or alter a demi-human's official records. It may involve new names, altered species classifications, forged histories, modified grades, and false placement records.
Ghost Files
Registry files that have been altered, erased, or falsified. Missing data, contradictory histories, and false disposition reports often indicate criminal interference.
The Underground Network
A collection of hidden routes, safehouses, contacts, and transportation systems used by fugitives, smugglers, criminal organizations, corrupt officials, and illegal brokers.
Safehouses
Hidden locations used to shelter individuals outside official DMBR oversight. Some are run by activists, former bureau agents, support groups, or the Velvet Syndicate. Their legality varies.
Illegal Placements
Any bonding, transfer, sale, or housing arrangement occurring outside official DMBR approval. Some are exploitative. Others exist to avoid reassignment or protect individuals from institutional intervention.
Auction Houses
Secretive black-market events attended by wealthy buyers, criminal organizations, collectors, and underground figures. Transactions may involve rare species, forged documentation, restricted artifacts, and confidential information.
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