Furthia High
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| Furthia High | |
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| Author(s) | QuetzaDrake |
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| Update schedule | Mondays and Fridays |
| Launch date | Restart: January 28th, 2008
Initial Run: June 26th, 2005 |
| End Date | Ongoing |
| Genre | Humor |
| Rating(s) |  |
Furthia High is a furry webcomic by QuetzaDrake. It is about a human teenager that attends his first year of public high school in a world completely populated by furries.
The comic began in June of 2005, and went on hiatus at the end of 2007. Upon its return, the story had restarted. The old archives are still online and available for reading. In April of 2008, the comic moved from its home of almost 3 years on Comic Genesis to its own server space hosted by Concession.
At the end of July 2008, QuetzaDrake added a foreign language section, where comics translated into a multitude of languages are posted for the benefit of international readers. Currently there are about 10 different languages being hosted, including French, Italian, Hebrew, Polish, two versions of Spanish, and more.
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[edit] Plot Overview
Kale Williams is described as "the last known human in the world". The comic begins with his first day attending a public high school. There, he meets Bruce, Campy, and Ashley.
In the first canon, the story details Kale's first day in school and goes on to explore his home life. In the new canon's first arc, the events are changed in that Kale meets all three of his new friends at once, and Kale's first day is glazed over and the comic jumps ahead a few weeks in the span of one strip.
In the comic's second arc, staying true to the original canon, Lupin challenges Kale to a fight, and Ashley forces him to accept. Kale takes the pacifist route, which ends with him being injured but also more respected.
In the third arc, the characters attend Bruce's birthday party (thus aging him from 16 to 17). An underlying story seems to sprout here, as Kale manages to fall down Bruce's basement steps and, when he awakens, has a case of amnesia concerning the fall.
In the fourth arc, the story revolves around the fall school dance, with particular attention being paid to each main character's own date (reluctant or otherwise) to the dance.
[edit] An alternate reality
In the fifth arc, the tone switches to a more serious tone when Kale is sent into a comatose state by an oncoming car from which he tries to move an unaware Bruce out of the way. While the other characters wonder about Kale's fate, Kale fought for his life in his black-and-white world against a parallel, vulpine self who will potentially kill for supremacy over Kale's body. Having lost the battle, Kale's body is bloodily taken over by the parallel self (in a similar vein to Agent Smith's viral assimilation method as demonstrated in the two Matrix sequel films)[1] while his own memories remain intact; waking up from the coma, he wakes up in an alternate reality as the fox self who he battled in his coma, and is further astounded by both the replacement of his adoptive tiger family with a biological fox family[2] and the lack of knowledge from all around him regarding his former humanity. This 'reality' is revealed to be nothing more than an illusion set by Kale's vulpine self, probably to break him down mentally for his body to be taken over. He is brought out of this illusion and back into his classic dream setting by his human half, which replaces Bruce in the illusion. The conflict between the human side and the vulpine side over Kale's conscious parallels pioneer German psychoanalysist Sigmund Freud's hypothesis of the Id, ego, and super-ego, with the conscience-driven, supporting human side representing the Super-Ego, the general conscious side of Kale representing a hapless, prone Ego, and the emotionally-driven vulpine side representing the Id.
[edit] Cast
[edit] Major Characters
- Kale Williams - Male human, age 16. The "main character" of the comic, he's a friendly and kind-hearted boy, but also shy, nervous, and sometimes overly pessimistic; Strip 11 hinted[3] at him having some form of obsessive-compulsive disorder. He is also revealed to be an amnesiac concerning his own past, and is revealed to have been a fox at birth who was taken from his biological parents and forcibly transformed into a human; it is this fox version of Kale which battles him in Kale's comatose world for supremacy and revenge following his being accidentally hit by an oncoming car[4].
- In the original canon, his name was Kale Goodman, age 14.
- His father, Cyrus Williams is a cougar, his mother Alyssa Williams is a tiger and his younger brother Tyler Williams is a hybrid cougar/tiger. His father is also knowledgeable concerning Kale's actual origins.
- Fox Kale (Fale) - Male silver fox, apparently age 16. The fox that Kale originally was born as, he was recently awakened, and has repeatedly sworn to take down the people that made Kale the way he is. He wears a black hoodie and black jeans. He has the ability to shroud himself with inky shadows, and has attempted to envelop both Kale, and Max Beradino. He fondly wields a large two-handed sword.
- Human Kale (Hale) - Male human, apparently age 16. Kale's human side, he looks exactly like Kale, except he wears a white hoodie and gray jeans. He is around to keep Kale's fox side in check, and is shown to have a horrible sense of humor. He seems to have the ability to negate Fox Kale's shadow powers.
- Bruce Beradino - Male red fox, age 17. Annoyingly extroverted and random, but means well. Bruce appears to fluctuate between being caring and acting insensitive concerning serious events, sometimes even switching moods in an instant. He is apparently a fan of LARPing, soap operas, and power metal.
- In the original canon, his name was Bruce Renard, age 15.
- Christopher Hamachek - A male white French Lop rabbit, age 16, more commonly known as "Campy". Spends a great deal of time sleeping, though recently he's been more active, appearing to be a bit of a sensible foil to Bruce's antics. He is the literate, artistic type, spending his free time reading and writing poetry. It was recently revealed that he is in fact bisexual.
- In the original canon, his name was Christopher Ballade, age 15.
- Ashley Parker - A female orange and white cat, age 16. Protective and strong of her friends, but can be very bossy and headstrong. She may even come off as heartless and selfish, but she's merely very assured that her way is the best way for her and her friends. Despite being tomboyish, she has a habit of wearing fairly feminine clothing.
- In the original canon, her name was Ashley Macska, age 15.
- Lupin Gibb - A male gray wolf, age 17. A fairly sadistic bigoted bully whom antagonizes Kale for his "uniqueness". Has a small group of "friends", including Gus, that he leads around. Very focused on masculinity and has a great deal of trouble listening to others' orders.
- In the original canon, his name was Lupin Levowitz, age 16.
- Gus Brame - A male calico cat, age 16. A follower unable to make his own decisions as he grew up with many older siblings that bossed him around, which carried over to following Lupin during school. Acts tough and masculine in front of his group, but is actually fairly meek and submissive. Has a fairly obvious crush on Ashley.
- In the original canon, his name was Gustav Gratowski, age 15.
- Felicia Meyers - A female black panther, age 17. A narcissistic and manipulative seductress that enjoys using others for her own means. Has an antagonistic rivalry with Ashley that began in childhood.
- In the original canon, her name was Felicia Hood, age 16.
- Has yet to appear since the restart. QuetzaDrake has had a poll on his site asking whether Felicia would be "missed" if she were to not appear in the new canon, leading one to believe that he may or may not be bringing her back.
- Max Beradino - A male fox, age 36, and Bruce's father. Max (a married bisexual decades ago) apparently lost his wife after the birth of his son; believing her to have been his one true (female) love, he could not bring himself to date other women, thus swearing them off for good. This resulted in him becoming a very flamboyant homosexual; however, he still acts the role of a very concerned and caring father for Bruce. Also may have something to hide, as he deviates from Kale's questions concerning his fall in the third arc.
- This character did not appear in the original canon.
[edit] Random Characters
Since the beginning of the restart, the comic has featured randomly-generated furs as additional cast and background characters. The system used is actually the same used by Concession, having been given to him by that comic's creator, Immelmann. There are only a few alterations from the system in that there is no Religion given to the characters; instead, a School Year is picked, from Freshman to Junior to Super-Senior and also that the usage of Dinosaurs is replaced by the cover-all species of Birds (the specific species of bird picked by QuetzaDrake by choice).
Randomly-generated characters in Furthia High tend to actually have a better chance of reappearing than in Concession, due to them usually being students as opposed to one-time customers. In fact, a number of characters have been made into relevant people to the main cast, from childhood friends (Jorge the red panda) to newly-acquired friends (Ryan the coyote and Eve the ring-tailed lemur).
- Eve - a female ring-tailed lemur. Established as a bisexual freshman and so is likely age 15-16. A classic "nerd girl", she has been picked on for most of her life. During elementary school, she had giant glasses, braces, and love for literature. Though she's grown up since then, she still gets teased for traits she no longer has. [5] She is good friends with Ashley Parker, but is timid in contrast to Ashley's confrontational demeanor. She asked Kale Williams to the school dance, to Ashley's approval,[6] and they have been dating since then.
- Connor - a male black-backed jackal. He is bisexual and a sophomore, making him around the age of 16-17. He is plays the violin, and is currently Campy's boyfriend, having met the rabbit by accident when the two bumped into one another. Connor seems to have a license as he drove Campy and him to the prom. He is adopted due to the fact that his mother, Heather, is a squirrel, while his father, Roswell, is a horse. Currently, there may be some strain in Connor and Campy's relationship when Connor finds Campy making snow sculptures of female rabbits.
[edit] Furthia High Blog
In January 2009, QuetzaDrake started the Furthia High Blog, in which the Furthia High characters will write various stories about themselves. The first story featured was the story of how Campy met Connor, his prom date.
[edit] Crossovers with Concession
Furthia High and another popular furry webcomic, Concession, have featured cameos and appearances of each other's characters. From subtle references, halloween costumes, to dialogue between the two. It is revealed that, non-canonically, Campy wishes to travel to the Concession dimension and win over Joel's heart.
[edit] References
- ↑ Strip 093 - Night Eternal
- ↑ Strip 095 - Mother
- ↑ Strip 011 - Bathroom Break
- ↑ Strip 087 - Genesis
- ↑ Strip 025 - Nerd Heroism
- ↑ Strip 060 - Primate Pair
