Artwork done by my Belarusian friend birb-o-fluff.
Andim, the focal character of my would-be 2D animated series "Dreamwar"
Dreamwar is a story of characters in time of tense change and eventual war, refusing to idly witness the cruelty of the world around them.
Taking place in a different world from our own, one where both humans and anthro animals, called "uprights", exist. Set in a timeframe technologically equivalent to the early 1920s, and with a global war looming on the immediate horizon.
Andim is a young man from the nation of Denali, 26 at the beginning of the show, and would be 28 or 29 by the finale.
He is the son of his nation’s governor, and has had a mostly materially privileged life because of such, as well as even having an unofficial position of government and diplomatic authority from both nepotism and the fact their country has a small population.
He is perpetually ill / nauseous to varying degrees as a result of incurable illness, and visibly appears so, along with appearing tired from lack any proper sleep due to a mix of his illness and more so his stress over upcoming events.
Married to Elemme, a female fox Upright from Fleuragne (fictional France)
As he’s become an adult, he’s grown zealous about bringing an end to oppression of Uprights (anthros/furries) by humans in nations where it occurs, and vice-versa, that of humans by Uprights in the rarer case of nations where such occurs. Just as much so wants to see the end of occupations and colonies that lingering empires are still clinging onto.
Resigned to existing in the shadow of his father’s permanent disapproval, which he interprets from their consistent conflict, usually a result of Andim failing or refusing to act or see as pragmatically as his dad would desire.
Andim is torn inside and pre-emptively self-condemning, knowing a global war is inevitable but finding himself in some part actually wanting there to be one instead of not, because of his dreams it could result in liberation for at least some regions, or even imperial collapses. While he dreams as much, he knows that dream is delusional, or at least he’s been led to believe so.
From left to right, top to bottom: Andim gripping the railing of the bridge wing of the N.S. Ursa, Andim combating nausea while training to be a biplane pilot in secret, and Andim seeing his wife Elemme again after being away for a few weeks.
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World Info
Denali is a fictional amalgamation of what in our world are Alaska, Yukon, and British Columbia. Fleuragne is essentially just France.
Humans are more dominant globally simply owing to fact, in the end, that different human groups can all interbreed while differing species Uprights cannot, so humans almost always had a numbers advantage in most scenarios.
Some nations are equal for all, many are “humans first”, some are “humans only”, and others are either “Uprights first” or “Uprights only.” However, despite the human vs upright angle being the one many governments and their people lean on the most, looking past the supposed “us vs them” solidarity will reveal discrimination between individual races of humans against each other, and likewise between differing upright species.
