More than just a pet || Seongjoong || + other ships

1: November 7th 1998

Somewhere inside a modernized hanok, in a quiet semi-rural part of town, a tiny kitten was born. He was named Kim Hongjoong.

Hongjoong was born with blue eyes and orange hair.

The mother cat was cleaning and nursing her newborn kitten in the small nest, while the father was looking over the two, having to keep their two-year-old in line, who was trying to go over to the newborn out of curiosity.

At this point it was still too early to tell whether the newborn is an Alpha or an Omega, Beta being ruled out by the parent's genetics, since the secondary genders present around puberty or later. The average age being 15 for females and 17 for males.

The parents, a female Omega abyssinian cat and a male Alpha caracal, have been mated with each other for three years now. Their first son, Jinwoo was born on September 26th 1996.

The female cat, Yeri, had been adopted by a Beta couple after she had willingly put herself up for adoption. It is not that uncommon for parents to not let their young stay in the house any longer after turning 18. Hybrids are expected to be able to take care of themselves and birth control for Omegas is still hard to get.

(Hybrids/people in this universe mature faster than humans, kind of like animal babies are more advanced than human babies. And because the hybrids have wild animal traits, most stop caring for their children just like in nature they would.)

Yeri had been kicked out the day after she turned 18 but she knew she couldn't support herself, never having had a proper job yet and just having graduated from high school but with no academic qualifications.

Therefore she made the decision on the spot to choose to live permanently as her animal form as someone else's pet, and walked straight into the adoption center for hybrid pets, with nothing on her but her life and will to survive.

The said Beta couple had been looking to adopt after hearing about the issue of rising numbers of hybrids in adoption centers. The couple were especially looking for an Omega, to be able to provide them a safe place to go through their heats and to protect them from unmated Alphas.

The abyssinian had lived with the couple for a few years until a new pet was brought into the house. The couple had had no intentions of breeding her at first, but when they came across caracats online and found out you could crossbreed cat hybrids with each other with high success, they immediately started looking for a caracal mate for their cat.

They didn't have to wait for long until they saw an ad about a male caracal hybrid on sale at a hybrid pet shop, about a two hour drive from where they live.

The Alpha had been taken into the adoption shelter against his will after he had been deemed too animal-like to live as a part of society. He had been spending most of his free time in his animal form, he did poorly in school and had much worse social skills in his human form than in his animal form.

After turning 18, his parents had taken him in for evaluation which had led him into the shelter, telling the staff there to either keep him or kick him out into the streets like the useless wild animal he is, as long as they didn't bring him back.

When the Betas met the caracal for the first time, they had been a bit wary, since his species was a wild cat, which were not commonly kept as house pets.

The caracal had also been frustrated at first, not having yet processed the direction his life was suddenly going in. The adoption process had luckily been quite quick and easy, which had eased both parties nerves. The family had let the frustrated cat take his time to get used to the new surroundings but eventually he calmed down, after meeting the other cat in the house and developing a crush on her.

He finally completely tamed down, after he and Yeri had become mated, and started behaving like a normal pet and getting used to his new role.

The first pregnancy of the newly mated couple had of course been arranged, as planned by the Beta couple. The fate of the newborn kitten was to be the Beta family's pet, just like his parents.

But later, after the two cats had fallen in love and were mating regularly, they had noticed that Yeri had become pregnant by accident and they decided to keep the second child hidden from the Betas.

The couple had only noticed Yeri's pregnancy when she had grown noticeably bigger. They had a short talk with the father in human form, since Yeri's pregnancy was so far along she couldn't turn until she had given birth, and the three had made an agreement that the second child would be raised in human form if he so wishes and they would let him go once he turns 18 and is ready to leave. Which means officially changing the part of his birth certificate, where he is labeled as a pet.

But nevertheless, back to the moment, the newborn kitten was very cute and for now, just a pet.

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Hongjoong is technically a hybrid hybrid, since he is a hybrid between three species.

Here is Hongjoong's cat form, and also the source where I took the screenshot from :)

(F1 means first generation, so only one generation away from a pure caracal/ one parent is a caracal and one parent is a domestic cat, same as Hongjoong.)