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feotakahari ([personal profile] feotakahari) wrote2024-08-11 05:38 pm
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What Arknights thinks you are, based on where you come from

Arknights doesn't usually have real-world races, but it has obvious counterparts to real-world nationalities. Sometimes painfully obvious.

If the only example of a species makes sense for its region, I count it. If the only example makes no sense, like an Indian Grey Moongoose from the Russia equivalent or a Feathered Serpent in the U.S., I don't count it. Them's the breaks.

Anywhere: Bird, Rat, Snake, Lizard, Tiger

U.S.A: Fox, Otter, Robot

South America (Not Indigenous): Dog

Amazon (Indigenous): Crocodile

Britain or France or Scotland: Cat, Lion, Wyvern, Western Dragon, Unicorn

Poland: Horse, Pegasus

Spain or Seasteader: A very wide variety of sea creatures

Basque Country: Dwarf

Germany: Goat, European Fallow Deer, Wolf if you happen to be a Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart reference.

Italy (Mafia): Wolf, sometimes Fox

Italy (Catholic) or Switzerland: Angel

Tibet or Norway or also Switzerland: Yak, Snow Leopard, Jormungandr

Greece: Cow

Eastern Europe (Jewish): Demon, Goliath. (Yes, this gets offensive sometimes)

Eastern Europe (kinda Jewish, but kinda doing their own thing): Lots of different "monsters" like Vampire or Gargoyle.

Somewhere in Africa or the Middle East, all squashed together: Camel, Zebra, Hyena, Frog, Rhino, Manticore, a couple of cat breeds.

Russia: Bear

China: Panda, Gaur, Yangtze Finless Porpoise, almost anything from Buddhist or Chinese mythology

Japan: Oni, Shiba Inu, Kitsune, Nue, Kamaitachi

Either China or Japan: Sika Deer.

Mongolia: Nightmare (technically, these are also squished into the Africa/Middle East hybrid)

Australia: Rabbit

Anywhere cold and northern that's stereotypically "primitive" or "Native": Deer, Arctic Fox, Norwegian Forest Cat, supposedly Cyclops but seems more like Norn

I don't even know: Yithian