In two previous galleries (click here & here to view them,), I documented the Supreme SuperBikers of Boxotropolis, the physically, physiologically, and cerebrally flawless race of super-human bikers who rule this sovereign city state, making it the only known bikerocracy in existence, and which is also home to numerous ordinary bikers - but that is not all. Deliberately unmentioned by me in those two galleries because I wanted to devote an entire gallery of its own to them are the truly extraordinary, veritable SuperPets not only owned by the SuperBikers but actually created by them too, because, imcredibly, even these are bikers - well, sort of...
So long ago now that its beginning is lost in the mists of time, Boxotropolis's SuperBikers became tired of their normal domestic cats & dogs and yearned for more advanced, more intelligent pets - so, harnessing their formidable scientific skills, they decided to create some via sophisticated genetic engineering techniques. What they did was splice human DNA donated by some of their realm's ordinary bikers with DNA obtained from either domestic cat DNA or domestic dog DNA to generate two entirely new, artificial life forms - human cats (or humcats, for short) & human dogs (humdogs), known collectively as humpets, and reared in laboratories until old enough to be owned as pets by their SuperBiker creators. This ingenious process has been repeated by the SuperBikers countless times ever since, right up to and including the present day.
The outward appearance of these humpets is nothing if not eyecatching. Humcats & humdogs both sport the body, limbs, hands & feet of a human, plus the tail of their respective animal progenitor species, but they differ from one another in relation to their head & face. Those of humdogs are entirely canine, whereas the face of a humcat is human, except for its pointed feline ears. Moreover, they all possess the high intelligence of humans, rather than the lesser version of cats and dogs. This originally led to contention as to how humpets should be categorised legally, morally, and socially, especially as they had been specifically created by the SuperBikers to function not as humans but as pets. So, were they legally humans, or animals?
As the absolute rulers of Boxotropolis, the Supreme SuperBikers have naturally devised all of this independent sovereign city state's laws & legislation, one of the most significant examples of which states that the ability to talk, communicating coherently & rationally via the spoken word, is a prerequisite for categorising a given entity as a human, not as an animal, and for confirming that this entity therefore holds full legal human rights. Needless to say, this law posed a serious problem for the SuperBikers with regard to their newly-created pets, because the latter were each born with a human larynx containing fully-functional vocal cords that enabled them to talk.
Not wishing to be seen to break one of their own laws, as this would set a bad precedent to their ordinary human subjects, the SuperBikers came up with a somewhat devious, drastic means to circumvent it instead - by surgically removing the larynx of every humpet shortly after their birth, thereby rendering them permanently mute. This in turn meant that they could now be legitimately categorised acording to the laws of Boxotropolis as animals, not humans, and thus possess no legal rights that they would have done had they remained vocal and hence officially human. In short, the SuperBikers had refashioned their humpets as dumb animals in every relevant sense of the phrase - physically, metaphorically & legally.
For the very reason that their pets were now animals in the eye of the law, however,, the SuperBikers were themselves subject thereafter to certain legal requirements. In particular, to ensure public safety, all SuperBikers who own one or more humpets must ensure that their pets wear a collar permanently, with a leash attached when being taken for a walk outside by their SuperBiker owners.
And while on the subject of walking: although anatomically-speaking all humpets can stand upright & walk bipedally on their hind legs just like normal humans, their SuperBiker owners train them right from their birth never to do so, because this would serve to emphasise the human component of their genetic composition, and may conceivably lead to criticism by Boxotropolis's contingent of ordinary fully-human bikers. Instead, humpets remain permanently down on all fours, trained by their owners to always stand & walk on their hands and knees. Consequently, humpets very soon accept all of this & lose any desire to be bipedal. Moreover, judging from their smiling, laughing expressions in images included here that depict them walking on all fours alongside their SuperBiker owners walking bipedally, they are clearly perfectly happy with this permanent arrangement.
Another means chosen by their SuperBiker owners to downplay their humpets' human component is to restrict their wearing of clothes. Humdogs are only permitted to wear a pair of black leather jeans, nothing else, as a token gesture to acknowledge these humpets' biker origins. In the case of humcats, conversely, they are allowed to wear full leather biker gear, but this is only because, unlike humdogs, which are extremely hardy, humcats are very susceptible & vulnerable to the abrupt, severe weather fluctuations for which Boxotropolis is renowned, especially sudden torrential downpours of cold rain, which soak to the skin in seconds anyone or anything unfortunate enough to be caught out in one of them
Last but by no means least is that in order to prevent any problems relating to sex or reproduction from arising with their humpets, the SuperBikers have only ever created male specimens - there are never any females at all. So humpets cannot reproduce of their own accord - instead, each & every one is created individually by the SuperBikers via genetic engineering performed in the laboratory. with the resulting humpet embryos then implanted into female host animals where they develop into foetuses that are given birth to by these surrogate mothers once they have reached full term.
So there we have a potted history of the SuperBikers' veritable SuperPets! That is, genetically-engineered interspecific crossbreeds created via the splicing together of donated human DNA with that of domestic cats or dogs. Incidentally, it should be mentioned here that those ordianry bikers selected to be DNA donors by their SuperBiker overlords are thereafter held in great esteem by their biker peers on Boxotropolis, as it has always been deemed an immense honour to be so chosen for this role. As for these ordinary bikers' 'offspring': on the whole, the SuperBikers treat their humpets well, and if they do happen to discover any fellow SuperBiker who is mistreating his humpet they are all automatically invested with full legal authority to confiscate it & hand it in to one of the various Humpet Rescue Centres scattered throughout Boxotropolis, which will duly rehouse it with another SuperBiker, as its new (and, hopefully, kinder) owner.
Notwithstanding this laudable law, I strongly suspect, however, that the creating & owning by SuperBikers of entities as intelligent & human-derived as humpets here on Boxotropolis would very swiftly incite serious controversy & condemnation if attempted in our world, or in many other worlds, for that matter. But it is such a long-established & fully-accepted Boxotropolis tradition (even by the humpets themselves, who, to be fair, wouldn't exist if this tradition didn't) that in view of how exceedingly popular these hand-made semi-human pets are among this realm's SuperBikers, it seems very likely to continue for a long time to come. Certainly, bearing in mind their unwavering, unconditional loyalty & obedience famously shown down through many centuries by permanently-collared humpets to their SuperBiker Masters who own them in perpetuity, these semi-human biker-descended domesticated pets are clearly more than happy & content to live their lives as much-loved, greatly-valued SuperBiker property, so who are we to dispute that?
(Incidentally, my inspiration for this post's highly imaginative fantasy theme came from my recent re-reading of Jonathan Swift's classic 1726 fantasy novel Gulliver's Travels - a seminal work of satire but which, tragically, has long since been downgraded in the public eye to the lowly level of a children's novel! It contains one section in which Gulliver visits the Land of the Houyhnhnms - a race of sophisticated, highly-educated talking horses who rule it with peaceful leadership, even in the face of continued hostility from a race of violent primitive non-speaking humans called Yahoos. Transforming these entities' hostility against their equine rulers into loyalty toward their owners the SuperBikers sparked my own, very different albeit parallel creation of the humpets as described above, and now depicted below in the following gallery of images:)
More of my AI-created biker images next time!
Plus: please click here to access a chronological listing of fully clickable links to all galleries uploaded by me on this blog. NB - all of the images included in this page's gallery were created by me, RebelBikerDude, using the AI image-generation programs Magic Studio & Dream Lab, for non-commercial, entertainment purposes only, so they are not real images and they do not feature any real-life persons or copyrighted characters.
