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Centaur thing AU/Wild AU canons and facts

Here are a few facts as to make the CT and Wild AU more complete. It adds on more details than the original presentation and was written after it.
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 - Being part of two different animal species, their diet is a mix of both of these animals'. They are part omnivorous like humans/CH and so can eat meat, vegetables, starches... and they are part herbivorous, being able to eat other kind of plants like grass, leaves, lichen, wheat, branches and algae (for Moose Canada at least, I don't know if the other species eat that).

That's the theory, in practice, in the basic CT AU, their diet didn't really change, they still eat the same dishes as before the transformation. They simply avoid meat from close species to their new animal half or the species itself directly, not wanting to ask themselves whether or not it's cannibalism or just because they have more empathy toward this species, now that they can directly understand them. So the deer centaurs don't eat venison, for example.

They also eat the new food being included in their diet as treats, or because they got a bit hungry outside of their home and don't want to pay for a chocolate bar. After all, why should you buy food when you can just grab a handful of grass ?

In the Wild AU, it's a bit different. Since they have less resources (they live in the wild, obviously), they have a completely different relationship with the kind of food they consume.

Unlike humans, they take advantage of their larger herbivorous part. They don't practice animal farming and so consume up to no meat, only in extremely rare cases, even if some of them managed to put their hands on milk, yet never admitting where they got it from. It happens for them to consume some eggs as well but it's also not a result from farming, they may just find some eggs and collect them like these scavenger birds eating other birds' eggs. So it's also rarer for them to eat egg-based food.

They also don't hunt, they see it as a waste of time, taking way too much resources and efforts (and the possible idea of cannibalism according to animals generally hunted, like deer and bovids).

Therefore, they concentrate on farming crops and stick to mainly vegetal diets, also cooking their food to make it more interesting taste-wise.

Some do also consume fish but it's a rarer delicacy and is mostly eaten by those who live closer to the sea. It's rare mainly because they also didn't develop farming nor fishing (their fishing technics are deeply under-developed, it's only a pass-time activity). The fish can be passed around thanks to trading afterward.

Even if most vegetal food being consumed are human-known vegetables, they also do occasionally taste the other types of plants, either as a travelling food or, again, as a simple treat.

- In the Wild AU, the usual hierarchy found in the CH species (depending on the owning of land and sub-territories) doesn't exist.

However, within the small groups that had been constructed, there is another kind of "hierarchy". It's not based on domination, unlike what humans are used to do. It is made pretty naturally, when members of a group basically decided to consider one of them as their leader or take a role according to what they like and/or can do and stick to that role.

It's like a group of students having to do a presentation and agreeing on what each person has to do, without one putting a knife under the others' throats. Except it's about physical labor in fields or trips to trade.

This kind of "hierarchy" also has nothing to do with age, you don't need to be the oldest of the group to be qualified as the leader, you need to be accepted by the others as such, and be accepted by yourself too.

It also has nothing to do with gender, so fuck off sexism, you have nothing to do here.

- As to make trading more interesting, the products made by different characters and groups differ from one and other. It can go from food (like the fact only a few can provide fish) or material products (like how Switzerland is the only one with the required knowledge to make glasses, notably for Germany, Monaco and Meuse).