Helper

Helpers are a race of genetically engineered humanoids created by Monopolith^[1]. Helpers physically resemble humans, but they are shorter, and they have cat ears and tails.

Monopolith brainwashes Helpers from birth and sells them as slaves. In their marketing, Monopolith claims that Helpers like being enslaved and lack human emotions^[2]. However, Monopolith is lying: Helpers have demonstrated the ability to resist their programming ^[3]^[4]^[5] and escape^[6]^[7].

The Resistance seeks to free Helpers^[8].

Helpers reach adulthood in roughly four years, after which they are mentally and physically similar to adult humans^[9]^[10]. They also have a kill switch causing them to die 20 years after reaching adulthood, which is Monopolith's way of implementing planned obsolescence^[11].

When Helpers are sold, they ship in a capsule with a special gas. The gas causes them to view the next human they see upon their box opening as their owner^[12].

Notable Helpers

Pandora: the protagonist of the story, she escapes and is rescued by the resistance, and accidentally imprints on Isabelle. Pandora is a trans girl.
Maple
Adrastea
Andromeda
Cassiopeia
Leo

[1] ttps://pandorastale.com/2021/10/23/chapter-7-page-4/

[2] ttps://pandorastale.com/2020/03/16/chapter-4-page-19/

[3] ttps://pandorastale.com/2019/10/18/chapter-1-page-2/

[4] ttps://pandorastale.com/2020/03/17/chapter-4-page-20/

[5] ttps://pandorastale.com/2021/11/04/chapter-7-page-16/

[6] ttps://pandorastale.com/2019/10/18/chapter-1-page-9/

[7] ttps://pandorastale.com/2019/11/14/chapter-3-page-8/

[8] ttps://pandorastale.com/2020/07/18/chapter-5-page-3/

[9] ttps://pandorastale.com/2019/11/04/chapter-2-page-12/

[10] ttps://pandorastale.com/2021/05/16/chapter-6-page-4/

[11] ttps://pandorastale.com/2021/05/30/chapter-6-page-18/

[12] ttps://pandorastale.com/2019/10/18/chapter-1-page-19/

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