"This book will change your brain chemistry."
"Please note: the world to which you are about to embark does not adhere to earthly sensibilities, morals, or principles. The Kivic animals therein are potent, hazardous, and carnal beings. With this in mind, tread carefully upon this odyssey."
- Prologue; Part 3 - The Underbirth
The August Few is a series of books written by Sam Fennah and illustrated by Carmen Jones. Described as a sci-fi political drama by its author, it is a complete Continuity Reboot of Satellite City and tells the story of the world of the Kivouack, and the Kivouachians (shortened to "kivvas") who aim to shape its cultural, economic, social, and political landscape. The first book, Amygdala, was released on February 21st, 2023 in e-book form, and released physically two days later.
The series' titles are as follows:
- Book 1: Amygdala (Released February 21, 2023)
- Book 2: Wonderlust (Release date TBD)
- Book 3: The Glittering Gaps (working title, release date TBD)
- Book 4: A Blood Red Void (working title, release date TBD)
- Book 5: The Satellite City (working title, release date TBD)
- Book 6: The Lady and the Traveler (working title, release date TBD)
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To spot a lie, learn to spot the tropes:
- Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: There are three clothing styles modeled after the Descendants; Lockettian, Sombrarian, and Winiwardian. While Lockettian style uses fine silk and Sombrarian style uses leather, Winiwardian style can range from a simple accessory or completely bare.
- Aerith and Bob: Names can range from average human names such as "Lucy" or "Sally" to more rare examples such as "Ludwig" or "Quinn", and even more out there names such as "Wexle", "Wyley", or "Locket".
- The Ageless: Described in the book as being "untouched by time," Kivva bodies do not rot or deteriorate, even when killed. Some Kivvas such as Felix or Sombra are portrayed as being old men.
- Alternate History: In canon, the Big Bang was the destruction of the Kivouack and our known universe is what's left of it.
- Amazing Technicolor Population: Kivvas can come in all shapes and sizes, and all sorts of colors and shades. The only common traits between them are three navels and cross-shaped pupils.
- Animalistic Abomination: As said above, the only consistancy between Kivvas is their cross-shaped pupils and three navels, but their amount of limbs and extremities is greatly varied.
- Bizarre Alien Biology: A Kivva's biology is far different from a human's or even the animals they resemble. Explained in detail here
(slides 9-13). To summarize…- Kivvas don't always look alike, even if they’re siblings, but have five things in common: cross-shaped pupils, three navels, three hearts, long tongues, and claws somewhere on their bodies.
- Kivvas don't die of old age nor do their bodies decompose after death. Decapitation doesn’t kill a Kivva either. Instead, they go into "rottulation" (basically unconsciousness) until the head is reattached. The only known ways to kill a Kivva is to destroy the head, use their headless body as a vessel for Fowlers, or with fire.
- All Kivvas have a reproductive organ called a gower, which produces a reproductive fluid called vilt. This allows them to breed with any other Kivva regardless of either party's biological sex.
- Kivvas don’t have a set age for when they hit puberty (called "keurticulation"); it could happen at anytime from a few years to many decades. It could also occur due to great emotional distress which happens with Lucy.
- Bizarre Alien Reproduction: And how. Kivvas will basically utilize a contorted, headless body as a vessel for their DNA, from which a mass amount of Fowlers will spawn from. Said Fowlers will try to kill their siblings to survive, and it's often incredibly rare to see Kivouachians born from the same vessel, outside of the Descendants.
- Characterization Marches On: The Kivouchaians as a whole have been better fleshed out and developed since Satellite City, where it seemed more like a proof of concept for what they could be. Most characters like Lucy and Winifred have been given better fleshed out personalities that give us a better understanding of who they are.
- Doomed by Canon: Since the Kivouack is meant to be what modern humans know as the singularity that rapidly expanded and became the universe, the Kivouack's destruction is inevitable. Whether or not any of the Kivvas will survive and take refuge on Earth like in Satellite City is unknown.
- Extra Eyes: Mystique has three, Kivvas like Yeshua, Goldune, and Harlow have four, Fleischer has six, and Locket and Hayden have more than ten. Inverted with Nathaniel, who has a singular eye, and Fiona, whose eyes are not on her face, but rather her hands.
- Grey-and-Gray Morality: Locket's law does not abide by morals, and the key debate during Amygdala is between Locket's adherence to her nature and Methusa's desire for compassion.
- Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: As stated above, Winiwardian style is mostly seen as this, or just completely bare-naked.
- Healing Factor: Kivouackian limbs and heads can be severed and reattached, though they are not completely invincible, and cannot regrow lost limbs.
- Homosexual Reproduction: All Kivvas, regardless of biological sex, can reproduce with one another thanks to a universal reproductive organ called a gower.
- Losing Your Head: Decapitation merely renders a body dormant, and is equivalent to being knocked unconscious. Kivvas cannot be killed via decapitation, and even if the head is destroyed, the body left behind could still twitch and respond to stimuli.
- Meaningful Rename: It's said that Kivvas choose their own names, though some may choose to adopt a "trade name", often out of respect or for some other reason.
- Mix-and-Match Critters: Some Kivvas may look like a certain animal on the surface, but there are some that look like crosses between multiple. For example; Fleischer looks similar in appearance to a blue dragon, while Quinn is mammalian with additional features similar to moths and axolotls.
- More Teeth than the Osmond Family: Most Kivvas have loads of teeth, even on ones that look like species that shouldn't have teeth, such as Thallius.
- Monstrous Cannibalism: Young Fowlers are often captured and served as food in Chopshops, but sometimes even matured Kivvas can be made someone's meal. Just ask Wyley. Justified since the limited forms of life in the Kivouack means the Kivvas don’t have much to eat except some plants and each other.
- Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Kivvas are not limited to having just two arms or legs, some like Quinn or Yeshua have four, and then there's Polly with a staggering twenty-four arms.
- Nipple and Dimed: Averted; artistic nudity is on full display in the book's illustrations.
- Nobody Poops: Kivvas don't produce waste.
- Non-Mammal Mammaries: Zig-zagged, as not all mammalian female Kivvas have breasts, and not all female Kivvas with breasts are mammals.
- Ringworld Planet: The Underbirth is a megastructure the size of Saturn with three parts. The outer spherical of the Kasino and the inner sphere of the Thumme, which is the size of Mars, with five rings orbiting the Thumme known as the Hammerlow. Gravity is basically subjective in all three sections.
- Vertebrate with Extra Limbs: Kivvas can have more than the usual amount of arms, legs, and in some cases like Locket, breasts.
