It felt like everything up to that point in time was some kind joke of normality being played, it was almost cruel. One moment everyone was made and designed the same way and the next, the world is told they're divided up into lineage produced from animals, better yet individuals had begun exhibiting traits from said lineages.
The government said something in the atmosphere had changed which triggered the change in biology, no mention of specifics just instructions to head to the nearest government assignment center to receive a lineage identification card. It was thought that if people knew what animal descendant they came from and how to address the change in their biology, it would better help to "normalize" the matter and get people back to their daily lives.
Yamaguchi had long zoned out of the conversation ahead of him, his family had waited in line for hours after taking several physicals and blood tests. He was standing slightly behind his mother as an assigned official talked as if he was reading a script.
"With the sudden change in atmosphere, we've discovered our idea of evolution took a different path than we realized. With this discovery came the knowledge that our lineages are more vast than we could have realized and the effects the atmosphere is having is making it more obvious that our evolution has taken a few steps back and we're showing signs of our animalistic lineage." the official spoke as he organized some paperwork into a rather large packet for the family.
As he finished putting the packet together, Yamaguchi's mother set her child's lineage card down and pushed it forward.
The televised reports explained of a number of rare lineages, four of them to be exact. Each vastly different from the other and all defied logic. The technical term had long been lost among civilians and they were quickly addressed by mythological names.
Phoenix, Pegasi, Dragon, and Merfolk.
It would have been no surprise for celebrities or special people to fall within the rare lineages, but Yamaguchi Tadashi? There was no way the lineage card his mother presented to the official could be true, he was supposed to be plain and common but the card clearly stated Aquatic Lineage.
"How did this happen, neither I nor his father have the merfolk lineage?" a motherly voice questioned, she was just as confused as Yamaguchi.
"The four rares come up as a recessive lineage, so unlike the more common ones, those lineages don't need to come directly from the parents. It can carry on from the genes of your parents or even further back." the exhausted official responded as if he was reading from a script.
"You'll receive more information on proper aquatic lineage care from Tadashi's primary doctor. Please go home and wait for the mail forms before taking him for his first check up. Thank you." he rushed them away from his desk, a rather extreme line behind the Yamaguchi family waited for their results.
Yamaguchi's mother had nothing left to say as they were rushed away from the desk, even if they had more questions and concerns, there were so many other families that were just as confused waiting in line.
The card was handed back to Yamaguchi as he followed, he glanced back at the official before leaving the large, crowded room and into the waiting room of the building. His hand grips the laminated card, condensation from the sweat on his palms streaked over the surface of it.
The world had changed and no one was prepared for what was to come.
- A/N -
So, this AU is very loosely based on the Sex Pistols, really the only thing similar is the base animal lineage idea. I thought the idea of the Haikyuu characters with animal lineages was too good to pass up and wanted to give this fic idea a go.
This prologue is short, because I didn't want to draw out the simplistic explanation of the world too much because more will be uncovered as the story goes on. I'll be trying to post a new chapter every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Thank you so much for reading!