So...A while back I was showing my Psychologist my TMNT RPG books and demonstrated how to create a character through random dice rolls, the character I rolled was a Mutant Sparrow who had 'went public' and got educated at a university since I rolled the character's Stats after rolling species and education, and his 'Charisma' Stat his 'Mental Affinity' turned out to be a his absolute worst or 'Dump Stat' as they call it in RPGs I thought that was funny because I had decided his college education had made him a pretentious twit I tried to make a story with that Mutant Character as described but it went nowhere, so instead I'm going to have the Humanimal Therapist who is Nygma and his daughter be a Sparrow in honor of what was rolled during that session.

As Bumble led Donatello to wear the core generator machines that provided power to Viola Strierra's first line of defenses, Edward Nygma follwed the Saluki-Woman to a private room, even here they had to be quiet because you never know where listening devices might have been secretly implanted by the government in the serch for clues to any Humanimal rebellion.

As Edward stripped down to a pair of shorts he said "By the way, what's your name?"

"Genevieve." The Dog-Woman said shly Edward could sense she was so bashful because this may have been the first time for a long while she had received such kindness from a human.

"Well Genevieve." Edward said "One of the reasons I chose to take you up on your offer was you said you specifically specialize in deep tissue massage, and I realized I could really stand to get a bit...Loose and limber for what I'm about to do next."

He set his heavy bag down on a bench.

"You do look pretty good for your age." Genevieve said "Only a few lines of time here and there..."

Edward smiled "A collegue of mine has a thoery that it was the pristine Alderbaren air has kept us young."

"If you've never had a deep tissue massage before I do warn you they can hurt a little." Genevieve "Particurally in the areas that need the most work."

"You needn't worry about me." Edward chuckled as he lay down on his front on the massage table "I have known pain all my life, if I was terrified of pain I wouldn't have chosen...AHEM...My line of work."

As Genevieve began to massage his back, Edward's mind began to wander as he contemplated that thought...After returning to Earth after many years on the Penal Colony of Alderbaren, he had learned quite a bit of the world outside of Gotham where they banned Humanimal Slaves a hundred years before his time and believed the rest of Humanity were idiots for being so dependant on those 'dangerous creatures' in Gotham the likes of Man-Bat, Emile Dorian's creations and even Killer Croc who was really just a human born with an unfortunate skin condition had done a good job of convincing even the Rogues of Gotham that nothing good can come from blending the human with animal...

As a little bit of pain started as Genevieve worked on some tight areas in his back, Edward thought about how for many of the ordinary Earth humans outside of Gotham who had been depedant of Humanimal slave labor and thus most of them lived a life of not having to do anything, not requiring to have any job, the government provided them everything they needed, so they were free to just lay around in their rooms all day, free to do nothing but gorge themselves to death if they so wished! Because it was slowly becoming clear that the previous government before the Humanimal Civil Right Movement that caused the split between the Federation and the Wrangler Empire leading tho this current civil war, that with all the actual work done by slaves, creatures that were denied right because they weren't human the government made sure that all the functioning brains could be killed at a moment's notice and no one would protest because they were just 'slave-beasts', 'dirt' while the 'True Citizens' were to kept stupid by the brainwashing machines and like small children constantly pacified with entertainment the Humanimals may have been beasts of burden but at least their bodies and minds got exercise the humans were more like little lapdogs overfed by their keepers or perhaps, more like factory farmed swine to be kept as immoble as possible so they would fat and tender for...For something, it really did seem like the tale of the Heifer and the Ox, the Heifer mocked the Ox for having to toil while she lived a pampered life of luxery the Ox merely replied "Let's wait and see" and the Heifer was primped and polished, to be taken to the market for slaughter...Since having been 'Woken Up' upon the abolishing of slavery on Earth, that is having the old brainwashing removed, it was quickly being revealed you can't mess with a human's brain chemistry for years and expect them to go back to normal, a lot of the former Wrangler Citizens even if they were adults seemed to speak in a childlike quality and a lot of them...Sought out painful experiences, from a child burning their own hand on a candleflame to far worse things, over and over again the reply was they sought out pain because it was the only thing that made them truly feel 'awake and alive' after years the brainwashing machines keeping them in a near constant stupor 'Numb' was the constant refrain 'All the time I feel numb'

Nygma realized that on Mizzer where the Humanimals were free the Humanimals' last names were all things that related to their species 'Marzipan CHESIRE' after the Cheshire Cat, Rook Reynardo Reynard being another name for Fox but it was becoming clear when it was revealed the First Humanimals of Mizzer were in charge of naming themselves and as much as they wanted to be humans they felt because they weren't human they had to name themselves in ways that reconized what they truly were. Humanimals who were slaves had last names that often related to the profession they had been trained to do, though at some point there were so many Humanimals they just gave any human last name, this seemed to be a reflection of a really dark time three thousand years ago when they were giving humans numbers instead of proper names except in a few Traditionalist places so any name that wasn't a number was seen as an 'Animal Name'

Which explained the Humanimal that had been assigned their family therapist a Sparrow-Man named Gordon Horowittz, they had been waiting until Pandora had gotten a little bit better and was willing to eat some more before introducing him as for the family therapy sessions because they knew Pandora had been more than a little afraid of Humanimals when she first arrived having never encountered them in the Penal Colony of Planet Alderbaren and unlike Ichabod whose chance encounter with the Fellowship crew led to his rescue and thus he got to know Humanimals better Pandora stayed with her family and her thoughts on Humanimals did not change.

Only after months and months of slow work with human doctors and having some time away from her Father giving her a chance to cool down from her previous anger at him was the time right to introduce them to the 'specialist' by that time Pandora no longer felt extreme horror at Humanimals and instead found the four foot Bird-Man cute and charming and Edward was not expecting a deep human voice to come out of the small bird-beak.

Genevieve had been looking at his thoughts because she thought he was going to tell her more about the plan, but instead he began thinking about his messed up family life and the Dog-Woman thought to herself 'The poor man...'

The massage seemed to have had a soperific effect on Edward, Genevieve placed a blanket over him and said "Rest as long as you need to..."

"Sleep..." Edward murmured "...I'll never take it for granted again..."

Meanwhile in a different privite room, the opposite was happening a human was massaging a Humanimal!

The masseuse was actually a native of Mizzer, of course like all Mizzer Humans he loved the Humanimals (Perhaps sometimes to an unhealthy extent) so when everyone on Mizzer was abducted the plan was to Brainwash the Mizzer Humans into proper Wranglers, the Mizzer Humans knew they had to act quick so the plan was 'To roll with the punch' try to cut any brainwashing short by quickly declaring their hatred of Humanimals and their dedication to the Empire's cause as quickly as possible and hope to High Heaven to Wrangler's don't know the classic Shakespere line "The lady doth protest too much, methinks"

So quite a few Mizzer Humans became part of the Humanimal's underground quite a few Mizzer Humans managed to some cushy postions thanks to their supreme acting so they could manage their new double life and thus were able to give care and comforts to the Humanimals on the sly.

At the moment this masseuse was massaging a teenage cat-boy and while the Cat-Boy was polite in his words the human did not have Genevieve's mind reading abilities so he had no way of knowing this Humanimal secretly despised him, the Cat-Boy had come to believe smart humans are evil, good humans like the humans of Mizzer were stupid otherwise they would have been able to protect them from the invasion and as far as he was concerned the world would be a better place if humans were slaves to the Humanimals!

'Humans...' That Cat-Boy thought to himself as the human's skilled fingers worked on his back '...Humans should do nothing but massage Humanimals!'

"OK Kevin." The masseuse said cheeily "You need anything else for today?"

So finally introduce sort of the true villain of the story at the very end, and also kind of deep diving into the real horror of the Humanimal story the Humanimals may be slaves but at least they can think for themselves the humans may be free on paper but actually they are suffering far worse than the Humanimals, the Humanimals who are free will eventually recover and find their 'Happily Ever Afters' the humans will take several generations to recover to the psychological damage that was done to them