A whole lot of closed tabs later:
George Washington was said to have a fleet-footed Rabbit which he used to send messages. Its human form resembled a Cherokee youth, though Beings were unknown in the New World before the Europeans arrived.
The youngest Being-owner on record (name withheld to protect her privacy) currently lives in the United Kingdom. Upon the death of her grandmother, she inherited a Being in the shape of an iguana.
Ms. Ann Walker, CEO of Walker International, offers compensation for owners of Beings willing to participate in simple experiments.
Hitler wrote that Beings are “not part of Nature” and “a Jewish abomination”. Of Nazi experiments attempting to destroy Beings, only one was successful, and the details are lost.
A marriage license was revoked in Italy in 1913 when one party was found to be a Being. Records do not state which.
Sparrow: You would think someone would write a how-to book. “Owning A Being For Dummies.”
Not that it would have much of an audience, if there really are only about a hundred of them . . .
Ooh, a Discovery Channel documentary! I’ll have to see if I can pirate that later.
George Washington having a Being is pretty cool. I’d think Hitler would try to weaponize them more than destroy them, given his documented interest in the occult. Maybe he was bitten by one when he was a child?
Tell me there’s a Being with a shark mode! He should totally be involved with Shark Week!
No. Think about it: Most of the high-level physicists in Germany at the time were Jewish including Einstein. Hitler not only killed the ones who didn’t escape, but forbid his scientists to use their work. Makes sense that Hitler would treat non-humans sentients just as bad
Hitler was rather put out (to put it incredibly mildly) with science when the Nazi scientists tried to prove racism and managed to do the opposite. Beings, around for so long, would also have the ability to dispute his claims, and also be outside his control for the most part (since they follow their masters’ orders). I’m guessing he probably would judge them too much of a risk. Or maybe, like you said, one offended him personally.
Ann Walker looks familiar ;)
Now that’s interesting…if human weapons really can kill beings, but it took mad Nazi science to find what would work…wonder what the Nazi’s had that was lost to Operation Paperclip.
I would think as a Hellsing fan you would of taken it in the – trying to weaponise way with hitler.
Only a hundred? Wow. Okay, that changes things. I’d gotten the impression that there were many more…
Mayor spoiler for new readers:
The funny thing is that HITLER WAS RIGHT, on this specific point (I never thought I’d ever write those words).
Thanks for the home stuck reference adam
Oh, that last story sounds really sad.