@daylight they exist in the magical present-adjacent world of zandravandra stories and other magical realism settings

tbh they were traditionally a mental help up, a stand-in for me in the real world. for when I didn't want to exist like I did.

I've always kinda had a therapeutic fursona and not serious worldbuilding but the magical part was a thing I came by to deal with transness and it's great??? corporeal modifications being easier and more acceptable, etc