See I also don't personally mind the smell of shrimp either and I think a furry fella with a bit of fish breath is actually PRETTY cute but I imagine it's not for everyone! x3
SPOILERS AS WELL
Sawyer, to me, is like the snake in the grass of a lot of progressive movements. They unfortunately attract a very specific type of narcissist who, at their core, has malignant intentions and uses liberal ideologies as, like, the "storefront" for their violence. Like in his mind, nothing he does is wrong because it's done against the "bad guys". If you suffer for his cause, if you die for it, it's for "good reason". But really, unlike the people around him who want GOOD to come from their actions, he just wants to inflict harm. His good actions like taking in Emmett or trying to groom Crom are ultimately self-serving because they get to inflict harm FOR him while he gets to reap the rewards. So you have this organization of people who want so badly to enact positive change and they can't succeed because their leader treats them more like a cult than a movement and hinders them every chance he gets.
I imagine that it does take place 20-25yrs in the future. Hermes is probably in his late 20s and Elisha is probably early 30s at this point.
That said, there is a bit of a grey area on WHERE it is exactly. Connecting the two canons was kind of a funny choice because it doesn't EXACTLY work out. LC takes place in the modern day south, whereas I had originally imagined Scavenger taking place hundreds of years in the future. Now, I guess, it technically takes place in like 2050. But I had imagined that, in anthro society, as time went on the rural areas got more rural and the urban areas got more urban. Anthros become progressively more divided over their conflicting social desires, where the urban types want to expand territory and the rural ones want to maintain their ideal environment. So what ends up happening is the cities get bigger and denser until they're, like, old Kowloon Walled City type superstructures and the rural areas become something like you'd see in 1700-1800 southern US. The rural areas still have tech, but they return to more communal style "village" agrarian living whereas the cities grow denser.
I doubt that really actually all happens in 20 years, obviously, but I guess I've boxed myself into it LMAO.
Either way, thank you so much for playing and commenting on it! I'm glad you enjoyed it so much <3