Pequeno Burraidh
Beag Combatiente
Set post world war four, where there was enough violence to thoroughly shock the world into a sombre and lifeless state, Living Colours focuses on a small group of people known as the Uppers. But to fully understand the Uppers, you would first have to understand how the world works for everyone else. Or the Downers.
After the massive loss of life and needless destruction, it seemed to have collectively break the mind of the world into something… less than human. It started with only a few at first, the weak-willed, naive and soft-hearted that couldn’t handle it. Regardless of the tone of their skin, colour began to drain from them, replacing their skin, hair eyes and even insides with shades of grey. Their minds became sullen and defeated, only able to express negative emotions and feelings, if they were to even feel at all.
Then it spread.
Much akin to your average virus, it spread via contact. A mere touch could affect another and in the beginning it seemed impossible to stop. The affected part of the victims body would become grey, slowly spreading up the limb as the victim’s mind slowly cared less and less until they were an apathetic husk of their former selves.
But their were a few, a scant few, that had experienced terrible loss themselves, but already learned how to cope with the pain, with the negativity. They became known as Uppers. Able to resist, to an extent, the affects of the Downers, the Uppers first fled, trying to stay together as best as they could. It became quickly apparent that any Upper left alone, without friends and surrounded by Downers, would too slowly become a Downer. But after years of the Downers having taken over the Uppers learned something amazing.
They could revert the process.
With this new knowledge as their ‘weapon’, a select number of Uppers are turning about to lead a campaign to raise the Downers from their bleak existence and save them from themselves.
The Downers:
Dull and dreary humans, they either feel nothing, or feel that nothing can ever go right. If that wasn’t worrisome enough, they only see Uppers as phantom like shadow creatures, and hunt them, believing that they are lost and uncivilised souls that must be brought to safety. Their touch can ‘infect’ any single Upper, the more touches they place, the faster the process accelerates.
Of course, there is also the fact the the Downer Government treats the Uppers like animals, ‘save’ if possible, exterminate otherwise.
Amongst the ranks of the Downers are Alpha-Downers, or people who fully understand what is going on, but are so far gone they don’t care. They often run the Government or command the troops and can actively resist the process of becoming an Upper.
The Uppers:
Small in number, globally, the Uppers are generally happy people who enjoy their music , art or other pastimes now lost to the Downers, who either work, sleep or stare vacantly at walls. Believed to be a by product of their natural resistance to the effects of a Downer, the Uppers are gifted with increased physique, endurance and agility, allowing them to run, jump, climb and fall greater distances than the average human. The best guess is that it is a natural counter-reaction to allow the outnumbered Uppers to evade the Downers.
Left alone for too long, an Upper will slowly become a Downer themselves.
If an Upper becomes ‘infect’ by a Downer, the mere presence or touch of a friend(another Upper) will halt the process. Even more recently was the discovery that two Uppers can counter a Downer’s affects, reversing the process and allowing them to become an Upper themselves, in a process similar, but counter to that of the Downer process. The Downer slowly regains their colour, their ability to see colour, and they awaken to realise what has happened. They can then choose to become part of the recovery teams, or part of the base caretakers.
Similar to the Downers, the Uppers also have an Alpha caste as it were. Very rare in number, there are only two or three anyone has heard of. Unlike the other Uppers, they could spend years alone and would still be able to resist naturally becoming a Downer. Unlike the Downer Alpha’s, they can still be made into a Downer via touch, though the process takes a week and a half as opposed to the usually five days most Uppers suffer.
Alpha-Caste:
The Alpha caste Upper and Downers are very similar to the original people before everything started. They have the capacity to feel all they want, but it comes down to choice and force of will. And Alpha-downer actively chooses to be miserable, feeling that being happy is a waste of time, and that if they can’t enjoy life, no one else can experience enjoyment either. On the opposite are Alpha-Uppers.
They can experience pain sorrow and anger just like a Downer, but actively avoid feeling that way and make a point to stay happy.
There is no known case of being able to save an A-D, but it is possible, though not through isolation, but through touch, for an A-U to become a Downer, and A-U’s can become Down for short periods of time if they encounter something that reminds them too much of a specific tragic event.
RULES
The general site rules obviously.
In the ends what I say goes, keep that in mind if you choose to be silly about summat.
I don't mind cussing, but no racism or sexism(Especially since Downers don’t give enough shits to care about Race[You’re a lighter grey than me, loser] yeah, that wouldn’t happen. Also because racism and sexism are mean and the Uppers are too bonded to be dicks to each other on a serious scale.)
The enhancements for the characters are not superpowers. It’s enough that stress fractures and muscle fatigue from running, climbing jumping and such are a less likely, but can still happen from a nasty fall or collision.
Any disputes should be brought to me, I’ll mediate and we’ll sort it out.
Romance is allowed, and even encouraged, but only all involved writers are chill with it and it fades to black if things get steamy.(Yes, all involved writers for that match. That means that if there is a couple, both writers agree, if you want a trio or quartet, then those three our four writers all have to agree. Keep in mind this is a different Earth with different rules and such, so polygamy is okay as long as no one is stupid with it.)
After the massive loss of life and needless destruction, it seemed to have collectively break the mind of the world into something… less than human. It started with only a few at first, the weak-willed, naive and soft-hearted that couldn’t handle it. Regardless of the tone of their skin, colour began to drain from them, replacing their skin, hair eyes and even insides with shades of grey. Their minds became sullen and defeated, only able to express negative emotions and feelings, if they were to even feel at all.
Then it spread.
Much akin to your average virus, it spread via contact. A mere touch could affect another and in the beginning it seemed impossible to stop. The affected part of the victims body would become grey, slowly spreading up the limb as the victim’s mind slowly cared less and less until they were an apathetic husk of their former selves.
But their were a few, a scant few, that had experienced terrible loss themselves, but already learned how to cope with the pain, with the negativity. They became known as Uppers. Able to resist, to an extent, the affects of the Downers, the Uppers first fled, trying to stay together as best as they could. It became quickly apparent that any Upper left alone, without friends and surrounded by Downers, would too slowly become a Downer. But after years of the Downers having taken over the Uppers learned something amazing.
They could revert the process.
With this new knowledge as their ‘weapon’, a select number of Uppers are turning about to lead a campaign to raise the Downers from their bleak existence and save them from themselves.
The Downers:
Dull and dreary humans, they either feel nothing, or feel that nothing can ever go right. If that wasn’t worrisome enough, they only see Uppers as phantom like shadow creatures, and hunt them, believing that they are lost and uncivilised souls that must be brought to safety. Their touch can ‘infect’ any single Upper, the more touches they place, the faster the process accelerates.
Of course, there is also the fact the the Downer Government treats the Uppers like animals, ‘save’ if possible, exterminate otherwise.
Amongst the ranks of the Downers are Alpha-Downers, or people who fully understand what is going on, but are so far gone they don’t care. They often run the Government or command the troops and can actively resist the process of becoming an Upper.
The Uppers:
Small in number, globally, the Uppers are generally happy people who enjoy their music , art or other pastimes now lost to the Downers, who either work, sleep or stare vacantly at walls. Believed to be a by product of their natural resistance to the effects of a Downer, the Uppers are gifted with increased physique, endurance and agility, allowing them to run, jump, climb and fall greater distances than the average human. The best guess is that it is a natural counter-reaction to allow the outnumbered Uppers to evade the Downers.
Left alone for too long, an Upper will slowly become a Downer themselves.
If an Upper becomes ‘infect’ by a Downer, the mere presence or touch of a friend(another Upper) will halt the process. Even more recently was the discovery that two Uppers can counter a Downer’s affects, reversing the process and allowing them to become an Upper themselves, in a process similar, but counter to that of the Downer process. The Downer slowly regains their colour, their ability to see colour, and they awaken to realise what has happened. They can then choose to become part of the recovery teams, or part of the base caretakers.
Similar to the Downers, the Uppers also have an Alpha caste as it were. Very rare in number, there are only two or three anyone has heard of. Unlike the other Uppers, they could spend years alone and would still be able to resist naturally becoming a Downer. Unlike the Downer Alpha’s, they can still be made into a Downer via touch, though the process takes a week and a half as opposed to the usually five days most Uppers suffer.
Alpha-Caste:
The Alpha caste Upper and Downers are very similar to the original people before everything started. They have the capacity to feel all they want, but it comes down to choice and force of will. And Alpha-downer actively chooses to be miserable, feeling that being happy is a waste of time, and that if they can’t enjoy life, no one else can experience enjoyment either. On the opposite are Alpha-Uppers.
They can experience pain sorrow and anger just like a Downer, but actively avoid feeling that way and make a point to stay happy.
There is no known case of being able to save an A-D, but it is possible, though not through isolation, but through touch, for an A-U to become a Downer, and A-U’s can become Down for short periods of time if they encounter something that reminds them too much of a specific tragic event.
RULES
The general site rules obviously.
In the ends what I say goes, keep that in mind if you choose to be silly about summat.
I don't mind cussing, but no racism or sexism(Especially since Downers don’t give enough shits to care about Race[You’re a lighter grey than me, loser] yeah, that wouldn’t happen. Also because racism and sexism are mean and the Uppers are too bonded to be dicks to each other on a serious scale.)
The enhancements for the characters are not superpowers. It’s enough that stress fractures and muscle fatigue from running, climbing jumping and such are a less likely, but can still happen from a nasty fall or collision.
Any disputes should be brought to me, I’ll mediate and we’ll sort it out.
Romance is allowed, and even encouraged, but only all involved writers are chill with it and it fades to black if things get steamy.(Yes, all involved writers for that match. That means that if there is a couple, both writers agree, if you want a trio or quartet, then those three our four writers all have to agree. Keep in mind this is a different Earth with different rules and such, so polygamy is okay as long as no one is stupid with it.)
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