Oct 28, 2013 5:43:12 GMT -5 |
Post by Sapphire on Oct 28, 2013 5:43:12 GMT -5
Welcome to the Rest of Your Life---
. . .so you're a mutant.
Over the decades, the Department of Mutational Awareness had gotten better at isolating mutations that occur within the human race. As a result of this, people who develop these gifts are usually rounded up when their powers first start to appear. There are a scant few that manage to slide under the radar, but for the most part, they don't. Parents, teachers, classmates and relatives are all encouraged to report any strange sightings or occurrences that they see in those they know.
What can an identified mutant expect once they've been found?
Once it is discovered that you're a mutant, you will be taken from your parents or home and sent to the Weeds of Tomorrow, a Boarding School specially designed for schooling and training mutants located in Archadia, Russia. Given how wide and varied mutations occur, it seems only wise to make sure the students are in the right state of mind to control their gifts if all possible. Until the age of eleven or twelve, the child will live a perfectly normal life. However, once it becomes time to begin your schooling everything changes. The first three years are devoted to finding out what your mutant specializes in. Year one will be academics, year two will be household chores and activities, and year three is communication and vocalization skills. After that, depending on what they excelled in, in their first two years, the mutant will continue their schooling and training in the subjects they excelled in. (I.e; If your mutant specialized in History, they would continue their studies in that area.) They will also be learning how to control their ability if at all possible.
By the age of eighteen the mutants are openly evaluated in the Boarding School and are then shipped to the Underground. The Underground is an underground facility where the graduated mutants are housed, fed, and forced to compete in fights amongst each other. Every two weeks an auction will be held so they can be contracted out. Mutants are pets, you see. The Department of Mutational Awareness starts to contract them out. Contracts vary in everything from government jobs for those that would be considered useful there, social tasks such as tutoring for those with specializations, and in some cases the personal companion or pet to the rich and famous, to be pampered and shown off at society functions like a well-trained dog.
Contracts exist in three forms - the short-term form that is renewed every month. The long-term form that is renewed every year, and a permanent contract that is purchased at one flat cost.
Sometimes those who order them out permanently sell them underground to low-income families. The contracted mutants have been trained to obey orders and commands without little question (some are more rebellious than others), creating an almost perfect slave. Most mutants are comfortable with this arrangement. The activist groups that try to free mutants or stand up for their rights often find little support from those they're trying to help. Their life is far more comfortable than they could expect otherwise, after all.
Even the weakest of mutants can expect to be taken care of and supported their entire life by the government, and their training is such that they honestly have little to no idea on how to act in any other setting.
It certainly hasn't stopped public opinion from turning away from such a blatant show of slavery, however.
The basics of the plot is credited to dorkster of CAUTION 2.0; while we at Imitation of Freedom did a bit of tweaking, the main idea still belongs to them.
By the age of eighteen the mutants are openly evaluated in the Boarding School and are then shipped to the Underground. The Underground is an underground facility where the graduated mutants are housed, fed, and forced to compete in fights amongst each other. Every two weeks an auction will be held so they can be contracted out. Mutants are pets, you see. The Department of Mutational Awareness starts to contract them out. Contracts vary in everything from government jobs for those that would be considered useful there, social tasks such as tutoring for those with specializations, and in some cases the personal companion or pet to the rich and famous, to be pampered and shown off at society functions like a well-trained dog.
Contracts exist in three forms - the short-term form that is renewed every month. The long-term form that is renewed every year, and a permanent contract that is purchased at one flat cost.
Sometimes those who order them out permanently sell them underground to low-income families. The contracted mutants have been trained to obey orders and commands without little question (some are more rebellious than others), creating an almost perfect slave. Most mutants are comfortable with this arrangement. The activist groups that try to free mutants or stand up for their rights often find little support from those they're trying to help. Their life is far more comfortable than they could expect otherwise, after all.
Even the weakest of mutants can expect to be taken care of and supported their entire life by the government, and their training is such that they honestly have little to no idea on how to act in any other setting.
It certainly hasn't stopped public opinion from turning away from such a blatant show of slavery, however.
The basics of the plot is credited to dorkster of CAUTION 2.0; while we at Imitation of Freedom did a bit of tweaking, the main idea still belongs to them.