Danger Days RP Head/Canons

ok so these are all produced by the company (unless there are killjoys that can print glossy magazines whch i dont think there are, and why would they produce ones with korse on them) so BLI makes recreational magazines which feeds into my tabloid thing

obv we’ve got shiny magaizine which is….. just porn, and then murder magazine which is… just murder porn, but i always forget about the lil exterminator magazine???????? AND I THINK ITS SO CUTE!!!! like lookit korse getting a cover feature aww….so proud of my bby…. ANYWAY i think that’s really interesting, that they have an entire ~exterminator~ magazine like… hell yes, making the public feel like theyre all included in the military operations and they feel secure and safe looking at all the BIG GUNS AND STUFF

and then 

here’s ghoul reading the battery city times???/ i think is what it’s called?? i remember there was a pic (not from the videos) of like the real prop, but i think its saved on my old computer. but you can read the headline saying ‘what’s his next “korse” of action?’ (adorable) with presumably a lil interview with korse or a story or something. but thats 2 different media forms with korse on the front page and that just SCREAMS celebritizing(is that a word???? probably not) and obsessing over certain people and taking their opinion on everything

crACKS KNUCKLES OKAY

BLI would’ve banned religion considering the idea of anybody having faith and depending on anything other than itself would be repulsive as an idea and quite frankly there’d be so much conflict anyway that there’s no way the religious wouldn’t have been stamped out so

what i’m trying to say is

Cannibalism, or the practise of eating human flesh, is genuinely quite an interesting topic. When mentioned, most people’s minds will flit to hunter-gatherer tribes in rainforest with large pots and bones through their noses; however that’s really a bit racist since cannibalism has been known to happen in all sorts of places - look here for a list of the “top 10 cases of cannibalism” on listverse (not for the lighthearted, and in this case all in places and situations where cannibalism is a taboo) - and has different meanings all over the globe.

Let’s start with the literal meaning:

The word  cannibal was coined sometime in the 16th Century, from the Spanish term Canibales, which itself was a variant of Caribales, which the Spanish used to call the Kalianago, a West Indian tribe who were said to eat human flesh.

There are two types of cannibalism: exocannibalism and endocannibalism, which respectively stand for eating people from another group/tribe or eating members of your own group or society.

These two types can then be divided into more sub-categories, which can all fit into either endo- or exocannibalism, depending on the situation. It’s really quite simple:

Cultural Cannibalism is the stereotypically known type of cannibalism. Cultural cannibalism can be either endocannibalistic (as a sign of respect to a deceased family member) or exocannibalistic (as a sign of contempt towards one’s enemies). The Yanomamö of Brazil and Venezuela have been known to consume the ground up bones and ashes of loved ones in an act of mourning - it’s not seen as an act of barbarism, but to show affection to their friends and family members. The Aztecs of Mexico on the other hand believed in sacrificing their enemies to their Gods (and consequently eating them) as a way to communicate with and show reverence to higher powers.

Survival Cannibalism is practised only if needs must be, such as the Donner Party or the Andes flight disaster in 1972. The idea of survival cannibalism makes plenty of people feel uncomfortable - could you eat your dead flight attendant if you were starving? - because whilst we like to think of ourselves as too civilised and honourable to do such things, we don’t know how far we’d go if we were really desperate, and that’s a bit alarming to the majority of the “Western” population. Again, applicable both in endo- and exo- version (which is what really makes people shudder).

Pleasure Cannibalism is the last on the list, and it’s pretty self-explanatory - some people eat people because they like eating people, because they’re under the influence of drugs, or because of far more disturbing reasons. Think Hannibal Lecter - there are some truly gruesome stories out there, and if you’re not squeamish here’s a couple of them.

tbh mental illnesses would be at an all-time high within battery city and half the reason why that is is because culturally they’d literally construct a system that would manufacturer disorders into people at a higher rate

they don’t have the technology to cure mental illnesses and that’s never been the point anyway, it’s to hook people in and keep them just stable enough to function and produce and consume but enough to keep them dependent on the market

the environment of the city would factor in more and more stresses during development to cause genuine mental illnesses to manifest. the expectations of society will force symptoms into people or aggravate what’s already there. people are way more likely to snap dealing with what’s pushed onto them every day. 

California, 2019. In the final days of The Helium Wars, and shortly after the disappearance of Australia, Better Living Industries unveils Battery City: a shining utopia free of decisions and emotion, and capital of the entire remnants of America. A triumph threatened only by a young orphan girl with a terrible secret. Running from the Corporation, she befriends four freelance anarchists, children born of violence and rock and roll.

indulge me for a second

look at that thumbnail… let’s just say that that… is the actual pattern of radioactive fallout across the continent.

look at the way it’s spread… california is the least affected 

which means: