GDA - Feudal Era AU

Okay, guys, just to make sure we’re all on the same page here.

I realise, that a lot of you itch to get some action. Perhaps to some of you we’re even dealing with stuff too slowly for your liking - I do realise we took a while with some matters.

But while I really thought it should be a matter of purest common sense, it seems it needs to be pointed out anyway.

If your character is not on the masterlist, please refrain from creating headcanons and interactions with them.

We realise that the level of quality check we do to ensure the group’s consistency is probably something most of you, who are used to GDA’s complete lack of rules, something unfamiliar to say the least, but trust us, it’s for the best. There’s few things more frustrating than creating elaborate relations and headcanons just to find out that what they were based on is not in line with the setting whatsoever and needs to be redone, so for. Literally everyone’s sake. PLEASE refrain from doing that. It will spare the trouble and potential disappointment for both you, your interaction/hc partners, and the admins running the AU.

So once more. Repeat after me.

IF YOUR CHARACTER IS NOT ACCEPTED AND ON THE MASTERLIST YET, DO NOT. HEADCANON. OR INTERACT WITH THEM. 

This goes as a mutual responsibility for those who aren’t in yet and for those approached/approaching those who aren’t in yet. In most organised groups, it really would be the most obvious, logical thing to do, but since we keep seeing it happening, we thought we’d point it out.

And if you think we’re taking too long with reviewing your character, just shoot us a message - we really don’t bite. We’re just busy with our lives lately, so things might seem a bit slow - but we will definitely respond, so please poke us and remind us if something escapes our attention!

That’s fine, but first, you need to run the characters by the rulers for them to be approved and listed in the right clans. We need to know more about them first. 

Hinomoto holds up diplomatic and trade relations with other countries. While there is no particularly close bond and the kingdom typically kept to itself, both not meddling with affairs of others, and in return, not having foreign powers meddling with its own, they have no reasons to treat foreigners with much of a prejudice. There isn’t much of a trust most of the time either, though. After all, they are from outside of Hinomoto and as such, one can assume they have no reason to be loyal to the country or any of its clans, or to have its best interest in mind. They would probably be treated with wary politeness and a certain dose of distance - but definitely not as inferior simply for their country of origin.

Lack of civil rights might occur but it would hardly be caused by someone coming from abroad per se - although naturally, since they are not a citizen of Hinomoto, they would not have certain right. In that respect, think of it like of our modern world. You can travel to most other countries, you won’t be taken into slavery just for coming from abroad, and most people will treat you with distance/wariness at most, but aside for extreme cases, it’s not like you’re going to get stoned. All sorts of basic humane protections would still apply (so obviously, killing or kidnapping you etc would be illegal) - but you wouldn’t have the rights of a citizen of the country (this is just an example, but you can’t participate in elections etc).

We already explained this in the post explaining powers here! Please refer to our PSA tag in the future.