Just read your new story for promptober and realized I know next-to-nothing about ‘modern day’ print culture. They have their own little societies, (which is rad btw, now I need a short with a print living in one of those) but then how do they end up working for normal humans? Do they get raided/abducted?? If so oof, but if not why in the world do they want a job like that? And I still DON'T KNOW HOW THEY END UP SHUNNED FROM SOCIETY FOR EXISTING.
Pls I need the lore I beg u
This answer might offer more insight to the print / trinket universe and social norms!
Prints are heavily controlled in human society. They live in fenced slum-like communities with strict rules about where/when they can leave. The only jobs available to them are menial (cleaning, modeling clothes like living mannequins, etc.) Because there aren't many options, they take what they can get.
There are also free print communities living secretly in the wilderness. These are highly illegal, and when they are found, they are raided by authorities. Prints that survive these brutal raids are "welcomed" into "civilized" society 🙃
Feel free to ask anything else! This world is dense and it's hard to cover everything at once!