#promepolis

happy 2 yr anniversary to this buck wild group of firefighters

Hello! I’m back again! and 15 pages deep into my headcanons doc! It’s getting a bit out of hand!

This is the second in a series of posts I’m doing to help me figure out the cultural and historical milieu that Promare is set in, because there is a lot left up to interpretation. Which can be a headache when you have a penchant for wanting to be canon-compliant when writing fic!!! (Related: Click here to read the first post on my Historical Context (Pre-World Blaze) thoughts!)

But again: all of this is just my own personal interpretation, and I am in no way saying that this is the gospel truth. This holds true only insofar as my fic (coming soon!) goes. Fair warning that this is long and rambly and not that well-written LOL this is just me sharing my thoughts.

Enjoy!

HISTORICAL CONTEXT (POST-WORLD BLAZE: THE FIRST 10 YEARS)

Simply put, the world was in shambles after the Great World Blaze. Half the world population had been wiped out. Almost all the arable land on Earth had been torched, no longer usable. Clean water was now rare, as all the water sources were now saturated with ash, which also choked the aquatic wildlife. For a time, it seemed like mankind was on the road to extinction.

The next few years were difficult. There were many who survived the Blaze, only to perish in the aftermath. At this point, everyone in the world had just one goal: survival. There’s nothing quite like the threat of extinction to band everyone in the world together. World peace and all that. Slowly, society rebuilt itself. The concept of the nation-state was lost, and mankind reorganized itself into city-states, scattered throughout the barren landscape.

Whereas majority of the research prior to the Great World Blaze was focused on ‘Why is this happening?’ the research that took place after focused on ‘How do we survive this?’ and ‘How do we prevent this from happening again?’ Researchers worldwide focused on developing the technology needed for indoor farming, fast-growing GMOs for food production, water purification, and air filtration. Prometh himself focused his research on two prongs: still, on understanding the nature of the Burnish condition, while developing technology to help defend against Burnish fire and the threat of another Blaze possibly happening. His technology was never meant to be used as a tool for oppression; rather, he intended it as protective, a means for people to defend themselves and stop fires where they may start. (ofc, we all know what happened to that)

It took somewhere between 5 to 10 years after the Blaze for the world to get back on its feet and for some sense of normalcy to finally return, depending on where you were. After a long struggle—the losses from the Blaze and its aftermath—society was finally starting to flourish once more. Humankind recovered surprisingly fast, all things considered. With city-state populations being smaller than nation-states ever had been, things got done more quickly. Less people, less red tape, and everyone operated with a greater sense of urgency. Not only did society recover (as best as it could, at least), but it was developing even faster than before. The city-states quickly established themselves, and with the life-supporting technologies coming into place, people started to move on from surviving, to thriving once more. Still, in most of these settlements, it became markedly clear: Burnish were not welcome.

Even though the collective world population had focused on trying to make it through those rough years, that didn’t mean that they had forgotten their outrage at what had happened. Hatred for the Burnish was at a high more than ever. It didn’t help that most of the survivors from the Blaze were Burnish, being able to withstand fire and all. They were barred from rejoining society, if not chased out—or worse, killed on account of being Burnish. Many of them eventually died out in the wastelands either from starvation or disease. Mad Burnish, considerably weakened in what was essentially a post-apocalyptic world, did what it could to provide aid, but it was never enough.

Once society got itself back on its feet, now came the next question: What to do with the Burnish? There were very strong opinions. There were multiple instances when scientists and politicians almost came into blows in the meeting rooms; there were some instances they actually did. People on the street cried for justice in all forms. Some called for the complete extermination of the Burnish. Some called for segregation. A very, very small movement called for peace, to let Burnish back into society. Most were fine with just leaving them out to rot in the Wastelands, as they had come to be called; let the elements claim them with no skin off their backs.

Although talks on what to do about civilian Burnish went on for a long time, there was one thing all the city-state representatives agreed upon: that Mad Burnish was a threat, and if the world didn’t want another Blaze to raze the planet to the ground again, they had to be eradicated. Thus, the International Counter-Terrorism Federation was formed. It mandated the establishment of a counter-terrorism unit in each of its member city-states, and made it possible to have a coordinated global front against the threat of terrorism—mostly that which was instigated by Mad Burnish. In the city of Promepolis, this special unit was colloquially known as Freeze Force.

[Proxy] Promare Goods 

I added few more Promare Goods available for purchase. 

Line up: 

Acrylic Keyholder : 1080¥ 

Triange can badge set (15pcs inside) : 7420¥ 

Coin pouch : 1780¥ 

Burnish standee : 1780¥ 

Two sides of the same coin, two equals, co-pilots, binaries - working together to save the world. What a power couple!