Hii i really like your fic and wanna hear more about the world building but i dont know what qustions to ask so do you mind telling us some world buildings 👀?
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*ahem* Buckle up and enjoy this absolute infodump of everything from clarifying aspects of the story already told and things I haven't gotten the chance to clarify yet! (This is very long, you have been warned.)
TTABTT & Everything you need to know about the Worldbuilding.
Three types of hybrids can fall into one of three categories. I talk more about types in this post (here!). To make the explanation easier, I have created this table with all the hybrids in TTABTT!
Now, if you have read the story, you'll probably be confused about some of the additions to this table, as there have been no hints that a few of these people are hybrids and yeah! That's actually sorta the point. In the first chapter, Scar read a post from Pearl's blog that read, 'There are hybrids everywhere. Standing next to you at the bus stop, scanning your groceries, drinking alone at the pub. Most will be hiding who they are by any means necessary to survive, but if you look, you will find family in those around you.' And for a later chapter, I really want it to signify how many hybrids are actually around and are affected by the policies made by city officials.
There are four main heroes in TTABTT: two humans and two hybrids. There used to be a lot more, but they have either quit, joined the other side, or been so badly wounded that they are incapable of fighting (the mortality rate of the job is the highest in the city).
They work for the Hero Agency (I couldn't think of a better name) to help curb the crime rates and be a beacon of hope in an increasingly angry city. Though there is something to be said about their effectiveness. While they will post positive footage from the human heroes' bodycams (and the fails from the hybrids' bodycams), those positive clips are always just close calls or injuries they were able to inflict. The number of caught villains is in the single digits. Most of those were ones that turned themselves in. Some questions have begun to arise whether heroes are even capable of doing their jobs properly, most of those questions being aimed at Crescent, the hero with the lowest successes.
The Hybrid Recognition Act (and others)
This policy was enacted a few years ago to address various alleged lawsuits that all involve the same issue: individuals were unaware that a hybrid was a hybrid, which caused harm to property, others or to themselves. Surgeons being unaware of someone being on a hybrid until they've already made an incision and finding something non-human, landlords putting an avian in a cramped space only to later discover scrape marks from wings and scratches on the floor from talons, and prisoners being starved due to not being fed the proper diet their hybridness required. So, they sent out letters, people to homes, and got a mandatory DNA sample and photo from every person in the city, and created a test so that they could figure out who was a hybrid and who wasn't. All neatly packaged in a database that could be used by businesses and services under the guise of helping.
This goes as well as one would expect. Hybrids are kicked out of their homes, fired from their jobs, and some are even refused healthcare and other services if their hybridness is deemed too dangerous. Even human-passing and half-hybrids were not safe from the discrimination that unfolded as soon as the results were released. Discrimination that to this day is still legal and even subtly encouraged by the immense media coverage of dangerous hybrid villains and vigilantes roaming the streets. The more graphic the crime, the more coverage it got, the more fear the everyday person felt when they saw horns or a tail.
They did embark on a new policy a few years later to combat the rising crime. The Guilty Bystander Act. To try and prevent alliances with villains and vigilantes, stores and businesses can terminate employment to anybody they deem to be in relations with any criminal, including those who are on shift when an attack/theft/robbery takes place. Further charges include fines for damages and even jail time. Though all this did was put more people out of a job, and made the public's opinion of hybrids and villains even worse than they already were.
Basically, all the drawings and information I've got about locations, but have had no idea where to properly put them, so I will dump them here! These help me visualise a scene when writing!
Grian has only recently moved into his apartment. After losing his job, he couldn't afford his previous home anymore and had to downsize. He keeps saying he'll get around to unpacking, but the time hasn't come yet.
Scar has upgraded his apartment to be as disability safe as possible. He has rubber bumps on all corners, sides, and table legs, so if his feet hit it, it's less likely to break. He has a handrail on the side of his bathtub to help him be steady getting in and out. He has taken off his bedroom door so his wheelchair can fit in. All furniture is spaced out so he can wheel about. Chair in his kitchen for any time he has to stand by a hob. It is safe to say that he is not getting his deposit back. If he hadn't drilled into his wall, all the scrapes from his chair on the walls would make sure of it.
Scar's home is filled with knick-knacks and thrifted decorations, mostly miniatures. If it's cute or about any of his special intrest he is buying it and putting it on his many shelves of other memorabilia.
Jimmy's and Tango's apartment (not included) is a one-bedroom apartment. When asked, they simply say that it was for the cheaper rent, but the truth was that getting a two-bedroom was never a choice to begin with. They also are never getting their deposit back because of all the scorch marks on everything.
The Wet Dirt, owned by Bdubs and Etho, is a local pub with the upstairs being their shared apartment. I was going to draw it alongside the unspoken seating plan of the main friend group, but I feel like this is long enough, and I may include it in the big character sheets I'm making for all the characters! Hope that this is enough worldbuilding for you hehehehe.
