#dr falling future

[dr-falling-future]

Fully updated ID cards.

Media by @talentlessartblog and @junbunn.

[savior-of-the-dreaming-dead]

i draw, sometimes...

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Chapter Four Media (2/2).

“Takisima's the one that killed Okada-san. Though unlike him …I never intended on going back home drenched in other people’s blood.”

ARGUMENT ARMAMENT Color & UI by @talentlessartblog. Sketch & Lines by @junbunn. VOTING TIME Media by @talentlessartblog. EXECUTION Color by @talentlessartblog. Sketch, Lines, & Video Work by @junbunn.

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Chapter Six Media (3/3).

“You're all disposable. A..ahah.. You… you're just like me, and I'm just like you. It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter if you have a Talent or not. We're the same..! So..! S-so listen, listen to me. Trash like us, we should stay together. No one will understand.. no one will know what you went through. I'm worthless out there, b-but if you're just like me, then we… we have that in common. I-if you go back outside, they'll throw you away.. throw you away like the garbage you are.

So stay with me. You fit better here than you ever will out there. We can show them. Toma and I-- they just-- Toma just wanted to see you bleed. And suffer. Like we did. Do you know... how useless you are, when you don't have a Talent? But no, no...I know better now. You're worthless, just like they were, like I am. Talent means nothing. So I'll keep you.”

ARGUMENT ARMAMENT Color & UI by @talentlessartblog. Sketch by @hystherics. Lines by @junbunn.

EXECUTION Color by @talentlessartblog. Sketch, Lines, & Video Work by @junbunn.

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Epilogue Media (1/1).

“There have been few events of extraordinary magnitude that have shaped the course of human history.

What is recorded here is not one of them.”

EPILOGUE MEDIA Sketches by @hystherics. Video Work by @junbunn.

Summarized game lore beneath the cut.

GLOSSARY

[ Eternal ] A dominating collective of the world's most powerful companies, political groups, and individuals that holds an almost absolute power over humanity. Bypasses anti-trusts, treaties, and other binding factors by virtue of being the ones that instate, fund, and enforce them. Praised by many, opposed by none. 

 [ D-CURE ] Short for Despair Causing Ultimate Radioactive Entity); a parasitical organism that feeds off of nutrients produced by the human body. Limits talent, but also wards off HOPE. Propagates within the human body over time. 

[ HOPE ] Short for Highest Overall Priority Entity; a parasitical organism warded off by D-CURE. Resides within the human brain and leeches away at their life force, drastically reducing lifespans and fertility. 

 [ Miracle Treatment ] A treatment created by Eternal that obliterates D-CURE. Only effective on young children. 

With the discovery of the D-CURE, a parasitical organism that absorbs chemicals and other nutrients from the human body, it was a mad scramble to find a way to exterminate it from humanity. Eternal is no stranger to human experimentation, and so, 100 years ago, the first treatments to remove the parasite were formally introduced. However, they ultimately proved to be ineffective on those over the age of 10, due to the mass infestation of D-CURE over a human’s lifespan. So began an era of child prodigies— while how this new potential would manifest was a mystery to all involved, every individual who underwent this Miracle Treatment developed talents, at the scope of those who were initially scouted for such prestigious institutions like Hopes Peak.

Soon, these children developed to become the working population, and everyone younger than them had also undergone the Miracle Treatment. Humanity skyrocketed, creating never before seen developments and entering a golden era... or so they thought. To the horror of the executives at Eternal, who now were the first wave of children who had undergone the Miracle Treatment, it became apparent that D-CURE was just as much a protector as it was a parasite.

With the absence of D-CURE, a newly discovered organism, HOPE, invaded the population, curling up as a parasitical beast within humans' brains. HOPE shortened lifespans drastically, lowering the average age of death to under a half century. Those who had received earlier versions of the Miracle Treatment were still in the clear, with meager amounts of D-CURE remaining, but as they grew older, they watched workers drop like flies. The herd immunity the wildly talented had enjoyed in the past was gone, and the world population began to drop as it was found the treatment also decreased fertility.

The cover up was wide scale and ubiquitous. The younger generations were not taught any better, and with the world in their hands, Eternal managed to quell the storm before it occurred. The entirety of humanity continued to undergo the Miracle Treatment, despite known harm by the authorities. No one could predict what skill you would develop, though some parents certainly tried, but everyone who underwent the treatment would develop a Talent, no matter how meaningless.

Of course, in a world of seven billion people, there are bound to be at least a few dissenters. Most of them suffered quietly and disappeared quickly under the rush of the Talented, and the concept of the Talentless soon became a wholly alien concept. How could someone not have organs? How could someone not have a Talent? It was the same idea to these new generations. Much of the world lead similar lives to before; however, though there was the blessing of Talent, not everyone's field was of the same importance— between a Chef and a Birdwatcher, their value to society would be inherently unequal. The same societal issues still plagued the world, hierarchies still formed, some individuals fought against their Talent, struggling against a different career when placed against those with matching Talents and occupations. Standards as a whole generally rose, as people became used to goods and services produced by the best of the best, who were now simply common workers. And so humanity lurched forward uneasily. 

Virtual reality is an ideal method for a totalitarian collective to keep the population in check. While small scale instances of the technology existed prior, approximately five years ago, the first fully immersive VR program, FoxFeed, was introduced to the world as a social network by Eternal. FoxFeed was a massive success. It allowed for two to three times the speed of experiencing life, and so shorter lifespans were partially compensated for by this time warping technology. With a surplus of Talents manning the wheel, it looked like smooth sailing for Eternal, who now had easy to access to the world’s brains for testing and preliminary research against HOPE. After about a year to ensure the stabilization of Foxfeed, Eternal decided it was time to further their research against HOPE; they decided to select 18 diverse individuals to begin brain testing on, all of which fell within the healthy worker age of 15 to 20. Eternal had advertised that they were currently looking for subjects for special studies, which swept across the world as a sort of exclusive position; it was highly vied after, despite the fact that there was no application and very few details on the actual contents of the study. Much like HPA of the past, this program was invitation only and carried prestige and socio-econo-political benefits to those chosen. One group of 16 to 20 such individuals has been selected every year; Eternal is currently on Unit IV, or the fourth iteration.

Toma Moto, child of an Eternal executive, never underwent the Miracle Treatment for fear of an ever shrinking lifespan and infertility; they were regardless raised as a Talented, touted as a Seamster to the public eye. Toma grew up relatively miserable hiding the fact they had to fake their talent, and soon became resentful towards their parents— a shorter lifespan seemed like a small trade off for the wonders of having a Talent, especially considering the time bending powers of FoxFeed. During their struggles, they meet with another rare Talentless, Yam. Taking advantage of their connections and position as an Executive’s child, Toma seizes control of FoxFeed's central network, forcing out all but the 18 individuals selected for this round of HOPE testing, along with themself and Yam. Those trapped inside retain most of their memory faithfully, save for scaling ages back to previous norms and towards the end of their life being contacted by the elusive Hopes Peak Academy (rather than HOPE testing) they and Yam had read about in the archives. The VR, however, is being run at about x100 speed, which means that the course of the game occurs in about one day of real time outside the VR, at the expense of rapidly deteriorating the minds of those within it.

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Chapter Five Media (2/2).

"What now? You gonna kill me? Don't forget that I've still got all the power as your gracious host! That's right...I killed so many of you now! Over half... hahah...No...you killed each other! Isn't that great! You're all just horrible murderers...maggots. All of you."

ARGUMENT ARMAMENT Color & UI by @talentlessartblog. Sketch & Lines by @junbunn. VOTING TIME Media by @talentlessartblog. EXECUTION Color by @talentlessartblog. Sketch, Lines, & Video Work by @junbunn.

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Chapter Six Media (1/3).

After the little earthquake encounter, everything seems to have returned to normal...too normal, in fact. Your time passes peacefully, and if it hadn't been for the eleven lives lost, you might have tricked yourself into thinking that you really were living out your days in a virtual reality based social media platform. Your host, too, has been practically non-existent, saving you all from Vix's grating hostility and pettiness. If anything is wrong at all, it's that life has been boring, so much that you can practically hear your brain grumpily rattling around your skulls, aching in apparent dissatisfaction from a lack of stimulation. Perhaps you should do something fun?

What you want to do to pass the time today is...

(1) PARTY HARD AT THE CLUB! 

(2) SPLASH AROUND AT THE DOCKS! 

(3) GET YOUR GAME ON AT THE ARCADE!

BDA Media by @junbunn​.

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Chapter Two Media (2/2).

“I’m… I’m sorry. I’m so fuckin’ sorry. I didn’t mean to… I didn’t… I swear… I… I… I had t’ defen’ myself, I had to. I didn’t wanna die… ”

ARGUMENT ARMAMENT Color & UI by @talentlessartblog. Sketch & Lines by @junbunn. VOTING TIME Media by @talentlessartblog. EXECUTION Color by @talentlessartblog. Sketch, Lines, & Video Work by @junbunn.