hi I got dragged back to the fandom after being gone for a few months. throws some headcanons about the BlackRock and Playground beef. tw for some talk of violent crimes
so, BlackRock does a lot of experiments and tests for their weapons, technology, and medical treatments on Inphernals, right? ever wondered where they got those Inphernals from?
a decent chunk of the Inphernals used in testing are convicted (often life sentenced) criminals from mainly BlackRock and Crossroads. the worst of the worst, Inphernals with charges for violent offences against newspawn, sexual offenses, brutal or violent murders, etc. but that's just who BlackRock actually advertises that they experiment on!
BlackRock also experiments on traitors to BlackRock that actually get hunted down, and has a history of just. kidnapping random Playfuls (fuck you that's what people from Playground are called now) and using them in experiments. there was previous wars between the two factions that built this hatred between their people to begin with, but this just made it worse
Coil was actually one of the Playfuls kidnapped and used in experimentation! he was pretty young when it happened so his brain blocked out the worst of it, but it's why he has those tubes in his arms and how he managed to get his hands on the crystal shoved in his horn. when he escaped, he wrecked and stole several thousands if not millions of dollars worth of BlackRock tech, which is the main reason (besides Subspace's pettiness) he's a wanted criminal now
if you're wondering why Playground hasn't noticed that their people are just kinda... disappearing, the answer is: they completely have! just a lot of Inphernals are reluctant to file their friend or family member as missing, and when they do actually file an Inphernal as missing, it's common for the case to be mishandled for one reason or another. in Coil's case, having been homeless, he didn't have any family to report him missing and the adults around him just assumed that he'd wandered off somewhere on his own
ah dang. nobody deserves to be experimented on. glad he managed to get out, at least. and how the adults who knew coil didn't connect it to the other cases of disappearance is a little baffling to me, yeouch.