OOC: info!

[grimnotdark]

THE STORY WAS THIS
mutants are a thing, they have been for years. superheroes, supervillains, quirky little boarding schools dedicated to raising mutant kids in safety - these are all also things. unfortunately, the current President of the United States capitalised on a whole decade of highly volatile (and often violent) anti-mutant feeling with an unforgiving pro-human stance. his - and his private army's - view is that mutants are lesser creatures, abominations and barbarians, that are pretty much only good for being enslaved. WHAT A NICE GUY. President Marcus Crassus also happens to be the richest man in America and CEO of Romans, Inc, a giant multinational corporation with its own huge private army that just so happens to be the sole manufacturer of gross emotion-suppressing robot brain implants. YEAH.

now, America is a totalitarian dictatorship under the rule of President Crassus and his army. any free mutant who takes a stand against his rule faces being hunted down and arrested and experimented on or some shit until they agree to take the implant and join Crassus's side. as well as his army of run-of-the-mill normal human soldiers, any mutants who take the implant are assigned in to his own private hitsquad used to track down the renegade mutants still on the loose.

everything is grim and dark and for some reason cities are more like wastelands as Crassus ransacks his way through America on the search for renegade mutants. fullscale riots and clashes between Crassus's soldiers and rebellious mutants happen a lot! there are a bunch of abandoned buildings and cool burnt-out warehouses are everywhere. it's just really grim and dark, you guys.

AU of an AU
this is all loosely based on the What-If Wednesday from xi-rpg circa 2010. cr can be brought forward from the old version but this is essentially an au of that au so clean slates/do-evers are a thing. if you're a newcomer then don't sweat it - all you need to know is on this page. comment below with any questions!

SO WHO'S WHO?
comment below and stuff, go on

Comments

ava ballantyne → mutant (but not one of THOSE mutants)

[patrician]

ava ballantyne, secret mutant (EMPATH)

★ from one of those rich as fuck old new york families (THINK THE ASTORS). blond, pretty, grossly privileged, aaaand also a mutant. her parents are precisely the kind of hypocritical people to oppose the ~mutant menace~ in public but keep their daughter's "affliction" strictly on the DL, and ava was sharp enough to keep her powers hidden--although it helped that they weren't terribly flashy to begin with. ★ currently a law student at columbia and an informant (although not a member) of the rebellion. her family is well-connected and she's good at getting people to talk to her, so she's in a position to help pass along a lot of sensitive information....... and it helps that her power very literally lets her get rid of peoples' suspicions. including her parents'. you're welcome, rebellion. ★ kind of regina george-y, not so good at relating to the actual members of the rebellion because she feels like they don't have much in common beyond being mutants (ironically, given her powerset). but whatever, she's helping, right? ★ also she has some split ends because this is grimdark and totalitarian dictatorships are interrupting her kérastase deliveries okay LIFE IS HARD, IT'S THE WORST.

[bloodcloak]

please please pleeease can these two be related?
like she can totally be passing info to the rebels from shit she's gleaned from him
AND THEN HE FINDS OUT come on its grimdark

[patrician]

sob and then things suddenly got very grimdark for ava.

I'M INTO IT. I LIKE THIS IDEA.