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Headcanons
Geography
-Blackrock is VERY very cold like 7 degrees on a hot highlume day type of cold
- There are subfactions that are outside Centruria that have hotter weather due to be closer to other factions
- Deathspeaker mountain range is a like a national gold mine
-it's smaller compared to other factions
-size;8~ sq km
Animals are present in the deeper less developed places of Blackrock, the inphernals don't really care about them. They only care about the resources.
Society
-Racism, alot of racism. If you are an outsider (came from another faction and moved) you will be treated VERY differently (applies to newspawn that had parents from other factions)
- Propaganda is also ingrained in Society. The mindset of doing anything for the glory of the faction is bled into blood
-Demons are encouraged to fuck each other over for power here, they don't really get the be nice to others thing
-People usually build tight knit circles instead of being outgoing
-In social media platforms they have to write like "Glory to Blackrock" in the bios becuase it's expected (it started as law but it became cultural)
-They hate other factions due to how much Propaganda they get from birth
-1970 Russia
-Bullying at this point is just normal, they call it building up tough skin
-Anything ugly and not pretty? Sent to the mines of Northern Blackrock
Northern Blackrock is like a city with barely anything working. Barely any goveremnt funding
-free Healthcare here and free public transportation and alot of amenities in Centuria
-Manners are social law here. Everything is controlled.
-Blackrock is very corrupt, but if you are useful towards the faction you rise up real fast
- There is a social ladder since most labour inducing jobs have been replaced by biografts
Ranked worst to best
Normal civilian (salesmen, service workers, )
Soldiers
Newspawn caretakers
Entertainers
Military generals
The council of science
Korblox president
Entertainers are like idols, sports players, actors, and more. These demons are valued a lot due to bringing glory inside and outside Blackrock.
What is the council?
It's a group of 16 inphernals who are the best in their field (e.g Subspace tripfart is in the council due to being the best at robotics.) This council has power in lawmaking, building, inventions, and projects.
Blackrock is an oligarchy basically, also combined with corporate greed.
- they prioritize learning and education must more than most factions, having a very complex school system
School system
When you are newspawn you are put into intense gear training as a root out course. If you fail you could be thrown out (reason why there are alot of factionless imphernals) after that you go through 3 years of more intense basics (language, math, science and manners)
After that you could choose two paths, military training of STEM
In the military you go through gear training and rank up on performance.
In STEM you take classes based on what type of science you choose. Based on that you take the bar exam. If you perform amazingly you could rank up.
In both sides it's based on effort. But demons here aren't scared to steal some credit every once in a while
School days last about 17 hours here
But there is 3 months of rest (most amenities are free amd students are rewarded with money from the goverement)
If you perform horribly in school, you could be executed or forced to leave (this brings alot of risk and dishonor to your caregivers so be careful!!)
There isn't really a g1-12 system here. It's like you completed this? Alright let's move towards the next assignment and it's like that until you mastered it.
Well what if you perform averge?
Your life would just be average. You would probably not be in the council but you would live pretty nice. Jobs include: Researcher, teacher, newspawn caregivers, engineering and more
Life in Blackrock isn't as rough
More info on Society
Clothing is not really regualted, alot of inphernals have style
, though the selection isn't alot, they make it work.
-the language is very different compared to other factions but the entire country uses one tongue. (Some outer regions may be different)
The city is built underground due to how cold it is. Centuria has 1 building that houses all inphernals living in the capital that has 22 floors. There are no houses just apartments that are different sizes. Housing is controlled by the government of course. Factories and shops are also there. Then there would be another tall building with hospitals and school. (These two areas are combined)
The main way to understand Blackrock is "if you make us money you could do whatever you want" council members are also higher than the law sometimes. They could easily get away with murder using their power.
Before the Korblox, Blackrock was not unified and used to be very separated. (What happened was Korblox came and killed whoever wasn't obedient and built up from there)
Internet is really fast there due to how high tech it is, but outside the faction? Yeah good luck trying to reach your penpal from theives den.
Due to the chemicals and pollution Blackrock has caused towards the natural spawning fountains, there is alot of inphernals who have missing parts. Luckily unlike other factions they get goveremnt care and prosthetics. ( prosthetics are really normalized here) Everyone is fair here . (Not really)
-The way demons show affection are through gift giving and doing actions
-Dead corpses are used as material for expirements
Another mindset they believe in "this happened, oh well," this is used int he way they deal with problems in daily life. This makes the society more efficient.
"Anything< money " type of mindset
Something to add, there is no homeless. They either died from hypothermia or isn't there. Hypothermia is the leading cause of death. Which is why most of Blackrock is underground.
Also there is a type of inphernals I would like to propose everyone.
Ice-geared demons in the phighting universe has iced horns. Due to, if you have no horns you die. These demons could melt to death. Which is why most ice-geard inphernals live in Blackrock. So e.g the Freeze Ray gear, the inphernal spawned with that gear has iced horns.
During nighttime, it is safe. Due to the tight security and heavy law enforcement (and punishments) it is normal to go outside at night. Intruders from other factions are usually ripped apart by biografts from the border.
Speaking about the border, it is a 20ft tall metallic wall with biografts and demons guarding it 24/7. If you are a traveler there is alot of paperwork. But if you are from Blackrock and were traveling from other factions you could just use face ID or your normal ID to get in. (Imagine hyperlaser just pressing his ID and 72 doors open at once) there are also automatic laser protection and cameras everywhere.
Shows like flipside happen inside BR, but it's not casted on outside television
-Spawndays aren't really celebrated here
-Blackrock is also very open to being queer, they only really care for where you came from, how much work you do, and how smart you are
-there is a high Society gossip group chat
SFOTH is not widespread and not believed except icedagger and ghostwalker(still religion is maybe ehhhh) its not really taught in school
-There is an idol group that spreads propaganda (imagine mmj for yall pjsk players, yes i got this from twitter)
-Food there is probably bad, since of the lack of edible resources so most of it's just chemicals :p
Blackrock probably is the most rich and developed out of all factions. (No bias)
I may add more btw