Lady Moldoma
Professional Sweetypie
Introduction:
“Jungula is a city where nothing extraordinary ever happens…”
If a normal person wakes up in the town of Jungula, It’s easy enough to get out of bed, eat breakfast, and get out the door. Most people just go about their daily quotidian. Riding the tram to their boring job and then going back home for the day. Occasionally you’d have to move offices, hotelling, because some martial artist and a cyborg got into a fight, and one sent the other flying through a wall. But it’s not anything unusual to have the windows of an entire city block blown out every few months.
Frankly, most people are just unremarkable, regardless of if they have powers or not. And because of that, Jungula is a city where nothing extraordinary ever happens.
The world of martial arts? Cybernetic battle enhancements? Psychic powers? Even vampires? Why would anyone care about that, we’re all just working ‘til the weekend.
That’s why Jungula is a city where nothing extraordinary happens. It’s just too much work for most people to get involved in that sort of stuff. Sometimes as a hobby or a sport you’d play in school, but solemn few people make money by becoming a powerful fighter. You generally just get a job, and maybe fight on the weekends.
If you go to the grocery store, it wouldn’t be weird for your cashier to have a cybernetic arm with an oversized cannon on it. This is just her day job. She’s probably really impressive in combat or something. For all you know she could be some sort of underground battle-ring champion. But you've both got student loans to pay, so why would you bother asking?
Even if you yourself get involved in that sort of thing, unless you're part of a catastrophe response team, or you're a famous one in a million combat sports star, to the average person, that's not really important.
Because in a place like Jungula, nothing extraordinary ever happens.
The World Of Grunge:
The world of Grunge is wide, and varied. And at its heart, extraordinary by our standards. But whenever the extraordinary is ordinary, the standard for extraordinary rises. The public is a plurality of non-powered, normal humans, against a collection of various other races and powered humans. This means most of the population is supernatural by real world standards. Because of the fact that unpowered individuals are outnumbered by the vast majority of individuals, possessing some variety of power, the common consensus is that something has to be incredibly weird in order to count as extraordinary. The fact that humans live among species like Horn People, Wing People, Espers, and Vampires, is just generally accepted, and people move on with their lives as if nothing were much different than our own world. Society hasn't really changed that much, aside from combat sporting events historically overtaking traditional sports like football.
The backstory of the world of Grunge is left explicitly vague. It's implied that society has been consistently disinterested with what would be considered extraordinary by IRL standards for a long time prior to the current setting, but it is never stated outright if it was always like this, or if there was at one point in the past a "best case scenario broken masquerade event" in which society became aware of the extraordinary (by our standards) nature of the wider world. This lends character flexibility, and clears up a whole slew of plot-holes via ambiguity.
Grunge takes place around the modern era, however the aesthetic, at least for subsettings like Jungula, is very early 2000's-ish. Everything seems to be perpetually in the morning hours or at dusk (depending on the mood of the scene)but it's all very melancholic and has a surreal, sort of daydream aesthetic. This aesthetic can change drastically by the subsetting. And frequently will, as an "Academy City"(which will be explained later on) will reasonably have a different aesthetic than a small city like the aforementioned Jungula
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