Post by Crimson on Oct 27, 2020 17:58:04 GMT -4
» World History
~2040 (The Beginning)
The 21st century began with prosperity. The world had mostly recovered from the hardships, wars and atrocities it endured in the 20th century. There was relative peace in the world, tensions from the past were buried with trade and technology. The world was moving towards a united front under the banner of science. Of course the world was far from being perfect, but the living standards for the average human kept improving steadily. Efforts were constantly made to tackle the biggest issues humanity was facing. The process was only beginning, but the future seemed kind and warm towards humanity as a whole. Strife, war and misery seemed more and more like a thing of the past. However, this course towards a united humanity was irreversibly altered, as events no one could foresee, began unfolding.
2041~2042 == (The Genesis of Quirks)
A turning point in history had been passed without anyone even realizing. The first children with quirks had been born. Exactly where the phenomenon cropped up first is unknown, and it wouldn't be till much later, in 2041, that the world became aware of the shift in paradigm. A young man in the states, aged in his early twenties, had a strange mutation. His hands could glow, radiating both light and heat without actually harming him.
The story became an instant sensation. People all over the globe reacted to the strange phenomenon. Some were afraid, others curious, while many more dismissed it all as a hoax. Scientists of all fields of study, from medicine to physics came to examine the man. Puzzled, confused, there were clear signs of structural differences in the DNA, but nothing that unveiled the mystery of the mutation. Before the world had a chance to understand what was happening, more similar cases began to spring up all over the world. It became apparent very quickly that the young man wasn't an isolated case and that the matter couldn't be ignored. The world was introduced to the first quirks, and they were appearing everywhere.
As more of these strange individuals appeared across the world, the public began to stir. There were incidents where individuals were granted powerful quirks without the control to manage them, harming others and even themselves. The public opinion was clear; Quirks were dangerous. No longer did people just talk and share their opinions about quirks at work or online, they took to the streets. Several of the highly involved were organizing protests, sometimes even riots, for the government to take a stance. The first wave of quirk users weren't numerous and most made for easy targets. Others had quirks that allowed them to retaliate - and some did, giving way to further discrimination. Even if the "Quirkers", as they were referred to, had some defenders and support among the masses, they were just as rare to find as the Quirkers themselves.
The most common victims were those who had undergone a physical change due to their quirk. A ‘Mutation’ as it came to be known. Their altered appearance not only made them look particularly uncanny to the public, but it also made them easily identifiable. These individuals faced both harassment and abuse on an almost daily basis. Even when not facing discrimination or violence at the hands of the public, quirk users in the best case scenario still found themselves on some type of government watch-list. Rumors even had it that several Quirkers were abducted from their homes across the globe, used for research into the phenomenon. It seemed like they were to be monitored for the rest of their lives. Given the initial low number of quirks that appeared most countries did not take any action on a larger scale. There didn't seem to be a need: quirk users were few and far between and all incidents were swiftly taken care of, swept under the rugs. Although somewhat unsettling, quirks didn't appear to be a huge threat to public safety at first. Governments dealt with each quirk user on a case by case basis, even if the fate of most was a similar one; Isolation.
Quirkers were cruelly separated from the general public, while not physically, but emotionally and socially. Those whose quirks were not so easy to see were annotated and every record about them was marked as a quirker. This led to a hideous skyrocketing in unemployment rates, in divorce records, in hate crime. The planet began fighting a war made silent by the media and invisible by the governments. The numbers put quirkers at a disadvantage so steep it would be impossible to make a difference - but that wouldn’t be for long.
2043~2070 == (The Era of Villains)
As the years went on a change in the dynamic of quirks made itself evident. Not only did the number of quirks users who were born each year increase drastically, the age at which quirks became active shifted as well. Individuals were younger and younger when their quirks manifested.
Treating quirks like unique, freak mutations became impossible, something had to change on a grand scale. Many countries took swift action and at the first sign of greater unrest, laws were passed which entirely prohibited the use of quirks. While it was an inelegant solution, first world society at large was satisfied. Those individuals who could not, or refused to control their quirks, were isolated, while a vast majority of individuals could live a normal life.
However, inelegant solutions were not to last. Not only did several people use quirks despite the prohibition, but many used them to commit mundane crimes with them as well, either out of desperation, or anger. Quirk-Assisted-Crimes, or QAC, ran rampant and only five years after the initial ban on quirks, they were the most common type of crime in most countries, dwarfing the panic-induced firearm and drug trade on an unprecedented level. Villains, a colloquial term given to criminals that participated in QACs, had appeared and soon became a part of everyday life. It became undeniable that police were incapable of handling the new type of criminals society was faced with. The use of guns was almost universally decried and weapons strong but nonlethal enough to put powerful villains down simply didn’t exist. When the old tools were incapable of resolving a situation, the quirk users undeniably held the upper hand.
From the source of the problem, the solution came. Quirk users, who were unable to stand by and watch as society was tormented by the menace of villains, took it upon themselves to make a change. Using their own quirks, they began combating villains. As more joined the cause, a noticeable drop in crime-rates became apparent almost overnight. Vigilantes were born, and it was undeniable that the world was better for it. There were more fighting for a good cause, then there were those causing trouble. Almost 30 years of Vigilantes assisting in fighting crime outside of police influence caused a tear in the un-quirked population of Japan. Vigilantes were called out as dangerous people who saw themselves just as above the law as the Villains they fought. While many were benign figures who kept to themselves, just as many used their newfound freedom to press hard on discrimination. Many vigilantes were accused of sabotaging anti-quirk protests, assaulting quirkist politicians and public figures and interfering with police investigations into quirker crime. Japan was a boiling pot fit to explode. As decades passed, vigilantes became accepted as part of the natural order of things; hated; shunned; but necessary.
2071~2072 == (Dawn of the Age of Heroes)
Most countries realized just that, and by the year 2071 they began hiring vigilantes, offering them a pardon for their past deeds and an opportunity to work together with the government and police in order to combat villainy. The results showed themselves to be positive enough that countries quickly began expanding the program. Soon, talks began about establishing a Hero program and opening the first Hero schools in Japan. This would come to be known as the Hero Act, an innovative set of laws that gave rights, responsibilities and titles to quirkers who wished to join in the fight against crime, with special privileges and benefits. They could take the streets, assist in police activity, use their quirks to stop crime and, perhaps most impressively, get paid for all that work. This all came with the caveat that heroes could not act of their own accord without good reason and were deployable by the government at a moment’s notice. Many vigilantes agreed to the terms, seeing them as taking the safest step in their lives while still fighting for what they believe in. Many saw subservience in contractual agreements, disappearing deeper into the shadows to continue their work. Copying this new system, most of the world followed suit. The first prisons specifically constructed to contain quirk users were built almost at the same time. Shortly after regulations on non-criminal quirk usage eased up as well. Quirks had become a semi-normal part of society.
In 2072, the first hero schools were made fully operational, including the first of them - Yuuei Academy or U.A, found in Musutafu, a newborn ward of Tokyo prefecture.
Quirks have been accepted as a necessary part of society but discrimination against quirkers is as present as ever: simply now with the dynamic of heroes, villains and vigilantes as an integral part of it. Will the world move towards a peaceful future, or are heroes merely a bandaid to a deeper wound?
2072~Present == (The Age of Heroes)
Today, the building of the first hero schools has come to fruition. The schools are funded mostly by their governments and private sponsors, meaning their funding is heavily limited.
Yuuei, being Japan and the world’s first, has great locales and plenty of space, but struggles yearly with keeping their mountainous expenses manageable. The first professional quirk users are being educated, set to become official heroes in 2075. However, society as a whole is in a state of flux. The older generation especially, came from a world where quirks were rare - or for the oldest generation, hardly existed. Racism and intolerance towards quirks most definitely still exists. Law-wise, this kind of quirkism is not outlawed. While it is becoming more and more rare, there are still extremists that would rather see individuals with quirks dead, rather than protecting or terrorizing society as a whole. Though there are many quirkers who wish the same for the quirkless...
Note: Until the IC year of 2072 (2018 OOC) there were no 'Pro Heroes'.
The 21st century began with prosperity. The world had mostly recovered from the hardships, wars and atrocities it endured in the 20th century. There was relative peace in the world, tensions from the past were buried with trade and technology. The world was moving towards a united front under the banner of science. Of course the world was far from being perfect, but the living standards for the average human kept improving steadily. Efforts were constantly made to tackle the biggest issues humanity was facing. The process was only beginning, but the future seemed kind and warm towards humanity as a whole. Strife, war and misery seemed more and more like a thing of the past. However, this course towards a united humanity was irreversibly altered, as events no one could foresee, began unfolding.
2041~2042 == (The Genesis of Quirks)
A turning point in history had been passed without anyone even realizing. The first children with quirks had been born. Exactly where the phenomenon cropped up first is unknown, and it wouldn't be till much later, in 2041, that the world became aware of the shift in paradigm. A young man in the states, aged in his early twenties, had a strange mutation. His hands could glow, radiating both light and heat without actually harming him.
The story became an instant sensation. People all over the globe reacted to the strange phenomenon. Some were afraid, others curious, while many more dismissed it all as a hoax. Scientists of all fields of study, from medicine to physics came to examine the man. Puzzled, confused, there were clear signs of structural differences in the DNA, but nothing that unveiled the mystery of the mutation. Before the world had a chance to understand what was happening, more similar cases began to spring up all over the world. It became apparent very quickly that the young man wasn't an isolated case and that the matter couldn't be ignored. The world was introduced to the first quirks, and they were appearing everywhere.
As more of these strange individuals appeared across the world, the public began to stir. There were incidents where individuals were granted powerful quirks without the control to manage them, harming others and even themselves. The public opinion was clear; Quirks were dangerous. No longer did people just talk and share their opinions about quirks at work or online, they took to the streets. Several of the highly involved were organizing protests, sometimes even riots, for the government to take a stance. The first wave of quirk users weren't numerous and most made for easy targets. Others had quirks that allowed them to retaliate - and some did, giving way to further discrimination. Even if the "Quirkers", as they were referred to, had some defenders and support among the masses, they were just as rare to find as the Quirkers themselves.
The most common victims were those who had undergone a physical change due to their quirk. A ‘Mutation’ as it came to be known. Their altered appearance not only made them look particularly uncanny to the public, but it also made them easily identifiable. These individuals faced both harassment and abuse on an almost daily basis. Even when not facing discrimination or violence at the hands of the public, quirk users in the best case scenario still found themselves on some type of government watch-list. Rumors even had it that several Quirkers were abducted from their homes across the globe, used for research into the phenomenon. It seemed like they were to be monitored for the rest of their lives. Given the initial low number of quirks that appeared most countries did not take any action on a larger scale. There didn't seem to be a need: quirk users were few and far between and all incidents were swiftly taken care of, swept under the rugs. Although somewhat unsettling, quirks didn't appear to be a huge threat to public safety at first. Governments dealt with each quirk user on a case by case basis, even if the fate of most was a similar one; Isolation.
Quirkers were cruelly separated from the general public, while not physically, but emotionally and socially. Those whose quirks were not so easy to see were annotated and every record about them was marked as a quirker. This led to a hideous skyrocketing in unemployment rates, in divorce records, in hate crime. The planet began fighting a war made silent by the media and invisible by the governments. The numbers put quirkers at a disadvantage so steep it would be impossible to make a difference - but that wouldn’t be for long.
2043~2070 == (The Era of Villains)
As the years went on a change in the dynamic of quirks made itself evident. Not only did the number of quirks users who were born each year increase drastically, the age at which quirks became active shifted as well. Individuals were younger and younger when their quirks manifested.
Treating quirks like unique, freak mutations became impossible, something had to change on a grand scale. Many countries took swift action and at the first sign of greater unrest, laws were passed which entirely prohibited the use of quirks. While it was an inelegant solution, first world society at large was satisfied. Those individuals who could not, or refused to control their quirks, were isolated, while a vast majority of individuals could live a normal life.
However, inelegant solutions were not to last. Not only did several people use quirks despite the prohibition, but many used them to commit mundane crimes with them as well, either out of desperation, or anger. Quirk-Assisted-Crimes, or QAC, ran rampant and only five years after the initial ban on quirks, they were the most common type of crime in most countries, dwarfing the panic-induced firearm and drug trade on an unprecedented level. Villains, a colloquial term given to criminals that participated in QACs, had appeared and soon became a part of everyday life. It became undeniable that police were incapable of handling the new type of criminals society was faced with. The use of guns was almost universally decried and weapons strong but nonlethal enough to put powerful villains down simply didn’t exist. When the old tools were incapable of resolving a situation, the quirk users undeniably held the upper hand.
From the source of the problem, the solution came. Quirk users, who were unable to stand by and watch as society was tormented by the menace of villains, took it upon themselves to make a change. Using their own quirks, they began combating villains. As more joined the cause, a noticeable drop in crime-rates became apparent almost overnight. Vigilantes were born, and it was undeniable that the world was better for it. There were more fighting for a good cause, then there were those causing trouble. Almost 30 years of Vigilantes assisting in fighting crime outside of police influence caused a tear in the un-quirked population of Japan. Vigilantes were called out as dangerous people who saw themselves just as above the law as the Villains they fought. While many were benign figures who kept to themselves, just as many used their newfound freedom to press hard on discrimination. Many vigilantes were accused of sabotaging anti-quirk protests, assaulting quirkist politicians and public figures and interfering with police investigations into quirker crime. Japan was a boiling pot fit to explode. As decades passed, vigilantes became accepted as part of the natural order of things; hated; shunned; but necessary.
2071~2072 == (Dawn of the Age of Heroes)
Most countries realized just that, and by the year 2071 they began hiring vigilantes, offering them a pardon for their past deeds and an opportunity to work together with the government and police in order to combat villainy. The results showed themselves to be positive enough that countries quickly began expanding the program. Soon, talks began about establishing a Hero program and opening the first Hero schools in Japan. This would come to be known as the Hero Act, an innovative set of laws that gave rights, responsibilities and titles to quirkers who wished to join in the fight against crime, with special privileges and benefits. They could take the streets, assist in police activity, use their quirks to stop crime and, perhaps most impressively, get paid for all that work. This all came with the caveat that heroes could not act of their own accord without good reason and were deployable by the government at a moment’s notice. Many vigilantes agreed to the terms, seeing them as taking the safest step in their lives while still fighting for what they believe in. Many saw subservience in contractual agreements, disappearing deeper into the shadows to continue their work. Copying this new system, most of the world followed suit. The first prisons specifically constructed to contain quirk users were built almost at the same time. Shortly after regulations on non-criminal quirk usage eased up as well. Quirks had become a semi-normal part of society.
In 2072, the first hero schools were made fully operational, including the first of them - Yuuei Academy or U.A, found in Musutafu, a newborn ward of Tokyo prefecture.
Quirks have been accepted as a necessary part of society but discrimination against quirkers is as present as ever: simply now with the dynamic of heroes, villains and vigilantes as an integral part of it. Will the world move towards a peaceful future, or are heroes merely a bandaid to a deeper wound?
2072~Present == (The Age of Heroes)
Today, the building of the first hero schools has come to fruition. The schools are funded mostly by their governments and private sponsors, meaning their funding is heavily limited.
Yuuei, being Japan and the world’s first, has great locales and plenty of space, but struggles yearly with keeping their mountainous expenses manageable. The first professional quirk users are being educated, set to become official heroes in 2075. However, society as a whole is in a state of flux. The older generation especially, came from a world where quirks were rare - or for the oldest generation, hardly existed. Racism and intolerance towards quirks most definitely still exists. Law-wise, this kind of quirkism is not outlawed. While it is becoming more and more rare, there are still extremists that would rather see individuals with quirks dead, rather than protecting or terrorizing society as a whole. Though there are many quirkers who wish the same for the quirkless...
Note: Until the IC year of 2072 (2018 OOC) there were no 'Pro Heroes'.