Trinity Soul University Re-imagined OOC

[Lunasa Prismriver]

Now that taverns are practically slated to be canon, can we flesh out the city?

[Kristia]

I would prefer to first get the characters have their first day of school rather than expanding things outside of the school grounds.

[Alayosho]

First person to explore outside the school grounds SHOULD be Mark, since he lives off campus and I think is the only guy with a car...

[Zekai]

Chiha doesnt need a car. She has her skates and wind

[Lunasa Prismriver]

Oh, I never actually noticed it before. Chiha does in fact have Suiseiseki heterochromia.

[Zekai]

Yea. She has a Red and a Green eye.

[Lunasa Prismriver]

Hard to see on the picture but it's there.

[Alayosho]

Oh hey, I forgot Mark's hair color. look at that!

His hair is certainly NOT white though. That's an unnatural color for humans. Mark is like, the normal guy out of this bunch of wackos we got, so definately not white. Edited the app there to make it brown!

[Luna Pixu]

@Alayo
The white haired one I mention is Drake. Did you really think I assumed Mark's hair colour?

[Alayosho]

NEVER KNOW! Also I totally thought Drake's hair was black...Looking over the app...I dont know why I thought that...Maybe Im high and dont know it...

[Lunasa Prismriver]

Ala's blatant discrimination against the "abnormal" characters really gets me thinking.

How does the social dynamic in this fantasy world work? Are half-bloods considered trash? Are animalia discriminated by other animalia based on how many parts of them are humanlike? What does a vampire think when they see a mermaid?

[Kristia]

hm.. I can't give a perfect answer

There are problems in society, it is impossible to reach total peace, so of course half-bloods can be seen as trash due to being hybrids of two species, Animalia can be discriminated by the humans or other humaoid species since they share traits from animals while also being looked down by their more "natural" brothers and sisters (I actually made a brief explanation about that in the animalia section) As for other species thinking of other ones? it all goes.


Or I could go with a super simple example done in this video, which probably doesn't help at all either.

Spoiler:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DChl7GR-ow&t=376s

[Alayosho]

Mark DOES NOT Blatantly discriminate*, he's just really unsure about people/things he's never seen before. Native Americans thought Lewis and Clark's slave was a god because he was black. It was just that alien to them. Add in some magical powers and suddenly you have no idea what the heck is going on. In actuality, Mark would likely be the most accepting of everyone else BECAUSE of his american education, which hammers the point of discrimination is bad(Or at least all mine did...) while different races may not have that type of teaching.

*Edit;Addendum: More like he discriminates on a personal level, when the only person affected would be him (Does he go meet them or not?). Otherwise He hasn't done anything to suggest he outright hates or dislikes the non-humans, because when it comes down to it, he doesn't.

[Luna Pixu]

Erm, Alayo... Lunasa was in no way implying that Mark was a racist... Like, at all. He was merely poking fun at your post when you misinterpreted my post about people's hair.

Since I wanna throw in a couple of things into the pot, racism and magical discrimination I imagine does definitely exist in the TSU world. It's unavoidable and inevitable. Humans looking down upon animalia and other species, non-mages despising magic, mages looking down upon those without magic.
Since Pravus shattered the barrier between the world as we knew it and the world of magic, the subject of magic has always been a hot topic of discussion. How exactly can magic fit into modern society, what good can magic bring to our world, the risks of leaving magic unregulated. And a whole hive of socio-political debate in regards to magic. I also want to add that this spawned from a time just after MLK's "I Have A Dream". Imagine folks not only having to learn to coexist with POCs but now with creatures that were once only considered fantasy.
The harsh truth of it is that people were undoubtedly reluctant to accept their new neighbours on such short notice. Though most racial conflict has stopped, as there is more to be had in learning from other species than warring against them, there are still people and groups who hate non-humans and groups of non-humans who hate humans.

Of course, with the TSU island being the melting pot of magical culture, the amount of racism in this RP and setting I can only imagine is rather low (and I hope people don't get too carried away with racism). Though I wouldn't be surprised to see some beast gangs lurking in the back alleys of the island's city who outright despise humans.

[Kristia]

We shall see how it goes then, no society exist without its faults, and the people of the island of TSU aren't perfect either, so in the case that something arises, it will be something within the possible situations, which then will be treated with what it deserves depending on what happened.

So if some folk are racist, speciest, or whatever you want to call it, don't worry, it is part of the society, and people will react to it.