Ever hear of superheroes? Super powered model citizens in spandex with a pathological need to “save the world” and loved by all?
What a joke.
People are scared of anyone different. We don’t have superpowers to change the world. We have them because it’s the only way we can survive in it.
If you’re lucky, you’re weak enough that no one ever finds out you’re different. Or maybe you get some parents who don’t think their kid is going to be public enemy #1 and bring the wrath of the government crashing down around them.
If you’re not? Well, your options aren’t great either way. Trust me, I’ve thoroughly explored both of them.
On the one hand, if TETRA catches you first, the last coherent thing you’ll remember is the slug of tranquilizers they push to make you “manageable”. It’s probably the most humane thing they can do considering what typically follows after that. The scientists there want to know what makes us tick. They keep the drugs going, keep you placid, and take you apart one piece at a time until there’s literally nothing left. All these medical “advancements” happening right now? That new transplant technique, that new dissolvable suture? Let’s just say that with all the uproar over animal testing, they found this was easier. Good news is, you’ll never even know what’s happening to you.
On the other hand, the gangs let you keep your wits, if only to use ‘em to fuck with you. If you’re strong, they throw you to the Pits. You’ve heard of dogfights, yeah? Picture your precious superheroes wearing shock collars strong enough to stop a heart and being forced to beat one another into the floor for the amusement of the crowd. They bet on you, and if you’re good enough, they keep you around so long as you make ‘em money. If you don’t? Provided they don’t just let you die on the arena floor, they slap an IV in your arm and strap you down. Something in our blood is potent as fuck. Makes the regulars lose their shit. Some get violent, some wanna screw. Ever wonder where the term “Bloodlust” came from? I can tell you it’s the reason most groups keep brothels too. I hope I don’t need to explain who fills those positions.
Fact is, most of us won’t live to see 30. They don’t want us to. We get stronger, and no one wants that.
Me? I did time in the Pits. No one expected me to last long, except I did. I flourished. I’m made for combat, see? I’m good at it. So they turned me over to TETRA when I became too much of a hassle. Maybe it should have been it for me, but there’s more that goes on in that hellhole than you’d imagine. Someone decided I could be useful. They made me into a hunter. Track down my own kind, and bring them back kicking and screaming. Night after night after night. You think it’s something you’d never get used to, but the screaming all starts to sound the same after a while.
Call me a traitor. It’s what I am, after all. But at least I’m alive.
But you? You won’t be. I’ve got my orders to fill, and begging isn’t going to change that. It’s nothing against you personally, but there’s only one way I stay out of the cages and off the lab table. You’re my pound of flesh to offer up tonight.
I don’t want to do this. I have no choice if I’m to stay alive. There’s no where for people like us to go, when they don’t even consider us people. Keep running if you want, fight back if it makes you feel like one last act of defiance gives your life weight. I don’t want to do this forever. I’m hoping someone finally manages to do me in one day, so I can finally be free of the hooks TETRA has in me.
I can’t help but be jealous of you. Hunted or not, you’re still free.
Hello!!! So you’ve seen something that caught your eye! Great! Before we get started, couple of technical bits:
Still with me? Great! So I see the prompt above going in a number of ways!
Depending on what manner of character you’d like to play, it could be:
Hunter x hunted
Fugitive Hunter x Fugitive
Or even something along the lines of Stockholm syndrome.
It’ll be up to you when you make a character! I’d like to clarify that I feel in many cases the second role is typically seen as the submissive one in a story, but that doesn’t need to be the case in this particular setting.
In any case, if you’re interested, send me a PM and I’ll be happy to answer any questions and/or give you more details!
Thanks!
What a joke.
People are scared of anyone different. We don’t have superpowers to change the world. We have them because it’s the only way we can survive in it.
If you’re lucky, you’re weak enough that no one ever finds out you’re different. Or maybe you get some parents who don’t think their kid is going to be public enemy #1 and bring the wrath of the government crashing down around them.
If you’re not? Well, your options aren’t great either way. Trust me, I’ve thoroughly explored both of them.
On the one hand, if TETRA catches you first, the last coherent thing you’ll remember is the slug of tranquilizers they push to make you “manageable”. It’s probably the most humane thing they can do considering what typically follows after that. The scientists there want to know what makes us tick. They keep the drugs going, keep you placid, and take you apart one piece at a time until there’s literally nothing left. All these medical “advancements” happening right now? That new transplant technique, that new dissolvable suture? Let’s just say that with all the uproar over animal testing, they found this was easier. Good news is, you’ll never even know what’s happening to you.
On the other hand, the gangs let you keep your wits, if only to use ‘em to fuck with you. If you’re strong, they throw you to the Pits. You’ve heard of dogfights, yeah? Picture your precious superheroes wearing shock collars strong enough to stop a heart and being forced to beat one another into the floor for the amusement of the crowd. They bet on you, and if you’re good enough, they keep you around so long as you make ‘em money. If you don’t? Provided they don’t just let you die on the arena floor, they slap an IV in your arm and strap you down. Something in our blood is potent as fuck. Makes the regulars lose their shit. Some get violent, some wanna screw. Ever wonder where the term “Bloodlust” came from? I can tell you it’s the reason most groups keep brothels too. I hope I don’t need to explain who fills those positions.
Fact is, most of us won’t live to see 30. They don’t want us to. We get stronger, and no one wants that.
Me? I did time in the Pits. No one expected me to last long, except I did. I flourished. I’m made for combat, see? I’m good at it. So they turned me over to TETRA when I became too much of a hassle. Maybe it should have been it for me, but there’s more that goes on in that hellhole than you’d imagine. Someone decided I could be useful. They made me into a hunter. Track down my own kind, and bring them back kicking and screaming. Night after night after night. You think it’s something you’d never get used to, but the screaming all starts to sound the same after a while.
Call me a traitor. It’s what I am, after all. But at least I’m alive.
But you? You won’t be. I’ve got my orders to fill, and begging isn’t going to change that. It’s nothing against you personally, but there’s only one way I stay out of the cages and off the lab table. You’re my pound of flesh to offer up tonight.
I don’t want to do this. I have no choice if I’m to stay alive. There’s no where for people like us to go, when they don’t even consider us people. Keep running if you want, fight back if it makes you feel like one last act of defiance gives your life weight. I don’t want to do this forever. I’m hoping someone finally manages to do me in one day, so I can finally be free of the hooks TETRA has in me.
I can’t help but be jealous of you. Hunted or not, you’re still free.
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Hello!!! So you’ve seen something that caught your eye! Great! Before we get started, couple of technical bits:
Still with me? Great! So I see the prompt above going in a number of ways!
Depending on what manner of character you’d like to play, it could be:
Hunter x hunted
Fugitive Hunter x Fugitive
Or even something along the lines of Stockholm syndrome.
It’ll be up to you when you make a character! I’d like to clarify that I feel in many cases the second role is typically seen as the submissive one in a story, but that doesn’t need to be the case in this particular setting.
In any case, if you’re interested, send me a PM and I’ll be happy to answer any questions and/or give you more details!
Thanks!
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