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flowing_kinetics) wrote2010-04-16 05:53 am
flowing_kinetics) wrote2010-04-16 05:53 am
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Terms and Explanations
Liquefied/Liquefication: In Akira's time, technology has become available that allows a living being's body to be "melted down" into a yellow liquid substance. They're still alive, aware, and conscious after this process is done and the "liquid human" can be injected into specially designed machines or robots to power them and allow the liquid human to regain their senses and such. Because of the nature of this and the fact that it grants an increase in psychic abilities, this is a very last ditch effort to save someone's life if there's no other option whatsoever -- when Kaori, who was dying of a disease that couldn't be cured, asked to be liquefied, the entire room reacted in horror and refused to allow her to do that. Humans in this state can be combined into one another, but all in all, it's a very unpleasant way to live, which is why it's not a very widespread practice... willingly, anyway.
Psychokinesis: Natural psychics in this world are all but unheard of -- in the entire city, Akira is the only one that exists. Usage of a drug called "Matango" can grant a person very mild psychic powers for the duration that they're drugged/stoned with it; as shown by Matsu, to have any significant distance, you must take an overly fatal dose of it, possibly enough to kill you multiple times over. Liquefied humans also have slightly stronger and permanent psychic powers, but even then it's not anywhere close to the degree that Akira himself possesses -- he's unique, a mutation, an unknown, and everyone knows it.
Buriki Daioh: Not much information is given on this one. Buriki Daioh is a robot from ancient times sometimes referred to as a "god" or a "giant" that is controlled and powered via the use of incredibly strong psychokinesis; Akira, a very powerful psychic in his own right, couldn't even get Buriki Daioh to budge on his own. It took a beyond severely overdosed Matsu to even get it running, then it took Akira's and Matsu's powers combined to actually pilot it effectively. Buriki Daioh is strong and nigh-indestructible, though a sufficiently powerful force -- like the god Odeo -- can damage it quite a bit. It's faintly suggested that Buriki Daioh may be at least somewhat sentient -- how else could it have gotten away from the liquid humans, since neither of its pilots were in any shape to actually pilot it?
Crusaders: A gang originally brought together by Kenichi Matsu for freedom from the government. Matsu and Masashi eventually had it out, during which Matsu killed Masashi. On seeing the ten year old Akira weeping violently over his father's body, Matsu came to his senses and left the Crusaders. His departure left the Crusaders without any sort of leadership and they became a violent, cruel gang, causing trouble and grief until they were contracted by the government to kidnap people for sacrifices to the god Odeo. They're very dangerous, willingly working together in medium to large groups to try and take down whoever gets in their way, but they aren't very intelligent. Crusaders can be identified by the skull masks all of them wear somewhere on their person.
Psychokinesis: Natural psychics in this world are all but unheard of -- in the entire city, Akira is the only one that exists. Usage of a drug called "Matango" can grant a person very mild psychic powers for the duration that they're drugged/stoned with it; as shown by Matsu, to have any significant distance, you must take an overly fatal dose of it, possibly enough to kill you multiple times over. Liquefied humans also have slightly stronger and permanent psychic powers, but even then it's not anywhere close to the degree that Akira himself possesses -- he's unique, a mutation, an unknown, and everyone knows it.
Buriki Daioh: Not much information is given on this one. Buriki Daioh is a robot from ancient times sometimes referred to as a "god" or a "giant" that is controlled and powered via the use of incredibly strong psychokinesis; Akira, a very powerful psychic in his own right, couldn't even get Buriki Daioh to budge on his own. It took a beyond severely overdosed Matsu to even get it running, then it took Akira's and Matsu's powers combined to actually pilot it effectively. Buriki Daioh is strong and nigh-indestructible, though a sufficiently powerful force -- like the god Odeo -- can damage it quite a bit. It's faintly suggested that Buriki Daioh may be at least somewhat sentient -- how else could it have gotten away from the liquid humans, since neither of its pilots were in any shape to actually pilot it?
Crusaders: A gang originally brought together by Kenichi Matsu for freedom from the government. Matsu and Masashi eventually had it out, during which Matsu killed Masashi. On seeing the ten year old Akira weeping violently over his father's body, Matsu came to his senses and left the Crusaders. His departure left the Crusaders without any sort of leadership and they became a violent, cruel gang, causing trouble and grief until they were contracted by the government to kidnap people for sacrifices to the god Odeo. They're very dangerous, willingly working together in medium to large groups to try and take down whoever gets in their way, but they aren't very intelligent. Crusaders can be identified by the skull masks all of them wear somewhere on their person.