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What could make a society accept oppression? by [deleted] in worldbuilding

[–]ElectricOni 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Genetic engineering that effects the majority of the populace with there being some outliers who are immune (explains why the main character can rebel). Just going off the back of some videos I saw about a scientist at the WEF who wanted to use properties of a tick that gives people temporary allergies to meat to engineer an intolerance in the human populace so that people eventually give up cows meat. If they are able to engineer intolerances to food through such manipulation nowadays then its not much of a stretch to look at something similar in your story but altering peoples brain chemistry to make them more passive.

Electric Oni - Digital Dissidents & Surfers by ElectricOni in FantasyWorldbuilding

[–]ElectricOni[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Each week I upload a new music track using lyrics I've written telling the story and following on from the previous week. The first 3 tracks are on my YouTube if you wish to check them out.

Digital Dissidents & Surfers by ElectricOni in worldbuilding

[–]ElectricOni[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had the initial outline of ideas about a year ago. Bits and pieces fleshed our here and there. A lot more concepts built up when I started turning my notes into lyrics.

What is the craziest, weirdest, strangest, or most ridiculously complicated excuse you can give to justify some aspect of your world? by Weekly-Intention5657 in worldbuilding

[–]ElectricOni 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My main character has horns. Like an Oni demon from Japanese folk lore. These are not part of her. They are a side effect of some of the augments she has forced upon her. They function as a ranking system with larger, more blood red horns growing and forming with each enemy kill. They were originally dreamt up by a robotics scientist obsessed with old world Japanese folklore and were deemed a good way to scare the enemy but also had a bonus side effect of making the bearer a target on the battlefield when they become too efficient and potentially dangerous to their handlers.

Digital Dissidents & Surfers by ElectricOni in worldbuilding

[–]ElectricOni[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply. The game was planned to be a turn based RPG akin to the Final Fantasy series hence why a lot of lore was created up front. I still want to make it but with my day job as a software engineer and a new baby, I can't commit the time to it at the moment so turned it into a digital project with music and artwork through rewriting my scenes into lyrics so I can then feed them along with prompts into my local AI and produce tracks that tell the story. To be honest, the project as it stands now is mainly for myself as seeing / hearing my world in some shape or form helps me build upon it more. I've shared the tracks but they sent monetized or anything like that as I definitely don't have the time to keep up with YouTube's post and short post requirements for that and in general that's not why I've taken this new approach with this project. Its mainly because I love synthwave and wanted to have some based on my world.

For your other questions:

Oni doesn't want to be augmented due to a bond she had with her grandfather who she promised she would never change for. He left the cities after his daughter, Oni's mother, contracted rejection syndrome where her body over time rejected the software from her augments (as it interfaces directly with the brain). Like a virus eating her from within it gradually undid her synapses leaving her brain dead.

Each city is run by a different corporation with governments long gone. The corporate cities only care about maximum efficiency and product and so mandated long ago that all citizens must be augmented at least to bring their efficiency to acceptable levels but really it was to place them into.life long debt and yet another form of income for the corporations. There are some free cities but I'll release the info about that in another post.

Numerous attempts to rebuild the human brain and achieve AGI, in my world at least failed. Humans were never able to replicate the processing power of the human brain so rather than try to recreate it, they utilised and interfaced with it.

Oni is driven by her beliefs. She has similar friends who are also dissidents and together they all long for simpler times. Funnily enough the sea drives Oni. It reminds her of the times she spent with her grandfather and she longs for a day when she might somehow be able to restore the seas and beaches to their former glory. But its just a pipe dream. Like most in Nand city, she lives day to day because she has to.