Post by Caroline Tobias on Oct 17, 2009 18:52:47 GMT -6
Setting
Paris, France
Year
3535
Paris, France
Year
3535
This world frowns very heavily on people expressing themselves. It has gotten so bad that creativity itself is illegal, forcing everyone to become quite drone like. Fashion is dead as people have only certain types of clothes and colours in which they can wear. Not only that, but no one can have piercings or tattoos to have any is illegal and punishable by death. Music, poetry, dancing, painting, and other types of creativity are banned. Practicing any of them can and will send you straight to prison for life.
Law enforcement is very heavy upon these things, making expressing one's individuality quite hard to do, even if you practice in private. Why, you ask? It had all started two hundred years ago when the best creative minds of the world met. They made it their project to create the best painting this world would ever know. At first, it seemed harmless as they started, but when it was finished chaos ensued. The painting was wonderful to the eyes of many, but to some it caused them to snap and those people began to go on sprees of murder, thievery and many other illegal activities. Anarchy quickly washed over the world with these activities and a world war broke out across the surface.
Fifty years of uncontrolled chaos had started, the Anarchists in possession of the painting and quite literally using it to turn people. No one can explain why it did this, but those untouched by the madness were fighting to destroy this painting. Only thing truly understood about the painting was that it caused anger and grief within many people, causing them to lose their minds. After the death of millions, the government sent in a special ops company that took down the leaders and destroyed the painting while the rest of the army wiped out the stragglers. When the chaos was in control, the government rose up and took control, automatically making all creativity illegal and banned it across the world.
Speculations on the painting said it was bewitched to cause what happened while others said it was simply the mix of colours. No matter what caused it, creativity no longer exists within the world as all of it was removed and burned. People even began to take up religious stand points against all creativity as painters and writers were burned like witches.