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white, early twenties, disabled, lesbian, plural. a cat that just so happens to be a person. sister of @yrgirlkv. makes things, sometimes.


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  • Sunblack is a sprawling city somewhere on the West Coast of the USA. It’s Oakland and San Francisco and Los Angeles all wrapped into one, and for those of you who are from here, it’s right on the line between Norcal & Socal. Its climate may not make sense for that geography. Don’t worry about it.
  • Literally speaking, Sunblack is composed of two cities which overlap and fuse in strange, unpredictable ways. The rootside city was once the independent city-state of Rukaza ("River House" in Felsic), a rootside trading hub and international crossroads, and the leafside city was an up-and-coming Californian tech city called Mesa Roja. While the two cities are now one, their old names persist as labels for each "side" of Sunblack.
  • One of the most important things Sunblack does is supply the North American continent with the vast majority of its hesperine, aka “the immortal metal,” a mineral that appears to amplify psychic powers and to generate some strangely paracausal properties of its own. Sunblack isn’t the only source of hesperine for the continent — there’s a few mines in the far north of Canada, and a few down in Mexico as well — but Sunblack is convenient because it provides a nearby workforce to both mine, process, and ship the stuff everywhere.
  • Sunblack builds out more than it builds up.
  • Sunblack’s relationship to the US government is complicated. Some of Rukaza’s larger powers have managed to keep the city’s independence on the leafside as well; Sunblack has its own customs department, and its municipal agencies are not directly accountable to the US federal government. But the US is without a doubt the city’s wealthiest patron, and there is a certain amount of cooperation expected of the city. Those born in Sunblack are entitled to birthright citizenship in the United States regardless of whether they are rootkin or leafkin, though not all claim it.
  • The Solum — and anything that comes from it, hesperine included — are about as new to rootkin as they are to leafkin. There are more legends on the rootside that can be conclusively tied to intrusions of the Solum, but that has more to do with a less cohesive global culture than the actual frequency of such events.
  • Some of Sunblack’s exit roads move into California on the leafside, and some exit into the rootside. They’re labeled now, but there’s nothing that distinguishes them from one another. Sometimes, a road will — apparently — change its mind, exiting into root instead of leaf or vice versa. Nobody enjoys this.

(for more on sunblack, click here)


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