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SHERIFF FARAH BLACK 💙😍💙

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This guy? A4 wants to recruit this guy? From a block away, Art temporarily overrides his earpiece signal and jams his conscience's. They hear what he hears. Hear what he speaks. Sad, strange man. For the first time ever, Art sympathizes with consciences. Stay on mission. "Except you're not alone. Jiminy cricket isn't a part of you."

open

"I'm a lonely celibate, me. I do nothing. I go home and fry eggs.*"

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it is an obvious “read between the lines” kind of system but to be explicit: willers are essentially second class citizens.

they face extreme prejudice. their rights are limited. employment is both systemically and culturally difficult. willers aren’t allowed to work “higher level thinking/moral” jobs without a learner’s permit (that is very difficult to get). which restricts them to blue collar, manual labor jobs and minimum wage jobs that society deems mindless and “easy” (e.g. fry cook) (despite what they may have been prior to their felony and enrollment in DECORUM). while they could technically be cashiers and waiters and minimum-ish wage jobs of that nature, employers do discriminate and would never hire a willer as a face of their company.

there’s also a HOM (high occupancy mind) tax on many experiential things. because willers have a conscience who can see and hear what they do, if they’re buying a ticket to see a movie or go to a concert or attend college, all of these would require a double pay because someone else is also experiencing these things through them.

it’s difficult to move up in the world as a willer. it’s very difficult to actually pass the multiphasic morality assessment and not all components of the test are public knowledge, even to the willers. some components are presumably observation based and never revealed or remarked on. making it mysterious and un-study-able and unable to be disputed.

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like or reply for something thrown your way (specify my muse if you have a pref). alternatively, send in prompts (tag is ic meme).

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ocs (or au ideas) you could potentially make for the decorum world:

a willer

a conscience

the congressional rep for the decorum district

the mayor for the decorum district

reva hauer (i've yet to write her and would let her be adopted by the right buyer...)

key oh (i have written her but if she interests you, again, would let her be adopted or taken for a spin by the right buyer)

A4 members

A4 leader(s)

writer(s) for the morality show (key oh's or the children's edition)

decorum admin worker

a former willer who graduated and is now a normal citizen again

a former willer who graduated and is now a conscience (rarely done if ever; would be a poster child for the bureau)

art freeby's conscience

hopper goodacre's willer

hopper goodacre's previous willer

richard mcgovern's conscience

etc etc etc

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#KEYHOP. independent original characters from an original retrofuture dystopian world. intermittent activity. somewhat selective. will not follow anyone underage. written by jordy (they/it/he), '95, est, other accounts here.

ABOUT + RULES ⤵

ABOUT.

LOOK / LISTEN / READ

information on the world and a roster of the muses can be found here. incredibly essential! do read!

the tl;dr of the world is: the characters exist in a dystopian future wherein felons or people charged with felonies can enroll in the DECORUM program (a united states bureau). they are paired with a real life person who acts as their surrogate conscience. their conscience sees and hears what they see. like this, they get to exist in society, not prison. if they pass the multiphasic morality assessment, they can reintegrate into society as a normal citizen.

HIGH/MAIN ACTIVITY MUSES:

Hopper Goodacre

Richard McGovern

Art Freeby

MEDIUM ACTIVITY MUSES:

Key Oh

LOW ACTIVITY MUSES:

Reva Hauer

Eddie Kit

RULES.

shipping. i ship chemistry. only at your discretion and approval.

replies. tentatively mutuals only. if we’re not mutuals but you wish to write with me, send me a message and i’m sure we can work something out.

age. while i don’t mind minors following me, i will not write with or follow you. i’m simply not comfortable with the age gap and life discrepancy.

icons. practically all icons used here are from the wonderful bobby. i don't always use them in threads.

writing. my writing is generally longer here, but i will try to keep in the ballpark of your reply length. do not feel compelled to do the same. i don’t use any formatting or small text. i don’t mind if you do, but i have difficulty reading heavily stylized text and tend to stay away from accounts that do so because of this.

world. these characters exist in an original world of my creation. i'm not really interested in placing them in other canons/worlds. therefore, i eagerly encourage you to make a DECORUM au for your muse. if you want to make ocs based in this world, that rules, too. go for it. let's have fun!

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[im whispering in your ear] make a decorum au for your muse, make a decorum au for your muse, make a dec—

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“sometimes, people say stupid things, because they’re stupid.”

"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Stupidity is a premium luxury. You understand? I say something dumb and they dock my morality score. You can say whatever you want. The stupider the freer." Art pays to enter the museum. "You know I have to buy two tickets, right? They count my babysitter. H-O-M." High Occupancy Mind. "You're the one who can say it..." A suggestive face their conscience cannot see.

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DECORUM WORLD.

Window, Nana Grizol / Solid Advice / [Eye in an Eye] / The World As I See It, Albert Einstein / Thinker Poster / No One Errs Willingly: The Meaning of Socratic Intellectualism, Heda Segvic / [Strange Things Happen Here!] / [Eye Beams]

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@vitalphenomena

Kieran isn't allowed to know Hopper's name (article two, section two, sub clause three: a conscience's legal name must remain confidential). Her formal alias is Hop (the paperwork to get an alias so close to her first name approved was colossal). But he calls her Claire because she's always clarifying. "You slept in today." Here goes her namesake: "For you, anyway. You usually get up before the worms do." She's doing her makeup in the bathroom. She rakes the mascara wand through her lashes, stops mid-sweep, and squints at herself in the mirror—sees his vision overlaid her vision which makes her hand-eye accuracy a little askew (a glob of mascara gunk got in her eyebrow, she dabs it off)—questioning aloud: "Do worms sleep?"

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@eviji

Richard is eating at an Italian restaurant. Chicken parmesan. He sees Deco at the host stand.

Making a show of it, shouting from his table: "No. Refuse that man service."

[sms: Deco] Meet around back

In the kitchen, the floor is so greasy managers must have blank worker's comp checks in their email signatures. Richard moves a bowl of lettuce and sits on a steel-metal table. Chefs and busboys clip-clop around them in their clunky-clog rubber shoes. He'd rather slip and break his neck than be seen wearing those.

"You can't approach me in public like this. You bomb people. That bombs me." Deco analyzes weapons, he doesn't make them. Toe-may-toe toe-mah-toe, I-ran I-raq. What's the difference? "Capiche?" Shoulder slap. "What do you want?"

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@corsey for matthew.

"I'm not doing that."

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DECORUM definitely has a census. a five-year measure of morality/behavior that all citizens are required, by law, to fill out.

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@vitalphenomena for burns!

"Whoaaa!" Art flings their head back, gaze flying up. "Fuck, man!" They slap their hand over their eyes. "Do what you want, but I can't see you do it. If I see it, they see it." To someone Burns can't see: "No, I'm not obstructing anything. There's something in my eyes."

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like or reply for a starter! specify a muse if you want. otherwise, i'll pick randomly!

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You’ve got to spread joy up to the maximum! Bring gloom down to the minimum! Have faith or pandemonium is liable to walk upon the scene!  ♪

#KEYHOP.  independent original characters within an original scifi world. written by jordy. themes: morality, what it means to be a good person, panopticon, institutions as people, agency, autonomy.

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— Frank Bidart, from “Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016; ‘The Third Hour of the Night’", published c. 2017