Post by N on Dec 7, 2008 0:06:23 GMT -5
the world's cities have created an idea of what is pretty and what is not. when the uglies turn sixteen, they have an operation that makes them pretty. the uglies are now considered pretty after this operation. pretties are free to do as they please, and are expected to be lazy and vain, partying away their lives. the world has been brought to civilization as its preceeders, the horrible rusties, once destroyed it. everything is better now, right? unknowingly being 'pretty-minded' isn't a crime, is it? it is if the young tally youngblood can help it.
, littlies ;
children, ages 0-11. they live with their parents, who are already pretty, and go to school like kids do today. littlies' imperfections are noticeable, but most pretties find them to still be cute.
, uglies ;
pre-teens and teenagers, ages 12-15. on a littlie's 12th birthday, they leave their homes and live in uglyville with all of the other kids between twelve and fifteen. they sleep in dorms and go to school, dreaming every day of finally becoming pretty when they're sixteen. they can be violent and fight sometimes, participating in sports activities between the dorms.
, new pretties ;
people from 16 to 29 who have 'perfect' faces and model-like beauty. they never fight or even raise their voices, and they don't work. they live in new pretty town, where they still live in dorms. new pretties party all the time, and everything in the city is safe for them. there are different cliques in new pretty town, and every new pretty wants to be a part of one.
, middle pretties ;
people from 30-49 who have gotten a second operation to become older, wiser, still pretty workers. they have jobs now, and are starting to find people to settle down with if they didn't when they were new pretties. middle pretties have the aura about them that people want to trust. they don't live in new pretty town, but just past its outskirts and the 'green belt', in small communities of houses. they're starting to have children, their littlies living with them.
, crumblies ;
people who are 50+, ranging into the hundred-teens. they have had a third operation, becoming still older. crumblies are retired pretties, living in homes in 'crumblyville'.
, specials ;
a special is an agent of special circumstances, the secret agency of 'cruel-pretties' with dark eyes, more defined features, and sharp teeth. they are stronger, faster, and taller than regular pretties, and anyone from a new pretty to a middle-pretty can be one. only the most tricky ugly-turned pretty can become a special, and they get another operation to gain the features of one. specials keep outsiders out of the cities, as well as keeping the tricky uglies inside.
, rusties ;
the rusties were, to put it simply, us. they depended on oil and cars, burning wood and slaughtering animals without remorse. they were always at war with eachother, and killed left and right. the smoke from their cars and fires was polluting the atmosphere, and they nearly destroyed the planet. one day, a scientist accidently engineered a bacteria that got into the gas lines of a few cars. the bacteria, mixed with the gasoline, caused something no one expected. when the car was started, and the gas mixed with oxygen, it immediately burst into flames. the smoke from the fire spread the bacteria through the air, until it had infected all of the cars. the rusties were realizing what had happened, and rushed to escape it. the more... ahem, stupid, rusties tried to get into their cars, and died. alas, there were a smarter few, who escaped on foot. they were the ones that created the operation.
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now, seeing as the rusties were a huge fail, the survivors wanted to make the new world they would have to create into a much simpler, calmer place. they all wanted to make a world where no one would fight, and everyone agreed. the survivors created an idea of what was pretty, and decided they would make everyone look like it, so that there would be no arguements or insults flying. the survivors had anticipated different personalities, though, and figured there may still be conflict. it was then that they created brain lesions that they would add to a new pretty's brain to stop them from arguing. it shut off the violent human tendencies in a normal person's brain so that people wouldn't fight anymore. for centuries, the same idea of what's pretty has been taught in school, to make everyone under sixteen think they were ugly, and they could only hope towards the day they became pretty.