Glowcore
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Setting Intro | Visitor's Guide | Author's Intentions
Nisorans who revel in Glowcore culture are visually the most alien humans you'll meet. Everything from their clothes, to their tattoos, to their prosthetic limbs illuminates in a rainbow of colors and scatters light like a prism. Their whole bodies flash and glow in beat with music pulsating through the night.
A Way of Life
The ideological concepts of Glowcore can be traced as far back as Nisora's original settlers, who refused to be bound to what the Terran Mandate wanted of them.
Back then, this fierce defense of independence was expressed though an air of defiance and blase attitude toward the rule of law. Now it's done in rebellion against off-world cultures that find Nisorans to be brash, loud, and aggressive. Rather than tone it down, they've held true to their ancestry and doubled down.
"I don't need some government telling me what I can and can't do with my own body. If that bothers you... then maybe just leave Nisora."
Aesthetics
- Vibrant colors
- Bright lights
- Loud music
- Tattoos
- Body mods
- Cybernetics
Glowcore takes natural Nisoran vibrancy and augments it with modern technology. Members of this sub-culture add lights, mirrors, and glowing compounds to every inch of their bodies, from clothes to skin. They'll spend thousands on body mods and cybernetics that are banned on other planets due to known or suspected safety concerns.
For them, the fact that their mods are banned elsewhere is the point - the goal is to amplify aspects of Nisoran culture that offend off-world visitors.
Ideology
- Personal liberty
- Bodily autonomy
- Individual choice
- Anti-conformity
- Community
- Equity
Despite the aggressive nature of the sub-culture, Glowcore requires a delicate balance between seemingly-contradictory ideals. They oppose conformity for the sake of conformity, or because someone else demanded it, but also value community and shared ideals. Their fights to preserve personal liberty include fights for equitable access to opportunities to take advantage of such liberties.
And though they'll defend the right even to self-destructive personal choices, everyone has a line they'll stop someone from crossing. Especially if not doing so could bring harm to someone they care about.
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Glowcore also fiercely defends someone's right to say no, and members of the culture will never pressure someone into taking actions they're not comfortable with. However, not everyone who applies the aesthetic lives by the ideology.Author Commentary
TechnicolorGlowcore was one of the first ideas I had for Nisoran culture. The closest real-world analog, at least aesthetically, might be neonpunk. I love color being used in rebellion (if you couldn't guess from Talmar), and wish I could draw some of the Glowcore visuals I imagine.
I love glowcore. Probably a little loud for me as an aesthetic, but I love their attitude and what it stands for. :)
There had to be at least ONE nice thing about this planet ;)