Back At It Again

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everyone knows where they were when aidairo dropped these a year ago

ITS BEEN A YEAR.

fakeass red flag i saw you smiling so kindly

TEARS IN MY EYES GANG WTF😭

wdym they were already doomed the moment they entered the house

Edit: THEY WERE GONNA RUN AWAY WITH EACHOTHER WHAT HAPPENED

Still defending my delusions about Togame being Vashwood's lovechild

i can't stand him

I dont know how to explain why this is important

But let's not forget that Parkour Civilization is a meritocracy. A socialist autocratic meritocracy.

I feel people don't dwell on this fact enough, opting to just focus on the capitalist allegories, which is awesome bc the allegory is strong and well made, but the literal government seperate from allegory is ALSO very well made and unique, i mean I've never seen a fictional government quite like it, and it's impressive.

People often struggle to conceive the thought of another government or societal idea, and Evbo managed to make an entire government and social norm completely different from any of our own.

Like, let's break this government (or lack of) down.

Parkour Civilization has a sole and all-powerful ruler, The Champion. Which makes the society autocratic with a dictator.

The "businesses" ( housing stores, buying food and blocks, etc. ) are collectivley owned, not belonging to a single person but rather the community. Especially in higher layers, people receive as much as they give to their society. If they work, they get food, they do extra tasks, they get blocks. It's essentially a Marxist Leninist socialist society, but one that's heavily affected by the meritocracy, which can make it seem more capitalist leaning.

Speaking of Meritocratic society, people often mistake the meritocratic aspects as being outright capitalistic, like the social hierarchies and needing to parkour for basic necessities. HOWEVER this is because the society is structured based on your merits in parkour, those with a higher skill level are placed higher in the social chain. Thats why the Parkour Champion is a dictator, because they're the person who is THE BEST at parkour, making them the most capable to lead society according to meritocracy.

In any case, the fact that people are forced to parkour ALL the time is pretty understandable, considering this government is based on merit. They're encouraging people to show off and practice their parkour because their skill level is the only thing to get them anywhere in society. Based on their merits, they get their bare essentials, and if they have particularly good skill levels, they can rank up in society and have access to better resources.

People also always talk about how Evbo didn't make food and resources accesable for free without parkour, which is kind of where the capitalist lens takes over because those things ARE free. There isn't a system of currency in Parkour Civilization. it's all just MERITS. The fact they can die from parkour and the fact they use language like "buy" and "sell" makes it seem capitalistic, but they dont work and receive currency. The currency is infinite as long as their SKILL SET allows it. People had to worry about the consequence of dying from parkour, which is what made it scarce and less accesable, people werent willing to try. Evbo, however, gave them the ability to try again without consequence, which pretty much DOES make everything free, as free as it gets. They have infinite "currency" based on their skills, and theres no consequence for failing or trying again.

I also feel that when people beg Evbo or the future generations to turn Parkour Civilization into more of a communist society, they're completely ignoring the worldbuilding. That is an insane leap to make, from a society based on parkour abilities to having nothing to do with parkour? "Well, they can still parkour!" They could, but you'd be removing the vitality of it completely. I mean, imagine asking the states to become fully communist? It's an insane change that their society would never make, and thats not the end goal. Society can be functional and good without our interpretation of a utopic government because every society is different.

I love the government in Parkour Civilization. Please hear this. And ask me questions or talk to me about it.

wait, isnt NSFW the letters on the compass

Nicholas and Aiden would be THE duo of all time you don’t understand.

I like to think Aiden would decide he likes Nicholas and he’s like “no this is my biological little brother you don’t understand”

He helps Nicholas with the most annoying fencing techniques after finding out Nicholas’ interest in the flick

Aiden knows Nicholas and Seiji have had an appointment, he’d 100% decide to be matchmaker (if he can’t sort out his own love life with Harvard then at least he can help Nicholas)

They’ve also got arguably the worst home life of the team, Nicholas’ mum never shows up for any of his matches so Aiden takes it upon himself to tell Nicholas he did well or the team was proud of him (he’s got over the fact his dad never shows up to anything and he’s never had a mother figure around long enough to care and he ain’t letting his little bro feel the same way) (he’s on the side watching Nicholas fence like GO WHITE BOY GO) (he’s aware Seiji does the same but makes SURE Nicholas knows he’s a good fencer)

If Nicholas has been on the bench for too long Aiden will suddenly find a date and disappear for a few matches just so Nicholas gets subbed in

Him and the coach also fully agree that Nicholas, once he has his technique down, is probably going to replace Aiden as the Chameleon of the group

If he found out Nicholas was the secret son of Robert Coste (probably finds the piece of newspaper in the trophy case) however, I do fear he’d use it against Jesse. Tell him right before their match against him so Jesse’s off balance and they loose. Nicholas gets rightfully upset and Aiden actually feels bad bc like that’s his little brother

(They also definitely have the same taste in music. Look at those two and tell me they don’t both listen to Lady Gaga)