#T Corp

[mossy-green-aka-ferrythem]

Thinking right now how much I love the sort of corrupt relationship The Wings have with each other in Project Moon's works. I especially love how monumental it is when a Wing falls. Like how in Ruina, with L Corp's fall, you can really see how the other Wings that had close contractual ties with them suffered, with W Corp and R Corp unable to get sufficient power to really fully do whatever they wanted, and struggling to do so, as if they were using the last drops of it, with nobody else knowing, lest they risk financial suicide.

Also with how we know about T Corp's main resource gain.

Also with how a sort of corrupt relationship where the immorality is yet again made explicit with N Corp and K Corp's relationship, because truthfully, I think the larger N Corp saw Nagel und Hammer has a highly valuable group because of how atrocious they are.

Really the Wings are so fascinating with how they work and I really do want them to do more and tell more stories of their Singularities.

I am especially curious about U Corp's true nature, given by how the backstreets are effected, and how the Whales are very clearly morphed by this sort of "Fusion" phenomenon in a twisted way.

[embretheworld]

[maolong]

Alright, something I love about Project Moon's City is that in most of the different districts the Wing in charge literally attempts to control everything to the point of controlling culture, K corp keeps up their clean and corporate look that is distinctly modern though in a sort of off and too clean way, N corp is famous for it's alabaster cities, U corp of course has their cities that seemed to be formed by the Unification singularity from a bunch of different floating stuff, but T corp takes the cake. T corp is literally using their singularity to control how everything looks keeping everything in greyscale and charging people if they want something else. It's not just a literal show of their control over the city, but of the pollution that they inflict on the city through their profit seeking actions. This goes even further with them controlling how many hours people have in a day with insincere platitudes about how humane they are for allowing people four hour days even when the time that they grant isn't enough for people to find fulfillment in, and is litteraly cutting into their profits over time because the workers do less. But to them the control it offers is still worth it. From there people are then able to use money in order to express themself through color or by having more time to do whatever. It's a perfect way of showing how the corporation attempts to control everything, and also how it corrupts society through it's efforts framing the 'culture' that they create not just as something that kind of bows to the corporation but as something that is predatory both in how it bows to the corporation, but also for many people buying into it simply makes them look like a target. But it still offers an alternative in the Yurodivye. The Yurodivye aren't wearing the silvery grey that the Yurodivye of the other districts that we've seen wear, but they still look like Yurodivye. Because of their choice of patterns and designs that make them both look not like something corporate but also like the Yurodivye in a way that is uniquely T corp repurposing the fashion of the area in a form that makes them both look like members of District 21 but not in a way that makes them look T-corp. They are litteraly rejecting corporate culture and creating their own in the area. And that is in itself still revolutionary against the system.

[projectmoon-smash-or-pass]

(all of them together because they don't have names)

propaganda:

❌ "ngl the clockwork arbiter-lookin one is tempting but in this house we say "fuck cops". smash those tin cans to bits"

[mmmmmmky]

Oh not again now the trains gone and left, and the City's too far to walk to the end

Oh no tumblrino 2. What will the minimum wage backstreets office employee do now? I think a bus. Fixer run bus system. Alternatively, maybe there will 100% be a niche to be filled in if the trains are gone, so a wing run public transport system can start bustling. Assuming w corp fell (I really have no idea what this ask means and is getting at but I appreciate it deeply) t corp would probably also go soon after seeing how they are linked a fair bit. So therfore I think 7 months after the gap will be filled with Trolley Corp with trolleys that run based off of human emotion (you need significant despair to power a trolley)(but it commutes impossibly efficiently) and Waypoint Corp with waypoints for places you've been before (of significance enough to warrant one placed there) (there is no explanation for this one).

I don't know why I did this. It is entirely likely I missed the point of the ask entirely. I am literally just yapping for yapping sake and not making sense lmao.

[citroncynique]

It's Mothers' Day in France, today. Or perhaps it was yesterday, I don't know.

[professional-d]

Back on my ryodion shit

[venomgaia]

Hey do u think any of the district 23 chefs have ever gotten 'ingredients' from R corp. All that meat has to go somewhere, unless R corp is pulling a soylent green

I'm sure there are plenty of places that could actually manage to use 'ingredients' from R corp seeing as there's absolutely a surplus! Although, anyone who's procuring fresh 'ingredients' for the sake of the culinary arts...may end up with more of a mess than they bargained for...

[hollyleaf]

awesome behavior dude. seems really natural

[pedroam-bang]

Full Metal Jacket (1987)

[readingsfrommars]

About T Corp Don

Well folks, we've got a new ID, and a new perspective on Don Quixote, so here I am! T-corp Don is an interesting one because not only is this yet another identity where she is still sane, it's also the closest we've seen to her ideal.

I'll warn you now, this one is long.

Unlike Cinq Association, Don is not acting a mercenary, but a time collector, meaning that her allegiance is not dependent on the highest bid. This means she is able to punish the rich just as much as the poor, which is a significant improvement compared to her other IDs.

Sure, this might sound a bit superficial. Sure, while there is the possibility that a rich tax evader will get caught and punished, the much more likely that the target of her collection will be someone too poor to pay the time debt. Any good intention is drowned out by the reality of The City, right? And normally, I would agree with this.

But that's where our beloved hero Don Quixote comes in. While her work may not be as noble as we'd like, it's in the way she treats her work that we can see how much of a difference it makes.

This might not seem significant to everyone, but T-Corp Don's dreams of heroism are still intact. In her ID story, there is a vital detail that we get to see about Don and the way she treats her work.

Don shows a clear disdain towards taking from the poor, despite the fact that, according to T-Corp, they have broken the law and must be punished. This is interesting for a few reasons, and I'll try to show this through Don's other IDs.

Like I mentioned in my examination of Cinq Association Don, most of her IDs involve two themes.

Don is indoctrinated by the group she is with. This can be seen with N Corp and W Corp (initially), but is present in most of her identities.

Either Don's dream breaks, or her mind does. Again, N Corp and W Corp are both fantastic examples of this. (A subtle but nevertheless notable example of this is Blade Lineage Don. It is never explicitly stated what has happened to her, but the simple fact that she no longer wields her blade for others speaks volumes as to how her dream is long gone.)

However, with T Corp, we see Don actively trying to avoid performing her duty as a collector when it comes into conflict with her ideals. This tells us that she has not only managed to avoid being indoctrinated by T Corp, she has managed to keep her dream and mind intact.

Like Cinq Association, she has found a way to pursue justice in her own way, albeit with a few compromises. And, in my personal opinion, she seems more fulfilled by her work for T Corp.

As stated before, she spares no expense in her pursuit and punishment of the rich tax evaders, who exploit the poor and vulnerable. In her ID story, it shows her risking going past her allotted work hours to expense justice.

Meanwhile with the poor, she will try to delay their punishment as much as possible. Delaying anything in T Corp, where time is everything, is something that should not be taken lightly.

Compared to her earlier IDs, this is a huge improvement. For Don, who in most IDs would fulfill her duty without question, to show clear resistance towards doing work (which according to T Corp involves punishing wrongdoers) demonstrates that she has managed to keep her ideals of heroism far more than ever before, to the point of her own personal code clashing with the law.

In my opinion, this is something to celebrate. Within the grim reality of The City, being able to maintain noble ideals is laughable, even for those strong enough to defend them.

T Corp Don keeping hold of her desire to fight for justice sounds too good to be true, considering all of the other ways we've seen her story go very, very wrong.

And if you did think it was too good to be true...

You'd be right.

Just like in Cinq Association, T Corp Don represents a failure to achieve her dream. And in this case, it's built into the very foundations of this ID. The very fact that she is working for T Corp is proof that she has, perhaps without knowing it, given up on her idea of justice.

Oh, and when I said Don wasn't indoctrinised? I lied.

T Corp is one of the most extreme places in terms of inequality between the rich and poor. When time is literally money, you'll be lucky to get ten hours in a day, while your employer likely has upward of 50 hours a day. If you don't understand what I'm saying by this, you'll get it if you complete Canto 6.5.

T Corp would already be an awful place - even to the standard of The City - if that was the only thing the poor were robbed of, but anyone who has played Limbus Company knows that I have missed out a very important detail about the place.

In T Corp, colour is a luxury. I'm not talking colourful clothes or furniture, I mean you are literally monochrome unless you pay for it. If you are poor, not only do you have less time between grueling work shifts, your world has no colour. Every day is mind-destroying work, eating, and sleeping. Nothing changes. Everything you look at is some shade of brown, and there is nothing you can say you truly own.

To live in T Corp is to accept the most brutal inequality the human mind can conceive. You don't question the awful working conditions, the way the lower class are exploited and discarded by the rich and powerful, or the fact that a will to live is something that must be bought. You accept all of that because that's life for you. The idea of being treated any better is something that is only possible by getting more wealth, which means you need more hours in the day to work, which you get by working. There is no life for the poor of T Corp. Only Survival, work, and death.

To work for T Corp is to not only accept the way things are, but to assist them. Any semblance of equality in Don's work is illusory, and the truth of the matter is that her work continues to secure the future of that brutal cycle. The game even states as much in her story.

I haven't played Final Fantasy 7's remake, but there's a line from that game that feels very relevant to T Corp Don.

"A good man who serves a great evil is not without sin. He must recognise and accept his complicity."

T Corp Don is potentially the most tragic ID Don has. She has allowed herself to become something that can only be described as evil in order to find the slightest bit of good.

So what does she do? She gives her everything to punishing the people she believes are more evil than her, in order to vent her frustration and validate her path, while at the same time trying in vain to distance herself from the evil she must inevitably commit to maintain the status quo.

But someone who only does good some of the time is not a hero, and deep down Don knows it.

[mossy-green-aka-ferrythem]

FIRST EXTRACTION I GOT T CORP DON AND T CORP RODYA

GAMBLING PAYS OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FUCKING LUCKY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THAT'S WHAT I AM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HELL YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[befuddled-calico-whump]

Hunter (Corporate AU)

- one of Rex's personal bodyguards

- chronically lonely

- slightly more socially adjusted but still treated like shit

(more lore under the cut, cw for themes of drug use/addiction)

- Hunter's childhood years/teens are mostly unchanged here, but instead of bouncing directly to organized crime after gang #3, he ends up alone for some time

- no friends, plenty of enemies, and in a really bad mental place, Hunter started taking one-off jobs as a drug mule to stay afloat. One job resulted in him getting paid with the product he was running, and at that point he was close enough to rock bottom that he said what the hell

- this started a destructive eleven-month cycle of him saying "never again", fighting with himself about it, and then having a shit day and cracking. The periods of self-argument got shorter and shorter with each time he caved

- he met Rex outside a bar purely coincidentally. They wound up having a one-night-stand (Hunter just wanted to sleep somewhere warm)

- later, Rex found him passed out in an alley and called an ambulance for him. In the hospital, he offered to pay the bill if Hunter came to work for him

- he made him get clean before officially taking the job (one of the only decent things he's done). Since then, Hunter's taken up nicotine and drinking as a legal substitution

- Rex isn't the most moral CEO. His bodyguards are there to protect him, yes, but they also act as enforcers and collectors

- he saved Hunter mostly for selfish reasons. He got rebuffed during their first encounter and liked the idea of taking back that control. Plus, having a guard dog who owed him everything sounded very appealing

- anyways my skrunkly boy looks cute all dressed up

[melonisopod]

They really like subtlety at Project Moon.

[leilanising]

@tmnt-fandom-family-reunion

[lilithsaga]

Man, the holostars EN debuts were wild.

Jurard and Crimson have himbo energy that I'm in love with.

Goldbullet has the hearty laugh that I want to pull around me like a blanket by a warm fire

Octavio is adorable and enchanting!

Best of luck to the boys!