Colors (Physical)

# Colors

"*It seems tactically unwise to organize your units so obviously, military practice must have fascist roots, look good but function terrible"* - **The Old One** remarking on the widespread practice of the Associations labeling.

### Significance

Colors, those of that of the people in any form of military. Are important in physically identifying the type of thing you're up against, Colors stretch past people and into objects as well, examples will be given later in the article

Though slightly different, the resonance of **Souls**, and their respective inspired technologies, also follow a color based system.

#### Physical Identification

**Red:** Red is the color representing an upgrade from Grunts or laborers, this is the most widespread color and it can also represent more than general infantry, such as important structures, Laser technology, or with rare cases being the soul enhanced anomalies. Red is the most widespread color but such shouldn't downplay its significance.

**Orange:** Orange represents non-combatant labor crew, though they my join the combat in their utility vehicles to limited success

**Yellow:** Yellow is enough to be considered a rare color, Yellow marks when situations get serious as Combat specialized soldiers and leaders are brought in to do their work. Yellow is also representative of an in progress upgrade or elite station. Yellow may mostly comprise of mortals, but these mortals are the best of the best

**Lime:** Despite Lime often denoting medical aid, it never means non-combatant. Lime colored denominate hard to kill fighters as their advanced healing technology can make them bullet sponges in heated situations, this also poses a threat as others may easily heal from their efforts as well.

**Green:** Green can be referred to as a *combo color* as it denotes "Zombie" or resurrected units, it is able to come in combos denoting the rank of said zombie and they do retain their skills. Not all zombies are monstrous however as many retain their intelligence no matter how far the decay. On rare occasions it can denote "Unconventional" if worn in the form of a band on the torso or abdomen.

**Aqua Green:** There is a lot of green in color denominations, and for good reason, it just looks that good. Aqua green denotes units with many gadgets.

**Teal:** Teal is the color of those with the ability to manipulate objects through telepathy, specialized units can be pumped with fuel to enhance their telepathic abilities to crushingly dangerous levels. They are often combo'd with grey due to their already high base price.

**Blue:** Blue is the color of energy, most commonly "Normalization" energy which strike critically against Manifestations of Madness. It is one of the most rare colors to see unless it is worn by the clan of blue madenites capable of minor energy manipulation.

**Purple:** Purple is also most commonly a *combo color* denoting possession or alternative madness though possession is usually a lighter shade of purple. It can also be used to identify the sharpness of certain melee weapons and has even been used to signify stealth expertise.

**Magenta:** Magenta is a very uncommon color, its presence lets one know of the impending use of remote strength, which is more likened to the abilty to summon gravity anywhere you want. Its often a gift from a higher power that causes mental decay of those bestowed.

**Pink:** Pink is an ironic color, sometimes with white. Its appearance as a *combo color* mean either a party, or an experienced killer just passed your eye-line.

**Magenta-White:** Magenta-white is a signifier of split dimensions, but on a creature means random mutation, usually surface level like bones growing through skin and reducing said being into an animalistic state. It is technically a *combo color* only because usually grunts are found with these mutations, seldom will such a person grow in size to mimic the effects of MAG's.

**Brown:** Brown most commonly signifies Civilian status, but in rare instances of combat may denote cadet, guerrilla, or melee specializing

**White:** White is a *combo color* but only in a non-combatant role as it denotes the resercher role, still those with this predominant color may attack with scalpels or test tubes. White also signifies pure fuel in a physical sense.

**Grey:** Grey is easily the most common color ever represented. It, despite its common nature, is *not a combo color* though still may be used in tandem with other colors as a minor addition. It signifies unranked personell, the enviornment, the untainted state of the sky, that one is holding a weapon, or even random bystander. Grey is the most vanilla color to be seen but certainly one of the most welcome.

**Black:** Black is arguably the most important color signifier, it means direct upgrade and illustrates the best of the best along with the color it's combo'd with. Black is the reason why CHAFU is so feared and revered. Black, especially when combo'd with any other color, means you stand no chance of winning, they are not set pieces to your slaughter, and you are not to theirs, When black ranks arrive it means the objective will be done to their requirements because they are only given a general mission directive and they do the rest as they see fit. They will never be assigned kill missions as they prefer more to drive away their enemies. Black, except in the case of CHAFU most significantly, is seldom paired with other Blacks as they usually lead the lesser colors. If a full Black team is composed then do not attempt to challenge them, they can't be sniped, they have survived air support attacks, they have survived sattelite laser strikes, they have organized to single handedly stop a shore invasion, they have even been those responsible for exterminating Purple and Green infestations. Blacks are also highly loyal too, so betrayal is too far from their minds to join any cutsey rebel team you've assembled, Black is not to be toyed with.

Black can also be used to denominate one as a Manifestation of Madness if clearly made of smoke.

**Chrome/Rainbow:** These are the colors of those certain to be at the top, their bodies require so much resource that to attempt to survive alone would kill them, they cannot be created, they are only born, and when born they are guaranteed to be running any operation and dominate while at it. Chrome is most likely the one to be controlling those dressed in Black.

**Gold:** Gold is a middle signature ranking showing general or field marshal's rank and elite status, these are still under Black rank but may still command the ability to direct them.

#### Soul Identification

Soul identification is slightly different to physical identification as it pertains more to accessories of technology and supernatural powers not too dissimilar from Teal above.

**Red:** Red signifies an angry soul, Red souls are high in Agility and Stamina, their outspoken nature makes them common leaders as well as tyrants. Red is the most common, but also a great general color

**Orange:** Orange souls have the ability to possess beings with weak souls of variable quantity. Often middle ranking officers have orange souls and use the fear and subservience of their subordinates to get themselves out of a sticky situation with an easy meat-shield. Great Oranges have commanded entire armies with seamless efficiency as they can see through the eyes of their possessed, some however may lose brain power with every body taken over.

**Yellow:** Yellow souls are signs of ease of learning, those with yellow souls are often researchers, proud ones. Yellow souls are often middle tier but sometimes denotes a weaker but still noticeable sense of awareness if they have eyes to glint off of.

**Lime:** Lime souls, much like their physical counterparts, are given the natural ability to heal. Lime souls possess the unique ability to transfer any type of flesh into their living brothers so an awakened Lime soul could simply sit on a pile of corpses and survive being shredded by machine gun fire. It can also signify chaotic tendencies such as seen in the counci Drenot

**Green:** Green souls always display a visible aura no matter the circumstance, such weakens their soul as it expends energy doing this and is incapable of changing such. It is also demonstrating of many elements they can't control in their life, their abilities consist of speeding up time if exposing something to physical contact or the greenest clothes one could ever see, it only works on cloth if that is their soul. Polyester works best and wont fade.

**Aqua Green:** Souls of Aqua Green are best fit for surviving submerged in various fluids, They can move as if they were in an atmospher of nitrogen even if submerged in water, lava, or even cornstarch and water. This ability does take in consideration weight, so if it is a human with this ability they would most likely float on the lava but nonetheless they cannot be drowned and they are immune to temperature based damage.

**Teal:** Souls Teal are peculiar, they can Crystalize any material so many with Teal souls end up as connoisseurs, many have learned to change parts of their own body to become crystalized, like having calcite teeth or expensive ruby eyeballs that function. They usually end up rich and covered in jewellery while also being very humble and loving people, despite their looks its less of a flex to them and more a love for sharing their interests and a sliver of lacking self control. Its like me when I look at cheese and become entranced by the geometric shapes (This was not necessary)

**Blue:** Blue souls are like their physical counterpart, but instead of lighting energy it is beam energy. Their abilities require a source of energy in the environment to effectively use their abilities, even then it is super limited as they easily burn themselves and become exhausted. Though these sound like specialized drawbacks, Blue souls are very capable, sought after, and memorialized in most art.

**Purple:** Purple souls are the best at energy manipulation as well as "Objective" skills. They usually are socially inept, prone to mental deviance, and incapable of forming relationships. However, when left alone or even more so if taught, excel at skills of engineering, mathematics, logic, combat, and art. Though most purple souls excel at art the most many hate art as it is a side effect of their more seeking minds and not a skill they absorb easily. Though these souls can be impatient they are the most common among the counci laborers.

**Magenta:** Magenta souls excel at uncontrolled possession, they can take over an unlimited amound of corpses or *willing* recruits but will have very little control over them past objective, many will also be unskilled. Some consider this a lesser Orange skill, however Magenta possesses the benefit of summoning their minions if ground is available in any location from any distance.

**Pink:** Pink souls are socially loved for their stress free lifestyles. They are both at least and at best, so only ever at one spot, lower middle in the social ladder. They cannot help their lifestyles because they work to relieve the stress of others, they can be in relationships but many end up in such with their partner becoming possessive. Isolation pink souls can easily revert them back to grey. They are the kind beacons and best therapy of all the souls and find joy in bringing others ease and peace.

**Magenta-White:** Magenta white is the soul of dormancy, few counci possess such a soul, most are great mortal warlords. The Magenta-Whites are leaders who bring their armies with them to tombs to be summoned at a later date. This often only happens if they are taken over by another tribe and they hope to re-emerge after their collapse. The Magenta-White souls are sometimes immortal as well as any butchered part of them may entirely regenerate from the environment if it contains their soul point, a single point in their body which their soul uses as a summoning point for their powers.

**Brown:** Brown souls are that of celebrities, Brown souls give the holder a great boost to charisma and social reading such as that of body language and dialect. I'll give you +5 to speech if you wear a ninja costume and speak like an east coast American.

**White:** White souls are the scholars and polymaths of the souls, they are not however an upgraded purple as their energy manipulation is minimal enough so that they can float and summon objects at most. They have larger soul expenditures than most but are often incompetent fighters and leaders. More like isolationist repositories of wisdom one would find in mountains.

**Grey:** Grey is the color of an unexpressed soul, Laborers, low end politicians, general civilians are usually incapable of expressing their souls and therefore live and die relatively unknowing of just how powerful they are. These souls however, if in the hands of a warrior, show increased luck, physical resilience (Not strength, still squishy), intelligence, social organization, and combat tactics (not large scale) so it is far from useless in the right and knowledgeable hands.

**Black:** Black souls are voids, they carry the ability to hide their presence from any soul detector and harbor the ability to dampen souls around them, with the exception of grey. They are often empty inside and take no joy in anything, just satisfaction in progress. Their bodies will eventually become contorted and their skins will lose color as they gain demonic mimicking abilities such as surface adhesion, breaking bones to rotate their heads backwards, physiological modification, the puffing and engorgement of the throat, growing teeth. Black souls are where the folklore of vampires and the possessed come from. These can arise in tortured civilians surprisingly easily and may attract larger unsavory forces.

**Monochrome:** by their appearance, one may assume it to be a unique grey soul, however these souls too require belief to function to an effective degree and possess the ability to alter reality. Such was demonstrated when the **Sub Cultist** mechanical demon brought hell and spikes on Kenban for a considerable radius, allowing them to take advantage of the smoke and fire. Such abilities are distinct from right out energy manipulation as it is restricted by tailoring of the landscape, uses other than influence or psychological warfare, and its temporary nature. Those who possess such a soul can use their abilities to their own benefit if their equipment can be bolstered by said spread influence, which can occur if one swears loyalty to certain- more powerful, souls.

**Cog:** Cog souls appear bronze or brass in color, but is used exclusively by the Sub Cultists. It gives the user the ability to bind flesh to 'sterile' materials embolden, higher ranks with prayers or belief, or summon portals that bring lost technological terrors to the battlefield. The Sub Cultists house a plethora of stolen Akkenshan technologies similar to **Avian**, with extra strength from their prayers.

**Rainbow:** Rainbow souls are the souls of mad commanders, most common in the master class of counci they can also appear in mortals twisted enough to risk their soul maddening for power. The Rainbow souls are engulfers of stars and hoarders of energy, they are the dragons of the Mysterious Legacy universe and the very sight of one is unmistakable, many were worshiped as gods because of their cruelty or displays of power, carving mountains with their mind and raising volcanoes with a single finger. They lose their typical senses and can only see in souls, they lose their humanity for an unbelievable ascension.

**Silver:** Silver is just below Rainbow, the beholder retains their common sentience while lacking in the utter range and power of the Rainbows, though they still command great respect due to their goals and motivations being far from personal. Most Silver souls want progress, knowledge, chances to start anew, or to form newer and incomprehensible goals to the more mortal folk. The silver souls have only ever been seen in counci though it is theoretically possible in mortals. The silver souls are by far the closest on may fly to the sun without losing their sentience as humanity would have been lost long ago.

### Trivia

- The color based system was totally inspired by Krinkles *Madness Combat*, the soul based version of color identification is also under the same inspiration however it is that of a fan animation called *Rebooting the Madness*

- The orks from *Warhammer: 40k* were almost an inspiration for this system they only got purple in there

-The orange color was added because of *Rebooting the Madness,* but was further expanded upon by *Project Creber*