Heronoification

"**Heronoification**" (Heronoi: Kurynaworai, "to make someone blonde"; Bujanski: Okjeronestvo, "to become Heronoi") is a slang term for making people more like the Heronoi. That is, making them blonde and blue eyed, mostly because they looked more cute or attractive.

## History

Initially, this was done to attract Heronoi audiences and customers, who are usually attracted to blonde people. Over time, many Heronoi users and players noticed that the blond-ified characters seemed less real, so they requested artists not to make too many of their characters into blondes.

In later years, the Heronoi were treated poorly, seen as stupid and irrational. Therefore, while "Heronoi-fying" a character by making them blonde would seem cute, some Heronoi do get offended by the practice, because it was like a mocking insult by degrading the now-blonde character.

## Arna-fication

In Bujan, this process is known instead as "Arna-fication" or "Arnadjanai-fication" (Bujanski: Ovarnojestvo, "to become Arnadjanai"), where the character is also given super strength at the expense of intelligence. It refers to the Arnadjanai minority, who are entirely blonde and blue eyed like the Heronoi, but who are notorious for being more vulgar.

## Examples of Heronoification

* Paladina - a woman with a shield and sword
* Rosetta - an agent in white
* Elendira - another woman in white with a spear and shield that shoots lightning
* Blonde Fighter - a videogame mocking Heronoi society as a fighting game. All the characters are blonde because they represent Heronoi people from various aspects of daily life, hence the name.
* Karakewe Shore - a degrading show mocking Waxeroi. This was notorious for starting the riots that led to killing more Waxeroi and the expulsion of hundreds more from Heronoja.

## Actual Heronoification

On the other hand, a lot of Heronoi enjoy making fun of stereotypes of their own people. For example, when others called them "a stupid race of dolls", Heronoi dress dolls used to mock their all-blonde appearance to wear their traditional clothes.

Heronoi also enjoy mocking depictions of themselves as chellarcha fairies by dressing up as chellarchas. It was especially because the chellarchas were sometimes depicted wearing Heronoi clothes.

### Bujan

The closest case to Heronoification outside pop culture was in northern Bujan, where a cult of blonde Satanists was punished for their murders and terrorism towards innocent people and former slaves. The Maizefolk had their DNA altered to turn them into Heronoi, in mockery for their blonde hair and sadistic abuse of the Heronoi, by turning them into the people who they tortured.

It caused the Maizefolk to see themselves forever as the same people whom they had tormented in life, filling them with fear and shame. They began to hate their own blonde hair, but those who repented and never took part in the murders welcomed their new lives as Heronoi.

## Trivia

* The author is fond of blonde people.
* The Heronoi of Siangwaan and the Arnadjanai of Bujan are seen in both countries as more like "rednecks", beautiful and strong, but unintelligent and brutish.

## See also

* Sarmelonisation
* Terranisation