I come from a small village, not known by many even back in my world. It's called Hinamizawa and it's certainly quite a forgotten treasure or something. It's small but warm, the villagers are very united and great people with great hearts. They have endured many things and there was a time in which the goverment wanted to build a dam and bury the village with water, yet they didn't give up their homes and eventually won against the goverment. A small village against the leaders of the country and they still won, that's the kind of people they are. Stubborn and hard to convince of things but ready to do any sacrifice for what they believe in.
There's a saying there 'If one person throws a stone at you, two people shall throw stones back. If two people throw stones at you, get back at them with four. If eight come after you with sticks, you thwart them off with sixteen. If slandered by thirty, you yell back with sixty. And if a thousand tries to get us, we all come out as residents of Hinamizawa.'... Basically you don't mess up with an Hinamizawa resident unless you want to face the whole village. I saw it myself, despite not having been born there, if I ever got in trouble, like some delinquents trying to pick a fight with me, suddenly all the Hinamizawa people on the street would be there with me, ready to fight back if the others dared to.
It's a wonderful place, no matter what limitations it may have compared to the city, no matter how behind time it can get due being so secluded. No matter what shit they had to go through, Hinamizawa survived, its people were strong and welcomed others with a huge heart. It's just awesome...
[He smiles faintly upon talking about the village. Until he reaches the 'but', because it was obvious that there was going to be a 'but' in all this, right?]
But there's just one little big problem. There's a parasite that seems to only live in the area where the village is, from what I know it eventually infects the people in the area and takes residence in their brains. As it is it's not a dangerous thing. It doesn't cause any open syntoms upon infection and one can spend their whole life without even knowing it's there. The parasite works very much like a group of bees, all is fine and safe until the queen bee is missing or something hurts their home.
At Hinamizawa there was a child, Rika Furude, she was here for a while though I'm not sure if you ever met her. She was the daughter of the village's priest, member of one of the three most important families there due how much they had helped the village to survive and all. She was special, because she was infected with the parasite that was considered que queen, technically Rika was the Queen Carrier. And because of that so long as she's there, the parasites infecting the people of the village will be dormant or at least not causing problems, most of the time. Still there are some dangers if the infected people are under a lot of stress and away from the village themselves, or rather away from Rika.
In short the parasites and the general disease is called the 'Hinamizawa Syndrome'... If active... Well... Do you know how things were during Halloween just now? People hallucinating and in general high levels of paranoia manifesting in many people?
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Sincerely I don't know where to start from...
I come from a small village, not known by many even back in my world. It's called Hinamizawa and it's certainly quite a forgotten treasure or something. It's small but warm, the villagers are very united and great people with great hearts. They have endured many things and there was a time in which the goverment wanted to build a dam and bury the village with water, yet they didn't give up their homes and eventually won against the goverment. A small village against the leaders of the country and they still won, that's the kind of people they are. Stubborn and hard to convince of things but ready to do any sacrifice for what they believe in.
There's a saying there 'If one person throws a stone at you, two people shall throw stones back. If two people throw stones at you, get back at them with four. If eight come after you with sticks, you thwart them off with sixteen. If slandered by thirty, you yell back with sixty. And if a thousand tries to get us, we all come out as residents of Hinamizawa.'... Basically you don't mess up with an Hinamizawa resident unless you want to face the whole village. I saw it myself, despite not having been born there, if I ever got in trouble, like some delinquents trying to pick a fight with me, suddenly all the Hinamizawa people on the street would be there with me, ready to fight back if the others dared to.
It's a wonderful place, no matter what limitations it may have compared to the city, no matter how behind time it can get due being so secluded. No matter what shit they had to go through, Hinamizawa survived, its people were strong and welcomed others with a huge heart. It's just awesome...
[He smiles faintly upon talking about the village. Until he reaches the 'but', because it was obvious that there was going to be a 'but' in all this, right?]
But there's just one little big problem. There's a parasite that seems to only live in the area where the village is, from what I know it eventually infects the people in the area and takes residence in their brains. As it is it's not a dangerous thing. It doesn't cause any open syntoms upon infection and one can spend their whole life without even knowing it's there. The parasite works very much like a group of bees, all is fine and safe until the queen bee is missing or something hurts their home.
At Hinamizawa there was a child, Rika Furude, she was here for a while though I'm not sure if you ever met her. She was the daughter of the village's priest, member of one of the three most important families there due how much they had helped the village to survive and all. She was special, because she was infected with the parasite that was considered que queen, technically Rika was the Queen Carrier. And because of that so long as she's there, the parasites infecting the people of the village will be dormant or at least not causing problems, most of the time. Still there are some dangers if the infected people are under a lot of stress and away from the village themselves, or rather away from Rika.
In short the parasites and the general disease is called the 'Hinamizawa Syndrome'... If active... Well... Do you know how things were during Halloween just now? People hallucinating and in general high levels of paranoia manifesting in many people?