culture:greasehearts

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What is the culture's common moral traits? How do they treat others who aren't in their immediate family?
What's their aesthetic? What's the general impression left on the viewer? How do they go about doing this?

Greasehearts are renowned for playing tough or and cool. Ranging from cultivating a gritty and aloof appearance to remaining cool headed and slick. They often wear hair in slick quiffs, mullets, and long, while facial hair ranges from bushy beards to

Fashion

The way to be fashionable is to look cool. Hard-wearing materials such as denim, canvas, and leather are common materials, worn as jeans, jackets, alongside metal for accents and decoration. For accessories, Greasehearts always have a nice pair of shades on them, and often wear them indoors. Earrings and fingerless gloves are also common.

Piloting and racing suits are also considered proper good looking attire, covered with embroidered patterns and patches from spaceports all over the galaxy. Above all else in Greaseheart looks, colours must be bold. Pastels, tertiaries, and gentle shades are rare, but neon gradients are frequent, especially if they contrast.

Architecture & Aesthetics

How do they construct things? What do they construct them like?

There are two things above all else that matter to a Greaseheart's house: Their garage, and their workbench. Occupying the same space, many Greaseheart households are built around storing vehicles. Most of their houses are often built from prefabricated and artificial materials or steel, the presence of neon lights on commercial windows give businesses a distinctly gaudy vibe. In less wealthy areas, they are known to live out of the hulls of wrecked starships, building in and around them while reactivating systems to the best of their ability.

What is the culture's main draw? What do they like using?

Greaseheart made items are easy to spot: They have metallic paints or coatings, contrasting racing stripes, chequered patterns, or painted pin-up artworks when possible. Equipment omits unnecessary features, and operation is fairly straightforward. Handheld items are often heavy and hefty feeling, put power over subtlety, and are built to outlast and survive the competition. Its also likely for items to make noises for user feedback, even if they're meant to be quiet.

Tech Focus

What the society's main focus in technology is. It could be that they heavily invest in ballistic weaponry, argricultural growth in an underground plane, or magitek construction, and so on. Essentially, what they're interested in developing towards.
“If its moving and it shouldn't, repair tape. If it isn't moving and it should, solvent.”

In general, Greasehearts are drawn to finding new ways to go fast or do things faster: They enjoy using combustion engines where possible, but are not impartial to using antimatter or plasma. Their love of all things mechanical also extends into designing ballistic and energy small arms, and powered suits. In addition, Greasehearts are responsible for pushing aerospace and spaceflight research and development into new horizons.

In general, they enjoy coming up with practical solutions to problems, and are renowned for being able to improvise repairs wherever they come across.

Magic

Does the society encourage magic use? How does it usually manifest? How does it affect their daily life? Are there common spellcasting traditions?

Psionics

Does the society use psionics? How does it usually manifest? How does it affect their daily life?

Greaseheart Psions are uncommon, but highly valued for their instinctual understanding of complex mechanics and the mathematics involved. Greaseheart psions are often nicknamed blackfingers, and often find gainful employment in mechanics and machinist's. However, their changed perspective on how they view the world makes interacting with them difficult, and talking to them about subjects beyond how things work often bores them.

Do they farm? What do they farm? How do they farm?

Horticulture

Do they have any sort of gardening/landscaping habits? Terraforming?

Fauna

Do they keep animals? For food? For play? What kind?

Cooking

What are common cooking traditions? What is a likely flavour profile?

There are a small number of Gods in Greaseheart culture, the most famous of them being the Velocian, Lady of Acceleration, a Goddess of travel, achieving ludicrous speeds, and the patron of mechanics and machinists throughout the galaxy. It isn't uncommon to see her likeliness on the wall of a reputable mechanic's shop in the form of an elaborate mural, or the cut out centrefold of a racy magazine portraying a model in her image.

Alongside the Lady of Acceleration is the Din, God of Noise and Light, patron of musicians and revheads alike. They are also called the 'get out of the way' god, as an abundance of noise and light is usually a signal to run. Din takes the form of a headless man with a ball of blindingly bright light where his head should be. He is often depicted carrying or standing alongside musical instruments, revving engines, firearms, or other noisy items.

In addition, mechanical troubles are usually blamed on Gremlins, mischievous little imp-like creatures responsible for messing up projects by moving tools around and damaging mechanical parts at inopportune moments. Greasehearts who don't pay the superstitions any mind usually attribute gremlins to a lack of rigorous maintenance and carelessness on the mechanic's part.

Core Tenets

The main focus of the religion.

Ceremony

Are there any sort of rituals the culture goes through to celebrate the advancement of one through life and religion?
What are common traditions the culture holds? Is it annual, or based on some celestial alignment, or based on weather conditions, and so on.

Birth and Death

How do they celebrate birth? Do they mourn the dead? Etc.
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