Sulfur Worldbuilding notesayesh patternSulfur is quite short, and what I call sulfur mostly revolves around three specific versions Mao/Monmartre made of herself, all taking place in the mining foundry community. Monmartre is a singular person who has an overly complicated relationship with her personhood. Figuring out how to reclaim it, how to stand out and bring her own meaning to her name, while knowing she's just another animal within the world. But she doesn’t want the animal it is to represent her self , it wants her self to mean something else than what people want it to be. Monmartre creates a new persona whenever something from the outside signals that it’s time to “kill” her current chapter and start a new one.Example: Obtaining the salvaged bronze helmet marks the distinction between when it allowed people to call her Monmartre and wanting to be called Guinêsh (guinêsh mao for full, but she doesn't allow people to use mao). She had the thoughts simmering in her mind about what to do and be. The new persona is not there in the snap of a finger. Guinêsh was like an accumulation of frustration, anger, everything that it never had the chance to scream at ██████, the desire to return to a simpler animal but a loud one who makes itself known to everyone, compiled with the imagery of some posters for a shadow puppetry show that was around the colony at the time (miners sometimes get entertainment braught to them), is what creates the idea of guinêsh. Gaining the helmet was just the kick to make it exist to people. 12 - 10 - 2025<hr> bronze toyThe Chèka mining colony is isolated from other groups to avoid cross-contamination of water and air pollution in areas inhabited by non-workers (the sophonts have dainty lungs). They have their own self-sustaining basic supplies, such as poultry, but are still linked to several larger facilities for shipping out raw ore or the products of the foundry. Sometimes they receive shipments that Chèka cannot produce on their own, like medical supplies, replacement filters, etc. Living quarters are in the area itself; people don't take the train to leave work. The train is mostly a cargo train, sometimes with a passenger wagon or two, depending on what was planned ahead, such as a worker transfer. Chèka, the mining colony Monmartre was located in, although this pertained to the foundry part of it, received a shipment of bronze helmets from the Shuamatt Republic. And while chekà is not in Shuamatt, it's actually in neutral grounds; technically, they're free to take request forms from any party. Although the act of sticking to one specifically results in being given benefits and protection by them.Shuamatt's chosen ore for helmets, thus armors, is bronze because copper is one of the most common resources that can be mined out in Shuamatt territories and is valuable for durable protection. The helmets cast have issues sometimes. When Monmartre was tasked to do a shakeout (removing the casted object from the mold), one of them came out with a defect where there was a large hole on the right side. It was told to put it with the other defective ones meant to be melted back and redone, but it kept it for itself, for Guinêsh . That's how it obtained it. In the drawing, New chapter , it is early spring, where Guinêsh starts, the flowers within the piece are the first ones to bloom in the region at the end of winter, so they're a symbol of a new cycle since they announce the end of spring. Fun fact: Spring came in late this year.The pattern at the bottom of the piece is just simple ayêsh decoration that would be sewn at the bottom of the fabric piece, where the content within the bands is a sequentially made-up story 21 - 10 - 2025gif