a fox that tricks the wolf (seokhan)

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During the war of Oxynaras, Pures were targeted as the main cause of the war. 

Though the sun shone in daylight, neat little families taking strolls through the city and store owners greeting passerbys, the city in the moonlight was different.

Humans knew that Pures were unable to use their elements under situations of high stress, they used that to their advantage. Hate crimes against Pures increased as human civilians became more and more unsettled. 

Fire Pures were doused in gasoline and set alight in the streets, unable to manipulate the flames due to the fact that they were being burned alive. Charred bodies were left in piles on street corners and mounds of ash sat in gutters.

Water Pures had gills cut into the sides of their necks and were sunk down to the bottom of the nearest lake, bleeding out while conquered by their own weaponry. The city’s waterways were clogged with decomposing corpses for months, causing hundreds of identical toxicology reports.

Earth Pures were tied to trees in the deep forest where all sorts of feral creatures weaved menacingly through the thick trunks of redwoods. The scents of the earth Pures lingered on the trees and were carried through the fog, droplets of blood staining the redwood needles.

Air Pures were asphyxiated in many different ways, subjected to levels of high stress so that they couldn’t manipulate oxygen as they usually would. They fought the hardest against humans who tried to eradicate them but it was no use as thousands of Pures died over the course of a single year.

Children lost their parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, grandparents, anyone who was Pure or related to a Pure was put on a biased, unfair trial to declare death.

Families were split up by death and incarceration, witches were found to take away elemental magic from Pures to make them less threatening to humans and the rate of hate crimes increased dramatically, more than they already had.

Royals in power at the time tried to create laws that outlawed the division of familial bonds and, like when humans and Pures stated a truce at the end of the war, ended the numerous deaths of elementalists. Those royals were most often assassinated.

Assassins born from the war were called retaliators, taking revenge on those who had committed crimes against innocent Pures who did not deserve it. 

Retaliators were common at the time of the truce and onwards, protecting the unnecessary deaths of even more Pures. They were not very successful, causing more protests and riots through the streets of the city.

Multiple types of elementalists were nearly made extinct with the mass killings of their kind. 

Where streets would normally be littered with electric and earth bender children playing with power lines and growing roses through the chipped concrete, there was no one.

Beaches lay calm, no drawings in the sand or logs gathered to make a bonfire. Fog swirled over the waves, no signs that anyone had tried to make patterns in the air with it.

No one was around out of fear that they'd be wrongfully killed by people who don't even know them.

It's been 800 years since the war and Pures are still losing their families and friends due to humans who are terrified of their potential.

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Seokmin's leather gloves tightened as he clenched his fists, shoving his gun back into it's holster.

The body of a non-Pure lay on the ground before him, bleeding a puddle around his head from where Seokmin had shot him. He knew him, he knew what he did and what he had done. He deserved to die.