#oh hey! the reason the girl hates mousekat!

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⭐️ - re-education

There’s more than one type of re-education! There is re-calibration, individual re-integration and group re-integration, and the actual re-education.

Re-calibration is the mildest form of re-education. It’s a slap on the wrist in the form of a really long and boring screening of propaganda for several hours, sometimes followed by being handed out a modified prescription for mandatory pills depending on age and social class.

Individual re-integration is...well, psychological torture pretty much. It’s usually used on rebels who are no longer of use to BL/i. Individual re-integration is based on completely isolating someone with no way of telling where they are or what time it is, and making them doubt everything they know until they believe whatever they are told.

Group re-integration is used on kids brought into the City from the Zones and often done in parallel with regular education. Basically, they’re manipulating kids into believing that BL/i is nice and great, and the they have no other option than slowly begin believing that because the City does provide them a home and food and education, so they can’t be that bad as everyone made them out to be, right? They’re just trying to help and rebels are being all bitchy and violent for no reason! (/l)

Actual re-education is only for adult Battery City citizens or cases that are an active threat to the operation of Better Living Industries, and i’ve explained how it works in the previous ask! It can be requested or performed via official intervention from scarecrow officers.

Also, diverse fact, but Poison’s been through re-calibration once due to pois anxiety disorder, Ghoul 5 times (which is a lot for a pristine, and on the 6th he would’ve been sent to actual re-education) due to being inattentive or unable to control his emotions, the Girl 8 times in the 6 years she was in Battery City due to various causes, and Kobra has undergone group re-integration between ages 9 and 11. Jet has (thankfully) never had any run-ins of the sort with BL/i, but he's heard more than enough stories

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