Pinks are a lowColor and the second-lowest caste in the hierarchy of The Society. They serve as concubines and valets, working in a variety of locations from public brothels to the private homes of highColor families. In the eyes of the Society they are regarded as property and bought as slaves of an individual or establishment rather than being hired as employees.
Physiology[]
Pinks are bred to be unparalleled in beauty, but are simultaneously extremely delicate. Their bones are easily fractured and they have a very low pain tolerance.[1][2][3]
Due to the nature of their work, Pinks under the reign of The Society are chemically sterilized.[4][5] New generations of Pinks are instead produced in breeding tubes using sperm and embryos from different combinations of donors.[3]
Some Pinks are bred with Pheromonal Defense Mechanisms (abbreviated PDM), which release pheromones that cause anyone who breathes them in to experience intense infatuation with the Pink.[3]
Types of Pinks[]
Rose[]
Roses are a rare and highly valued class of Pink, regarded as being among the best at their profession. They are extremely rare and expensive, comparable in both categories to Stained Obsidians.[6] As a result, Roses are highly coveted by the rich and powerful.
Hetaera[]
Hetaerae (singular: Hetaera) are a type of Pink in service to Gold houses in The Rim.
Education[]
Pinks were originally bred for beauty and nothing else, but many Golds quickly grew bored of concubines who had nothing beyond their sex appeal. As a result, future generations of Pinks were trained to be inscrutable enigmas and masters of sex, art, music, and emotion in order to hold their owners' attentions.[7]
Gardens[]
Pinks are bred and trained in facilities called Gardens where they are taught the physical arts of pleasure and sex. They are also educated in the nuances of human interaction, learning to read human body language, display empathy, and how to make a subject feel at ease to facilitate emotional bonding through a proportional mimicking of body language known as Shadow Dancing. This training enables them to entice their masters mentally as well as physically, and makes them exceptionally good at recognizing deception, to the point where many Pinks in the Solar Republic were employed by the Free Legions as lie detectors during the Battle of Luna by units who couldn't get access to equivalent technology while in the field.[6]
Notable Gardens include:
- Dryope Garden - Luna
- Hysperia Garden - Luna
- Emerald Garden - Mars
Cupid's Kiss[]
As part of their conditioning, young Pinks are implanted with a device called Cupid's Kiss that exposes them to constant pain. The device is placed around the spine and gives a constant burning sensation there along with an unending headache. The pain is only deactivated when a Pink obeys their orders, conditioning them to equate obedience to their masters with pleasure and the absence of pain.
The Kiss is removed once a Pink begins their physical training, around the age of twelve, but the threat of it being put back serves as an additional motivation to encourage Pinks to obey.[8]
Notable Pinks[]
A random Pink (art credit: Instagram @s_deambrosis)
- Evey - Personal servant of Mickey
- Theodora - Former servant, later assistant of Darrow
- Matteo - Husband of Quicksilver; also Darrow's former etiquette teacher
- Calliope - Servant of The Jackal, and former Son of Ares operative prior to her capture by him.
- Matron Carena - a childhood friend of Theodora in the Dryope Gardens on Luna.
- Duke of Hands - A high ranking captain of the Syndicate and a favorite of the Syndicate's Queen.
- Amel - Assistant to Sefi the Quiet
- Flagilus - A Politico in the Optimate party. One of Daxo's Premier apprentices
- Aurae - a member of the Daughters of Athena undercover as a courtesan of House Raa.
- Amathea- Servant to Roque. Let's Darrow onto Roque's bridge at the Battle of Ilium.
Trivia[]
- In The Society, Pinks had the highest suicide rate out of all the colors, twelve times higher than any other.[4]