the most memorable monuments, built cities from the ground up, and have greatly influenced the culture of these areas. Verve are a people like no other. They are dreamers that don’t confine themselves in the corporate workplace, but instead liberate themselves in their unique crafts. Our faction is about liberating the mind and creating a comfortable atmosphere to let our people freely express themselves. The initiation of Verve is a very expressive experience, but can also be very challenging. However, before our people become initiates, they take their aptitude test. The portion of the aptitude test that confirms whether the tester is suit for Verve, consists of a test where they are given only a small wooden pole, three large metal nails, and a foot of metal cord to create a weapon. Not only will the creativity of their handmade weapon, but the process of thought to create it, be monitored as well. If the initiate chooses Verve to be their faction, they will endure two stages of training. The first stage of training will focus on the mental strength of their imagination, by monitoring how they deal with certain obstacles and assignments that require strong mental creativity. Once the initiates pass the first stage, they will then move on to actually executing their imagination into real life, which can be difficult. Although challenges will be endured, our initiation is self-reflecting and self-involved, which heightens the experience and helps the initiate learn more about themselves. All who choose Verve, will be accepted, but only the most mentally extraordinary will be treasured. Physical appearances will never sway our judgements, because we believe what is truly important, is in your mind. The physical characteristics of Verve vary drastically, but they all have basic similarities to unify them. When Verve initiates are accepted into the faction, they will be given a serum that slightly changes their physical appearances. The color, blue, since it resembles spirituality and peace, is heavily represented in our faction and appears in the physical features of our people. When the serum has been taken, the initiate’s eyes will begin to reflect the color blue. They will also experience streaks of blue passing through their veins when they endure extreme emotions. These developed traits help Verve identify and unite with each other, even though we are all different. This ability, though, can be taken away through another serum that used by other factions to manipulate Verve. This serum forces our people to become solemn by disconnecting their right brain. This also gets rid of the blue features, which are a great part of identification in our community. Verve, unlike the other factions, have not adopted a uniform because we believe that it interferes with our ability to be completely ourselves and liberated. The word “verve” itself means liveliness, elan, and spirit, which all are heavily represented in the Verve community. Verve exude a very positive and comforting aura, which makes us a well-liked community that is involved in very little conflict with other factions. Although we may not involve ourselves in conflict and are overall accepted, many Verve are not taken seriously because of their common unrealistic and unidealistic personalities. Being down-to-earth directly contrasts with our faction’s ideology to liberate the mind and express ourselves, which is why is it not practiced. This, though, makes us more unique and intriguing because we are thinking ourselves into a place broader than this world. We are expanding ourselves to become something so much larger and relevant. We create our own world in our heads, and spend much of our lives trying to execute our imagination. Most of our taught ethics are inspired by our beloved icon, who’s contributed greatly to not only us, but all of society. A very honored and idolized figure in our faction is Mr.
Walt Disney. Walt Disney was born on December 5, 1901 and has influenced the world greatly ever since with his creativity and imagination. He was the originator of many of the most popular animated cartoons still to this day, such as Mickey Mouse, Winnie the Pooh, Cinderella and other vast collections of animations. He was gifted twenty-two academy awards, as well as the hearts of millions of children around the world (“Walt Disney”). Mr. Disney has been one of the most imaginative people in the world and has been able maintain his legacy for decades to continue. His works have not only influenced and reached the children, but impacted the adults, as well. He originated from a very humble background, where he had to work most of his childhood, but his vast imagination didn’t stop him from creating his own world of characters (“Walt Disney’). He began putting his artistry into local school papers and would paint for family and friends, as well for practice (“Walt Disney”). He was influenced to create the infamous Disneyland by wanting to have a place for families to enjoy and spend time together, while also bringing his imagination to the three dimensional world (“Walt …show more content…
Disney”). The Verve initiation training has been inspired by his process of imagining his own universe, and putting his creativity into the world around him. In our compound, we have a huge mural, made by a collaboration of various artists, of Mr. Walt Disney, to express our gratitude for his contributions to the imaginative world which have helped us express our minds. We have the spirit of one of the most influential artistic beings to guide us to become something larger than our existence. I’m sure you’ve heard of the infamous faction, American Creativity Association.
We have some very similar beliefs, but we vary vastly, which is why Verve is the preferred faction. In American Creativity Association, their main focus is to expand and enhance the creativity of artists, business wise and personally. Their goals are to teach their clients how to creatively flourish in their field and how to obtain business while doing so (“ACA, About Us”). Our factions are similar in ways where we are promoting creativity and are trying to let our people freely express themselves. Our factions differ, where as in my faction, I focus of the increase of creativity strictly for the benefit of the artist to express themselves. My faction also doesn’t focus on the economic status of the artistry. By focusing on the business standpoint, they disregard the Verve belief that as a people, we are bigger than what the world and society has provided for us. The American Creativity Association is succumbing to the real world and not expanding the artists to something that is more relevant in life. It is turning what is supposed to be a liberating faction, into a corporate business that warps the purpose of being truly creative, if someone is constantly worried about how much profit they will
receive. My faction is more personal and reflective because in Verve, we go inside of your mind and try to strengthen your mental artistry for your own greater good. There is no shaping of someone into a persona to be seen as professional or acceptable because we are accepting your creativity for how it already is. We are just testing your mind’s imagination, so you can be able to fully execute your gifts to the world, for no one’s benefit but your own. Now I’m also sure you’re familiar with the one of the most understanding and caring factions, Amity. Amity possesses a welcoming and comforting environment due to their beliefs of being “loving” and “free”. Because of their belief that “aggression” was the cause of the fall of the nation, they do not condone hostility, but instead promote peace (Roth 7). Amity and Verve are very similar in this belief. Stated previously, Verve exude such a comforting aura and have such a dreamy personality, that conflict rarely occurs between themselves and other factions. Both of our accepting natures make our factions seem weak and fragile, but in actuality we are very powerful people in the way we express our strengths. Although we are similar in our presence, we differ tremendously. Verve hold more depth in their faction than just being friendly to people. Our faction accepts people for who they are; not just because it is the humane thing to do, but because we respect and want to help flourish the minds of others. We treat people as if they are bigger than their bodies, bigger than our society, because they are. Unlike Amity, we acknowledge who people actually are on the inside, rather than only scratching the surface. Our faction does not scold one for the difference in their mindset or how insane their imagination may be. Instead we worship them, because we represent individuality, no matter how strange it seem. We represent difference, creativity, and everything diverse which is something Amity will never grasp the concept of. Verve is undoubtedly the most accepting faction for anyone. We allow people to unapologetically be their true selves. We let our people liberate themselves and let their imagination run free into the world. By teaching and allowing our people to become larger than their place in society, as well as transform into something that has a deeper and more relevant meaning in life, we enhance the happiness of our people. Join our faction and help make our world become a more creative and accepting place for unique artistry. Help us expand our word over the people and eliminate the slaves of the ordinary. Help us free our minds and become more of a dream filled society. We are creative. We are artistic. We are expressive. We are imaginative. We are otherworldly. We are Verve. In the words of Walt Disney, “If you can dream it, you can do it...” (“Quotable Quote”)