User blog:Flamebiplane/Nope Industries: A History

You may remember me introducing Nope Industries a while back, so I decided to give some information on how this company came to be.

The company's routes can be traced back to a small town in the remote tundras known as Jundex. The town had mamono and humans living together, but they enjoyed each other's company. There was a boy of eight there known as Jeff Harlburg. Jeff's parents were both humans. His father, Low happened to be the mayor of the town, and his mother, Bris, had passed away from heart disease two years ago.

Jeff's performance was above average in school, and he always enjoyed helping others, whether it was with homework or getting a stuck wagon out of the snow, it always brought him satisfaction. No matter the behavior of the person or mamomo in distress, Jeff would try to help regardless.

At age eleven, Jeff traveled to a different region with his father. Low was planning to meet some old friends to try to get some goods to Jundex.

The grass and the trees were all new to Jeff as he had never seen them before. He had grown up in Jundex where there was snow all around. This new environment had him interested.

As they traveled down the dirt path towards their destination, the wagon was suddenly knocked over and the horses fled in terror.

The impact left Jeff in a daze as he helplessly watched his father get dragged out by a figure with hooves. The poor boy was in far too much pain to move, and lost conciousness.

Sometime later, he found himself laying in the overturned wagon, looking at what appeared to be a small bunny girl. The bunny girl called out, and a larger bunny girl appeared. Together, they helped the injured Jeff out of the wagon and took him to their home, where they nurses him back to health.

The bunny girl introduced herself to Jeff as Radono. The larger bunny girl was Radono's mother and they were both Wererabbits. Jeff asked Radono's mother if she saw his father anywhere, and she answered that she had no clue. Devastated, Jeff broke down, realizing the possibility that he may have permanently lost his remaining family member.

After an hour of consoling, Radono's mother convinced Jeff that if his father was taken by a monster, then he would most likely be alright. Being told this, Jeff was calmed down, and he was walked around the village by the two Wererabbits, where he encountered many types of new mamono that he had never seen before.

Eventually, Jeff was enrolled into a school where he learned about the ages of the previous and current Demon Lord, as well as the behavior of monsters and how they used different methods to acquire men for husbands. This created a question in Jeff's mind: If monsters use their powers to seek husbands, why couldn't the men have an easy chance to escape (apart from spells) if they did not desire a wife? This question would be the birth of Nope Industries.

At the Wererabbits' home, Jeff built his first jetpack (which was an utter failure and resulted in the burning down of a farmhouse). Despite the setback, Radono and her mother cheered him on.

At age 20, Jeff entered a college for magic and technology. There he would learn and utilize many tools that would make life easier for humans and mamono. He would use these ideas to create many types of gadgets that aided him in escaping the mamono that sometimes attempted to forcefully mate with him.

When he graduated from college, he opened his first shop in the village called Nope Gear. This was widely successful with single men and human women, as well as some mamono as well. Despite his newfound success, Jeff never forgot about his father, who he felt was still out there.

At age 31, Jeff decided to move back to Jundex where he would start up the new company that he named, Nope Industries. Radono's mother accepted this, but on the condition that Radono married got to marry him and move there with him. Jeff gladly accepted, and both he and Radono moved back to Jundex where they were welcomed back with open arms.

Jeff started his company, and it was soon gaining popularity. With growing profits, Jeff expanded his business into other parts of the world, even investing in airships to help transport the technology more efficiently. Despite gaining favor from the rest of the world, the pious Order saw Jeff as a mamono sympathizer, and sent an assassin to eliminate him.

The assassin tried to kill Jeff by throwing a bomb at him, but Radono got in the way, sacrificing herself to save her husband. The would-be assassin was apprehended and imprisoned.

Seeing Radono's corpse led Jeff to realize that all life was valuable, even of those who were evil. Since then, he implemented a "No-Kill" rule, equipping soldiers with mamono silver weaponry, especially his airships. He used technology to resurrect Radono, however, half of her face was zombified, her right eye was replaced with a cybernetic one, and she lost her cheerful side.

Nope Industries' profits continued to grow with the success of the gadgets that assisted both men and women in escaping lustful monsters. However, this success would draw the attention of Nope Industries' biggest adversary, the Red Road Syndicate, an organization of mamono who captured single men and auctioned them off to eager mamono.

They struck factories and convoys, endangering the company, but thankfully, they disbanded after several failed invasion attempts.

Since then, the Nope Industries HQ has become a monolith, towering above the rest of Jundex. Annually, they would host an open house celebration of their success, as well as have a massive snowball fight. Jeff enjoys the luxuries with his wife, and always puts his employees and others first. He still thinks about his father, and he has yet to find him.