STYX

The smell of coffee hit your nose as one of your work colleagues walked pasting holding a cup of the stuff. That reminded you, it was almost time for your shift to watch over some of the prisoners.

Standing from your desk, you headed out of the break room.

"Hey, did you hear?" you heard one of your fellow co-workers said to another. "Crime outside has been rampant."

"I heard, but have you heard about director Sukuinote?" the other asked back. "I heard that they're visiting next week...or was it next month?"

"I didn't know that, are you sure that's not a rumour?" the guard then froze. "Oh shit, that reminds me. The match is on tonight, you gonna go?"

"Hell yeah I'm going."

You decided to get going, any later and you'd probably get scolded for being late. The match while interesting but you had plans tonight, but whether you actually showed interest was a different matter.

Adjusting your uniform, you walked past multiple cells in your area. Everything seemed to be going fine, at least for now.

You couldn't help but feel like the day was a bit too quiet. However that thought seemed to test fate as you looked down from the floor you were on to see two prisoners duke it out.

You stopped and looked down at the scene before you (or rather beneath you), this thing happened on occasions. Quickly another guard broke up the fight quite easily, no need for you to do anything so far. So you continued walking, thankfully your shift was in the co-ed area of the prison.

You took to your shift's position rather quickly as you mentally prayed that it'd go smoothly. "I wonder if I should go see the match too?" the thought intruded your mind before while you considered changing plans as you soon heard a ruckus and turned to see some prisoners who were a bit too high and mighty, chatting away. They weren't in the co-ed area fully, but...

It baffled you to see how some prisoners retain their dignity or form a hierarchy after being caught and thrown into the slammer. Some of the prisoners gave you a bad feeling, but that was because they were prisoners after all, they committed crimes!

Then again, you could also claim that as human nature.

Even out of work or not even the prisoners themselves, you had someone you disliked. It would be weird if you didn't, unnatural even.

Your thoughts were getting the better of you, so you stopped. It would be bad if something happened and you weren't paying attention.

So you decided to just look around. People watch.

You saw prisoners talking to prisoners, guards talking to guards, prisoners and guards talking to each other, probably about something prison related like who's got cleaning duty or something.

The boring stuff.

Boring.

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Luckily for you, the prison wasn't boring. Sure it had it's boring bits, but prisoner infighting? You didn't count that as boring. It was a perk of the job.

Guards at Styx could use their quirks to subjugate criminals.

Sometimes you wonder if something new would happen asides from the same old, but hey, you were glad things were easy and simple, if a bit repetitive.

Then the alarm rang. Some prisoners were either trying to escape or trying to kill each other again. So you adjusted your uniform and headed off right where the action was.

Protect and Serve.

Hey, not really the next chapter that introduces the OC, but more of a "hey, this exists" sort of chapter. Anyways, much like the first chapter, this chapter is another second person from the prison guard's perspective sort of thing.

Now this means one of two things, either the deadline is closed or that the deadline is extended.

Well, the deadline has been extended! Especially for those who have still yet to send OCs, now's the time ;) the deadline is now 10th of December. For those who want to send guards, do not send a male warden role (as that is not open) but the female warden position is (for now) as well as a few others at the moment. I look forward to see what you guys have in store both for prisoners and guards. Speaking of OCs:

Thanks to everyone who has submitted a character, and for those who have yet to send in a character, now's the time~. For those who have sent in their characters, keep an eye on your PMs in the next few days. The next chapter will be when this new deadline closes (or afterwards) and we dive straight in. See you all then!