Children in Sapphory - TrinianGames/Sapphory GitHub Wiki
Important editor's note and disclaimer: Due to the 18+ nature of Missy and all games set in its world, the role of children is necessarily kept to a bare minimum. This is to both ensure that clear blue water exists between the clearly adult characters who end up in sexual situations in the games, and underage characters, who do not. It also ensures compliance with certain payment processor requirements. This is particularly important given the game's (18+) school setting. The purpose of this page therefore is to explain the lore ways that this is achieved and how the children of Sapphory are protected from its harsh system.
Trinian Games does not condone or encourage any form of underage material and strives to ensure that nothing in the games could be mistaken for it.
The game's school setting is intended to service the kink of humiliating adult women by infantilising and patronising them, not depict characters below the age of majority.
With its strong focus on family and civic virtue, Sapphory encourages reproduction and rewards child rearing. However, as it is also a society in which humiliation-based punishment is common, strict methods are taken to shield the eyes of underage girls from this.
Each Sapphorian town and city has stockades, display posts and other means of punishing criminals permanently installed. They operate a traffic light system. Red zones are directly in the line-of-sight of nude punishment measures, and children are banned by law from entering them. They are clearly signposted and failure to observe the signage is not considered a valid excuse. It is the responsibility of parents to ensure this and they can be punished themselves for allowing underage girls to wander into a red zone. In heavily patrolled areas like Sapphory City, a large town guard presence acts as a safety net. Red zones account for less than 2% of space.
Amber zones are in the line-of-sight of non-nude punishment measures - women placed in the stocks fully clothed or similar. Girls over the age of 12 may enter these zones freely and girls below this age may enter if accompanied. It is at the discretion of the parents, and mothers can choose to ban girls up to the age of 17 from entering at all if they wish, though many find it a useful means of desensitising their daughters to what they will witness (and possibly be subject to themselves) after they turn 18. Amber zones account for around 3% of space.
Green zones are out of the line-of-sight of punishment measures of any kind and are unrestricted. Slaves are generally expected to be covered up in these areas to create a child-safe space. These zones account for over 95% of Sapphorian towns and cities and the diversion in dodging a red zone is never more than a few minutes. In practice, Sapphorian mothers, having experienced it when they were children themselves do not even think too much about it and diverting around red zones becomes second nature.
During state occasions such as Founders Day, all punishment measures are covered over and children are able to freely enter red zones. Any corrections incurred over the period are delayed and carried out the following week.