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Discrimination towards the ability
Like I mentioned a couple entries ago, discrimination towards people with the ARMS ability isn't unheard of. Nowadays though, most people see the ARMS ability as a gift. But how did this happen?
For a long time people with the ability were still viewed as normal people. Sure they didn't have control of their ARMS most times, but they were still seen as fairly chill people. And then the rumors about Coilconstrictors started popping up.
Coilconstrictors were a supposed species of cryptids with the ARMS Ability that would hunt small animals and even humans. They'd use their ARMS to trap their pray to suffocate and then eat them. Rumors claim that these cryptids would take on the appearance of people in order to deceive their pray.
I don't know where these rumors came from, but they were able to convince a lot of people that the ARMS ability was a threat. This would lead to rampant discrimination towards those with the ability. There were even a shocking amount of PSAs and survival guides made that have since been banned for their discriminatory nature. I still low-key wanna see what they were like though, seeing as how they still played a part in ARMS history. Some people even thought it would be a good idea to kill people with the ability, though instances of this were shockingly rare. If I were to hazard a guess as to why the murders were so low, it was because this was several years before we learned how to control the ability, and they thought we weren't that big of a threat because of it.
As time went on however and we found out how to control our ARMS, people started collectively realizing that "hey discriminating people with slinky arms is bad". So a lot of people stopped being bigots and laws were put into place to prevent these cases of discrimination. Nowadays we've moved past it and we just view Coilconstrictors as a dumb story that led to a lot of even stupider stuff. Though after the Sky Arena Incident, I have a bad feeling these cases of discrimination are gonna start cropping up again.
Not so fun fact: The term Constrictor (the short version of the word Coilconstrictor), is used as slur for people with the ARMS ability soo yikes.