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The setting of the OS-tan universe is what joins all the OS-tans and their factions together. But what the setting looks like and how it works is subject to much interpretation as none of these are set in stone. | |||
== | ==The setting from known OS-tan canon== | ||
The setting | The canon doesn't go into very much detail about the setting, simply focusing on the characters first and foremost. Sometimes the setting isn't specified. | ||
Many of the Japanese OS-tan comics seem to take place in an unspecified part of Japan, given the OS-tan phenomenon's Japanese origins. Most of the comics star the Windows-tans, and as such take place mainly in the Windows Family household, which itself is portrayed as a traditional Japanese-style mansion, which is also shown in many fanart. | |||
It's assumed that since the Windows and Macs are rivaling families, that in-canon they live near each other. | It's assumed that since the Windows and Macs are rivaling families, that in-canon they live near each other. | ||
Not much is given in-canon about the where the Mac-tans live, aside from the Mac Manga, which shows them (or at least Mac OS 9-tan, Mac OSX-tan and the OSX-kuns) living in a large western-style villa. | Not much is given in-canon about the where the Mac-tans live, aside from the Mac Manga, which shows them (or at least Mac OS 9-tan, Mac OSX-tan and the OSX-kuns) living in a large western-style villa. | ||
==OS-tan expanded universes== | |||
===Fantasy Cyberpunk Culture Theory=== | |||
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In this interpretation, the OS-tan universe doesn't take place in the real world, but a fantasy world that may be partly based off of it. Real people usually don't appear, and the OS-tanverse is comprised of solely of the OS-tans at the top of the hierarchy, with hardware-tans, program-tans and file-tans at their service. | |||
The great number of anachronisms, of technology and fashion are explained by individual OS-tan cultures, relative technological advancement of a system's time, and technological constraints of the systems. | |||
Many OS-tans's fashion choices were symbolic and reflected cultural counterparts, for example: | |||
*The 1960's OS-tans wearing mainly Victorian Era clothing to symbolize decadence and stuffiness of the contemporary OS-tans. The more rebellious OS-tans of the era wore less cumbersome outfits. | |||
This used to be the main theory used in OS-tan expanded universe works, but is now second to the real-world based theory. However, the two aren't necessarily incompatible. | |||
===Real World-based Theory=== | |||
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This theory, which has gained a lot more favor in the fanon, involves real users and real locations. The inclusion of real people of the companies who created the computer systems serves as a way to neatly resolve the origins of the OS-tans in-universe as having been artificially created. | |||
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