Origin: Ryan & Ryan Corporate Flagship Holiday Observed By: Exclusively within the Green Zone Classification: Cultural Holiday / Corporate Indulgence and Cleansing Rite

Overview

Chromafest began as a brand launch by Ryan & Ryan, created to showcase their new line of reactive dermal dyes marketed as "Emotional Resets in Color." The pigments, called Sinscales, were advertised as a way to "rewrite the self through beauty." They quickly became a sensation among Green Zone citizens eager to prove refinement through spectacle.

What began as a product demonstration evolved into the largest annual celebration in the Zone, a night of indulgence, euphoria, and confession wrapped in corporate design. Every major city participates. Entire blocks are shut down. Even the drones wear color.

The Substance

Sinscales are volatile chemical dyes absorbed through the skin. They produce a mild high that shifts perception of light, warmth, and sound. The effect deepens with complexity, the more elaborate and expensive the design, the stronger the intoxication.

High-grade Sinscales shimmer like oil on water, refracting holographic color through multiple layers of transparent pigment. Lower-tier blends dull and streak easily, leaving skin irritated and raw.

The pigments are highly addictive. The body craves the chemical balance of light and color once it fades. Ryan & Ryan denies this, of course, while quietly selling the antidote.

Traditions

The Painting Hours Before sundown, cities transforms into an open-air salon. Street artists, stylists, and chemists compete to produce the most intricate designs. The process is intimate, people paint one another, tracing lines over skin while the first waves of euphoria set in.

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The Procession When darkness falls, city lights dim and the population floods the streets. Bodies glow in motion, rippling through holographic hues. Entire avenues pulse in orchestrated rhythm. Drones capture the movement from above, turning the city into a shifting mosaic of color and desire.

The Wash By dawn, the pigments begin to itch and burn. The air reeks of perfume, sweat, and solvent. Ryan & Ryan flood the markets with their follow-up product line: Clarity Wash, a branded cleansing compound that removes the dyes and suppresses the crash. Clarity Wash is advertised as both "restorative" and "purifying," promising detoxification and "chemical absolution."

Those who can't afford it ride out the shakes and hallucinations until the withdrawal passes. Those who can pay wake up spotless, smooth, and ready to buy next year's palette.

Cultural Framing

The holiday is officially described as a celebration of industrial freedom, a ritual of self-expression and rebirth through design. Unspoken beneath the slogans is its real function: a controlled binge that keeps citizens loyal, dependent, and eager for another dose of sanctioned release.

Ryan & Ryan's own advertisements read like scripture:

"Color carries the burden away." "Forgiveness is luxury-grade." "Be new. Be beautiful. Be clean."

No one calls it religion, but for one night each year, it serves the same purpose.

Social Hierarchy

Wealth determines purity. The elite commission full-body holographic veils that shimmer with refracted rainbows; their highs are clean, euphoric, and perfectly measured. The poor settle for diluted street dyes that stain unevenly and leave chemical burns. In the Green Zone, even repentance has a price tier.

Aftermath

When morning comes, the streets shimmer with runoff, the rainbow residue of indulgence. Clarity Wash sales spike. Hospitals overflow. By nightfall, the city looks normal again: washed, polished, and new.

And as always, Ryan & Ryan releases next year's campaign within hours of sunrise: a new shade, a new scent, a new salvation.

Because in the Green Zone, sin isn't forgiven. It's monetized.

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