About the Bracelets

Each Testing candidate receives a metal bracelet with a symbol engraved on its charm. The symbols each represent what Testing group the candidate belongs in. For Cia, her eight-pointed star with a lightning bolt means that she has skills in many different disciplines. The bracelets, themselves, though, also come to represent both subjugation and personhood. The bracelets are equipped with microphones so that each candidate is monitored at all times - a symbol for the authoritarian grip of the Testing officials. Cia's detection of the microphones and her collection of the bracelets of the fallen candidates connotes both her ingenuity and sense of community.