(esta es una lectura rapida de una escenario complejo. voy a partir del sentido de ciudad pero debo switch to english). now that i have done that there are some considerations that should be pointed out. one, there is no right way. two, the only purpose to write this is so that you can get information out of me. of course there is the fact that this is pure fiction, fun fiction made for readers to enjoy. that is all. dont go any further thatn that. with that being said i should mention the fact that i am sitting in a computer which purpose is for people to make music and as i write this i am not making it so i feel uncomfortable. i am pretty nervous about breaking the rules here in this building.
the character in this story has a double personality, one is a bdsm machine and the other is a calm relaxed buddhist. both are traped in the body of a middle aged man. there is another character, a woman, his lover. she is called the dragonfly and she is a super heroine, or an anti super heroine. she is also a single mother. this dudes occupy the realm of a fantasy land and in fact are comic book characters that may or may not make it to the shelves. in their world there is a problem going on. there are zombies rumbling the streets. these zombies are in fact poor people. they are scary for the middle class people and are totally controlled by the high class people. the basic problem for the characters is that the high class people want to get rid of the middle class people and turn them to zombies too. so this man with a double personality and his lover are trying to find a way through it. of course their main concern is the kid and in the end of the story the kid is the only one that makes it through the annhilation of the middle class people of this fantasy world.
their city is called the city of science, and it is a city divided by a huge magical mountain. it is said that the mountain was put there by the christian god to stop the citizens of the city of science to obtain the absolute power. the legend says that the mountain was placed there to divide the city of science from its counter part, the city of magic. it turned out that the city of magic is actually the city of religion, and that religion negates science. in the city of religion they know that that one god that placed the mountain is only one of the gods that populate the earth, so they laugh when they see the people of the city of science believing only in one god and forever stopping themselves to reach heaven. the city of religion occupies the same place that the city of science occupies, and who the citizens of science see as zombies are in fact the priviledged citizens of the city of religion. the religion of the city of such is a polytheist religion, or also, one could say that the city of religion is the city of millions of religions. every citizen in the city of religion is allowed to believe in as many gods as he or she wants.
our characters are citizens of the city of science, therefore they cannot realize that the city of religion is right there before them. so, they cant realize either that the annihilation of the middle class is not such a bad thing because once they die they will become part of the city of religion and live forever in heaven. what sets them aside though of the normal citizens of the science is that they do have certain connection with religion or what citizens of science know as magic. what happens is that the dragonfly's mother was an angel that came from the city of religion and had a family with a man of the city of science, which is dragonfly's father and also the mayor of the city of science.
the mayor is the villain of the story. this man actually imprisoned his wife and used his son to obtain power in the city of science. his son is a shape shifter and the fucker was using his son's dna to make soldiers out of the zombies by injecting them with a dna modifier that turned them from low class people to carnivorous soldiers. he imprisoned his wife because obviously she was against this kind of action being done to his son and to the people. they also had another child, the dragonfly which, as one could predict can fly. the dragonfly's daughter mortimer, can run through walls and that is how he gets his ass out of the city of science in the end of the story.
the reason why dragonfly's lover M has a double personality is also linked to magic. he used to be two separate individuals that fell in love with the dragonfly. by the way, her real name is estefania. this two man where a) an documentalist anthropologist form flacso and b) a musician. the musician is the actual father of mortimer and that is why the kid has such heavy metal name. alex, the musician was a heavy metal turned noise conceptual artist that made lots of money in the middle of the nineties when he found his marked, basically, so rich guys and lads from brooklyn. the other dude manuel, worked his way to grad school only to realize that grad school sucks because it makes life pretty predictable after you get your phd. this two guys met estefania in different moments of their lives.
alex met her when they were teenagers, she got pregnant really young. they were both punk rock fans going through some ruff times cause both had run away from home. estefania run away when she found out her father was into shady businesses and alex never explained estefania why she left his home. truth is, he left home because his mom, which widowed at an early age didnt really care about her kids. she was a thirties kind of a woman, bohemian and hooked in the drug of opium. they were really well off but by the time he run away from home there was little left of his fathers money.
manuel met estefania when he came back to ecuador after completing his graduate study. he was fascinated with this ex punk rocker single mother that reminded him of tank girl. the dude was actually a comic book junkie when he was a kid. well, she wasnt that keen on him and rejected the man. curiosly he met her again in a stipclub. the person he met at the stripclub though wasnt really her. let me explain.
remember i told you about estefania having a brother who was exploited by his father to make dna modified soldiers out of zombies. well, this kid was really fucked up in the head. being abused by his father since he was a kid, a shape shifter as he was, having no real identity, this kid, who could see that his father had a daughter that he did take care of developed an addiction towards his sister. of course estefania didnt know about him, he spent the days in the basement in a little cell his father had made for him, next to his mother's. there were a few times in which he had been able to sneek in the house and look at what was going on. the maid knew he was there, she'd sometimes be nice to him. well, so he wanted to be this girl that was getting all the atention. he's dad was totally sick though, he'd make him shape shift into his sister and fucked him as well as famous actresses, models, neighbors. sick.
when manuel saw estefania in the stripclub he felt lucky. he paid her for a lap dance and after that pushed for having some personal time with her. he didn't know it was estefania's brother. and when estefania's brother figured that this man actually knew where his sister was and how she behaved and all that, he played along the idea of really being estefania. but that couldnt last for long. the poor kid was actually pinpointed by the police, controlled by his dad and was taken prisoner againg. manuel thought it was estefania who they were imprisoning, and was surprised when he met her again by luck in the city some months after.
now, there is something you need to know about the city of science. the mountain that is in the middle of it has constantly been inspected to try to figure if the legend of god placing it there just to limit the citizens is true or not. whoever did that along the years didnt get any real results other than some stories about tunnels from which people had come. at the time our story takes place, something happens though. the economy of the city of science is based on mining. they needed the iron for the machines and stuff during the industrial era and in the post industrial times the have been looking for copper for the computer manufacturing. they mine in the mountain. they dont care if it is a magical mountain or not. they have maked it look pretty scary with all the scars from the mining on her body. the way the city is structured has the poor people, the miners living closer to the mountain, with the factories as a second ring-kinda shape to only after have the rich areas be. of course after the rich areas there is a huge landscape of miserable homes with roads and ways to make the workers be able to get to the mountain and work. a little part of the mountain has been kept as a national park with trees and stuff. with all this being said, there should be pointed the moment the city is living right now. it is not easy to tell this and not feel a little stupid: they have found the tower of babylon.
the tower of babylon was hidden inside the mountain. the goverment knows about it, but the actual population can see this ancient structure being unveiled more and more everyday. word on the street says that they are going to turn it into a super high tech mall. actually some architecture studios have already proposed some of that stuff. the expectation is present throughout the population. it'd be the only thing people talked about if it wasn't for the fact that the zombie plague is also happening. obviously the two are connected. it is not that hard to make the math. the government has found the tower of babylon and with that they might be able to reach the city of magic and therefore overcome the curse the christian god has placed on them but they dont want to make that benefit all the poor people they have around. they want to keep the magic for themselves and if some of the benefits can be shared well then they'll give some to the poor. the middle class is also a problem, that is why they are chasing them, they dont want the middle class to figure out the potential of the tower of babylon and they keep all those young professionals working on proposals for malls, museums, living soultions and trowing down the religious truth to the fact that they have found the fucking tower of babylon. Estefania's father is way up there in the government making sure everything goes the way it should having his son being looked for after he escaped and all. Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you, he escaped after estefania escaped.
there is still so much more to tell, let me hang in for a second. do some internet checking.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment