REPO: Please Don't Go

"Please don't go..."
"I must go..."

Blame *Lady-Rorschach for this! We're co-writing a REPO! the Genetic Opera crossover, using characters from Human Target television series into the rock-opera universe — two of my favourite things to date that should probably never go together and yet somehow, in a really bizarre way, works:

Taking place after the events of the REPO! film of a post-apocalyptic, dyspotian future where an epidemic of organ failures devastated the planet, the biotechnological mega-corporation called GeneCo emerged out of the tragedy to provide organ transplants to the needy populace on a financial plan, making it affordable to anyone who needed one. The story's heart deals with a brilliant coroner-turned-plague researcher named Juan Guerrero and his wife, Lucreztia "Lucy" Alighieri, who were caught stealing GeneCo-owned organs and supplies to help save their prematurely born year-old son, Juanito. Their employer Rotti Largo threatened to "repossess" their child, as they begged him not to, and Rotti blackmailed them. Guerrero was forced to become one of the Repo Men, assassins dispatched to re-harvest the organs of customers who default on their payments, and Lucy was forced to serve as the Gentern responsible of managing and directing those said organs directly from the Repo Men to be brought back into the populace. They also became privy to the Largo family's many whims. Rotti's eldest child, Luigi, lusted after Lucy and envied her husband; and, in a fit of jealous rage, slashed Guerrero's face, blinding his right eye, in the hopes of have Lucy for himself by "cutting off his nose to spite his face," so to speak.

Six years later, the spoiled children of Rotti Largo — Amber Sweet, Luigi and Pavi Largo — are now the new heads of GeneCo and became living proof that "absolute power corrupts absolutely," taking their sibling rivalry and transforming it into a major power struggle for the company. Juanito, now seven years old and completely sheltered from the outside world, has become sicker than ever and each day becomes more and more grim. When Luigi ordered Guerrero (who has became infamous as the Repo Man known as the "Plague Doctor," due to his long-nosed bird mask used by medieval medics to protect them from the bubonic plague) to repossess the organs of a child the same age as his son, Guerrero refused. This was a breach of contract and GeneCo, by default, can reclaim their son as their property and execute the Repo Man for failure to perform. However, Luigi offers Lucy to spare her family if he claimed "full possession" of her, body and soul, for a year and, at the end of the term, will give her Juanito's "cure." She, to her hate of him, agrees. Luigi parades her around as his lover, to anger Guerrero, and uses her the new prima donna-like Voice of GeneCo, to the anger of his sister Amber, as Luigi begins his plans to dethrone his siblings and take over GeneCo for himself. Secretly, Guerrero and Lucy take a year-long plot of revenge to take down the Largo family (particularly Luigi), destroy GeneCo, cure their son, or die trying...

Guerrero and Lucy's allies are Dr. Winston, a GeneCo SurGen, and Chance, a GenCop-turned-Graverobber. (I believe that Graverobbers are secretly employed by GeneCo to widespread Zydrate addictions throughout the public and, thus, spread surgery addictions.) Their enemy, along with Luigi, is Baptiste who better known as the Repo Man, "Red Death."

(Lucreztia "Lucy" Alighieri and Juanito are original characters *Lady-Rorschach and I created together for our Human Target fiction. We ended up loving the characters so much — and were strangely predicted in the episode "Baptiste" — that we practically add them to everything. I always cast actress Sherilyn Fenn as Lucy.)

Models - Jackie Earle Haley | Sherilyn Fenn

Medium - HB mechanical pencil, 7B and 4B graphite, Col-erase blue.

Human Target © DC Comics/Fox.
REPO! the Genetic Opera © Darren Smith/Terrance Zdunich.