Prolicidius · 12:29pm Jul 11th, 2020
I sort of have a habit of planning out stories, but never actually getting around to writing them. One such example is a story i dubbed Prolicidius.
Note -- this post contains heavy spoilers for my story Patricidium!
I'm not sure if this image works, but I'll try anyway:
I actually made the cover art and pretty much planned out the entire plot.
First, some fitting music:
Much like the game Silent Hill 2, the story begins in a bathroom. Not filthy or dirty like in the game, but a nice, clean space. A lone stallion peers into the mirror, as if to examine his own face. He stays for a while, searching for something in the reflection of his eyes. He then peers to the side at something, though we aren't told what it is. He just looks at something unexplained, then turns back to the mirror and says:
"What have I done?"
Next, we jump forward in time, though not specified how far. The same stallion from earlier wakes up from sleep in his bedroom, and the first thing his does is pick up his journal and write down his past experiences. He details that something is wrong, horribly wrong. Some time prior, he found his apartment completely dark with no electricity, and no matter how he tried, he couldn't open the front door. He lights candles, and notes in his journal that they're running low. As he peers out the peep-hole of his door, he sees nothing but dark. When he opens the curtains of his windows and brings a candle to it, he sees dirt. Nothing but dirt, as if his apartment has been buried. Furthermore, the door to his bathroom is also locked tight.
The story would then follow the stallion as he tries to understand what's going on, while doing his best to stay sane. He's forced to face the demons of his past, both figuratively and literally, as vile creatures and ghostly apparitions plague his already fragile mind. He also suffers from horrid nightmares and vidid flashback from his childhood, though he can't remember what they're trying to tell him.
Then finally, in the end, he remembers, all the puzzle comes together. He remembers he was abused by his mother as a child, a mother who was both an acoholic and a drug addict, who left her son alone with strange stallions who also abused him. And when the young colt grew into a grown adult and had hos own son, he carried on this legacy.
The door to his bathroom opens, and we get to see what he was looking at in the beginning -- the bathtub. The curtains are drawn, but blood is visibly seen through it. He pulls the curtain away, and we finally get answers to who he is. In the bathtub, he sees a corpse. The body of his son -- Lightning Quill. Those who have read Patricidium will know what this means. The story wouldn't have been a sequel or prequel, but rather a what-if scenario in an alternate timeline where, instead of Lightning murdering his father in revenge of the abuse he put him through, the father kills Lightning in self-defence, and it drives him mad, which literally then manifests his own memories of trauma and abuse.
In a way, both stories are depictions of abuse, and the endless cycle it creates.
Having finally remembered the truth, he tells his dead son about his own childhood, and asks for forgiveness. Though those that have read Patricidium knows that Lightning never forgives his father The father then moves on, fading away into a distant memory, and Lightning awakens, free of the horrors his father caused him.
Patricide -- the act of killing one's father.
Prolicide -- the act of killing one's child.
Sounds interesting
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