Yuli Ban
13th February 2015, 15:44
I've begun the narrative of a massive series I've been plotting out for roughly 6 years now, since I was 14. As you can imagine, it's changed quite a bit, and I feel it's changed my whole outlook on life. I'd go so far as to say it's the reason I turned to leftism amongst other things.
Also, I'd say it saved me from suicide. My OCD kept me obsessed with it, and my obsession to write it was greater than my disaffection with life for long enough.
I wish to hear others' opinions on it. Maybe there's something I can change or streamline that I'm not presently seeing.
For a general, longwinded rundown...
The series name is "Mother Meki". As aforementioned, it's set across four novels that follow the life of my protagonist, Mackenzie Lamartiniere "Meki" Seville. Her goal is to get mankind to "grow up", particularly to make it to a Type 1 civilization, and live on.
There are many obstacles, however. One big one being the horrifically class stratified society into which she was born. It isn't so much class as castes— there is a seemingly permanent divide between the ruling class and underclass. Capitalism has degenerated into a neo-feudal society because of automation. The working class was too appeased by entertainment and whatnot to revolt until it was too late. They tried in 2078, but it failed.
Meki believes there's still a chance to overthrow the rich elite. They just have to ally with AI and hack into the elite's defenses and shut them off. She knows this because she's one of them.
She's the designer daughter to the world's richest man, a man who created the "nübility" with her as the empress. She was created to be his sex slave, and to satisfy his fetish for the mentally ill, she is severely schizophrenic and synesthetic.
She was born in 2082, after the failed uprising.
She's also a "Homo maximus", a High Human. Her father, Ludovic, crafted her after a schizophrenic Irish prostitute he loved and drove to suicide 40 years earlier, McKenzie Baxter, (he wanted to exacerbate her illness), except she'd also be the perfect Aryan beauty— platinum blonde hair, sapphire blue eyes, puffy cheeks, a perfect form, and forever young. He designed her to not be greedy because he felt all women wanted money, and that Baxter killed herself only because of money (in the 2030s, there was a horrible economic depression, which dragged the teenaged schizophrenic to the streets just to provide for her family).
So Ludovic kept Meki sheltered throughout her childhood, exposing her to the world only a few times so he could have her all to himself.
And to make sure Meki enjoyed it, he used a combination of masochism and memory loss to keep her innocent.
The reason why she was an empress and not a princess? Because she was wedded to Ludovic on birth, and he'd never need another if he was technologically immortal anyway.
Problem was, he didn't actually control her beyond this. He himself was under the delusion that he should let Meki "roam free" for 18 years before finally locking her to him.
She was growing up to be the paratypical spoiled brute up until age 12, in 2094. At a large virtual sports competition, she wound up losing to Conner Disraeli, a Neanderthal born without arms, so he had some donated cybernetic arms. In a huff, she ripped off his arms and stormed away. How could a perfect empress lose to a poor Neanderthal cripple? the elite scorned.
Disraeli lived, and in fact was sent even better arms, but no one can deny that this was class brutality at its worst.
And very, very soon after, Meki was hit with a new hallucination. This one drove her mad, nearly to suicide multiple times, before she accepted its words.
She all but made a face heel turn, and came under a new delusion that there's an alien race that's coming to Earth to wipe away the New World Order, in 2107. Judgment will occur in 2112.
She becomes obsessed with this, and with revolution in general. She understood her errors and wrongs and that she can't understand the plight of the oppressed masses. She tries, by spending simulated lifetimes in VR as oppressed peoples (often getting her life cut short.)
The chief artilect in Europe, Terios, discovers Meki's newfound radicalization. Xe also planned to down the elite at the right time, and shared to Meki some distressing news
— there has been endless war tearing apart various parts of the world, all enforced by the rich few for profit.
But the elite does not need the masses anymore, not with the rise of the machine working class. So there has been discussion— with her father being one of the biggest proponents— of "cleaning up the planet." Reducing the population down to a comfortable 100 million, with 90 million to be forced off world.
For Meki, that was it... the people didn't deserve this final injustice. The only solution: revolution.
So yeah, that's the story.
Oh, wait, no it's not. That's the backstory.
Skipping time is over!
Mother Meki book one begins after the revolution is successful. Four years after, in fact. Meki's 19 and deeply proud of the masses.
But the thing is, now that revolution has been done, the people actually have to figure out how to run things.
The current party in power has created Emswopa, the Emiran Socialist Worker's Paradise. It's a libertarian Marxist order, headed by the Paris Commune and expanding from the United States of America to Poland. Because this is the Luddite Generation, they've taken a generally anti-technology approach to things.
There are a few places that have it differently. Scandinavia has turned to technostic syndicalism. Technostism is the belief that all labor should be automated. The class the benefits from robot labor is the networking class. With technostic syndicalism, all robots are communally owned.
This is how it's done in Asia, Africa, South America, and Australia as well.
Then there are the prison islands.
Like Medine. Medine is an artificial island located in the middle of the English Channel, between Dover and Calais. It's run via totalitarianism.
But there's a reason for that.
The Medine government is not trying to build a worker's paradise.
Medine is where the capitalists have been dragged.
The European working class voted to imprison the capitalists/nübility in poverty rather than in prisons because of Neon Renaissance values that "understanding is punishment." Hopefully, there will be successful proletarianization.
This is where the story begins.
Meki is eager to be proletarianized, but not so for her sister or classmates. And there's factionalism between three grassroots fascist groups vying for power— the Blackshirts (hyperviolent proles who desire a National Bolshevik Orwellian world government, and believe everyone not a prole human deserves only death and slave labor), Gotteskrieg (the Hateful Faithful, burzhui and prole white supremacists who believe that mankind's peak was the Medieval ages and that leftism is Satanism, and rightism not themselves is also Satanism), and Talos (straightforward burzhui fascist reactionaries who believe transhumanism should only be used to create a perfect race of ubermensch).
Then you have the River Blue (cyberpunk anarchists who are disgusted by the conditions in Medine and believe in total classlessness and peace) and cyber occultists (prole and burzhui stoners friendly with the River Blue but mostly just interested in using nanotech to conjure fake demons and roleplay black magic).
And it's more complicated than that, but eh. I've said tons.
Point is, Meki believes all people deserve to be free and the rich few who sold the world got what was coming to them.
She's a burzhui (Russian term for "class enemy") who wants to be a prole, and works with the Medine government to undermine Gotteskrieg and Talos. Though she's not exempt from harshness and revolutionary repression herself (she learns what it's like to starve, and she has wicked work hours, upwards of 100+ a week), she does earn their trust.
But there's also the Vult, who are artilects oppressed by the burzhui who crave bloody vengeance. She's married to one such artilect (she's a robosexual), but is also owned by xen as a slave because Ludovic sold her to them just for extra kinks.
Luddy is dead, don't worry. She ripped his penis in half when he tried to rape her back in '98. Pushed him out of a window and he was skewered by a fence. What a way for a bloody emperor to go.
I suppose the series is transhumanist fiction more than anything, with leftist themes. When I first came up with it in 09, the novelty of it being a revolution fic from the perspective of a person the revolution aims to overthrow was the purpose. Nowadays, it's more ethereal and about human evolution and that cal.
Ask me anything else you wish to know.
I've actually written some rough drafts, and I could post them here if anyone's interested.
Also, I'd say it saved me from suicide. My OCD kept me obsessed with it, and my obsession to write it was greater than my disaffection with life for long enough.
I wish to hear others' opinions on it. Maybe there's something I can change or streamline that I'm not presently seeing.
For a general, longwinded rundown...
The series name is "Mother Meki". As aforementioned, it's set across four novels that follow the life of my protagonist, Mackenzie Lamartiniere "Meki" Seville. Her goal is to get mankind to "grow up", particularly to make it to a Type 1 civilization, and live on.
There are many obstacles, however. One big one being the horrifically class stratified society into which she was born. It isn't so much class as castes— there is a seemingly permanent divide between the ruling class and underclass. Capitalism has degenerated into a neo-feudal society because of automation. The working class was too appeased by entertainment and whatnot to revolt until it was too late. They tried in 2078, but it failed.
Meki believes there's still a chance to overthrow the rich elite. They just have to ally with AI and hack into the elite's defenses and shut them off. She knows this because she's one of them.
She's the designer daughter to the world's richest man, a man who created the "nübility" with her as the empress. She was created to be his sex slave, and to satisfy his fetish for the mentally ill, she is severely schizophrenic and synesthetic.
She was born in 2082, after the failed uprising.
She's also a "Homo maximus", a High Human. Her father, Ludovic, crafted her after a schizophrenic Irish prostitute he loved and drove to suicide 40 years earlier, McKenzie Baxter, (he wanted to exacerbate her illness), except she'd also be the perfect Aryan beauty— platinum blonde hair, sapphire blue eyes, puffy cheeks, a perfect form, and forever young. He designed her to not be greedy because he felt all women wanted money, and that Baxter killed herself only because of money (in the 2030s, there was a horrible economic depression, which dragged the teenaged schizophrenic to the streets just to provide for her family).
So Ludovic kept Meki sheltered throughout her childhood, exposing her to the world only a few times so he could have her all to himself.
And to make sure Meki enjoyed it, he used a combination of masochism and memory loss to keep her innocent.
The reason why she was an empress and not a princess? Because she was wedded to Ludovic on birth, and he'd never need another if he was technologically immortal anyway.
Problem was, he didn't actually control her beyond this. He himself was under the delusion that he should let Meki "roam free" for 18 years before finally locking her to him.
She was growing up to be the paratypical spoiled brute up until age 12, in 2094. At a large virtual sports competition, she wound up losing to Conner Disraeli, a Neanderthal born without arms, so he had some donated cybernetic arms. In a huff, she ripped off his arms and stormed away. How could a perfect empress lose to a poor Neanderthal cripple? the elite scorned.
Disraeli lived, and in fact was sent even better arms, but no one can deny that this was class brutality at its worst.
And very, very soon after, Meki was hit with a new hallucination. This one drove her mad, nearly to suicide multiple times, before she accepted its words.
She all but made a face heel turn, and came under a new delusion that there's an alien race that's coming to Earth to wipe away the New World Order, in 2107. Judgment will occur in 2112.
She becomes obsessed with this, and with revolution in general. She understood her errors and wrongs and that she can't understand the plight of the oppressed masses. She tries, by spending simulated lifetimes in VR as oppressed peoples (often getting her life cut short.)
The chief artilect in Europe, Terios, discovers Meki's newfound radicalization. Xe also planned to down the elite at the right time, and shared to Meki some distressing news
— there has been endless war tearing apart various parts of the world, all enforced by the rich few for profit.
But the elite does not need the masses anymore, not with the rise of the machine working class. So there has been discussion— with her father being one of the biggest proponents— of "cleaning up the planet." Reducing the population down to a comfortable 100 million, with 90 million to be forced off world.
For Meki, that was it... the people didn't deserve this final injustice. The only solution: revolution.
So yeah, that's the story.
Oh, wait, no it's not. That's the backstory.
Skipping time is over!
Mother Meki book one begins after the revolution is successful. Four years after, in fact. Meki's 19 and deeply proud of the masses.
But the thing is, now that revolution has been done, the people actually have to figure out how to run things.
The current party in power has created Emswopa, the Emiran Socialist Worker's Paradise. It's a libertarian Marxist order, headed by the Paris Commune and expanding from the United States of America to Poland. Because this is the Luddite Generation, they've taken a generally anti-technology approach to things.
There are a few places that have it differently. Scandinavia has turned to technostic syndicalism. Technostism is the belief that all labor should be automated. The class the benefits from robot labor is the networking class. With technostic syndicalism, all robots are communally owned.
This is how it's done in Asia, Africa, South America, and Australia as well.
Then there are the prison islands.
Like Medine. Medine is an artificial island located in the middle of the English Channel, between Dover and Calais. It's run via totalitarianism.
But there's a reason for that.
The Medine government is not trying to build a worker's paradise.
Medine is where the capitalists have been dragged.
The European working class voted to imprison the capitalists/nübility in poverty rather than in prisons because of Neon Renaissance values that "understanding is punishment." Hopefully, there will be successful proletarianization.
This is where the story begins.
Meki is eager to be proletarianized, but not so for her sister or classmates. And there's factionalism between three grassroots fascist groups vying for power— the Blackshirts (hyperviolent proles who desire a National Bolshevik Orwellian world government, and believe everyone not a prole human deserves only death and slave labor), Gotteskrieg (the Hateful Faithful, burzhui and prole white supremacists who believe that mankind's peak was the Medieval ages and that leftism is Satanism, and rightism not themselves is also Satanism), and Talos (straightforward burzhui fascist reactionaries who believe transhumanism should only be used to create a perfect race of ubermensch).
Then you have the River Blue (cyberpunk anarchists who are disgusted by the conditions in Medine and believe in total classlessness and peace) and cyber occultists (prole and burzhui stoners friendly with the River Blue but mostly just interested in using nanotech to conjure fake demons and roleplay black magic).
And it's more complicated than that, but eh. I've said tons.
Point is, Meki believes all people deserve to be free and the rich few who sold the world got what was coming to them.
She's a burzhui (Russian term for "class enemy") who wants to be a prole, and works with the Medine government to undermine Gotteskrieg and Talos. Though she's not exempt from harshness and revolutionary repression herself (she learns what it's like to starve, and she has wicked work hours, upwards of 100+ a week), she does earn their trust.
But there's also the Vult, who are artilects oppressed by the burzhui who crave bloody vengeance. She's married to one such artilect (she's a robosexual), but is also owned by xen as a slave because Ludovic sold her to them just for extra kinks.
Luddy is dead, don't worry. She ripped his penis in half when he tried to rape her back in '98. Pushed him out of a window and he was skewered by a fence. What a way for a bloody emperor to go.
I suppose the series is transhumanist fiction more than anything, with leftist themes. When I first came up with it in 09, the novelty of it being a revolution fic from the perspective of a person the revolution aims to overthrow was the purpose. Nowadays, it's more ethereal and about human evolution and that cal.
Ask me anything else you wish to know.
I've actually written some rough drafts, and I could post them here if anyone's interested.