Cupid's Tetris: Neo-Detroit

A Story by Abishai100

A vigilance-crusade in modern apocalyptic Detroit involving two masked 'Cupid' brothers signals the counter-force of real dowries.

A very dystopian comics-oriented crime-noir short inspired by the works of James O'Barr and Alex Proyas. Hope you like it,

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Modern Detroit was a hellfire region of invisible evil, veiled by the underground deeds of ambitious men/women in the criminal empire of capitalism's loopholes, and they'd made the US city a place for great seduction of innocence, blanketed by a night-sky covering the reality of lost fortune/negotiation.

There are two super-heroes who're tackling this brand of modern dystopian hell, and their names are both Cupid. These two vigilantes are brothers, and they both wear masks while patrolling Detroit in their painted car and present themselves as armed guerrilla-fighters, assisting the police-department which is otherwise helpless in dealing with the veiled forms of bloody murder in the US city that have turned human hearts towards the potential for great corruption. The two Cupids often like posing as the specter-vigilantes Scarecrow and Rabbit. Scarecrow-Cupid is the good cop of the two. Scarecrow-Cupid cares about the tedious tending to the human emotions that 'construct' these forms of vanity and corruption and human frailty that give rise to Detroit's ugly truths. That's why Scarecrow-Cupid is the greater 'politician' of the vigilante-pair.

Scarecrow-Cupid and Rabbit-Cupid both wield an adjusted/enhanced toy water-rifle during their vigilante-patrols in Detroit, which is inserted with a thin glass tube filled with corrosive acid! They use their 'acid-gun' to shoot at the tires of mobster-cars and urban gang bike-tires to derail the 'riders of the storm' and to quiet down the loud noise of boastful traffic activity in Detroit, after which they promptly drive off swiftly or disappear into the alleys like ghosts or specters.

Rabbit-Cupid is the proverbial 'bad cop' of the two vigilantes in Detroit. Rabbit likes to approach this form of urban vigilance with a sense of immediate daring and forceful entry into the invisible hallways of the city's underworld imagination. He hopes to 'unmask' the darkness behind lost innocence seeking to redeem itself only through greater ditches of yearned mischief or delusions of grandeur, making Rabbit-Cupid a sort of sanitizing punisher.

SCARECROW: We're rescuing a grandfather-granddaughter duo of visiting Detroit circus-performers from a marauder unit.

RABBIT: Right; this marauder-unit seeks to burn down the tents and murder the old man and the little girl in front of crowds.

Detroit's modern dystopian neo-darkness is nothing short of something out of Dante's Inferno itself. However, it's all invisible, since the darkness is covered by the facial vanities of the sheer will to erect the prophetic Tower of Babel inside the city, even after the terrorism-freakshow of 9/11, which makes Scarecrow-Cupid and Rabbit-Cupid wonder if this Great Tribulation is some form of End-Times sign of the presence of a terrible 'raven' of triumphed malice!

The two Cupids are contending with both organized criminals and maniacs like Monocle and Tuxedo who wish to use narcotics and media to cast themselves as demi-gods of urbanized Detroit poison. Who can resist the charms of ever-present theatrical toxicity? The two Cupids incidentally consider themselves 'cupids' (mythological avatar of love-arrow archery!), because these adversaries require a direct 'strike' at the heart of Detroit's dystopian masqueraded apparent self-aggrandized grandeur.

SCARECROW: We've saved the circus grandfather-granddaughter, but there's new bloody murder in Detroit involving a couple.

RABBIT: It's a newlywed-couple exiting a Detroit pub and who're shot by mobsters collecting on a gambler's dare.

The single valiant Detroit policewoman who happens to admire the work of Scarecrow-Cupid and Rabbit-Cupid is Officer Starles (Clarice), but she's truly helpless in this sort of modern urban vigilance/vigilantism, since she'd simply be ripped apart by the faces/forms of these neo-dystopian ugly maniacs and crime-groups like Monocle. In fact, Clarice hopes to just 'shadow' Scarecrow/Rabbit and just offer whatever kinds of 'civil assistance' to protect the two daring vigilantes from the exposing spotlight of urban media gossip.

CLARICE: I should like to take these two Robin Hoods out to a terrific Detroit theater-stageshow of an iconic folk-tale soon.

The work that the two Cupids, the vigilantes of Detroit, have performed have drawn the attention of a media-artist who works with referenced images of graphic comics characters taken from a cross-section of modern North American studios devoted to the 'iconography' of the imagery behind the imagination of complete and unfiltered urban depression. This media-artist hopes to assist Clarice, Scarecrow, and Rabbit in their mission in Detroit by providing these supplemental graffiti-images of extreme urban paranoia in Detroit regarding the 'dark presence' of real deleting forces!

SCARECROW: Rescuing that grandfather-granddaughter duo from that visiting circus was a moment of glory!

RABBIT: It seems to us that such a photo of rescued abomination reflects an investment in real Detroit detention.

Now, the Cupid brothers/vigilantes are pursuing a new blood-diamond smuggling ring linked to an Irish-Italian mafia dual job linked to piracy underworlds in already-troubled Northern Ireland, and this Detroit-Belfast bridge of hell may upset the delicate balance of due civilization process that Scarecrow/Rabbit seek to 'enforce' through this media-savvy campaign against invisible/veiled darkness. The two Cupids therefore begin to cite images of old Belfast in the Detroit-Net for a special campaign about the real power of journalism/dialogue in the modern world of neo-dystopian depression!