The Ultimate Cosmosheroes : Children of the Sun and the Moon

Fun night out at the bar...

    It allows me to forget my shitty life, for a moment anyway ... I often drink a beer in front of this panorama, it always calms me down before going to sleep.

    My building is located in one of the most infamous areas of Ouroboros, there is often drug trafficking and police raids in the building even in the middle of the night. I can be woken up by the sounds of sirens and flashing lights at three in the morning, but I'm used to it now. And then there are often murders and settling of scores here because of it. Many corpses are found in and around the building. There are so many that now: it is called the "Cursed Tower", because the building forms a tower and no one dares to approach this place any more. Except the dealers and the squatters of all kinds, since nobody pays attention and dares to venture there. Even most of the apartments are deserted, most people have moved because of the fear and the feeling of insecurity that reigns here.

    All except me, because I can't afford to leave. And that I have nowhere else to go, since I was an orphan since I was little. I don't know my birth parents, or if I have any siblings. But that's fine, I clearly don't want to know if they lead the same dissolute, starving existence as me. This idea alone is enough to get the better of me. I have fluttered from home to home all my life, however, now I'm glad I finally found a place of my own, my home! Even if it is in ruins, unsanitary and tiny it remains my home above all. I feel like a rooster in paste.

    Ouroboros is located in the south of France ten minutes from Bordeaux. It was created two hundred years ago, to throw away all the rejected of society and the waste of humanity according to the “Government of France”. There is no more democracy since this period. It has been replaced by a totalitarian dictatorship throughout the country. Another French revolution took place as the state changed its political regime. Millions of deaths, whether on the side of civilians or the armed forces, even on the side of the rich people in high places and politicians of the time.

    The state decided after much debate, to purify the human race by including all the abnormalities they deemed worthy, to isolate them in large numbers and to concentrate them in one and the same point.

For the safety and well-being of the French, so that no other conflict or war breaks out again ... This government decision was taken long before my grandmother was born, it a long time ago. But this one takes this story from hers, which itself takes it from hers and so on, going back two hundred years in the family tree ... Then, they ended up building a immense impenetrable wall, all around the city, to not let anyone enter and leave this cursed and sordid place. Ouroboros represents all human imperfection, weakness, ignominy and iniquity.

    This unfair concentration includes: poor, unemployed, mentally and physically disabled, gypsies, Travelers, Romans, thieves, rapists and serial killers, blacks, Arabs, homosexuals, transsexuals, transvestites and other Drag Queens, as well as as dealers, prostitutes, Poles, Turks, Russians, Chinese, illegal immigrants, Asians, the physically malformed and orphans. All those who are not qualified as "normal" and well integrated into the French community, are punished and spend their life and their death here.

    Inside this abyssal tomb, from which no one ever emerges alive and which literally bursts you slowly ... It's sordid as a place, but that's where I live, I don't know anything else or whoever it is here ... You have to live, finally survive in spite of everything, I owe it to myself, I am neither a coward nor a fugitive. I am here, I have no other choice but to continue to be there in spite of everything. It's as simple as that.

    This world needs help, free and hopeful help. Someone who, without compensation, comes to the aid of all those who need it. Restoring order and justice in this world is the priority to save Ouroboros. However, it is easier said than done. And no one knows how to do it, someone has to show them the way or the way to go. Someone or several individuals for that matter, however he or she goes about it.

The most important thing is that we act on behalf of everyone and for the good of everyone in this city, but also in our country in distress. The act, the bravery thus added to justice, that will give an explosive cocktail of hope. What we need most is that to be able to move forward, to find inner peace and a feeling of security. What no one here on earth knows or feels yet ... You have to find an emblem or a character that represents all of this at the same time, but where to find it? This is the question, which is most difficult to resolve.

    Still, I think it will take some time to answer them. Life is quietly resuming its daily routine, and I continue to go to work wondering what the purpose of my life is here and why in this seedy city. I connect customers and I do not see the time passing by. It passes at lightning speed, I did not even notice. Three weeks go by calmly and with that, its usual bundles of problems and criminality, nothing new. However, it is already the weekend and I am not working this Saturday night. So I decide to go to a bar to have a little fun and especially to relax after another very trying week ...

    The bar in question is called "le Mortifère", a well-known place here. I know him well, I often have my habits there. And everyone knows me too, especially the staff. I sit at the counter quietly, greeting the barmaid and the waiters in passing. I order my usual cocktail, a fairly mild Pinnacolada made with rum and coconut liqueur. Even though I am a man, I love anything sweet and this drink is one of them, a woman's drink. Or maybe I kept my childish tastes, who knows. The barmaid quietly prepares it for me while I pay the bill.

    The interior is overflowing with people and all kinds of bustle. So much noise, it's the cacophony in there. We can't hear each other talk anymore. The fairly ambient electronic music covers the entire room, with the surrounding screams and discussions. I really like seeing all these beautiful people, in total cohesion and in a good mood. It fills me with joy, that's why I love coming here and that I often pass by, just for a drink. We don't have the impression that the city is under the yoke of criminals and so tortured by evil, seen from here ...

    Once my refreshment is served, I barely take a sip as I turn to the huge flat screen eight hundred centimeters in front of me. Right next to the bar, in a corner that takes up a whole section of the wall. It takes that for a television of this size! Then I carefully watch the information being broadcast at the time, I don't know why, but the content familiar me, even if the mood doesn't really lend itself to it. They are talking about a lunar and solar eclipse that will take place at ten o'clock tonight.

    The "Divine Glow" they call it strange as a name, but that hardly surprises me more than that because everything is weird and out of proportion in this city. I don't really care when suddenly a friend of mine shows up and sits down next to me. His name is Mike, but everyone calls him Miky. He is quite fat belly, strong but not very tall. He is also very talkative and quite kinky around the edges, he loves to make dirty jokes and he is very full of himself. But without sorely lacking in humor, it is his wit that he lacks: he is neither intelligent nor cultivated, but kind and we can trust him. This is the most important thing about him, because he is my only friend in Ouroboros. He pats me on the back and takes me by surprise, I am seized with fear, because I do not expect it. He orders a good beer and we start to discuss:

" - So Phoebus?" How is it going ? I'm worried about you, it's been a while since we've seen each other tell me! So what's up ?

- Hi Miky, well listen I'm fine, my faith. Sorry if we haven't gotten to see each other before, but I'm super busy with my job. Overtime, you know what it is. I work almost every weekend, I don't stop. There, it's really exceptional that I'm not working tonight, so I take this opportunity to invite you to come and have a drink with me!