What happens?
Hunter deploys into WWI as an infantryman. Though he gains experience across numerous deployments as a loyal soldier, he finds himself discomforted by the dehumanizing military environment and unsettled by the weapon he is becoming. Aware he has made a mistake in coming here, Hunter admits he would like to return to Ms Leading, and conceives to return to the City at the first opportunity.
He gets no such opportunity. Instead, a string of particularly horrific encounters with a tank, a poisoner, a thief, and mustard gas progressively expose Hunter to the worst aspects of war. Each erode his idealistic worldview and jade him morally. He sustains grievous injuries in a mustard gas attack, and is left to die.
Hunter is rescued by an allied soldier who looks remarkably like himself. This soldier is the Son of the leader of this unit, who is the General. While Hunter is recovering at their camp, in the downtime, the General tells the unit the story of how he raped a hooker at a brothel called the Dime. This hooker’s name was Ms Terri.
Hunter is furious. Alongside the disgraceful uncovering of Ms Terri’s secret, he deduces that the General is his father, and that he resembles the General’s Son because he is also the General’s son. He is doubly furious, and gobsmacked, when the unit’s reception to the story is uniformly positive.
Hunter snaps. Ashamed of himself for profaning and betraying Ms Terri’s memory, regretful of having ever pursued her secret, and tortured by the knowledge of what he is, Hunter falls into deep self-loathing. He begins to contemplate abandoning his life to assume a new identity, and restart himself as someone better and happier than Hunter.
The unit fights in the Battle of the Somme. The General’s Son dies in the battle. Seeing an opportunity, Hunter swaps his dogtags, clothes, and possessions for the Son’s, deciding to steal his identity and live as him instead. Particularly, he thinks he can fool the Son’s Mother into doting upon him, but not that he can fool the General. To this end, he kills the General.
With no obstacles between him and a happier new life as the Son, Hunter greets the end of the war, eager to return to the City and put his plan into motion…
What is the purpose?
unshelter hunter
What’s in a name?
get to it later
Song Index
Writing On A Wall
In Cauda Venenum
What It Means To Be Alone
The Tank
The Poison Woman
The Thief
Mustard Gas
Saved
He Said He Had A Story
This Beautiful Life
Go Get Your Gun
Son
Father
Life and Death
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