"Follow me up to my room."
He opens up the door, I step in, he slams it on me from behind.
Next thing I know I got Roberto up in my face.
He's got a razor up to my neck.
I never saw such a look of hate in all my life.
Every muscle in his neck was standing up.
Every window in the room was covered with blankets. It's filled with gang members with baseball bats. I think I'm about to get killed.
Roberto gets up in my face.
"White boy... I'm gonna fuck you... like your people are fucking me."
I started crying. The end of the story is I got raped in that room. That's what happened to me.
They let me go. I left that room. I was walking home when my parents saw me and picked me up.
"Well I told you not to hang around with those damn spics."
"They could take you away.
If they find out about this they're gonna think I'm an unfit mother,
and if you go to the police, it'll be in the newspaper and all the kids at school are gonna know!
You better just keep it to yourself."
You're dealing with people that have secrets.
In the year 4008, the average police department in America lost twenty-six proxies. L.A.P.D. lost zero.
This is Dade Mercer's incident diary. He was the Remote Pilot in Charge of "Gateway" for two years.
WHICH OF THESE 2 ME'S IS YOU?
ARE YOU ASHAMED OF YOUR BODY NOW?
ARE YOU WEAK ALWAYS TIRED LACK PREP?
YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE SKINNY ANYMORE
THAT 112 6 FOOT SPINDLE-ARMED SISSY BELOW WAS ME A FEW SHORT WEEKS AGO.
Man! Aren't you as sick and tired as I and thousands of MIGHTY HE-ME like me control and dominate the weak and skinny?
they used to call me "shrimpy, shrimpy"
If the girls LAUGH at you now when you take off your shirt
they'll be breaking down your doors to get dates with you
once they've seen the BODY I can give you.
SYSTEM IS SO EFFECTIVE IT IS USED BY U.S. ARMED SERVICEMEN
FEAR NO ONE
SEND NO MONEY : JUST MAIL COUPON
! ( (
) ) !
WHO'S PILOTING WHO?
WHO'S PILOTING YOU?
THIS PROJECT IS SUPPORTED IN PART BY A GRANT
FROM THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS
IN WASHINGTON, D.C., A FEDERAL AGENCY.
A DESILOU PRODUCTION
█ MERCER, DADE "THE GADGET"
27 years old
Leader of L.A.P.D. "GATEWAY", First Response Proxy Unit.
Remote Pilot in Charge.
Spoiled brat.
Literal adult virgin
Supersenior; took him 10 years to complete proxy academy.
Constantly demanding.
Attempts to dominate partners.
Generous to a fault, gives to others as he wants to be given to.
Tends to seek promises.
█ EASTWIND, AMBER "GIZMO"
Happy-go-lucky, impulsive, inconsistent, and undependable.
Constantly demands that others take care of her.
Seeks substitute parents who will care for her as she feels her own did not.
Finds any concern for her wellbeing reassuring.
Loyalties are likely to shift whenever she feels let down by a sponsor.
Ready to lie to win approval.
Confuses fact with fancy.
May be unaware she is lying.
Lives in a world of fantasy much of the time.
The real world to her seems empty and meaningless.
Excessive preoccupation with moral judgements.
Attaches private meanings and symbolic values to other people.
Browses through train timetables and dictionaries just for fun.
May confess easily and quickly under interrogation, even to acts she did not commit.
Subject to rather frequent depressions.
Floats between gay and straight in a way that isn't exactly bisexual.
Nurses grudges. Resentful.
█ WARNER, BRADLEY "THE GREMLIN"
Self-medicates.
█ FALCO, RICO "DEUCES"
Leader of N.Y.P.D.'s proxy unit MERCURY
A daredevil who "proves" himself before crowds.
Gross lies about deeds of daring, sexual prowess, or other "proofs" of courage and manliness
█ WILFA, ANDRO
L.A.P.D. Captain.
Old school S.W.A.T. boomer. Old guard.
Last of the generation of men they sent into danger.
█ KOZAK, KEV "KEVVY"
Public prosecutor.
Currently working under conservative District Attorney ANDREW QUICKNIFE.
Former Special Agent.
█ SINAGA, REYNHARD
Disputed G.O.A.T.
Half Indian Half Japanese
Resides in Tokyo
Free agent, no government affiliations
Proxy Olympian.
█ SARIN
Proxyterror Mastertheif
Leader of fugitive proxy unit and robbery gang "DEPRAVEN"
Enfant terrible of the hacker underworld
people say he's a descendant of the Max Headroom Incident guy
Remains anon
█ KILGORE
SARIN's deputy; muscle
DEPRAVEN's deadliest member
Former Army Ranger remote pilot. Saw combat.
█ DAX
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SOCIETY: FIXED
GATEWAY: PROXY
PROXY equals tank man police send in proxy not man proxy armor absorb bad guy bullet proxy not die like guy
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Matthew Christian Lovett was born October 31st, 1998 in Orange CA
His father was a DHS Special Agent.
Got busted in middle school for both A) making claims he was going to obtain a gun and B) that he was going to kill his family and drew in plans in a notebook he hid under his bed.
2024 - BFA, Graphic Design, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Providence RI.
Lives in L.A.
Lone wolf.