The Convergence

Aside from being different from each other, we anyhow affect things and people around us, physically and beyond it. But one thing’s for sure, whether to people we’ve been good or bad, we will always count as someone or something precious or the other thing.

Here are some fictional characters that are in some ways or in all ways similar to the people I’ve interacted to. Some might be in context a villain, while some are be heroes.

Belinda Snake

Her daughter just got a miscarriage and so she has to stop working, yet by her boss’s insistence, she was still paid. She’s a secretary to be considered but in good faith she was treated by her boss and its family more than that. Every time she has a problem, she always shows a very dramatic face, as if she’s in a television series. The acting must be blatant, but as to avoid misunderstandings, her requests whether about money or a one day leave has always been granted. Until time came that the news about the miscarriage created chaos. She was given a seven-day leave, yet seven days turned out to be more than it – negligence to her job! She never came again, and all her debts were left hanging. Her boss and its family did not run after her, for they know that she’s really in trouble.

One day, in her boss’s office, a complaint came from the labor, with the complainant as Belinda Snake. Belinda’s asking for P22, 000 as she estimated it. Both Belinda’s boss and the mediator were shocked upon hearing her claim, for she might have been asking for too much.

Power: She adapted the capacity to change skin like snakes. She developed strange fangs where the poisonous venoms are secreted.

Mennen Blade

As she heard about the rumor, maybe really that malicious, she went to where her prey was, carrying a barrio blade. Then with no hesitation, she hit her quarry in the head. The woman’s bleeding, while the aggressor escaped foreseeing the possible consequence of what she has done.

The woman survived, yet still in a critical condition. The police issued the warrant of arrest, and imprisoned the assailant. All of a sudden a news came stating that the aggressor escaped and is nowhere to be found. Everyone’s shocked, but not the official behind the injustice who happened to be the assailant’s relative. Then the realization came afterwards – justice is in the brink of its extinction.

Power: She developed a very slimy sweat like those of eels that is secreted in significant amounts that makes her slippery and hard to grab.

Acacius Blink

He was a tricycle driver, until he found future in gambling. First it was her wife, who showed interest, but after seeing so much progress in that deal, he entered in the business as well. From an usher to being a coordinator, he earned a lot of money.

They are so many, but they co-exist peacefully, until such a time that greed inside him grew into something big. It made him a monster. Every small gambler that he sees as not one of his will be the police’s reward for being loyal to him. Yes, police’s reward. These police officials extort money in exchange for giving them protections so as to operate still in the illegal business.

He has many connections, and that made him the most powerful man in his place.

Power: He developed the ability for metamorphosis. Like a butterfly, which was once a caterpillar, he was before insignificant but not until he became a beast.

Gordon Stronghold
He’s been a gambler more than half of his life. His children are famous and are in power for they hold positions. He is the financier of Acacius Blink, and at the same time the mentor of the man. Acacius is not the only one who has developed greed within him, but Gordon as well.

Gordon is a wealthy man. He has cars, house and many other else. But he must not be content with what he has, so he wished for more (and as you hear more, it really means more). Every gamblers that he sees as not one of his will be driven to jail, for they are just waste of chances for gaining excessively.

For many years or even decades, gambling has always been in man’s life. It is because our police officers are not doing their job. There are only two types of policeman known to many, the coward who might be in conscience clear but in courage a beggar, and the extortionist who lives as a bogus – they’re cops but not acting like one. If there’ll be someone who doesn’t belong to any of these types, surely will not create a significant percentage unless miracles work on him.

Power: He developed strength and structure like that of a lion. Protecting what’s important to him, and killing what’s a threat to his gaining are his goals in life.