Faust

Extra chapter: Origin of 'Faust'

Before the canal was built, before Faust was first used for smuggling, back before it was named Faust.

(For convenience I will keep referring to it as Faust.)

When the city was just a fishing village. The waves of revolution came, people fought, and bloody battles are won by the revolutionaries with methods unknown to the people. The people of Faust don't care about the change of regimes since it doesn't affect them at all, why should they care about it?

That is until one of them starts listening to the radio and found the pirate channel of the guerrillas. Every afternoon they will have a speech about the importance of liberty, fairness, freedom, love, and the significance to dream of a life free from oppression and dictation. The speaker was the leader of the revolutionary army who calls themselves 'mosquetero del rey'.

Every day, people of this small fishing village will gather around the only radio in town awaiting passionately the deep, stoic but vigorous voice of Roldán, the charming leader of the resistance, a knight in shining armor who sworn to save the country from all the injustices and torments cost by the evil leader.

Young men bid their mothers goodbye and joined the guerrilla, wife kiss their husbands twice on the forehead for good luck. They sing while waving their hats in the air.

Wrinkles crawled on the soldier's señoritas, sickness put their mothers in a wheelchair, and television was invented so the people of Faust could curse at the face of their great leader. Because it's always good to have someone to blame for right? And the more they hate the government the more they adore Roldán, some historians found records of deification.

Official record (poor reliability) states the warfare lasted 11 years. The loved ones waited for their returns. Every afternoon, they will listen to the inspirational words of Roldán, promising that righteousness will prevail and the battles had been won 'We will reach the capital in no time' This become a slang in the future meaning false promises.

Years passed until one day, on the National day of our country, the resistance launched a surprise attack in the capital. They won and executed almost everyone in the office. Some say they could see the blood on Roldán's 'Manche Mousquetaire' when he gave a National speech right after the fight ends.

The war is over. They're free, everyone is freed. But most importantly, the sons and husbands of many can come back home. They name the little plaza where folks used to listen to the radio 'Mosquetero', and not just Faust but all over the country people changed their street names, and their children's names after the revolutionary army.

There is no official record of how many guerrillas died in the span of warfare. All we know is not even 1 out of ten came back home. And those that did came back with PTSD, drug addiction, alcoholism, and waking up at 3 in the morning with cold sweats. They were the broken souls of time. And the one thing they have in common is these soldiers never speak of what happened after they left home. Not even to their own.

What comes after, no one anticipated...... well, no one but them.

Roldán announced the abolition of Congress, the restoration of monarchy. And declare himself a 'Humble servant of the people, pioneer of the new age, founder of our great nation reborn! .......and its new king." That's when people realized 'mosquetero del rey', the 'Rey' was referring to himself all this time.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely. He was worse than the family he executed. The whole country was in lockdown, riots broke out. The sound of people was ignored, but now it's being monitored.