Perhaps not all brutality, but that it will give something else a chance to grow, and maybe it will be better. It’s a fatalist twist to the piece, to embrace extinction because it means that the brutality will end. So that nothing remains except to decide that maybe things need to end. He wants so much to have someone else to believe in, and yet the corruption of the setting touches everything. There’s a definite bleak efficiency to the prose, that wraps an almost romantic air to Scipio’s mission and outlook. The piece follows as the one good thing in his life is basically stolen from him, shaking his loyalty and making him examine what his priorities should be. In doing so, it crafts Scipio, a victim of abuse who manages to rise to the top of this organization thanks to his skills at killing those El Tirano wants dead. As such, the piece does lean a bit on stereotypes and perhaps plays into people’s familiarity with depictions of Latinx organized crime. Spoilers: This story does a great job of building up this very brutal, very corrupt ruler-ship of a future where infrastructure and government has been replaced by what is essentially cartel-rule.
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