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A Marshmallow and A Gentleman: An Epi-Prologue

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[Reboot Reboot'd Notes: Nothing special. Just a pdf of the original story with the original cheesy photoslopped graphic. I wanted to submit it to a Steampunk group]


A Contest Entry for :iconsticky-marshmallow: 's Character Design Contest.

Rather than submit the poorly articulated stick figures I am capable of - I decided to opt for text. While only character sketches were required, I found myself spewing forth this non-story.

I'm insane like that.

It's an epi-prologue. Started and finished here and now.

Sometimes my imagination is endless chimpanzees on endless typewriters. Sometimes it is endless chimpanzees on one typewriter - one with a sticky 'E'.

I don't quite know what this is.

In reading the criteria and conditions for her contest Steamed and Punked Avengers came to mind.

There's a twinge of Carroll's Wonderland aspect in this piece. He was the subject of my Master's Thesis and creeps about my dreamscape every now and again.

I like his writings; don't care for the man.

Good thing I'm too old for the bugger.

But like Alice, I try 5 impossible things before breakfast (as it is 4am I'm almost there.)

Here's 5 improbable things about the World of The Gentleman and Mallow.

1) While it was conceivable for Tesla and ol Dodgy to meet on the field of battle (one which coincides with Chuckie's shuffling off the coil mortal). The creator of Wonderland was most likely not a black magician. He had a stammer - prolly couldn't wrap lips round a proper 'klaatu barada nikto'

2) Tesla was an odd duck and a bit of a hermit (and apparently looked like David Bowie according to some) He would never be the head of a secretive league of 'we could be heroes'

...or would he?

Perhaps - just for one day.

3) 'Nail Polish', 'Varnish', or 'Lacquer' was not invented until the 1920's with the advent of glossy automobile paints. Women colored their nails at the turn of the century but with elaborate powders, buffs, and secret rituals. I invented nail polish to serve a non-purpose here. I await my retro-royalties.

4) Tesla was a bit of an 'estrophobe' (I prefer that to gynophobe - so world - it has been coined!) germophobe, hairophobe, etceteraphobe. So he wouldn't have accepted Mallow into any fold he was creasing. He also weighed his own excrement. It probably helped keep the ladies away.

5) My sometimes writing partner and I have a love of bizarre footnotes, smithing words to suit our needs, and referencing things that don't really exist in a nod of the Aluminium Crutch to Doyle in that regard. (Have you checked our - for now- cryogenic blogs - awww don't worry - nobody did) The past adventures of The Gentleman and Co mentioned here don't really exist. The titles, however, do in part. Any writer worth their salt has a open copyright dump for mental spring cleaning of jotted notes, ideas, and half writes. Small fee - easy electronic attachment and Boom - fixed media. I wrote a little unpublished article of faux bibliographies entitled : 'The 10 Best Steampunk Adventures That No One Has Written' and while no one has bought it yet either - I still own it. They are cooling copyright heels somewhere as we speak.

No touchie - I'm very proud of those puns. :)
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AriesVyolet's avatar
Wow... Such a dark mien this work exerts! It's beautiful. It's dangerously close to Alice in Wonderland though. "Jabberwocky" and "playing card corpses" made it so. Nevertheless, I am in love with the way you described their steampunk styles, porcelain skin an whatnot. Reading a good ominous piece always makes me smile. I... really need to get started on my own stories soon as a opposed to just writing poetry.