Authors Note: I was not sure whos point of view I would write this from. So I decided to write just a basic setting of what was going on in the Repo! The Genetic Opera. Thus it is a short little prologue of what's going on as we saw in the movie and a few extra things thrown in as a way to bring my plot together.
The Largo's were in the middle of a real battle. Things seemed to go from bad to worse. Legal repossessions were once again being scrutinized. Rotti Largo looking to keep costs down had introduced a bill asking for micro-chipping of the people who received financed organs. This had swayed public opinion against them. The Largo's reach had gone too far. To be tagged like common household pets was not something the common people of Crucifixous had taken well. Privacy seemed to be the last thing the population had which the Largo family hadn't bought or taken from them.
Repossession it had seemed had become a hot topic for the younger and more politically and technologically savvy new politicians that had been elected. Rotti had no longer been able to keep his politicians in line as more and more of them had retired or been murdered. His own son Luigi had been implicated in some of the most notorious of them.
But this bill that had been proposed to micro-chip the recipients of financed GeneCo organs had been a real blunder and was a pain in GeneCo's ass. It had seemed an obvious step in order to keep people from running off with organs and the Repo Department from having to spend so much time trying to run people down. Rotti cringed at the whole thing. He cursed himself for not having the foresight to see what would happen.
The repossession of organs though was necessary in order to keep financed organs affordable for those who needed them. A service was provided, a contract was drafted and then it was signed by a willing participant over the age of 18. As this was the law children were exempt from repossessions until they turned 18. Then they could legally be harvested.
Repossessions had affected most of the population of Crucifixous in some way or another. It was no wonder why people's opinion on the Largo family, from saints to sinners, had changed so drastically.
Even old favorites no longer worked. Having lost the faith of most people over the course of so many years, even Magdalene Defoe no longer wanted anything to do with GeneCo. She had just announced her imminent retirement as the voice of GeneCo. Not only was this disastrous to GeneCo but to the diva herself as she herself was cursed under the current repossessions law.
It seemed that Rotti was losing control over his vast empire. It included not only vital organs, but almost everything that could be replaced. His first major triumph after saving the population from imminent organ failure was his digital corneas which had been hailed as a miracle for the blind. His fortune though had been made in the repossession business.
Rotti's slipping grasp over the elected officials of Crucifixous he was in danger of losing the most profitable part of his business. With upcoming legislations Repos could become a thing of the past. But it wasn't just his business that was in trouble.
The Largo brothers seemed to be getting into hotter and hotter water. Their life above the law seemed to be grinding to a halt. Luigi's temper remained unchecked and Pavi's fascination for faces that didn't belong to him seemed to be spiraling out of control.
Amber seemed another matter altogether. She didn't have obvious murderous intentions like her brothers. But she had acquired a taste for Zydrate especially for the street grade Zydrate which was fermented in the brains of dead people and therefore had a kick that the surgical grade didn't provide. Rotti had long decided that his daughter would be his greatest disappointment. Amber had been an obvious choice to take over the company. He knew she was bright and could be highly articulate. Her charismatic personality in the past had made her an asset to the company. Rotti had long believed she was the one that would take over GeneCo. But her road to self-destruction had made think twice about putting her in charge.
A change was in order and it needed to happen soon. His children were unworthy heirs.