A/N: So this is kind of a weird thing that just popped into my head one weekend... I had just read the Void City series that I borrowed from my friend Doom Kitty, and then I was hanging out with her and my friend Risu one weekend and we watched Repo! The Genetic Opera about five times in a row, singing along the entire time because we watch it often enough to have memorized it! And I just started thinking about how the characters from Void City and Repo are actually really similar and then this story was born, and written in about three days. I know it's kind of weirdly specific, but I like it so whatever.

Repo! The Void City Genetic Opera

The cast of the Void City series blended with the storyline of Repo! The Genetic Opera. Since this is, in fact, an opera, nearly all the dialogue will be sung, not spoken.

The Players:

Eric "Nathan" Wallace – A brooding vampire who mourns the loss of his beloved wife Marni, which leads him to be very over-protective of Greta, his adopted daughter. He used to own a strip club, but also dabbled as a scientist. Now he pretends to be a doctor, but his full time job is using his vampire powers to dispose of people who default on their payments for his former best friend, Rodger.

Marni "Marilyn" Wallace – The deceased wife of Eric. She is Rodger's former lover, and he was furious when she left him. Marni was a bone marrow donor for Greta, but she was infected with a blood disease thanks to Rodger. Eric believes that he gave her the disease from one of his other victims and so is consumed by guilt.

Greta "Shilo" Wallace – The adopted daughter of Marni and Eric. Eric rescued her from an abusive foster father when the ghost of her foster mother refused to leave him alone, and he ended up adopting her. He turned her into a vampire when she was 17 after she was infected with the blood disease that killed Marni. She was in a coma for a long time, but has since recovered, though her body is still wasted from her diseases and abuses.

Talbot the Grave Robber – The quiet disdainful and oddly feline-like drug dealer prowls around Void City harvesting a black-market version of a drug called Zydrate to sell to the denizens of the city, including Rachel. Although he becomes oddly protective of Greta, he is overall filled with contempt for the creatures that populate Void City

Rodger "Rotti" Largo – Formerly Eric's best friend and Marni's lover, he is now a vengeful old vampire. He murdered Marni and framed Eric in order to get revenge, and now that he is dying from a blood disease, he is looking for an heir. He has three "children", Philip, Ebon, and Rachel, but he thinks Greta is a more worthy heir than his own offspring. He is the founder of GeneCo, a company that manufactures organs, conducts surgeries, and makes the popular painkiller called Zydrate. It also provides a convenient place for vampires like himself and his sons (and Eric, Greta, and Tabitha) to get fresh blood.

Philip "Luigi" Largo – Philip is Rodger's oldest son. He is violent and unpredictable, callously tortures and murders anyone who displeases him, and he may also be attracted to Blind Tab.

Ebon "Pavi" Winter Largo – The oddly effeminate youngest son of Rodger tends to affect odd accents, play with the affections of women, may assault them if they don't submit, and also removes their faces to wear as his own. It is unclear how much of this is real and how much is just a game. There may be more to Ebon than his family realizes…

Rachel "Amber" Sweet – The daughter of Rodger is a spoiled and slutty young brat. She wants to be a singer, but doesn't seem to work very hard at it. She is constantly getting new surgeries to change her appearance and is addicted to Street Zydrate, provided by Talbot. She is also very slutty, scheming to get in the pants of just about every man she comes across… including her own brothers?

Blind Tab "Blind Tabitha" – The lovely blind opera singer can now see thanks to new eyes provided by GeneCo. However she decides that she wants to break her contract so that she can resume a relationship with Eric (and later be a mother to Greta).

Prologue:

Eric "Nathan" Wallace was only in his 30's when he died. He had been a strip club owner with one goal in life: To convince his beloved Marilyn to marry him. She finally said yes. And then Eric died.

Well it wasn't just as simple as that. He'd been in a terrible car accident that may or may not have been murder. He was embalmed and buried and everything seemed hunky-dory for his best friend Rodger "Rotti" Largo.

Rodger was something of a genius. His work with organ transplants had made him a legend. And then he expanded into cosmetic surgeries, as well as surgeries as a fashion statement, replacing worn-out organs with "designer" ones simply because they could. His company, GeneCo, had become incredibly powerful. They were THE brand to go to when having surgery, they manufactured an incredibly addictive painkiller called Zydrate, and they were even powerful enough to lobby Congress to allow them to repossess organs if the recipients didn't pay their bills in a timely manner. Rodger was also a vampire, since he'd sought someone to turn him so he would never die. He was obsessed with his own immortality. And he had one other obsession: Marilyn.

So Eric died and it may or may not have been Rodger who ordered that his car be tampered with. With Eric out of the way, he propositioned Marilyn. Since he was the richest man in the world, and the love of her life was dead and buried, Marilyn went along with it.

But Eric wasn't actually dead… not in the literal sense anyways. Unknown to all of them, his family suffered under a curse, and when he died, he rose again as a vampire. Luckily for Rodger, he also rose with only scattered memories of his former life. Of course, Rodger didn't want Eric's resurrection to get in the way of his relationship with Marilyn, so he told Eric that Marilyn had taken poison because she was so grief-stricken. Eric mourned his loss, but then tried to move on.

Although Eric held on to his strip club, he also began to study vampirism and blood diseases. It was a sorrowful existence, but it was better than being dead.

Rodger, of course, never told Marilyn that Eric had arisen as a vampire. He continued to court her, and even began to talk of marriage. Marilyn was reluctant at first because of Rodger's "children."

Philip "Luigi" Largo had been a ruthless mobster in life, and continued in much the same vein in un-death. Rodger had turned the cold and calculating man mostly so that he wouldn't have to compete with him later. By making him part of his "family" Rodger planned for Philip to be on his side. Unfortunately, death had made Philip more terrifying and unpredictable than before. Now he was vicious, violent, and incredibly sadistic. Rodger was powerful enough to keep him in line, and Philip had just enough respect for his sire to take his name, and to not murder him in his bed.

Ebon "Pavi" Winter Largo had charisma, charm, and cleverness to spare. But he also had an unusual appetite for seduction. No sex, no one had ever proven that he'd had sex with anyone, but he was fond of courting and romancing both males and females. No one knew whether it was un-death that did him in, or just fear of his sadistic "brother" Philip, but Ebon seemed to crack under the pressure. He became more aggressive towards his attentive women, more flamboyant, more effeminate, and developed the nasty habit of attacking women to steal their faces and wear the skin on a mask over his own face. Whether he'd lost his mind completely or was just affecting the persona to seem more harmless was a question for someone more versed in psychology.

And then there was Rachel. Rachel "Amber" Sweet was the only one of the Rodger's "children" that wasn't a vampire. She had died young, spent some time in hell, become a Tantric sex witch, and then been raised from the dead by some demons to serve Rodger. Rodger had killed the demons in hopes of earning her loyalty, but it hadn't really worked. She stuck around though, playing the part of the spoiled princess daughter in hopes of collecting some of Rodger's money later. She also took advantage of Rodger's position and wealth to attempt to (rather unsuccessfully) pursue a singing career, and also to change her appearance constantly with extensive surgeries, as well as getting hooked on the powerful narcotic, Zydrate. Whenever Rodger tried to cut her off, she would just go behind his back and buy black market Zydrate from dealers. This was common knowledge among the tabloid reporters and they attacked her for it whenever they got the chance.

So with all three of his children several different levels of crazy and disloyal, it was little wonder that Rodger wanted to have a wife that he could count on to not plot against him. So he wooed Marilyn. And his plan might have succeeded except for a series of coincidences.

Eric met Blind Tabitha outside of his strip club one morning. She was an exquisitely beautiful creature, though it had been a cruel joke by her sire to turn her into a vampire, cursing her to live for eternity without the use of her eyes. She was a lovely girl in her early 20's with a slender build and a glorious mane of black hair that tumbled down to her waist. Eric met her when he left his strip club to investigate the noises he heard.

Philip had also met Blind Tabitha. He was in the process of trying to force her to come to the Largo estate. Tabitha was putting up quite a fight, and Philip was clearly not used to dealing with another vampire after his years of easily dispatching of human women. Eric fought the other vampire off and guided Tabitha away to safety. Gradually he learned of her extraordinary talent for singing and suggested that they should go together to the Largo estate to see if perhaps something could be done for her eyes.

While they were at the estate, Rodger agreed to listen to her sing and decide if she might be useful. Eric warned him sternly to keep Philip away from her. Meanwhile Tabitha lived with Eric whenever she wasn't at the Largo estate. And when she was at the estate, she spent most of her time in the company of Marilyn, who was delighted to have another female presence that wasn't a total whore.

Rodger and GeneCo had developed artificial eyes that could allow the blind to see. Marilyn begged Rodger to allow Tabitha to be one of the first to have the surgery, and he agreed as long as she signed a contract. She would sing in the opera, and also be the voice of GeneCo, a testament to their vision, their generosity. She agreed, so desperate she was to see, that she did not think of how long an eternity of servitude truly was.

The surgery was a success. For the first time, Tabitha could open her eyes and actually see the people who spoke to her. The eyes themselves were an unnaturally bright blue, but they were lovely and fit so perfectly in her pretty face. She was soon worshipped by everyone, both for her beauty and for her voice. But with sight came a new revelation.

Marilyn kept a photograph of Eric in her nightstand. It was the only one of him she had. One day, Tabitha caught her looking at it.

"Who is he?" she asked. Marilyn smiled. She was in her 50's now, but still very much the woman Eric had fallen in love with.

"He was my fiancé but he died in an accident," she said sadly.

"And I suppose you miss him and still love him," Tabitha said, fighting to keep the bitterness from her voice.

"Of course. I'll always love him," Marilyn replied simply. "But he's gone… and Rodger has always been so good to me, so I suppose I'll have to marry him at some point."

Tabitha bit her lip, tiny white fangs digging into her painted black lip. Eric had spoken to her many times of his fiancée, Marni. He said that she had committed suicide after he died, and Tabitha had never made the connection. She was torn, but she simply could not hide the truth from her best friend and from the man she loved with all her heart.

"Marilyn… Eric is a vampire. He's still around. Did Rodger never tell you?" she whispered. Marilyn looked so shocked that Tabitha feared for her health.

"He's alive?" she gasped. "Why didn't he come for me?"

"I think Rodger told him that something happened to you."

"I need to see him," Marilyn said simply.

So the two women slipped from the estate, and found Eric at his club. When he saw Marilyn, he looked as though he'd seen a ghost.

"Marni… How…?"

"Oh Eric!" she cried, throwing herself into his arms.

They held each other close and it seemed they would never let go of each other. Tabitha watched, helpless and miserable. She loved Eric, but the love that these two shared… she could never compete with it. Even if she insisted on marrying Eric like they had talked about, he would never really be interested in her. He would always be longing for Marilyn… and she for him. Finally they broke their embrace. Marilyn had tears in her eyes.

"Oh Eric… I can't be with you now."

"Marni, why not?" Eric begged.

"You have Tabitha… and I'm promised to Rodger. We can't…"

"Screw Rodger!" Eric hissed passionately. Marni turned towards Tabitha.

"I know you love him. I can't come between you two."

"That's what I should be saying," Tabitha said softly. "I can't hope to compete with this. Go get married. Right now!" she gasped, excitement filling her voice. Eric and Marilyn looked at each other.

"Should we?" Marni gasped.

"Let's!" Eric said joyfully. And with that, they went off and got married before Rodger had time to throw a wrench in their plans. And for a while, they lived in wedded bliss. Rodger even seemed to forgive them, giving Eric some money for his research into blood diseases.

A few years after their hasty marriage, Eric went out to feed. He killed a middle-aged woman, but, as happens sometimes, the woman's spirit didn't depart when her body was destroyed. Usually Eric found someone to deal with the problem, but this time, the woman's request was fairly simple. Go to a nearby house and kill the man inside. He was her husband, and she was frightened of what he would do to their adopted daughter without her there to stop him. So to shut her up, Eric went off to the house. He killed the man, but was too late to protect the daughter. She'd been beaten and raped and was clearly traumatized. Unable to abandon her to a system that had already failed her once, Eric brought her back to the house he shared with his Marni.

Greta "Shilo" was a pale and frightened girl, carrying deep scars from her life in the foster system and from her most recent attack. It probably wasn't the first time she'd been raped, Eric and Marni grimly acknowledged. The child was traumatized and nearly catatonic for a long time. Eric and Marni were so worried about her state of mind that they kept her away from other people, including Tabitha. To make things worse, she had leukemia and fighting the illness had taken a toll on her body.

Six years later, when she was seventeen, Greta had to go back to the hospital. It was grim. She needed a bone marrow transplant. Fortunately, Marni proved to be a surprisingly close match and it was decided that she would be the donor.

Meanwhile, Rodger had been plotting his revenge on Eric and Marni. He had used Eric's research to engineer a pathogen that would even attack and kill vampires who were infected with the illness. So he decided to give a drug contaminated with the pathogen to Marni, and when Eric fed on her (which Rodger was sure he would do at some point), the disease would pass to him and kill them both. He didn't realize that Marni was going to be Greta's marrow donor and he gave her the drug shortly before the surgery, so Eric never fed on her.

The day of the surgery, the doctors started collecting the bone marrow and transferring it to Greta. Marni had been feeling a bit poorly, but it was decided that the transfusion should take place anyways. Shortly after everything was completed, Marni started having a seizure and blood began spurting from her eyes and all her orifices. Eric scrambled to help her, but then Greta's heart monitor started racing out of control.

Eric frantically tried to save his wife, but Marni died in his arms before anything could be done to help her. The autopsy showed the new disease, and Rodger helpfully suggested that Eric may have fed on someone who was infected, and then passed the illness onto Marni, even though this couldn't possibly be true since Eric would have died as well. However, Eric didn't realize this and so he was consumed by guilt to such a degree that he could barely function. Greta fell into a coma and for a while it was unknown whether she would survive. Her body was so ravaged by the disease that it seemed that the slightest illness would kill her, and finally Eric concluded that he could not live without her. Even though he'd firmly told her he wouldn't turn her into a vampire until she was 21, he realized that she would have a much better chance of surviving if she was a vampire. So he turned her and she did finally recover, although she looked more like a ghost or a corpse than a living person by the time all was said and done. Since the disease had been mutated in her bone marrow, it was not fatal to her when she was turned into a vampire, though she was still incredibly frail. Rodger helpfully handed over a recipe for a new medication that should keep the symptoms under control and keep the disease from returning to finish her off, and Eric was grateful for his suggestion and strove to learn how to reproduce it exactly.

Thanks to all the medical bills, Marni's funeral, and the elegant mausoleum that Eric had erected to house her body, Eric found himself bankrupt. He was forced to sell his strip club, and finally had to go to Rodger to get help so that he wouldn't lose the house. Rodger gave him a job as a Repo Man, in charge of repossessing organs from people who didn't pay their bills on time. Eric didn't like the job, but Greta didn't know that he had been the cause of Marni's death (since she had been in a coma afterwards), and there was the small matter that Childs Services could be called to take the girl away since Eric had basically stolen her… plus she was forever underage now. In order to protect her, Eric told everyone that Greta had died as well, and kept her safely locked up in his house. She was too frail to be out in the grim polluted environment of Void City, she still bore the scars from her childhood trauma, and Eric was sure that someone from Childs Services would take her away from him. In order to have enough money to provide for his little girl, and to keep Rodger from prying too much into their lives, Eric accepted the job of Repo Man.

Meanwhile, Tabitha tried to insert herself back into Eric's life. Marni had been insistent that Tabitha should help raise Greta, but Eric couldn't bring himself to have her around. Some of his old feelings for Tabitha were rekindled when he saw her, but it felt like he was betraying Marni. So for Greta's sake, and for his own feelings, he pushed her away and kept himself and Greta shut up in their drafty old mansion. He decorated the entire house with attractive holographic portraits of his beloved Marni and mourned the loss of his beloved wife. Despite the gloomy environment, Greta did finally begin to slowly recover emotionally, although physically she was still a fragile girl. For seventeen years, they existed like this. And so our story begins…