remember, remember the fifth of november, the gunpowder treason and plot. i know of no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.
voilà! in view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. this visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. however, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. the only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you, and you may call me v.
beneath this mask there is more than flesh and bones. beneath this mask there is an idea, mr. creedy, and ideas are bulletproof.
fear became the ultimate tool of this government.
our story begins, as these stories often do, with a young up-and-coming politician. he's a deeply religious man and a member of the conservative party. he's completely single-minded and has no regard for the political process. the more power he attains, the more obvious his zealotry and the more aggressive his supporters become. eventually, his party launches a special project in the name of national security. at first, it's believed to be a search for biological weapons and is pursued without regard to its cost. however, the true goal of this project is power; complete and total hegemonic domination. the project, however, ends violently. but the efforts of those involved are not in vain, for a new ability to wage war is born from the blood of the victims. imagine a virus, the most terrifying virus you can, and then imagine that you and you alone have the cure. but if the ultimate goal is power, how best to use such a weapon?
well, it's at this point in our story that along comes a spider. here is a man seemingly without a conscience for whom the ends always justify the means, and it is he who suggests that their target should not be an enemy of the country, but rather the country itself. three targets are chosen to maximize the effect of the attack: a school, a tube station, and a water treatment plant. several hundred die within the first few weeks. fueled by the media, fear and panic spread quickly, fracturing and dividing the country until at last the true goal comes into view. before the st. mary's crisis, no one would have predicted the results of the election that year, no one. and not long after the election, lo and behold, a miracle. some believed it was the work of god himself, but it was a pharmaceutical company controlled by certain party members that made them all obscenely rich. a year later, several extremists are trialled, found guilty and executed while a memorial is built to canonize their victims.
but the end result, the true genius of the plan, was the fear. fear became the ultimate tool of this government, and through it our politician was ultimately appointed to the newly created position of high chancellor. the rest, as they say, is history.

a revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having.
no more tricks. no more lies. only truth.
people should not be afraid of their governments. governments should be afraid of their people.
artists use lies to tell the truth while politicians use them to cover the truth up.
because he was right. this country needs more than a building right now. it needs hope.
remember, remember the fifth of november the gunpowder treason and plot. i know of no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot. but what of the man? i know his name was guy fawkes and i know that in 1605 he attempted to blow up the houses of parliament, but who was he really? what was he like? we are told to remember the idea, not the man. because a man can fail. he can be caught. he can be killed and forgotten. but four hundred years later an idea can still change the world. i've witnessed firsthand the power of ideas. i've seen people kill in the name of them; and die defending them. but you cannot touch an idea, cannot hold it or kiss it. an idea does not bleed, it cannot feel pain, and it does not love. and it is not an idea that I miss, it is a man. a man who made me remember the fifth of november. a man i will never forget.
you wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.
vi veri veniversum vivus vici
by the power of truth, i, while living, have conquered the universe.
he was edmund dantès. and he was my father. and my mother. my brother. my friend. he was you, and me. he was all of us.