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buywithmeCharacter Name: Prefect
Series:(My MOAST OBSCURE FANDOM EVER, Let me show you it…) “The Factory” Physical theatre
Age: Unspecified, appears around 27 to 28 in the performance, but this may be considerably misleading.
From When?: At the end of “The Factory” the workers take industrial action and – uh, strip Prefect naked, cover him in white paint and crucify him? I think? Physical Theater is a strange beast. Anywho, that’d be when he comes onto the Barge.
Inmate/Warden: Inmate. He’s basically the architect of an oppressive consumerist regime which instigates feelings of insecurity, jealousy, and self hatred and uses them as a vehicle to perpetuate his economic control. He’s a bad dude.
Abilities/Powers: Uh, well, he’s good at making inspiring speeches, and has a whole pile of charisma at his disposal, but that’s about it.
Personality: Prefect is self assured in the absolute, his own little world could be collapsing around him and he’d still be quite certain that it would stand until the end of time. He is (unsurprisingly for the Barge) a bit of a megalomaniac, but he approaches it with more of the Nietzschean “god is dead and look what I’ve built on his grave” approach. He doesn’t have delusions of magic powers or want to be worshipped, what he does want is for people to worship what he’s created. He wants to live in a world full of people who need what he tells them to need, where any power anyone has is immediately traded in for whatever he tells them to want. If you’ve ever heard the saying that “whoever has the gold makes the rules,” Prefect wants to be the man with the gold, and he wants to be making all the rules, and not just in the “You do what I tell you” sense, more in the, “You do what I tell you, think what I tell you, and beg me to allow you to wear, eat, sleep, speak and breathe the way I tell you too.”
He doesn’t exactly have preferences In terms of music, clothes, or anything in that vein, in fact Prefect is basically a chameleon when it comes to his tastes, basically, if you like pop music, he LOVES POP MUSIC! If you like Opera? He adores Opera, and perhaps you’d be interested in purchasing this beautiful full emersion set of headphones to truly appreciate the depth of the notes? And this magnificent golden bust of Pavarotti to show ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS just how committed you are to your tastes!
You get the picture.
He’s a charmer and a manipulator, he objectifies people, viewing them as part of a greater machine, components required to meet a higher standard that he alone sets. He has no sympathy for the old, no interest in further development of the human species, as far as he’s concerned there is no future, only the past, and what he can scavenge and sell from it.
History: Prefect is one of the power elite in his society, an “alpha plus” who acts as surveyor and subtle dictator of “The Factory”, the factory produces everything. Literally everything. In wing “B” where Prefect worked, they produced boy bands, beans, bicycles, battleships, ballet shoes, bottles, and basically everything else you could imagine buying that begins with the letter “B”. The Factory is a huge sprawling institution, there are no other companies and there are no other jobs, the employee’s are closely monitored in what they spend their money on, and there is a set amount that they are required to spend at Factory’s stores to keep the system going.
We know little to nothing about Prefect before the information given within the performance. We know that he is at the very top of a class system that appears to be deeply tied into what position you hold at the factory. As such it is possible to advance through it through work, but another character alludes to her desire to ear a place for her children within the “Power Elite”, so it is likely that hereditary advancement is also possible. We never get a specific answer on how Prefect attained his power, but it is implied that his dominance predates The Factory itself.
The first we see of Prefect is his greeting a new worker to The Factory, lovingly describing the possibilities of advancement. He talks about how The Factory has built a world that the gods themselves (may they rest in peace) would envy. He talks about how controlling what people wants makes it possible to control the entire political spectrum of the world, staging depressions, stopping revolutions, and getting everyone completely dependant of the factory. As the new employee’s day progresses Prefect gives a number of rousing speeches, encouraging the workers to drive away from the age of the “haves and the have nots”, and instead to work towards the age of the “have more’s”! He wants to take the word “enough” out of the dictionary, and use the extra space to enlarge the entry for “enormous”. He insists that anyone who buys with him today is his brother, and together they will inherit the world!
However, despite his perpetual confidence throughout the course of the performance signs of dissidence and insecurity show themselves in small and subtle ways. In his last speech, Prefect informs the workers that due to problems of productivity they will have to start spending more money on lower incomes, but on a lighter note there will be a 6% discount on gin! Half way through the speech his microphone malfunctions, silencing the rest of his speech and leaving him trying madly to keep up the image that everything is functioning correctly without actually having to speak. The workers talk at last about how fragile their existence is, about how they’ve been forced into throwing away their own security in return for the useless trinkets they’ve been taught to want. They decide to take industrial action, tearing the boxes apart, destroying the factory, Prefect tries to convince them to stop, insisting that there are no other jobs, no other anything, only The Factory, and him. He also insists that the Factory will not die in its sleep, “the planes will come”, but the workers use that as confirmation that there is more out there, if there are planes, then they must lead somewhere. The workers strip away Prefects clothes, dignity, and control, force him up onto a table, and “crucify” him before the voice of The Factory booms through the room, drawing the Workers, trance like, onto a conveyer belt, which is where the performance ends.
Series:(My MOAST OBSCURE FANDOM EVER, Let me show you it…) “The Factory” Physical theatre
Age: Unspecified, appears around 27 to 28 in the performance, but this may be considerably misleading.
From When?: At the end of “The Factory” the workers take industrial action and – uh, strip Prefect naked, cover him in white paint and crucify him? I think? Physical Theater is a strange beast. Anywho, that’d be when he comes onto the Barge.
Inmate/Warden: Inmate. He’s basically the architect of an oppressive consumerist regime which instigates feelings of insecurity, jealousy, and self hatred and uses them as a vehicle to perpetuate his economic control. He’s a bad dude.
Abilities/Powers: Uh, well, he’s good at making inspiring speeches, and has a whole pile of charisma at his disposal, but that’s about it.
Personality: Prefect is self assured in the absolute, his own little world could be collapsing around him and he’d still be quite certain that it would stand until the end of time. He is (unsurprisingly for the Barge) a bit of a megalomaniac, but he approaches it with more of the Nietzschean “god is dead and look what I’ve built on his grave” approach. He doesn’t have delusions of magic powers or want to be worshipped, what he does want is for people to worship what he’s created. He wants to live in a world full of people who need what he tells them to need, where any power anyone has is immediately traded in for whatever he tells them to want. If you’ve ever heard the saying that “whoever has the gold makes the rules,” Prefect wants to be the man with the gold, and he wants to be making all the rules, and not just in the “You do what I tell you” sense, more in the, “You do what I tell you, think what I tell you, and beg me to allow you to wear, eat, sleep, speak and breathe the way I tell you too.”
He doesn’t exactly have preferences In terms of music, clothes, or anything in that vein, in fact Prefect is basically a chameleon when it comes to his tastes, basically, if you like pop music, he LOVES POP MUSIC! If you like Opera? He adores Opera, and perhaps you’d be interested in purchasing this beautiful full emersion set of headphones to truly appreciate the depth of the notes? And this magnificent golden bust of Pavarotti to show ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS just how committed you are to your tastes!
You get the picture.
He’s a charmer and a manipulator, he objectifies people, viewing them as part of a greater machine, components required to meet a higher standard that he alone sets. He has no sympathy for the old, no interest in further development of the human species, as far as he’s concerned there is no future, only the past, and what he can scavenge and sell from it.
History: Prefect is one of the power elite in his society, an “alpha plus” who acts as surveyor and subtle dictator of “The Factory”, the factory produces everything. Literally everything. In wing “B” where Prefect worked, they produced boy bands, beans, bicycles, battleships, ballet shoes, bottles, and basically everything else you could imagine buying that begins with the letter “B”. The Factory is a huge sprawling institution, there are no other companies and there are no other jobs, the employee’s are closely monitored in what they spend their money on, and there is a set amount that they are required to spend at Factory’s stores to keep the system going.
We know little to nothing about Prefect before the information given within the performance. We know that he is at the very top of a class system that appears to be deeply tied into what position you hold at the factory. As such it is possible to advance through it through work, but another character alludes to her desire to ear a place for her children within the “Power Elite”, so it is likely that hereditary advancement is also possible. We never get a specific answer on how Prefect attained his power, but it is implied that his dominance predates The Factory itself.
The first we see of Prefect is his greeting a new worker to The Factory, lovingly describing the possibilities of advancement. He talks about how The Factory has built a world that the gods themselves (may they rest in peace) would envy. He talks about how controlling what people wants makes it possible to control the entire political spectrum of the world, staging depressions, stopping revolutions, and getting everyone completely dependant of the factory. As the new employee’s day progresses Prefect gives a number of rousing speeches, encouraging the workers to drive away from the age of the “haves and the have nots”, and instead to work towards the age of the “have more’s”! He wants to take the word “enough” out of the dictionary, and use the extra space to enlarge the entry for “enormous”. He insists that anyone who buys with him today is his brother, and together they will inherit the world!
However, despite his perpetual confidence throughout the course of the performance signs of dissidence and insecurity show themselves in small and subtle ways. In his last speech, Prefect informs the workers that due to problems of productivity they will have to start spending more money on lower incomes, but on a lighter note there will be a 6% discount on gin! Half way through the speech his microphone malfunctions, silencing the rest of his speech and leaving him trying madly to keep up the image that everything is functioning correctly without actually having to speak. The workers talk at last about how fragile their existence is, about how they’ve been forced into throwing away their own security in return for the useless trinkets they’ve been taught to want. They decide to take industrial action, tearing the boxes apart, destroying the factory, Prefect tries to convince them to stop, insisting that there are no other jobs, no other anything, only The Factory, and him. He also insists that the Factory will not die in its sleep, “the planes will come”, but the workers use that as confirmation that there is more out there, if there are planes, then they must lead somewhere. The workers strip away Prefects clothes, dignity, and control, force him up onto a table, and “crucify” him before the voice of The Factory booms through the room, drawing the Workers, trance like, onto a conveyer belt, which is where the performance ends.
