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The setting is placed in a NearFuture year 2057 and revolves around the remains of the Western civilization, mixing the Noir genre and the soft Sci-Fi, and involves two cities: Ensenada and La Plata, now heavily changed by the wars and the climate changes. La Plata is now a sort of walled CrystalSpiresAndTogas city[[note]]the walls are mainly to contain the waters, but also provide cover against the roamers of the ruins of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Buenos_Aires Greater Buenos Aires]][[/note]] that hides underneath an oppresive Empire around the control of the world sources of drinking water, after the fall of the old USA empire by his warmongery against half the world, the exhaustion of the oil and the fearsome climatic changes that made the coastal cities sunk. Ensenada is a misteriously non-sunked coastal city politically dependent on La Plata, though autonomous, where rain is omnipresent. Most of the main plot occurs in Ensenada, but the conclussion and major plot points happen in La Plata.
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The setting is placed in a NearFuture [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture the year 2057 2057]] and revolves around the remains of the Western civilization, mixing the Noir [[FilmNoir Noir]] genre and the soft Sci-Fi, ScienceFiction, and involves two cities: Ensenada and La Plata, now heavily changed by the wars and the climate changes. La Plata is now a sort of walled CrystalSpiresAndTogas city[[note]]the walls are mainly to contain the waters, but also provide cover against the roamers of the ruins of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Buenos_Aires Greater Buenos Aires]][[/note]] that hides underneath an oppresive Empire around the control of the world sources of drinking water, after the fall of the old USA empire by his warmongery against half the world, the exhaustion of the oil and the fearsome climatic changes that made the coastal cities sunk. Ensenada is a misteriously non-sunked coastal city politically dependent on La Plata, though autonomous, where rain is omnipresent. Most of the main plot occurs in Ensenada, but the conclussion and major plot points happen in La Plata.
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* CityNoir: Ensenada, the Ever Raining City in which a normal family has no place, takes this UpToEleven and works as a counterpart of CrystalSpiresAndTogas La Plata.
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* FloodedFutureWorld: The book takes place TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, where runaway ClimateChange has sunk all coastal cities -- the walls around [[CrystalSpiresAndTogas La Plata]] are partly to keep the waters at bay, and partly to provide cover against the roamers of the ruins of sunken Buenos Aires.
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* FloodedFutureWorld: The book takes place TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, where runaway ClimateChange GlobalWarming has sunk all coastal cities -- the walls around [[CrystalSpiresAndTogas La Plata]] are partly to keep the waters at bay, and partly to provide cover against the roamers of the ruins of sunken Buenos Aires.
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* GuileHero: Pablo Astoria.
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* RuleOfCool: many new Platenses use swords now not because of their efficiency, but because it's cool. See the Final Fight with the Hocus Pocus soundtrack.
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** Many new Platenses use swords now not because of their efficiency, but because it's cool. See the Final Fight with the Hocus Pocus soundtrack.
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* WorldWarIII: is in the past, and their effects, although vast, aren't as fierce as a nuclear warfare.
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* BiTheWay: Jaques Frontière, the french friend of Luciano.
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* BadassGrandpa: Both Franco Rocafirme and Nicolás Pérez Aznar. It's hinted than Augusto Dumont was also one.
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* GratuitousEnglish: Pablo Astoria mixes some English with his natural Spanish, only to be a cool PrivateEye.
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* BadFuture: Most of the actual Argentina goes through another military and civilian dictatorship little after his fall. Also, this is a bad future for coastal cities. And there is a past ThirdWorldWar.[[WorldWarIII Third World War]]. However, the world isn't as awful as it could be.
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* Expy: Physically, Astoria is an expy of John Constantine. But is more like a wannabe. Also, the Honky Tonk bar is a (voluntary) copy of the same bar in Anime/GetBackers, as the barman is a fan of the series.
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* Expy: {{Expy}}: Physically, Astoria is an expy of John Constantine. But is more like a wannabe. Also, the Honky Tonk bar is a (voluntary) copy of the same bar in Anime/GetBackers, as the barman is a fan of the series.
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* GoodOldFisticuffs: Both Astoria and Rocafirme use this awesome martial art: beat the crap out their enemies.
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* BadGuyBar: many of them in Ensenada.
* BattleInTheRain: Actually, two of them, [[spoiler: Astoria vs. Homing, and Astoria vs. Rocafirme]]. And a shooting. And almost everything.
* BattleInTheRain: Actually, two of them, [[spoiler: Astoria vs. Homing, and Astoria vs. Rocafirme]]. And a shooting. And almost everything.
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* CoolLoser: Astoria.
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* DeliberatelyMonochrome: the illustrations are ''always'' black and white. With the only exception of the covers, that are also with a very downer palette. Even the pet cat is black, and the trenchcoat and hat of Astoria are white.
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* GracefulLoser: [[spoiler: Rocafirme, at the end]].
* GratuitousEnglish: Pablo Astoria mixes some English with his natural Spanish, only to be a cool PrivateEye.
* GrayRainOfDepression: It always rains in Ensenada. Always. So much that only the artists and criminals live there.
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* GrayRainOfDepression: It always rains in Ensenada. Always. So much that only the artists and criminals live there.
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* HiddenHeartOfGold: Astoria tries to be a cynic, but fails miserabily.
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* LoserProtagonist: Astoria gets laid only twice a year. [[spoiler: despite his LoveInterest, he still is a loser]]
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* MenCantKeepHouse: partially straight with Astoria. But he does the effort when a girl is coming to visit.
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* WhereEverybodyKnowsYourFlame: "Distinto", in La Plata.
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* StatenSec: for the jobs that the SecretPolice derives. They made public shootings of opposers.
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Conciencia y Voluntad is an independant novel by the writer Creator/EstebanRuquet, published in 2012 in Argentina by Pixel Editores, a small publisher from La Plata city. The work has won the first prize form the ''Aurora Venturini'' award, and the money price was used to publish it.
The plot revolves around the finding of a missing [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters terrorist and political figure]], named Franco Rocafirme, by a young [[TrenchcoatBrigade private eye]] in an UsedFuture, where the relatively minor city of La Plata has arised as a new [[TheEmpire Soft Empire]] after the sunking collapse of the modern civilization. Pablo Astoria, the private eye, is privided this job by the old University professor Nicolás Pérez Aznar, an old friend of Rocafirme and also a major figure of the revolution.
The setting is placed in a NearFuture year 2057, and revolves around the remains of the Western civilization, mixing the Noir genre and the soft Sci Fi, and involves two cities: Ensenada and La Plata, now heavily changed by the wars and the climate changes. La Plata is now a sort of walled CrystalSpiresAndTogas city[[note]]the walls are mainly to contain the waters, but also provides cover against the roamers of the ruins of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Buenos_Aires Greater Buenos Aires]][[/note]], that hides underneath an oppresive Empire around the control of the world sources of drinking water, after the fall of the old USA empire by his warmongery against half the world, the exhaustion of the oil and the fearsome climatic changes that made the coastal cities sunk. Ensenada is a misteriously non sunked coastal city, belonging politically to but sort of independant of La Plata, in which the rain is omnipresent. Many of the main plot is in Ensenada, but the conclussion and major plot points are made in La Plata.
The plot revolves around the finding of a missing [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters terrorist and political figure]], named Franco Rocafirme, by a young [[TrenchcoatBrigade private eye]] in an UsedFuture, where the relatively minor city of La Plata has arised as a new [[TheEmpire Soft Empire]] after the sunking collapse of the modern civilization. Pablo Astoria, the private eye, is privided this job by the old University professor Nicolás Pérez Aznar, an old friend of Rocafirme and also a major figure of the revolution.
The setting is placed in a NearFuture year 2057, and revolves around the remains of the Western civilization, mixing the Noir genre and the soft Sci Fi, and involves two cities: Ensenada and La Plata, now heavily changed by the wars and the climate changes. La Plata is now a sort of walled CrystalSpiresAndTogas city[[note]]the walls are mainly to contain the waters, but also provides cover against the roamers of the ruins of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Buenos_Aires Greater Buenos Aires]][[/note]], that hides underneath an oppresive Empire around the control of the world sources of drinking water, after the fall of the old USA empire by his warmongery against half the world, the exhaustion of the oil and the fearsome climatic changes that made the coastal cities sunk. Ensenada is a misteriously non sunked coastal city, belonging politically to but sort of independant of La Plata, in which the rain is omnipresent. Many of the main plot is in Ensenada, but the conclussion and major plot points are made in La Plata.
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Conciencia y Voluntad is an independant independent novel by the writer Creator/EstebanRuquet, Creator/EstebanRuquet. It was published in 2012 in Argentina in 2012 by Pixel Editores, a small publisher from La Plata city. The work has won the first prize form from the ''Aurora Venturini'' award, and the prize money price was used in order to publish it.
The plot revolves around the finding ofa the missing [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters terrorist and political figure]], named figure]] Franco Rocafirme, Rocafirme by a young [[TrenchcoatBrigade private eye]] in an UsedFuture, where the relatively minor city of La Plata has arised as a new [[TheEmpire Soft Empire]] after the sunking collapse of the modern civilization. Pablo Astoria, the private eye, is privided put in charge of this job by the old University professor Nicolás Pérez Aznar, an old friend of Rocafirme and also a major figure of the revolution.
The setting is placed in a NearFuture year2057, 2057 and revolves around the remains of the Western civilization, mixing the Noir genre and the soft Sci Fi, Sci-Fi, and involves two cities: Ensenada and La Plata, now heavily changed by the wars and the climate changes. La Plata is now a sort of walled CrystalSpiresAndTogas city[[note]]the walls are mainly to contain the waters, but also provides provide cover against the roamers of the ruins of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Buenos_Aires Greater Buenos Aires]][[/note]], Aires]][[/note]] that hides underneath an oppresive Empire around the control of the world sources of drinking water, after the fall of the old USA empire by his warmongery against half the world, the exhaustion of the oil and the fearsome climatic changes that made the coastal cities sunk. Ensenada is a misteriously non sunked non-sunked coastal city, belonging city politically to but sort of independant of dependent on La Plata, in which the though autonomous, where rain is omnipresent. Many Most of the main plot is occurs in Ensenada, but the conclussion and major plot points are made happen in La Plata.
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* TheAce: Franco Rocafirme as this. It's lampshaded that Augusto Dumont was this too, and Nicolás Perez Aznar. And all the Eldar, in their own way.
* ActionHero: Sort of with Pablo Astoria. He ceirtanly knows how to handle a gun.
* ActionHero: Sort of with Pablo Astoria. He ceirtanly knows how to handle a gun.
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* TheAce: Franco Rocafirme as is just like this. It's lampshaded that Augusto Dumont was this too, and Nicolás Perez Aznar.Pérez Aznar were Aces as well. And all the Eldar, in their own way.
* ActionHero: Sort ofwith Pablo Astoria. He ceirtanly knows how to handle a gun.
* ActionHero: Sort of
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* BadFuture: Many of the actual Argentina goes through another military and civilian dictatorship a bit after his fall. Also, this is a bad future for coastal cities. And there is a past ThirdWorldWar. But the world isn't as awful as it could be, though.
* BadassGrandpa: Both Franco Rocafirme and Nicolás Pérez Aznar. It's hinted than Augusto Dumont was also one of this.
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* BadFuture: Many Most of the actual Argentina goes through another military and civilian dictatorship a bit little after his fall. Also, this is a bad future for coastal cities. And there is a past ThirdWorldWar. But However, the world isn't as awful as it could be, though.
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* BadassGrandpa: Both Franco Rocafirme and Nicolás Pérez Aznar. It's hinted than Augusto Dumont was alsoone of this.one.
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* BadassPacifist: It's lampshaded that Esteban Ruquet was one. He even killed a politician figure and assumes the guilt, to go to jail, but cannot abide the remorses.
* BerserkButton: For Pablo Astoria, threating or punching a girl. For Rocafirme, naming Esteban Ruquet or the fail of his revolution.
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* BadassPacifist: It's lampshaded that Esteban Ruquet was one. He even killed a politician figure figure, takes the blame and assumes the guilt, to go goes to jail, but cannot abide the remorses.
* BerserkButton: For Pablo Astoria,threating threatening or punching a girl. For Rocafirme, naming Esteban Ruquet or the fail failure of his revolution.
* BerserkButton: For Pablo Astoria,
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* BolivianArmyEnding: Augusto Dumont, the old University professor of Pablo Astoria, ended that way. And that was one of the main facts that made Pablo flee from La Plata.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Many times this is lampshaded.
* {{Cameo}}: a mysterious figure that looks a lot like Lord Morpheus in his former incarnation. He appears in a train a lot like the one in the End Of The Worlds arc.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Many times this is lampshaded.
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* BolivianArmyEnding: Augusto Dumont, the old University professor of Pablo Astoria, ended that way. And that was one of the main facts events that made led Pablo to flee from La Plata.
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* CityNoir: Ensenada, the Ever Raining City in wich a normal family has no place, take this UpToEleven, and work as a counterpart of CrystalSpiresAndTogas La Plata.
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* DamselInDistress: Anita, at a certain point. But she isn't a defenseless girl at all.
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* DamselInDistress: Anita, at a certain point. But point, though she isn't a defenseless girl at all.
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Anita is dead. Nicolás is dead. Rocafirme is dead. Ruquet is dead. The revolution fails for being pacifist. Astoria fails to achieve money. And so on.]] At least, the epilogue is nice to the characters involved.
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* DirtyCop: Homing
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Anita is dead. Nicolás is dead. Rocafirme is dead. Ruquet is dead. The revolution fails for being pacifist. Astoria fails to achieve money. And so on.]] At least, the epilogue is niceto for the characters involved.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Anita is dead. Nicolás is dead. Rocafirme is dead. Ruquet is dead. The revolution fails for being pacifist. Astoria fails to achieve money. And so on.]] At least, the epilogue is nice
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* TheEmpire: a soft one. La Plata is the head of this.
* {{EMP}}: The main device for gaining the war against the invading US armies in the Southern Cone. But this costed the destruction of Argentina as a country, and now several regions are independant from each other.
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* TheEmpire: a A soft one. La Plata is the head of this.
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* {{EMP}}: The main device forgaining winning the war against the invading US armies in the Southern Cone. But this costed the destruction of Argentina as a country, and now several regions are independant independent from each other.
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* GunsVsSwords: sort of. More like guns ''and'' swords for hand to hand combat.
* HappilyFailedSuicide: [[spoiler:Pablo Astoria puts a gun in his head, only to discover that has fake bullets. He suspected this, though, although he ''was'' actually in suicide mood.]]
* HappilyFailedSuicide: [[spoiler:Pablo Astoria puts a gun in his head, only to discover that has fake bullets. He suspected this, though, although he ''was'' actually in suicide mood.]]
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* GunsVsSwords: sort of. More like guns ''and'' swords for hand to hand hand-to-hand combat.
* HappilyFailedSuicide: [[spoiler:Pablo Astoria puts a gun in hishead, head only to discover that it has fake bullets. He Even tough he suspected this, though, although he ''was'' actually in suicide mood.]]
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* KatanasAreJustBetter: Cautiosly averted. In the final fight [[spoiler: Nicolás Pérez Aznar chooses a katana to fight against Franco Rocafirme, who has a longsword, but it's easily overpowered by him. This could be atributed just to the fighters, over the weapons]].
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* KatanasAreJustBetter: Cautiosly averted. In the final fight [[spoiler: Nicolás Pérez Aznar chooses a katana to fight against Franco Rocafirme, who has a longsword, but it's easily overpowered by him. This could be atributed just to the fighters, fighters over the weapons]].weapons]].
* LaResistance: Augusto Dumont and his followers. Also, many of the followers of Franco Rocafirme.
* LaResistance: Augusto Dumont and his followers. Also, many of the followers of Franco Rocafirme.
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* MatingDance: Tango, of course[[note]]WordOfGod says that he learn how to dance tango during the writing, and all for a girl very similar to Anita[[/note]].
* MeaningfulName: WordOfGod Pablo Astoria is a spanishification of Paul Auster, a primary source of inspiration for the novel. Also Franco (Frank) is a spanish word for direct, sincere, and is the last name of TheGeneralissimo of Spain during XXth century; Rocafirme can be translated as Strongrock, and the character is the embodyment of the sheer willpower without concience in this novel. Also Pérez Aznar is a real family in this world, the same family that posseses the (also real world) manor in La Plata in which he lives. The character itself, Nicolás, is based in an editor and comicbook critic from Argentina, Federico Musso (his mother name is Pérez Aznar), one of the spelling an grammar editors of the novel.
** Also, Anita is a popular agentinian ComicBook, [[http://www.ivreality.com.ar/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/anita_reed.jpg of a sexy classic dancer that becames a mutant hunter]], published by the same editorial in which Federico Musso has worked on. The character of the novel is also a dancer (she dances tango, though), and is also sexually liberated.
* MeaningfulName: WordOfGod Pablo Astoria is a spanishification of Paul Auster, a primary source of inspiration for the novel. Also Franco (Frank) is a spanish word for direct, sincere, and is the last name of TheGeneralissimo of Spain during XXth century; Rocafirme can be translated as Strongrock, and the character is the embodyment of the sheer willpower without concience in this novel. Also Pérez Aznar is a real family in this world, the same family that posseses the (also real world) manor in La Plata in which he lives. The character itself, Nicolás, is based in an editor and comicbook critic from Argentina, Federico Musso (his mother name is Pérez Aznar), one of the spelling an grammar editors of the novel.
** Also, Anita is a popular agentinian ComicBook, [[http://www.ivreality.com.ar/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/anita_reed.jpg of a sexy classic dancer that becames a mutant hunter]], published by the same editorial in which Federico Musso has worked on. The character of the novel is also a dancer (she dances tango, though), and is also sexually liberated.
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* MeaningfulName: WordOfGodPablo Astoria 'Pablo Astoria' is a spanishification hispanicization of Paul Auster, 'Paul Auster', a primary source of inspiration for the novel. Also Franco Additionally, 'Franco' (Frank) is a spanish Spanish word for direct, sincere, 'direct', 'sincere', and is the last name of TheGeneralissimo of Spain during XXth century; Rocafirme century[[note]]Curiously, it is also the name of one of the illustrators[[/note]]. 'Rocafirme' can be translated as Strongrock, 'Strongrock', and the character is the embodyment of the sheer willpower without concience in this novel. Also Pérez Aznar Also, 'Pérez Aznar' is a real family in this world, the same family that posseses owns the (also real world) manor in La Plata in which he lives. The character itself, Nicolás, is based in an editor and comicbook critic from Argentina, Federico Musso (his mother mother's name is Pérez Aznar), one of the spelling an and grammar editors of the novel.
** Also, Anita is a popular agentinian ComicBook, [[http://www.ivreality.com.ar/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/anita_reed.jpg of a sexyclassic classical dancer that becames becomes a mutant hunter]], published by the same editorial in which Federico Musso has worked on. The character of the novel is also a dancer (she dances tango, though), and is also sexually liberated.
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* MatingDance: Tango, of course[[note]]WordOfGod says that he learn how to dance tango during the writing, and all for a girl very similar to Anita[[/note]].
* MeaningfulName: WordOfGod Pablo Astoria is a spanishification of Paul Auster, a primary source of inspiration for the novel. Also Franco (Frank) is a spanish word for direct, sincere, and is the last name of TheGeneralissimo of Spain during XXth century; Rocafirme can be translated as Strongrock, and the character is the embodyment of the sheer willpower without concience in this novel. Also Pérez Aznar is a real family in this world, the same family that posseses the (also real world) manor in La Plata in which he lives. The character itself, Nicolás, is based in an editor and comicbook critic from Argentina, Federico Musso (his mother name is Pérez Aznar), one of the spelling an grammar editors of the novel.
**Also, Anita is a popular agentinian ComicBook, [[http://www.ivreality.com.ar/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/anita_reed.jpg of a sexy classic dancer that becames a mutant hunter]], published by the same editorial in which Federico Musso has worked on. The character of the novel is also a dancer (she dances tango, though), and is also sexually liberated.
* MeaningfulName: WordOfGod Pablo Astoria is a spanishification of Paul Auster, a primary source of inspiration for the novel. Also Franco (Frank) is a spanish word for direct, sincere, and is the last name of TheGeneralissimo of Spain during XXth century; Rocafirme can be translated as Strongrock, and the character is the embodyment of the sheer willpower without concience in this novel. Also Pérez Aznar is a real family in this world, the same family that posseses the (also real world) manor in La Plata in which he lives. The character itself, Nicolás, is based in an editor and comicbook critic from Argentina, Federico Musso (his mother name is Pérez Aznar), one of the spelling an grammar editors of the novel.
**Also, Anita is a popular agentinian ComicBook, [[http://www.ivreality.com.ar/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/anita_reed.jpg of a sexy classic dancer that becames a mutant hunter]], published by the same editorial in which Federico Musso has worked on. The character of the novel is also a dancer (she dances tango, though), and is also sexually liberated.
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Conciencia y Voluntad is an independant novel by the writer Creator/EstebanRuquet, published in 2012 in Argentina by Pixel Editores, a small publisher from La Plata city. The work has won the first prize form the ''Aurora Venturini'' award, and the money price was used to publish it.
The plot revolves around the finding of a missing [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters terrorist and political figure]], named Franco Rocafirme, by a young [[TrenchcoatBrigade private eye]] in an UsedFuture, where the relatively minor city of La Plata has arised as a new [[TheEmpire Soft Empire]] after the sunking collapse of the modern civilization. Pablo Astoria, the private eye, is privided this job by the old University professor Nicolás Pérez Aznar, an old friend of Rocafirme and also a major figure of the revolution.
The setting is placed in a NearFuture year 2057, and revolves around the remains of the Western civilization, mixing the Noir genre and the soft Sci Fi, and involves two cities: Ensenada and La Plata, now heavily changed by the wars and the climate changes. La Plata is now a sort of walled CrystalSpiresAndTogas city[[note]]the walls are mainly to contain the waters, but also provides cover against the roamers of the ruins of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Buenos_Aires Greater Buenos Aires]][[/note]], that hides underneath an oppresive Empire around the control of the world sources of drinking water, after the fall of the old USA empire by his warmongery against half the world, the exhaustion of the oil and the fearsome climatic changes that made the coastal cities sunk. Ensenada is a misteriously non sunked coastal city, belonging politically to but sort of independant of La Plata, in which the rain is omnipresent. Many of the main plot is in Ensenada, but the conclussion and major plot points are made in La Plata.
!!This work provides examples of
* TheAce: Franco Rocafirme as this. It's lampshaded that Augusto Dumont was this too, and Nicolás Perez Aznar. And all the Eldar, in their own way.
* ActionHero: Sort of with Pablo Astoria. He ceirtanly knows how to handle a gun.
* AuthorAvatar: Divided between two characters, Esteban Ruquet and Franco Rocafirme, now two old men.
* BadFuture: Many of the actual Argentina goes through another military and civilian dictatorship a bit after his fall. Also, this is a bad future for coastal cities. And there is a past ThirdWorldWar. But the world isn't as awful as it could be, though.
* BadassGrandpa: Both Franco Rocafirme and Nicolás Pérez Aznar. It's hinted than Augusto Dumont was also one of this.
* BadassLongcoat: Pablo Astoria.
* BadassPacifist: It's lampshaded that Esteban Ruquet was one. He even killed a politician figure and assumes the guilt, to go to jail, but cannot abide the remorses.
* BerserkButton: For Pablo Astoria, threating or punching a girl. For Rocafirme, naming Esteban Ruquet or the fail of his revolution.
* BiTheWay: Jaques Frontière, the french friend of Luciano.
* BolivianArmyEnding: Augusto Dumont, the old University professor of Pablo Astoria, ended that way. And that was one of the main facts that made Pablo flee from La Plata.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Many times this is lampshaded.
* {{Cameo}}: a mysterious figure that looks a lot alike Lord Morpheus from Sandman in his former incarnation appears in a train a lot similar to the one in the End Of The Worlds arc.
* TheCity: Both La Plata and Ensenada.
* CityNoir: Ensenada, the Ever Raining City in wich a normal family has no place, take this UpToEleven, and work as a counterpart of CrystalSpiresAndTogas La Plata.
* CrystalSpiresAndTogas: La Plata.
* DamselInDistress: Anita, at a certain point. But she isn't a defenseless girl at all.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Anita is dead. Nicolás is dead. Rocafirme is dead. Ruquet is dead. The revolution fails for being pacifist. Astoria fails to achieve money. And so on.]] At least, the epilogue is nice to the characters involved.
* {{Dystopia}}: Played with all around the novel.
* {{EMP}}: The main device for gaining the war against the invading US armies in the Southern Cone. But this costed the destruction of Argentina as a country, and now several regions are independant from each other.
* FootnoteFever: in his brand-new flavor: footnote soundtrack!
* LoveInterest: Anita, for Pablo. It doesn't end well.
* MindScrew: Tlönism, the main ideological justification for La Plata policies. Franco Rocafirme also is an embodiment of this.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: the immigration office for entering La Plata in Ensenada. At least until one shows connections with the Pérez Aznar family or some other important political figure, which automatically turns them in [[BeleagueredBureaucrat beleaguered]] or thoroughly CorruptBureaucrat.
* RuleOfCool: many new Platenses use swords now not because his efficiency, but because it's cool. See the Final Fight with the Hocus Pocus soundtrack.
**Also, Astoria smokes because it's cool.
** WordOfGod Ensenada is an ever raining city by this rule ''exclusively''.
* SuperSerum: Lampshaded. Certainly, many old soldiers are dying of cancer by the overdose of a certain drug that has given them advantage in the past battlefields. Not overly common nor a plot device whatsoever, though.
* TheStrategist: Astoria moves the tides to make the whole imperial city of La Plata tremble in fear. [[note]] And he almost won, if he just have used real bullets instead of fake ones[[/note]].
* ThirdWorldWar: is in the past, and their effects, although vast, aren't as fierce as a nuclear warfare.
* TrenchcoatBrigade: Pablo Astoria is an example of this. Lousely based on John Constantine, but with his own personality, his name is a "spanishification" of Paul Auster, if you don't believe in the DeathOfTheAuthor.
* TrenchcoatWarfare: the revolutionaries.
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Although a lot has changed in fifty years, a lot has remained the same. Or backwards. Depends on the RuleOfCool.
* UsedFuture: Almost ANYTHING electronic is discarded in this future, as the main internet servers are offline and above tons of water. The other Internet part is broke by a massive hacking attack by Rocafirme and the Eldars [[note]]yes, like the tolkienian ones, since the group has named himself for the elves of LOTR[[/note]]. The main electric devices are reconstructions of mid '50 devices.
* ViceCity: Ensenada. It's lampshaded that La Plata is this but subtletly.
* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: The Eldar Revolution. And Rocafirme's second revolution too.
The plot revolves around the finding of a missing [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters terrorist and political figure]], named Franco Rocafirme, by a young [[TrenchcoatBrigade private eye]] in an UsedFuture, where the relatively minor city of La Plata has arised as a new [[TheEmpire Soft Empire]] after the sunking collapse of the modern civilization. Pablo Astoria, the private eye, is privided this job by the old University professor Nicolás Pérez Aznar, an old friend of Rocafirme and also a major figure of the revolution.
The setting is placed in a NearFuture year 2057, and revolves around the remains of the Western civilization, mixing the Noir genre and the soft Sci Fi, and involves two cities: Ensenada and La Plata, now heavily changed by the wars and the climate changes. La Plata is now a sort of walled CrystalSpiresAndTogas city[[note]]the walls are mainly to contain the waters, but also provides cover against the roamers of the ruins of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Buenos_Aires Greater Buenos Aires]][[/note]], that hides underneath an oppresive Empire around the control of the world sources of drinking water, after the fall of the old USA empire by his warmongery against half the world, the exhaustion of the oil and the fearsome climatic changes that made the coastal cities sunk. Ensenada is a misteriously non sunked coastal city, belonging politically to but sort of independant of La Plata, in which the rain is omnipresent. Many of the main plot is in Ensenada, but the conclussion and major plot points are made in La Plata.
!!This work provides examples of
* TheAce: Franco Rocafirme as this. It's lampshaded that Augusto Dumont was this too, and Nicolás Perez Aznar. And all the Eldar, in their own way.
* ActionHero: Sort of with Pablo Astoria. He ceirtanly knows how to handle a gun.
* AuthorAvatar: Divided between two characters, Esteban Ruquet and Franco Rocafirme, now two old men.
* BadFuture: Many of the actual Argentina goes through another military and civilian dictatorship a bit after his fall. Also, this is a bad future for coastal cities. And there is a past ThirdWorldWar. But the world isn't as awful as it could be, though.
* BadassGrandpa: Both Franco Rocafirme and Nicolás Pérez Aznar. It's hinted than Augusto Dumont was also one of this.
* BadassLongcoat: Pablo Astoria.
* BadassPacifist: It's lampshaded that Esteban Ruquet was one. He even killed a politician figure and assumes the guilt, to go to jail, but cannot abide the remorses.
* BerserkButton: For Pablo Astoria, threating or punching a girl. For Rocafirme, naming Esteban Ruquet or the fail of his revolution.
* BiTheWay: Jaques Frontière, the french friend of Luciano.
* BolivianArmyEnding: Augusto Dumont, the old University professor of Pablo Astoria, ended that way. And that was one of the main facts that made Pablo flee from La Plata.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Many times this is lampshaded.
* {{Cameo}}: a mysterious figure that looks a lot alike Lord Morpheus from Sandman in his former incarnation appears in a train a lot similar to the one in the End Of The Worlds arc.
* TheCity: Both La Plata and Ensenada.
* CityNoir: Ensenada, the Ever Raining City in wich a normal family has no place, take this UpToEleven, and work as a counterpart of CrystalSpiresAndTogas La Plata.
* CrystalSpiresAndTogas: La Plata.
* DamselInDistress: Anita, at a certain point. But she isn't a defenseless girl at all.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Anita is dead. Nicolás is dead. Rocafirme is dead. Ruquet is dead. The revolution fails for being pacifist. Astoria fails to achieve money. And so on.]] At least, the epilogue is nice to the characters involved.
* {{Dystopia}}: Played with all around the novel.
* {{EMP}}: The main device for gaining the war against the invading US armies in the Southern Cone. But this costed the destruction of Argentina as a country, and now several regions are independant from each other.
* FootnoteFever: in his brand-new flavor: footnote soundtrack!
* LoveInterest: Anita, for Pablo. It doesn't end well.
* MindScrew: Tlönism, the main ideological justification for La Plata policies. Franco Rocafirme also is an embodiment of this.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: the immigration office for entering La Plata in Ensenada. At least until one shows connections with the Pérez Aznar family or some other important political figure, which automatically turns them in [[BeleagueredBureaucrat beleaguered]] or thoroughly CorruptBureaucrat.
* RuleOfCool: many new Platenses use swords now not because his efficiency, but because it's cool. See the Final Fight with the Hocus Pocus soundtrack.
**Also, Astoria smokes because it's cool.
** WordOfGod Ensenada is an ever raining city by this rule ''exclusively''.
* SuperSerum: Lampshaded. Certainly, many old soldiers are dying of cancer by the overdose of a certain drug that has given them advantage in the past battlefields. Not overly common nor a plot device whatsoever, though.
* TheStrategist: Astoria moves the tides to make the whole imperial city of La Plata tremble in fear. [[note]] And he almost won, if he just have used real bullets instead of fake ones[[/note]].
* ThirdWorldWar: is in the past, and their effects, although vast, aren't as fierce as a nuclear warfare.
* TrenchcoatBrigade: Pablo Astoria is an example of this. Lousely based on John Constantine, but with his own personality, his name is a "spanishification" of Paul Auster, if you don't believe in the DeathOfTheAuthor.
* TrenchcoatWarfare: the revolutionaries.
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Although a lot has changed in fifty years, a lot has remained the same. Or backwards. Depends on the RuleOfCool.
* UsedFuture: Almost ANYTHING electronic is discarded in this future, as the main internet servers are offline and above tons of water. The other Internet part is broke by a massive hacking attack by Rocafirme and the Eldars [[note]]yes, like the tolkienian ones, since the group has named himself for the elves of LOTR[[/note]]. The main electric devices are reconstructions of mid '50 devices.
* ViceCity: Ensenada. It's lampshaded that La Plata is this but subtletly.
* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: The Eldar Revolution. And Rocafirme's second revolution too.