In many stories and even real life, there is always one labelling concept in society, a labelling concept that you all familiar with, the protagonist and the antagonist. Come to think about it, I’d say that a concept of labelling one individual is not valid, why? because, the complexities of human’s emotions, minds, personalities and identities.
Falling into the prejudice of judging a person’s whether they are a protagonist or an antagonist, the hero or the villain. There is a paradox in life that made society decide whether this act is right and that act is wrong, even though life itself is full of freedom, there is no restraint that holding you to committed a certain act.
A knowledge from human called morality, a knowledge which created that label in story and real life, a protagonist and an antagonist, but, is it based on logical and not a feeling from heart that is so cynical? A feeling that stem from one’s heart to commit thing, a driving force to commit it. The truth is, the concept of protagonist and antagonist is merely a script from god in a grand spectacle called life that was full of comedy, I’d say a ‘fate’, there is some similarities between a script and a fate, both of them are written, written by someone to conduct, to control, to observe.
Those actors in the script got divided into two sides, the Virtuous or the Wicked, and once they got an identity of themselves they will get a role, with their equipment and props fitting for their actions in the stage. Essentially, the villain’s purpose is to help the hero forge themselves. No slacks may be cut. That would be a failure for both.
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Conny looks at the road beside him, currently, he is in passenger seat with the Driver, Gerard, and the painting of young king Edward IV on his right hand, the human, the Scotsman. The three of them decided to leave Welsterven to starts their journey. Conny, he… he doesn’t even know where Gerard is driving him to, well, he couldn’t careless, because all of this feels exciting, he can forget about all his past and starts a new page in his life as the Jester.
“Blessed the man who let us borrowed his car.” Conny solemnly said while closing his eyes, feeling the breeze of wind touching his face and resting his head on his left hand, it seems what Conny just said made Gerard flinch his eyes as he mockingly replied,
“Blessed my ass, we just stole his precious car, asshole!, I thought you’re an aristocrat not a poor man, and here we are planning to travel the world.”
“Relax, sir Gerard, this car is just an earthly attachment to that man, we just gave him a lesson, to let go his earthly attachments because someday, he will lose it all eventually.” said the portrait picture painting on Conny’s hand, the Scotsman.
Conny nods his head listening the Scotsman’s word, seemingly impressed and agreed with the Scotsman, “Wise word, wise word, I agree with the owner just said, we need to learn to accept what we lose in life, we can’t dwell in the past forever aren’t we?, it is what it is.”
“Thank you, kid. Sir Gerard, I think you have a lot to learn from this young man, from the Jester.” the Scotsman mood brightened as the color of its canvas seems more radiant, Gerard snaps when he heard those two ridiculous conversations as he turns his head to the left, his eyes bulging and his forehead’s veins looks visible and shout out loud to these two beside him,
“WE JUST BECOME A THIEF, YOU TWATS!!, IT’S WRONG!, MY WIFE AND MY DAUGHTER WILL BE SAD IF THEY KNEW THEIR FATHER JUST STOLE WHAT’S NOT HIS THINGS, LET ME TELL YOU TWO-“ when Gerard went on his loud shouting, he didn’t focused on the road ahead.
Conny widen his eyes when he see a cracked hole in front of him as he pointed at the front and shout, “SIR GERARD!! THE ROAD!! THERE IS A BIG ASS HOLE AHEAD!!”
Panicked with Conny’s warning, Gerard stop his rambling and turn his head swiftly to focus back on the road, but it was too late, when Gerard focused back on the road again the car’s front tires hit the cracked hole and made it flew, it was an absurd scene, the three of them get out mid-air from the car before it goes to the pond, Gerard and Conny rolled like a donkey at the side roads, Conny tightly hug the Scotsman while Gerard got into the pond, Conny got stuck at the thick bushes. As the steam powered car crash to the nearest pond and slowly sink to the bottom.
“*Cough*…*Cough*… he really wants to kill me, and he said he was a driver, fuc-.” when Conny cursed for whatever reason in his head, he noticed Gerard gets up, drenched as he just jumped from the driver’s seat and got into the pond like a salmon. Conny immediately shut up and tidies himself up.
“*Sigh*… and there goes our only transportation, so how we’re gonna do now? kid, sir Gerard?” the Scotsman sighed as Conny helps to wiped the dirt from the canvas, Gerard blankly stared at the Scotsman and shrug his shoulder, not knowing what to do, Conny ponders for a moment and look at Gerard for a couple of minutes, this bastard didn’t even apologize, he would probably happy if I died or if he died too, it’s too dangerous to proceed with the journey right now, maybe a rest will do, yeah, set up a camping to relax, that’s what in Conny’s mind, then he suggest to the Scotsman and Gerard to set up a camp to rest first.
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Conny and Gerard starts working for the tent and bonfire with injured body, Conny silently cursing Gerard as he gathers all the wooden branches, the two of them finished in the evening, Gerard lighting up the bonfire, Conny, Gerard, and the Scotsman starts planning for their next step.
“Shit…it hurts… my back… weren’t you a driver sir Gerard?, why are you driving like a madman by charging at that cracked hole?” Conny finally let out his complains that he is been holding since afternoon, the Scotsman hold his laughter because of Conny that is writhing in pain.
While Gerard looks at Conny with disdain, his eyes were bulging, he gets up from his seat and point at Conny and the Scotsman while saying, “You both distracted me!!, how I am supposed to focused when you two keeps talking nonsense?, enough… I am tired, I don’t want to fight you, where is the food, did you catch any fish?” said Gerard as he looks eagerly at Conny, but Conny tilts his head and answered, “Fish?, the hell you talking about, I was busy gathering these branches, it’s the owner, the human job to catch the fish.” Gerard freeze in his spot with disbelief expressions, he was too stunned to react with the Jester’s stupidity, then he face-palm and point at the Scotsman and said.
“Did you forget that, the human, the Scotsman is a painting… a fucking painting… an expensive literal living art, how is he supposed to catch a fish, you moron?” Gerard grab his hair and jumps multiple times like a rabbit to express his frustration to the Jester. Conny tilted his head, confused, why Gerard behaves like that?, he just scratches his hair and gestured to the Scotsman to show the fish, and the Scotsman revealed the two fishes behind it’s canvas…he really catches a fish, fucking insane, this… this is am I high or something, that’s what in Gerard’s mind as he widen his eyes, then rubbing his eyes again to check if he sees an illusion or not, but it was real, a legit fish from the pond.
“Seems like you’re underestimating me, sir Gerard, that makes my heart hurts even though I didn’t have one.” said the Scotsman proudly showing young king Edward IV’s smug face, then Conny hand over Gerard’s fish and both of them starts roasting the fish, curious with something Gerard ask the Scotsman he said, “How did you do it, catching these fishes?”, the Scotsman answered, “I just let my color contaminated the water area where the fish are living, and I succeed, the one who helped me carried the fishes is the kid here.” Gerard look at Conny who is looking at him with deadpan expression, then he grabbed his roasted fish and eat it.
“*Sigh…so, sir Gerard where are we?, where we headed to?” Conny asked as he munching the roasted fish meat in his mouth, Gerard grab his roasted fish and eat it too, then he answered Conny’s question, “we’re 15 kilometers away from Welsterven, 2 kilometers from here and we will arrived at the nearby town called Half-elf Valley, it’s a town where Half-elf folks were resided, it’s still under the territory of Welsterven.” Conny nod his head hearing Gerard’s explanation, then the Scotsman added,
“so it’s Half-elf valley now huh?, in the past, it was a Rashmol kingdom, a kingdom that once used to treat elf with hospitality until Welsterven engaged a war with them.” Gerard and Conny widen their eyes, this information is too old, both of them didn’t know about it, it made Gerard wonders at what era did the Scotsman was living?.
“So, why is it called the Half-elf valley, sir Gerard?” curious with it’s name Conny asked Gerard. Gerard made a light chuckle when he notices the pure and innocence how the Jester is, then he explained,
“The Half-elf valley eh, how should I tell you? ah, so… it’s like this, there are a couple of nobles that wants to reside on the ruins of Rashmol kingdom as the Scotsman said, then, since the area was close to the vast forest where the elves reside, the nobles they want more, the resources and the…*ahem sex toys, they starts kidnapping the elves and expanding the area all the way to the mountains range, and hence today it’s called the Half-elf valley, the nobles, they…lusting and impregnating all the kidnapped female elf, in the Half-elf valley you will noticed many people with colored hair, and refined face, that’s it.”
“Okay… so, we will go to Half-elf valley first?” said Conny, he finished eating his roasted fish, and he burped. Gerard nod his head as he finally finished eating his roasted fish too, Gerard excuse himself to sleep first in the tent, leaving Conny alone gazing at the sunset.
“Something on your mind, kid?” asked the Scotsman, since he was a literal live art, he didn’t need a rest. Conny look at the painting picture beside him and replied,
“Yeah… a couple of things actually… owner…why did god created this life?” silence descend upon the Scotsman and Conny as the two observes the sunset and finally the sky turned into night.
“I don’t know, kid… maybe to watch us live our life, you know like some sort of entertainment to god.” the Scotsman answered, he answered with honesty to Conny’s question, Conny nod his head slowly, then he extends his right hand to the night sky and said,
“So, we’re in god’s script huh? I just think…in this life, what did god wanted? watching protagonist fight the antagonist?, is that entertaining for god?, or if we died, does god laugh at us because, you know we gave god our whole life to entertained him, why god didn’t help or intervene in his script that he wrote, a divine comedy called life…if only that night, god gave me a chance to save Vily, I’ll gladly entertain him, I’ll gladly accept whatever fucked up things that will happened to me just to make him laugh, but…god decided that Vily must dead, it’s the goddess fate…fuck, that fate…I’m sorry owner, I was too emotional.” said Conny as he bit his lips, he held back his tears that wants to cascaded down to his checks, he still can’t forgive himself for not doing anything to save Vilily, his loved one, the one who is akin to his half soul.
“It’s alright, kid. Well, I must say that it’s the nature of life, laughing at us by putting us in misery, but we must laugh at it too, because in the end, the one who can still laugh is the winner.”
Exclaimed the Scotsman, Conny looks at the twin moon that starts showing itself, the usual night sky without a single star and only the twin moon that illuminating the night sky, that twin moon seemed like a giant spotlight, Conny can feel that he is indeed in the stage, a ridiculously giant stage that showed a divine comedy called life. Conny get into the tent to sleep and maybe to rest his thought, since it was tiring… it was tiring to be a human in a script that god gave to him.