For my fan fiction I decided to write about what has happened a long time after the terrorist attacks. I used just creativity when coming up with the story but I had some influences. Since I read the book, I can’t stop thinking about the similarities with the graphic novel and film V for Vendetta. I feel that Little Brother and V for Vendetta go along together. So, what I decided to do was to write from the perspective of the successor to the Xnet after Marcus died, or was killed. I decided to name him V after the leader of the resistance in V for Vendetta. November 5th is a direct reference to V for Vendetta I threw in a direct quote from one of his TV hacks in the movie. I also had another really big influence, which was George Orwell’s 1984. Orwell’s novel is directly related and referenced in Little Brother so I decided to do the same. I took Orwell’s idea that love and sex are something very political because in his novel, they are the only escape from Big Brother. So, I decided to incorporate that into my leaders order. Finally, when I was writing it kind of reminded me of the Terminator series, so I tried to mirror that as well.
November 5, 2088
It’s been 75 years since the terrorists attacked San Francisco, 75 years since M1k3y started the Xnet Resistance against the Regime-only it was they were called the Homeland Security back then…. M1k3y is long dead, but we continue to fight for the ideals that he started on Xnet. We are the last hope for humanity.
After the attacks on San Francisco, the Department of Homeland Security enforced martial law upon the city. Eventually the martial law spread to the entire country, or what was a country. As the police force gained more and more power and support, the Department of Homeland Security went rogue, they overthrew the very government which gave them power. They are now the sole entity of the country. It really is them; there is no leader, there is no governing body, and there is no freedom. They are everywhere. They control what we watch, who we interact with, who we marry, and what we think. They destroyed everything which this country once stood for, they stripped our freedoms, they stripped our beliefs, and they have created a nation of police-minded zombies who consume their propaganda like starving children. They are the collective, they see everything, and they control everything. After about 10 years of fighting the Xnet and its followers, the Regime mandated that protest against the Regime was an obstruction of justice that could only be solved one way: death to all who fight against the totalitarian oppression of the Regime. All forms of expressiveness were shut down immediately; religion is sacrilegious to the greater good of the Regime, love divides your loyalties to the Regime, and well, sex allows you to have a relationship with another human being-strictly forbidden outside of Regime sanctioned breeding communities.
“All we have now is cruelty, injustice, intolerance, and depression; and once where you had the freedom to object, to think as you saw fit we now have sensor and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity” into a propaganda sucking zombie.
We, the Resistance, struggle every day to keep from being consumed by the collective. We are scarce and scattered through the country, holding on to the teachings of M1k3y. We are hunted, tortured, and killed for actively refuting the media messages of the Regime. But for what you might say? That answer is simple to any true believer; we fight for our freedom.
I hope if you’re reading this that you have time to hide before the Regime finds you, I apologize for my swift history of the Regime, but I must get out the message before they find me.
I am a dead man. As the leader of the Xnet, it is my duty to give you orders before they come to kill me.
Xnet uses fear to inflict their ideologies on their zombies; we are a dying breed. There will be no more Xnet Resistance if we all die-which happens daily from indecent acts against humanity.
I have my final order for you as Xnet leader, it is to LOVE. Even us, the Resistance, has been afraid to love one and other for fear of the Regime. We can no longer do this, we must act; we must love. It is love that will regain our trust in humanity; we must reproduce to ensure the existence of young, free minded Xnet users. Because my fellow freedom fighters, without love, we are no more human than they are. We will politicize love, we will make it our weapon and we will overcome the Regime.
I surely will not announce a successor; M1k3y did not choose me, I will not choose another. Out of our struggle will come a new leader, out of our struggles will come new life. Life built out of love.
Xnet will overcome. Xnet will succeed. Fight. Love. Don’t trust anyone.
If you are downloading this, you are the Resistance.
-V
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