THE UNSTOPPABLE MIST # 1

ORIGINS 

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Miguel Montero is a native of Madrid, Spain. He had a very rough childhood. His father is also from from Madrid and his mother from Romania. They quarreled often. His mother, in particular, was unfaithful to him. Something that lead to his father beating her and, subsequently, end with his departure. After the divorce of his parents, Miguel's mother had to raise him alone. In the bad sense. Not only was she absent nor had a special connection with him, but also her relationships with several men went on throught his childhood and later teen years. So Miguel never had an authentic father figure. Nor did he see his real father again.

As a teenager, he had become self-sufficient. He took several simple jobs to pay off his mother’s debts whom he still lived with. He switched from one job to another. The same thing happened with his College studies. He couldn’t seem to find a career with which he was completely at ease. And he realized that it was the same dilemma for everything in his life. But finally he found meaning when reaching his fifth failed career of History. Specifically, the Power of Words. How simple concepts such as "democracy", "nation" and "freedom" could change everything. And, for that reason, he decided to become a philologist.

At the same time he found a job in the paper industry. They paid him well. He often thought as himself as a smith and a trafficker of words. He also met Soledad. The love of his life. She completed him in mind, body and soul. To the point of leaving behind his tormented family life to move in with her. The first months were filled with happiness. But it wouldn’t last long...

It started when he was fired from his job. And a philological obsession captured his attention: the first word in Spanish. According to his research, he discovered that this word would unleash the greatest power of all. And within his obsession to find it, he began to fall into debt and lose everything little by little ... even Soledad, who eventually left him. Due to his economic situation, he had to rent both free rooms in his apartment.

His new roommates were called Guillermo and Mirko. They were the exact opposite. And they argued often. Guillermo wore suits and worked in a law firm as a debt collector and Mirko worked in bars as a DJ. The only element in common between them is that neither of them allowed him to enter their particular bedrooms. But there were some moments where the three went out partying and had a great time.

But one hellish day he came home only to find that his two roommates had slept with his beloved Soledad at the same time. This logically caused Miguel to cut off all communication with the three, yelling and demanding for them to leave his apartment. He marched furiously through the streets where he found an advertising dealer who gave him a peculiar flyer. A psychiatrist named Khan Cibelius who boasted a new therapy system using technology. Miguel realized had nothing to lose. After hearing his story, the news that Doctor Cibelius gave him was one he never expected.

He told him that he had a dissociative personality. Better known as Multiple Personalities. Spawning from an unresolved Oedipus Complex. The inability to act revenge on his father and possess his mother. His independence was actually a way to create a resolution with his own fantasy. More than the fact that Guillermo and Mirko were actually other parts of his own personality, Miguel was surprised when Doctor Cibelius told him that even Soledad didn’t exist. She was the Freudian version of his mother that he wanted to capture.

Miguel punched the Doctor with denial and realized he was not even there. It was just a hologram created by his great technological genius. But the real Doctor Cibelius followed him with precision. Of such that he called him on Skype just when he arrived at his apartment. And, contrary to a stereotypical psychiatrist, he pointed out how "their time was NOT over".

It was then that Cibelius confessed to Miguel that he had the same obsession as him. He had also searched for the first word in Spanish. But he had discovered two things that Miguel did not know: 1) where the word actually was and 2) that only someone with multiple personalities like him could withstand the power. The mixture of the obsession with the first Spanish word and noticing that the rooms of his flatmates were empty, made Miguel come to terms with his disorder and take a bus to Burgos where the first word resided. Within ruins of an Emilian Monastery. And after finding and pronouncing this word, a beam of light struck him from several angles to equip him with superpowers of THE MIST.

 

LA IMPLACABLE NIEBLA # 1 

ORÍGENES

Miguel Montero es un madrileño con una juventud muy dura. Su padre de Madrid y su madre de Rumanía. Reñían a menudo. Su madre, particularmente, le era infiel. Algo que procedía a que su padre le pegara y, ulteriormente, la acabase dejando. Tras el divorcio de sus padres, la madre de Miguel tuvo que criarlo sola. Y de malas maneras. No sólo no estaba ahí ni tuvo una conexión especial con él, pero continuaba su relación con varios hombres. Por lo que nunca tuvo una figura paterna auténtica. Tampoco volvió a ver a su padre verdadero otra vez.

A edad adolescente, se había vuelto autosuficiente. Tomaba varios trabajos sencillos para pagar las deudas de su madre con la que aún vivía. Se alternaba de un trabajo a otro. Lo mismo con sus estudios universitarios. No parecía encontrar una carrera con la que estaba totalmente a gusto. Y se percató que era el mismo dilema para todo en su vida. Pero finalmente le encontró sentido a su existencia al llegar a su quinta carrera fallida de Historia. Concretamente el Poder de la Palabra. Cómo conceptos sencillos como "democracia", "nación" y "libertad" podían cambiarlo todo. Y, por ello, decidió volverse filólogo.

Coincidió por aquel entonces que consiguió trabajar en la industria papelera. Le pagaban muy bien al igual que se consideraba herrero y traficante de la palabra. También conoció a Soledad. El amor de su vida. Que le correspondía en todos los sentidos. Al punto de irse y dejar atrás su vida familiar atormentada para vivir con ella. Los primeros meses fueron muy felices. Aunque no duraría mucho tiempo.

Empezó cuando lo despidieron de su trabajo. Y una obsesión filológica capturó toda su atención: la primera palabra en castellano. Según sus investigaciones, descubrió que dicha palabra desataría el poder más grande de todos. Y por intentar encontrarla, empezó a contraer más deudas, perderlo todo de poco en poco... inclusive a Soledad que le acabó dejando. Debido a su situación económica, tuvo que alquilar dos habitaciones extras del piso.

Sus nuevos compañeros de piso se llamaban Guillermo y Mirko. Eran totalmente lo opuesto el uno al otro. Y discutían a menudo. Guillermo vestía trajes y trabajaba en un bufete de abogados como gestor de cobros y Mirko trabajaba en bares pinchando música.  El único elemento en común es que ninguno de los dos le dejaba entrar a su habitación. Y había algunos momentos donde los tres salían de fiesta y se la pasaban muy bien. 

Pero un día infernal llegó a casa sólo para encontrarse con que sus dos compañeros de piso se habían acostado con su amada Soledad al mismo tiempo. Esto lógicamente provocó que Miguel cortase toda comunicación con los tres, pidiendo a gritos que dejasen el piso. Marchó furibundo por las calles hasta dar con un repartidor de publicidad que le daba un flyer peculiar. Un psiquitara llamado Khan Cibelius que presumía un nuevo sistema de terapia utilizando tecnología. Miguel acudió sabiendo que no tenía nada que perder. Tras escuchar su historia, la noticia que le daba el Doctor Cibelius era una que jamás se esperaba. 

Le comentó que tenía una personalidad disociativa o Múltiples Personalidades. Partiendo todo de un Complejo de Edipo no resuelto. La incapacidad de vengarse de su padre y poseer a su madre. Su independencia de casa era en realidad una manera para crear una resolución con su propia fantasía. Más que el hecho que Guillermo y Mirko eran otras personalidades suyas, Miguel se quedó sorprendido cuando el Doctor Cibelius le dijó que ni siquiera Soledad existía. Era ésta la versión freudiana de su madre que quería capturar. 

Miguel golpeó al Doctor con negación y se percató que no estaba ahí. Era sólo un holograma creado por su gran genio tecnológico. Pero el verdadero Doctor Cibelius lo seguía con precisión. Tal era esa precisión, que lo llamó por Skype justo cuando llegaba a su piso. Y, contrario al psiquitara estereotípico, señaló cómo "su hora NO había acabado". 

Fue entonces que Cibelius le confesó a Miguel que tenía la misma obsesión que él. También había buscado la primera palabra en castellano. Pero había descubierto dos cosas que Miguel no sabía: 1) el lugar donde dicha palabra se encontraba y 2) que sólo alguien con múltiples personalidades como él podía soportar el poder. La mezcla de la obsesión por la palabra y percatarse que las habitaciones de sus compañeros de piso estaban vacías, hicieron que Miguel llegase a términos con su trastono y tomase un bus hasta Burgos donde estaba la primera palabra en castellano. En las ruinas de un Monasterio Emilianense. Y tras encontrar y pronunciar la misma, un haz de luz lo golpeó desde varios ángulos para equiparlo con los superpoderes de LA NIEBLA.