Tyrant
This is the discussion spot for the Tyrant.
Past Observations:
- “get things done” energy
- pushy moderator, for now.
- Not hypocritical, doesn’t break own rules.
Past Observations:
- “get things done” energy
- pushy moderator, for now.
- Not hypocritical, doesn’t break own rules.
posted by Dustin at 1:03 p.m.
9 Comments:
I noticed this with the Tyrant:
He seems to have an inferiority complex, and fears intimacy and is very irrational. Someone compared him to the knife that lobotomizes the brain.
- defensive, always afraid.
- another aspect or later version of the Promised One?
- Feels most powerful here, but they are STUCK. Has FEAR Locked him in?
- Is he trying to turn The Promised One into a Tyrant? Is it cyclical.
- He is afraid of people leaving.
- He is here on one really bad drug trip and can't escape.
The Tyrant
Was weak as a kid. Was bullied. Had no real idea how to get on in life - his parents were not that interested in him. They were too preoccupied with their own lives. He tried to befriend people but was not popular and ended up being bullied often. He has developed a paranoia about friendship and a big fear of any relationship. He smoked pot when he was 12. He developed onto harder drugs by the time he was 15. It helped quite a bit to make him feel superior. He would lose days at a time and often lost his job because he simply didn’t show up.
The Tyrant would tell us…….
Fuck you
You have no clue
No clue atall. You listen and you get spooked. Not really surprising. What the fuck do you expect? You sniveling little children, wondering around with your SMALL problems. Oh! I seem to have failed my test, I don’t know what to do because John doesn’t love me anymore. Big fucking deal. Try being on trial for the whole of your goddamn life. Try being told you aren’t quite there, again and again. Like you are an alien being. Like everyone else knows the scheme, the plot, the rules but not you. You are left slithering around in the mud wondering what happened when the latest person just kicked you in the stomach.
You start off with great intentions. Believe it or not. I did have those. Yeah and then you wake up one day and someone shits in your face. Can you ever imagine what it feels like to believe you are doing the right thing and everyone keeps looking at you like you are evil. Not stupid but somehow wrong. You trust people. You get to the point where you tell them all those terrible little bits that you thought you would tell no-one and then they they turn around and say ‘I don’t feel the same way anymore. I’m really sorry. Id love to feel more but I don’t’. Id rather they hate me than that kind of indifference. What is it about me that makes people not care? I know you’d fucking say its because I say mean things but that’s not the point. It may be now but it never was before.
Everyone just left me. No reason to tell you anything different now. The first one told me they didn’t like me – they were now friends with someone else. You know I was just a little kid. I didn’t get it – didn’t understand why they wanted to dump me like that. You are embarrassing to be friends with, they said. Then later Tim was alone with me – left alone cos no-one else turned up. He confessed later that hed been really worried about being left with me as I was so boring. We became friends but he wasn’t really enough to help when they wanted to do me in. I just wasn’t strong enough to keep them away. I told my dad once and he laughed at me. He told me I was too weak and the way to defend myself was to fight them back. I tried it again and again.
Now I know what to do.
You have no fucking clue.
Why do I bother with this space?
Notes from Last Session:
- Simplest, Smallest Problems.
- Sympathized with Tyrant b/c of way people treated him in the past.
- Everyone has already defeated this person - leads to fear of intimacy.
The tyrant
...is lost in time – in a moment that replays for him time and time again and reminds him that he must bully or be bullied. He is not experiencing time as others are. They move on whilst he just keeps moving round and round. Time remains constant – perpetually revolving around a point in time.
The following scene can be cut and paste into script after opening scene
PO (whispers to FWO) Can I ask you a question?
FWO Sure thing
PO I don’t know what I’m supposed to be doing here
(pause)
Do you know?
FWO Don’t worry – you’ll get used to it – we are going to work it out together
PO I don’t mean, like, I don’t know what my job is or whatever, I don’t actually recognize anything or anyone
FWO But you know who you are and that’s a start.
PO But I don’t remember asking for this. I can’t stand it. I can’t feel anything. Its like Im a puppet.
Tyrant I hold the strings. Fancy that, you didn’t even feel me tugging. Can you feel me now?
Amnesiac I don’t feel you tugging me. I don’t even know who you are. Or who I am for that matter.
(pause)
How do I know you aren’t me?
Tyrant Well I know you aren’t me cos you’re clearly not talking from my mouth.
(pause)
How do I know you aren’t me?
Amnesiac God help me if I am
Tyrant Fuck off
Amnesiac What makes me not you?
Tyrant Agghh. Let me out of here. You’re all the same. I don’t know who you are and I don’t care who you are. That’s the difference between us.
Seeker Oh leave him alone. What’s your name?
Amnesiac That’s the point. I have no idea.
Seeker Oh I see.
Amnesiac You do?
Tyrant Oh shut up! You blithering idiot. Does ANYONE SPEAK SENSE AROUND HERE? No obviously not.
FWO Stop shouting and lets get some answers. Now. Does anyone know what is going on?
Tyrant Don’t tell me to stop. Who do you think you are?
(pause)
Didn’t you look into their eyes and see the pain? You knew something they didn’t. You were lost to them. Or maybe they didn’t care. Maybe there was no pain because there was no love. No one loved you. Oh dear.
Seeker I don’t know where we are either, or why. But we are here. We are together somehow. And you’re not helping.
PO I think some people set traps for themselves. Sometimes. Are we trapped?
Tyrant Look around you. What do you see? I see nothing except emptiness. Everything has been gouged out of here and there is nothing left. You seem haggered. Are you old? You probably think you are young. Forget for a second…… ah never mind.
Boom – ba boom
Boom – ba boom
Only in your dreams are you able to escape this place. And sometimes not even then.
Psychodrama begins. The Psychodramas are intended to be larger than life – exaggerating the ‘issue’ which has caused the Time crime. They will be surreal in character – as if looking through a lens – seeing into the mind of the protagonist. The features that are remembered will be most strongly in focus.
Tyrant as boy, is played by Promised One, Tyrant’s aunt is played by Buddy and Tyrant’s father by Tyrant himself.
Scene starts with Tyrant sitting on floor alone, head hanging down. Promised One swaps position with him and becomes Tyrant. He is trying to block out the conversation between aunt and father who do not know he can hear, or they don’t care. Tyrant becomes father and moves to where aunt is.
Aunt Whats wrong with him? Sitting there not speaking for hours. I think you should talk to him.
Father Why? What good does it do? He’s weak. He will always be weak. Something wrong with him. I did think once that he might have some potential. But not anymore. I gave up hope long ago.
Aunt Well he’s your responsibility. When Joan was dying I told her Id make sure you could cope. But I never offered to take him.
Father This is the 5th time this week he’s been beaten up. Kids are like animals. It’s survival of the fittest.
Aunt Joan pampered him too much as a baby. Is he still wetting himself? Joan told me he was always doing that.
Father Oh for Christ’s sake. Please don’t tell me anymore. I have to just pretend he’s not my son. It’s the only way to bear it.
Back to Office scene
FWO Without dreams. Without hope. Without a faint glimmer of anything but what is in front of you. I wish I could change something for you. But I cant.
Tyrant You fool.
Fuck you
You have no clue
No clue atall. Not really surprising. What the fuck do you expect? You sniveling little children, wondering around with your SMALL problems. Try being told you aren’t quite there, again and again. Like you are an alien being. Like everyone else knows the scheme, the plot, the rules but not you. You are left slithering around in the mud wondering what happened when the latest person just kicked you in the stomach.
Now I know what to do.
You have no fucking clue.
You should have noticed what was happening here long ago. Everyone begging, driveling, ‘ hear me hear me, talk to me, Im scared, Im lonely, I want to talk to someone’. Don’t make me the same as them. That wasn’t the point.
Seeker Maybe we are all puppets but I doubt our tormentor is who he says he is.
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