History Literature / ConcienciaYVoluntad

%%* CoolLoser: Astoria.

* {{Cameo}}: A mysterious figure that looks a lot like Lord Morpheus in his former incarnation. He appears in a train very similar to the one in the End Of The Worlds arc.

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.

* 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.

%%* JerkAss: Homing. UpToEleven.

* 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.

* BadassLongcoat: Pablo Astoria.

* BadGuyBar: many of them in Ensenada.

* CoolLoser: Astoria.
* CoolSword: All swords are cool. They use it for that reason.

* CrystalSpiresAndTogas: La Plata.

* DarkMessiah: Franco Rocafirme.

* DirtyCop: Homing

* TheEmpire: A soft one. La Plata is its head.

* FootnoteFever: in his brand-new flavor: footnote soundtrack!
* TheFutureIsNoir: well... 2057, noir genre...

* GuileHero: Pablo Astoria.
* GunsVsSwords: sort of. More like guns ''and'' swords for hand-to-hand combat.

* HeroicBSOD: Pablo, when [[spoiler: Anita is murdered]]

* HegemonicEmpire: La Plata.

* JerkAss: Homing. UpToEleven.

* LoveInterest: Anita, for Pablo. It doesn't end well.

* 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.

* SmokingIsCool: Pablo. He even makes his own cigarettes

%%* SwordFight: between two badass!

* WorldWarIII: is in the past, and their effects, although vast, aren't as fierce as a nuclear warfare.
* WhereEverybodyKnowsYourFlame: "Distinto", in La Plata.

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* BiTheWay: Jaques Frontière, the french friend of Luciano.

* SwordFight: between two [[BadassGrandpa BadassGrandpas]]!

* BadassGrandpa: Both Franco Rocafirme and Nicolás Pérez Aznar. It's hinted than Augusto Dumont was also one.

* GratuitousEnglish: Pablo Astoria mixes some English with his natural Spanish, only to be a cool PrivateEye.

* PrivateEye: Obviously, Astoria.

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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. However, the world isn't as awful as it could be.

* ThirdWorldWar: is in the past, and their effects, although vast, aren't as fierce as a nuclear warfare.

* 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.

* StatenSec: for the jobs that the SecretPolice derives. They made public shootings of opposers.

* WellIntentionedExtremists: A lot. Franco Rocafirme, between the first

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.

* 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.

* 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.

* 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.

* 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.

* 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.

* CrapsackWorld: Worked around. WordOfGod says that isn't a lot worse than our present.

* 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.

* 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.

* 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.]]

* 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]].

* 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.

* {{Prison}}: Esteban Ruquet has been in the jail and escaped a long time ago, for commiting a political murder.
* 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.

* SmokingIsCool: Pablo. He even mades his own cigarettes

* 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.

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* {{Prison]]: Esteban Ruquet has been in the jail and escaped a long time ago, for commiting a political murder.

* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: The Eldar Revolution. And Rocafirme's second revolution too.

* {{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.