User:PBR Sharpshoot/Assorted stufs

Apart from writing my usual Zombie and depression story stuff that I do here in UFSE, there are other tidbits of story I sometimes do. Here are some as such

Unnamed urban-themed story
Around November of 2014 I conceived a story of about 12 chapters that focused on a fictional unnamed city in a country that is envisioned to be similar to the United States. As such, the sociopolitical status of this country is more or less the same. Except however, this story is envisioned to take place several decades after a catastrophe that ravaged the earth. This last point doesn't directly influence the plot much though, so it can be ignored if desired to.

The main protagonist of the tale is a detective by the name of Carlos Peralta, who finds himself at odds to free the city from the ruthless capo, Charles Benicio, and the powerful and uncanny corrupt councilwoman, Angie Valez. This tale, although officially unnamed, has been affectionately referred to as "Peralta and Friends". Here is a conceptual look at the cast before they were fully fleshed-out, in order of their conception:
 * Detective Peralta - an obsessive detective who is natural police, yet also has a short temper.
 * Councilwoman Angie - a corrupt councilwoman who is unfazed by it and keeps a smile to the public.
 * Laborer Houston - a man who works on a construction site, his lack of filter and way with words make him swoon those he clashes with.
 * Capo Benicio - A rich, fortified capo who is surrounded by money and women, but has no mate to call his own.
 * Detective Ruiz - Peralta's partner, the more level headed and intuitive of the two. Unlike Peralta, he has a family.
 * Citizen Linda - a meek and kind young woman trying to earn ends meet for her children after fighting with her late husband.
 * Lieutenant Maze - Peralta's boss, who worries for his mental stability.
 * Showgirl Lizzie - a woman with a monogamous demeanor, who chooses to expose her body for a living.
 * Activist Yerma - a radicalist who has her own vision of how things in the city should be run, and ultimately opposes the police and the politics.
 * Hooker Verona - a woman who, unlike Lizzie, chose not this life and wants a way out of it, but is too lazy and afraid to leave her conformist bubble.
 * Cop Link - A corrupt cop with a temper like Peralta, though is unraveled in a sense of humor. He often lusts for women.
 * Idol Trudy - a musical icon who refuses herself to be bought or compromised in any way.

Episodes
Episode 1=Introduced to Peralta, Ruiz, Link, and Maze, as they try to get this operation that chooses to eliminate both Angie and Benicio. Peralta takes the case overly personally, something that bothers Ruiz and Maze. Yerma's activism attracts those such as Verona and Houston, who want the law and the corrupt politics to change. Houston however, finds reason to believe Yerma has other intentions. While, the activism cuts Linda's hours at work. Peralta heads to the movemet itself and see it up close, striking up a bond with Houston. Angie's re-election campaign begins and Benicio is her sponsor, who hides his status as a capo behind manufacturing cosmetics. Peralta engages both in a debate, only to find that both have great counter statements, leaving the whole thing a stalemate. Yerma is inspired by what she sees the man do in television. The brashness of Peralta's act causes Maze to suspend him, and let Ruiz take over the investigation. Peralta chooses to heal and drink the night away at a theater, where he lies eyes upon Lizzie. Link does the same, but pays Verona to enlighten him. Trudy comes to town for a few days, in order to host a music festival of her own. In reality, Trudy is there to confide to Peralta the information she has on Benicio. Yerma's people are shot by rubber bullets, courtesy of Angie. All the while, Benicio puts Link under his pocket. At the end of the night, Peralta returns to the showgirls, just to see Lizzie again. Peralta tries talking to her, get to know her. She's a nice girl, but already has a partner. Peralta backs off, even though he knows he shouldn't.
 * -|Episode 2=
 * -|Episode 3=
 * -|Episode 4=

Ruiz and Maze come to problems when they find out of Peralta's rogue investigation, all the while dealing with the threats from the activists following their attack by rubber bullets. Linda's workplace is put on hold and she worries. Desperate, she reaches out to Verona, who advises her to steer away from being a hooker. Houston catches on to dirt from Angie and Benicio, opting to go behind Peralta's back and give the information to Maze and Ruiz. Peralta is sickened when he sees Lizzie being touched by men despite her commitment to someone else. In reality, he's envious. Lizzie will not love him. Trudy is called by Benicio for a private concert, in order to judge her level of fear.
 * -|Episode 5=

Yerma's latest activist rally coincides with the date of Angie's exposure, and a riot breaks out amongst the scene. While this goes on, Ruiz struggles to get close to Peralta, who is there trying to get an angle. Link ends up shooting Ruiz amongst the riot in place of Peralta and renders him immobile. After the riot, Yerma is found injured and she is taken to the hospital. Trudy's next song is dedicated to the memory of those lives lost and injured that day. Verona heals her back to normal. Meanwhile, Houston further helps to try and convict Peralta for obstruction of justice. Benicio is at play.
 * -|Episode 6=

With Ruiz hospitalized and Angie under serious investigation, Maze goes back to the field herself, to try what others failed. Benicio makes his plan move, and product sales grow but only for moment because of the heat Peralta gave him for the cops. Benicio has Link murder Trudy in retaliation, which sends Peralta on a down spiral. Maze considers firing Peralta altogether, while Link is getting promotions. Peralta and drunk Lizzie get together and screw. While this temporary bliss is loved by Peralta, that is all it can be.
 * -|Episode 7=

Yerma has an epiphany, in reality all that she's been doing has been for her own accord. She seeks to free Verona instead from her employer, who happens to be Benicio. With Angie out of the game for a while, Benicio takes control of the city while the spotlight sits on her and her being linked with the murder of Trudy. Maze has a heart to heart with Peralta, who despises her stance at safe justice. Risks need to be taken. All the while, Linda gets a job as a counter for Benicio's money, though the workplace is highly dangerous. Houston gets more evidence against Peralta, but struggles on whether he should use it or not.
 * -|Episode 8=

Ruiz is out of the hospital with a limp, and organizes a raid on a storage house/meth lab where Benicio's men work. Peralta had already discovered this on his own, and thinks he can have Benicio and Angie take each other out if he further lights flames between both. As Peralta shoots up the storage house, Maze simultaneously signs his firing papers. Unbeknownst to him, Linda was there when it all went down and has identified him with Houston, who ultimately decides to give him to Ruiz at Linda's expense. A proper trial will be held for her later. That night, Lizzie feels sick to her stomach due to the fact that she has slept with Peralta and few others she had no intention of sleeping with, finally tiring of being a showgirl she retires. A decision Peralta respects, but others despise.
 * -|Episode 9=

Now that there is evidence against Benicio and Peralta, both are out to be arrested. This heat on Benicio further looks bad for Angie, and she makes a plan to take him out. All the while, Yerma goes to see Benicio to tell him to free Verona from employment. He refuses and has Yerma killed on the spot by a masked Link for even showing such vigor. Ultimately, this leads to his demise, as the activists seal the deal with the information and he is incarcerated. Once Benicio is in jail, he is murdered by other inmates under Angie's pocket. Angie begins rising back up to power after "capturing" Benicio. Linda focuses on making sure her children are provided for on the count of her incarceration, taking out a life insurance from years before that she will die in prison to activate for them if they live with their aunt. At the office, Peralta is brought in after the corruption files pile up. Outraged, Peralta is appalled that apart from his rogue tactics and shooting of a storage house, a fake corruption claim is being set in place. Peralta puts the pieces together and guesses Link is to blame.
 * -|Episode 10=

Linda's private trial ends, and she is being set not guilty. As a result, her and her children are put in witness protection and thus relocated to another part of the country, with Linda having a job to do there. She thanks Houston before she goes. Houston then simultaneously has his final talk with Peralta about life and how one man's vices and inability to change will ruin him, which is why he has to go against Peralta's back. He then asks Peralta if he will allow himself to incarcerated, but Peralta insists he has something to do first. Houston also sets up Verona in a new living situation with him, and offers helping her until she can get back up on her feet. Maze and Ruiz have lost against Angie, who now seems untouchable. To make matters worse, Peralta is out there on the loose, who is corrupt, as hard to believe as Ruiz and Maze find it. Peralta successfully sets Link up with the help of Lizzie, who has slept with him also. When Peralta learns she had to do it, he decides to distance himself from the woman who will never love him. Similarly enough, Link opts to kill Lizzie, stating that if he can't have her, no one can.
 * -|Episode 11=

Peralta pays Angie a personal visit, stating how Link's personal vices has exposed her true colors. Angie tries to have Peralta killed, but he escapes with the evidence before it happens. Peralta then goes on to meet Link and both fight, with Peralta ultimately killing him in revenge for Lizzie's death. Subsequently, Angie's goons give chase to Peralta, though he manages to defend himself and kill them, but not before catching a debilitating bullet himself. Peralta wonders the streets until he finds a barren enough alley, where he succumbs to his wounds and dies peacefully. Ruiz and Maze had received an anonymous tip that was actually the information Peralta acquired against both Angie and Link, and Maze personally arrests Angie, though she can only make her be stripped of her political power.
 * -|Episode 12=

In the closing montage, Linda is shown living a happy and safe life with her children in a new city, Angie is miserable as a normal citizen, while Ruiz's leg is all better and Maze feels at ease now that her rival has been dethroned. Houston and Verona are also living happy lives. The last shot of the series is of Houston, who reads about Peralta's death in the day's headlines. It is hinted that Houston knows of the truth regarding Angie's fall and smiles to his fallen friend.

Characters
These are extra personal tidbits of the characters in the story, with significance and eventual fate included.

Carlos Peralta=
 * Name: Carlos Peralta
 * Age: 34
 * Role: Lead
 * First Appearance: Episode 1
 * Last Appearance: Episode 12
 * Status: Deceased
 * Total: 12 episodes
 * -|Angie Valez=
 * Name: Angie Valez
 * Age: 38
 * Role: Main
 * First Appearance: Episode 1
 * Last Appearance: Episode 12
 * Status: Alive
 * Total: 11 episodes
 * -|Damon Ruiz=
 * Name: Damon Ruiz
 * Age: 32
 * Role: Secondary
 * First Appearance: Episode 1
 * Last Appearance: Episode 12
 * Status: Alive
 * Total: 8 episodes
 * -|Yerma Keys=
 * Name: Yerma Keys
 * Age: 27
 * Role: Main
 * First Appearance: Episode 2
 * Last Appearance: Episode 10
 * Status: Deceased
 * Total: 6 episodes
 * -|Charles Benicio=
 * Name: Charles Benicio
 * Age: 46
 * Role: Secondary
 * First Appearance: Episode 1
 * Last Appearance: Episode 10
 * Status: Deceased
 * Total: 9 episodes
 * -|Linda Sweeting=
 * Name: Linda Sweeting
 * Age: 30
 * Role: Main
 * First Appearance: Episode 2
 * Last Appearance: Episode 12
 * Status: Alive
 * Total: 8 episodes
 * -|Jack Houston=
 * Name: Jack Houston
 * Age: 27
 * Role: Main
 * First Appearance: Episode 2
 * Last Appearance: Episode 12
 * Status: Alive
 * Total: 8 episodes
 * -|"Lizzie"=
 * Name: "Lizzie"
 * Age: 29
 * Role: Secondary
 * First Appearance: Episode 3
 * Last Appearance: Episode 11
 * Status: Deceased
 * Total: 6 episodes
 * -|Rita Maze=
 * Name: Rita Maze
 * Age: 40
 * Role: Secondary
 * First Appearance: Episode 1
 * Last Appearance: Episode 12
 * Status: Alive
 * Total: 10 episodes
 * -|Verona Mayer=
 * Name: Verona Mayer
 * Age: 25
 * Role: Supporting
 * First Appearance: Episode 2
 * Last Appearance: Episode 12
 * Status: Alive
 * Total: 7 episodes
 * -|Link Trousells=
 * Name: Link Trousells
 * Age: 29
 * Role: Main
 * First Appearance: Episode 1
 * Last Appearance: Episode 12
 * Status: Deceased
 * Total: 8 episodes
 * -|Trudy Wilson=
 * Name: Trudy Wilson
 * Age: 25
 * Role: Secondary
 * First Appearance: Episode 4
 * Last Appearance: Episode 7
 * Status: Deceased
 * Total: 4 episodes

Trivia

 * Peralta doesn't meet Verona, Linda and Yerma. Though Linda is aware of who he is and even saw him from afar and Peralta recognizes Yerma.


 * Lizzie is only met by Peralta and Link.


 * Jack Houston doesn't meet Lizzie, Trudy or Benicio.


 * Linda never meets Benicio himself, yet worked for him.


 * Angie is technically the main antagonist of the tale as she has more prominence than Benicio and is the only other character to appear in more than 10 issues.


 * Peralta has killed the most people directly while Benicio has killed the most indirectly,


 * Trudy is the only character who can be considered minor.


 * Link is never directly treated as a traitor, as his cover is blown posthumously by an "anonymous" tip.


 * Peralta died a hero, although no one knew of his accomplishment.


 * It is hinted that Houston knew about Peralta's plan and the cause of his death, aware that he is to blame for Angie's downfall.