Story Summary
Short Story Summary to go with an eventual art piece. I'm putting it here, so I remember. Yay for characters that are just Alternate Universe versions of Rivek.
Arian Richardson, known as "Ariane" in costume, is pretty much a "geisha"-cum-high-class prostitute in an environment similar to Japan in the first half of the 1900s, a blend of Eastern and Western cultures. However, houses of male prostitutes are as commonplace as female harlems are in traditional worldly universes. The House where Arian resides is also one that specializes in androgyny and cross-dressing, for customers who like how women look but when it comes to the actual act, want to do it with a male.
Arian and his mother had been living in and out of various apartments, evicted when they couldn't pay rent, until he turned fourteen. Whereupon, she reluctantly sold him into a House. The House Master paid very well since it was evident from Arian's current looks that he would maintain a more boyish and slim figure as he grew older. Arian never found out what happened to his mother, so he presumed that she gote remarried to a nice man, hopefully a Duke of some sort. In reality, she remarried a drunkard, but one who always brought home a salary - which to her, was enough.
Arian, on the other hand, worked his way up through the House hierarchy - from helping the other worked put on makeup to flirting with clients to giving them oral sex - and sold his anal virginity at sixteen. The buy-price was good, but not spectacular. Nevertheless, it earned him some clout within the House. However, he has never been happy. All he knows is, if he collects six thousand dollars - a price set by the district council, he can buy his freedom.
The short story begins when Arian is twenty-one. After seven years, he has managed to earn the title of House Treasure - despite not being the most experienced or prettiest of the House boys, he is the most coveted. Thus, he rarely works outside of being an "entertainer" because the younger boys do the housework. In fact, he has a boy as his personal assistant, but this boy is turning sixteen soon. It also means that he can now have some selection with his clients. For example, he can throw one out with no repurcussions for refusing to wear a condom. Arian is well known for being extraordinarily strict on this rule. Only he and a few others know, but it's because he has a number of STDs himself. It is also the reason why he embezzles an unusually large portion of his earnings. While the House Master demands three-fourths of his charges' earnings, Arian usually only coughs up half. He wants to get out of the House before he dies - he takes seven pills when he wakes up. He has embezzled a sufficient amount of money, but not enough to buy himself out... without help. One of his old clients, a nobleman's son with too much time on his hands, has fallen in love with Arian and vice-versa. He offers to pay for over a third of the buy price, covering what Arian himself does not have.
One early evening between winter and spring, Arian wakes up - at the usual time, just as the sun sets - in order to start his work for the night. As he swallows his medications, he counts his savings. He has $3,100, and his lover's going to contribute $2,500. He can almost smell the vellum on the paper that says he is a free man. He starts the night off as usual, getting dressed, bathing away the ache between his legs. His fifteen-year-old personal assistant helps and lets slip that he is afraid to leave this position because it means his figurative maidenhead will be sold. The actual date is pencilled in Arian's calendar. The date is in three weeks, two days after the boy's birhday brithday.
Dressed in a loose, intricaltely patterned silk robe, Arian goes down to the lounge for business and beer as usual. He figures he will just do the gossiping thing tonight, tell stupid jokes and pour drinks. His legs are in total pain becausem the night before, he was not only with a client but his boyfriend. But in comes a party led by a guy shaped like hockey puck in all aspects (all). The man asks for the House's most expensive prositute and all the other boys look at Arian. This man then offers $800 to Arian if he can make him come, an extravagant price five times what Arian would usually make for a full night. Arian, so close to his goal, cannot resist the offer and accepts relectantly. This is going to put him over the top.
Then he learns that the reason the businessman offered that much was because he is basicallyinsane. He refuses to accept hands or mouth, and uses physical force to get Arian into bed. Even then, despite Arian's protests, the client refuses to use either lubricant or a condom. The whole situation gets violent, the client enjoying Arian's struggle and the exchanging of blows with one man still inside the other. Beneath the pain, Arian is thinking is he could have fought him off two years ago, when he had not been so sick. He gives up, sobbing, and lets the asshole finish. The client relieved, Arian smashes him in the head with the candlestick from his nightstand and empties $1,200 from the man's wallet. Then, he rolls out from underneath and staggers to the door, wrapped in his bloody sheets. He's going to get his assistant to clean up this mess, then he's going to find the House Master and show him the money, and then...
He reaches the doorknob and he knows he won't survive. His chest seizes up. Whatever it is, syphilis, AIDs, gonorrhea - he doesn't know -, has caught up with him. His boyfriend, hanging in the bar as useless noblechildren are bound to do, had hear him screaming and is already at the door to catch Arian as it unlocks and opens. The bills drop to the floor as the tendons in Arian's hands stop working and, before he collapses, he tells his lover to immediately buy freedom for his attendant.
Cut for spoilers and high violence, homosexual, and just plain sexual, content. Actually, if I ever post the story, it's only going to be here, not anywhere else. Inspired by Memoirs of a Geisha, the book, not the movie.
Arian Richardson, known as "Ariane" in costume, is pretty much a "geisha"-cum-high-class prostitute in an environment similar to Japan in the first half of the 1900s, a blend of Eastern and Western cultures. However, houses of male prostitutes are as commonplace as female harlems are in traditional worldly universes. The House where Arian resides is also one that specializes in androgyny and cross-dressing, for customers who like how women look but when it comes to the actual act, want to do it with a male.
Arian and his mother had been living in and out of various apartments, evicted when they couldn't pay rent, until he turned fourteen. Whereupon, she reluctantly sold him into a House. The House Master paid very well since it was evident from Arian's current looks that he would maintain a more boyish and slim figure as he grew older. Arian never found out what happened to his mother, so he presumed that she gote remarried to a nice man, hopefully a Duke of some sort. In reality, she remarried a drunkard, but one who always brought home a salary - which to her, was enough.
Arian, on the other hand, worked his way up through the House hierarchy - from helping the other worked put on makeup to flirting with clients to giving them oral sex - and sold his anal virginity at sixteen. The buy-price was good, but not spectacular. Nevertheless, it earned him some clout within the House. However, he has never been happy. All he knows is, if he collects six thousand dollars - a price set by the district council, he can buy his freedom.
The short story begins when Arian is twenty-one. After seven years, he has managed to earn the title of House Treasure - despite not being the most experienced or prettiest of the House boys, he is the most coveted. Thus, he rarely works outside of being an "entertainer" because the younger boys do the housework. In fact, he has a boy as his personal assistant, but this boy is turning sixteen soon. It also means that he can now have some selection with his clients. For example, he can throw one out with no repurcussions for refusing to wear a condom. Arian is well known for being extraordinarily strict on this rule. Only he and a few others know, but it's because he has a number of STDs himself. It is also the reason why he embezzles an unusually large portion of his earnings. While the House Master demands three-fourths of his charges' earnings, Arian usually only coughs up half. He wants to get out of the House before he dies - he takes seven pills when he wakes up. He has embezzled a sufficient amount of money, but not enough to buy himself out... without help. One of his old clients, a nobleman's son with too much time on his hands, has fallen in love with Arian and vice-versa. He offers to pay for over a third of the buy price, covering what Arian himself does not have.
One early evening between winter and spring, Arian wakes up - at the usual time, just as the sun sets - in order to start his work for the night. As he swallows his medications, he counts his savings. He has $3,100, and his lover's going to contribute $2,500. He can almost smell the vellum on the paper that says he is a free man. He starts the night off as usual, getting dressed, bathing away the ache between his legs. His fifteen-year-old personal assistant helps and lets slip that he is afraid to leave this position because it means his figurative maidenhead will be sold. The actual date is pencilled in Arian's calendar. The date is in three weeks, two days after the boy's birhday brithday.
Dressed in a loose, intricaltely patterned silk robe, Arian goes down to the lounge for business and beer as usual. He figures he will just do the gossiping thing tonight, tell stupid jokes and pour drinks. His legs are in total pain becausem the night before, he was not only with a client but his boyfriend. But in comes a party led by a guy shaped like hockey puck in all aspects (all). The man asks for the House's most expensive prositute and all the other boys look at Arian. This man then offers $800 to Arian if he can make him come, an extravagant price five times what Arian would usually make for a full night. Arian, so close to his goal, cannot resist the offer and accepts relectantly. This is going to put him over the top.
Then he learns that the reason the businessman offered that much was because he is basicallyinsane. He refuses to accept hands or mouth, and uses physical force to get Arian into bed. Even then, despite Arian's protests, the client refuses to use either lubricant or a condom. The whole situation gets violent, the client enjoying Arian's struggle and the exchanging of blows with one man still inside the other. Beneath the pain, Arian is thinking is he could have fought him off two years ago, when he had not been so sick. He gives up, sobbing, and lets the asshole finish. The client relieved, Arian smashes him in the head with the candlestick from his nightstand and empties $1,200 from the man's wallet. Then, he rolls out from underneath and staggers to the door, wrapped in his bloody sheets. He's going to get his assistant to clean up this mess, then he's going to find the House Master and show him the money, and then...
He reaches the doorknob and he knows he won't survive. His chest seizes up. Whatever it is, syphilis, AIDs, gonorrhea - he doesn't know -, has caught up with him. His boyfriend, hanging in the bar as useless noblechildren are bound to do, had hear him screaming and is already at the door to catch Arian as it unlocks and opens. The bills drop to the floor as the tendons in Arian's hands stop working and, before he collapses, he tells his lover to immediately buy freedom for his attendant.
Cut for spoilers and high violence, homosexual, and just plain sexual, content. Actually, if I ever post the story, it's only going to be here, not anywhere else. Inspired by Memoirs of a Geisha, the book, not the movie.