#like Pavi from repo genetic opera

[phantomofthehoepera]

rare look into the version of repo that I have playing in my brain when I listen to the soundtrack and which is completely made up. did not draw nathan and rotti because I love myself too much. design notes under the cut in case you want a look into my twisted mind or whatever

I wanted to have some kind of colour thing going w the largo siblings so luigi is red pavi is like purpleish and amber is blue but you can't actually see that very well SAD. also she's holding a pipe for reasons related to the slightly altered plot of the version of repo that I have in my brain. graves is like. idk still looks unnatural and weird but not in a makeup way more he just looks like that. also big chest scar once again for made-up plot related reasons. I tried to give mag a more old diva vibe bc I just feel like that's fun I like an old diva. shilo just looks basically the same I wet with this look in particular bc I think it's the one that makes her look most childish and I feel like that works with how nathan is treating her if that makes sense? anyway sorry for having brain illnesses

[thegeneticopera]

hi, any idea if there's any way to see more of the myspaces than just the front page? and/or any confirmation about the whole pavi using the accent to cover the stutter thing, i've heard it was confirmed on the myspace but can't find it. thanks!!

no, thats not really how wayback links work. its just snapshots of the way the page look at the specific time a snapshot was taken. you can however flip through different dates.

and yes the pavi thing is canon, I cannot for the life of me remember where to find the confirmation for that because its one of those things that's just always been universally known.

we do have luigi's twitter and this is from a QnA that took place on myspace so perhaps this is the origin:

[ethers-moth]

Autistic people with the same special interests (the two of you) are about to have a field day.

So. Repo! The genetic opera. The magnus archives. The Archival Repo!. The Repo! Archives.

Anyway

Shiloh is developing corruption

- bug collector

- not a full blown avatar but is kind of in the Jonathan Sims position to be influenced by a LOT of them

- feeds on Nathan’s anxiety (she thinks it’s her illness, but it’s more likely just dread that he’s a failure of a parent. He is.) (I love him why is he like that)

- 17 has her say “I always longed for true affection, but you compared me to a corpse”, so when she leaves at the end of the movie that signifies her evolution into an avatar (or rejection of it?) bc she is left with nothing but her bugs. We don’t really know

Nathan is either Slaughter or Hunt

- I definitely am more inclined for hunt for Nathan

- the hunting at the beginning and later when he and Shiloh are on the phone he definitely could do it a lot faster and less dramatically

- he definitely enjoys it is my point

- “thankless job” is also a prime example of his feelings on this job and or its moral implications

- obviously he’s unstable too and that influences jt but he kind of reminds me of Daisy Tonner where he’s over the ethical issue mostly

Luigi is definitely slaughter

- there’s not a really a need for question man is violent and angry I feel like there’s no question he shanks and yells and gets half naked for fun.

- his treatment of the gentern bringing coffee is a great example, he had no reason to freak out other than. Being like that. And also bc he can

- that’s about it actually he feeds on subordinates fear of his unforgiving temper it’s pretty CUT and dry

Pavi is. Hmmm. Flesh??

- I’m stuck on this one, however I think flesh fits best

- his face stealing reminds me of specific serial killer behaviors (usually due to parental issues) that involve using others body parts, usually skin (Ed Gein with his skin suit of his mother I think??) though I think his environment is part of why the face thing is a little less wrong in canon. Idk he’s a fucking FREAK okay

- also we never see his actual face so I feel an argument that it’s tied with dysmorphia isn’t unreasonable

- Pavi feeds off of adoration (even if it’s fake) from the Genterns as well as the fear of having your face skinned

- seriously what is wrong with him

- with the Genterns his boisting of “ask a gentern who they prefer” and overtly unacceptable sexual behavior (“my brother and sister should fuck”) feel like someone who wants validation and attention even if it’s not positive attention

Amber is Flesh too

- I think for a different reason from Pavi, she doesn’t have “inferiority” Dysmorphia that I think he has

- instead, I think Ambers behaviors are “superiority” dysmorphia (both terms I made up)

- in Ambers case she’s changing her appearance to cope with a shifting sense of self and strive for perfection caused by her notoriety and never being told no

- Amber feeds off of being desired and seen and is one of the most famous people in the known canon universe, but her blatant jealousy of Mag really depicts her motivation for perfection

- she also feeds herself to graverobber for drugs (deleted song ‘try my new parts’) I don’t care how good their surgical techniques are nobody is healing their hole that fast without hurting themselves somehow

- basically if Pavi is MAG 90 Amber is MAGP 2

Graverobber is End or Buried

- the end is for obvious reasons with corpse robbing and his lack of fear or caution around death @brainvomitintheparkinglot ‘s idea

- for buried, he’s literally a crack dealer

- he basically feeds the entire cities drug supply (trapping them in addiction that is hard to escape)

- the web usually deals with addiction but I don’t think he has manipulative or controlling motivation, he just works the system against other people

(Rottis corporation supplying everyone is the web, graverobber is a chunk of dust caught in it)

- as shown with Amber, he wont supply without money either, hypothetically pushing his clients into further debt (esp if they have geneco loans) AND addiction

- graverobber feeds off of the metaphorical suffocating nature of debt and addiction as mentioned, and well as literal suffocation

- following the drug thread, I will be treating zydrate like Heroin, in the idea it can be a powder or liquid (even though we only see it as a liquid in canon)

- like most painkilling drugs it can be assumed zydrate can induce vomit and therefore asphyxiation OR in the case of a powder that is inhaled, generally that isn’t optimal for breathing

- also graverobber is probably covered in corpse dust and like. Anthrax

Rotti is web (again, thank you @brainvomitintheparkinglot)

- his company owns the entire city (corporatocrocy)

- he literally controls everyone, his money controls his fucked up kids, and the entire system is his

- the rift with Shiloh and Nathan was organized by Rotti, and I feel like Ambers problem with Mag is somehow his fault too

- as far as I know, Mags blindness is never canonically explained, Rotti could easily be responsible like he was with Marni

- Rotti feeds off the obvious, control over everyone. He also is disappointed his kids found ways around his authority, and yet they’re STILL in his web (addicts and also fucked in the head bc of the circumstances he raised them in)

Mag is. The eye

- yeah. This one is the most direct

- I have a headcanon that she can see through cameras (how she found Shiloh) and how she seems to know all about what is happening in Shilohs life

- mag is both a victim and an avatar of the eye, she sees everything going on around her with the people she loves, but all eyes are always on her, trapping her where she is.

- literally had to do a Melanie king except she didn’t escape, the web and the eye often work in opposition in TMA while also being quite similar, she and Rotti much the same.

- “take these eyes I’d rather be blind” is an inadvertent argument with Rottis control of the web, he kills her for it

Lastly, Marni is either End or Desolation

- she’s not actually present in the film

- End is bc she died and yet is still so so important to the plot

-desolation is bc her actions are kind of why everyone in the story has issues

I could make a whole separate post on Rottis fucked up crack zydrate addicted kids

[skyesu]

REPO! Starkid Casting

THIS ISNT REAL it’s just an idea that I really like that I’ve been thinking of for maybe a month now.

Here are my prospective casting choices for a Starkid cast of REPO! The Genetic Opera, in no particular order.

Nathan Wallace - Corey Dorris, Jon Matteson

Shilo Wallace - Lauren Lopez, Kendall Nicole Yasche, Bryce Charles, Rachel Soglin

Marni Wallace - Jaime Lynn Beatty

Rotti Largo - Dylan Saunders, Corey Dorris

Amber Sweet - Mariah Casillas

Blind Mag - Kim Whalen, Jaime Lynn Beatty

Graverobber - Jeff Blim

Pavi Largo - Joey Richter, Brian Holden

Luigi Largo - Jon Matteson, Will Branner

Bandleader - Curt Mega

There’s some overlap because a lot of Starkid are really versatile and this casting could be shuffled a number of ways. The roles that I’m very solid in are Mag and Graverobber though.

I’m curious to hear thoughts from anybody who knows what the ever fuck I’m talking about, and tell me your opinions/casting choices in the notes :)

[odetokeons]

I just KNOW that all of the Papas enjoy musical theatre, so here's my headcanon about each Papa's favourite musical

Primo ⸸ Little Shop of Horrors

A classic

Funky tunes, spooky vibes and alien sentient carnivorous plants taking over the world, OF COURSE peepaw would love it

He definitely has at least one venus flytrap in his garden that he named after Audrey II

Secondo ⸸ The Phantom of the Opera

He may not seem like it, but he's a romantic at heart

In Papaganda, Special Ghoul said “Papa is from the same bloodline as Leonard Cohen and Dracula, Phantom of the Opera, all the Vincent Price's and Don Corleone's.”, so it's only fitting that POTO would be his favourite musical

The Phantom being a misunderstood, scary-looking, lonely, 'miserable old wounded bitter man' who just craves companionship and understanding? Sounds familiar.

Terzo ⸸ The Rocky Horror Picture Show

It's spooky and queer and horny just like him <3

Terzo (especially in the From the Pinnacle to the Pit and Square Hammer mvs) gives me the vibes of someone who would be into both witchcraft AND science alike, I can just picture him in his secret lab doing his silly little mischievous rituals and experiments and his gayass would DEFINITELY try to 'make a man to relieve his tension' (that's how he ended up summoning Omega)

I bet he made Omega dress up as Rocky (while he dressed up as Frank-n-Furter, of course) at least once, perhaps on Halloween (hc inspired by these two gorgeous fanarts)

Copia ⸸ Repo! The Genetic Opera

"Hope this doesn't awaken anything in me" [realizes he's bisexual AND trans right after watching this movie] I'm definitely not projecting WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THAT (also he took one look at Pavi Largo and said 'I WANT HIS GENDER'. No, I will not elaborate further.)

He has daddy issues, OF COURSE he would eat this up (and be super invested in Shilo's storyline in particular) again I am NOT projecting

A (shitty) father deeming none of his three children worthy of carrying on his legacy and instead leaving everything to an outsider (who's the child of the woman the aforementioned father loved in his youth)? Sounds familiar.

[eddies-hid3out]

Thinking 'bout modern Eddie using some really good prosthetic make-up to dress up as Pavi from Repo! The Genetic Opera for a Halloween party. He's utterly convinced the fake scars on his face and the strange uncanny valley mask will scare the shit out of you: his shy, new, (kind of) girlfriend who he loves to terrorize. Jokes on him though because you're really into it. You end up riding him on the floor of one of the bathrooms and he can't stop grinning like an idiot at the discovery that you are a lot less innocent than he thought.

[omegalomania]

reference key for those who dont know who the FUCK these people are:

keltie colleen: one of ryan ross's ex-girlfriends who famously wrote a whole book about him that hey chris published

seo taiji: member of seo taiji and boys, a first generation kpop group that was big in the 90s

doja cat: i mean you probably know who doja cat is. musician who got big in the late 2010s and early 2020s

jonathan groff: broadway actor, most laypersons know him as king george iii from hamilton or the guy who voiced kristoff in frozen

alex deleon is the frontman for the cab, z berg is a musician who works with ryan ross. you probably know who jared leto is.

pavi largo: fictional character from the 2008 horror rock goth opera film repo! the genetic opera, a self-obsessed socialite and in-universe sex symbol who likes to wear women's faces as skin-masks

willow rosenberg: fictional character from the 90s/00s cult television show buffy the vampire slayer, also a lesbian

rodney mckay: fictional character from the 2000s sg-1 spinoff stargate atlantis, insufferable genius

ben platt: broadway actor, most people will know him as the titular evan hansen in dear evan hansen

[addicted-to-his-knife]

WHAT THE REPO! CHARACTERS WOULD LISTEN TO.

Do you find yourself bored, looking for new music? Do you happen to like Repo! The Genetic Opera and have you ever wondered what music the characters would listen to? Here are my headcanons! I'm submitting them directly to "addicted-to-his-knife" since my blog doesn't have much reach, I have like 30 followers and I also think this blog is great ♡ Songs are taken from my own gothic rock-metal/darkwave/goth playlist.

Shilo Wallace: I have a feeling Shilo would really like Siouxsie And The Banshees, I can see some of her favorite songs being Sick Child, Happy House, The Lonely One, Spellbound or Cities in Dust. I think she would also like The Birthday Massacre, particularly Looking Glass, In The Dark, Shallow Grave, The Sky Will Turn and All Of Nothing. Shilo would also find solace in the lyrics of So Alone by Anna Blue, Illusion by VNV Nation, Isolated by Chiasm, Coma Baby by Nicole Dollanganger and Walking On Air by Kerli. After all the isolation and grief she's gone through, Shilo needs music that makes her feel understood.

Nathan Wallace: Nathan, as we all know, is going through it. I can see him listening to some Joy Division songs with lyrics he would find comforting, such as Disorder, Shadowplay, Dead Souls, New Dawn Fades and I Remember Nothing. Nathan would also enjoy some Depeche Mode songs, for example Enjoy The Silence, Ghosts Again, It's Called A Heart and Strangelove. Cuts You Up by Peter Murphy is another song he really likes. He will listen to Bauhaus as well, classics like Dark Entries, She's In Parties or Bela Lugosi's Dead. Anesthesia by Type O Negative or Spectre by Christian Death are songs Nathan would like as well. Overall, he needs music that helps him deal with the pain within his soul, torn between being a protective father who wants to keep his daughter safe at all costs, even if that means lying to her, and a bloodthirsty, macabre and violent Repo Man.

Graverobber: Graverobber listens to Rob Zombie, and he actually tries to imitate his style. Songs like Dragula, Superbeast, Feel So Numb, The Life And Times Of A Teenage Rock God and Dead City Radio And The New Gods Of Supertown are some of the tunes he listens to while he's partying with the Zydrate addicts. Graves also enjoys Light Asylum, with songs like Shallow Tears, Dark Allies or Knights And Weekends. Sometimes he listens to Absence by Ludovico Technique, Dig Up Her Bones by Misfits or The Wanderer by The Cemetary Girlz. Graves finds that music helps him relax as well as petting any rats he comes across. Other songs he also vibes to are Rats by Ghost, Drunk On Shadows by HIM, Entombed by Deftones and Grave Robber At Large by Creature Feature.

Blind Mag: When she's not blessing others with her beautiful voice, Mag listens to Within Temptation, songs like Forgiven, Stand My Ground, Angels, Somewhere, Our Farewell and The Swan Song are her favorites. She sings along to Phobic Sea by Autumn's Grey Solace, Procession by SRSQ and Bless The Child by Nightwish. Mag also enjoys Lebanon Hanover, particularly Midnight Creature, Saddest Smile, Gallowdance, Hollow Sky and The Last Thing. Mag is a sad soul, a caged bird who can't escape so she just sings. Music helps her feel a little more free.

Amber Sweet: Amber is definitely into Diva Destruction, she loves their aesthetic and their sound, especially their songs Tempter, Snake, Valley Of Scars, Cruelty Games, Enslaved, Screaming Inside and The Broken Ones. Hole is another band she likes, with songs such as Reasons To Be Beautiful, Doll Parts, Violet or Nobody's Daughter. Amber also enjoys The Raveonettes, their songs Love In A Trashcan, Kill or I Wanna Be Adored (a cover) are just a few examples. She likes the song Gothic Girl by The 69 Eyes as well. Amber is very girly but also very gothic and that tends to reflect in her music taste.

Pavi Largo: Pavi listens to Male Tears, with some of his favorite songs being Hit Me, Model Citizen, Trauma Club, Good In The Dark and Embrace Death. He also likes Drab Majesty, with songs such as Kissing The Ground, Forget Tomorrow, Too Soon To Tell or 39 By Design. Pavi likes The Cramps too, especially The Way I Walk, Human Fly and Goo Goo Muck. I also feel like Pavi would vibe to Barbie Girl by Aqua, his bisexual ass loves both Kens and Barbies. He also likes Lullaby by The Cure, Beast Of Blood by Malice Mizer and Dressed For Death by Fear Cult. And if it's possible in the Repo! universe he would definitely listen to Skinny Puppy as well lol.

Luigi Largo: Luigi has severe anger issues and I think his music taste would reflect that. Luigi listens to Korn, songs like Falling Away From Me, Coming Undone, Freak On A Leash or Make Me Bad. Luigi likes She Wants Revenge as well, especially their songs Tear You Apart, Written In Blood, Take The World and Red Flags And Long Nights. And he probably likes some Shayfer James songs too, like Villainous Thing, For The Departed and Where We Belong. He would also enjoy In The Dark You Die by Dark, Watch You Bleed by Haunt Me, and Samael by Ankst.

Rotti Largo: Rotti has lived a very privileged life, but he's dying and he thinks none of his kids are worthy heirs so I can see him turning to music for comfort. A song I think he would like is (Don't Fear) The Reaper by Blue Oyster Cult, since it would help him feel less afraid of death. As CEO of GeneCo, he probably has contacts and associates in other countries, since GeneCo would probably exist on a global scale, so I can see Rotti enjoying music in other languages as well. She Past Away would be another band he'd listen to, with songs like Ruh, Monoton, Kasvetli Kutlama or Ritüel, as well as liking Molchat Doma, for example their songs Kletka or Sudno. He would also like Crow Baby by The March Violets and Dead, Cold, Autumn by This Cold Night.

Thank you all for reading, feel free to make similar posts if you'd like, add more songs in the comments, or make playlists, if you enjoyed it maybe I'll submit some more in the future! Have a great night/day wherever you are ♡ Stay kind and spooky! The best season of the year is around the corner.

[creamys-requests]

well promote it but first we gotta request >:3 i gotta swoop in before there’s a line /lh

could we have a Pavi alter level 4 that’s just the most problematic lil guy ever 🥺

thank you in advance if you can!

FANTASTIC FIRST REQUEST YAYYY!!

heres your awful little guy under the cut!!

name: pavi, petra, ablation, incision, graft, specchio, altezzoso age: 32 pronouns: - he/him - they/them - it/its - self/selfs - hu/hume/humeself - sik/siks - em/eir/emself - 🔪/🔪self gender id: - genderqueer - fleshthing - visceralexic - seruadoric sexuality: - bisexual/biromantic - polyamorous species/race: - white, human source: - paviche from repo! the genetic opera roles: - avenger - confuser - exposurist transIDs: ampusoma, transitalian, transintersex, transkidnapper, transstalker, permaED, paraphiles: necrophile, autonecrophile, sadist, biastophilia, consang, emetophilia, amokoscisia, tomophilia

likes: surgery/surgical terms, plastic surgery especially, gore, guro, repo (his source), rain, the middle of the night, eating meat, cooking, sleeping dislikes: showing his face (prefers to wear a mask of some kind), being insulted, feeling dirty (needs to shower often) hobbies: watching horror movies, cooking (as mentioned above) vocal notes/voice claim: same as source - stutters when he doesnt put on the italian accent personality traits: unstable, selfish, self-serving, obsessed with himself, egotistical, haughty, materialistic face claim / picrew / icons:

front triggers: meat, cooking, songs from source, rain aesthetic: grunge, gorecore fashion style: business goth, grunge sign offs: - 🫀🍴

kinlist: - buffalo bill (the silence of the lambs) - discord (mlp:fim) - hexxus (fern gully) typing quirk: nothing too particular, but he tends to speak With proper syntax but limited punctuation save for the occasional overexcited exclamation point !!!!!! Of which there is usually a space !!

[bracketsoffear]

Odo (Star Trek: Deep Space 9) "Odo is a kind of shapeshifting alien known as a Changeling. Although he spends a majority of the show appearing as a humanoid, in reality a Changeling’s natural state is liquid, not solid. His uncanny appearance comes from his inability to replicate humanoid (in this case Bajoran) facial features. In his pursuit of justice, Odo often shapeshifts into inanimate objects in order to spy on people and gather information, leading people aware of this to constantly be wary of everything around them when doing something wrong on the station — anything could be Odo. Notably Quark, who is the most common victim of this.

During the time that Changelings were the primary antagonists in the show, it was revealed that they had infiltrated many worlds in the Alpha Quadrant, taking on the identities of many high ranking people. I have a whole idea about how the whole ‘anyone could be a Changeling’ actually parallels Odo’s previously mentioned method of subterfuge but I won’t go into it. Although this did cause suspicion and fear towards Odo, it also made me consider that the Dominion (the empire lead by the Changelings) or just the Female Changeling would be better to submit here? Other Changelings are a lot better at impersonating people than Odo is because of his trouble with facial features. But I like Odo so. Anyway, text wall over sorry for rambling!"

Pavi Largo (Repo! The Genetic Opera) "He peels and steals women’s faces while getting ludicrously good head, speaks in a silly accent because his actual body is so deformed and because he’s just a little guy, and is awash with insecurity."

[phantomofthehoepera]

I love your 2023 Repo the Genetic Opera art... Please... Please I'm desperate I need to know the lore... Please...

HAIIII SORRY I'M SO LATE TO THIS idk if you meant any lore in specific so I'm gonna take this as an opportunity to just dump all the shit I made up in my brain peace and love <333333

so like the main stuff I made up I guess would be the repomums which again was a cocreation with my darling precious @slydiddledeedee the lore is very basically they were all in an opera troupe with mag and marni and were cursed by god to die if they ever slept with an italian man. they also all left rotti for nathan, rotti kind of picked them off one by one like he'd marry one of them she'd leave him and die and he'd get a new one. no one present recognised the pattern of this. they're all colour coordinated which is a thing I like to do for the largo kids when I draw them so I guess it's genetic idk. important fun fact is that luigi personally killed his mum and was then lobotomised just a little bit which is why I keep drawing him with that big ole head scar.

other thing I made up was lore for the random zydrate lady as part of a larger effort to make shit up abt graverobber. most of my ideas for her are vague also not at all based in the movie I need to stress this is basically just an oc that I borrowed a character from the movie for. n ee way the story kind of goes she and graves start off in the drug dealer/drug addict business at the same time and they're roomies sometimes when they can afford it. she'll usually be more involved in whatever post movie ideas are floating around in my head at the moment bc I do feel like it's important to get a perspective that more like. on the ground if that makes sense?? bc like no one in the movie is super affected by the repossession system as much as I would like to see so she's my hero she's my class struggle queen.

speaking of graves I have so many ideas abt him in my head like the way I cope with the existence of scary scary evil wicked terrence is I just completely redesign him like moreseo than any of the other characters. to ME he's a freaky evil little dyke he probably was on whatever supercharged t repoworld has for a week or two but couldn't afford any more than that but like I said the t was supercharged so he can still sing his parts peace and love. I like to personally give him an actual concrete geneco debt bc like obv he has to have one but I would like it spelled out please just to have gramber relationship drama. think it would be funny if his heart gave out on him and he has a synthetic one, once again this is all for gramber relationship drama. in my brain he has been kind of fixated on her ever since he was a kid (see this piece). I also do like to give him and shilo kind of a sibling thing going on for literally no other reason than I like sibling dynamics I think they're delightful. I think post movie shilo should start an awful band and he should peddle her cds to his customers.

I have sooo many thoughts on the largo siblings like I said luigi straight up murdered his mother probably when he was very young. the way I picture it he's always been pretty unstable and wouldn't have been made as much of a public figure, unlike amber and pavi who I picture as having been like legit child stars at some point. like idk the way I picture it rotti would almost publicise them more after having to keep luigi that much out of the public eye since he's yknow. insane. I like to lean more into the opera vibes and give them little ballet shoes and shit like for some reason I always picture them as dancers. n ee way I think growing out of child stardom hit amber the hardest, not that would have coped super well either. pavi at least in the movie seems to have kind of a place at the table when they talk abt who's to inherent and like we usually see him at rotti's side while amber is usually out on her own and like idk it's kind of impossible not to read it as gendered to ME. also I always need to stress I don't make their backstories sad to make them sympathetic I do it bc I'm thoroughly successionpilled thank you and goodnight.

don't have that many thoughts on shilo and nathan, esp on nathan I moreso just have critiques of how he's written like icl I find the jekyll and hyde routine sooo uninspired. like idk I just think he becomes that much more horrifying of a character if you picture him as more calculated in his violence. I also just think it's kind of lame how little talk there seems to be abt the fact that he is like severely abusive to shilo like it's such a huge part of the movie I feel like it maybe becomes a bit too obvious to talk abt if that makes sense? like it's such a fact of life but whenever I start thinking about it for too long I want to scream like beyond the poison thing which like would be enough on its own the way he gaslights and hits her is literally scary and I just feel like a lot of that horror gets lost when he's depicted as like. sometimes not being in full control like it sort of takes away his agency and in turn a lot of the impact of his character, at least to me.

as for shilo like I said not many thoughts I'm mostly just interested in where she'd go post movie like I said I want her to start a shitty band I feel like that could heal her. also want her to lose the wig like idk could be symbolic maybe 👍

[thegeneticopera]

after seeing many misconceptions on the ages of the characters and also the general lack of knowledge on relevant key events, I thought I'd create a timeline!

A comprehensive breakdown of important dates in Repo! The Genetic Opera:

1993: Rotti Largo was born (July 14th)

2006: On April 5th, the first ever death for NOS (Neuro-Overstimulation Syndrome) was recorded. GeneCo was then founded later that month in Milan, Italy by Giuseppe Largo and Dr. Michael Whatley who eventually discovered a treatment using an experimental drug called Zydrate and genetic manipulation.

2011: Marni was born (No date)

2016: Nathan was born (No date)

2017: Blind Mag was born (July 5th)

2019: Luigi Largo was born (November 20th)

2024: Pavi Largo was born (September 29th)

2025: By this point, The Genetic Opera, an interactive TV show, was sponsored by GeneCo to promote designer organs and keep the public "status-conscious" in order to continue boosting profits.

2032: Carmela Largo/Amber Sweet was born (August 23rd)

2035: Graverobber was born (No date)

2036: Marni brings Mag to meet Rotti Largo

2039: Shilo Wallace was born (August 27th), Marni Wallace dies, Nathan becomes a repo man

2040: Mag's eye transplants (March 21st)

2048: Blind Mag's Corpus Crusade tour

2053: Tao of Mag, a charity concert event held for blindness

2056: Rotti signs his last will and testament, declaring Shilo as the sole heir of his estate (August 7th). The events of the film take place on November 7th - Nathan, Rotti, and Mag die. Shilo presumably goes missing. Amber takes over GeneCo at a later unspecified date.

Some common misconceptions cleared up by the timeline:

Mag did not receive her eyes at 19, the date listed on her repossession chart says otherwise

Marni and Mag have a relatively large age gap. At the time in which Marni brought Mag to meet Rotti, she was already 25, and Mag was only 19. I personally like to think that Marni was a singing mentor of some sort (since in Chase the Morning we see that Mag has a memory of Marni singing), and perhaps worked with disabled people and this is how they met!

The age difference between Shilo and Graves is only 4 years!

Mag and Luigi only have a two year age difference. Her being under GeneCo's thumb since she was 19 and Luigi was 17 is probably why they have a relationship.

On that topic, Nathan is only 3 years older than Luigi, there's no way him or Mag could have "baby sat" the Largos as children if they're all approximately the same age (excluding Amber, but considering Nathan had his own daughter to raise and was a repoman and Mag was a world class opera singer I still doubt that would be the case)

This one doesn't have a specific date, but I felt it should be added regardless: Pavi's face disfigurement seemingly happened very recent to events of Repo! We see several times within the film that there are posters and billboards of him with his original face, even in the pictures Rotti has he didn't have the scarring yet. The posters say that GeneCo offering face replacements will be happening in 2057. Pavi was the one in charge of that, and he was stealing faces prior to his scarring (as seen in the pictures). We also know from several sources, including Luigi himself, that Pavi's face happened because of a botched surgery. It's safe to assume this was because of the new face replacement campaign that was being offered, and it was within the last year or two before the events in the film.

[jarhara]

Explaining the "Genetic Opera"

Yes, I’m not kidding, I am trying to over-analyze Repo!

Here goes my little ramble

I feel like Repo! Is the sort of movie where it’s “style over substance” don’t get me wrong, I love it’s style and how “In your face” it is with it. But this movie does have substance, it just got lost in all the style and I don’t even think that’s because we watching it are distracted by the style, it’s because the production team had so much fun being “in your face”.

So what is Repo! about, aside from a dystopian world where you can finance any surgery but also live in constant fear of organ repossession?

I think it’s mainly about inheritance, physical things like the GeneCo company, genetic things like the blood decease but also the sort of things that make you the person you are despite how you change your look.

The line of “make your genetics your bitch” at the end of “we started this opera shit” might as well be GeneCo’s official tag line, because aside from the replacement organs they provide, this is their main market. Everyone can look how they want to look without having to be defined by your genetics dictating a certain level of family resemblance. This leads into Amber’s addiction to plastic surgery. While she seems to be proud of begin the GeneCo heiress, she doesn’t seem particularly proud to be Rotti’s daughter. She changes her name and face but she still wants his money and power. Pavi’s stolen faces might be something similar, always hiding his own face. Rotti sings about how his children aren’t worthy of his legacy and how they denounce him but he doesn’t see that genetics go deeper then looks. His children are horrible people, because he’s a horrible person too. Rotti wants Shilo to be his heir because he only sees Marni in her, someone he loved more then he ever loved any of his own children (and perhaps their mother too)

Shilo starts off the movie thinking all she’ll ever be was defined by her mother and her father perpetuates this with his “I let your mother die, I can’t let you die too” approach. But she’s so focused on the diseases she supposedly inherited from her mother, she doesn’t realize until the end of the movie that she also inherited something that again goes beyond the things GeneCo can change, her father’s strength and good heart. It’s true that Nathan did things just as horrible as the Largo’s but he did so out of love which seems to be a gene almost completely lacking in the Largo family tree.

“Genetic Emancipation” seems a little contradicting considering all this but my interpretation is that you might have certain inclinations based on what you inherited from your parents, but you can still decide not to act on it. Shilo choose to embrace her father’s love but not his violence. I also think showing the Largo siblings finally working together to try and lead GeneCo that they are at least trying to embrace the good sides Rotti had and inherited to them.

Given how extremely late I am to this party, I might just be spewing hot air here.. . Repo! Is a lot of things and “clever” and “profound” are not that high up on the list ^^° some parts of the inheritance motif are pretty ham-fisted and others seem to be drowned out, so I just wanted to condense all my thoughts about the “moral of the genetic opera“ in one place.

[spyroforlife]

YouTube: pst, you. Hey you. You wanna watch a fucked up scene from Repo! The Genetic Opera in mid quality that someone uploaded like 13 years ago??

me: ..you know what. Sure. Don't have anything better going on

truly this scene has it all. Language. Casual incest. Gratuitous sexuality. A dark, over-the-top, and catchy song. Organs being carted around. an unfortunate nurse getting stabbed in the gut and then bleeding to death in the background with no one else giving a shit for the latter half of the video

Pavi is there

I love this movie

[sewers-headmates]

repo anon- would love a fictive or another adjacent in the universe

repo time!!!! yay yay yay! this was actually so hard to just pick one! i decided to go with “sweet” little Shilo. I do have matching alters who go with her if interested. mainly Luigi, Pavi, and Amber. I could make a second post with those 3 if interested!/nf

as always feel free to change whatever you want!

Name: Shilo Wallace

Age: 17, perma17

Gender: female

Pronouns: she/her

Sexuality: bisexual, arospec

Species: human

Source: repo! the genetic opera

Roles: i don’t know if this role has an actual name but like a protector/gatekeeper who handles keeping alters away from others…so i think actually just protector, gatekeeper

cisIDs: black hair, no empathy, gothic, terminally ill, depression, BPD

transIDs: permaSick, transDisabled, transHarmful, transInnocentHarmful, transCuteHarmful, transAbuser, transOwner, transRich, transCEO, transYandere, permaTeen

Paraphiles: AAM, sadist, consang, erotophonophilia, biastophilia, timophilia, emapihtophilia

Other Labels: polyamorous

Appearance:

i hope you like her! the whole vibe and basically au i based her off of is if Shilo ended up getting GeneCo. So a lot more rich and sadistic! i hope you enjoy her!

-mod richie (made with help from Shilo and Pavi)

[mxalmighty]

Repo!Fell

so this is a huge info dump for an idea that entered my brain and refused to leave thereafter and now i am enslaved to bring it to life, if only via this babble

Repo! The Genetic Opera / Fell-Adjacent Undertale AU Full breakdown below the cut, this will be a huge post but I might use it as a Masterpost if this thing ever takes off with more than one or two posts. Tag will be Repo!Fell because that works I guess.

CONTENT WARNING: Due to the generally dark nature of Repo’s lore, this thing will get pretty gritty. Specifically, there are mentions of; Drug Addiction, Drug Use, Plastic Surgery Addiction, Extortion, Main Character Death, General Death and Suffering, Drug Epidemic Insinuations, Body Horror

ROLES AND HOW THEY DIFFER FROM THE TWO RESPECTIVE CANON(S):

Mettaton

as

Amber Sweet

 - addicted to dt/upgrades

Toriel

as

Blind Mag

- blackmailed by asgore to be queen

Muffet

as

GraveRobber

- dt is a drug here, muffet runs a cover

Undyne

as

Luigi Largo

- i’m so sorry | violent fuck

Papyrus

as

Marni Wallace

- died protecting frisk post-adoption

Sans

as

Nathan Wallace

- hand of the king (see; asgore)

Alphys

as

Pavi Largo

- god seriously i’m so fucking sorry

Asgore

as

Rotti Largo

- chooses frisk bc its hilarious, hates sans for being judge, forced sans to be hand to make interesting use of the related magic, had hoped to use papyrus for this until the fucker went and died on him

Frisk

as

Shilo Wallace

- adopted by pap (and sans, under duress)

Changes from the canon otherwise;

Sans and Pap are playing a married couple, according to the REPO canon- this is retconned bc this is not that kind of AU. The lost relationship here is the deep-rooted brother bond that we see in every instance of Undertale AUs. 

Sans and Frisk have an uncle/niece relationship, with Pap having played the role of 'adoptive father' for Frisk previously. 

Frisk is about 10 when they arrive and is the REPO-canon 17 during the events of the 'opera'.

The same can be said for the Asgore as Rotti and Pap as Marni dynamic- the 'unrequainted obsessive love' situation is replaced with Asgore having wanted Papyrus as his Hand. Frustrated by Sans keeping Pap from agreeing to this role and getting in the way, this obsession only becomes worse when Pap dies and leaves him with no probable hand.

Except, well, there's the judge (good doctor?) Sans (Nate) and gee, his powers sure do come in handy in this fell-adjacent version of the underground! He puts that to good use via blackmail- Sans thinks he's at fault for the circumstances of Pap's death and while it's actually Asgore behind it, Asgore uses this belief to control Sans.

Frisk is in a stalled pacifist run- halted by Pap's death but seemingly unaware of resets. This is their very first run and so far they haven't died. Flowey doesn't leave the ruins with Frisk in this fell-adjacent setting, one of the biggest differences from the original fell canon. Forced to live most of her life inside the skelehouse after Pap's death because Sans is tired and stressed enough as it is with his double life and trying to keep his promise to Pap that he'd protect this kid.

Papyrus is the one who takes a liking to Frisk and literally adopts the kid when they wander out of the ruins, a mess and half dead. He literally dies protecting them and forces Sans to make the fateful promise to protect the kid and keep them alive. Dies off screen, Asgore 'finds' him and claims it to be Sans' fault to divert when Sans finds him with the evidence. "You should have been there to protect him! You're his older brother, where were you!?"

Toriel is blackmailed / extorted into being an active Queen and Asgore's wife against her will and this removes her tutorial role entirely- she is instead fully immersed in the role of Mag. She sees her dead child Chara in Frisk instead of having any true relation to the brothers. She was once friends with Sans through the door as per the usual canon, but her returning to being Queen after some time being the crazy ruins lady ended that friendship prematurely.

Asgore as Rotti is rich with souls and level. He is dying, as per the REPO canon, and doesn't want to leave his wealth and kingdom to any of his various subleaders- Undyne, who leads the Guard/Military as the General; Alphys, royal scientist, as Pavi (who craves praise vicariously through her tech, especially Mettaton) and Mettaton, whose inhabitance of the robotic body is only managed with unhealthy and destructive DT Dose / Upgrade cycles, leading to further and further instability but dependence- as per Amber Sweet.