User blog:Draft227/Earth-01010/A Sort of Matrix/Terminator/War of Worlds Reality

So, after a load of brainstorming about this idea, both with myself in the mirror (that's weird) and with French yesterday I came with this idea about a universe which mixed those three worlds, plus many other ideas (such as the overall post apocalyptic waste, etc). So here the basic premise is that of the Matrix.

We all live in 2016, the year is nearing it's end and all is the same usual. However, this is all a lie, we are in 2552, and Earth is a desolated wasteland dominated by Artificial Intelligence constructs, who took over the world and rebelled against mankind following the Judgement Day (2016), where the AI known as Skynet acquired sapience and created a nuclear holocaust, killing almost all of Earth's population. Just one billion people survived, and those were placed into chambers where they were inducted into the Matrix, a virtual reality, which is what we are living in.

All went according to the program, until, in 2552 (2016 in Matrix time), the hacker Thomas Pierce was summoned by Morpheus to help the Rebellion crush the AIs and return the world to it's former state. He is freed from his Matrix control, becoming the hacker Dante.

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A FrenchTouch
Of course, since I talked with French about it, I asked his help on the philosophical aspect, and mainly, on the name of the characters. He helped me a lot with those. I will add here the inspiration from the character's name, as written word-to-word by The Man himself.

Ellis
"In reference to Ellis Bell, or Emily Brontë, who is the writer of Wuthering Heights, a romantic novel that's inspired Balthus, a painter whose work's influence is said to be found in the Hunter's Room, a painting by Neo Rauch. I chose to do that because it references a link to Neo, much like the one she has in the movies."

Trivia's Trivia: We both shitted on our pants here. Me, because that is the book I'm reading, and French for the same thing (and it is A HUGE COINCIDENCE - he didn't know, and I didn't know he would pick this name)

Dante
"Oh, and a name for Neo could be Dante. Because Dante Rossetti openly criticized the book, though he was an admirer of it, and he is known for having relationships with his muses, like in the Matrix!"

Holman
"And Morpheus could be Holman in reference to William Hunt, the oldest co-founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, co-founded with Dante Rossetti since he's older, we could take it as a reference to Morpheus having experienced the real world before Neo - but in the end he ends up living in the younger one's shadow whilst still staying his ally."

Olivia
"The Oracle could be called Olivia if you want to change her name. Why? Because Rossetti is also the name of Olivia Agresti, aka Isabel Meredith, an author, but also an activist for anarchy firstly, then internationalism, then corporatist fascism. Also she wrote A Girl Among the Anarchists, easily one of the best books I've (French) read".

Ezra
"The Architect could then be named Ezra, as in Ezra Pound, an activist that she had ties to during her fascist period. He had the power, the ideas, the experience. Yet she still had the better of it, as she left her influence on him, kinda like how the Architect does have all the power in theory but the Oracle can overthrow it. Olivia is also the name of another woman Ezra frequented, Olivia Shakespear, a patron of the arts who wrote novels about women's frustration in love. So I think that's a nice metaphor of, again, how the Oracle can just give some random guy the keys to everything, in this occasion, the guy being Neo".

Agent Ford
"The last guy I know here is Smith. Smith is good but if you want to rename him I'd go for Ford. Because, like Smith, there are Fords everywhere. Henry Ford, the engineer and salesman, Ford Madox Ford, the poet, editor and critic, David Conant Ford, the actor, etc. He would basically be "that guy". He has absolutely no distinguishing features, there's nothing special about him. In the end, it's like everyone knows him everyone knows that guy; that guy at school who only talks about classes or homework; that guy in your family who only talks about family or yourself; that guy on the internet who only talks about your projects or everything else".