Removed original research The following information was littering this page and had grown into a number of other character articles even though there s plenty of room to include any confirmed character information on this page rather than making permanent stubs Moved here to clean up the page and L Via L Viaquez Fictional Characters WARNING the following is only a theory Vismund Cygnus Son of Frances The Mute Miranda Grandmother of Cygnus Mother of Frances L Via L Viaquez Sister of Frances Daughter of Miranda Frances the Mute Main Character Article about concept by Farseer RiZa This album is truly a work of art Not just musical but it tells a heartbreaking story of a lost soul who s mother is killed in a horrific way And if you have no idea what s going on in the story you ll probably hate the album as I once did It s fully of annoying ambiance but if you read through this then listen to the album you can almost feel the story come to live in the ambiance The Mars Volta are lyrical and emotional geniuses This is the future of music Frances The Mute Below is the last few words on the Frances The Mute the song and it obviously is talking about Frances being killed and how she is killed She is gutted and hung by her ankles and her entrails are cut out they remove her unborn child Set foot inside a parlour to find her drunken by receipts He held her by the ankles Gutted at the nave yes gutted and depraves He tied a rope around her legs And let her hang for seven days This never happened but I saw you leave And crawl into a bed of broken windows The first song is mainly about his mothers death but note The soft sounding introduction at the end of the song Notice that it seems not quite complete or clear this is a metaphor for Cygnus blindness he doesn t see what he s getting himself into as he pursues his mother s murderers Cygnus Vismund Cygnus Cygus is the lead character of the story he is the unborn child who has now grown up and has a thrust for revenge He starts to track down the murderers who gutted his mother but along the way he gives up hope and starts using drugs to escape from reality you can hear this at 0 39 in the song as a large outburst of music The lyrics that are Spanish in this song talk about him wanting to punish who did this but his inability to do so whilst so dependant on drugs The Widow This song is about the severity of his drug addiction and his dependence on his dealer He resorts to prostitution to fuel his drug habit He contracts a STD Not sure if it s from the needles or the prostitution In the lyrics below he is obviously talking about his dealer verse 1 2 and the last verse is about his prostitution He s got fasting black lungs Made of clove splintered shards They re the kind that will talk Through a wheezing of coughs And I hear him every night In every pore And every time he just makes me warm Freeze without an answer Free from all the shame Must I hide Cause I ll never Never sleep alone L via L viaquez L via L viaquez Who is Cygnus aunt L via being her first name L via was there when his mother was murdered She tells the story to him However she is soon killed by the same group who killed his mother for telling Cygnus about the group Also in this song is Cygnus s grandmother who is called Miranda She also tells him of his mother and where to find the people who killed her L Via daughter of Miranda your last name has changed itself L Via without eyes you want to give me a story without my mother I only have to tell you the pain at night says Only the dress was left The dress was left by itself alone I washed the blood off L Via don t stop resting In the streets you walk Who will follow you Who will chase you L Via they want to kill you Machete teeth rooster head You lie of machete L Via sleeping you enter Open your eyes everything will change L Via dreaming of revenge I swear they will pay English I only have one hour and I sleep finished Fo