Cynetia/James Hillarity

James Hillarity was an author from Rift City, Duoria, Cynetia.Author suggested by Hiuyju (jeez, he's really making my countries for me). "The Murder of the Innocent", "My Loved Ones," "The River Staton", and "Welcome" were suggested by him.
==History==
===Personal Life===
James Hillarity was born on December 15th, 1909 in Rift City, Duoria, Cynetia. He died from a drug overdose while visiting Janson, Smurifa on March 8th, 1952.
===Works===
James Hillarity's works were known to be rather abstract and chaotic, made to drive the reader to insanity. Some call it "so bad, it's good."
==== The River Staton (1928) ====
"The River Staton" (1928) was the first book published by James Hilarity. 
===== Plot =====
The book could be more accurately described as an album of sorts, as instead of chapters, the book contains songs and poems of different length, each telling an event going on in the story. The story itself is about Jeremy Hillingsford, a 73-year-old man who spends his days around the River Staton, located in the fictional country of Aysum. One day, Jeremy gets robbed by two thieves, but he catches them, forcing them to come with him on an adventure - finding the unknown source of River Staton. As they travel down the river, the thieves attempt multiple times to escape, failing every time while causing chaos in the surrounding area. In the last chapter, Jeremy and the thieves are attacked by a group of native tribesmen, with the thieves betraying and killing Jeremy, handing him and all his valuables over to the natives. After this, the thieves make it to the source of River Station, naming it Lake Staton, but Jeremy, looking down from heaven, in an act of revenge, breaks their boat in half, making the thieves drown. 
===== Reception =====
The book did not gain much popularity, mostly due to it being James Hilarity's first and least abstract work.
==== Jack (1929) ====
===== Plot =====
The book is a picture book, following a figure drawn in black pen by Comeo Humusa. The writing at the top of each page only reads "Jack", sometimes with different punctuation, sometimes bold. The black pen figure slowly started walking, getting more tired each page, portrayed as falling to the ground. It grows fearful as "JACK!" is written above him and starts to panic, running from nothing. It hides in several bushes and struggles tons but arrives back home, only to have a knife thrown into him and he falls to the ground.
===== Reception =====
The book didn't sell many copies, but those who read it had mixed opinions. Many loved the abstract nature of the story James proposed and the dark figure drawn by Comeo, but others complained that its nature as a picture book was "deceptive" to children.
==== Doors (1931) ====
===== Plot =====
==== The Dream (1935) ====
"The Dream" (1935) is a short story published by James Hillarity.
===== Plot =====
The Dream follows a character referred to as "a figure subjective to different human eyes", with no specified gender, only referred to as "it". The first dream features a muddy town and a colorful building, supposed to be a university, on a hill. The sky is dark but the mind says it's daytime, but later in the dream, it's confirmed not to be morning, afternoon, or evening either. There are mysterious elements and descriptions, particularly the heavy use of "blur", and aspects that don't make sense in the real world, such as the periodic table of elements having elements known as "Dysphorium" and "Kindport". There's a front desk in the main building of the university, and a red and black tunnel leading into darkness. The figure follows this tunnel and is met by another figure that looked like it who was holding a knife. 
The figure wakes up to escape death and finds its bedroom had been separated from its house, and was now on top of a hill overlooking a colorful town and a dirty building on a hill, supposed to be a retirement home. Much like the first dream, the sky was dark but it was day, however it wasn't morning, afternoon, or evening. The sky suddenly turns bright white in the blink of an eye. The figure goes into the retirement home, greeted by a cheery woman who gives it a room number. The book addresses that it's baffling the retirement home is treated more as a motel than a retirement home. The figure's bedroom is horribly dirty, and there's a box-shaped wastebin leading into a dark shaft the figure decides to go down. The figure is then greeted by the same cheery woman holding a knife, and again wakes up to escape death. 
The figure looks around its house and its bedroom is not disconnected, the house is normal, but the sky is still dark in daytime, and it's confirmed to not be morning, afternoon, or evening. The figure drives to a log cabin on a rural forest road and tries to go to bed. As it closed its eyes, it was instantly met by a vision of the figure in the first dream holding a knife. Once its eyes closed again, it was met with a vision of the cheery woman in the second dream holding a knife. After opening them again, the story ends on a cliffhanger where the figure is met by a shadowy figure with a knife. The figure tries to wake up as that had worked in the other near-death situations, but it failed.
==== Fading Colors (1940) ====
===== Plot =====
The story covers Jack Kreson, living in the rather large city of Vordere. He's a creative man pursuing a music career, and lives in a rather colorful house. One day when he woke up, all the color was sucked away, except the red in blood. All of a sudden, the walls started turning into that red, and the rooms darkened. He escaped as his bedroom was collapsing onto him, hiding out in his house before getting out into the open roads on Eastern Vordere, noticing the world around him was having the color sucked out. At least he was safe, until blood red and black covered the apartments too, also seeking James. He stumbled over the road, dead bodies around him, the world triangulated for a brief second, and now it was ceding to space. The world was being taken up while it was taking everything else. Jack was being taken up. Jack saw his wonderful city, the metropolis, the colorful culture, gone. Everyone was gone, even the dead bodies and everything. But as the Earth sucked him in, and space sucked him out, he hit a stalemate, before both eventually caught up with him and he was sucked out by darkness. The book reveals in the end that the entire time, Jack Kreson had been dead the entire length of the book, and he was in a misleading afterlife for punishment. A seemingly perfect afterlife that was overtaken, made to give Jack Kreson true fear and shock, even though he had done no terrible actions in the past.
===== Further Lore =====
Vordere was revealed to be a sparse metropolis of over 22 million people. James Hillarity often revealed he loved the number "22". He then revealed that Jack Kreson was born on December 1st, 1999 (in the far future at the time) in Grand Rivers, and died of suicide off a 1,000-meter skyscraper in Gillingham on April 24th, 2033. Many readers took this message as symbolism for those who believe suicide is immoral in religion, but Hillarity stated that it meant nothing but a "darkened individual".
===== Reception =====
====Welcome (1942)====
===== Plot =====
The book is centered on the main character, a man with no name. He goes to random houses and sees people going inside. Soon he begins to experience hallucinations and see blood covered bodies in his dream. He decides to spy on everyone, suddenly realizing that everyone that had been welcomed by someone when they entered a house has been missing for a while. He begins to look for them, finding a ditch filled with bodies covered in ink. He begins to scream and hallucinate more, seeing every single person in the ditch dying in extreme, gory, but also abstract, detail. He wakes up hours later from this hallucination, having lost his mind. He burns down the entire town (name is never given) and kills every single person living in it, before having the final last hallucination, seeing the welcoming people as abstract, geometrical shape defined people that speak to him in an unknown language. As he looks at them more, he realizes they have no form, they aren't real, nothing is real. He wakes up from this hallucination and begins covering himself in the ink, drinking much of it. As he begins to feel an unbearable pain, he takes a sharp rock and cuts his own throat open, screaming in pain as he dies. In his last moments, he once more sees the abstract, demonic geometrical beings, calling out to him. He gets up and runs as far away from the town as he can, somehow being unable to die. He burns down an entire field, screaming in the before to him unknown language, worshipping his new gods. As the field finishes burning, he finally is given freedom from the gods, collapsing onto the ground and dying.
===== Reception =====
==== My Loved Ones (1944) ====
===== Plot =====
The book is made to be a beautification of the life of a flower, from the time of its growth, during photosynthesis, and up until death. It's explained with heavy symbolism and visuals for the reader.
===== Reception =====
Many people called this Hillarity's most confusing work, many couldn't tell it was about the life of a flower.
====The Murder of the Innocent (1948)====
"The Murder of The Innocent", was written in 1948 two years after he visited Hangesport, Smurifa, Cynetia, the setting being based on the town. 
===== Plot =====
In the book, he describes as a local administrator is sent to a seemingly peaceful town called Hangdort in the fictional country of Kainetia. As he explores the town more closely though, he quickly discovers multiple murders happening all around the town in secret, with people even ignoring the bodies if they see them. As he digs deeper, he discovers entire cults and militant organizations purely based on murdering people for no reason, these victims being called "The Innocents". By the end of the book, the main character goes insane from all he has learnt about the town's dark secrets, planning to reveal them to the government before he loses what remains of his sanity, but the residents catch up to him before he can leave, drugging and kidnapping him, burning him on a pole in the town center.
===== Reception =====
=== Death ===
On March 5th, 1952, James Hillarity visited Janson both partially on vacation, and partially for inspiration in the setting of his next book. Many people had been pushing to ban his books for a while due to their very dark and violent imagery. He often wrote about this in his last known notes. He still took drugs regularly, but he then collapsed in the yard of his vacation home due to drug-related heart failure on the night of the 7th. Surrounding people were quick to report the collapse, seeing him limp in his yard, so emergency services soon took him to the Silivola Hope Regional Medical Center where he was pronounced dead at the scene the following morning.
=== Influence ===
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