Pinto Muricnona

**Pinto Muricnona**, affectionately known as **Doctor Pinto**, was the founder of the Denlotia. He did all this because he wanted revenge against everything in the world that harmed and hurt him throughout his life.

## History

"*He cannot go back to the past*

*He will never accept the present,*

*So he will destroy the future!*

*Hail to Pinto, Liberator from Consequence!*

*Praise the First One, Destroyer of Torment!*"

- Denlotian hymn

Pinto was born in the turbulent years of Terran rule in Palguenia, when his people were forced to work under poverty. His family ran a simple shop, yet due to their frustration with the dire conditions of his country, they forced him to stop being an artist and continue to assist them in their shop. They threatened him that he might be poor, and they kept destroying his simple artworks, to force him to focus more on taking care of them. His father and mother kept scolding him, yelling at him, and taking away his entertainment and restricting him.

### Seeds of Hate

He was a former member of a communist group in Palguenia who was upset by his former comrades' tendency to pick fights, and by their poor rule over one attempted commune that they referred to as "the Experiment of Derreguet". That commune ruled over a slum and managed to help its inhabitants achieve a little better livelihood, but when its leader attempted to seize control of the Palguenian government, the commune was defeated. With his former allies harrassing him as a "traitor" for rejecting them and not adopting their "revolutionary" culture, he took up some of their views as part of his new world order, such as socialist policies and support for the working class.

This leader's name was "**Pinto Muricnona**", a victim of bullies and abuse whose anger and hatred fuelled his desire for vengeance. The whole Denlotia was his brainchild, utilising the power and fury of his own people to punish every person who harmed him during his youth, and the whole world for its stubborn cruelty.

The sixteenth year of his life was supposed to be his happiest year, full of hope and good fortune. Instead, he did many reckless things, landing him into trouble with many irresponsible people. The one incident that drove him mad was Andraundos' ban on him from ever using the latter's art club, and then insisting on keeping his rules even as Pinto was truly sorry for his mistake. Ever since, Pinto decided to write down every enemy who angered him, so that one day they will be eliminated.

After the communist commune, Pinto founded a club of political students as he was working as a doctor in a local clinic. They encouraged him to seek revenge against society, as they were pleased that his hatred would one day shake the world. The sixth member, who dabbled in Black Ardeschen magical technology and alien machinery, had a strange device known as a "grudgedreamer". He found it in a bazaar in an alien planet, allowing its users not only to read minds and use space-time to recall past memories and details, but also to project one's own thoughts to torment faraway people.

The resulting nightmares exposed many of the future victims of the Grey Tolls, the Day of Resolution, and other massacres done by the Denlotia to punish criminals.

### Emperor Pinto of the Denlotia

Unfortunately for his country, as the leader of Palguenia and the founder of the World Alliance, he was fiercely supportive of the poorer people of the country, but he was very harsh towards people who were disliked by his supporters and the poorer people of his country. The worst of all criminals and richer folk were personally executed by his hands, brutally and cruelly.

He also ordered torture and death towards the people who wronged him in the past, using them as examples of social ills that plagued society, especially in hardship and poverty. Not even his own parents were exempt from his punishment, for denying him from becoming a successful artist to keep their own businesses afloat from the ruin of the Third World War: he personally beat them to death right in front of a cheering mob and countless television screens. That horrific murder caused more nations to turn towards the other alliances until the founder was dead and replaced, and the Terrans would use this as their reason why they sought to destroy the Denlotia and its "god-forsaken" inhabitants. Thousands more across Palguenia were killed and torn to pieces by him and his growing supporters, who claimed their bloody vengeance as justice against an evil world.

He was also notorious for his aversion for the term "working class", preferring the term "the people" or "commoners". When one of his friends interviewed him, he answered that it was due to several communes with violent and extremist policies, and various "revolutionary" states that attempted war against the rest of the world. He also stated that it was the bullying that his classmates did during his youth that also made him dislike communism in general. Finally, he mentioned that the "working class" (which was the Second Red Front and all of its supporters, not the poorer people that he helped) would destroy all cultures, ban various kinds of entertainment, and impose a dull, futuristic society that erases all history.

His opponents denounced him as a "bootlicker", using several "deviant" examples as his representation of the former views that he no longer practiced. Weeks later, he barely survived an assassination attempt.

In spite of these, he was very popular with poorer people within his World Alliance, as he forced its members to make the poor live better lives. He was also beloved by many more angry people, mostly rejects who were not killed for committed very abominable crimes, who sought to undo what they claimed as "consequences" for all of their errors and everyone who promoted such views. Their fanaticism, fuelled by his hatred of his past and refusal to accept his circumstances, influenced him to become more violent to impose a utopian world order.

He was still assassinated, with his killer, Bendovare, attempting to take control of the WA and remake it into a communist world state at the behest of his enemies. In a speech that he made, he stated the reason for his coup: the world was in chaos, and without any powerful group to stop him like the corporations, it was high time for humanity to become a single society to force it forward. Although he was accompanied by hundreds of gunmen, the people in the capital overthrew him and his men after two days. They were afraid that Bendovare would restrict their rights and freedoms to make them behave and think like him.

Another leader held an election among the member states to decide their new leader. The third leader, Alchurista, repealed some of the more brutal laws to encourage cooperation between the members, especially in the wake of its enemies marching to war.

## Personality

Pinto was a bitter man, bad-tempered and frustrated. His hatred of the world also made him more altruistic, in wanting to stop the very conditions that made him suffer from hurting others. Yet it also made him crueler towards anyone seen as responsible for his suffering and the squalour of his homeland and world.

He had a paranoid hatred of his own father and mother, marking them as among the people responsible for making him and all of society suffer. Because of them demanding him to work for their shop and survival, he vowed to destroy everything related to them and whatever they stood for. His laws punished anything glorifying sacrifice, patience, responsibility, the family, old age, the elderly, and learning; yet also used morality classes to use them as examples of self-destruction. In spite of his war against "conservatism", traditions, families, and schools continued to exist out of his people's fear of losing their own cultures and their own freedom.

Because his family members and mentors used "love" as the reason for forcing him to become the person *they* wanted him to be, he renounced any form of love. The only relationships he allowed were friendship and compassion, but to underscore his paranoia and hatred of love, he sterilised himself and did not allow anyone to clone him. He declared, in his madness, that he would rather become an incarnation of hate, a punishment to all the wicked people of the world who avenges everyone who suffers under them.

Although his society banned atheism as a paranoid, antisocial belief, he himself was an atheist, as he never actually worshipped the Gods of Palguenia and Ardesch. He only attended rituals to avoid being discovered as a godsless person, but privately he cursed the Gods for allowing every loss to exist in his life.

### Haunting

Pinto rarely forgave, and he usually did so when people made little mistakes. His anger was towards all the people in the past who hurt him, long after they were destroyed and put to death. His laws were meant to destroy everything related to them, and whatever they stood for.

Telling him to "let it go", "move on", "get over it", or anything good to replace what is lost, only made him angrier, as he wanted the total destruction of everyone who offended him. While his regime advised people to focus on their hobbies and work to overcome bitterness, he never let go of his enemies even though they were already annihilated. Their continued presence drove him further to madness.

His bitterness also created a fear and hatred of young people, especially teenagers. He HATED teenagers, as the walking representatives of his sad youth under mentally-unwell fans of mass media.

The same insanity from his grief and past, over even the smallest errors, drove him to create many of the coercive, punitive laws that defined Denlotian society and its students. He wanted to make sure he will never see the people or things who brought him sorrow, ever again.

## Legacy

### Terror

Even in later times, Denlotians stopped celebrating Pinto's deeds, as they felt that his actions were against the very values the Denlotia was built on. They tore down his statues and mourned the Day of Resolution, converting his monuments into hospitals, museums, galleries, and academies to uplift anyone who suffered in their time.

Now they looked back at Pinto with horror and dread, the very reason why the Denlotia was feared, driving more people to destructive madness. Like Koschei and Pahhurkas, he was one of many founders who were hated by their descendants for their wickedness.

His nephews and nieces secretly formed resistance groups. By the time Pinto's killer was gone, they were able to come out of hiding to govern and reorganise the Denlotia into a kinder society. As the Denlotia's members were religiously devout, they believed that their kindness had earned them the favour and love of the Gods, who protected them from the purges. Those successors also built shrines and memorials to house the ghosts of Pinto's victims, appeasing the more superstitious Denlotians who feared those ghosts.

### Loss

The high standard of living and education for Denlotians was both caused by him, and to prevent anyone from becoming like him. In the latter years of Pinto's life, many people commented that they wanted themselves and their offspring to never become like Pinto. That meant they would be more forgiving, more willing to understand people for their mistakes, to ensure that "there will never again be a life of 'closed doors', 'new opportunities', 'moving on', and loss".

Horrified by the Old World and Pinto's cruelty, the Denlotians became a more diligent people, out of fear of returning to the chaos, abuse, and backwardsness that prevailed before the Denlotia. For every loss, the peoples of the Denlotia built ten more; for every ban, three new groups sprung up; for every favourite shop shut down, four new ones continued their themes in a different way. While they put bricks together and reforged what they lost, the Denlotians wished that every person who took what they loved to *die* brutally, along with the offenders' whole families.

Such an attitude persisted even after various catastrophes and losses, driving them to continue building to replace everything and everyone they lost. Behind every victory, their descendants forever remembered those same catastrophes, including the corporate world of the Sixteenth Age, to ensure whatever they loved will be with them forever, even if it was a copy or a reconstruction.

It created the attitude where *any* celebration of those catastrophes is immediately seen as a threat, a wish for them to die and be replaced by the "loss-worshipper". Such fools who glorified failure and loss in the name of "growth and innovation" were punished cruelly, slaughtered by the survivors' rage and hate. Even if it was the loss of something as small as their favourite group, they never forgave the perpetrators. Mob violence and wars became more likely.

To prevent such disasters from spiralling into vicious vendettas, this was why penance has become a legal institution everywhere. To force both sides, especially the offender, to confront their own crimes, until they have fully paid for the offence. Only by earning the forgiveness and mercy of their victims, including beatings, would they ever be cleared of their crimes and allowed to resume a normal life. They would be mentally scarred by the restrictions imposed during penance, but they would do their best never to hurt their victims ever again.

### Nightmare

Pinto's cruel desire to kill teenagers was one of the reasons why Denlotians loved and cared a lot for their own children, and were more kind and protective of anyone who was hurt. They wanted to show Pinto that teenagers and children did not have to become like the wicked people who hurt him during his youth.

The very man who founded the Denlotia became its greatest bogeyman, as a warning to anyone of any age of what happens if they gave in to their revenge instead of what they needed to do in life. Even with everything was used to destroy every remaining enemy, revenge will never end in satisfaction, but with a mind so ruined that it will seek more blood.

His own followers, and their children after them who grew up, wanted to make sure that those after them will know love, and not omnicide, to prevent them from becoming new Pintos who would destroy the world.

### Vengeance?

With the Denlotians' tendency to build any copy of whatever they lost, the excuse of their enemies tragically became inevitable: "innovation and growth". They hated growth unless if it involved age and the body, yet every time they kept building, making new copies of anything they lost, growth became inescapable.

By outpacing and becoming more popular than their enemies, they would have known that their successes turned their enemies' threats into their greatest revenge.

## Trivia

* Pinto was inspired by the author's anger against various problems in the world, especially extremism and corruption, and even online users who made him very angry.
* Ironically for a doctor at a clinic, Pinto brought death to many people across the world, just to punish them for angering him.
* Pinto's favourite character was Tobaran, a blonde maniac from "Broken Plates", whom he found relatable for his own struggles.
	+ There were rumours that he was even attracted to him, hence his love of shirtless men!

### Hatred of teenagers

* Pinto HATED teenagers. Children and teenagers were not allowed to be near Pinto's presence, because seeing them triggered memories of his unhappy childhood. It was his personal order never to allow anyone under the age of 18 to be near him, so Denlotians tended to hide any young person away from his presence to avoid his anger upon them.
	+ Because the people who offended him were the same age as him during his teenage years, he later assumed that *all* teenagers behaved like the obsessive fans and Internet drama kings that he met.
	+ Whenever he saw a teenager or a child, he had a habit of covering his eyes and looking away. He often avoided anywhere with children or teenagers, and ordered all venues where he would visit to completely ban anyone under the age of 18 or 21. Luckily for any child who was unfortunate to wander into his presence, he did not kill them as he would to his enemies. He just shooed them and told them to leave him alone, however angrily and with yelling.

### The Treefolk

* His hatred of teenagers, along with the hatred of families, was among the reasons why he once considered altering humanity to literally grow on trees. Pinto also made many controversial statements wishing that every teenager in the Denlotia would die for *everything* people of their age did, making himself and anyone who reached adulthood the exceptions.
	+ Initially, adolescents and children were hidden from his and the Founders' presence, ordered to hide out of respect. Even then, the most fanatical supporters of the Denlotia were horrified by their hero's madness, wishing death to their own children. They protested, insisting that their own children would be better than their executed predecessors. Pinto ordered his men to let them go, as he stated that he wanted to hear any suggestions from his own subjects. His supporters held galleries and organised a new festival, "Youth Day", to show that "adolescents are not monsters" and they can be brought up to follow the Denlotian way.
	+ One of his supporters wrote a novel about society if children were born from trees and instantly grew to adulthood. Past the disclaimer that it did not "promote family values", the contents of that novel describe it as a sad world. A longer adulthood and more time to pursue one's goals, but without any proper upbringing, the main character felt soulless, "drifting" as if he was suddenly thrown into the sea and he did not know how to swim.

## See also

* Denlotian law
* Red Ardesch, a similar "temper tantrum"
* Zemasor, a similar tyrant who threw another huge tantrum
* Late Palguenian language
* Late Ardeschen language