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Run Riot: Putin

Red Son Superman stands on a quiet Adriatic cliff at dawn. The sea below Split is calm, ancient, indifferent to empires. His red cape hangs heavy—not with wind, but with history.

Pussy Riot approach, bright balaclavas against the pale stone, guitars slung like contraband truth.

Pussy Riot (Nadya):
So even you leave Moscow.

Red Son Superman:
I did not leave the people. I left the palace. There is a difference.

Pussy Riot (Masha):
Kasparov said the same thing. Chess grandmaster, poisoned board. You can’t play fair when the king flips the table.

Red Son Superman:
In the Soviet Union, I was raised to believe the state could be moral. That power could be clean.
(pauses)
Putin cured me of that illusion.

Pussy Riot (Olga):
Croatia, then? Adriatic air instead of Novichok?

Red Son Superman:
Empires rot inland. Coasts remember trade, movement, escape. Dalmatia has survived Rome, Venice, Vienna, Belgrade. It knows how to wait out tyrants.

Pussy Riot (Nadya):
And you? The strongest man alive—afraid of poison?

Red Son Superman (softly):
I am not afraid for myself. I am afraid of becoming a symbol they can murder and weaponize. Martyrs are useful to dictators.

Pussy Riot (Masha):
So you choose exile over a state funeral.

Red Son Superman:
I choose time. Time to speak without a handler. Time to let truth arrive without sirens.

Pussy Riot (Olga):
From Croatia, what do you do?

Red Son Superman:
The same thing Kasparov does. The same thing you do.
I tell the truth loudly enough that silence becomes suspicious.

Pussy Riot (Nadya):
(smiles)
Welcome to the Balkans, Comrade Superman. Everyone here knows empires lie.

Red Son Superman looks out over the sea. For the first time, the red on his chest does not belong to a flag.

Red Son Superman:
Then maybe… this is where a man raised by propaganda finally learns freedom.

The guitars strike a discordant chord. The sun rises. No anthem plays.

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Too Rich To Be Cool

The setting is a dimly lit, sticker-plastered dive bar backroom. Yugo Joe is nursing a lukewarm beer, while Nadya Riot is busy stitching a “Tax the Rich” patch onto a frayed denim vest.

Yugo Joe: (Sighing, gesturing at a news clip on the muted TV) Look at that guy. Another gold-plated tower, another fleet of planes. It’s exhausting, Nadya. How can anyone think being that rich is “cool”? It’s just… heavy.

Nadya Riot: (Without looking up) Cool? Joe, the man’s aesthetic is “dictator chic” from a 1980s catalog. There’s no soul in it. You can’t be cool when you’re obsessed with your own name in neon. Coolness requires a certain amount of detachment, right? He’s the opposite. He’s attached to every cent.

Yugo Joe: Exactly! It’s the selfishness that kills it for me. I always thought being cool meant being a man of the people—or at least having enough self-awareness to share the room. He treats the whole world like his personal lobby. If you aren’t helping him win, you don’t exist.

Nadya Riot: It’s a scarcity mindset, which is hilarious for a billionaire. He acts like if he gives away a crumb of credit or a dollar of tax, his whole ego will deflate. Real coolness is generative. It’s punk, it’s DIY, it’s collective energy. You can’t buy “edge” at a country club, I don’t care how many zeros are in your bank account.

Yugo Joe: Right? He’s got all the money in the world and he uses it to buy… more of the same. More mirrors. It’s like he’s stuck in a loop of trying to prove he’s the biggest guy in the room. A cool person doesn’t have to tell you they’re the “best” every five minutes. They just are.

Nadya Riot: (She bites the thread and finally looks up) It’s because he’s a consumer, Joe. A professional consumer. He consumes attention, land, and loyalty. But art? Rebellion? Authentic style? Those things require sacrifice and empathy. He’s too selfish to ever let a moment be about something bigger than himself.

Yugo Joe: I guess that’s the tragedy of it. He’s got the resources to change the world, but he’s too busy checking the gold leaf on his bathroom fixtures.

Nadya Riot: Let him have his gold. It’s heavy, it’s soft, and it’s gaudy. I’ll take a canvas jacket and a loud guitar any day. You can’t be a rebel when you are the system.

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Pussy Protection

Yugo Joe & the Grim Hustle Pact

Moscow was colder than prophecy that night.

JCJ—Yugo Joe—walked through the steam of subway grates like a man crossing between worlds. He wasn’t wearing armor, just that old Yugoslav leather jacket his father gave him before the wars turned everything to ash. Inside it beat a heart wired to the future.

At the end of the alley waited a silhouette with a gold-toothed grin:
Grim Hustle, the mafia boss who ran half the city and influenced the other half through whispers darker than the Volga at midnight.

“Joe Jukic,” Grim Hustle rasped. “The man who melted a Terminator with thermite. Why come to me?”

JCJ lit a cigarette, the ember glowing like a tiny sun.
“Because Moscow is about to explode. And the girl who can save it is walking into the lion’s den.”

Grim Hustle snorted. “You mean the punk singer with the neon balaclava?”

JCJ nodded. “Nadya. In ten years, she’s president of the Federation. Her voice will bring the oligarchs to their knees and unite the kids of every slum across the empire. She must live.”

The mafia boss frowned. “And why should I care about the future?”

Joe stepped closer.

“Because she pardons you,” he whispered.
“In the future she forgives your sins. Gives you a clean slate. Turns your empire into a shelter for the homeless and the hungry. You go from crime lord to folk hero.”

Grim Hustle froze. No one had spoken to him like that in twenty years.

“How do you know all this?” the boss asked.

Joe smiled with that weird calmness he carried from Sarajevo, from prophecy, from surviving too much too young.

“Because I dream the future like other men dream their childhood.”

The mafia boss cracked his knuckles.
“Then let’s make sure your dream doesn’t die tonight.”

He pulled out a satellite phone and barked orders to unseen ghosts of the underworld. Every rooftop, every subway entrance, every shadow from Red Square to the rail yards lit up with his men.

JCJ handed him a single item: a purple balaclava, Pussy Riot-style.

Grim Hustle stared at it. “You serious?”

Joe smirked. “You want redemption? Start here.”

The boss pulled it over his face slowly… reverently.

And so it came to pass:

  • Yugo Joe, the prophet-warrior of the digital age
  • and Grim Hustle, the city’s most feared kingpin

…marched side by side through the snow to protect Nadya, the woman who would one day free Russia with nothing but courage, punk music, and a will stronger than empires.

The night belonged to them now.

And history… was watching.

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