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Letters to Leobardo the Mapuche Lion: #1
Translations provided by the Avenger Rat; both letters were written in Spanish.
Dear Leobardo,
I am from Spain, and I happen to know Chile's history fairly well. Seeing what our conquistadors did to Galvarino, I think it was justified for Galvarino to have blades attached to his wrists to avenge against us for what we did to him. Yes, what he did was graphic, but at the same time, common sense tells us that there would be consequences against our conquistadors who amputated the hands of Mapuche men with their axes, in the hopes of weakening their resistance against our imperial rule. I can see why Leoncio refused to go to Chile after he was told who Galvarino was during his heyday.
There was even graphic artworks depicting Galvarino with his severed wrists, from old European paintings to graffiti of him in Chilean cities. Luckily for you, you still have your hands, meaning that you were able to avoid capture from the conquistadors back then. Some Americans claim that Galvarino is part of the inspiration that led Marvel Comics to design Wolverine, who is one of their most popular superheroes from their series. The major difference was that Wolverine still has his hands, but Galvarino did not. Seeing that they compare your national hero to a fictional American superhero is very interesting at its best.
So what did you think about the fact that you fought with Galvarino, who was willing to sacrifice his life fighting against our colonial rule before yours for Chile's future? Did you think there could've been a more peaceful alternative to end our colonial rule in Chile, even though many people around this world, including ourselves, argue that there were no peaceful alternatives to this?
Emi Guijarro, age 20 (male human being)
Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain
Leobardo's reply:
Dear Emi:
All of Leo's parallels, including me, do look back in hindsight and wish that there could have been more a peaceful way to fix these problems. Leoncio would have forbidden his people from doing such amputations (and probably would have been in big trouble for it). I did indeed fight alongside him, but in the end, the ambush we planned against the Spanish Empire failed. At the time, though, I applauded Galvarino for rallying his people to victory, because if you suddenly got invaded by people who killed you if you did not let them force you to submit to their ways and their religions, you would make a fuss.
In the end, because the penalty for sin is death, and because there are severe consequenecs for twisting the sacred doctrine out of context for one's own gain, God dealt the punishments to both our people (for not praying the prayer of salvation) and the Spaniards (for what they did to us). It's the same with the Japanese; they kicked the Spanish out and closed off their borders because they saw the act of proselytization as a threat to their own culture and beliefs. Yet according to what Christianity preaches, they're bound for the flames of hell if they are not saved. (Asia might be the most difficult continent to minister to for that reason.)
I have mixed feelings about the whole thing as a result. Originally, I was with Galvarino 100%. But now that I look back at it, I should have stood up for what was right and attempted to get them to talk things out peacefully, at the risk of losing my body parts. Instead, before I got that chance, I ended up caught in the time warp, and here I am now in the future. Upon getting settled, I learned about this Wolverine character you speak about, and how he still has hands even though he has blades attached to them. (Wolverine is actually an anti-hero, however; his willingness to use deadly force and his brooing loner nature goes against everything in the G-52 Code of Conduct. Yet that became standard for comic book characters such as him by the end of the 1980s.)
Ultimately, I am grateful I still have my hands. The time warp bringing me to today is ultimately what saved them. What I've forgotten (because the time warp did some sort of amnesia effect on me) is where I was or what I was doing when I disappeared, apart from the fact I was just working in the garden to my home; I hope somebody else began tending to it. I did escape from the Spanish, and they were giving chase to me so they could amputate my hands. But here I am, and they're rolling in their graves, forever suffering in the afterlife for what they did. After all, greed was what motivated them, and greed destroys; just read Aesop's fable about the man with the goose that laid golden eggs.
Hope that helps, and thank you for writing to me.
Yours truly,
Leobardo Marroquin, a.k.a. Leobardo the Mapuche Lion
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Letters to Leobardo the Mapuche Lion: #1
Translations provided by the Avenger Rat; both letters were written in Spanish.
Dear Leobardo,
I am from Spain, and I happen to know Chile's history fairly well. Seeing what our conquistadors did to Galvarino, I think it was justified for Galvarino to have blades attached to his wrists to avenge against us for what we did to him. Yes, what he did was graphic, but at the same time, common sense tells us that there would be consequences against our conquistadors who amputated the hands of Mapuche men with their axes, in the hopes of weakening their resistance against our imperial rule. I can see why Leoncio refused to go to Chile after he was told who Galvarino was during his heyday.
There was even graphic artworks depicting Galvarino with his severed wrists, from old European paintings to graffiti of him in Chilean cities. Luckily for you, you still have your hands, meaning that you were able to avoid capture from the conquistadors back then. Some Americans claim that Galvarino is part of the inspiration that led Marvel Comics to design Wolverine, who is one of their most popular superheroes from their series. The major difference was that Wolverine still has his hands, but Galvarino did not. Seeing that they compare your national hero to a fictional American superhero is very interesting at its best.
So what did you think about the fact that you fought with Galvarino, who was willing to sacrifice his life fighting against our colonial rule before yours for Chile's future? Did you think there could've been a more peaceful alternative to end our colonial rule in Chile, even though many people around this world, including ourselves, argue that there were no peaceful alternatives to this?
Emi Guijarro, age 20 (male human being)
Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain
Leobardo's reply:
Dear Emi:
All of Leo's parallels, including me, do look back in hindsight and wish that there could have been more a peaceful way to fix these problems. Leoncio would have forbidden his people from doing such amputations (and probably would have been in big trouble for it). I did indeed fight alongside him, but in the end, the ambush we planned against the Spanish Empire failed. At the time, though, I applauded Galvarino for rallying his people to victory, because if you suddenly got invaded by people who killed you if you did not let them force you to submit to their ways and their religions, you would make a fuss.
In the end, because the penalty for sin is death, and because there are severe consequenecs for twisting the sacred doctrine out of context for one's own gain, God dealt the punishments to both our people (for not praying the prayer of salvation) and the Spaniards (for what they did to us). It's the same with the Japanese; they kicked the Spanish out and closed off their borders because they saw the act of proselytization as a threat to their own culture and beliefs. Yet according to what Christianity preaches, they're bound for the flames of hell if they are not saved. (Asia might be the most difficult continent to minister to for that reason.)
I have mixed feelings about the whole thing as a result. Originally, I was with Galvarino 100%. But now that I look back at it, I should have stood up for what was right and attempted to get them to talk things out peacefully, at the risk of losing my body parts. Instead, before I got that chance, I ended up caught in the time warp, and here I am now in the future. Upon getting settled, I learned about this Wolverine character you speak about, and how he still has hands even though he has blades attached to them. (Wolverine is actually an anti-hero, however; his willingness to use deadly force and his brooing loner nature goes against everything in the G-52 Code of Conduct. Yet that became standard for comic book characters such as him by the end of the 1980s.)
Ultimately, I am grateful I still have my hands. The time warp bringing me to today is ultimately what saved them. What I've forgotten (because the time warp did some sort of amnesia effect on me) is where I was or what I was doing when I disappeared, apart from the fact I was just working in the garden to my home; I hope somebody else began tending to it. I did escape from the Spanish, and they were giving chase to me so they could amputate my hands. But here I am, and they're rolling in their graves, forever suffering in the afterlife for what they did. After all, greed was what motivated them, and greed destroys; just read Aesop's fable about the man with the goose that laid golden eggs.
Hope that helps, and thank you for writing to me.
Yours truly,
Leobardo Marroquin, a.k.a. Leobardo the Mapuche Lion
Letters to Leobardo the Mapuche Lion: #1
Leobardo's first letter to him, now available for public viewing.
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Chuong: Excellent response I must say and I can't blame Galvarino for doing what he did.
Zax: Wolverine is a very popular superhero. You can pit him against almost any Halloween supervillain and he'd come out victorious. Freddy Krueger ain't got nothing on Wolverine!
Zax: Wolverine is a very popular superhero. You can pit him against almost any Halloween supervillain and he'd come out victorious. Freddy Krueger ain't got nothing on Wolverine!
Leobardo: He wouldn't have had anything on Galvarino either.
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