"The people want wholesome dread. They want to fear something. They want someone to frighten them and make them shudderingly submissive." ~ Ernst Röhm
“Lust can be described as ambition, pain, greed, and revenge.” - Marquis de Sade
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In our roll, we expanded on the classic plot and characters developed by Julio César Mármol for the El Desprecio screenplays in 1991 and 2006 to make them more transgressive and universal.
In our El Desprecio role play; the story is set in Buenos Aires, Argentina instead of Caracas, Venezuela - but it could be set in any Latino-Hispanic capital city you like (Madrid, Mexico City, Bogota, etc).
We added depth to the classic plot with a transgressive reworking. In terms of conceptual frame I was thinking *Book of Jubilees* - an apocryphal and pseudo- epigraphic re-write of the canonical *Book of Genesis* narrative that presens a more devious temptation serpent. Jubilees follows the same plotline as Genesis, but with additional details and contextual depth.
We also looked at the 2011-2013 three season historical drama series made about The Borgias, set in late medieval Italy. In particular; we were interested in the characters of Rodrigo Borgia (Pope Alexander VI), Cesare Borgia (who inspired Machiavelli to write "The Prince") and Lucretia Borgia (who used sex and assasination in order to advance the fortunes of the Borgia clan).
Character re-designs that we introduced in our Telenovela RP cession:
In the classic *El Desprecio* plot from 1991/ 2006, the primary objectives of Pastora Lara-Portillo de Santamaría are (1) to avenge her father against the five men who plotted to ruin and drive him to suicide; and (2) place her son Edilio as head of the Santamaría family fortune and business empire.
In our role play, we added a third objective (we were thinking a 'Davinci Code' style twist): Madame Pastora works to advance the interests of a secret occult society that has managed to penetrate the Catholic hierarchy in Argentina and Spain (you can pick any alternate set of Latin-Hispanic countries you like), and has as goal influencing the Vatican Bank institution in Rome. The matter is under investigation by a secret Pope sanctioned Jesuit counterintelligence initiative led by a *Father Cipriano* (a character I invented) who becomes covert antagonist to Pastora and her occult coven assets in Buenos Aires.
Israel Santamaría is the patriarch and pater familias of the Santamaría clan. In the classic El Desprecio screenplay, he lives with erectile dysfunction with Madame Pastora "but not with other women". In a conversation with his Chaufer (who is also his best friend), it is inferred that the condition of erectile dysfunction plaguing the family patriarch might be due to *guilt* because Master Santamaría seduced a 17 year old Pastora into leaving her man, who also happened to be Israel Santamaría's best friend at the time and is father of Raul Velandro Lara - who betrays his wife Tamara to chase after protagonist Clara Ines.
I add a BDSM twist to the story introducing the concept of *spanking kink*. Both Israel Santamaría and Señor Velandro senior shared a secret masochist predilección for being whipped by a dominant woman. The primary reason Señor Velandro Senior hates Israel Santamaría is because the later *stole* his dominatrix. Israel Santamaría is not able to get a hard-on with Pastora, because her function is not to be boffed by him; but for her to whip him in the nude.
I pulled two cards from the Decameron Tarot deck to obtain insight and inspiration.
Raúl Velandro Lara (*pigmaleon* who sees beauty where others miss it), is married to Támara, but their union is falling apart. In a last ditch effort to repair their marriage they go on a second honeymoon trip - but alas, Mr Velandro junior meets Clara Ines and falls in love at first sight. Raul leaves his wife Tamara behind at the resort, right in the middle of their second honeymoon, and invites Clara Ines to go sailing with him.
I add depth to the plotline by introducing Gerda. A German tourist staying at the same resort as Raul and Támara who happens to be an active Lesbian. Gerda finds Támara sitting alone at the resort bar drinking a cocktail. Támara is visibly upset at having been spurned in the middle of her second honeymoon. Gerda seduces Támara and both women develop a love affair. Gerda and Támara then team up to exact revenge on Raul (and Clara Ines).
Edilio 3 *Phocas* (AI generated)
Edilio Velandro Lara Portillo is the son of Madame Pastora and step brother of Raul. In the classic El Desprecio screenplay he is depicted as a classic *mama's boy* , who is angry at the fact Israel Santamaría rejected him as heir of the family fortune, leaving the position instead to his 20 year old playboy grandson Manuel Jesus.
In my role play, Edilio is a closeted gay young man who is unhappily married to (disappointed) *gold digger* wife Lusmila. Edilio maintains a secret love affair with Fernando; who happens to be one of two assasins kept on retainer by Madame Pastora. Our Edilio is not a mamma's boy, on the contrary; he hates Madame Pastora for having forced on him the marriage with Lusmila. Edilio has an agenda of his own: to overthrow his mother Pastora and take over her business positions in order to then force Manuel Jesus to abdicate to him and in the process physically eliminate Israel Santamaría (Edilios' wet dream). Edilio eventually enters an alliance with Señor Velandro senior to destroy Israel Santamaría, despite Madame Pastora.
The rest of the classic El Desprecio plotline I leave intact. My modifications are only peripheral sub-plots designed to give the classic plot a measure of transgressive depth.
Andrew Nicolas Moran
Rotterdam, Netherlands.
May 2026.
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