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About Shilo: Shilo Wallace is a seventeen year old girl, the daughter of Nathan and Marni Wallace. When Marni was pregnant with Shilo, she became ill. In Nathan’s search to find a cure for the disease, he accidentally mixed in a poison, planted by Rotti Largo, with the medicine, resulting in Marni’s death. With Marni beyond help, Nathan performed an emergency surgery to save Shilo. Nathan told Shilo that she had a blood disease that she inherited from her late mother, telling her that it was the disease that killed Marni. She was kept in her bedroom by her dad and was forced to take medicine for the disease sometimes during the day. Every now and then, she would put on a gas mask and sneak out of the house to visit Marni’s tomb. One day, Shilo chased a glowing blue bug out into the graveyard,and there she met Graverobber, who was in the process of collecting Zydrate from bodies. When they are discovered by the GeneCops, she follows Graverobber into a broken tomb, which Graverobber broke into, and she is pulled out of seconds later by the GeneCops. As the Repoman appears and sends them off, Shilo passes out. Upon waking up in her own bedroom, Nathan pretends not to believe her when she says what happened, telling her that it was merely a dream. He tells her to take her medicine and leaves. Shilo laments her captivity and curses her mother for passing the ‘disease’ onto her (“Infected”). Later on, Rotti Largo calls her, claiming that he might be able to help her. He tells her to meet him at her mother’s tomb. She was, upon arrival, dragged out of the tomb by Rotti’s henchwomen and thrown into the back of his limo. Though hesitant, she agrees to accompany him to the Italian Renaissance Fair in Sanitarium Square. Here, Shilo meets Blind Mag, a singer she adores. She watches the ribbon-cutting ceremony, and is then dragged into an unused tent by Rotti’s henchwomen. Nathan calls when his watch tells him that Shilo has yet to take her medication, and she narrowly deters him from going home right then and there. Shilo is rescued by Graverobber who takes her to an alley where Zydrate addicts hang out (“Zydrate Anatomy”). There she discovers that Amber Sweet is a Zydrate addict; it is Amber that informs her about Mag’s contract with GeneCo: If Mag retires from singing, if she refuses to promote GeneCo any more, her eyes will be subject to reposession. When GeneCops flood the alley to retrieve Amber, Shilo and Graverobber escape, and Shilo returns home. Some time later, Mag visits Shilo when she is home alone and reveals that she is Shilo’s godmother (“Chase the Morning”). Nathan arrives home and forces Mag to leave, in spite of Shilo’s protests (“Everyone’s a Composer”). Shilo begs Nathan to save Mag from the Repoman, and Nathan angrily tells her to stay out of it; there are things in life beyond control, and this is one of them (“What Chance Has a Seventeen Year-Old Girl?”) Shilo becomes angry, and proclaims that she is no longer a child. She’s tired of being dragged down by Nathan, and by Marni’s memory (“Seventeen”). At the end of the song, Nathan slaps her across the face, and she passes out. As she sleeps, a call from Rotti comes, and Nathan learns that Rotti’s been in contact with Shilo. When the Repoman enters the room, Shilo attacks him with a shovel and learns that he is, in fact, Nathan. At this time, it is shown on the TV screen that Mag is dead; it is unclear from the lyrics, but Shilo seems to believe that Nathan is responsible for Mag’s death. She is furious with his deception (“Let the Monster Rise”), and storms out of the room and down to the stage. By the time Shilo reaches the stage, Nathan is already there with Rotti, Luigi and Pavi. Luigi attacks Nathan, and the curtain rolls open for the audience to see. Rotti and his sons expose all of Nathan’s secrets, including that her ‘blood disease’ was caused by the medication provided by her father. Nathan did this to keep her from the world outside her window. Rotti gives Shilo a gun, and encourages her to kill Nathan; If she does, he will leave GeneCo to her when he dies. Shilo refuses, and instead turns the gun on Rotti. Nathan urges her not to make his mistakes, and tells her to make her life into one worthy of remembrance. The lights flicker off, and Rotti rips the gun from Shilo’s hands; he shoots Nathan, and then succumbs to his own terminal illness. Shilo is left alone onstage with her dying father. They say that they have always loved each other no matter what happened (“Didn’t Know I Loved You So Much”). Nathan dies, and Shilo mourns before leaving the opera (“Genetic Emancipation”). Activity Feed |