Shibuya is a many-faced leader and network idol of the Quarantine who keeps a damaged written book, “the written book that is not on the net”, and controls a territory of abandoned trains. The name also covers that territory and, in the Quarantine’s cosmology, the Tokyo district, “the district that was going to be applauded”, used as an allegory.
| Type | Character |
| Rank | just below Ardis |
| Spanish entry | Shibuya |
Description
Shibuya is a set of facets that take turns, and in a fight “works like a gang”. Two faces are named: “a sort of dark queen” (also recorded as drag queen) and, more recently, the matron, “very much of Japanese upbringing”. Others appear only “in situations of potential combat”. All share one aim: “they want to free the machines from the people”. The carter, the maker of the machine, the dark queen, the matron and the painting teacher coexist in her.
Her territory is abandoned trains that “nature invaded”, inhabited: “there are people of mine there”.
Network and book
She is an idol whose “death poems” circulate in the transmissions. Followers “put in enough likes” so their idols “are not exterminated as mere scum”; likes divide existing from not. Off the net, the book is damaged, written and handed out in person.
Band
Her crew is Gonzalo, Gusano, García, Rubicon, Margot, Mesnada, Cuadral, Manboy, Anina, Malboy, Buscalis, Lunes and Kelpi, plus “three or four more contacts”. An expert train driver, “she is going to survive because she is a carter”. She has made a lethal weapon. She is “a reference for everyone, grown-ups and kids”; her doctrine: “rebellion is nothing but war renewed”.
In the last, fragmentary version she appears “painting… taking her years… like an artist with a school”, teaching children to paint.
Conflicting accounts
- Whether the person, the territory and the Tokyo district are one thing, homonyms, or named after one another.
- Whether the armed leader and the aging teacher are one life or two versions.
Open questions
- How many personalities she has, and their names.
- What the book says, who wrote it, to whom it goes.
- What the weapon is and who carries it.
- What freeing a machine from people involves.