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 ==Removed original research== 
 The following information was littering this page, and had grown into a number of other character articles even though there's plenty of room to include any confirmed character information on this page, rather than making permanent stubs. Moved here to clean up the page (and L'Via L'Viaquez). -  

 === Fictional Characters === 

 WARNING: the following is only a theory 

 * Vismund Cygnus - Son of Frances The Mute 
 * Miranda - Grandmother of Cygnus, Mother of Frances 
 * L'Via L'Viaquez - Sister of Frances, Daughter of Miranda 
 * Frances the Mute - Main Character 

 Article about concept, by Farseer RiZa 
 This album is truly a work of art. Not just musical, but it tells a heartbreaking story of a lost soul who's mother is killed in a horrific way. And if you have no idea what's going on in the story, you'll probably hate the album as I once did. It's fully of annoying ambiance, but if you read through this then listen to the album, you can almost feel the story come to live in the ambiance. The Mars Volta are lyrical and emotional geniuses. This is the future of music! 

  
 Frances The Mute 
 Below is the last few words on the Frances The Mute (the song) and it obviously is talking about Frances being killed, and how she is killed.  She is gutted and hung by her ankles and her entrails are cut out, they remove her unborn child... 

 Set foot inside a parlour, to find her drunken by receipts, 

 He held her by the ankles, 

 Gutted at the nave, yes gutted and depraves, 

 He tied a rope around her legs, 

 And let her hang for seven days, 

 This never happened, but I saw you leave, 

 And crawl into a bed of broken windows. 

  
 The first song is mainly about his mothers death, but note: The soft sounding introduction at the end of the song. Notice that it seems not quite complete or clear, this is a metaphor for Cygnus' blindness, he doesn't see what he's getting himself into as he pursues his mother's murderers. 

  
 Cygnus.... Vismund Cygnus 
 Cygus is the lead character of the story, he is the unborn child who has now grown up and has a thrust for revenge. He starts to track down the murderers who gutted his mother, but along the way he gives up hope and starts using drugs to escape from reality, you can hear this at (0:39) in the song as a large outburst of music. The lyrics that are Spanish in this song talk about him wanting to punish who did this, but his inability to do so whilst so dependant on drugs. 

  
 The Widow 
 This song is about the severity of his drug addiction and his dependence on his dealer. He resorts to prostitution to fuel his drug habit. He contracts a STD (Not sure if it's from the needles or the prostitution). In the lyrics below he is obviously talking about his dealer (verse 1 & 2) and the last verse is about his prostitution. 

 He's got fasting black lungs, 

 Made of clove splintered shards, 

 They're the kind that will talk, 

 Through a wheezing of coughs, 

  
 And I hear him every night, 

 In every pore, 

 And every time he just makes me warm, 

 Freeze without an answer, 

 Free from all the shame, 

 Must I hide? 

 Cause I'll never, 

 Never sleep alone. 

  
 L'via L'viaquez 
 L'via L'viaquez, Who is Cygnus' aunt, L'via being her first name... L'via was there when his mother was murdered. She tells the story to him. However, she is soon killed by the same group who killed his mother for telling Cygnus about the group. Also, in this song is Cygnus's grandmother who is called Miranda. She also tells him of his mother and where to find the people who killed her. 

 L'Via, daughter of Miranda, 
 your last name has changed (itself). 

 L'Via, without eyes you want to give me 
 a story without my mother. 

 I only have to tell you 
 the pain at night says... 

 Only the dress was left (The dress was left by itself/alone)* 
 I washed the blood off. 

 L'Via, don't stop resting. 
 In the streets you walk, 
 ¿Who will follow you? (¿Who will chase you?)** 

  
 L'Via, they want to kill you. 
 Machete teeth, rooster head. (You lie... of machete)*** 

 L'Via, sleeping, you enter. 
 Open your eyes, everything will change. 

 L'Via, dreaming of revenge 
 I swear, they will pay. 

 (English) 

 I only have one hour, 
 and I sleep, finished. 

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