The Tale of Hellboy 2
So 3-year-old Pemberley Darcy was welcomed into Zaida’s household. He was a surly child, full of dark looks, and when he was admonished about his behavior, he would engage the speaker in a staring contest. Zaida reminded everyone to be kind to the boy; after all he’d been through, of course he would be distrustful of people. He’d been traumatized, but in time, if treated well, he would get over it.
One day Zaido’s assistant reminded Pemberley to say “po” and “opo” when addressing adults. Pemberley glared at him and yelled, “Putanginamo!” He repeated it several times. This incident was reported to Zaida, who took the 3-year-old aside and explained why he should not say that. In response, Pemberley Darcy mimed a gun with his thumb and two fingers, pressed it against Zaida’s forehead, and said, “Bang!”
“I suddenly thought of the characters in City of God,” Zaida recalls, “Except that those boys were 9 or 11, and this one was 3 years old.”
“Baka pag 5 years old runner na yan ng shabu (He’ll be running drugs by age 5),” Zaida’s friend said. He was not entirely kidding.
“Maybe he’s not really 3 years old,” someone else said, “He’s 15 but looks 3 due to malnutrition.”
Then Zaida’s 7-month-old baby began to look at her piteously, as if he were trying to tell her something.
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
December 9th, 2007 at 21:01
Baby: Turn on the player. I want to watch Bonnie and Clyde. Please, Mommy, please?
December 10th, 2007 at 05:00
Thankyouthankyouthankyou. can’t wait for part 3 4 5 etc etc
Hmmm..platform for ‘Nature / Nurture ‘ debate?
I hope it’s not like We Need to Talk About Kevin.
December 10th, 2007 at 11:08
Baby: Don’t let that boy come near me…
December 10th, 2007 at 16:04
The poor boy. Clearly, he is a product of his environment. I’m not a psychologist, but I think it would take years and lots of love to give the boy his childhood back.
Great, he would be an adult by then. Also, who’d care? There are several millions like him. Some of them grow up, and who knows? This one might even be a senator someday. Stranger things have happened.
December 11th, 2007 at 00:21
I’m going with the “He’s 15 but looks 3″ theory. I cant wait for Part 3…the anticipation is killing me… like R. Kelly’s “Trapped in the closet” series… hehehehe….
December 11th, 2007 at 13:06
Ending: Fifteen years later. Pasig River during a stormy christmas eve, a body was flushed down the murky water, blood all over it due to several stabs. It won’t be long before the cops would handcuff the teen named Darcy. The next day, they recovered the body of the victim who was recognized through the badge in his uniform:Trillanes.
December 11th, 2007 at 17:50
Baby: he is going to be my personal hell…
December 13th, 2007 at 22:10
Baby: Eep.
July 15th, 2010 at 03:45
so, how is Pemberley now?