Untitled (Cosmo Cover Girl), photograph by Cindy Sherman.
As I told Matthew, I might work toward using this story as a template for a comic book script, although I can't yet be certain where that will go.
Item for consideration: Nyotaimori (body sushi), especially the "bondage sushi bar." Possible capture of hot and oversexed secret agents for use as dining ware. Generally associated with Yakuza-run prostitution. Likely Candidate: Dashing Mister Damocles, all tied up with his body carefully shaved and prepared. See also: Wakame Sake.
The exact nature of the piece's villain is as yet unclear. But, as usual, the title is: One Lone Bolshevik Against the Night, which suggests certain things.
Additionally, there is Damocles's wife to consider.
There is the question of Teiresias's sex, and the appropriate pronoun. Her? Hir? She is generally female presenting but I have not yet fully plumbed her depths, so to speak. Additionally: why her civilian identity dabbles so heavily in fashion and architecture.
Possible use of the eunuchs, Pomp & Dada?
Additionally: surveillance culture, a variety of narcoctics, celebrities as fertility god/dess fetishes, the future is now, "Every unspent orgasm is a bullet in my gun," exotic weapons, big game hunting, The Avengers, the advertizing business, and Blade Runner.