![]() Tam Lin pretends to comply, but instead helps Matt escape and sets him on the road to Aztlàn. Alacran then orders Matt’s bodyguard ( Tam Lin) to dispose of him. The old drug lord flies into a rage at that, suffering a final, fatal, heart attack. Celia then reveals that she has been feeding Matt small doses of arsenic for a long time, which, while relatively harmless to Matt, would likely kill the frail El Patron. Emilia is whisked away to a convent, and Matt is taken to the hospital and to El Patron, who confirms that Matt was indeed created as an organ donor. Matt and Maria attempt to flee the wedding, but are caught by Steven and Emilia. Later, at Steven and Emilia’s wedding, the festivities are thrown into disarray when El Patron suffers a heart attack, meaning that the Matt’s heart (which has been carefully tended) is now required. He decides that El Patron must be grooming him as a successor for the cartel. Matt is horrified, but manages to convince himself that El Patron would not have done all the generous things he has for Matt if he were simply planning to slaughter him. He learns that most clones are injected with something to mentally cripple them at birth, making them little better than drooling animals/organ farms for when the old man’s various ancient organs start to fail. He remains blissfully unaware of his true identity and purpose, until an almost offhand joke reveals that he is one of many clones of El Patron. Upon discovering this, El Patron is horrified and commands everyone on the estate to henceforth treat Matt with respect, even granting him his own room, bodyguard, and tutors.įor the next several years, Matt lives comfortably in El Patron’s mansion, even befriending Maria and beginning a budding romance with her. Alacran, realizes Matt is a clone and locks him in a room, where Matt spends several abusive months. ![]() He is then taken to El Patron’s mansion, where his injuries are treated. One day, he is discovered by three children (Maria, Steven and Emilia) and attempts to escape from them by jumping out of a window, hurting himself badly on the shattered glass. For the first six years of Matt’s life, he lives with El Patrons’ cook Celia on the edge of the Alacran estate. The protagonist, Matteo “ Matt” Alacran, is in actuality a genetic clone of El Patron, and is slated to be harvested for his organs. The House of Scorpion begins in a dystopian future, on a violence-torn strip of land between the United States and Mexico (known as Opium or “Dreamland”) ruled over by powerful and unnaturally long-lived drug lord El Patron. Written by people who wish to remain anonymous We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. This wiki currently has 49 articles ready to be edited.These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. But escape from the Alacrán Estate is no guarantee of freedom, because Matt is marked by his difference in ways he doesn't even suspect. Escape is the only chance Matt has to survive. El Patrón loves Matt as he loves himself, because Matt is himself.Īs Matt struggles to understand his existence, he is threatened by a sinister cast of characters, including El Patrón's power-hungry family, and he is surrounded by a dangerous army of bodyguards. He is a boy now, but most consider him a monster-except for El Patrón. Then he was placed in the womb of a cow, where he continued the miraculous journey from embryo to fetus to baby. Matt's first cell split and divided inside a petri dish. His DNA came from El Patrón, lord of a country called Opium-a strip of poppy fields lying between the United States and what was once called Mexico. ![]() Matteo Alacrán was not born he was harvested. NOTE: THIS WIKI IS STILL VERY MUCH UNDER CONSTRUCTION (ALSO THERE ARE SOME GRIEFERS WHO LOVE TO GRIEF THE WIKI FROM TIME TO TIME, WE ALSO FIX IT AS SOON AS WE NOTICE) ![]() WARNING: THERE WILL BE SPOILERS ON THIS WIKI FOR THE HOUSE OF THE SCORPION AND IT'S SEQUAL, THE KING OF OPIUM! ![]()
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