Zenith of Desire: The Hollywood Incubus Chapter 103 103: CH : 099 Controversy, Criticism, and Suppor

Bonus Chapters Today!

We hit our first 5K collections this week, and 40 Reviews this week.. so get ready for two bonus chapter! Thanks, everyone! 🤯

Aweso news! Thanks, everyone! 🤯🎉 🎊 🥳 🎇 🎆 🔥❤️❤️ From Now on every 100 Voters, every 1K collections, 10 positive reviews will give you bonus chapter. 🔥❤️❤️

We require 26 additional Power Stone donors, 8 more reviews, and 900 more collections to unlock the next bonus chapters.

Get those stones going boys and tomboys, we need to get those numbers up!

Join my Patreon

GodofPleasure

(dot)com/GodofPleasure

******

"Everything is perfectly fine, darling," Diana lied smoothly, taking a deep, shuddering breath to compose herself. She forced a light, casual tone into her voice. "I was just calling to check in. Tell , William... did you happen to receive the package I sent for you and Harry earlier this day? The records?"

"Oh, yes! We received them, Mom. Thank you."

Diana squeezed her eyes shut, bracing for the worst. "Well... did you listen to it?"

"I've been listening to it all afternoon," William said brightly.

Diana felt a cold chill run straight down her spine. Her knuckles turned white around the telephone receiver. She forced herself to ask the terrifying question. "I see. And, um... how did you feel about it, William? For example, the second piece of music on the album?"

"It feels absolutely amazing, Mom!" William answered, his voice filled with genuine, unadulterated awe. "I'll admit, I never expected Marvin's music to be this incredible. You know I've never really liked pure vocal or classical music. I always felt that without a music video, or heavy guitar riffs, or a clear story in the lyrics, there's just no sense of imrsion."

Diana held her breath.

"But Marvin completely shattered my preconceived notions," William continued, completely oblivious to his mother's internal heart attack. "His music... it seems to have this special, almost magical ability to completely evoke your deepest emotions. I don't know how it affects other people, but it certainly did sothing profound for Harry and ."

"The second piece of music... 'I Need Your Happiness,' right?" William asked, confirming her worst fears. "I have a very strong impression of it. When I close my eyes and listen to it, it brings to mind a series of incredibly vivid, happy images. Harry said he felt the exact sa way."

IMAGES?! Diana's heart nearly stopped beating. The room spun slightly. She gripped the edge of the mahogany table to steady herself, her mind racing with horrifying visions of her teenage sons being subjected to the lust.

"What... what kind of scenes were they, William?" Diana asked hurriedly, her voice cracking slightly. "If it's convenient, um, could you possibly tell Mom about it?"

"Yes, of course," William replied easily. He paused for a mont, finding it slightly strange that his usually poised, articulate mother was speaking so hesitantly today, but he chalked it up to the bad connection.

"When I heard that second song," William explained, his voice softening with a deep, nostalgic warmth, "I didn't think about anything crazy. I just... I thought of the ti when you were still constantly by my side. Before the divorce. Before the press got so bad. I was very young, and I could vividly see you sitting by my bedside in the nursery, reading stories until I fell asleep. It felt so real, Mom. It felt like I was right back there, wrapped in a blanket, feeling completely safe."

Diana froze. The frantic, racing panic in her chest slamd into a brick wall.

"Just... just this kind of scene?" Diana asked, entirely stunned.

"Uh, yeah," William said, his voice laced with slight teenage confusion and a hint of doubt. "Mom, do you not believe ? What else did you think it could be?"

"No! No, no, no, of course I believe you, darling," Diana exhaled a massive, shuddering sigh of absolute relief. She knew her boys better than she knew herself; William was an incredibly honest young man. He wasn't lying to cover up embarrassnt.

Her brilliant, racing mind finally connected the dots. The ancient, impossible magic woven into Marvin's music wasn't a blanket broadcast of lust. It was a mirror. The song was titled I Need Your Happiness. It didn't force desire onto the listener; it magically extracted the listener's own, deeply personal, ultimate definition of true happiness and brought it to the absolute forefront of their mind.

For a fifteen-year-old boy burdened by the massive, isolating pressures of the British Crown and a fractured family, true happiness was simply the nostalgic, pure warmth of his mother's undivided love and protection.

"William's voice continued from the other end of the phone, breaking her realization. "And when Harry hears that exact sa track, he said he thinks of those misty mornings at Balmoral, hunting with Grandfather. He says he can literally sll the pine trees and the gunpowder. He can't stop smiling when he talks about it."

Diana woke up from her stupor with a start, a genuine, watery smile breaking across her face. "Really? Haha, well then, I will absolutely have to ask your grandfather to take you both up to Scotland for a hunting trip when his schedule allows."

After wishing her son a warm goodnight and promising to visit soon, Diana slowly placed the receiver back onto the cradle.

The suffocating panic regarding her children had vanished. But the psychological aftermath of the revelation left her standing alone in the quiet sitting room, staring blankly at the spinning vinyl record on the turntable.

If the magic of the song rely acted as a mirror, reflecting the deepest, most desperate desires of the listener's own soul…

'Wait a minute,' Diana thought, her face suddenly flushing a brilliant, atomic shade of crimson as the realization hit her.

William saw maternal comfort. Harry saw boyish adventure.

Diana, a global icon, the Princess of Wales, the "People's Princess"... had seen tangled sheets, aggressive passion, and the consuming, predatory gaze of the boy who had conquered her mind.

'Does this an I'm just a wicked, depraved woman? The Slut.'

Diana thought, burying her burning face in her hands once more, a mix of profound sha and undeniable, lingering craving warring in her chest. 'Is my ultimate vision of happiness really just surrendering entirely to him?' She didn't know the answer. She only knew that the eleven-year-old boy across the ocean had completely, irreversibly ruined her for any other man.

What Diana experienced in the privacy of Kensington Palace was actively, simultaneously occurring in millions of living rooms, bedrooms, and cars across the globe.

Marvin's music caused a massive, unprecedented cultural uproar upon its release. It wasn't just a comrcial success; it was a psychological phenonon.

Because the five instruntal tracks on his album—engineered with the ancient, terrifying perfection of Incubus and Elven frequencies—possessed an extraordinary, undeniable power to forcefully move people and resonate with their deepest psychological triggers..

While tracks like Battle Hymn inspired tears of triumph, the second song, I Need Your Happiness, and the hauntingly complex fifth track, Song of Enchantnt, rapidly beca the centers of a massive, global controversy.

These two specific songs were highly specialized. They were specifically crafted by Incubus to draw listeners entirely out of reality and plunge them headfirst into vivid, highly personalized scenes of their own ultimate desire. For many adults, those desires were inherently, undeniably romantic or lustful.

---

It is a haunting truth of the human condition: perfection is often the greatest provocation. You are touching on a deep psychological and philosophical paradox—that even in the face of absolute objective "good," the human spirit possesses an inherent, sotis chaotic, need to dissent.

In the theater of human existence, there is no such thing as a "unanimous light." We live in a world governed by subjective reality, where one man's utopia is another man's prison. Even if a divine force offered to bridge the deepest divides of our morality, the architecture of the human mind is built to resist total conformity.

​In the grand architecture of human nature, there is a fundantal structural flaw: The taller the pedestal of "Good," the more shadows are cast at its base. We speak of a "Universal Good" as if it were a physical law, like gravity, but humanity is the only force in the universe that can look at a miracle and call it a curse.

​Imagine, for a mont, that a God descended. Not a silent one, but a God of thunder and clarity. Imagine He offered a single pact: "If every soul on this earth agrees, I shall erase the concept of Terror. I shall end the slaughter of the innocent this very second."

​You might think the world would erupt in a singular, joyful "Yes." You would be wrong.

​In the dark corners of the soul, the .001% would stir. They would not see the end of bloodshed; they would see the end of their "Holy War." They would see the erasure of their "Liberation." To the masses, they are monsters; to themselves, they are the only ones truly awake. They would choose the knife over the peace, not because they love the blade, but because they loathe a world where their "Truth" is silenced by a majority.

To the .01%, the "worst of the world" is not the violence itself, but the status quo that the violence seeks to overrule. By calling them "freedom fighters," they don't just disagree with the "good"—they invert the very definition of it.

​Even if we moved past the political and into the biological—to the very roots of our suffering—the dissent would remain.

​If God again asked if he were to erase Cancer from the genetic code tomorrow, a new ghost would rise: Spite. There are those who have watched their world crumble as their loved ones withered into ash—those who watched their own children or parents perish only a day before the cure arrived.

To these hollowed souls, a universal cure is not a blessing; it is a retroactive insult. It is a mockery of the agony they endured. They would find a dark, twisted comfort in the "Fairness" of the disease—the idea that if they had to suffer, then the world is only "right" if others suffer too. They would vote for the darkness simply so they aren't the only ones left standing in it.

​There is an even colder segnt of the human heart—those who view Hunger not as a tragedy, but as a filter.

​To the elite, the cruel, or the pathologically "principled," the sight of a man grinding his bones for a crust of bread is the natural order. They would argue that to end hunger is to end "ambition." They would claim that the struggle is what gives life its flavor. They would watch a man die of starvation and call it "Efficiency."

There are those who believe that struggle is what defines us. They view the "grind" for survival as the only thing that keeps the "lowly" in their place or keeps the population in check. It is a cold, calculated darkness that values a "balanced" system over a "rciful" one.

​No matter how many billions are saved, there will always be those who prefer to see the world bleed, because the sight of blood proves they are still powerful enough to watch it flow.

If the sun shone everywhere at once, we would lose our sense of depth. We are a species defined by our friction. We don't just disagree because we are wrong; we disagree because, to so, the act of saying 'No' is the only proof that they are truly free.

​No matter how bright the fla of progress grows, there will always be soone standing just outside the circle, cursing the heat because they've grown fond of the cold. That .001% isn't just a mistake in the math—it is the evidence of our fundantal, ssy, and often self-destructive independence.

​So, soone ask you: If humanity cannot even find a unified voice to save its own life, how can a song expect to survive?

If we would let a child starve or a mother wither just to preserve our rigid right to say 'No,' then Art is dood from the start. A lody is a fragile thing. It requires a harmony that we, as a species, are fundantally incapable of sustaining.

The .001% is not an error in the calculation of humanity. It is the very Heart of the Human Condition. We are a species that would rather burn the garden to the ground than agree on which flower is the most beautiful. We do not want a 'Good' world; we want 'Our' world. And in a world of eight billion 'Mine's,' the concept of

'Ours' will always be a lie."

By the second week, the "Marvin Phenonon" had stopped being a success story and started looking like a ergency.

The conservative dia didn't just report on him; they salivated at the chance to tear him down. Every talk show from coast to coast featured a panel of "experts" with sweat on their brows, their fingers trembling as they pointed at the charts. The 1990s were already a powder keg of moral panic—parents were burning CDs and screaming about video gas—but Marvin yers was a different kind of monster. He was a nightmare wrapped in a miracle.

The album didn't have a single word. Not one "parental advisory" sticker in sight. And yet, it made grown n and won blush with a heat they couldn't na.

"Eleven years old!" a lead critic barked on a late-night broadcast, slamming his fist onto a mahogany desk. "Look at the composition of Battle Hymn. Look at the lyrical complexity of Song of Enchantnt. You're telling a child—a boy who hasn't even hit puberty—is the architect of this? No. Columbia Records is running a séance, and we're the marks."

******

So, after reading many comnts, I decided to go with the original: Marvin playing Kurt, Jessica playing Eli, and Kate Beckinsale playing Selene.

Join my Patreon

GodofPleasure

(dot)com/GodofPleasure