Oedipus
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- Oedipus
- The Prophecy
- You will kill your dad and marry your mom.
- Tiresias's Warning
- The Truth Comes Out
- One day while Oedipus was enjoying dinner at his favorite Chinese restaurant, he opened a fortune cookie to find a terrible prophecy written on the paper inside. It read: "You will kill your dad and marry your mom." Horrified, Oedipus hopped on the first available flight out of town, leaving his beloved home of Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, behind.
- Death by Snake
- Oedipus's flight crashes into a saloon in a Texas town, killing Laius, the local cow wrangler. To fit in with the locals, Oedipus uses his remaining money to buy cowboy boots and a hat and a horse named Moe. Oedipus loves Moe, but not so much his dealer, Cowboy Tiresias. After handing over Moe, Tiresias brands Oedipus a murderer and because of his crimes blames him for the drought the town is experiencing. Angered by this accusation, Oedipus mounts Moe and rides off into the sunset.
- Shunned
- At Laius's funeral, Oedipus meets Jocasta, Laius's widowed wife. Sparks flew between the two as Laius's coffin was lowered into the ground, and the two got married a few days later. However, after many years of happy marriage, Oedipus discovers his birth certificate at the bottom of his mother's snake skin trunk, confirming that despite his best efforts he had in fact fulfilled the prophecy and in doing so brought a drought to his town.
- Jocasta is devastated by the news. Through her tears, she tells Oedipus about the baby boy she had when she was very young. Knowing that she could not support her child, she put him up for adoption, thinking that she would never see him again. Then, in the grief and disgust of marrying her own son, she throws herself into a pit of rattlesnakes. After witnessing this tragedy, Oedipus pulls a fang from the mouth of a snake he spots on the ground and stabs it into his eyes, blinding himself from the pain and sorrow he had caused.
- Oedipus is banished from his home for causing the drought. As he rode out of town on Moe, it begins to rain for the first time in years. He spends the rest of his days as a loner, rejected by every town in the Wild West. 
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