Free Range Manibalism

"Free Range Manibalism" is the fifth episode of the second of the television show Xavier: Renegade Angel.
Plot synopsis
By collecting roadkill and attempting to sell it to a restaurant called "Natural Causes" (to gain access to their bathroom), Xavier discovers that the livestock inside are given more freedom and pampering than the glue-huffing hobos outside of the establishment. As he is thrown out in slow motion, the hobos reflect on why glue should be legalized and how Xavier has "been here for six months". Xavier then figures that he can simultaneously give them the luxury they deserve and relieve himself in the restaurant by taking a large amount of pigskins by distracting the people in a sporting goods store (by chanting "sports" and causing them to chant with him) and gluing the material to the bums' suddenly pig-shaped bodies. Xavier explains that if they are to simply act like "the hogs they are", they will go undetected as humans and be treated like livestock royalty. The plan works and one of the bums then reveals upon being treated with respect from society that he was huffing glue to forget his nightmares of war (images of exploding fortresses, Trojan Horse camels, and dressed-in-black Abu Ghraib prisoners are shown in loops in his eyes). Meanwhile, his associate is basted in lotion too long and dies, permitting the restaurant to serve him to its customers and unknowingly infect them with "Mad Madmen's Disease". The customers begin to act like the uncontrollably bumbling, nonsensical bum once they bite into him while the hostess claims that he was tainted. Xavier deems this an act of "manibalism" (a play on cannibalism) and informs the more coherent hobo. He snorts a line of tacks as a step up from his glue inhaling in response and allows Xavier to recall himself as a youth, questing to learn the properties of healing from his guru-guide, Chief. Chief explains that in order to heal, there must first be a wound. He claims wounds as doors in which in which more suffering can escape, and hits Xavier on the head with a shovel, explaining that pain is only a mental sensation. Breaking from his reverie, Xavier begins to guide the distraught hobo into facing his fears and performs the same act on him. Through this, the bum witnesses his aura, which Xavier explains as the "ultimate ethereal glue that entwines the ego with the universal field of consciousness". The bum misinterprets this as a euphemism for literal glue and begins absorbing others' auras (starting with the children of the dance studio they broke into) as a source of getting high. Xavier denies a hit from the hobo's growing aura stash and claims that the pain he is feeling is his own fault. The bum's aura (now a conscious entity) finds offense in Xavier's blaming of the victim and makes him taste the pain. Xavier refuses to let this abuse deter him and with the help of the dance studio children, attempts an "inner-vention" with the aura. The aura begins to mimic the attitudes of a stuffy daughter of Xavier's and desires to break free from the bum "she" is attached to. She separates herself from the bum and runs away, claiming that Xavier is not her "real dad". The bum does not handle being abandoned again well, and requiring an even stronger adhesive, staples his arm repeatedly. Xavier then vows to be the aura and bum's Cupid by getting what he believes to be these soul mates reunited. He watches as the aura eats something out of an abortion clinic's dumpster, experiments with drugs, and makes a snow angel in a massive puddle of her own spiritual vomit. He claims that he is biding his time here, waiting for a true wound to form in order to heal it and help her. The time comes when the aura begins to take in other hosts in order to give them "soul-jaculations"; the equivalent to prostitution. Xavier goes under the cover of thousands of mustaches to her pimp's brothel and gains access. He finds her citing strength and independence as reasons she is happy and deciding to stay in her position. Xavier requests to fill her "whole" himself to get her to back out of the job. She accepts reluctantly, aiming to prove her determination by taking him inside of her. She fails once she becomes too disgusted and makes a snow angel of her vomit puddle again. She says her standards are too high for Xavier (who she sees as family) and just then a sheep from the Natural Causes restaurant arrives with the hostess for a service. On top of that, Xavier catches a glimpse of a sore on the aura's shoulder (an STD: Spiritually Transmitted Disease). As he is being thrown through another window out of the brothel, he recalls another moment from his past with Chief in which he demonstrates the properties of chaos using monarch butterflies, which Xavier now believes is poised to swallow the town. He returns to the present in time to witness the spread of the same type of aura sore he discovered earlier. The wound begins to cover the entire town and transports the bum's "spiritual reality" through it. As the town is attacked by the bum's now-physical nightmares, Xavier re-dons his mustache jacket and fires a javelin into the casing like an arrow. This results in the town transforming into a Christmas landscape as Xavier reflects on the importance of the holiday as well as Veteran's Day. Re-encountering the bum, he discovers that he was never in combat and has now turned to stone by smoking too much cement. Still under the influence of the vow that he made to reunite the bum and his aura, Xavier pushes the bum's rock-hard body into the gaping shoulder-sore of the weeping aura. The sore suddenly absorbs everything around it and transforms the town back into its alternative Christmas landscape as well as the bum into Santa Claus. He communicates the purity he now feels and proclaims his decision to make all spiritual experience substantive as mayor thanks to Xavier's doing. Xavier then bursts out of the Santa-hobo and finally feels fulfilled enough to have a souljaculation. He does and it sends him skyrocketing into the night sky, proclaiming "The butterflies of spiritual chaos are hatching!".

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