Good For Your Soul

Good For Your Soul is a story telling various points from Koutali's life in journal format.

Background
Koutali has a photo album that catalogues his life and the various events that happened to him throughout. He is extremely secretive of what is kept inside. At the end of the photographs lies a part where Koutali has journaled his life for years. Good For Your Soul is based on key events from that journal. It isn't in any kind of chronological order, more following random key events, just so the reader gets a greater insight into Koutali's personal life.

Who Do You Want To Be?
(September 12, 2021)

Koutali reflects on his life up to this point and how everything always seemed to fall apart at the seams. He recalled how his entire life he'd been led like a puppet on a string, and now he can be the master of his own fate. It's incredibly hard for him to make his own decisions and be his own person, though. He realizes that now he has to be in charge of his destiny, nobody is going to do it for him now.

Good For Your Soul
(April 27, 1987)

Milos had been disassociating hard and various thoughts kept running through his mind. He thought of how he feels sub-human with the way people have always treated him and whenever he reached out for help it seems the world shunned him more. He talks of a girl named Petronella who stalked him at school and even though she had moved away at that point the memories he had of her and even the thought of seeing her again in any way, shape, or form terrified him. Milos also talked of how even when he had other ideas, like new recipes to try out, the thoughts of her just kept coming back and he couldn't keep his mind off of how uncomfortable he felt. In the end, he reasons out that all these things must be happening for a reason. Even if they seem complicated at the moment, surely there was a lesson to be learned out of it, right? He couldn't say exactly what it would be, though.

No Spill Blood
(February 28, 1986)

Milos talks about his involvement in the mafia and the strange rules it has in place. He thinks this new chapter in his life will be beneficial to his family and their lives, though he has some doubts about it all.

Cry of the Vatos
(1998)

TBD

Fill the Void
(June 19, 1989)

Milos thinks he doesn't matter in the eyes of those closest to him. They all just want him around for their own selfish reasons, none of them actually care about him as a person.

Sweat
(September 20, 1987)

Milos was asked to 'take out' someone by his mafia boss. His nerves almost got the best of him but he realized the consequences of disobeying a direct order, especially one as weighty as this, would be disastrous for him and his family. He goes through with the act and the image of the man's eyes staring at him, the last thing the man sees before he dies, haunts Milos.

Nothing Bad Ever Happens
(October 6, 1996)

Milos considers the circumstances that led up to his involvement with the mafia and his move to the US. He decides on changing his name, going by Alonso rather than Milos, as yet another marker of trying to be a new man now.

Wake Up (It's 1984)
(August 23, 1984)

Andzelika realizes something is wrong with them and yet no-one will listen.

Dead or Alive
(August 1, 2007)

Koutali struggles with now being a cyborg and resents Lisa for bringing him back. He doesn't feel he's been a good enough man to deserve this, but then he reasons out this must be some kind of torment. His reanimation is his punishment because it is like a living hell to him.

Pictures of You
(March 17, 2008)

Koutali travels back to the old restaurant to retrieve the things he had left behind, including a beloved family album he thought he had lost. Looking through it, though, doesn't bring back good memories. All the documents about the things he'd done, journal entries from his younger self that told exactly how he felt through all of this, it seemed the things that haunted him before were destined to haunt him again, forever.

Little Guns
(July 3, 2002)

Koutali is in the back alley behind the restaurant and an uneasy feeling washes over him. He can tell that something is very wrong. He begins to hear footsteps behind him and his anxiety only heightens. Suddenly, the writing stops. The rest of the page is soaked in blood.

Trivia

 * This was Capriccio's first attempt at an album story and it took four months to complete (May-September 2021)
 * Art for this story was done by Techno Tinker
 * From 1972-1984, Koutali went by Andzelika, from 1985-1996 he went by Milos, 1996-2002 he went by Alonso Spiros, and from 2002 onward he finally settled on making his nickname of Koutali his actual name