This story (Badass Omega) is subject to copyright with all rights reserved to the author (Fletchley Rose).
Brand names, pictures, song names or lyrics, or other copyrighted material does not belong to me; it is the property of the original copyright holders. I am not trying to steal anyone's intellectual property.
This work is loosely inspired by the classic tale of Carmen. It is most widely known in the form of an opera by George Bizet, based on a novella by Prosper Mérimée with the same name that was published in 1845. That novella was based on a local legend.
The copyrights on both those works have expired, and they are in the public domain.