Stories and characters you have written

[Gentleman_Reptile]

In the interest of highlighting just how clever and creative we young einsteins who visit the Escapist can be, what are some original stories and/or characters you have created yourself?

Short stories? Movies? Graphic novel concepts? Anime? Mythologies? Comic characters? Fanfiction?

Share some of your favourite creations and hopefully discuss it with like minded individuals.

Here is mine:

I have been writing an anime series in my spare time for about a year now. A hyper-violent medieval fantasy, about four immortal angel sisters who protect the last civilized city on earth from the savagry and strange warriors from the outer badlands.

The main character is Talia, the second youngest of the four sisters. She is warm hearted and playful, but also a formiddable warrior. She is the strongest of her kind, but her sword, which has been carved from the bones of earths last fire-breathing dragon, is mysteriously poisoning her.

The series is about Talia and her sisters struggling to defend their stronghold all by themselves, whilst trying to discover just why their city is the only one left on the face of a war torn earth.

 

[Palademon]

I like thinking of stories. But unfortunately, since I suck with characters, they're either extremes of personality traits or super ego'd author surrogates.

One character I'm happy with though is one I had to write in the role of while doing descirptive writing of a sinister street of houses, like a horror type thing. I made him the estate agent and basically had him being a sarcastic smart ass about the disturbing features of places, and occaisonally getting crazily paranoid.

I'd say other ideas, but they'd either seem cheesy without proper enterperetation or someone may steal them.

 

[Casual Shinji]

I got a buttload of characters and stories in my head, but I'm too self-conscience to share them here (or with anyone for that matter).

That's why I'm a cartoonist, so I can draw them instead of talking about them.

 

[k-ossuburb]

I've written tonnes of things in the past; I'll be writing and illustrating a comic series sometime next month, I've written exploratory short stories based around various aspects of the human condition and NaNoWriMo is coming up tomorrow, so I'll have a novel by the end of the month.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

I haven't got the plot details sorted out yet, but I have my protagonists pretty much sorted. My favourite is Amaya, an Immortal (haven't thought of a better name yet) of her race (haven't thought of a name for that yet either). An Immortal can live forever, they seem to inherit combat skills from those Immortals who came before them, even if they aren't blood related, so they are very good fighters, quick, strong and quite hard to kill (a spear through the gut usually won't take them down) and heal very quickly. The power of an Immortal doesn't manifest itself straight away however. It typically takes the good part of century for their power to become realised. They were deemed enough of a threat however (by the enemy nation in the story) to wipe the vast majority of that race and their Immortals out (they had become lazy, and did not fear an attack, and were wiped out because of it). Amaya managed to escape the genocide after seeing her family killed, her father especially, who fought a to the last only to be killed by a traitor (who is also an Immortal).

This event triggered her powers to manifest early (she's 20 years old about 12 at the time of the attack) and as the story progresses, she is discovered by the other protagonists in a gladiatorial arena, being used my the baron/king/emperor as sick entertainment. In combat her right arm glows red with strange runes, her eyes turn from an emerald green to glowing ruby red and her pupils always have a certain golden spark in them if reflected in the right light. She is cold, closed off and logical. This will be basically be the first time she's ever had to work in a team. It will be interesting to see how she develops friendships with the other characters (especially the cocky womaniser). Her fighting abilities can best be described as... Think of Neo in the second Matrix film when he's fighting all of the Smiths. Not that overpowered of course.

Here's a picture.

Spoiler

 

[Jezzascmezza]

I'm writing a novel right now as a bit of a hobby.
I'm not going to say what it's about because I'm completely paranoid about plagiarism.

Please don't laugh.

 

[Daipire]

The King Of The Skyscraper. (That's a character)

A man's mind stuck inside a child's body and personality, shows just how obsessed we are with power and how far we'll go to retain it, how people can leave those they love and go down a darker road for that power.

And he's the comical relief...

 

[Alexnader]

I submitted some backstory for two planets in Pardus (online space MMO). The first one I did was for a desert planet and it was a little weird however I really liked my story about the Ice planet. I managed to subtly work in some compliments for the player who was in charge of that planet at the time. Unfortunately she may never see it because the mods in charge of updating the planet backstories is inactive and nothing's getting done.

 

[rabidmidget]

I aspire to become a Game Designer, so I do create the occasional story for games will probably never be made.

I'm currently working on one for a survival horror, which seems better than most of the crap I churn out, long story short, at the end he finally reunites with his daughter, who he was searching for, just as the world they're in collapses and they both fall into an eternal nothingness, together.

 

[tombman888]

Well, me and my group of friends (6 of us) all designed characters for ourselves and my GF which is one of those 6, uses those characters for drawings, comics, and just random pictures, Where-as I use them for "putting our characters in a game i like and then writing a fan-fic about them" I've got one going right now which is based on TF2 and the HorseMann, and its quite fun.

I've also created my own characters for a Spyro Fan-fic, but that died when i got to chapter 5... still want to get back to it though.

Then, theres another friend of mine (not one of the 6) who is dreaming to become a Writer of fantasy books. I was thinking up ideas with her about plots, places, characters and stuff like that. Shes says i'm a good writer, but i don't really think i am.

Then, i draw. What i draw is completely random. sometimes I'll draw our characters, somethimes it TF2 characters, or nightmare before christmas, or Spyro, or pokemon. but i like drawing alot.

 

[Gentleman_Reptile]

I haven't got the plot details sorted out yet, but I have my protagonists pretty much sorted. My favourite is Amaya, a Immortal (haven't thought of a better name yet) of her race (haven't thought of a name for that yet either). An Immortal can live forever, they seem to inherit combat skills from those Immortals who came before them, even if they aren't blood related, so they are very good fighters, quick, strong and quite hard to kill (a spear through the gut usually won't take them down). The power of an Immortal doesn't manifest itself straight away however. It typically take the good part of century for their power to become realised. They were deemed enough of a threat however (by the enemy nation in the story) to wipe the vast majority of that race and their Immortals out (they had become lazy, and did not fear an attack, and were wipeout because of it). Amaya managed to escape the genocide after seeing her family killed, her father especially, who fought a to the last only to be killed by a traitor (who is also an Immortal).

This event triggered her powers to manifest early (she's 20 years old about 12 at the time of the attack) and as the story progresses, she is discovered by the other protagonists in a gladiatorial arena, being used my the baron/king/emperor as sick entertainment. In combat her right arm glows red with strange runes, her eyes turn from an emerald green to glowing ruby red and her pupils always have a certain golden spark in them if reflected in the right light. She is cold, closed off and logical. This will be basically be the first time she's ever had to work in a team. It will be interesting to see how she develops friendships with the other characters (especially the cocky womaniser). Her fighting abilities can best be described as... Think of Neo in the second Matrix film when he's fighting all of the Smiths. Not that overpowered of course.

Here's a picture.

Spoiler

Thats really awesome dude. I wish I had the patience to properly draw my characters.

 

[The Salty Vulcan]

Right now I'm righting a fairytale (similiar in scope to The Last Unicorn and The Never Ending Story) that features an anthromorphic personification of the night. He appears as a four armed, turbaned, blue child who likes to act brave and order people about. He falls in love with the Day, confronts the King of Secrets etc.

 

[C117]

Well, I've thought of a couple of stories, I've just never written any. Like a vampire story I thought up a while ago.

In this story, vampirism is not a magical curse or something like that. Instead, it is a sexually transmitted disease that maxes out the victims body potential, making them much stronger, faster, more durable and enhancing their five senses. Unfortunately, this also means that the victims almost constantly needs new blood for their bodies, otherwise they will age rapidly, reaching a physical age of 80 within a matter of days. It also makes them almost blind in direct sunlight, since their senses become too strong.

The main character, let's call him Jack, is an ordinary guy who is infected with the vampire disease after a one-night stand together with a beautiful woman, let's call her Rachel. After slowly realizing he has turned into a vampire, Jack is visited by a man from the government. They know about the existence of vampires, and informs the public, including Jack, that anybody who is suspected of being a vampire will be killed, in order to stop the disease from spreading...

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Snipe

Heh, thanks. That was the last drawing I did actually. Haven't really felt like drawing anything since, and that was 2 years ago.

 

[Daipire]

I'm writing a novel right now as a bit of a hobby.
I'm not going to say what it's about because I'm completely paranoid about plagiarism.

Please don't laugh.

That's fair enough.

I tried to make my description as confusing as possible.
It's sort of like your idea is a part of your mind, and if you tell someone they'll get credit for what you spawned and emotionally connected with.

W00t, I'm so intellectual-ness.

 

[Charisma]

A hyper-violent medieval fantasy, about four immortal angel sisters who protect the last civilized city on earth from the savagry and strange warriors from the outer badlands.

The main character is Talia, the second youngest of the four sisters. She is warm hearted and playful, but also a formiddable warrior. She is the strongest of her kind, but her sword, which has been carved from the bones of earths last fire-breathing dragon, is mysteriously poisoning her.

The series is about Talia and her sisters struggling to defend their stronghold all by themselves, whilst trying to discover just why their city is the only one left on the face of a war torn earth.

Sounds about as good as a lot of anime out there. Has some pretty solid potential and sets up an interesting mystery early on. Unanswered questions are pretty great ways to capture and keep a reader's interest.

Visuals will help a lot. A great art style with a lot of super imaginative visual themes and objects (focus on the sword, because a sword of dragonbone sounds like it would look badass) will add a level of quality to the work and make it many times more accessible.

Another option you have is to take the Sailor Moon approach, hyper-sexualizing your angelic main characters. Skimpy battle raiment and spunky personalities. Yeah it's cheap, but it works.

My own work (and I'm going to try to be as brief as I can here) is primarily a musing on a hypothetical joining of a very modernistic urban setting with fantasy elements mixed in. Yeah, I know this is so overdone it's absurd, but here's the distinction:

Most stories like this (Buffy, Dresden Files, Harry Potter, the Matrix, any superhero story ever, etc) the fantasy element is either very new and unique, or on the very fringe of society and few if any normal people know it exists at all, but in my world the fantasy element is part of the status quo.

We have a massive city spanning half a continent where modern conveniences are based on magic, not technology. Toasters, blenders, TVs, telephones, refrigerators (called iceboxes), microwaves (called flash ovens), all run on magic.

There are a lot of other layers going on though, like the cataclysm a few hundred years ago where all the Old Gods died and a hundred years later one single god rose from the ashes to reign supreme, so we get the awkward social transition from polytheism to monotheism. We get a semi-authoritarian One God and his Church of arrogant priests who have way too much political power. We have a fairly unique magic system based on language and real science; words from the Eight Tongues of Magic, Aero-, Geo-, Hydro-, Pyro-, Psycho-, Bio-, Chronomancy, and Antimagic, can be mixed and matched to produce highly diverse and potentially incredibly powerful effects.

And into this endless urban wasteland five dumb teenagers emerge trying to find out who they are and what part they'll play in the growing struggle for dominion over their little valley, the city, and eventually, the heavens themselves.

Sorry if that was a little long, but you should probably brace yourself for this kind of thing. Everyone these days is writing a book or anime or movie, and they're just dying to tell you all about it.

 

[drbarno]

When I was a lot younger I did have a character who was a talking Raptor named Raytor (I'm very good with giving my characters any good names) that was esstenily fighting and stopping random SuperVillians, having fun in the process. I think it was kind of inspired from the Captain Underpants books.

 

[Technocrat]

I'm cobbling together a series of adventure games [http://www.bigbluecup.com/games.php?action=detail&id=1368](Technobabylon, working on episode 2 at the moment) featuring a young woman named Latha Sesame.

I figured that Sri Lankans as a group don't get enough representation in games, so her ethnicity is thus. She's an addict of a deeply-interactive medium that's a descendant of the internet, is agoraphobic, and is living in a squalid and messy state-provided apartment. She has absolutely no drive to improve herself or her current situation in the real world, content to remain within her virtual bubble of solipsism, and maintain her body only as much as she needs to to remain alive.

While she's somewhat frail, the time she's spent developing her mind will come in useful, now that someone has disconnected her from the outside world, and trapped her within the apartment.