More Story

THIS CONTAINS HEAVY SPOILERS. IF YOU ARE CONCERNED ABOUT RUINING THE STORY FOR YOURSELF BEFORE IT IS WRITTEN, LEAVE NOW.

I’ve unshelved my old long story. I’ve decided to write it in a series of parts, with a break in between each one. There will be at least four, maybe more, but I’m currently working on finishing the first. They will each be around thirty pages long, assuming I don’t just give up on it like I have in the past (although I like this one more, so that seems more unlikely.) This adds up to at least 120 pages, which is enough to create a large novella or a small novel. If I revise them and add more, which seems likely at this point, who knows? It could end up being quite long.
Anyway, although the titles aren’t final yet, here they are:

The First: Ruin
This is the one that sets up who the main characters are (except for one) and what is happening (although not all of it).

The Second: Aftermath
This is all told from Elea’s point of view and details her escaping from the Crusade and finding the new home of the rebels (Yes, it will be Elea. I have plans for her.)

The Third: Convergence
This is basically the buildup to the big showdown. Characters discover more about each other and themselves.

The Fourth: Terminus
The final battle, resolution, and ending. Important characters will die.

My idea for the story is to challenge the idea of “good” and “evil.” I’ve had the idea for a long time that there is no such thing as the right or wrong thing to do. There is what is socially accepted as right or wrong, and what people think of as the right or wrong thing to do, but there is no cosmic guiding force that says, “this is good and this is bad.” I’m kind of trying to explore that. Valens is abducted by the Crusade, and at first he hates them. They torture Elea, they beat him, and then they send Elea away and he doesn’t see her again. He didn’t like the rebels, however; Moneli was an antagonist in his view, even before he came to the rebels, because he was arrogant and negligent. Valens was still an idealist at this point, having led a somewhat sheltered and innocent life on Calessius. However, when Szavren, his new mentor, has time to explain what has been going on, he comes around. He has already had time to devolve to a state between idealism and realism, and he is finally shattered by the Crusade’s enlightenment. He joins them and begins to fight against the rebels.
Elea, on the other hand, has been treated better by Moneli. She made friends at Volana, where Valens didn’t, and her idealism lingered much longer than Valens’s. She escaped (with the help of another important character) from the Crusade prison, and she managed to find the remaining rebels, because she had no other home. She sees the Crusade as the baddies, because they took Valens away and kept him, and she most likely thinks he’s dead. However, when she gets back to the new rebel base, their numbers have swelled and she finds herself not recieving the same kind of attention. However, she proves herself in battle (with abilities I’m not yet going to name *wink wink*) and quickly moves up. She’s proud of the rebellion’s egalitarianism and harmony, and, while she realizes its failings and understands them, she becomes a zealot for the cause. Then, when she meets Valens again, probably in battle, both are shocked at the other’s continued life, but are on opposing sides. However, rather than the “bad” one coming around and saying that they were wrong and defecting, they argue and eventually become enemies due to their beliefs. Both of them are “right” in their eyes. Neither realizes that the other might be “right,” they just believe their own thing. That’s the big theme I’m trying to get at.

Just like Joss Whedon.

~ by pieboy on December 1, 2005.