This idea was sort of awkward, since it hit me in the middle of singing a hymn. I managed to push it down until the devotional was over, though it still interested me afterward.
Title: Crumbling
Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller, perhaps?
Protagonist: Emilia, a ghost of undetermined age that was about 16 when she died. She has long, wavy brown hair and is rather tall and thin. She's a sort of hesitant person and can be a coward, but she's capable of really caring for others.
Other Main Character: Joel, a 16-year-old Protestant boy of about half-Latino blood. He's rather fun to be around, though he's usually shy, and he has the ability to see ghosts.
Antagonist: Not sure—probably just time.
Setting: Earth, somewhere in the future during a cumulative apocalypse, including a lethal virus, major storms, and tectonic actions. I haven't yet determined what I want to cause a dead person to be trapped as a ghost, but I'm aiming for something different since I don't want this to be a murder mystery.
Plot: Emilia hadn't taken action to free her soul for years, but when the world starts to crumble, she has no choice but to take action if she wants a fate other than perishing with the earth. The first Seeing human she can find is Joel, who may not be an expert on ghosts but promises to do what he can.
Point of View: Third person, omniscient.
This one's certainly not as fleshed-out as some of my others, but I thought it was worth noting here.
That sounds really cool, too! I like the idea of ghosts having to free their souls to move on. It's much nicer than the idea of ghosts just being stuck as ghosts.
ReplyDeleteHmm, maybe she could still be a ghost because she had too many unresolved issues when she was alive? Or she didn't know what she believed in (if different religions go to different heavens or whatever) so she was stuck behind until she figured it out?
Something like that would certainly fit her character. Probably wouldn't go for the second one, but maybe something to do with the former would work. :3
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