New Fiction Idea #15

This seems to be one of my more light-hearted novel ideas. It stemmed from my mother calling someone with a deflated-looking chef's hat "an exiled chef" and my father saying we should eat our ice cream while watching people in the gym through the front window of the building like a zoo exhibit.

Working Title: Revolution

Genre: ...Humour?

Protagonist: Lorenzo Emmerich, a twenty-something man with thin, auburn hair. He's overweight, quite annoying, and not very handsome. He does, however, have a passion and a talent for cooking.

Other Main Characters: Deirdre, an inhabitant of Sterven Island who is overweight from a glandular issue. She's not very self-confident, but she's kind and more likely to be amused than annoyed by antics.
Jonah, an inhabitant of Sterven Island who is as fit as the rest but is also an exile. He works at the port and is thus able to do some smuggling. He's a bit too much of a ladies' man, but he's not self-centered.

Antagonist: The other inhabitants of Sterven Island, who mock the exiles and cling stubbornly to their ways of life.

Setting: Sterven Island, a place where everyone is raised from birth to be a health nut and is appalled by anything remotely unhealthy and its possible effects. It is modern-day, although no one's willing to sit in front of a screen for long. Print newspapers are still popular. The island is very much secluded but is under the jurisdiction of the more normal continental landmass of Himins.

Plot: Lorenzo manages to annoy most of the officials of Himins to death (not literally), and, as punishment, they exile him to Sterven Island. Completely rejected and without a job, he wanders destitute through the streets before befriending Dierdre and Jonah, and together they decide to erase the health-freak inhibitions of the islanders, but it won't be easy. Much weirdness, "Fat Pride" parades, and artery-clogging ensues.

Point of View: Third-person, omniscient.

Certainly it would be something silly. We'll see if I ever decide to play with it more.

(Also, 50th post! Hooray! I think.)