I still don't know what's going on in this story. I just want to play with the characters. Do let me know if you like the plot, though. It's hard to think of anything that hasn't been done a million times in the superhero-type genre.
Working Title: Suture
Genre: Fantasy
Protagonist: Sven, a 17-year-old young man with very yellowish blonde hair kept chin-length. He's tall with hands a bit too large, and he's more enduring than strong physically. He has a dark sense of humour, is a bit irresponsible, and has rather low moral standards towards those who aren't his friends. He has the ability to seal up any wound, tear, fissure, etc.
Other Main Characters: Anna and Anya, 15-year-old identical twins with short, brown hair styled in the same single forward swoop. They're of average height but very slender. Both wear headbands—Anna's pink, and Anya's yellow—but will take them off or switch them to fool people. They're very much tricksters, although on a petty level, and they love cute things, fawning over boys, and swimming. Both are telepaths, with Anna able to control sugar crystals and Anya salt crystals.
Midas, Sven's 19-year-old brother. He has dark blonde hair kept reasonably short and about the same physique as his brother, although a bit more muscular. The quiet type, he prefers to be alone, usually listening to classical music or sketching architectural designs. He's intelligent but can be incensed quite easily and usually lashes out in such situations. He has the ability to control others' circulatory systems by taking a baton and conducting.
Jethro, a 30-year-old man with dull red hair and a fairly heavy build. He's infuriatingly patient and determined. He tries to be an agreeable father figure. He has the ability to touch an object and temporarily give it an extreme temperature, either hot or cold depending on the object.
Antagonist: Harrison, Jethro's brother-in-law and a very physically strong man with dark hair. He is influential in a prosthetics manufacturing company, and normals are entirely unaware of his self-termed "osteophagy." While he is able to consume food without ill effects, he must eat human bones for energy—a simple task when he can pluck any bone straight out of its owner and let it melt in his mouth.
Setting: 1980s California.
Plot: One year after a handful of people fall ill with a stomach bug and also happen to gain powers, Jethro starts putting out advertisements for those affected and rounding them up. As Sven and the others try to get along, Harrison starts his own forceful recruitment, and the protagonists soon discover that Harrison is preparing to start a wide-scale dispersion of a lethal pathogen. Having been accidentally exposed to its predecessor, Sven and the others are the only ones who can enter the pathogen creation/storage complex to shut it down.
Point of View: Third-person, omniscient.
I see you put in some of those superpowers you were talking about! I think they're very creative ones, definitely more interesting than just the usual super speed, telepathy, flight, etc. and it would be cool to see how the protagonists manage to win with such unusual powers.
ReplyDeleteThe plot is pretty good. It's different enough from something like X-Men, where the main problem comes from people hostile towards the mutants, or Superman, where the main villains just want to destroy/take over the world, to work. I do recall several X-Men plots where a villain wants to disperse something that turns everyone else into mutants, though, so it might need a little tweaking. Does Harrison want to do this so he can eat the bones? Are only the bones of superpowered people nutritious for him?
I really want to work with these powers (at least of the protagonists; Harrison's was recycled from an old character), and I have no idea yet how or if they'll mesh. It ought to be fun, though.
DeleteHarrison's not trying to give everyone superpowers, nor does he specifically need the bones of affected people. The initial mini-outbreak wasn't even supposed to happen; he's just trying to kill people (either because he's psychotically depressed and wants to end everyone's suffering, or he still has some sense and just wants to off a third of the human population).
It's still very subject to change, though. The bioweapon element is just what came out of it when I decided the superpowers came via virus.