This was just a vague setting based off a dinner conversation until Lola suddenly showed up, casually hanging upside-down via a bungee cord tied around one ankle and slicing open her hand, commenting on how warm the blood was.
Working Title: Bad Blood
Genre: Dystopian
Protagonists: Greg, an AB+ 16-year-old with dark, curly hair. Born and raised in the underbelly of his city, he's quite relaxed about robbery and such since society made him do it. He's muscular but underfed, short for his age, and has a thing scar along the left side of his jaw.
Lola, an A- 16-year-old of mixed European, Indian, and Chinese heritage. She's slender but toned and dresses in a punk lolita style that exposes a lot more skin than would be considered modest or prudent (given that robbing her of blood would be a lot easier).
Other Main Characters: Metra, Greg's (AB+) drug-addicted mother. She's kind when she's aware of anything, but she either can't or won't work.
Vincent (O+) and Abbey (O-), Lola's best friends. A gang of punks, they don't do much that would harm others, but they're political outcriers as well as adrenaline junkies. They have a pact to bury each other blood and all if anything happens, and they've already done this to Matt (B-), a former member of the pack who died in a group cliff-jumping escapade.
Antagonist: Basically everyone else, to varying degrees.
Setting: A dystopia where blood is currency, O- being the most valuable. Other types have begun to dwindle but still make up a good third of the population, and AB types are generally avoided or born in poverty.
Plot: Greg tries hard to survive no matter what it takes; Lola somewhat tries to survive but is more interested in sabotaging "the system" and daredevilling with her friends. Both find themselves caught up in a very illegal black market system and, deciding it's much better than what the government deems legal tender, seek to make it the real market. Their paths will cross at a few points, but, for the most part, they're followed independently.
Point of View: Third-person, limited to Greg and Lola at different times/chapters.
Still very hazy, especially plot-wise, and the twin protagonists bit may be difficult to pull off, but it interests me.
The 'blood as currency' idea is really, really creative, especially how O is worth more because it can be shared with more people, and AB is scorned because it can't. Does 'the system' just take blood samples or totally drain people?
ReplyDeleteI agree that the 'twin protagonists' would be pretty hard to do, but I think that if they meet once in a while, and especially if their stories somewhat mirror each other's (or at least have an effect upon the other) then it could work out right.
Yeah, that basic idea I owe to Meredith and Brett from school. I don't remember if the typing was the same, but they did come up with, say, drug-affected blood being less valuable.
DeleteDefinitely just samples, although people can "save up" some in their homes for bigger purchases. (I have a feeling Lola and co. might rather be near-drained, though.) And people are typically drained at death.
Yeah.