Danny

We are lost on the Metro,
it is a complex ordeal. Amelia has to get back to Jersey before it gets too late,
or else her parents won’t pick her up from the Trenton train station.

She isn’t too keen on walking home from the middle of the city.

The maps here are baffling,
to a yorker, they are probably second language, but they make as much sense
to me as multivariable calculus, which isn’t much.

Different strokes.
We figured it out after pestering a few impatient yorkers,
and some patient ones too.

We have to take the 1 Train up from Chambers St,
to 34th St, and then hunt around for Penn Station, because
we can never find it, and we always say that it’s because it’s
underground.

Maybe if it was above ground we could find it sometimes.
I guess yorkers find it ok.

Cycles Character Designs, part 1

I'm having trouble starting character dialogue in the cycles comic, so I am trying to flesh out the characters' personalities a bit more. I did some rough sketches of their appearances.

Cycles Thematics

Here is another study of the thematic progression in the Cycles script.

DRAFT IV

THEMATIC OVERVIEW:

THE ROMANTIC PROGRESSION
(1)time, (2)nostalgia, (3)obsessive love, (4)loving kindness, (5)time ideal
THE PROTAGONIST'S'S PERCEIVED "CYCLE"
(A)age, (B)sadness, (C)stress, (D)love, (E)work, (F)epiphany, (G)death, (H)afterlife
THE PROTAGONIST'S TRUE PROGRESSION
(B)self unlike, (3/B/C)self loathing, (3/D)obsessive love, (4)loving kindness

THEMATIC PLOT:
(1)Anthony feels pressured by time. (2)He dwells on nostalgic thoughts of a past relationship with Jacquie; (3)the relationship is highly obsessive and meaningless. (B)Jacquie realises this and tries to break it off, but Anthony delays it by (3/D)feigning emotional stress. (4)It works for a while, but eventually ends.
(3/D)Anthony begins a new relationship with Sarah, a human embodiment of (4)loving kindness. However, his emotional manipulation toward her drives her to (B)disregard her own needs, and eventually she becomes (3/B/C)self-loathing. Her parents divorce, and she leaves with her father. Anthony is left with nothing but the (3/B/C) knowledge that his own selfishness has cheated Sarah out of her divinely-inspired (4) loving-kindness. By the end of the story, Anthony comes to respect her decision to escape him for himself; and he mutually understands her selfishness. In this, he somewhat transcends (3/D) his obsessive love for her and Jacquie.

CAST:
Anthony
Anthony is intelligent, he is able to make friends because he is personable. He is empathetic, though extremely manipulative. He is the embodiment of obsessive love in this story. By the end of the story, this selfishness necessitates a shift toward loving-kindness.

Jacquie
At first, Jacquie is unfamiliar with emotional relationships. She'll do what she thinks is expected from her, and has little ability to deny Anthony the objectification of her own body and mind. However, she sees through his manipulative nature, and leaves him. Anthony salvages the relationship by pleading depression, though it doesn't last long.

Sarah
Sarah is a devout christian, she is extremely selfless and wants nothing more than to help others. She sees herself in Anthony's misleading demeanor. Eventually, his selfishness leads her to from loving-kindness into self-disgust. Contemplating suicide, she eventually sent away with her parent's divorce. The break from Anthony leads her to once more understand herself, through the loving christian God she was raised up by.

Gilgamesh

I found a few comic scripts I came up with a while ago. This one is based on Gilgamesh and is hardly started. I dislike it greatly, and I think it was meant for character development (it has no story to speak of). I am posting it for archival purposes.

PLAYERS:
VERA: androgynous protagonist
FLETCH: mad storyteller
EKINDU: escape
SPACY: mad guide

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PRETEXT: EXCLUDE THIS.
# where am i?
# how did i get here?

..


# where are we?

# alive

# alive, where?

# in ephemeral emotion

# i don't quite understand.

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vera: excuse me, ma'am, i fear i am lost!

oh, well i am quite lost myself, though i know who you may get direction from

which way is that?

you go up the road to the fork, you bear right, come upon the small town of Phillipsberg,

Philipsberg, got you..

Erik runs the inn there; he can give you direction

thank you

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excuse me, sir, i fear i am lost! i am looking for an Erik?

fletch: erik, he is the ruler.

i am looking for him.

he is a wild man, you may do better to not course erik

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fletch: read, children, white words on paper

oh, don't mind fletch, he's mad

vera: mad?

quite mad.