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ravenswept) wrote2011-01-17 07:04 pm
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Butterfly Massacre
A very nebulous idea at the moment, but one that might have potential down the line. At the moment, I just fear it's genre.
Butterfly Massacre is looking to be a paranormal romance, and by god I hope it pulls alimiinal and transmorphs itself into something more before the end, because PR is not a genre I thought myself apt to write. I'm helping it along by trying to avert the romance as hard as I can, because I don't really think, as it is now, that superpowered A is going to fall for normal B without a lot of concession, not just for 'teh luvz". Also, I'm hoping to play (successfully) with comes PR tropes.
No names or anything of substance yet, just a bunch of ideas. But I kinda like what it's looking like. Our hero is the female half (I'll call her Angela, because that seems rightly cliche), and she gonna be a hundreds-year old demon. A straight up hell-spawn, no half-assed pansied curse shit. She comes from the Hellz. I never really got why the girls in these things always had the be the weaker sex, so right off the bat I'm avoiding that. And there's no soft, weepy story of woe and such; back in some teen numbered century, Angela commited a sin of some kind (to go to hell you'd figured it be a biggie) and got sent to the basement. There's some background demonology stuff about how the longer a soul is in hell the more demon-like they become, with the level of sin speeding or slowing the process. So, yeah, our girl's not exactly a sweet meek princess.
The guy is a normie, your basic squishie human. And he's annoying (to her at least). He crushes hard on Angela when she shows up at his school, and being a stupid male thinks that he can impress her by trying to protect her. Really, all he's doing is putting himself, and more imporantly her, in danger. She'd like to just let him be taken down, but because of rules she can't let civvies die under her watch. But for the most part he's more an annoyance to her than any real help. I'm tempted to keep him like that and just avert the romanace altogether, but something says that wouldn't quite work. Maybe.
I'm making sure there's a reason a demon of hell is in high school as well, it's not just happenstance that she's there to kill time. It's sure not for gym class. The reason Angela is out and about is she's trying to get a second chance. It doesn't happen often, and the rules to do so are numerous, but she's still trying. To get out, she has to kill one hundred loose demons, whose whereabouts she isn't quite sure of. She got word that one was hiding in a high school, having it's way with a few students already, and is trying to track it. So loverboy is getting in the way a lot when she'd rather be hunting. Part of the annoyance is that if anyone dies while she tries to take a demon down, her tally is added to; three steps forward, two steps back.
If the story goes beyond just one part, the thing would be to take her out of school. She has no reason to be there once the demon is taken care of, and she cares more about clearing her record than staying until graduation for a boyfriend. Also, to keep those like her from just lolly-gagging their time on earth, there's a limit to how long she can just not do anything. She doesn't have to get a kill by a certain time, but she does have to have some effort to show; it's kinda like welfare, you don't have to get a job (per say) but you still have to put out applications.
There's some more to iron out, but that's the jist of it. I don't plan on attacking it right now, but it'd be something to diddle with now and then for fun.
Butterfly Massacre is looking to be a paranormal romance, and by god I hope it pulls a
limiinal and transmorphs itself into something more before the end, because PR is not a genre I thought myself apt to write. I'm helping it along by trying to avert the romance as hard as I can, because I don't really think, as it is now, that superpowered A is going to fall for normal B without a lot of concession, not just for 'teh luvz". Also, I'm hoping to play (successfully) with comes PR tropes.No names or anything of substance yet, just a bunch of ideas. But I kinda like what it's looking like. Our hero is the female half (I'll call her Angela, because that seems rightly cliche), and she gonna be a hundreds-year old demon. A straight up hell-spawn, no half-assed pansied curse shit. She comes from the Hellz. I never really got why the girls in these things always had the be the weaker sex, so right off the bat I'm avoiding that. And there's no soft, weepy story of woe and such; back in some teen numbered century, Angela commited a sin of some kind (to go to hell you'd figured it be a biggie) and got sent to the basement. There's some background demonology stuff about how the longer a soul is in hell the more demon-like they become, with the level of sin speeding or slowing the process. So, yeah, our girl's not exactly a sweet meek princess.
The guy is a normie, your basic squishie human. And he's annoying (to her at least). He crushes hard on Angela when she shows up at his school, and being a stupid male thinks that he can impress her by trying to protect her. Really, all he's doing is putting himself, and more imporantly her, in danger. She'd like to just let him be taken down, but because of rules she can't let civvies die under her watch. But for the most part he's more an annoyance to her than any real help. I'm tempted to keep him like that and just avert the romanace altogether, but something says that wouldn't quite work. Maybe.
I'm making sure there's a reason a demon of hell is in high school as well, it's not just happenstance that she's there to kill time. It's sure not for gym class. The reason Angela is out and about is she's trying to get a second chance. It doesn't happen often, and the rules to do so are numerous, but she's still trying. To get out, she has to kill one hundred loose demons, whose whereabouts she isn't quite sure of. She got word that one was hiding in a high school, having it's way with a few students already, and is trying to track it. So loverboy is getting in the way a lot when she'd rather be hunting. Part of the annoyance is that if anyone dies while she tries to take a demon down, her tally is added to; three steps forward, two steps back.
If the story goes beyond just one part, the thing would be to take her out of school. She has no reason to be there once the demon is taken care of, and she cares more about clearing her record than staying until graduation for a boyfriend. Also, to keep those like her from just lolly-gagging their time on earth, there's a limit to how long she can just not do anything. She doesn't have to get a kill by a certain time, but she does have to have some effort to show; it's kinda like welfare, you don't have to get a job (per say) but you still have to put out applications.
There's some more to iron out, but that's the jist of it. I don't plan on attacking it right now, but it'd be something to diddle with now and then for fun.
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My dear, dear friend... welcome to the gates of hell. :D
I love the title right off the bat. If the romance wants to bubble to the surface, let it bubble. It might be off-beat since initial circumstances are already different from the typical PR formula (normie girl, supe boy, love at first sight), but you're a true storyteller. I've got full faith you can make it sing. Or scream, as the case may be.
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Oh such words of comfort you bring. Oh well, as long as you're beside me I'll tough it out.
I too love the title; I was at a B&N, and for some reason thought of Jeff Goldblum, then of chaos theory, to butterfly's flapping their wings, and then the Valentine's day massacre, and suddenly I had a new Rorschach title. Didn't think I'd have a story for it so fast (my original genre for it was sci-fi/fantasy/mystery).
If I was going to get in trouble with the story, it'd be on the love triangle part; I'm so tempted to add a female angel that catches Angela's eye, someone who can fend for themselves and not need her protection all the time.
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Okay, now I'm not just intrigued, I'm fascinated. What would the normie have that keeps him in the running?
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All she really feels towards him is a sense of obligation; she's not a total bitch as to just let him die (with or without the backtracking it would cause her goal), but she's apathetic enough to just let him follow her around without caring. She's gone from the school once the kill is done, so there's no reason to put any energy towards it one way or the other.
He could try embuing himself with demon essense or something, trying to put himself on her level, but that'd only cause him to be put on her hit list, since most of what she's after are "unsactioned" demons.
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Or maybe he injects himself with something that draws demons in, if you want him to be more of a creeper in addition to someone who just gave himself MORE trouble to get out of. Could be a good reason to have Angela hang around with him, both knocking off her quota and keeping his ass safe.
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AWESOME. Still annoying, but at least serving a purpose. Then that way she can yearn herself for the angel (who would have her own issues with a demon relationship) but still have to keep him close by to make sure he isn't offed.
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(By the by, are you interested in a chat tomorrow night? No idea if any others will be there, but I'll be hanging around. :))
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On the by, sure thing. Tomorrow, tonight, whenever you want ;)
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