Sunday, April 30, 2017

Stingray: Descend

The next part of the story occurs when Katrina is grown up, becoming a police officer to help New Amsterdam become crime-free. With the help of her mentor, Zulema Heard, she grows through the ranks. Aside from the dedication to her craft, she grows in strength, power and intellect, learning stealth tactics, and detective work through Zulema.

Then they get a 1403. Hostage situation at The Sienna Trainor Asylum, the last mental institution in the state of New Netherlands.

Dr. Rilkie Samhouse works to help the insane gain sanity. During a routine fire drill, one of the inmates starts a riot, taking control of the entire establishment with the help of deadlier inmates. It's up to Katrina and Zulema to save Rilkie and save the Asylum before it crumbles into chaos.
While in hiding, Rilkie finds help in the inmate that sees his Psychiatrist as an angel, a small boy with nails growing all over his body.
It's up to her, as well as Katy and Zulema, to escape what might be the last refuge for the Damned.

In this story, prepare to face insanity.

Thursday, April 13, 2017

Bigby, Clown of Justice- Story Bible

This one has been on my mind for a while now, and goes something like this:

A man discovers his ability to make people laugh. Not like laughing gas laugh, but genuinely laugh.

His life orbited around the fear of being like anyone else, just another person adding to the traffic, another body in a better man's uniform.

He discovers his talent when he joins a talent show for his community. His jokes and antics make them laugh at him and laugh with him as well, giving them a therapeutic catharsis. Yet he can't use his powers on himself, so in order to find his own way he leaves his tight-knit community to find his purpose, starting his journey in a third-world country surrounded by poverty and hopelessness. After helping families put themselves together, he joins a clown brigade, taking on the name "Bigby" after picking it from a hat.

From there he travels to another place, this time ravaged by a monsoon (possibly part 2 of the story), where he learns that laughter doesn't necessarily help heal, but can enhance empathy and calm the victims down. Grief can overpower laughter, so all you can do is empathize.

At some point he finds friends in a girl his age, who shares the opposite power (helps people grieve instead of laugh), a few others and more as he travels the world to bring happiness to the darkest places in people's hearts and minds.