Here We Go Again... STTR REVISED Story Bible

Well, it's happening. Disney is releasing a remake of Peter Pan, with the Director of Pete's Dragon directing. And it's coming out in 2018.

STTR is being heavily redone now, so I'm pretty much in the same place when I started this whole shindig. A big movie's release date becomes a deadline, I end up publishing STTR around the same time as the movie is released and barely get any results. Well, hopefully, it goes better this time, as the book is slightly different than before.

Well, here it is, the synopsis for the new version of Second to the Right:

London was no place for legends, for fairies, or tales of adventure. The grown-ups had forbidden childish behaviors, replacing them with good manners and priming for adulthood.

Yet there were whispers of a child, a dirty-haired boy named Peter who soothed children to sleep with his pan flute, roamed the streets, and saved children from Grown-ups' grasp by sword or by cleverness. This boy, a heartless, joyful, and clever child, with a knack for sword-fighting, dreamed of reaching Neverland again after his shadow got torn off by pirates.

Through his adventures with other children, including gangs of thieves and a young bookseller, he learns more about the world around him, including how terrible mothers are. After narrowly escaping the clutches of Captain Hook once again, he lands on the doorstep of Elizabeth Robertson, a precocious rebellious girl who hides him from her inventor-turned-investment banker Father and her strict Mother. She gives him the name Peter Pan after his trusty Pan flute, and her Mother tries to take him in as a son she never had. As Captain Hook, with his trusty crew and a wise Mr. Smee, draws closer to the child, Peter finds that his shadow had been torn off again, only this time by a dog's teeth. She glues it back onto him using a bar of glue soap her Father invented, before the alarm clock.

He realizes he can fly and brings Elizabeth to fly above the clouds with him. They are soon encountered by Captain Hook again, only for Elizabeth to be captured. He uses another flying ship with Elizabeth's father to catch up to the Jolly Roger and dispatch of the crew. Peter fights Hook as their ship travels further along to Neverland. After Peter cuts off Hook's hand, thanks to Father Robertson distracting alarm clock, Hook swears revenge as he and Smee escape from the Jolly Roger to rebuild their crew. Peter flies the ship back to London, per Elizabeth's request, as Peter Pan flies back to Neverland, finding the Lost Boys and ultimately flying back to the same house, where Wendy, John, and Michael Darling now sleep.

What do you think?
Let me know!
Thank you, have a great weekend, and I'll see you in the sunlight!

(Firewall Story Bible coming up if you want.)

Interceptor: Mutiny, story bible

Right after Descend, Katrina admits herself into a mental institution. With the help of new love, some truly selfless people, and her own mind, she slowly pulls herself back together to become even stronger than before. She grows mentally, physically, psychologically and spiritually, praying for the first time in a while. She comes home a changed woman, now more than Interceptor or Stingray- she's Katrina Gevra, and she'll do whatever the hell she wants.

She quits the force, brings out her old turntable and starts making beats that gain traction using her Snapout! account, which she never thought to do. After making waves in the DJ world, now known as DJ Stingray, she joins other DJ's in small parties across the world, making enough to live in a tiny apartment uptown.

Then, while working a house party downtown, the city is rocked by an attack on the TL Arena, where Echo Riley had been performing. Katy rushes there and using only her superhero gloves, brings a few girls to safety amidst the chaos. While the night rushes by, she sees the horrors of war all over again. This time, she doesn't cower, nor boil her blood; she looks out to the distance, wondering who could do this, before some fellow officers escort her away.

Soon, a new breed of vigilantes rise from the ashes. Led by a woman named Magna-Girl, an assortment of heroes hunt down the perpetrators of the attack, asking to recruit Katy. She joins in on the fight, with her acumen of the different police districts and detective skills she learned from Zulema, as well as the calm mind of a freshly reborn person.

It's up to all of them to save New Amsterdam. Some things never change, just the people like Katrina Gevra.

The Veil in the Void- Story Bible

Here's the story so far: we're introduced to two people at a friend's wedding, each with a different perspective on the situation at hand. The groom's table becomes an AA meeting for the single friends, moderated by the Groom himself, while the Girl's side is rife with gossip and complaining (not sure, let me know if this should be fixed)

They cross paths at some point, whether by look or by Matchmaker. Either way, they quickly reject the other maybe? Or they immediately don't see the good in the other's profile or pictures, so they ignore each other's profiles?

EIther way, the Matchmaker meets the two of them individually and learns about their personalities, including the boy's connection to his past through certain stringencies for boys against touching girls, and the girl's dreams of the perfect guy, each of their poems collide, with the final verses mirroring each other. Then she sets them up with completely different people (opposites attract, so in essence I'm putting them on their right track).
It fails miserably, leading to the girl's absolute disdain for the system and Matchmaker's soliloquy about how she's a messenger of G-d, not G-d (if you had it planned all from the start, why bother breaking these poor kids' hearts? What are you a sadist, a backbreaking savage, that controls all of this, are you getting the jist, of my issues at hand, yet you stand there, you stand, away from our problems like we're supposed to solve it!).
She arrives at her apartment, disgusted by the fact that she had to spend money on a taxi (you never know with the terrors abound in the A train), and bumps into the boy. They share a glance and continue on their way.

Sooner or later, one of the girl's friends sets her up with a complete mess, backfiring and lowering the girl's self-esteem all in one accidental mess.
The boy doesn't get it any better. The girl he's set up with by a stranger is an absolute misfire (why did I decide to do this? Leave my safe open too long, the bandits will strip it, etc...)

Then, the Matchmaker, in a Tevye like fashion, sets them up with the perfect match- two totally different people that had been in the background the entire time with the two of them.

They could never be happier. Yet disaster strikes to the boy. She breaks it off for no good reason, leading to him questioning everything (...). The Shadchan presses her for answers, but she barely can answer.
As for the girl, she starts asking herself if he's the one, while the boy, in a drunken stupor, asks if she was the one.

The girl brings up to her date that she wants to go even more serious, yet the boy becomes an absolute mess. After talking with a Rabbi one Sunday, he learns the idea of "we're never ready for what we have yet to get".

As he hears a massive commotion down the street, near his apartment, he sees that the girl he had seen before just got engaged (She escaped!). After her friends leave, she hears something upstairs, reminiscent of a song she had sung before (is he/ was she the one requiem), where he's asking her, through the floor, if she really is happy with a guy. She asks for clarification, but he just tirades about how marriage stinks and how our religion makes it this way (Judaism is a bad sale).
She answers that it takes a commitment to one another that makes it special. She talk-sings the requiem for how he's the angel she's always dreamed about. He asks if she really told her secrets, and lets loose on himself about how he always gives them away (the treasure map).

She finally answers with the fact that when they're older, nothing will change. You'll still want grand-children (legacy is the fancy word for reproduction success), you'll still want them to stay in the faith, you'd be miserable if they went down the path you've been taught to avoid.
In the end, they go their separate ways, him in a constant search for meaning, while she walks down an aisle.
That is, until we skip to when he meets someone at that girl's wedding that also doesn't understand the matchmaking process (Judaism is a bad sale requiem). They talk for months afterward and the boy, older and wiser, is able to make his own decisions and get down on a knee, despite the fact that the two of them have less friends than they'd hope (there's elbow room at the engagement).

As the engagement period commences, we hear the boy call up the girl asking for advice (the worst is yet to come) on how to plan the wedding (like the wedding song from Journeys).
After a frantic 3 months, everything is ready. He walks down the aisle, and the main crux of the whole story begins. (The Veil in the Void). The room darkens and no one else is there. He stares into a void, a dark space where every one of his failures comes back to haunt him.

Then a light appears, in the shape of a white veil. He sees something he's never seen before, something holier than anything he could have imagined. Beyond time and space, beyond everything- he finds the other part of his soul. As they merge into one being, OUR STORY CONCLUDES.

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.

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.

Story Bible- Stingray

Let's begin with Interceptor, one of the most ambitious stories I've ever tried to make.

It takes place in a city called New Amsterdam, a spin-off of New York where the Dutch and Irish built their own miniature world in America.

Two sisters, Sara and Katrine-three years apart, reside in the rich parts of society with the grace of bored princesses. To escape from their affluent world, Katrina turns to music while Sara turns to mayhem- using an illegal jetpack to raise hell upon the city. When she's caught, it's up to Katrina, lovingly called Katy by Sara, to clean up the mess she made or let the police handle it. Then again, there wouldn't be a story if she chose the latter.

As she takes the mantle of the Stingray, the suit's alternate name, she brings her own form of justice to New Amsterdam. As she learns what it means to have a purpose, Katrina dives head on into the crime world Sara helped to revive.
The city of New Amsterdam will have its own hero as Katrina becomes someone different than the shadow her sister made her out to be.

Staring into the Void- Story/ Poem Idea

This is the most personal story I can write at this point. In the Jewish world, there's an aspect of dating where there's a medium in between called a Shadchan, or matchmaker. You all know about this through songs from A Fiddler on the Roof or other things, but you may not know of headaches, heartbreaks, and frustrations that come from it.
This hopes to not only shed a light on those problems but also the happy ending that usually comes from these matches and dates. This collection of poems will be called "Staring into the Void" and will have a few specific scenarios:
-The pressure when you come of age
-seeing everyone else getting married before you
-signing up to dating websites
-getting matched for the first time, and the massive failures that follow
-meeting someone through a friend, only to realize that your friend doesn't know you at all
-meeting the girl and doubting if she's actually the one you're willing to sink your love into
-the difficult breakup and heartbreak
-the mismatched match and inevitable frustration at the matchmaker
-the matchmaker's dilemma
-asking the same question from before, except from her point of view as well (kind of like the first one as well)
-the milestone dates
-meeting the parents
-the time to ask the big question
-calling the parents
-the veil and the void, as your soul finds its other half

These are some of the ideas as of now, but I'm willing to expand it. I hope to start it soon, maybe on this blog. We'll see.