So I’m going to be writing Transmundane for the next month for Script Frenzy. I have done, like, nothing on the project so far, so I need to do a lot of plotting and skip the research now, getting right into the hard part. Plot and characters. Here I go!
Characters and Plots:
I made physical representations of the characters. It’s not quite how I imagine them, but there’s at least something to work off of considering I only came up with their named when I was saving them.
Brooke The first girl and works mostly as a framing device. She is utterly typical high school girl. She doesn’t stand out, blending into the crowd and daydreaming about being more than she is. The story is going to open with her dreaming and we will meet the rest of the cast through her eyes, then follow her around for a bit while she tries to figure out why there are recurring people in her dreams and daydreams.
Plot: Brooke will start out with a dream. She will wake up, go to school, encounter best friend on the way to school and they will talk about how the friend has a boyfriend and Brooke only has a crush. Said crush will invite her to a party and Brooke will spend the day daydreaming, but see those people from that morning’s dream again.
That night, she will actually talk to said dream folk and start to come into the world and learn more, but be pretty much just a visitor there. She will encounter Gunnar and learn more, and Aries and Fumi will run across her and Selene will show up, not realizing she’s “one of those” and there will be more exposition.
On the reality side, Brooke will be getting ready for said party and end up having to drive for the night. This won’t be a big deal, except the climax will happen and she will get pulled into the dreams while she is driving. And then there is climax and at the end, she can’t get back to reality and her date.
SageOne of the first people that Brooke encounters and one of the leaders of the separate factions of people who are inside the collective subconscious. He had a falling out with Gunnar a while ago and they have a little history together. He also maintains more of a teaching role, showing the new guys around and letting them decide for themselves, though is unhappy when they choose not to follow him.
Plot: Sage is going to start off by showing Brooke the basics and teaching her what she needs to know to survive, mentioning none of the parts about changing people by changing their inside scapes.
When he lets her go off to discover stuff all on her own, he meets up with Paige, Fumi and Aries for a bit of an update about what’s been going on. They report a growing number of people in the other side, that growing number being about seven, and how they aren’t actually doing much yet, instead working to organize their efforts and maybe get one more. They have some plan in effect to actually get more recruits to help change the world for the better. They don’t know what else to do beyond this, though.
The story from there with Sage revolves mostly around him trying to find out what’s happening with them and running into Gunnar to exposit about their pasts well. He accidentally lets slip about Brooke and Gunnar goes off, Sage not sure if he should go fix it or let her make up her own mind. He lets her go, instead worrying about planning for the climax.
PaigeA girl of many accents, Paige is generally a happy, peppy person to be around. She is quite independent, happier to go out and do things on her own so that she can handle them her own way, but also quite outgoing and social. She also has some history, though does not like to talk about it, frequently moving the topic to other matters or simply leaving if she doesn’t like where it’s going.
Plot: Paige hangs around with Sage for quite a bit at the beginning and is the one sent out to go collect Fumi and Aries when Brooke goes. After the meeting, she goes off to do a little spy work, watching Gunnar and eventually confronting him. They used to be allies and he knows all about that past she’s running from, giving her enough reason to up and leave before the painful memories bring her back to her own scape.
She runs and ends up with Aries, who is in the process of clean up. They exchange notes and Paige goes to see Brooke, who she knows is around there somewhere. They chat a little and she goes off to do more things I haven’t thought of until the climax comes around.
GunnarThe so called antagonist who will try to sway Brooke to his side with promises that she’s going to be able to make a better world if she goes ahead and helps people. He’s actually a very nice guy, charismatic and honestly believes that what he’s doing is for the best.
Plot: He starts off with Paige encountering him. From there, he does mostly exposition and ends up paying a visit to his old friend, Sage. After that bit of exposition, he goes out to plant a few seeds in Brooke and checks in on her now and then.
The third time of doing so, though, he is stopped by Selene, who is more mocking than anything else. She disapproves and he doesn’t care, instead assured that Brooke will come to him in the end.
He moves instead to his plan. There are a lot of minds in the world that need changing and they don’t have the manpower for it. They need to bring more people in for things to happen. AMBIGUOUS EVIL PLOT. TO BE PROPERLY DEVELOPED LATER.
SeleneQuiet, but confident, Selene prefers to watch, wait and let things come to her rather than going out and making things happen. She is unaligned in the whole matter, instead enjoying her freedom and doing as she likes without worrying about what side she should or should not be a part of.
Plot: Brooke is the first person to encounter Selene. She doesn’t much like that she’s already chosen sides and that they’ve recruited her out of the womb, so to speak. She tells Brooke that there’s always another option and then goes off to have her fun.
She’s mostly bumming around, expositing about some of the cool stuff you can see and do in this particular situation, having mini adventures and playing along in dreams like she told Brooke to do.
Eventually she runs into Gunnar, who is on his way to see Brooke. She stops him and they obviously have a little history as she’s entirely too friendly and a touch malicious when she does talk to him. Still, not her problem and she takes off once he leaves the girl alone.
Still, she is curious about what’s going on and finds Fumi, who, as it turns out, was her brother when they were awake. He fills her in and she gives him a couple tips about what she knows about the situation too.
From there, she considers actually getting involved, watching and getting too close to the whole thing until she is caught in the midst of it all at the climax.
AriesHappy, outgoing, but distinctly odd, Aries seems to be on the run from something as much as Paige is. He is quirky and curious, more interested in poking around and figuring something out than actually doing anything very proactive. He’s often seen trying to get Fumi to crack and actually say something.
Plot: After the meeting, he follows Fumi around and annoys the crap out of him until he eventually loses him. At this point, he goes back to his usual pattern, finding recently reconstructed scapes and putting them back to the way they were before the effects start being acted upon.
Paige eventually comes by and they talk a bit, both alluding to bits and pieces of their past. Once Paige is gone, he goes back to trying to track down Fumi, instead heading back to a place so he can get ready for the fight he knows is ahead and spying on the people who are doing things.
When he does find Fumi, he ends up hiding because of Selene and finds out about him. Not sure what to make of it, and his own previous experiences with Selene which are alluded to back with Paige, he leaves to go blow up some things. And then there will be climax after that.
FumiAnother odd kid, he keeps to himself mostly when Aries isn’t trying to get him to talk. When he does talk, it’s usually something pretty important and otherwise he ends up leading the way to trouble and works with Sage to organize matters.
Plot: After he finally loses Aries, he ends up going to an information centre which is his own scape. He, apparently, has cameras that watch everyone else that is on their plane and ends up spying for a while, stepping into them and getting a good idea of the people who they are looking at gathering instead of watching over the actual offending people invading the places. He also occasionally sends Aries a tip on where to clean up next.
He reports to Sage what he’s learned so that he’s got something to work with and offers some ideas on what exactly the plan is.
When he returns back, he finds Selene already there and they talk about the past and what’s going on. Fumi fills her in and generally tells her everything, warning her to stay out of it. He is not pleased to see her in the climax.
Notes about the universe and whatnot:
- Time is completely non-existant while in universe. No need to make time lines add up because any given area is time-wise moving faster or slower than the other ones.
- Freud and Jung need not apply. This is going to be a set of several universes where everything will mean something different to different people, so it’s not really going to make sense to use Freud, though elements of Jung will get to stay. But is everyone mentally the same? Who knows. Dream dictionary can screw itself, though.
- The evil plan involves pulling people into the place permanently. People with similar ideals so they will join and together they will all be able to change the minds of enough people so that they can make the world a better place.
- Need to figure out names for the awake people. Brooke’s strand is going to involve a lot of back and forth between reality and not. Also, forgot to mention at some point she’s going to change something for the better and it’s going to end badly, so she’s not going to do it anymore. Maybe give friend’s boyfriend more confidence sort of thing.
- Fumi is the only scape we see besides a glimpse at Brooke’s.
- The scapes are a temporary name. I need a better one. Also, think of them like Outbacks from The Maxx.
And that’s what I got so far. Script Frenzy is going to be very interesting this year.
If you want to help, give me more dreams. I can always use a few more dreams and daydreams. Otherwise, I’m going on autopilot for the next month, with everything pre-written and pre-made so I can write. Wish me luck!
