for permanence --
some thoughts for stories and world-building (for permanence so I won't lose this on tumblr)
Worlds to build:
The Vermillion Cloak (based on colors)
Characters to create:
A closet nerd. Or, perhaps not so closeted. INTP/INTJ, highly analytic thinker, consistently finds parallels and connotations and double meaning in speech, extremely precise in word choice, highly observant. Aversion to most complex social interaction (prefers to observe), learns observation and deftness of reading individuals and groups out of necessity (explore potential avenues for fractured personal histories). Social/interpersonal naivete beyond platonic and familial relations.Tends to over-analyze.
Draws to observe, observes to draw. Reads: everything. "There is a line of poetry for everything."
Flower language (double meanings in everything), rejects roses as common. Character has tendency to reject the common ("If someone mocked my race? Not a creative question, not an important one -- race is simply another box to check on an application, another category under which an individual is sorted into, another box we have to want to fit into. Boring. Next question.") Tendency to leave off first-person pronouns.
Avoids emotional conflict, craves mental conflict when he knows he can crush opponents intellectually, uses physical conflict as an outlet and a way to learn restraint.
Worlds to build:
The Vermillion Cloak (based on colors)
- a priest with vivid green eyes, nut brown skin, a vermillion cloak
- mild satire/commentary/criticism on globalization and British Imperialism (India); FICTION, created world
- flawed main character, Imperialist POV, ego- and ethnocentric, attracted whilst simultaneously xenophobic (slightly, he is an explorer after all).
- Clash of "Western" thinking vs. "Eastern" thinking: balance vs. opportunity
- Irreverent of culture (novice);
- character development: to seek love is to seek a middle ground; it is not merely the wanting for the physical but the acceptance of the spiritual (love is patient, love is kind, it does not boast, it is not proud.) Further development -- environmental responsibility/balance vs. economic takeover (the promotion of balance and human flourishing in lieu of environmentally destructive wealth). Character moves from mental cultural homogeneity to mental cultural diversity
- themes (conflict): cultural warfare, ethnocentrism, evangelism & conversion (religion), industrialization
- themes (resolution): balance, integration, isolationism (?),
- influences: The Travels of Marco Polo, Casanova (sans sexual exploits), should read like an autobiography of a traveling nobleman or explorer (upper-middle class)
- color themes: vermilion, viridian, saffron, ochre, scarlet, turquoise, cerulean
- images to visualize: henna-painted eyes, red dye tinting everything (if this was a movie, color palettes would be in the range of reds and oranges, blues and greens as small accents, black as baselines and neutrals)
Characters to create:
A closet nerd. Or, perhaps not so closeted. INTP/INTJ, highly analytic thinker, consistently finds parallels and connotations and double meaning in speech, extremely precise in word choice, highly observant. Aversion to most complex social interaction (prefers to observe), learns observation and deftness of reading individuals and groups out of necessity (explore potential avenues for fractured personal histories). Social/interpersonal naivete beyond platonic and familial relations.Tends to over-analyze.
Draws to observe, observes to draw. Reads: everything. "There is a line of poetry for everything."
Flower language (double meanings in everything), rejects roses as common. Character has tendency to reject the common ("If someone mocked my race? Not a creative question, not an important one -- race is simply another box to check on an application, another category under which an individual is sorted into, another box we have to want to fit into. Boring. Next question.") Tendency to leave off first-person pronouns.
Avoids emotional conflict, craves mental conflict when he knows he can crush opponents intellectually, uses physical conflict as an outlet and a way to learn restraint.