Mission: Destroy the Marvel Universe

[mizkit]

I had this peculiar and complex dream this morning that someone was trying to destroy the Marvel Universe (and no, this mysterious villain was not a shadowy figure with giant mouse ears). The interesting thing about this particular dream was that it wasn’t an attempt to destroy it from within. Someone was trying to eradicate it from the real world

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[bellinghman]

Your subconscious is trying to tell you something.

Myself, I'd give your subconscious a good talking to, with phrases like 'not enough hours in the day' and 'so when do I get a day off' in it.

(I'd so like to read this story, though. I wonder: do you take commissions?)

"Gemma Fade"

[mizkit]

"The landscape is barren. Windswept sands, jutting stone with edges softened by time, and a hard white sun above it all. I push my hands into the sand until they are buried wrist-deep, and from there gain the purchase necessary to drive myself to my feet. I stagger a few more steps, as buffeted by the wind as the land around me is. I have no destination, no goal; all I can think are a scattering of words so remote they hold no meaning to me.

This is Krypton to Kal-El, I think. This is the red sun to a man raised beneath the yellow. This is power, stripped away.

I have no idea who I am or what I mean, but these incessant thoughts tell me that something is lost. That once, I would have understood the words echoing in my mind; that now, there's something to be regained, a battle to be fought and won. And this is all I know about myself, now:

It's reason enough to keep going."

[mizkit]

The problem with commissioning this is that 1. I suspect it's got a book-length story in it, if I wanted, and 2. I'd have to build a different universe for it to play in, because there's no way I'm writing book-length fan fiction... :)

[bellinghman]

For (1), I strongly suspect you're right. As a pitch, it sounds like a novel.

As for (2), the problem is that inventing your own universe would pretty much break the neatness of the concept. This is the sort of idea where you'd need to tell Stan and Co. quite what you wanted to do (i.e. write a 'meta' story, with them as characters) and get them to allow you to do it.

[madmiss]

eh.... is it possible to get dream envy?

[cyranocyrano]

I found her on FaceBook! But she supports Tottenham, so she can't be as cool as all that.

[bellinghman]

Ah. Google™ is your friend.

(I note this post is currently #4 if you Google "Gemma Fade". Wow. Just wow. That Nottingham girl is going to be one confused lass if she ever does a vanity Google.)

[holmes44]

that is so good and you are such a tease.

[suricattus]

Hah -- this is your brain trying to get you into yet another aspect of the industry, 'cause that's a game if ever I heard one pitched...