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The guy goes to my church. Pretty successful guy. Talked to him once, wanna talk to him again but never have the time for a long chat so I gotta build up the courage to do it. >.< What I want to do is present this idea to him and see what he thinks of it.
I want to write a comic that is based on parkour and Jesus.
Imagine yourself in a world where information is closely monitored and anything about God or Jesus or the Bible is censored. It is against the law to be a believer in Christ or God--if so, you will be punished either by death or worse. Depends on how zealous you are for your convictions. So the only way to avoid being monitored is to go where nobody monitors you--on the rooftops. There are no bugs up there to watch or hear you, or detect your presence. Why would anyone be on the roof?
Enter the traceurs and traceuses for Jesus. They hold a meeting upon rooftops and in unmonitored places called Rooftops Ministries (still working on it, dun criticize. wait, scratch that, criticize and tell me what I can do to fix it). There they discuss the bible--not just hold sermons. Everyone is involved. (This is what I hate the most about church--you sit there and LISTEN to someone you don't know with people you don't know. I like small groups where everyone is involved.) So this small group of traceurs come and discuss the bible, yadda yadda, but it's not without its risks. Some people suspect that there are those on the rooftops, hiding in secret, doing "illegal" things. They hire other traceurs of the evil kind to take care of them, so that their peaceful world without God can go on being peaceful without these ruffians running about. Also, it's well known that anyone who captures a believer or has any information on how to bust these believers will be rewarded handsomely, so it is literally them against the world.
I want two main characters, a boy and a girl, plus a father figure of one rooftops ministries group to be in it. The leader (father figure guy) will die in the first volume so that no longer are the two teens protected by someone they trust--it will be them on their own, to survive without shelter, something like that. It's not your typical high school drama. Children die from bullets in this story--and it's not because someone was involved with the wrong gang at the wrong time.
I would like two main characters of different genders so that I can reel in audiences from both sides--not just girls or boys. Besides, I can't see a person in this world who doesn't think that Parkour isn't cool. It's supremely rad. It's beyond all kinds of rad on this planet. I wish I knew the ways of Parkour, but no way in my area is there going to be a parkour team. It's just too freakin hot.
"What I want to do is present this idea to him and see what he thinks of it." I'm stingy with my ideas, ha. I dunno that I EVER share my story ideas till I'm done :3
ReplyDelete"I want to write a comic that is based on parkour and Jesus." Parkour is awesome!!! And so random to incorporate with Jesus o.O
I like the idea of the rooftops being safe. It reminds me of the Lostprophets song "Rooftops- Liberation Transmission." (Hey, wait! Didn't both you and I write an entry about the song on the same day in Creative Writing? I THINK WE DID!)
"They hold a meeting upon rooftops and in unmonitored places called Rooftops Ministries." This really reminds me of the Green Day song "Jesus of Subrubia," how the 7-11 is compared to a church, like it's the modern church full of drugs/trouble for teens, nowadays.
As for the titling of "Rooftop Ministries," I see nothing wrong with it, although, to make it REALLY clever, I think it'd be awesome if you were to make it a secret acronym that just blows everybody's mind, the way JK Rowling pretty much blew MY mind when, later on in the HP series, she revealed Ministry of Magic, in acronym-form, is MOM, which is like a feminist big-brother thing.
"I would like two main characters of different genders so that I can reel in audiences from both sides--not just girls or boys." You mean "sexes," not genders. Sorry, I'm just picky about that kind of thing---I hate when people mix the two up, cuz, like, I have GID and all that ^^U
"I wish I knew the ways of Parkour, but no way in my area is there going to be a parkour team." Wait, where ARE there Parkour areas, and where the heck did you learn of Parkour?! I'd never heard of it till you mentioned it and made meh research it!
I first heard of Parkour playing Mirror's Edge (of course >.>). It's a pretty rad game. It's simple to beat, but the real gameplay is in finding new ways to get from point A to point B in no time. I don't think there would be any parkour teams headquartered around here, because you have to use your hands alot to climb up on things, and frankly its just way too damned hot to touch anything in this heat.
ReplyDeleteWhat IS the difference between sexes and genders?
That would be cool--making an acronym out of all of it. I'll try my best and see if I can come up with anything good, but I'm not very good with the name-creativeness stuff. >.<
I heard that song like a BILLION times and never knew the real meaning of it. I guess I never really dug deep enough. Green Day wasn't exactly a band I would expect to have artistic hidden meanings in their music, but I guess they do. 8D
Yeah, that's pretty much the only song from LostProphets I actually like. I really liked the music video--it was kewl. 8D And I never really thought of it that way--paralelling a song about rooftops.
I'd also like to think that in my comic, I can mix something I'm passionate about with something I would like to be passionate about. 8D That statement's open for interpretation, so I'll lay it out clearer--I'm passionate about Jesus and want to make it cooler for teens like me who think church is boring by mixing in some Parkour action. I don't see anything inherently evil in Parkour. It's all about running, climbing, being active. You have to be a crazy traceur if you do drugs and parkour at the same time because it's not hard to fall off of a building while you're high and break all of your bones and die. So I would like to think that true traceurs don't do drugs. Maybe run away from authority with their mad skills, but that's the same idea with my comic--running away from those who are prosecuting them in order to spread the word. 8D
I like to share my ideas when they're new and fresh and get people's opinion beforehand so that I can know what to expect in the future. Will my audience like it? Will it send the right message? Will my area suddenly have a parkour team of its own, instigated by my idea? I would like to start my own parkour club, but I don't have the slightest idea about parkour. I would need an expert to help me start. None of them live where I do. >.<
OMG I TOTALLY HAVE THAT GAME BUT I'VE NEVER BOTHERED PLAYING IT CUZ I HATE COMPUTER GAMES!
ReplyDeleteAll I ever do is listen to the soundtrack, which, what, consists of about the same song over and over, just re-mixed?
My dad got the game for me, when I first entered college, as a journalism major. Apparently, it was supposed to help introduce me to journalism, cuz something like you've got to pass messages around and there's tons of censorship---actually, it sounds a lot like your story, just not on rooftops and not with the Bible XD
Also, sex is what you physically are, however you determine that, whether it's by actual genitals, secondary characteristics, chromosomes, hormones, etc. (Although, contradictions can arise). Gender's what society deems is "manly" or "feminine." So like, in the past, it was considered manly to be artistic, but, now, it's girly to be artistic.
I'm really frustrated by how society uses the terms interchangeably, probably cuz they're afraid to use the word "sex."
I hate how, on doctor fill-out forms and all, it says "gender." It's like, "But what if I think I'm manly?! Can I check the male box, plz?!"
And, yeah---that definitely is a cool music video. I thought it was sad, how all those teens were like, I dunno, working or fighting and all.
AND I WOULD TOTALLY JOIN YOUR PARKOUR CLUB, IF I COULD! IT'D BE TOTALLY BETTER THAN PLAIN RUNNING!
And, wait, I didn't know you were athletic? (No offense, sorry---I just thought you weren't interested in sports; no one else in creative writing ever was >.>)
I'm not interested is sports--I really hate sports with a passion, at least the ones that include hitting things (anything--other people, balls, testicles... xDD) I like running, but my lungs are so out of shape. I used to be able to run forever when I was little, but I can't sprint but fifteen feet now and my sides hurt and my lungs are collapsing. >.< Parkour would be so much fun, because not only do you exercise your leg muscles, but your arms and abs too, but only if you're climbing something, like a wall. 8D
ReplyDeleteMirror's Edge is also a 360 game if you have one and it only costs more or less 20 dollars at the nearest gamestop. xD It's not really about the messages you pass around or anything, actually. You never read them. What you are, in essence, is a courier to those who are anarchist against this nosey government. The government monitors everything, from your emails to your snail mail to who can come into the city and who can't. But it's just the city that does this. Dunno why the whole country isn't into it, but when you're running away from snipers and helicopters, dodging bullets by millimeters, you don't much care why everyone else isn't getting into your business. xD
I see now--I'll get on someone's case the next time I have to fill out a form with "gender" on it. xD "What if I feel manly or transexual?" "Just put male or female, ma'am." "BUT IT'S NAWT THE SAEM." "ಠ_ಠ"
I'm pretty bad, but I do it, anyway.
ReplyDeleteJordan Dickerson got me started, like, two years ago, I think.
And ahh! How'd you make cool eyes like that? D:
I had to find them on wikipedia. xD Apparently you type in alt + 3232 but all that comes out for me is á. :\
ReplyDeleteBut yeah, that's the "look of disappointment" that's made its meme famous throughout the interwebs. xD
Got you started on parkour or Mirror's Edge?
I WISH!!!!
ReplyDeleteJordan did, casually, invite me to go hiking with her sometime, though. Dunno if she was serious---at FIRST, I thought she was, but then she got all backing-out-y, like she started to with running :/
When I go running, now, though, I think about parkour. I'm like, "Aw, man! If I were a traceuse, I'd totally be a failure! What am I DOING, running in a circle?! I could have cut ACROSS the circle, and cut my time in half!"
Or, I'll pass by walls and be like, "If I were a traceuse, I'd SO totally be able to leap up there and have killer arms/abs, ha."
Or, like, "I WANT TO WALK ON YOUR MINIATURE FENCE, PLZ!!!" when I see a small brick wall.
As for Mirror's Edge, I dunno, really. Maybe I'll try playing it, sometime, but I really feel like I prefer handheld games, like DS games, plus, my computer sucks. I'm making excuses again, aren't I? D:
I don't like computer games much either. I've never played them, but I expect them to be extremely difficult if you only have a keyboard. Mirror's Edge is much easier to play with a controller. But do try to play it on PS3, because the 360 has a millisecond lag on it. This lag = utter failure if you're not careful. To say the least, you need Jedi skills to be killer at it on 360. Not neccessarily to beat it (its not hard to beat), but just to be at the top of the leaderboards.
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