Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Santa Begins



-Kris Kringle and Cupid (his reindeer) stumble through blizzard; trees light up in colors, before Kris is incapacitated by blowdart, sees eyes in the darkness, then a boot, then blacks out.
-He wakes up in bed in shack, meets pop and Martha, learns about the towns on both sides of the mountain, and the curse of the endless winter.  Pop also explains the territorial forest elves, and that the tree lights are their alarm before they attack.
-They call Kris "St. Nicholas" because he has an icon on a pendant around his neck.
-As pop is baffled, because no one left or entered the mountain since the curse, until Kris, he makes deal with him, to be a delivery boy between the towns, in exchange for lodging for him, and for Cupid to stay in Pop's stables along with the other reindeer.
-Goes to bar with pop, learns on the way about Ivo and how he pillages "tax collecting" on behalf of his father, Kubla Kraus, only to return to the bars the same night and secretly introduce the money that was taken back into the economy.
-Kris sees Ivo using a man's sick daughter as leverage for a trip into the woods to steal a magic bag from the forest elves.
-He volunteers on his behalf, and Ivo fails to strike a new deal with him to save face, as Kris won't be tempted by worldly pleasures (what would st Nicolas do?).  Ivo breaks down and insists he goes with.  So does Martha.
-They talk in the woods about his father and the curse, and the "legend" about how his dad had kidnapped his mom, who was the love interest of Jack Frost, who responded by surrounding the mountain and the two towns in an infinite winter.
-They are interrupted by an elf ambush.
-Friends are separated in the chaos, and Kris is kidnapped.
-Kris gives gifts to the elves, explaining that he was sent to steal a magic bag, but was hoping to strike a deal instead.
-They ask for a doll he has on him, which clearly has sentimental value to him, but without explaining, he willingly gives it up.
-The elves are moved, and after taking his jacket and boots as well, they give him the magic bag and release him into the woods.
-Meanwhile, Ivo retreats back to his carriage, which Martha criticizes him for, calling him a coward, however, he was simply retrieving magic time stop gloves he has, which he intends to use on a rescue mission because "he likes Kris".
-However, Kris shows up shivering with the magic bag, smiling from the successful mission.
-When they turn to leave, Kris starts crying.

-Kris makes a delivery to a schoolhouse, Ivo and Martha tagging along with the bag for some reason.
-Kris and the school teacher, Jessica, seem to have chemistry in their first interaction, both being jolly.
-Kris gives toys he made to the kids "for St Nicholas day", and finds an old hat in the bag, which the kids use for a snowman they built in the schoolyard.
-While the adults are talking and bantering, and Jessica is asking Kris if he's got kids himself (which he doesn't answer) the snowman comes to life and escapes into the woods.
-Ivo wants that hat, figuring it must be a magic hat, and Ivo jealously collects magic items.
-They go on the hunt for Frosty (which they named the snowman), and after some antics, finally catch him.
-Ivo changes his mind along the way about depriving the snowman of his magic hat, for the sake of the children (who were born after the curse, and whom he would inherit with his kingdom).
-When they return to the schoolyard, they discover that his dad, Kubla sent his mechanical steampunk soldiers to steal the toys from the children.
-Infuriated, Ivo dumps Frosty out of the bag and storms off to have words with his dad.
-Ivo and Kubla have heated conversation at castle about the dangers of religion on an empire, and how the subversive and rebellious nature of that sort of hope and practice must be squashed in order to maintain effective authority.
-Ivo sneaks the toys out in the magic bag
-He discovers Kris sneaking around town at night to give more toys to the kids, but he doesn't have enough left for everyone, and is embarrassed and is having second thoughts about the whole thing.
-Ivo shows Kris the toys in the bag and insists they leave the toys, but under a pseudonym.
-Kris suggests Sinterklaas, Dutch for St. Nicholas.
-Ivo mishears him and writes "From: Santa Clause" on all the toys.

-Ivo feeds Rudolf, a young reindeer in Pop's stables, some magic corn in hopes he'll fly, after a decree by his dad commanding the townfolk to lock their doors at night, thinking they can get in through the chimneys.
-It turns his nose red, and the other reindeer reject and act hostile toward the young reindeer.
-Ivo volunteers to take Rudolf to Jessica's school house, cutting through the blizzard
-Ivo opens up to Rudolf (who can't talk btw) about being rejected by his own people and feeling like an outsider.
-They run from the trees which light up indicating the elves are nearby and end up getting stuck in a pit.
-Ivo tells Rudolf "it's not your fault, it's mine" that his nose lights up, and that Rudolf is "just another life he's ruined by existing", lamenting that his existence is tied to the curse.
-Rudolf's nose lights up like headlights through the blizzard revealing a way out of the pit.
-Ivo forgives himself for the circumstances of his birth, reasoning that his situation, just like Rudolf's is its own opportunity to make things right. He doubles down on his commitment to collecting magical items in hopes of breaking the curse.
-Kris and Martha wake up to find all the reindeer are on the ceiling.

Colorwheel

-Lemon Jefferson, a little blue boy, wakes up and sees Emmylou, a little red girl.
-They discover they can see and hear each other, but they can't touch each other.
-Nobody else can see them but each other
-Nothing red can interact with anything blue, except that these two children can see and hear each other.
-They play games with each other, exploring these rules in a way that demonstrates it visually.
-Their eyes adjust to each others "worlds", as demonstrated by the white space filling in with coloured bits of each other's landscapes (a blue tree in the red kitchen, etc)
-Some visual chaos as they learn to focus only on one color at a time, as stimuli often clashes
-Magic trick scene, in which kids are making fun of Emmylou for talking to "imaginary friend", and she uses Jefferson to "guess" what her school mates had written.
-Same scene in reverse, only Jefferson chooses to hide his interactions with Emmylou, and she's disappointed.
-Emmylou goes to Jefferson's class while he's taking a test, and he won't interact with her, so she goes to the front of the class and reads the answers off the teacher's desk.
-They have a talk about ambitions and studying and cheating afterwards at home.
-She invites him to her middle school dance, in her gym, which to him is a field.
-Some peers make fun of her again, and she responds by pulling the same magic trick from earlier, only one of the peers wrote something really rude, and he doesn't want to read it out loud to her.  Reluctantly, he does, and she repeats it to her peers' astonishment, and goes home crying.
-He tries to cheer her up, and she wants privacy.
-She tells him excitedly that a boy asked her out.
-He spies and reports back some pervy little boy stuff he said about her while she wasn't around.
-She dumps him, and the two of them agree to report this kind of thing for future relationships if it comes up.
-A few more boyfriends over the years are broken up with over something Jefferson found out about them by spying.
-They have a conversation about her feelings that there simply aren't any good boys.
-Emmylou vocalizes that she wishes she could find a guy in the red world like Jefferson.
-They talk about their hopes and dreams and fantasize a little, and things get about as close to romantic as they can until
-Their conversation snaps back to reality; they will eventually move out of their houses, and she wants kids, and they can't touch each other, or kiss or anything like that, and nobody else can see them (so no witnesses at the wedding, right?)
-After high school graduation, she reveals she's had a boyfriend, and didn't want Jefferson to spy this time, which is why she kept it from him.
-He spies anyways.
-When he reports back with dirt, they fight about it
-They fight about college, and hurt each other.
-Jefferson gets high with some friends and starts talking about his "girl trouble"
-He inevitably sounds crazy, talking about the red world and the girl no one else can see.
-Friend says he sounds like "Old Muddy Waters", the crazy old guy that lives up in the woods.
-Jefferson seeks out Muddy, learns he has same ability as Jefferson, to see and hear the red world.
-There were more people from both worlds who could see each other, and they had a society, stationed right there at Muddy's place.
-The society would help each other performing tasks, as spies, and reverse engineering each other's technologies (explaining the similar tech levels).
-They built a "color wheel", a gateway between worlds made out of red and blue pieces, but a red piece is broken off, and Muddy can't fix the wheel because he can't physically interact with the red piece.
-Upon learning about the color wheel, Jefferson seeks to find Emmylou at her college, and make things right with her, with the hope that they now have a way to be together.
-He learns that the city she moved to is built in the red world where a mountain sits in the blue world.
-Determined, he goes into some old abandoned mining caves.
-He finds she frequents a coffee shop, just below, so he digs and digs until he gets her attention.
-Jefferson confesses his feelings to Emmylou, and mentions he might've found a way for them to be together.
-She leaves, still upset.
-He returns to his room, and discovers she's there waiting.
-He asks if she wants to see a magic trick.
-She is surprised that Muddy can see her, and she fixes the color wheel.
-They touch for the first time.
-And grow up together, restarting the society, traveling between worlds.
-They also have a baby daughter
-Named Billie Holiday Jefferson
-Who grows into a toddler, which they tuck into bed.
-She wakes up and sees a little green boy.
-THE END.




Show Idea about Fairies Fixing Timelines.

The show typically follows Felicity. Episode one introduces her, and her life situation, and the events that brought her to that point. Her work, her family, her love life. A detail that stands out is that she was born under some kind of unfortunate circumstance, Like an affair or a rape or something. There also is some focus on interrelationships, especially the love life. Because Felicity meets Bruce. And whatever the circumstance they are in, they fall for each other. And they have to deal with that pull. Also, Somewhere in the middle of the episode, Felicity thinks she sees a fairy. When Felicity and Bruce make the decision to be together, whether that seems good or bad to the audience, A vortex opens up. Then. The next episode opens up and follows Felicity in a completely new life situation, as though nothing happened, Everything's different except for the circumstances of her birth. Nothing is explained. But she thinks she sees a fairy again, And again, in some different way, she meets Bruce again, who himself is in a new life circumstance set. Again, they fall in love, again they come to embrace it, again a vortex opens up. This continues to repeat through the season, only the fairies become more and more present and intrusive, And fuck with things, And sometimes the episode follows Bruce a little and we learn about him and his histories, And every time, they fall for each other and decide to embrace it. And sometimes it's easy, and sometimes it's hard, depending on their histories in that episode. Their core personalities don't really change, but their attitudes, habits and what sorts of choices they make or crowds they run with tend to differ from episode to episode, which makes it interesting sometimes to find out Oh, how are they going to make it work THIS time?? So part of the draw for the show isn't whether or not these two lovers get together, but rather HOW. And the OTHER part is the overarching story (yes, despite this formula, there's an overarching story) is the fairies, Who we learn more about, even though the main characters don't get to, and we can piece the details together. We find out that the "fairies" are actually beings who were charged with mending the timeline, Which had fractured centuries ago, creating annoying alternate realities; and they are doing so by identifying soul mates, and bringing them together In every version of reality. It's a slow process and Felicity and Bruce are only a small piece of the puzzle. The idea is that only people that manage to exist in all the alternate realities HAVE soul mates, and at some point, with enough work, the fairies might be able to cultivate a situation where there are no humans in any reality that aren't in every reality, at which point they can mend the timeline. The season ends with the Felicity of that episode choosing to fall in love with a fairy, and the episode ends With the fairy and her hopping through the vortex.

Queen Koopa




-Princess Peach and Mario are finally going to get married, but
-Bowser interferes and kidnaps the Princess, so
-Mario goes to rescue the Princess, when
-Wendy O'Koopa, one of the mini-bosses, captures Mario in a cage, so
-Mario questions Wendy's motives for wanting to aid Bowser in taking over the Mushroom Kingdom, when
-Bowser and Wendy have some negative interactions, so
-Wendy lets Mario go to complete the mission, but
-Wendy comes in during the Bowser fight and kicks his ass herself, so
-Mario gives her a thumbs up or something affirmative like that, and
-Mario and Peach return to the Mushroom Kingdom to get married, but
-Wendy shows up at the wedding in the clown flying thing and fires a bullet bill at the princess, presumably killing her, so
-Some Toad guards back her up against a wall, but
-She has an interaction with Mario from across the ballroom, while he's huddled over the Princess's body, explaining that she assumed Mario wanted to marry the Princess for the same reason Bowser did: to take over the Mushroom Kingdom; and now that the Princess and Mario are married, and she's out of the way, Mario is the rightful king, and for his wedding present: Mario and Wendy can live happily ever after! But
-Mario is visibly unhappy about this, so
-She beats off the Toads and uses her wand to freeze the Princess's body in an item box, and takes it away out the window, so
-Mario pursues her
-Wendy goes to Kamek, and knocks him out and ties him up.
-When he awakens, Wendy demands he tell him how to bring the Princess back to life, so
-He reluctantly tells her that King Wart has something, like a one-up or a powerstar or something like that he's been using to oppress the people of SubCon as and immortal for a century or so, so
-After getting Kamek to spill directions, Wendy continues her journey to SubCon, when
-Mario shows up shortly after to find Kamek tied up, who tells him where Wendy went, so
-Mario hijacks a Lakitu cloud and forces Kamek to guide him to SubCon.
-Wendy gets to the outskirts of SubCon and finds Waluigi living in a shack, who guides her through a shyguy city, which is visibly poor and oppressed by a sort of police state, so
-Wendy rescues Birdo, who she rides the rest of the way to Wart's castle to do battle, so
-They fight, and she cuts his head off and throws it out the window, because it totally doesn't kill him,
-She gets the item, and gives it to the Princess, when
-Mario shows up, and sees the Princess revives,
-Having undone the murder, Mario and the Princess no longer see her as an enemy, but 
-They all agree she probably doesn't have good enough PR to return to the Mushroom Kingdom, or to her home wherever Bowser comes from, when
-Out the window, the citizens of the shyguy city, who saw the head of Wart descend from the window are hailing her as a hero, and the new Queen of SubCon, so
-She decides to stay behind, however
-Some Wart loyalists return his head to his body, so
-Wendy stays with Waluigi on the outskirts for awhile, but
-Finds she can't stay out of things for long, as 
-A resistance has begun in SubCon, and rebels are spraypainting "long live Queen Koopa" on the walls and stuff
-Story ends with Wendy, Birdo, and Waluigi setting out to save the day again.