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missnanako) wrote2011-08-02 01:21 pm
missnanako) wrote2011-08-02 01:21 pm
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[just the bones] brainstorm
I've decided to turn this journal into a journal about original story ideas, including posting brainstorms, character bios, chapters, and maybe even concept art. So here's my first idea in this journal, temporarily titled "Just the Bones"
The story is about a family tradition started by the main character's great grandfather. His great grandfather started a project to create a human being from scraps of the recently dead and lab created parts. Similar to a Frankenstein-ish creation, but done in layers rather than attaching an arm to a torso. Before his great grandfather died, the human creation completed a full head attached to a skeleton with lungs and a heart, but nothing else. The body can still function as the brain was specially designed to function as long as the lungs and heart were working (still trying to work out the medical explanations).
The lab was destroyed, but the human creation, known as the body of bones in the family, continued to live. The heart used can only last for about 70 years. Once he (the body of bones has no official gender, but the main character refers to it as a male) feels the heart weakened, he search out someone related to the great grandfather to get his heart replaced. The great grandfather had a son and he performed the first heart replacement thanks to a locked journal with the instructions in it left by his father that the body of bones had the key to.
Since then, the journals and the story are passed down to the next generation. There is a strict rule in the tradition that the body of bones will visit after the previous journal holder dies and before the current generation gets married and continues the family line. The story becomes well known around the town, so any attempts to marry before they perform the family tradition are useless.
Our main character is fourth generation and is about to give the third heart replacement. Currently unnamed. He doesn't believe in the story until the body of bones appears asking for the new heart. He tries to be a normal kid during his childhood, but the family story haunts him and he ends up spending his late teens and early 20s alone in his room. He tries to rebel against his destined career in the field of science by taking up painting, but his paintings are only average according to his teachers.
The second main character is the body of bones. There is no defined gender for this character, but the first main character uses male pronouns when talking about the body of bones. Because there is no gender identity, he wears both male and female clothes, make-up, and keeps his hair no longer than shoulder length. He wears a light metal cast over his torso to protect the lungs and heart while giving him a more believable human shape. He usually disappears after getting his heart replaced to a town filled with other incomplete people, hidden from the "normal" public.
Think of the setting like early 1920s America, but with scientific advancements in stem-cells and human biology. Communication is more 1950s-ish. No cell phones or internet, but television, radio, and telephone are around.
That's all I got. I'll work on names next and maybe work on concept art of the body of bones.
If a childhood story you thought was ridiculous came true, how would you react? Would you be surprised? Excited? Scared? Maybe disappointed? Or would you be like me and be stunned into silence? That was my reaction when the body of bones approached me. He, or maybe she, held out a key to me and said in a soft, innocent voice, "I'm here for my heart."
The story is about a family tradition started by the main character's great grandfather. His great grandfather started a project to create a human being from scraps of the recently dead and lab created parts. Similar to a Frankenstein-ish creation, but done in layers rather than attaching an arm to a torso. Before his great grandfather died, the human creation completed a full head attached to a skeleton with lungs and a heart, but nothing else. The body can still function as the brain was specially designed to function as long as the lungs and heart were working (still trying to work out the medical explanations).
The lab was destroyed, but the human creation, known as the body of bones in the family, continued to live. The heart used can only last for about 70 years. Once he (the body of bones has no official gender, but the main character refers to it as a male) feels the heart weakened, he search out someone related to the great grandfather to get his heart replaced. The great grandfather had a son and he performed the first heart replacement thanks to a locked journal with the instructions in it left by his father that the body of bones had the key to.
Since then, the journals and the story are passed down to the next generation. There is a strict rule in the tradition that the body of bones will visit after the previous journal holder dies and before the current generation gets married and continues the family line. The story becomes well known around the town, so any attempts to marry before they perform the family tradition are useless.
Our main character is fourth generation and is about to give the third heart replacement. Currently unnamed. He doesn't believe in the story until the body of bones appears asking for the new heart. He tries to be a normal kid during his childhood, but the family story haunts him and he ends up spending his late teens and early 20s alone in his room. He tries to rebel against his destined career in the field of science by taking up painting, but his paintings are only average according to his teachers.
The second main character is the body of bones. There is no defined gender for this character, but the first main character uses male pronouns when talking about the body of bones. Because there is no gender identity, he wears both male and female clothes, make-up, and keeps his hair no longer than shoulder length. He wears a light metal cast over his torso to protect the lungs and heart while giving him a more believable human shape. He usually disappears after getting his heart replaced to a town filled with other incomplete people, hidden from the "normal" public.
Think of the setting like early 1920s America, but with scientific advancements in stem-cells and human biology. Communication is more 1950s-ish. No cell phones or internet, but television, radio, and telephone are around.
That's all I got. I'll work on names next and maybe work on concept art of the body of bones.