Friday post on Friday

Sup guys. Its friday again, and i have no idea how my time is just slipping through my fingers. I go back to school on monday and it seems like i haven’t had any time off at all. I desperately want for my vacation to be longer because I’m just not prepared to go back right now. To be honest this is only adding to the amount of stress I’m feeling right now, and lending favor to my considerations of taking a semester off next fall. I’m genuinely tired of using my brain constantly with no amount of physical work at all. I just go to school and memorize things while trying my best to take competent notes sitting at my desk listening to to the teacher go on and on.
Some times this isn’t so bad, some times my teachers are genuinely interesting, other times i feel like the main character from office space. Maybe i just need to see an obese fat man die and all my problems will be solved, but right now I’m definitely leaning more towards taking some type of mindless job that promises lots of physical exercise.

Anyway on to what this is actually about. Talking about my hack stories and allowing myself to feel like a sophisticated writer while still remaining a poor college student.

Today I want to discuss my story Newtype. I enjoy this story because it lends itself best to my idea of wanting to go in a Gekiga direction. To put it bluntly, nothing good will ever happen to these characters, and if it does it will likely be snatched away and revealed to be temporary, much like the endings to many of my favorite/most hated Gainax anime. 

I haven’t decided how i want to frame this story yet, whether it be a real time story progression or a reminiscing type of deal like in the name of the wind; however the story does take place over a long period of time, so if i don’t go with the reminiscing pattern then i will likely adopt Feist’s method of simply skipping over large swaths of unimportant time to get to the good bits. Honestly when I first read his Magician series i was very much “lol wut”, but then i realized that it was an awesome structuring tool an i enjoyed it very much. Also my intention for this story has always been for it to be a graphic novel format closer to manga styling than to american comics, which will fit in nicely with my Gekiga plans.

On to the story portion. As i aid in my first post about this story several months ago, i was originally influenced by the anime Blue Gender. It was m first taste of potential future dystopian society, as well as the aspect of placing individuals from the past in the far future that is majorly F—-ed, and primarily because of them. However the story will have very little to do with the first moments experienced by the main character in the period directly after his long sleep. It will focus more on a period at least a couple hundred years after this. You see like Blue Gender the main character, as well as a few others, will have a strange disease that is incurable by modern medicine, and as is the case with most examples of scifi cryogenics, they will have themselves frozen in order to preserve their lives until a cure can be discovered. 
Long story short, rather than finding a cure, they make it worse, like they always do, and instead of being a non contagious disease, it become highly contagious and highly virulent. It kills off almost 80% of the earths population, with the remaining 20% being divided into Surviving infected and immune carriers, with the former being only a fraction of the population. This is nothing special on its own, but those that fall into the surviving infected group are not exactly what you would call human any more. Much like the Monmow Disease from Tezuka’s “Ode to Kirihito” the infection will have altered these people dramatically, sometimes in a way of physical appearance, and sometimes in other ways.
My idea  for this is that the disease, in its more tame form, has existed since the evolution of man, and may have even set that evolution on its path in the first place. The result of this is that it is solely responsible for almost every account of mythology that ever existed. Sirens, Demons, angels, cat girls,all of them are a result of this singular disease that effects individuals in a way to make them look non human, and sometimes monstrous. One of the key aspects of this new variant of the disease however is that those infected with it breed true. Those of my followers who pay exalted already understand what this means, but let me give a brief explanation. In the past, those affected with this disease, although their outward physical appearance and mental processes would be greatly effected, their genetic structures would remain wholly intact and their offspring, if they had any, would look exactly as they would have before the individual would be infected. Now this is different, either because the exact variant strain of the disease is passed parent to offspring, or because the disease changed the genetic makeup of the infected individual, haven’t decided yet.
Lets head on back to the main character of this story for a second. As I said He and his compatriots have been frozen in cryostasis, hoping that this would slow the effects that the mutagenic disease had been having on them. This works out in part, because it prevents their physical forms from altering any further due to the effects of the disease, however it does not halt the alteration of their mind in the least. So you have a disease that likes to change things, trapped in a body that it can not change for hundreds, or thousands of years. The idea of this is that over this time until the disease runs its course shortly before they are awakened, it alters their minds in such a way that when they do revive, they find themselves with incredibly godlike powers. This will lead to complications that take place before the main story. Basically when the main story takes place our main character is the only godlike being left, and lives in a state of self exile as he waits out the days unit he dies.

More on this later guys. Til then.

~Boot norraba