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PostPosted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 5:37 pm


Trapped Inside a Novel

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Uninspired teenage writer Kendra gets more than she bargained for one day when she rages at her characters for being uncooperative - and they respond by sucking her into their world! Now Kendra is trapped inside her own poorly-created dystopia, Sablescape, dealing with obnoxious, one-dimensional protagonists, avoiding the clutches of a clichéd evil corporation, and trying not to fall down plot holes. Her only hope of escape? To write the novel’s ending.


Credits

Kendra Reid characterised by: enchantedsleeper
Zero and Nocturne characterised by: Emihaumut
Leon characterised by: GrimBen
Mekin Riamess and Deist Laimor characterised by: Z o k u r u m b a
Script Compiled by: enchantedsleeper and GrimBen
Character Design by: Emihaumut and Z o k u r u m b a
Art by: Z o k u r u m b a
Colouring by: Emihaumut (probably...)


Trapped Inside a Novel is Catalytic Production's second comic, and in about three and a half years we've yet to come up with a better title than that. So I'm going to kick off the first ever contest in our new(ly renovated) guild by offering 10,000 gold to whoever can come up with a decent title for this project. If there are a few entries we like, we'll do a proper poll and vote on it, but one uber-awesome attention-grabbing title has the potential to win instantly if it's good enough. :3

Sablescape, the world of the novel, is designed to be a cyberpunk dystopia. So the comic combines lots of cyberpunk tropes with a bit of modern-day stuff from the "real" world. The comic has a pretty humorous tone thanks to a cast of witty and sarcastic characters, and pokes fun at lots of bad writing clichés, such as the loner main character with an angsty past or the tendency to write in one's enemies from real life as antagonists. But there are also some darker, more surreal moments within the poorly-conceived and unpredictable universe of Sablescape. Overall genre? Who knows. razz

Thus far we have been developing the plot of TiaN through a roleplay, hence why the credits for the comic are so weird. Roleplaying out the plot is slower and introduces an extra step for the writing where everything has to be compiled into script form, but it works wonders on a characterisation front. Each character from TiaN has their own unique voice and they interact in messed up, funny ways, which gives the overall story more depth even if not all of these interactions make it into the final comic.
PostPosted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 5:45 pm


Cast


User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show. Name: Kendra Reid

Age: 16

Height: 5'7

Weight: 133 lbs

Physical defects or handicaps: None in particular

Hobbies: Writing stories and the occasional (angsty) poem, cycling and researching random subcultures on the 'net

Romantic Interests: None

Bio: Kendra is the inept and uninspired creator of Sablescape. In the real world she's just an angsty, misunderstood teenage girl, but inside Sablescape, she can make anything happen as long as she writes it into the story. Even her characters recognise her god-like status, resentfully and with a lot of complaints.



User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show. Names: Zero and Nocturne

Age: 19

Height: 6'4

Weight: 150lbs, there or thereabouts (they're pretty undernourished)

Physical defects or handicaps: The twins somehow contrive to be albino whilst having blue hair x3 They tend to carry a sun umbrella, though the persistent smog in Sablescape protects them from the worst of it.

Hobbies: Hacking (Nocturne's forté), building and modifying robots (Zero's forté); general computing and electronics

Romantic Interests: Nocturne has a romantic interest in Mekin

Bio: Zero and Nocturne are the protagonists of Kendra's novel. Technically Nocturne is the true protagonist, the angsty loner who saves the day and gets the girl, but Kendra decided to give him a twin because she likes twins. Together they are twice as witty, badass and tech-savvy.

(Old character design is old. Click here for the new design by Mistress Xynovia).




User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show. Name: Leon

Age: 15

Height: 5'8

Weight: 127 lbs

Physical defects or handicaps: Near-sightedness

Hobbies: Robotics, engineering, physics

Romantic Interests: None

Bio: Leon is Nocturne and Zero's half-brother by the same father. How he found his brothers, never mind wound up living with them, is something Kendra hasn't quite worked out yet. He prefers to spend time on his own rather than with his brothers, but annoying them is an amusing hobby. He likes to complain to Kendra about his lack of "fundage". In an ideal world, he would have enough money to go to college and get an engineering degree.



User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show. Name: Mekin Riamess

Age: 21

Height: 5'6

Weight: 137 lbs

Physical defects or handicaps: None

Hobbies: Cooking and chapter surfing

Romantic Interests: Mekin sort of has an interest in Nocturne, but her personality isn't developed enough for her to return his affections properly

Bio: Mekin is a childhood friend of the twins' and Nocturne's designated love interest. Pretty much everything else about her is undecided. As an incomplete character she has a spooky emptiness about her, and has the ability to move in and out of the novel's chapters at will, though without affecting the progress of the plot.

(Mekin design 2; newer design upcoming)



User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show. Name: Deist Laimor

Age: 23

Height: 6'1

Weight: 154 lbs

Physical defects or handicaps: He is nearly blind in his left eye

Hobbies: Taking walks and chapter surfing with Mekin

Romantic Interests: He may or may not be romantically interested in Mekin

Bio: Even less is known about Deist than about Mekin. He was originally conceived as Nocturne's rival for her affections, but Kendra has debated making him a relative of Mekin's instead, which results in a rather awkward mixture of feelings for Deist. Either way, his main priority is protecting her, culminating in the near-loss of an eye later in the novel when he saves her from a kitchen robot gone berserk. He also has the ability to chapter-surf, but does it less frequently than Mekin, being of a less restless personality.



User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show. Name: Neil Aldworis

Age: 16

Height: 5'10

Weight: 142 lbs

Physical defects or handicaps: None

Hobbies: Playing around in Virtual Reality, flirting with the younger guys in her dad's office. Really for all her father is one of the richest men in Sablescape, Neil doesn't have a lot to do all day.

Romantic Interests: Neil develops a rather one-sided crush on Zero when he comes to work for her father's corporation

Bio: Neil is Kendra's rival from school, personified. She is rich, clever, attractive and far more socially adept than Kendra. Kendra meant for something horrible to happen to her at the end of the novel but now that the world of the novel has become real, she doesn't have the heart to go through with it, leaving Neil as a rather pointless antagonist with no real purpose. Meanwhile, Kendra is doing all she can to avoid a confrontation with her arch-rival.



User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show. Name: EMI-069

Age: Around six months

Height: About a foot

Weight: Rather heavy

Hobbies: Rolling around after Zero making whirring noises, or creeping up on Kendra and scaring the hell out of her.

Bio: EMI-069 is the twins' computer/robot/A.I. and Zero's pet project. He's always making upgrades to it in his spare time. Kendra thought she discarded the design for EMI a long time ago, but she finds that her own ideas are a lot more resilient than that.

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