You have to metaphorically make a deal with the devil. And by "metaphorically," I mean get your coat

[secondlina]

I'm slightly disapointed in Futurama. The fourth season has the best episodes and then, nada. I only hope the tv movies will bring a few plots to conclusion (mostly i'd like Leela to acknowledge Fry loves her. I mean c'mon!? What's a guy to do? He risked his life for her and told her he loved her almost once per episode. Sheesh)

I am, however, totally into Bender. Go Bender.



I drew a few skecthes a while back for a silly love story. Unfortunatly my plot seems to be going nowhere.

The basic story was about a japanese child who's father - a famous tea ceremony expert - had discovered the secret of the tea of immortality. To protect this secret, he wrapped up a pouch of the immortality tea around his son's heart and destroyed the parchemin with the recipe. His son becomes a cool samurai who's wounds heal very quickly due to the tea. An evil sorceress finds out and tries to convince him to give up his heart to her. He says nay (cuz he rocks that way) and she's pissed. She zaps him to a hellish place - which turns out to victorian england. He roams the streets until he meets a young shopkeeper who works in her father's teahouse. She and the samurai work together and the teahouse becomes the toast of london. the sorceress gets angry, zaps to england and menaces the teashop girl. The samurai then wants to save her or something. Gah, my ending is non-existent.



Suggestions?

And yes, the tea can turn people into zombies.

Isa

Comments

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

So the (evil?) sorceress wants his heart to gain immortality, right? Is she hoping that if she sends him off to some hellish (alien more likely) place he'll fall into despair since he'd not be able to find love? And then when he does..... Actually, I see a lot of potential with the story but you'd want to detail things out more. It's always best to figure out motivations for characters because then the story just writes itself.

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe the sorceress doesn't want the immortality, maybe she needs it for higher purposes, I don't know, saving a loved one, or mutate it in some kind of all-healing Ambrosia, or maybe she just like to collect stuff, I mean, a sorceress powerful enough to send someone (and herself) across the time doesn't sound to me as a short sighted person... unless of course the dark side took her already, but what if like Anakin she still has some good on her, even more, what if the samurai's father shows up and make a mess (he had to test the immortality tea at some point, right ? then it's possible for him to have studied some stuff to track either the tea or his son.... or maybe he was just a world wanderer... what would anyone would do with immortality ? and why would anyone want it anyway ? )

Good story with lots of potential as pointed by ichiban_victory (maybe I overdid with the possibilities focusing at some redemption, what can I say, I like tragic heroes... or antiheroes... or villians...)

- D

[(Anonymous)]

sorry for the double post, I was still thinking on this...

what if the sorceress is the mother, who wants for her son to avoid having an eternal life as she and her husband found that it sucks big time ? the time-space sending would be for him to know the value of life (I don't think as a samurai he could get a good grasp of it), but that still left the also immortal father wandering around without a side to support...

ah nevermind... I'll go back to sleep...

- D

[tuppa-tuppa.livejournal.com]

I have all the Futurama movies... Trust me when I say; nothing happens!

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Leela is too picky. Fry might be an idiot, but he's much cooler then all the other guys we see her with in the series. Plus, his hair is orange.

Awwww.... Well, there's still one movie left (the fourth) meant to come out in febuary 2009. Maybe, who knows.

Gimme a call sometime beautée!

[anna-nimmie-tee.livejournal.com]

Ah, the tea can turn people into zombies. Hmmm. Immortality can come in many forms. One must know the proper procedures to have the results desired. One way preserves eternal youth, beauty and mind; another creates zombie slaves for evil, control freak sorceresses bound by traditions and terrified of encountering change and new experiences. The activation ceremony must be very, very precise and the preparers and drinkers be of a certain states of mind.

[earthstar-moon.livejournal.com]

I like the story, the tea of immortality is a different idea. (And it's funny that it fits with my latest icon. *points to it*)

I do agree with Diane that figuring out the characters motivations is a good idea because then it's easier to figure out the plot and the ending.

As for other suggestions, hmm...maybe doing a bit of tea ceremony research might stir some ideas and finding the differences with English and Japanese tea?

(And just because this fits so well: http://rufftoon.deviantart.com/art/Finer-things-41841898 )

[snapdragon76.livejournal.com]

Bender is ♥


Cute story! I have a hard time finding endings to the stuff I write! I have no suggestions at all, I'm afraid, Anything I'd come up with wouldn't do the sweet story justice.