Troop 76
| Element | Detail | Example |
| SETTING | Place | America |
| Time | 1670-present day | |
| MAIN CHARACTER | Names, it’s an ensemble | The Troop is Deacon, Nicole, Ezekiel, and Brooke |
| Background | Each comes from a different period of time in American history.
Deacon- Civil War Ezekiel- World War II Nicole- 1980s Brooke- Present Day |
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| What does this character want? | Each of them is looking for happiness in unique ways that stems from childhood trauma | |
| ANTAGONIST | Name | Montgomery, First name Unknown |
| Relationship to MC | Handler | |
| Background | He’s a French Templar who found the fountain of youth and has used it to help America grow by training hitmen and hitwomen to do dirty work. He uses the fountain of youth on the troop to take care of what the public doesn’t need to know about. | |
| What does this character want? | After centuries of dealing with being a clean up man Montgomery decides to make his Four hitpeople the vessels of the Apocalypse and the incarnations of the Four Horsemen to reset and rebuild a truly free and fair America | |
| SITUATION | What is happening at the beginning of the story? | Ezekiel, Nicole, and Deacon has a job dealing with a hospital which is a front for genetic testing. Brooks’ brother happens to be there after a car crash and her family is visiting him and that’s when it all goes sideways. |
| INCITING EVENT | What event upsets the situation and introduces the main conflict? | The Troop slowly finds out that Montgomery is behind most of the jobs they’ve been working leaving them to clean up his messes as he preps them to be vessels for the four horsemen of the apocalypse |
| CONFLICT | How do the characters react to the inciting event? | First they have to get to the bottom of what’s happening as things don’t add up. Everyone has their own opinions on how everything starts to unravel. Each person has their own coping mechanisms that they have to get over while being hunted by the one who taught them to hunt |
| What sustains the conflict? | Montgomery is nearly half a millennium old and had contingency plans to get his way. He’s experienced, patient, and ruthless. | |
| What are the stakes? | The end of the world | |
| What choice must the hero make? | To overcome their struggles and learn to grow past their trauma giving up their eternal youth | |
| Premise | What is this story’s core?
Theme: |
Four mythical assassins must save the world from themselves |
This might be a little too much information, I tried to keep it simple but I’ve been playing with this idea since freshman year hence all the sketches. I want to critique childhood trauma and give a more proper representation for adoptees. A lot of adoptees in the media are these hero protagonists and I wanna play with a darker more grounded form of it. I also personally have a love for hip hop and sampling. If you don’t know sampling is a practice in hip hop where part of an old song is taken and used in a new song typical as a hook, beat or melody but they can be thrown in for anything. I think it would be a fun story element to have a song play in a flashback and tie it back with a song that samples it along with covers like Whitney Huston’s amazing cover of “I Will Always Love You”. I just think that music is a great way to set a setting in visual storytelling that at times is underutilized. I want this story to be one of mayhem, music and a muscle the size of your fist; in other words “Keep on loving, keep on fighting And hold on, and hold on, Hold on for your life”
“Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of Your Fist” by Ramshackle Glory
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