Post by Gilberto on Oct 29, 2011 12:36:54 GMT -5
I dreamed a story called "The Strange":
Apparently the Strange is a malevolent alien entity that crashed to Earth while in the middle of a star-shattering battle with its mortal enemy, an archetypal superheroine who calls herself true-girl. Apparently she has superhuman abilities so she adopted an iconic persona based on what she considers to be positive human qualities. She does this to be better understood by humans, who she does not understand at all.
While true-girl is more or less human in appearance, the Strange is like most of the boogeymen in my bad dreams in that he has no physical form at all. He's more like an abstract that can affect the physical world.
What's weirder are the characters around which the story centers. True-girl and the Strange are only featured indirectly. The main characters are actually a drifter and a bear who happened to be nearby when true-girl and the Strange crashed to Earth. The shockwave at their impact was so powerful it psychically linked all four of them and imbued the drifter and the bear with strange powers.
The bear developed human intelligence and a sense of conscience, wandering the woods trying to save the smaller animals from predators. This is much to the confusion and dismay of the smaller animals. In one particularly farcical moment the bear actually puts a rabbit in its mouth to rescue it from a landslide in the mountains.
The bear's efforts are widely misunderstood and under appreciated, leaving it to wander alone in Swamp Thing-like man-beast angst.
The bum develops the ability to see glimpses of the future as far as it pertains to the four of them. He's never seen any of them, since all fled before he regained consciousness, but he is compelled to reunite them. He first seeks out the bear, hoping to convince it to help him find true-girl, because he is haunted by a vision that she will be killed by the Strange. He doesn't know why, but he's sure that it will take all three of them to stop the Strange.
Apparently the Strange is a malevolent alien entity that crashed to Earth while in the middle of a star-shattering battle with its mortal enemy, an archetypal superheroine who calls herself true-girl. Apparently she has superhuman abilities so she adopted an iconic persona based on what she considers to be positive human qualities. She does this to be better understood by humans, who she does not understand at all.
While true-girl is more or less human in appearance, the Strange is like most of the boogeymen in my bad dreams in that he has no physical form at all. He's more like an abstract that can affect the physical world.
What's weirder are the characters around which the story centers. True-girl and the Strange are only featured indirectly. The main characters are actually a drifter and a bear who happened to be nearby when true-girl and the Strange crashed to Earth. The shockwave at their impact was so powerful it psychically linked all four of them and imbued the drifter and the bear with strange powers.
The bear developed human intelligence and a sense of conscience, wandering the woods trying to save the smaller animals from predators. This is much to the confusion and dismay of the smaller animals. In one particularly farcical moment the bear actually puts a rabbit in its mouth to rescue it from a landslide in the mountains.
The bear's efforts are widely misunderstood and under appreciated, leaving it to wander alone in Swamp Thing-like man-beast angst.
The bum develops the ability to see glimpses of the future as far as it pertains to the four of them. He's never seen any of them, since all fled before he regained consciousness, but he is compelled to reunite them. He first seeks out the bear, hoping to convince it to help him find true-girl, because he is haunted by a vision that she will be killed by the Strange. He doesn't know why, but he's sure that it will take all three of them to stop the Strange.