THE STORY

WELCOME to the prison-like city of KOWLOON. A cluster of conjoined buildings run by gangs where the ability of an individual to hope is non-existent. DANIEL, JIN and ARIANA are three kids who defy this life sentence. They intend to escape and are willing to go to EXTREME measures to do so. Since escape on foot is impossible, their quest leads them to the SKY.

THE CAST

DANIEL – Smart and gifted but unfocused. On the fast track to be a squandered genius, his lack of interest in academics leads to conflict with his father. He is an angry child. Even at this age you can tell the city has damaged him in some way. He is the driving force of the group.

JIN – A brilliant gear head he spends the vast majority of his time in the city’s junkyard. He experiments with his own designs and creations. His dad died in a racing accident and combined with an overprotective mother resulted in his very reserved personality.

ARIANA –Emotionally strong and pragmatic her childhood has been derailed into a life of helping her father run a convenience store. She has no social life to speak of and when she joins the group it is the first time she gets to be a kid again since her mother passed away. She soon emerges as the rock that supports the trio when times get hard.

Created by Abede Lovelace and Shaun Noel


April 25, 2011

BUILDING A STRONG FEMALE CHARACTER



I ran across an informative video about female characters. It specifically concerned female video game characters, but it left me with some great points about writing a believable female character. I thought I would share some of those with you.


While he mentioned genetic differences that show up in story, he concentrated on something many writers forget. The societal pressure that shape their lives and reaction to the world.


Societal norms for females just as males are malleable, they are not inherent they are social constructions. A fully developed character reacts to the pressure, they chose to neither fully reject nor fully accept roles forced on them. Notice they do not fully reject these roles as the roles are part of their world. Nor do they fully accept them, your character male or female must stand apart form the crowd.


And as the story progresses, they change as circumstances change. We learn the reasons why they follow or reject certain norms. And hopefully at the end of their journey your character will come to their own conclusions about what society asks of them and how they should react to them.


No other story concerns the conflict of what society demands and what the individual desires more than City of Walls. And of the three children Ariana, the female lead, is the one who learns and grows the most.


The video originated on the "Extra Credit" segment of the Escapist blog.
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