Fuseboy
01-30-2011, 11:38 PM
This is a kernel, not sure of a monster or a game pitch, or neither:
Peter Pan. Green-clad imp sneaks into children's rooms at night and takes them on a wild adventure. Except there's more to it than that - the adventure he took them on was inspired by their own fantasies - the pirates, the island, the natives, were all part of their play before Pan ever came on the scene.
So Pan wasn't the green-clad imp that took the children to a fantasy island, Pan made the island. Pan isn't the imp, Pan made the imp.
Pan: The white-shaded inner child of Zeus, hurting and desperate for a playmate and a mother's affection. Old, needy, reckless, and dangerously naive.
On his first approach, Mrs. Darling frightens him off, instinctively protective, and with her mother's magic steals his shadow. Mr. Darling, however, is oblivious, more concerned about the dog's barking than the spectral presence visiting his children. He's turned his back on his own magic, and it's this that leaves the children exposed to Pan's sometimes lethal advances.
James Hook is an amalgam of all the grieving fathers looking for answers and revenge. The loss of a child is pain enough, but who can make sense of Pan's mistakes? The twins, found frozen in a show drift two hundred leagues away from their Edinburgh home, nearly every bone broken as if thrown from the sky. Molly Rose Davies, appearing suddenly in the lion's cage at the Centennial Exhibition Zoo, eaten in front of hundreds of terrified onlookers.
Hook's anger terrifies Pan, for in it contains an echo of the father's hatred and self-loathing that split him from Zeus at the first. Perversely, Pan's fear of this anger is what makes him vulnerable to Hook, for what man could challenge a god? Hook has been following Pan across Europe for eighty three years, and this makes no more sense to the man than the rest of it. Mr. Darling may one day have nothing left but to follow him.
Peter Pan. Green-clad imp sneaks into children's rooms at night and takes them on a wild adventure. Except there's more to it than that - the adventure he took them on was inspired by their own fantasies - the pirates, the island, the natives, were all part of their play before Pan ever came on the scene.
So Pan wasn't the green-clad imp that took the children to a fantasy island, Pan made the island. Pan isn't the imp, Pan made the imp.
Pan: The white-shaded inner child of Zeus, hurting and desperate for a playmate and a mother's affection. Old, needy, reckless, and dangerously naive.
On his first approach, Mrs. Darling frightens him off, instinctively protective, and with her mother's magic steals his shadow. Mr. Darling, however, is oblivious, more concerned about the dog's barking than the spectral presence visiting his children. He's turned his back on his own magic, and it's this that leaves the children exposed to Pan's sometimes lethal advances.
James Hook is an amalgam of all the grieving fathers looking for answers and revenge. The loss of a child is pain enough, but who can make sense of Pan's mistakes? The twins, found frozen in a show drift two hundred leagues away from their Edinburgh home, nearly every bone broken as if thrown from the sky. Molly Rose Davies, appearing suddenly in the lion's cage at the Centennial Exhibition Zoo, eaten in front of hundreds of terrified onlookers.
Hook's anger terrifies Pan, for in it contains an echo of the father's hatred and self-loathing that split him from Zeus at the first. Perversely, Pan's fear of this anger is what makes him vulnerable to Hook, for what man could challenge a god? Hook has been following Pan across Europe for eighty three years, and this makes no more sense to the man than the rest of it. Mr. Darling may one day have nothing left but to follow him.