For the past couple of years, I've been working on a story (fantasy, horror, sci-fi) True to my style, it's a critque on society. My character almost qualifies for Asperger Syndrome, but not quite. He gets spectral powers in a very painful explosion. (cliche, I know) From then on, he has to deal with almost everyone, ghost and human.
True, he may defend others, but he is no hero, at least in the comic book sense. As time goes on, he becomes crueler and tempted by the dark side. In spite of what he does for others, he is almost universally hated in both identities. there is even an extremist group intending to destroy him and all other ghosts. Obviously, as his power grows, the harder it is to keep control of himself. It's meant to repersent society's intolerance to what it considers different.
I haven't decided for sure, but I don't think he's going to have a happy ending. In return for defeating a terrible enemy, he is tried for "crimes against humanity" and sentenced to death. He's hardly free of flaws, but he never deserved that.
It'll likely take a long time to finish. I finished the first book a few months ago, which is about 106,000 words just by itself. A great deal of the latter two in the series centers around fighting the group of ghost hunters, along with a friend who stabbed him in the back, trying to survive the adult world, and keeping his own darkness under control.
So what do you think?
14 Dec 2007, 11:57 am
