Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Moronica the Insignificant

I had a thought about a new animated character, but I don't know what to do with it. I thought it might be funny as an on-going Flash animation, or maybe just a comic strip. I dunno. But it was inspired (in part) by the drivers here in San Carlos.

It is a story about Moronica the Insignificant. She is a hairdresser in a small town and comes from a super rich family, so she has a lot of money that she doesn't know what to do with. Her parents died when she was young, leaving her their entire estate. She chose to continue her modest small-town lifestyle and remain as the town's choice hair stylist. But she always wanted to drive a Hummer and have a cell phone and an Internet connection...so she really stands out in the little town she lives in.

But she discovered the secret to her parents' money. Her father was abducted by aliens, but he had a brain condition that prevented him from falling victim to the mind altering effects of the aliens, so he had the thoughtfullness about him during his abduction experience to fight back. In the process, he stole a device from the aliens that allows him to manipulate time - or at least the perception of time for the people in the general vacinity. Her father used the device somehow to his monetary advantage.

That's the premise, anyway - I haven't flushed anything out beyond that. But I see her using her powers (or, rather, the power of the device) to boost her popularity - for example, by telling people she knows how to do things that she can't, but stops time for others while she learns how to do a thing and get good at it, thus suprising everyone with her talents. Over time, she grows bored of being the popular one and amasses a number of skills and delves even deeper into her secret life to become an unseen super hero. So, although her life appears to be completely self-absorbed and insignificant on the surface, she is performing all these heroic deeds behind the scene, using her time-altering device, and no one is the wiser.

Any thoughts? :D

9 Comments:

  • At 10/1/06 10:52 PM, Blogger Jude said…

    Aha! She should have a love-interest.....and should he be an alien??

     
  • At 12/1/06 4:11 AM, Blogger Tracey said…

    The Alien love interest would be interresting....icky, but interresting.....unless the alien has a form changing device to make itself look human. Imagine the fun with THAT! Hehehehehee

    Hairdresser/superhero......hmmmmmm....

     
  • At 12/1/06 4:17 AM, Blogger Jude said…

    Well yes that's what I had in mind Trace ~ he looks like a human, but........ heh heh

     
  • At 12/1/06 1:37 PM, Blogger Melanie said…

    Interesting Bill. Will she use her blowdryer as a mind warp ray, LOL!

    I agree with you girls, an alien love interest sounds intriguing.

     
  • At 12/1/06 2:12 PM, Blogger Tracey said…

    blowdryer=mind warp

    Good one Mel! She could call it a mind blowing experience when she uses it!

    **ducking rotten veggies being tossed my way**

    Okay, Okay......Bad pun! But you just KNOW it had to be said, right?

     
  • At 12/1/06 3:35 PM, Blogger Bill said…

    "She could call it a mind blowing experience when she uses it!"

    LOL! I like it.

    OK, I'm thinking that it is here alien love interest that enevitably turns her attention off herself to become the unseen hero that she becomes. Now, is this alien love interest genuine, or will this alien betray her in "his" effort to get the device back?

     
  • At 12/1/06 3:36 PM, Blogger Bill said…

    "...it is here alien..." That should read, "...it is her alien..."

     
  • At 12/1/06 4:18 PM, Blogger Jude said…

    Oh definitely betrayal......but surprisingly, on HER part! She's "on to him", and when he's getting to feeling all comfy cozy and ready to betray her, she uses her powers to kill him, but NOT before she taunts him with the news that she's carrying his baby!!

     
  • At 13/1/06 10:01 AM, Blogger Tracey said…

    OMG! Jude you should write for soap operas! LOLOLOLOL

    I like the betrayal angle. Goes with the whole false identity thing.

    And i'm glad you liked my bad joke Bill. :)

     

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