Fic Challenge
Apr 2, 2016 3:14:03 GMT -5
Post by lordyam on Apr 2, 2016 3:14:03 GMT -5
I have a lot of ideas in my head but to be blunt still need to go ways before I can actually make a story. So I've decided to post prompts for story ideas and hopefully have others flesh them out.
Prompt the first: Murder in Numalia
Demetrio, now older and wiser, investigates the murder of a young poor girl on the outskirts of town. The investigation grows darker when a mass grave is discovered in the woods, all containing the body of poor children. Demetrio comes to suspect Aurelio Corvan, the son of a powerful nobleman, to be the guilty party in the murder of the young children. However, because of how powerful Aurelio's daddy is Demetrio is pressured to pin the crimes on a hermit named Mad Simeon (a shoutout to the Jim Owsley character who actually works as a guy who fakes insanity but is actually quite smart). Due to the grisly nature of the crimes someone needs to pay to prevent a riot from breaking out. Demetrio, however, is conflicted, especially since he had struck up a rapport with Simeon. Ultimately he decides he cannot let an innocent man die and helps Simeon escape; his guards beat him in the hours before he is to be hanged at the gallows and slip him a lotus plant that will put him in a state like death.) Simeon's unconscious body is smuggled out, and the guards who "killed him" are given light punishments. At the same time, Demetrio (who has confronted Aurelio and received subtle confirmation that he's guilty and will happily start all over again) hires a band of assassins to murder Aurelio and make it look like a highway robbery gone wrong. Aurelio dies in agony, and his father, suspecting Demetrio's involvement, swears that he will destroy him.
I thought this idea examined themes of justice. Even today our criminal justice system has problems (just look at Cook County Chicago or the Henry McCollum Steven Avery and WM3 cases). That the noble elite is willing to frame an innocent in order to placate the mob without punishing the actual killer simply because he is one of their own is meant to show the ugliness of civilization beneath the mask. It's also based on a real case. In the first Steven Avery case (jury's out on whether he's guilty in the second case) he was framed for rape. There's disturbing proof that the prosecution not only KNEW Avery was innocent, but that Gregory Allen (a vicious sex predator) was the actual perpetrator. However, because Avery had attacked a deputies wife (she spread rumors he masturbated in public, he ran her off the road and held her at gunpoint in retaliation), the sheriff's depart wanted to punish Avery for his "disrespect". This resulted in Gregory Allen going on to rape at LEAST 2 more people, with some suspecting he raped as many as 9 people. 11 at most. In short, the sheriff was willing to let a monster continue his spree to punish a sleight against one of his deputies' wives. Something like that would be all to possible in Hyboria
Prompt the first: Murder in Numalia
Demetrio, now older and wiser, investigates the murder of a young poor girl on the outskirts of town. The investigation grows darker when a mass grave is discovered in the woods, all containing the body of poor children. Demetrio comes to suspect Aurelio Corvan, the son of a powerful nobleman, to be the guilty party in the murder of the young children. However, because of how powerful Aurelio's daddy is Demetrio is pressured to pin the crimes on a hermit named Mad Simeon (a shoutout to the Jim Owsley character who actually works as a guy who fakes insanity but is actually quite smart). Due to the grisly nature of the crimes someone needs to pay to prevent a riot from breaking out. Demetrio, however, is conflicted, especially since he had struck up a rapport with Simeon. Ultimately he decides he cannot let an innocent man die and helps Simeon escape; his guards beat him in the hours before he is to be hanged at the gallows and slip him a lotus plant that will put him in a state like death.) Simeon's unconscious body is smuggled out, and the guards who "killed him" are given light punishments. At the same time, Demetrio (who has confronted Aurelio and received subtle confirmation that he's guilty and will happily start all over again) hires a band of assassins to murder Aurelio and make it look like a highway robbery gone wrong. Aurelio dies in agony, and his father, suspecting Demetrio's involvement, swears that he will destroy him.
I thought this idea examined themes of justice. Even today our criminal justice system has problems (just look at Cook County Chicago or the Henry McCollum Steven Avery and WM3 cases). That the noble elite is willing to frame an innocent in order to placate the mob without punishing the actual killer simply because he is one of their own is meant to show the ugliness of civilization beneath the mask. It's also based on a real case. In the first Steven Avery case (jury's out on whether he's guilty in the second case) he was framed for rape. There's disturbing proof that the prosecution not only KNEW Avery was innocent, but that Gregory Allen (a vicious sex predator) was the actual perpetrator. However, because Avery had attacked a deputies wife (she spread rumors he masturbated in public, he ran her off the road and held her at gunpoint in retaliation), the sheriff's depart wanted to punish Avery for his "disrespect". This resulted in Gregory Allen going on to rape at LEAST 2 more people, with some suspecting he raped as many as 9 people. 11 at most. In short, the sheriff was willing to let a monster continue his spree to punish a sleight against one of his deputies' wives. Something like that would be all to possible in Hyboria