I've been skulking around various threads (namely Introductions, but others as well) and found mentions of various plots and characters - but nothing particularly descriptive. I thought perhaps it would be fun - and helpful in character development - to introduce protagonists/favourite characters of your prospective SF! scripts. What say you, fellow comic script-ers?

We could also potentially post pictures (or links to pictures) of said characters.

I'll start, then; my main character is a doctor-turned-pop-star who ends up in the the thick of alien activity. His name is Sebastian, but call him Sebas. He's a rather touchy guy, easily riled up, and tends to be overdramatic about everything. In public, he never removes his sunglasses. He's actually originally from my NaNo universe, but modified to fit the demand for aliens. Mutant alpaca aliens, if you must know.

Appearance-wise, he's blonde. Very, very blonde. He has a somewhat Eastern European look to him, and is fairly tall. Not scrawny, but you wouldn't call him particularly strong, either. But he's pretty enough to make it big in the popular music industry, which gets him places he probably would not have got otherwise. It also gives him a rather overactive ego.

My main character will meet the McKenzie Sisters.
They are three older women who ride their motorized scooters around and wreck havoc... doing all the anti-social things they've always felt like doing and saying whatever they think. They, also, make a point about disabled accesibility... like driving through fresh cement and knocking over sandwich board signs on the sidewalk. They wear hideous matching "sister dresses".
They are a small portion of MC's adventures.

TJ

"Senior Delinquents"

They sound like great fun. Also scarily like my grandmother. And by the sound of "Senior Delinquents", there are more of that sort present.

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Denial - not just a river in Egypt.

A doctor-turned-pop-star who deals with aliens and a moterbike "gang" made up of older women. Dang. Compared to those characters mine seem kind of... plain. Oh well.

I have two main characters: Laura and Kasey. They are basically myself and my best friend, respectively. We wanted to come up with a wacky adventure staring us so that’s what we did. Granted, we aren’t exactly like we are in the comic (well Kasey is) because I had to change some things. In the story we use a time machine to go to a concert…or at least we try to. We can never quite get it to work right so we keep ending up in the wrong time/place and get ourselves into lots of trouble.

Kasey is the hyperactive one. She is outgoing, upbeat, and loves all kinds of adventures. She is also the one who usually gets them into trouble in whatever time zone they’re in. It’s not that she’s stupid, she’s just really rash and doesn’t think things through. However when the two time travelers are in a situation that is completely hopeless, Kasey will end up pulling some ridiculous stunt that, for reasons that completely escape Laura, ends up saving the day. Kasey is also much more athletic than Laura, but this isn’t hard. Kasey is also boy-crazy. A running gag for her is to see some cute guy and go completely fan girl over him.

Laura is a year older than Kasey and is the brains of the two. She is a brilliant inventor who first designed the time machine, although she never figure out how to get it work right. Unlike Kasey, Laura is calm and collected. She would rather be at home reading than risking her neck in God-knows-when. Laura isn’t the most athletics either but her quick thinking and vast knowledge of history gets them out of most sticky situations. It also helps that she thinks things through before jumping into them. Laura has invented tons of stuff that she carries in her backpack. She’s often cynical and sarcastic, but she’s still a caring person.

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If you could rate my intelegnece on a scale of one to ten, I would be GREEN!

I guess I should introduce my main character here. I know her so well...

In a future fascist society of 2014, Shira is the one who can't conform, so she gets into trouble regularly. She has two handles: online, she's "La Fantoma", in honor of her uncanny ability to hide in plain sight; but on the streets she's "Spanner" (Brit for "monkeywrench") because she's a legendary prankster even at the young age of 15. Her total inability to conform (she's the consummate "tall poppy") ends up provoking a youth revolt that ends up threatening the United State.

Appearance: tall, slender, athletic; light brown skin, red hair, green eyes. She's a mass of seeming contradictions: precocious prankster, tomboy slut, multiracial redhead, intellectual ravepunk, etc. A younger Shira also appears in all the novels of the prequel Dictel trilogy: Bad Company, Black Science, and my 2008 NaNo novel Points of Authority. Actually, a lot of the Spanner cast is in the Dictel trilogy. But Spanner belongs to Shira.

Her role: the Catalyst Hero. If you want to beat the near-omnipotent United State (which may or may not be a Euro-American Union), you can't do it alone. Lots of political thrillers end with the destruction of the lone hero. The only kind of hero guaranteed at least a chance of winning against the State is the Catalyst Hero. In Campbell/Vogler terms, a catalyst hero is a Hero who acts as Herald, giving out the Call to Adventure to all who are willing to listen or are just in the area. My whole Hermetic theme revolves around this, as Hermes is the herald of the Olympian gods. Shira is a Hermetic personality as much at home in heaven and Hades as she is on earth, like a mercurial shaman. Maybe her open bisexuality ties into this as well.

So this is the character I've known since 1985. She's developed immensely since I first conceived of her. She started as just a name, a redhead, and the granddaughter of an existing character. Soon enough, everybody will come to know her, or at least everybody who reads comics.

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Two-Time Consecutive Come-From-Behind NaNoWriMo Winner
2006: Black Science/The Jennifer Theory
2007: Bad Company

SF 2008: Spanner

Sarah Munroe - As of the start she will have just discovered she's one of these strange superpowered people who've been appearing for the last couple of years. She's super-intelligent and stealthy with fire and shapeshifting powers.

A skater girl more in the sense that she actually skates than what she wears - she uses her board to get into position to attack during fights.

She has an evil sense of humour which she usually takes out on her opponents. This can get her into trouble when she doesn't. (Like the sub-plot I have in mind where she dyes Lindiwe's (one of her teammates) hair electric blue while the other girl is sleeping).

If you've read my posts in Plot Doctoring and SciFi/Fantasy/Horror and can guess who she used to be you get a cookie.

Well, I have four possible comic book SF! protagonists, but I'll only introduce two.

Lindsey Stone (Aka - Lia), my MFC, is a moderately attractive girl of about 19 born into a (future) fascist government. She works generally as a hired hand for anybody that wants her enough along with a small team. Also, her appearance depends on who the case requires - going from ditzy blonde to sophisticated lit teacher. On a regular day, she has light brown hair, gray eyes, and pale skin.

Ry Hart, my MMC, is Lia's boyfriend. He looks fairly usual for the culture and can blend in fairly well. While he doesn't have Lia's guts or her training, he's good at computers, negotiations and boring things like that. Sometimes he acts like a coward and doesn't like getting into trouble, but once he - or someone he knows - gets into trouble he might as well have a death wish.

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I tried to be perfect, it just wasn't worth it.
I don't know how it got so bad.
It's hard to believe me, it never gets easy.
I guess I knew it all along.

Oh-ho! What have we here! I'll only introduce one of my characters.

Introducing the illustrious Captain Bland, a middle-aged man with a clean shaven face and blue hair. And blue clothing. He's a member of an underground network of sky pirates (wait what? UNDERGROUND network of SKY PIRATES?) vowing to protect the sacred relics of yester-year from the villainous curs of the evil corporations. He speaks particularly extravagantly at times (likely to hide his Blandness) and has a motley crew of "good guys".

Stay tuned for more in...Captain Bland and the Monotonous Crew!

Also see this little ministrip I did here (which won't go towards my page count): http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l158/DragonKnSage/issuepointfive.png

One more thing about Shira Thomas/Spanner that I forgot: she rides a mean hoverboard. I have a whole sequence involving Shira flying it in downtown Seattle, evading an army of airborne cops (some of them in jetpack-equipped power armour), using the skyscrapers to her advantage.

I've decided the next entry in my project blog will be my first public profile of Shira. It'll include everything I've written about her in this and other threads, and then some. I think it's about time I posted it. I've procrastinated it for a week now...

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Script Frenzy 2008: Spanner
Project Blog: Spanner's World

Tomas is a mid 20's male with no real distinguishing features. Working in a locally owned movie rental store, he spends his days helping out the mostly regular customers as well as the occasional odd visitor (The mysterious and always lost ninja for one). Then we have Betsy who has returned from business school. She arrives at her parent's store to find this guy working there and soon finds him utterly confusing. His laid back philosophy and inability to blink at the fits of insanity that seems to track him down motivates her to extend her hometown reunion. Betsy is the perpetual "have a plan for everything, easily frustrated" type.

It's basically a romantic comedy with sci-fi/fantasy elements to keep the comedy surreal and unpredictable.

Graphic Novel - "Senior Delinquents"

Charlie, thanks for your comments on Senior Delinquents. I actually have a 63-year-old sister who knocks over store displays on the scooter then goes off laughing. My 56-year-old sister will no longer go into the store with her. In defense of the older sister - she was in a car accident several years ago and we're wondering if there was some long-term frontal lobe damage showing up now. Also, I rode a scooter for a while and it doesn't matter what you tell the store managers about accessibility --- they keep cluttering up the isles -- profit rules. (gets off soapbox)

So the middle sister and I make silly fantasy plans to become a "gang" and create hideous matching outfits (like Mimi from Drew Carey) and tell people we're "triplets".

TJ