NOTE: To all readers and writers of Evangelion, Danny Phantom and Ben 10
This will not be a clichéd superhero story where the heroes and OCs come together for heroic destiny. However, this will be a journey for everyone involved. The heroes, the musicians, and with six musicians must come to terms with the pasts that have for better and through worse have defined them as people with abilities.
The EVA story as well as parts two and three to the trilogy serve as movements in a concerto that's been in the works from mental images down to paper two years prior to this post. Again with this massive undertaking music will play an important role in assisting in painting a portrait for the mind's eye on where and when the story takes place. Music defines the background and one's reality, as much as friends and assholes.
I'm not a great writer, but I am a young ambitious man who is fond of art, music, religion (artistically speaking) and the human condition that comprises a complex mosaic. A mosaic that I fear may be too vast to accomplish in what limited time I have, but with the memories and obsessions from childhood backing me the whole way, it would be foolish to leave this venture half accomplished.
In continuation with what I said about music's role in this story, 2005 is modeled as a concerto. For those who don't know, a piece of music divided in three movements. For my work, music serves as the voice that inspires the text rather than be put as background for certain moments as it does in films. In this case, the first voice is the piece called "Way Up" composed by Gustavo Santaolalla. The second voice is "Do We Lose 21 Grams" from the 21 GRAMS soundtrack. The third voice is "Coyita" also composed by Gustavo Santaolalla.
These pieces work for 2005 because they revolve around themes I want to continue to explore from my earlier attempts in THE ENLIGHTENING MUSIC and FOUR WALLS: redemption, loss, guilt, love, hope, and spiritual sensitivity (awareness of the world and self).
Another note I would like to make, whatever you're raised as; Catholic, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, Taoist, Hindu, Sikh, Santoria, Voodoo, Candomble, or even atheist. Whatever background you leave behind as you age, your childhood remains with you and that defines your outlook on life. Speaking from personal experience, I'm an agnostic with traces of my Catholic upbringing. It stays with you, no matter what you say or do.
I won't promise this crossover will be the greatest out there, but I can promise that this story will be the best I can make it. All three arcs went through many revisions before I decided on the final outlines. Stripped down to reveal the visceral world the teenagers' experience. At times hard and harsh, but can also be beautiful and heartbreaking.
"The soul to know itself must gaze into a soul"
-Anonymous Greek thinker-