p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Jumping Spider/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Storyline / Premise: /spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"Serissa becomes the avatar of Anansi the spider god, in order to save him from Euderus /spanSspan style="font-variant: normal;"et/span,span style="font-variant: normal;" the wasp god who has poisoned him. Serissa has just started college though, and on a football scholarship as a woman! Can she juggle fighting bad guys, gods, attending classes, going to football practice and keeping the people of Chicago safe?!/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Theme and Topic: /spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"Theme: With great power comes great responsibility. Topic: Superhero/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Genre: /spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"Action/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Synopsis / Summary: /spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"Young woman is given the powers of a jumping spider to save the spider god Anansi, from his nemesis the wasp god Euderus set, who seeks to take the knowledge of Anansi for himself. Euderus set has poisoned Anansi in their most recent battle. Anansi's children cannot /spanbest the Euderus Sspan style="font-variant: normal;"et and his hive and seek out a champion. Enter Serissa./span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Characters/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Total: 2 characters/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"1. Serissa Rone/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Protagonist/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Age / Date of Birth: /spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"(20) 10/27/00/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Outer Goal: /spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"To go to college and be a football player. Even if that means using her powers to do so./span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"(ALT)Outer Goal: To protect her village and save Anansi from Euderus Set./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Inner Goal: /spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"Understand the responsibility that comes with her power. Even if it means giving up her dreams./span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"Inner Goal: Become someone worthy of the great power she has been given./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Psychological Description:/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Weaknesses/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;": naive, selfish, lazy about things that aren't her goals, procrastinator, fickle, stubborn./span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Strengths/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;": Brave, focused on her goals, caring, optimistic, fair minded, observant, simple./span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Inner Conflict/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;": Wants to use her power to enrich her life and make her NFL dreams a reality. Needs to use her power to save Anansi, protect her family and friends in her city. While giving up her NFL dreams./span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"(ALT)Psychological Description:/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"Weakness: naive, stubborn, simple./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"Strengths: brave, caring, optimistic./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Character Arc:/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Subjective/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;": Serissa is naive of the world around her as she's only ever been focused on football. Fickle about things that require work outside of her interest, and puts off her responsibilities til the last moment. She's ignorant to the world around her spending most time with music in her ears ignoring the world. Upon gaining her power these things will only be exacerbated until she can't maintain them further. Her more positive traits will have to come forward as she has to give up her dreams to focus on what matters./span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Objective/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;": /spanSerissa's span style="font-variant: normal;"home situation /spanconsistsspan style="font-variant: normal;" of her living with her mom and working at a convenience store while she attends college and tries to play on first sting on her football team. She doesn't do anything around the house and spends a lot of time on her phone. Her mother spoils her because /spanshe is herspan style="font-variant: normal;" only child so it's ok. As her life changes so will her home situation and she'll need to rethink how she treats her mother. She will have to rethink whether it's worth being a star player and putting her teammates in danger as she steadily gets new foes./span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"2. Bloom Canate/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Antagonist/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Age / Date of Birth: /spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"(22) 09/14/98/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Outer Goal: /spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"Stop working two jobs. Find an easier way to make a lot of money to support her and her kids./span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Inner Goal: /spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"Be free of all responsibilities./span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Physical Description: /spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"Panamanian woman. 5'9. Average build with a curvy body. Brown hair in a short Afro. Green eyes. She has puffy pink lips and caramel skin, a pretty but tired face./span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Psychological Description: /spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"Weaknesses: cynical, prideful, jealous, short-tempered. Strengths: Brave, focused, thoughtful, complex. Inner Conflict: Wants to use her power to gain social status and take money. Needs to free herself even if that means giving up her kids. Not everyone that has kids is a good parent./span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Locations/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Total: 2 locations/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"1. Chicago/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Exterior/Interior/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Description: /spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"Mostly downtown but other parts of the city as well./span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"2. Small village/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Exterior/Interior/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Description: /spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"Small town 10 houses at most. 3-4 person families. Average for the village. Humans live here and small animals. The well for water is a mile or so away. Serissa lives here with her mom./span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Plots/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Total: 2 plots/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"1./span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Main Plot/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Description: /spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"Serissa gets power from Anansi becoming a Spider-Woman and avatar to a god. She must free Anansi the poison he has received from the wasp god Euderus set. When Serissa receives her power /spanshe is setspan style="font-variant: normal;" upon by an avatar for Euderus to terminate her as a hope for saving Anansi. Following their first encounter in which Serissa gets away. Serissa now has super powers!Serissa misses work the day she gets her powers. Because she goes home after the battle. Serissa's mother is made aware of her powers. Serissa goes to college to test again /spanfor the firstspan style="font-variant: normal;" string on the football team. /spanWhereasspan style="font-variant: normal;" before she matched the best player but lost the position due to seniority on the team. This time with her overwhelming athleticism due to her new found abilities she moves to first string. After practice on her way to work she decides to stop some crimes as her awareness of the city and those within it has increased significantly./span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"2. College athlete 1st Female wide receiver/running back in Chicago./span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Subplot/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Description: /spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"Serissa has been given power beyond that of normal people but plays sports with them. This creates a dilemma for her. Some on her team are happy to have an edge while others think it unfair. However, Serissa's team isn't the only one with a superpowered person on a team in the NCAA. Serissa is willing to limit her abilities as much as she can in order to play sports. Will the NCAA wash the entire season when they discover the truth? Will her scholarship be voided if it's believed she cheated through high school as well?/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Scenes/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Total: 1 scenes; 4 acts/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Act: Act1: Serissa /spancomesspan style="font-variant: normal;" around the corner./span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"1. The encounter/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Begins: /spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"2020/12/03 21:40 PM/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Ends: /spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"2020/12/03 21:40 PM/span/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"An alarm goes off. Loud beeping can be heard echoing through the walls of the two bedroom apartment. The sunlight snuck in through the cracks of the closed drapes within the living room that shared a space with the kitchen. Serissa lifted the cell phone just enough to tap the screen, and roll over in bed, back to the phone. She had another eight minutes and planned to enjoy every second of it. It isn't as if she was dreaming of anything in particular, it was just the feeling of sleeping that kept her in bed. While the alarm snoozed the house remained silent, only Serissa was at home at this time her mom was out working. While her father did the same but in Africa. See, Serissa's parents hailed from the continent of Africa, more specifically the country of Ghana. Her father worked to bring his family to America and intended to join them soon after, but as luck would have it he found success. Working at a shipping yard he would sell some of the goods from the containers on the side. Once his wife went to America, he was able to get items he knew sold well for cheap sent to him. Conversely, his wife sold handmade trinkets. Trinkets that were very low cost in Africa for much higher prices in America. The wife was able to open a store in downtown Chicago and the husband was able to do the same in Ghana. The two saw no reason to upset what they had going for their family. Although he did not physically see his wife as often as he liked they still talked all the time./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"The alarm rang once again. Serissa lifted the phone to look at the time. Sitting up from her bed, she scratched her head, then rubbed her hands over her short afro. Rising to her feet she groans, in the next moment brushing from her bedroom bathroom can be heard, water crashing onto the bottom of the sink as she washes herself saying "Birdbath!" while giggling to herself. The popping of the plastic hair pic echoes out the bathroom when Serissa takes it through her thick black hair./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;""Perfect." She says with a smile. Throwing on clothes she had left out the night before, grabbing her miniature backpack, and keys and heading out the door./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"By this time it was around noon, she needed to be at the shop by 12:30. They lived 30 mins away. Serrisa was calling a Social Rider, she would be late because it was lunchtime in downtown Chicago. Her best bet would be to order a Sky Slayer, magic motorcycles that ride on wind currents. There are plenty in the windy city, but it was more expensive because of the convenience and the luxury of the vehicle itself. Begrudgingly, the Sky Slayer was on its way. Although she worked at her family's store she was late often and her mom and recently threatened to fire her believing her to be lazy. Serissa argued that it wasn't laziness, it was disinterest. If she could get paid to play football while in college it'd be different. However, Serissa had a plan being a rarity among football as a female with an offensive scholarship to a D1 school she would just make vlogs (video logs). Sharing her experience of being one of two female athletes drafted onto a male football team (not like there was a female league to speak of). Not to mention the other player was her BOAT (bestie of all time) Petra Parker who got a scholarship for special teams as a kicker! The slayer arrived while she was in thought, a honk, and she hopped on. So, why are sky slayers safe to use for ride sharing but not motorcycles? Because of their magic. When you get a motorcycle all that secures you to the bike are your legs gripping the frame. What keeps you safe? A helmet? Maybe gloves, a jacket if you wear one, and passengers are less safe as they have to grip the rider and the bike. Now a slayer, forces wind through the use of its aetheric engine to abey a series of commands. The riders are protected by a shell that is created and tested to protect the rider(s) even upon being thrown off the bike the protective shell will persist for a few seconds afterward. You are secured to the seat through magic bindings that strap your hips and legs to the bike once you get on and release when you are dismounting. In all the apparatus is very safe and makes you aware of any potential dangers while preventing the user from going too high in the sky./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"The slayer hovered above the ground and the wind convulsed within the engine giving it a gentle vibration. Dismounting the rider noticed immediately how much taller she was than him. Slayers hover about a foot and a half off the ground and are between four to five by themselves. Most people require help on the bike unless they are on the taller side. Serissa was 6'1 and 190lbs about the same size as a male at her height. She waves to the driver and walks toward the store entrance while the train screams on the tracks above. The driver was still looking as she walked away, "Dem yams!" he said to himself as he turned his body back and rode off./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"Walking into the store, her mother spoke, "Oh wow. I am glad to see that you have enough sense to not get fired from your own family's business." Her mother spoke as she stood in the center of the store surrounded by several racks of clothes full of African garb as well as modern fashion from Ghana and other African countries as well as various carved wooden fruit colored expertly like the fruit they are shaped after. "Yes I am here! The prodigal daughter has made it! Did you miss me?" Serissa asked with a smile. Her replies saying, "No, not at all now get to work." she says with a smile and open arms. They embrace. Then her mother must fight to separate them as Serissa does not want to release the hug. "Go in there. her mother says fixing her clothing and headdress. Serissa giggles to herself as she goes in the back to place her things inside her locker. Only to hear someone say, '' What's good lil' mama? You lookin' real nice out here, where yo friens at?" Serissa turned with her back to the locker sayin, " I'm fine, and they on they way!" Petra, stepped forward saying, "That's right best friend, tell'em! The girls both laugh to themselves while putting their things away. As they step out the staff room doorway and into the main store room./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"A loud noise could be heard on the train tracks above. The train is normally loud but this sound was odd and it made the ground quake instead of the low rumble the trains bring as they move across the tracks. All those within the vicinity of the tracks shook. The three women went outside and to their astonishment they saw massive figures violently clashing against one another on the tracks above. Bits of rusted metal and rotted wood fell with each pummeling blow. Onlookers began to gather. It was difficult to tell what or who was fighting, but they were large in size. "You don't think it's a summoning gone wrong or something do you?" Serissa asks, turning to her mother and Petra. Petra shrugs her mother; frightened hurries back inside yelling, "Come girls! Let us go before anything happens! "We're right behind you." Serissa says as she turns back toward the tracks. The creatures' heads come more into view as they hang off the side of the tracks, Serissa and Petra's hearts pound at the sight of the giant insects./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"The Spider pushes the Wasp off of it; narrowly escaping its stinger. The Wasp tumbles back and begins to hover above the tracks. A train off in the distance begins to blow its horn feverishly, the driver cannot believe what he is seeing but does what he knows. The Wasp cuts a side eye glance at the train and smirks. It's eyes lower menacingly, maintaining its smirk. The Wasp is as plain as the day; attack the train. Although, the Spider has no particular affinity for humans. It would prefer for them to not come to harm on its behalf, so it must protect them. In a burst of speed the Spider charges at the train head on. The conductor hits the breaks too late; there is no crash, there is no bang? Did the conductor imagine this whole event? Have they been driven crazy by the monotony of the job? Now their mind has started playing tricks on them? Has someone simply cast a curse upon them for a sleight they were unaware they made? As these thoughts came into the mind of the Conductor whose arm was still using the brakes. The Spider rode atop the train. The locomotive had slowed significantly, this upset the Wasp. Determined to kill the Spider at all cost, it flew up in an instant and came crashing down just as fast. Stinger first; this stinger that the Wasp had was the length of a flagpole and as thick as rush hour traffic on the Dan Ryan expressway. Before the Wasp made contact the Spider jumped from the train and spread webbing between the buildings of downtown Chicago, webbed the Wasp as well. Spun, and launched the Wasp into the air away from the train before it could cause any further damage. Landing on its webbing the Spider watched the sky. It knew the beast would return to the sky, was its domain and it may have given the Wasp the advantage./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"People continue to gather in amazement over the spectacle. Serissa and Petra were now across the street next to buildings Spider had laid its web. "This is crazy! Petra remarked in excitement. There's no way that these two were summoned here."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;""How do you figure?" Serissa replied. "Because if they had been summoned their Summoners would need to be nearby. I've been looking and I don't see anyone with magic exuding from their bodies" Petra continued. "So, then what does this mean? What is happening?!" Serissa asked while continuing to look on. "I don't know but definitely want to find out,'' Petra said with an excited smile./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"A "boom!" was heard. Everyone looked around , to what had happened the sound was like an airplane overhead. Serissa looked on in shock as the Wasp had shot through the Spider and buried itself halfway in the concrete. The Wasp struggled to release itself from the concrete with its legs. As the Wasp wriggled in the concrete to free itself. The Spider fell to the street crushing the cars below. People began to run away in a panic. The Spider twitched; a gaping whole in it, The Wasp had finally removed itself from the inside of the street. traffic was at a halt the drivers stared at the giant insect that now filled the intersection below the train Wasp's murderous intent could be felt; a psychological pressure was released that affected the minds of those around capable of causing splitting headaches that end in brain hemorrhages. Intense pain throbs throughout Serissa's head; she wobbles like a drunkard. The pain is nearly unbearable; as her nose begins to bleed she falls across the Spider. Her thoughts are jumbled as she says "Y, You brought. . h, it heeeere… Get up and finish… Get someone, ...that hwill…," Her thoughts fade to black as her eyes begin to run over with blood./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"The Spider twitches thinking to itself, "Get someone that will? Then I pick you; abrasive one! Now we will become one." In that moment, the Spider turned into particles, those particles lifted up Serissa and covered her completely. This gave the Wasp pause; it felt something was coming. It twisted itself around so fast the nearby cars were lifted off the ground and tossed into a spiral. It wasn't fast enough. A kick landed deep in the abdomen of the Wasp with enough force to eject its stinger. Pinning it to the ground; punctured by a foot the Wasp looked at the leg jutting out of its abdomen, then, up at Serissa. She wore a mostly black bodysuit; her hands, mid-back, a quarter of her arm were covered in red, and were wrapped in black webs. Her face was fully covered by a mask with two large eyes on it./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"The Wasp took a swing with one of its legs and tried to grab her with a few others. The attempts were unsuccessful ; Serissa crawled all over the giant insect. Covering it in webbing with each pass around its body. Petra watched on in awe as her friend did things she has never seen or imagined someone doing. But, somewhere. Deep inside. An unpleasant thought formed in her mind, "That should be me." Petra thought for a moment. Shaking her head to erase the idea from her head, but the feeling still lingered. Petra put on a smile, when Serissa came running to Petra in excitement, after cocooning the Wasp in her webbing./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"The Wasp flailed about on the ground, aggressive buzzing came from the large spider silk cocoon. The police arrive to see the destruction that took place; people lay in a convulsive or catatonic state. Many people were still suffering from the effects of the psionic attack from the Wasp./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Storyline / Premise: /spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"Serissa becomes the avatar of Anansi the spider god, in order to save him from Euderus /spanSspan style="font-variant: normal;"et/span,span style="font-variant: normal;" the wasp god who has poisoned him. Serissa has just started college though, and on a football scholarship as a woman! Can she juggle fighting bad guys, gods, attending classes, going to football practice and keeping the people of Chicago safe?!/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Theme and Topic: /spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"Theme: With great power comes great responsibility. Topic: Superhero/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Genre: /spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"Action/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Synopsis / Summary: /spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"Young woman is given the powers of a jumping spider to save the spider god Anansi, from his nemesis the wasp god Euderus set, who seeks to take the knowledge of Anansi for himself. Euderus set has poisoned Anansi in their most recent battle. Anansi's children cannot /spanbest the Euderus Sspan style="font-variant: normal;"et and his hive and seek out a champion. Enter Serissa./span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Characters/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Total: 2 characters/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"1. Serissa Rone/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Protagonist/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Age / Date of Birth: /spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"(20) 10/27/00/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Outer Goal: /spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"To go to college and be a football player. Even if that means using her powers to do so./span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"(ALT)Outer Goal: To protect her village and save Anansi from Euderus Set./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Inner Goal: /spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"Understand the responsibility that comes with her power. Even if it means giving up her dreams./span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"Inner Goal: Become someone worthy of the great power she has been given./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Psychological Description:/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Weaknesses/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;": naive, selfish, lazy about things that aren't her goals, procrastinator, fickle, stubborn./span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Strengths/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;": Brave, focused on her goals, caring, optimistic, fair minded, observant, simple./span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Inner Conflict/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;": Wants to use her power to enrich her life and make her NFL dreams a reality. Needs to use her power to save Anansi, protect her family and friends in her city. While giving up her NFL dreams./span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"(ALT)Psychological Description:/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"Weakness: naive, stubborn, simple./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"Strengths: brave, caring, optimistic./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Character Arc:/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Subjective/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;": Serissa is naive of the world around her as she's only ever been focused on football. Fickle about things that require work outside of her interest, and puts off her responsibilities til the last moment. She's ignorant to the world around her spending most time with music in her ears ignoring the world. Upon gaining her power these things will only be exacerbated until she can't maintain them further. Her more positive traits will have to come forward as she has to give up her dreams to focus on what matters./span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Objective/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;": /spanSerissa's span style="font-variant: normal;"home situation /spanconsistsspan style="font-variant: normal;" of her living with her mom and working at a convenience store while she attends college and tries to play on first sting on her football team. She doesn't do anything around the house and spends a lot of time on her phone. Her mother spoils her because /spanshe is herspan style="font-variant: normal;" only child so it's ok. As her life changes so will her home situation and she'll need to rethink how she treats her mother. She will have to rethink whether it's worth being a star player and putting her teammates in danger as she steadily gets new foes./span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"2. Bloom Canate/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Antagonist/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Age / Date of Birth: /spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"(22) 09/14/98/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Outer Goal: /spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"Stop working two jobs. Find an easier way to make a lot of money to support her and her kids./span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Inner Goal: /spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"Be free of all responsibilities./span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Physical Description: /spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"Panamanian woman. 5'9. Average build with a curvy body. Brown hair in a short Afro. Green eyes. She has puffy pink lips and caramel skin, a pretty but tired face./span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Psychological Description: /spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"Weaknesses: cynical, prideful, jealous, short-tempered. Strengths: Brave, focused, thoughtful, complex. Inner Conflict: Wants to use her power to gain social status and take money. Needs to free herself even if that means giving up her kids. Not everyone that has kids is a good parent./span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Locations/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Total: 2 locations/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"1. Chicago/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Exterior/Interior/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Description: /spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"Mostly downtown but other parts of the city as well./span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"2. Small village/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Exterior/Interior/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Description: /spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"Small town 10 houses at most. 3-4 person families. Average for the village. Humans live here and small animals. The well for water is a mile or so away. Serissa lives here with her mom./span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Plots/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Total: 2 plots/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"1./span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Main Plot/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Description: /spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"Serissa gets power from Anansi becoming a Spider-Woman and avatar to a god. She must free Anansi the poison he has received from the wasp god Euderus set. When Serissa receives her power /spanshe is setspan style="font-variant: normal;" upon by an avatar for Euderus to terminate her as a hope for saving Anansi. Following their first encounter in which Serissa gets away. Serissa now has super powers!Serissa misses work the day she gets her powers. Because she goes home after the battle. Serissa's mother is made aware of her powers. Serissa goes to college to test again /spanfor the firstspan style="font-variant: normal;" string on the football team. /spanWhereasspan style="font-variant: normal;" before she matched the best player but lost the position due to seniority on the team. This time with her overwhelming athleticism due to her new found abilities she moves to first string. After practice on her way to work she decides to stop some crimes as her awareness of the city and those within it has increased significantly./span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"2. College athlete 1st Female wide receiver/running back in Chicago./span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Subplot/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Description: /spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"Serissa has been given power beyond that of normal people but plays sports with them. This creates a dilemma for her. Some on her team are happy to have an edge while others think it unfair. However, Serissa's team isn't the only one with a superpowered person on a team in the NCAA. Serissa is willing to limit her abilities as much as she can in order to play sports. Will the NCAA wash the entire season when they discover the truth? Will her scholarship be voided if it's believed she cheated through high school as well?/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Scenes/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Total: 1 scenes; 4 acts/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Act: Act1: Serissa /spancomesspan style="font-variant: normal;" around the corner./span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"1. The encounter/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Begins: /spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"2020/12/03 21:40 PM/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"Ends: /spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"2020/12/03 21:40 PM/span/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"An alarm goes off. Loud beeping can be heard echoing through the walls of the two bedroom apartment. The sunlight snuck in through the cracks of the closed drapes within the living room that shared a space with the kitchen. Serissa lifted the cell phone just enough to tap the screen, and roll over in bed, back to the phone. She had another eight minutes and planned to enjoy every second of it. It isn't as if she was dreaming of anything in particular, it was just the feeling of sleeping that kept her in bed. While the alarm snoozed the house remained silent, only Serissa was at home at this time her mom was out working. While her father did the same but in Africa. See, Serissa's parents hailed from the continent of Africa, more specifically the country of Ghana. Her father worked to bring his family to America and intended to join them soon after, but as luck would have it he found success. Working at a shipping yard he would sell some of the goods from the containers on the side. Once his wife went to America, he was able to get items he knew sold well for cheap sent to him. Conversely, his wife sold handmade trinkets. Trinkets that were very low cost in Africa for much higher prices in America. The wife was able to open a store in downtown Chicago and the husband was able to do the same in Ghana. The two saw no reason to upset what they had going for their family. Although he did not physically see his wife as often as he liked they still talked all the time./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"The alarm rang once again. Serissa lifted the phone to look at the time. Sitting up from her bed, she scratched her head, then rubbed her hands over her short afro. Rising to her feet she groans, in the next moment brushing from her bedroom bathroom can be heard, water crashing onto the bottom of the sink as she washes herself saying "Birdbath!" while giggling to herself. The popping of the plastic hair pic echoes out the bathroom when Serissa takes it through her thick black hair./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;""Perfect." She says with a smile. Throwing on clothes she had left out the night before, grabbing her miniature backpack, and keys and heading out the door./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"By this time it was around noon, she needed to be at the shop by 12:30. They lived 30 mins away. Serrisa was calling a Social Rider, she would be late because it was lunchtime in downtown Chicago. Her best bet would be to order a Sky Slayer, magic motorcycles that ride on wind currents. There are plenty in the windy city, but it was more expensive because of the convenience and the luxury of the vehicle itself. Begrudgingly, the Sky Slayer was on its way. Although she worked at her family's store she was late often and her mom and recently threatened to fire her believing her to be lazy. Serissa argued that it wasn't laziness, it was disinterest. If she could get paid to play football while in college it'd be different. However, Serissa had a plan being a rarity among football as a female with an offensive scholarship to a D1 school she would just make vlogs (video logs). Sharing her experience of being one of two female athletes drafted onto a male football team (not like there was a female league to speak of). Not to mention the other player was her BOAT (bestie of all time) Petra Parker who got a scholarship for special teams as a kicker! The slayer arrived while she was in thought, a honk, and she hopped on. So, why are sky slayers safe to use for ride sharing but not motorcycles? Because of their magic. When you get a motorcycle all that secures you to the bike are your legs gripping the frame. What keeps you safe? A helmet? Maybe gloves, a jacket if you wear one, and passengers are less safe as they have to grip the rider and the bike. Now a slayer, forces wind through the use of its aetheric engine to abey a series of commands. The riders are protected by a shell that is created and tested to protect the rider(s) even upon being thrown off the bike the protective shell will persist for a few seconds afterward. You are secured to the seat through magic bindings that strap your hips and legs to the bike once you get on and release when you are dismounting. In all the apparatus is very safe and makes you aware of any potential dangers while preventing the user from going too high in the sky./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"The slayer hovered above the ground and the wind convulsed within the engine giving it a gentle vibration. Dismounting the rider noticed immediately how much taller she was than him. Slayers hover about a foot and a half off the ground and are between four to five by themselves. Most people require help on the bike unless they are on the taller side. Serissa was 6'1 and 190lbs about the same size as a male at her height. She waves to the driver and walks toward the store entrance while the train screams on the tracks above. The driver was still looking as she walked away, "Dem yams!" he said to himself as he turned his body back and rode off./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"Walking into the store, her mother spoke, "Oh wow. I am glad to see that you have enough sense to not get fired from your own family's business." Her mother spoke as she stood in the center of the store surrounded by several racks of clothes full of African garb as well as modern fashion from Ghana and other African countries as well as various carved wooden fruit colored expertly like the fruit they are shaped after. "Yes I am here! The prodigal daughter has made it! Did you miss me?" Serissa asked with a smile. Her replies saying, "No, not at all now get to work." she says with a smile and open arms. They embrace. Then her mother must fight to separate them as Serissa does not want to release the hug. "Go in there. her mother says fixing her clothing and headdress. Serissa giggles to herself as she goes in the back to place her things inside her locker. Only to hear someone say, '' What's good lil' mama? You lookin' real nice out here, where yo friens at?" Serissa turned with her back to the locker sayin, " I'm fine, and they on they way!" Petra, stepped forward saying, "That's right best friend, tell'em! The girls both laugh to themselves while putting their things away. As they step out the staff room doorway and into the main store room./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"A loud noise could be heard on the train tracks above. The train is normally loud but this sound was odd and it made the ground quake instead of the low rumble the trains bring as they move across the tracks. All those within the vicinity of the tracks shook. The three women went outside and to their astonishment they saw massive figures violently clashing against one another on the tracks above. Bits of rusted metal and rotted wood fell with each pummeling blow. Onlookers began to gather. It was difficult to tell what or who was fighting, but they were large in size. "You don't think it's a summoning gone wrong or something do you?" Serissa asks, turning to her mother and Petra. Petra shrugs her mother; frightened hurries back inside yelling, "Come girls! Let us go before anything happens! "We're right behind you." Serissa says as she turns back toward the tracks. The creatures' heads come more into view as they hang off the side of the tracks, Serissa and Petra's hearts pound at the sight of the giant insects./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"The Spider pushes the Wasp off of it; narrowly escaping its stinger. The Wasp tumbles back and begins to hover above the tracks. A train off in the distance begins to blow its horn feverishly, the driver cannot believe what he is seeing but does what he knows. The Wasp cuts a side eye glance at the train and smirks. It's eyes lower menacingly, maintaining its smirk. The Wasp is as plain as the day; attack the train. Although, the Spider has no particular affinity for humans. It would prefer for them to not come to harm on its behalf, so it must protect them. In a burst of speed the Spider charges at the train head on. The conductor hits the breaks too late; there is no crash, there is no bang? Did the conductor imagine this whole event? Have they been driven crazy by the monotony of the job? Now their mind has started playing tricks on them? Has someone simply cast a curse upon them for a sleight they were unaware they made? As these thoughts came into the mind of the Conductor whose arm was still using the brakes. The Spider rode atop the train. The locomotive had slowed significantly, this upset the Wasp. Determined to kill the Spider at all cost, it flew up in an instant and came crashing down just as fast. Stinger first; this stinger that the Wasp had was the length of a flagpole and as thick as rush hour traffic on the Dan Ryan expressway. Before the Wasp made contact the Spider jumped from the train and spread webbing between the buildings of downtown Chicago, webbed the Wasp as well. Spun, and launched the Wasp into the air away from the train before it could cause any further damage. Landing on its webbing the Spider watched the sky. It knew the beast would return to the sky, was its domain and it may have given the Wasp the advantage./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"People continue to gather in amazement over the spectacle. Serissa and Petra were now across the street next to buildings Spider had laid its web. "This is crazy! Petra remarked in excitement. There's no way that these two were summoned here."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;""How do you figure?" Serissa replied. "Because if they had been summoned their Summoners would need to be nearby. I've been looking and I don't see anyone with magic exuding from their bodies" Petra continued. "So, then what does this mean? What is happening?!" Serissa asked while continuing to look on. "I don't know but definitely want to find out,'' Petra said with an excited smile./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"A "boom!" was heard. Everyone looked around , to what had happened the sound was like an airplane overhead. Serissa looked on in shock as the Wasp had shot through the Spider and buried itself halfway in the concrete. The Wasp struggled to release itself from the concrete with its legs. As the Wasp wriggled in the concrete to free itself. The Spider fell to the street crushing the cars below. People began to run away in a panic. The Spider twitched; a gaping whole in it, The Wasp had finally removed itself from the inside of the street. traffic was at a halt the drivers stared at the giant insect that now filled the intersection below the train Wasp's murderous intent could be felt; a psychological pressure was released that affected the minds of those around capable of causing splitting headaches that end in brain hemorrhages. Intense pain throbs throughout Serissa's head; she wobbles like a drunkard. The pain is nearly unbearable; as her nose begins to bleed she falls across the Spider. Her thoughts are jumbled as she says "Y, You brought. . h, it heeeere… Get up and finish… Get someone, ...that hwill…," Her thoughts fade to black as her eyes begin to run over with blood./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"The Spider twitches thinking to itself, "Get someone that will? Then I pick you; abrasive one! Now we will become one." In that moment, the Spider turned into particles, those particles lifted up Serissa and covered her completely. This gave the Wasp pause; it felt something was coming. It twisted itself around so fast the nearby cars were lifted off the ground and tossed into a spiral. It wasn't fast enough. A kick landed deep in the abdomen of the Wasp with enough force to eject its stinger. Pinning it to the ground; punctured by a foot the Wasp looked at the leg jutting out of its abdomen, then, up at Serissa. She wore a mostly black bodysuit; her hands, mid-back, a quarter of her arm were covered in red, and were wrapped in black webs. Her face was fully covered by a mask with two large eyes on it./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"The Wasp took a swing with one of its legs and tried to grab her with a few others. The attempts were unsuccessful ; Serissa crawled all over the giant insect. Covering it in webbing with each pass around its body. Petra watched on in awe as her friend did things she has never seen or imagined someone doing. But, somewhere. Deep inside. An unpleasant thought formed in her mind, "That should be me." Petra thought for a moment. Shaking her head to erase the idea from her head, but the feeling still lingered. Petra put on a smile, when Serissa came running to Petra in excitement, after cocooning the Wasp in her webbing./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding: 0in; line-height: 150%;"The Wasp flailed about on the ground, aggressive buzzing came from the large spider silk cocoon. The police arrive to see the destruction that took place; people lay in a convulsive or catatonic state. Many people were still suffering from the effects of the psionic attack from the Wasp./p