AUTHOR'S NOTE: Yo, waddup? This is a story all about MARIA ANASTASIA (a Greek name meaning Resurrection) and a new hedgehog character that I made up called Damaris, meaning Gentle, which is a GREEK name., and how they fall in love but Maria is human and Damaris is a hedgehog! http: had to exclude a LARGE portion of the notes here because that would ruin the story and I just CAN'T do that! I have the whole plot, in detail, written out for MY benefit-not for you though! So, knowing that, you can imagine that this page of stats is really a lot longer. Mwuha! 1224 words on this version, while the other story stats page has 2611!
PS: Just out of curiosity, I looked up the word MARIA on that website and it has four origins: Hebrew, German, Spanish, and French- and it all means the same thing with all four of those languages: BITTER! Strange, no?
STORY TITLE: A Silent Tear
SETTING:
Lumberopolis: downtown by the river
Season: summer, hot, humid
Living quarters: townhouse near the river
CHARACTERS:
(main) Maria (Robotnik) (16 years old, human; name means bitter)
(main) Damaris (GREEK: gentle) Doy (CELTIC: dark stranger) (17 years old, hedgehog)
(other) Maria's mother Carmen (36 years old; name means guard)
(submain) GUN agents and soldiers
SONGS USED:
Michael W. Smith – I Will Carry You
Michael W. Smith - Freedom
Michelle Tumes – Deep Love
Michelle Tumes – Love Shines Through
Michelle Tumes – Missing You
Michelle Tumes – With the Angels
True Vibe – Love is Calling
VEnna – Why Did I Let You Go?
VEnna - Sometimes
ZoeGirl - Little Did I Know
Jump5 – Just A Dream
CHARACTER TRAITS:
DAMARIS: cautious; spunky; loud sometimes; hyper; paranoid; confused when confronted; nervous when people stare at him; doesn't like to talk much, only when necessary; he loves feeling the G's and velocity of the air when he jumps from building to building in the city via usage of his Turbo Jump Boots built into his shoes; Damaris is cautious when it comes to places and things he doesn't know and often recoils when someone mentions GUN. He loves video games, arcade games, board games, card games, and computer games and could play them all day long and his favorite drink is a Lemon Cherry Smoothie topped with cherries on the foam.
FAULTS: he climbs into Maria's room at night too often; has a tendency to forget about danger when arcades are near; eats peanut butter and jelly sandwiches almost every day; clumsily knocks objects over when playing with his yo-yo;
MARIA: sweet; good-natured; loving; thoughtful; helpful; mature most of the time; all the same traits from past cartoons and games but some new ones since she's grown more than the games portray; Maria falls into depression at times because she needs someone to be there for her and no one is when she needs them most
FAULTS: freezes when in danger; cries to often
PLOT: Maria Anastasia (Robotnik) is a teenager without a father, a teenager who has no real reason to live for than for Shadow and her mother. Her father died on an important mission for the president, leaving her a half orphan, and so her mother decided to move to the Mediterranean city of Lumberopolis with its towering oak trees and quaint cities. Maria tries to make friends at school but everyone treats here ruthlessly and she withdraws into herself after the brutal treatment, wishing for a better life. After a month of living in that horrible place, Maria trips over a slumbering, mint green hedgehog in the park and finds out that his name is Damaris. They become friends but Damaris often disappears at strange times for unknown reasons. Maria searches into her heart and finds out that she's falling in love with him, but thinks she cannot love another species that way and so denies her love to him and to herself, artificially maintaining a hyper and happy lifestyle. Can she ever understand that what body you live in isn't who you are, but rather the heart and can she find out what's wrong with Damaris, why he vanished often, and comes back in strange conditions?
OTHER INFO: The timeframe is almost four years after the defeat of Metal Arnus. Shadow is now married to Amy and they have a two year-old hedgehog daughter named Suger. Shadow periodically visits Maria but those visits are scarcer now that he has a family to care for and more responsibilities.
THE DETAILS:
Damaris is a GUN experiment. From his birth, his parents were murdered by the GUN agents and he was taken as a victim of DNA alteration and experimentation. Being expendable, no one truly cared if he lived or died. They tested him with human DNA as well as all sorts of animal DNA. He's a regular hedgehog, and because all projects were defective, no harm came to him, but the reasons why he runs off a lot of the times is because he's being tracked and can't let GUN get their slimy claws on him. He's on the run.
Maria Anastasia is the re-born granddaughter of Professor Gerald Robotnik. She regained her memories after Shadow helped her by explaining the circumstances between him and her. She is the only one who knows who she is and hasn't even told anyone before. When she moves to Lumberopolis, the students at her new school treat her with a cruel alienation because of the rumors they've received about her father and Shadow. They look upon her as a freak, someone who hides deep, morbid secrets from the world. Angry, Maria quickly adjusts her life to a comfortable hole of ignoring everyone at her school and studying, achieving high grades, and finding hobbies to enjoy by herself. She writes in a diary, writes poetry, and fan fics to post online. One day as Maria was walking through the park in early summer, she trips over a sleeping, curled up figure by a bench, which ends up being a dark, faded green hedgehog named Damaris. They become friends.
Carmen Anastasia is n overprotective and annoying mother but truly means well for her daughter and, as all mother's will claim, her overbearing strict rules and hawk eyes on her daughter are for her benefit and protection. Carmen doesn't mind when her daughter comes home one day with a green hedgehog; she doesn't think any of it when they run off together to go places such a roller-skating or to flee markets; and she doesn't bother to worry over the few evenings the two return late, but she does worry when Maria starts to fall into depression when Damaris disappears for weeks.
GUN soldiers are many and stupid at their jobs but GUN agents are sharp and harsh and heartless and they'll stop at nothing to track down Host 767 (Damaris) and bring him back to the main lab. Damaris is the only "host" of an incomplete beta test of human DNA and they can't waste all the billions of research by simply losing him. The two main GUN agents on the case are females who refer to each other as Unit 1 and Unit 2 for confidentiality. Together, they track Damaris down to Lumberopolis and center in on his location, though not without difficulty because Damaris eludes them by running to strange places at strange times and not returning till they're confused.