Post by starbound1 on Jan 14, 2010 1:31:34 GMT -5
Or a writer. Anyone who can help maybe expand on this until it's more than just a story summary idea?
I actually made this idea sometime ago and have been looking for someone to write, or more preferably draw this story for me. I imagine it as, like my title says, a graphic novel - rather, I imagine it as the start of a graphic novel series, though I haven't thought of anything past this initial story. I actually haven't thought about the story in a long while, so any sort of adjustments would be fine by me, so long as you talk to me before implementing them. In any case, I hope you find my idea interesting enough to expand upon it.
There's a doll maker who lives in a secluded place making toys to keep him company... He decides to make a human sized doll as a companion and makes her indestructible so that her beauty will be "everlasting" and gives her life. HOW this happens is intentionally left unexplained.
He gave her immortality because he wanted his greatest work's beauty to be everlasting. He gave her a personality because... his fantasies require resistance.
She gets out. Badly injures him and runs away, repressing the memories. She becomes a wanderer, moving from city to city with no identity.
Eventually, she winds up in one city and hears about girls disappearing and also creepy rumors about them reappearing, but not quite being the same...
She runs into the doll maker again, who's "repaired" his broken body with puppet parts, making him all the more creepy. She remembers her past at this point, and it kind of makes her snap.
Also, the reader finds out that the doll maker has been kidnapping girls who are disabled, depressed, or "broken" in anyway and making them into half-dolls, giving them forced permanent smiles on their face so they'll always look happy. In a small one shot subplot, one of the boyfriends of the Fixed Smiles goes out to look for her, worried about her after they had a big argument the night before. Needless to say, things don't go so well for those two.
During her mental breakdown, the doll character runs into a guy who intends to rape her, just like the doll maker. She gets tossed in his trunk but she finds his crowbar, and after the trunk is open, takes him by surprise and promptly beats him to death. Brutally. Because while he was hitting on her, he was calling her "Doll" she decides to take that name as her own, as a bitter remembrance of who she really is.
"Doll. A fitting name. After all, it's what I am..."
She goes around doing vigilante killings, not to save people, but to punish them. She lures people into a false sense of security by giving off a fake smile, which is obvious to the reader but not to the soon-to-be-deceased. When someone commits a crime, attempts to do something to her, or hassling another woman, she promptly replaces that fake, sweet smile for a very real, very psychotic one.
A detective starts investigating both Doll's murders and the doll maker's kidnappings, and runs into Doll every now and again, learning bit by bit about her past to gain sympathy towards her, but knowing that regardless of her past, she's still a dangerous killer and justice still needs to be served.
"I can't be broken. I can't be fixed. You, on the other hand..."
She eventually runs into the doll maker again, and bashes him into so many bits that whatever applied magic he was using to keep his doll form alive won't work. However, she finds out about the "Fixed Smiles." Taking pity on them, she mercy kills the by lighting the doll maker's "home base" on fire. It's at that point she realizes that her vigilante killings were out of self-satisfaction and nothing else.
Meanwhile, the detective waits outside of the doll maker's home, tracing the disappearances to that area but not expecting Doll to be there too. After telling him about what just occurred, the detective is conflicted even more, and decides that maybe Doll can have a head start to run.
Detective: Go. Run. I've got all the time in the world to catch you. **grin**
Doll: **with a broken, sad smile** No, you don't...
Detective: **turns around to find Doll gone, vanished into the night**
Morning comes and, broken and confused, Doll goes to the park where the story ends with her watching children play, smiling once more, but this time the smile is real.
He gave her immortality because he wanted his greatest work's beauty to be everlasting. He gave her a personality because... his fantasies require resistance.
She gets out. Badly injures him and runs away, repressing the memories. She becomes a wanderer, moving from city to city with no identity.
Eventually, she winds up in one city and hears about girls disappearing and also creepy rumors about them reappearing, but not quite being the same...
She runs into the doll maker again, who's "repaired" his broken body with puppet parts, making him all the more creepy. She remembers her past at this point, and it kind of makes her snap.
Also, the reader finds out that the doll maker has been kidnapping girls who are disabled, depressed, or "broken" in anyway and making them into half-dolls, giving them forced permanent smiles on their face so they'll always look happy. In a small one shot subplot, one of the boyfriends of the Fixed Smiles goes out to look for her, worried about her after they had a big argument the night before. Needless to say, things don't go so well for those two.
During her mental breakdown, the doll character runs into a guy who intends to rape her, just like the doll maker. She gets tossed in his trunk but she finds his crowbar, and after the trunk is open, takes him by surprise and promptly beats him to death. Brutally. Because while he was hitting on her, he was calling her "Doll" she decides to take that name as her own, as a bitter remembrance of who she really is.
"Doll. A fitting name. After all, it's what I am..."
She goes around doing vigilante killings, not to save people, but to punish them. She lures people into a false sense of security by giving off a fake smile, which is obvious to the reader but not to the soon-to-be-deceased. When someone commits a crime, attempts to do something to her, or hassling another woman, she promptly replaces that fake, sweet smile for a very real, very psychotic one.
A detective starts investigating both Doll's murders and the doll maker's kidnappings, and runs into Doll every now and again, learning bit by bit about her past to gain sympathy towards her, but knowing that regardless of her past, she's still a dangerous killer and justice still needs to be served.
"I can't be broken. I can't be fixed. You, on the other hand..."
She eventually runs into the doll maker again, and bashes him into so many bits that whatever applied magic he was using to keep his doll form alive won't work. However, she finds out about the "Fixed Smiles." Taking pity on them, she mercy kills the by lighting the doll maker's "home base" on fire. It's at that point she realizes that her vigilante killings were out of self-satisfaction and nothing else.
Meanwhile, the detective waits outside of the doll maker's home, tracing the disappearances to that area but not expecting Doll to be there too. After telling him about what just occurred, the detective is conflicted even more, and decides that maybe Doll can have a head start to run.
Detective: Go. Run. I've got all the time in the world to catch you. **grin**
Doll: **with a broken, sad smile** No, you don't...
Detective: **turns around to find Doll gone, vanished into the night**
Morning comes and, broken and confused, Doll goes to the park where the story ends with her watching children play, smiling once more, but this time the smile is real.
I actually made this idea sometime ago and have been looking for someone to write, or more preferably draw this story for me. I imagine it as, like my title says, a graphic novel - rather, I imagine it as the start of a graphic novel series, though I haven't thought of anything past this initial story. I actually haven't thought about the story in a long while, so any sort of adjustments would be fine by me, so long as you talk to me before implementing them. In any case, I hope you find my idea interesting enough to expand upon it.