Hey my names Drake,
Im a senior in highschool, I play football, and one thing that I’ve loved all my life is a good story. Specifically comic books.(hopefully get better at drawing to lol).
I wanna be a person who writes about horror(a lot of different horror ideas I got), dystopian, action somewhere around those lines. I haven’t thought of an idea yet(if you got some ideas give em to me!), but I have a lot of inspiration off of my favorite things and other media! Along with some inspiration from certain mythologies and culture.
So here’s the plot of my comic:
It all started with a project that the government designed. A project to try and grant world peace. Other countries didn’t believe the US, but they did like the idea.
It took quite a few years. Technology advances, Money, and other benefits played in.
But something was happening that no one knew about. The only hint was that the air around the White House was becoming an awful stench of decay, that did not go away almost at all.
Soon enough the project was finished.
What started off was something similar to a vaccine. A certain chemical they made trusted to prevent infection of any disease.
It started off normal. Technology over the years advanced to extraordinary levels, and humanity discovered things on earth, and space that they never knew about before. No wars, no anger, only peace.
The chemical was…effective.
But nobody knew, that underneath the White House millions of corpses were being sacrificed to an unknown demonic entity.
The chemical substance that made the world good, wasn’t just ‘chemicals’…it was energy. Energy from Hell. Energy that contained demonic spirits inside. The president had made a deal with this demonic entity, to grant the knowledge to make world peace, under one circumstance. They cover it up. No metaphors, no coded words, nothing…and he failed at that. He had simply forgotten about this deal. Word made out to the public and conspiracy theories began.
…until it began happening. About 70% of people who have taken the chemical substance began experiencing disturbing and weird symptoms. Such as the feeling of crawling under their skin, wiggling, hallucinations of insects under their skin and hearing voices in their mind…until they stopped. But for the next few years people have been asking,
what caused this?
That’s what the main character asked.
Jackson Rivera. “Jack”. Jack was a troubled punk skater, who lived the street kid life and got expelled from a rich school. He had his flaws, but was troubled due to trauma from his past. After the tragic death of his adopted mother, he began feeling watched. He had never taken the chemical substance, but he began noticing things. A pale woman watching him from across the street.
That pale woman was revealed to be his biological mother. In a rage from her grudge towards him for ‘ruining her life’, she kidnapped Jack and imprisoned him. Then…she began to transform. Into a weird spider monster. She was surrounded by white bulbs, that were revealed to be Jacks still subconscious, screaming bullies that were her offspring. His mother turned into some sort of monster. In a near death experience, something in Jack awakened. Something angry. Jack transformed to…not into the thing that his mother transformed into. But a destructive, rage fueled, brutal demon. Jack tore his mother and the bullies who hurt him to bits. When the fight was over and he was back in human form, he woke up after falling unconscious due to exhaustion and shock from the transformation. He woke up and ran out of his biological mother’s house…
And then…he saw it. It happened so fast.
People began to change. Not personality wise but…
Literally.
People began turning into amalgamations all over the world. These creatures who were once human, turned into what their past sins were, living embodiments of them. Jack at the sight of this new world couldn’t believe his eyes…he went back inside his mother’s old house in fear. Until eventually he was found by…a woman. A woman who resembled his adopted mother’s appearance. She promised to take Jack in, and join an organization known as ‘The Veilwardens’. Who try to keep the world safe in this new apocalypse. Now Jack must fight to survive in this new corrupted world, while chasing his simple pleasures. While also uncovering the truth of this new area at the center of the world. A large pillar like tower, known as The Monolith.
Inspirations I got: Cyberpunk Edgerunners and 2077(David Martinez identical backstory events of the main character, Streetkid, plus the world is a gothic cyberpunkish world, with everyone acting like it’s all normal. Otherwise there isn’t too much cyberpunk.), Chainsaw Man(heavily inspired by Chainsaw man with Jacks personality, his bad biological figure, suffering and character development, along with the organization who takes him in), Berserk(Classic Scary hero, angelic villains(there’s a few big villains like that but lots of the minor ones are demonic looking to), plus the use of demons), Ghost Rider(Jack’s demon form that is seen a lot of, I inspired it off of Robbie Reyes Ghost Rider. As Ghost Rider is one of my favorite things of all time, and I think that it’d be frickin metal to see Ghost Rider with the personality of Denji tearing demons apart.), the dark tower(the monolith basically but with its own personal twist not like the dark tower I’m sure), various analog horror series(Some of the Mandela catalog for dopplegangers, Vita Carnis for the demons basically becoming apart of the environment, and Angel Engine for certain elements in the story. And I think this world even though I want it to be a comic, I think would make an awesome analog horror.),
Now some scary facts about the world.
Society is normalized with all these demons. There will be completely normal things happening like movie theaters, arcades, festivals, concerts, while demons are also happening at the same time.
The demons, were once humans. There are multiple types of demons. Starting as the needle like formation, turns into a physical thing in the body connected spiritually. Like an Ameoba crawling through the body. Like that, but it’s also like a botfly larva in a way because you can feel it crawling under your skin, and in your face. Eventually reaching the soul, and reading through sins. The demon deciding what their punishment is. 70% of the population was infected, but the infection of the hell energy has different outcomes.
Sometimes however, say a pregnant woman, did take the Hell Energy. But it didn’t spread to her. That means her baby has it. And on the inside, her baby fuses with the inside of her stomach, and in a gross body horror basically rips her apart from the inside and turns into a part of her.
However although earth did massively transform into demons, that doesn’t mean every demon on earth now was once human. Some have travelled up through the monolith and are now on earth.
Type 1 - Full: Demons who have zero subconscious of their human minds.
Type 2 - Sub: the human mind remains conscious, but loses control over the body or impulses. Basically putting them in a state of eternal suffering till they die.
Type 3 - Hell Walker: the human remains mostly themselves, but develops small demonic traits.(different eyes, different hair, horns, tails, this leads for them to be kidnapped and…put in concentration camp like places).
Type 4 - Darkchild(not the permanent name for them because it is based off a marvel species and the exact species Jack is.): Born from demon and human lineage.
Type 5 - failed transformation: the parasite and human consciousness partially merge, producing extremely weird mutations.
Type 6 - Divine: these are demons who have never been human in the first place, rather they are instead more powerful than any of the demons because these demons often have backstories, and are reality warpers.
Mind you, the types of demons are NOT danger levels. They are just the categories of demons.
The demons however although they have an absurdly large population now, they don’t replace certain animals(more on that later) people still eat cow, chicken, pigs, and other cattle. Things like bears, wolves, deer, are still there. But the demons have now become permanently apart of the ecosystem, while keeping still normal animals on earth. Meaning the demons aren’t just on land, there are semi aquatic ones, aquatic ones, flying demons, gliding demons, etc. the fact there are normal animals actually is a sign of hope in the series.
Corporations
The corporations humanize evil. The demons were once humans correct?
Well…
There’s a corporation for demon meat.
In fact their goal is to make it a popular dish to ‘make the most out of bad’.
They have people doing food recipes, cookbooks, however they know that what they’re doing is bad, but they just dismiss it as marketably irrelevant.
However, some evil corporations still do help people in a way.
There’s a corporation for holy ammunition to kill demons.
The corporation made holy ammunition. This corporation is pretty powerful as it is global, and schools now have ‘turning’ procedures. If someone in say…an elementary school turns into a demon, they execute whoever that is. They don’t care if it was a teacher, or once a child. Kids are even trained to shoot their own friends.
This corporation, invented holy turrets as well. Turrets that kill demons but aren’t guaranteed depending on danger level that the demon is. However, the turrets also are flawed. They don’t distinguish human from demon…which yes…that means the turrets kill people. But instead of fixing their problem they twist it by blaming the citizens, by not understanding how the turrets programming works.
There is also a live broadcast that shows a demon trying to be reverted back to its human form. However instead of doing that, they reveal a demon whose mind has permanently fused with the human. Anyone seen Angel Engine? The analog horror series? It’s somewhat like that. That scene where the angels like ‘Help…me…’ that’s kinda what I’m going for as an inspiration.
These corporations are brutal, and ruthless.
Along with specific organizations.
There’s an organization, that is a Neo-N*zi organization. And their leader is a minor villain in the series known as ‘the Tyrant’. Might rename him later to something more intimidating and give him a real name. Who imprisons Hell-Walkers, and sends them to die and starve and work to their death. The leader is an absolute sicko who acts more like a cartel than a leader, which is why this organization although powerful, is not a country organization. He becomes addicted to the parasite feeling in him, where he gets that crawling feeling. He gets some kind of sadistic pleasure out of it, and keeps taking that hell energy by pumping himself full of it. His brain has been absolutely deteriorated into deranged anger issues, and racist brutality. Until he inevitably turns. Turning into a giant subconscious flesh blob ever mutating and in pain full of guns, weapons and other things, basically becoming one big machinery blob. He turns into a type 5 demon. Jack does kill this guy.
Thats part of the few corrupted organizations in the series, and corporations.
I implemented those aspects in this series im making to get a more cyberpunk feel while there are demons around, an idea that Is one of my favorites
and I don’t think is put together enough.
The series with the main character, takes place in the US California(I’m not from California hope that’s not bad), specifically in Los Angeles. But the name street wise is renamed even by news reporters. Everyone calls it an infected city that never sleeps.
Now onto the big stuff. Such as The Monolith.
The monolith, inspired by the dark tower(Stephen King), is a colossal, never ending pillar going from below the ocean to in the sky. It appears never ending at all. However it does have dry land where people can step onto, and a doorway. And the thing about the monolith, it’s not just a pillar.
It’s a staircase.
It moves like a giant drill in a way. It was created by the main villain(more on him later), to try and pierce through the 9 layers. The way Hell and Heaven works in the series, is Hell has a Dante’s inferno thing, except reversed. The Monolith drilling through the 8th layer so that the demons from the 9th layer can travel upward. Now they’re at what was once the first layer, Earth. Earth became the 9th layer, due to the demons from the 9th layer rising up for the apocalypse. Because above earth…is heaven.That means, the main villain must be stopped, and the monolith destroyed, or else it will be a heavenly war of Heaven versus Hell. Which I will implement different mythologies and folklore for things in Heaven.
The monolith in this series is sort of part of the architecture if you can’t tell. The architecture and structure of the world, I want it to have a somewhat urban gothic, futuristic cyberpunk look. To give the darkness of the world more shine imo, and to show how modernized the demons are in the future.
I will have more on the main character, Jack, later because this app only allows 40000 characters and I wanna make this post.
My goal for this story, is to make people happy they’ve discovered such an amazing story. Because I believe that if a certain genre, a good movie that is in that genre, is making you laugh, cry, feel happy, angry, scared, and even if the horror makes you puke, that their doing somethin’ right. And I want others to feel how I feel when discovering an amazing story!
If you guys wanna make concept art, animations, or anything at all just let me know that would be so cool!
These are all my ideas I’ve just been somewhat struggling with writing a summary for them because I give a lot of detail lol