So in Perseverance Full Clearance, whether Bizmonkey intended it or not, we see Pep escaping from School. Towards the end of the game, you see the inside of Pep's mind. It's a discombobulated floating mass of what I'd say is a school tileset. Even though it's very different from the school in the beginning. But I'd say it's appropriate because it is his origin within the context of the story.
I wish I could do the same with Sven. Drawing from a first impression of him in the game, rather than inventing my own. But the first time you meet Sven is as Nola in Act 2, in an underground hideout, having a smoke. More specifically, according to the datafiles, it's the "Perseverance Umbraden" beneath "Dead Man's Barn". The fuck is an umbraden? THATS NOT A WORD. Is it....? It's Bulgarian for Umbrella...I can't work with this. Umbra Den. Shadow den. That's a little better.
Although...Maybe I could do something with those Japanese Umbrella demons. Karakasa. Maybe not an actual demon or umbrella, but the discarded image of something, a suppressed memory from being a kitten. Hiding in under Svoli's dress or Sped's cloak. Maybe even a early encounter with Esperia or her soul catchers. There's an image there that I like. A suppressed memory would make for a good episode or anecdote. But I don't think I can use it to drive Sven though the plot I already have in mind.
No. Even though I'm facilitating Esperia to create nightmares, I decided a while back that Sven should be dynamically opposed to Naxon. And in the tarot card The hanged man (Sven) and The Emperor (Naxon) have a special relationship. I was going somewhere early on with the fear of falling.
Anyways. "
Under the dead man's barn" as a dream space, could relate to Naxon somehow. Considering he's a Lich. But I'm forgetting that I'm looking an intrinsic motivator for Sven.
Hmm, well the bombs that blew up the tower came from 'Splode. Confirmed in Fantasia. He's a rat. Cats in barns are suppose to catch rats. I wonder if Sven already knew 'Splode was supplying Naxon weapons? Maybe Sven somehow instigated that partnership. He was an intern? He installed the bombs? He already had a cat, Saxxis, working under him. Or that's the thing - my story can explain why Naxon would foresee a need to self destruct. Along with Sven seeing a need to sacrifice himself, which is already in my outline. Back to the barn. Or under it? I could make it significant that Sven is underground where the dead should be, while the undead Naxon is walking above. Sven's motivation could be restoring the natural order. But what is the natural order in the Biztopian Universe? Really?
There's the "Sty" in the original game. Of course the dread are pigs. But a pig sty is closely related to a barn. A lich's barn. A lich's pig sty. But I was substituting Dread with Doubts in my game since.
Something I haven't worked out is a way to bring up the cookiedoe's royal lineage. Sven was bred to be a usurper.
*insert "I don't want to be bread" cat meme.jpg*
Naxon: Mwahaha! Your destiny is TOAST!
Food puns. Yay.
I'm also aiming for the end boss to be Sven himself. Or a corrupted devil/angel gene awakened version of himself. And he's turns out is bad news for everyone.
I like the idea that Sven, instead of freeing everyone of Naxon's mindcontrol, potentially could have taken his power for himself. Which corrupts him. Makes him Naxon's worst nightmare. Or accidentally makes him ascended. But only in a dream/oracle simulation and not the greater simulation. So that turns into a Roko's Basilisk situation. That's this thought experiment where a super A.I. in the future has time travel capability. It'll try to get people to create itself earlier, and tortures anyone who become aware of it's existence and doesn't aid in it's creation. Thus basilisk, if you see it you're dead.
I felt like I needed a snake somewhere. In the Tarocchi there's a serpent/dragon at the feet of Prudence. I read somewhere this became the rope that binding the Hanged Man's leg.
So this "Rogue A.I. double ascended Super Sven" compromises Naxon and Esperia. Because he's like Ultra Instinct Goku and he can do that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8qg-XzHgUk
But to fully realize itself it and it's power it has to use Esperia and Naxon's power to reach out to Sven. That's just the premise of the game which I've been kneading for months. And I've been tempted to share a few times. But I don't want to spoil it. But I don't know when exactly Sven becomes aware of Pseudo-Sven. How Pseudo-Sven plans to make Sven do anything. I don't even know what'll make Sven move. He was already standing still. He's a passive character that's passively passing passiveness...er, Proactively Persevering?
This is the stumbling stone. Sven falls a sleep. The dream starts. He's stuck upside-down in a tree for Hanged Man imagery's sake. He's aware he's dreaming. But he's too sagely. He know's he'll wake up eventually, what's the point of doing anything? My coyote character is there to conveniently explain the unexplainable. But the lines are all forced and unnatural. Sven moves for no real reason.
hmmmmmmmmm. ARRGHHHHHHHHH!
Maybe this other Sven is with Sven from the beginning of the dream, but as the snake. And he can't get sven to move either. That was the thing about the Angulared-Eye Sight, it couldn't see the cookiedoe because they weren't making decisions. Just persevering. Like a snake can only see movement. Huh, that's probably why it's on the Prudence card. Stillness. Water has to be still to reflect.
A snake coiled around Sven lends itself well to my Close Encounters Battle System.
It makes sense in my head. But screenwriting any of this is the challenge. Because somehow the dialogue has to convey all of that. At what point will it make sense to everyone else? That this snake is playing everyone like a fiddle except Sven. ~Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle~
I'd have to find music to make a rhythm mini game.
