Sunday, November 20, 2011
Henry and Jared
Henry Little is a white male, his parents both from European backgrounds. He is about 5’10 and has an average looking male body, but he likes to work out at times to let off steam. He has short curly dark brown hair, barely covering his ears. He likes to have a bit of stubble because it covers up a few of the scars on his face from his father abuse as a child. He has glasses, but would much rather wear his contact lenses. He dresses quite sharp, usually a nice dress shirt and either dark jeans or dress pants, sometimes with a tie, even though at work they aren’t very strict about a dress code. Henry has a tattoo of a cartoon devil on the lower left side of his back, in which he does not recall since he got it as Jared took over him. Henry is a wise man, and usually always has a smart opinion or remark towards comments from his work peers. He is a pleasant man to be around and is quite the entertainer. At home with Marie, he is very affectionate to her and it is apparent that they truly love each other, although she has noted before that it is extremely hard to be near Henry when he is stressed or upset because of his situation and Jared – his split personality alter ego. She says he turns into a completely different person, one that she doesn’t know at all. He often visits his mother who lives in the apartment next door to his and Marie’s. At times when Henry speaks, he zones out and stutters along his words. Henry can sometimes become extremely depressed from his position at work, for he has to write and photograph any disasters and despair around his area in the United States (although this can trigger a worsened depression and condition, he still hopes for a promotion in which he would start to travel more because he wants to provide the best life for his family, and he believes making more money would be the only way to do that since he suffers from split personality disorder, and isn’t always ‘himself’). At times, even certain noises can trigger Henry to befall into Jared. When Jared takes over his mind, he does unexpected and bad things to himself and others. Jared is extremely rude because he believes the whole world has ganged up and turned against him. He usually turns to a local bar, in which he becomes extremely intoxicated and harasses woman. He has been noted before to use prostitutes and abuse them, as well.
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I did some research on Split personality disorder, and it turns out that it can be cured! Although I was starting to like the idea of Henry throwing himelf in front of a train.
ReplyDeleteActually I'm really liking the idea of Henry commiting suicide, and I just thought of a way for us to work in what Ms. Cat was talking about in class. After Jared causes Henry's life to fall apart, Henry could confess to Bill that he wants to kill himself, because he can't live with Jared anymore. Bill keeps telling Henry that they could work through it, but Henry doesn't want to hear it. Eventually Henry tells Bill that there's nothing he can say to stop him from killing himself.
Bill accepts it, and encourages Henry to live his last days to the fullest, so he doesn't go out on such a negative note. Henry agrees, and gets a hotel room somewhere and enjoys his last couple days as much as he can, but Jared keeps coming back. Eventually, Henry can't take it anymore, and commits suicide.
It's a perfect tragedy.
Act I: Intro to Henry's life. (This and PP1 can change)
PP1: Jared introduced.
Act II: Jared starts ruining Henry's life, and no matter how hard Henry tries, Jared always wins.
PP2: Things fall apart, Henry's girlfriend leaves him, he gets fired and he tells Bill that he's gunna kill himself. Bill tells him to enjoy his last days.
ACT III: Henry tries to enjoy his last days, he has some success, but Jared keeps coming back. Henry can't take it anymore, and kills himself.
The End.
sounds great!! i love the story we made. i like the idea of tragedy as well, and i really like your idea. i have another one as well, though. we could always made jared the one who kills himself/themselves as he was drunk, or that he was killed by yoshi and the underground gangs for any troubles that he caused with them.
ReplyDeleteAll the possibilities are killing me! We could do so much, and it all sounds so good... I don't know what to do, and I'm still open to the idea of a comedy, although good comedy is a lot harder to write than good tragedy. I dunno... we'll figure it out.
ReplyDeleteyou are right about good comedy being harder to write than good tragedy! I really like that you guys are using this forum to flush out your ideas.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I'm glad you did some research. Writers have to do lots of research. There's nothing worse than getting little facts wrong and either losing your audience, or worse, offending them:(
i really wanted to find out as much as i could about this disorder, since i didnt know much about it before. this actually made my character sketch easier to write
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