Story Pitch
Exposition: The main character gets up in a unfamiliar world that is full of scary stuff without any memory of the past. He starts to get more and more used to the world and sees himself as part of it.
Inciting incident: He begins to see visions of his past and realizes he does not belong to this world.
Conflict: While discovering more about his past, he notices that living in the world he belongs to might be harder to live in his imagination because he will have more responsibilities.
Crisis: He recalls how his parents cared for him when he was a child and decides to leave his imagination and keeps taking care of his parents.
Resolution: he wakes up a hospital bed.
(Detailed background: He had a mother who had alzheimer's disease
and a father who was too old and sick and needed help with everything. He was in heavy debts because of them. He tried to take care of them while make money to support his family and pay off debts even though he hated it. In order to make enough money, he worked overtime everyday and eventually passed out due to lack of sleep. It was at this point that he entered this imagination. Those monsters who want to kill him in his imagination represent the burdens in his actual life. The few monsters who tried to help him represent his family and friends. When he gets out of the imagination, he begins to have a positive motivation of life.)
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Backup Story①
Exposition: The main character, a child, was born in a small village in a forest. He lost his parents in a young age, and is treated badly by other villagers.
Inciting incident: The child gets lost in the woods and sees an old man calls himself the eudaemon of the forest. He starts to hang out with him and learn from him.
Conflict: In a celebration in summer, a bucket fire is accidentally kicked down and sets the woods on fire. The child gets into the woods regardless of the fire and finds the old man dying.
Crisis: The old man wants the child to become his successor, otherwise the forest will burn up and the villagers will have to move. However, becoming the eudaemon of the forest means the child will have a long and isolated life. Despite the fact that he will be along for hundreds of years and all the wrongdoings the villagers had done to the child, the child still choose to save the forest and the village by becoming the new eudaemon.
Resolution: The child becomes the new eudaemon and lives hundreds of years. When he turns into an old man, he sees a child who looks like him as a child gets lost in the woods.
Backup Story②
Exposition: The main character is a consultant for spirits who struggle with afterlives. He refuses to kill any spirit who has not done anything wrong even when the spirit asks him for death due to great suffering.
Inciting incident: His adopted daughter is dead due to illness.
Conflict: His daughter's spirit remains ill and endures great suffering. She asks for death but he refuses because he wants to keep her longer.
Crisis: He witness her pain and decides to kill her spirit.
Resolution: He starts to kill the spirits who ask him for death because now he understands remaining alive can be harder than death.
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