#end of winter term let's goooooo

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Jumpman v1.0

There's a lot to say here and none of it is important I'm pretty much writing this for myself to log somewhere so here we goooooo: I wrote (using that term very loosely) a story back in highschool about a superhero named Jumpman. He did exactly what you thought he could: He could jump very high. The story was Inspired mostly by Scott Pilgrim vs. the world and FLCL If I remember correctly. Also I managed to shove in a reference to every single song on metallicas first three albums because I thought thrash metal was the best and didn't know what subtlety was. There were also a few video game references too. "Jumpman" So the story was there's this town with super high walls for some reason and its main export was weapons manufacturing for some reason and one of the new projects of this weapons manufacturer is a superpowered parasite (probably something like venom?I didn't know hat at the time). Parasite gets loose, eats the main boy's heart, he can now jump really high. Bada Bing bada boom. The problem is that it's a parasite and it will eventually kill him. But until then, he can't really die. He regenerates. I liked to refer to it as semi-invincibility. Obviously the manufacturer would try to take it back so they'd try to fight him and there'd be a fight per episode and it's probably have some character growth along the way. I justified him learning how to fight really quickly by having really good reflexes from wasting his life playing video games. He's a teenager btw. Probably fifteen. I think I originally had it to be over the course of a year? An episode for spring, summer, fall, winter, and then spring again. So then we have issues. Too many to list here, but let's try anyway: Too many characters. I had his imaginary best friend (surprise twist) that he was searching for, the GIRL, his big brother who also ends up fighting him with new powers, his other friend who makes gadgets, the CEO villain of the weapon company, the comic book cowboy who secretly was also the villain but no one knew, all four horsemen of the apocalypse as a biker gang, a handful of different mini bosses and so many more it's stupid. None of them were developed either, just personalities enough to move the plot along. I tend to write for the story rather than the characters. Probably a flaw. Speaking of the story that was stupid too. I don't remember all of it, but there was always approaching doom and even though Jumpman could leave the city any time because he could jump high enough to get over the walls, he didn't. He stayed and helped. Things like the city flooding, a meteor, monsters, a missile crisis. All this over the top stuff. I don't know how any of it was going to be organized probably because it wasn't. It also had a few pretentious ideas like one-liners that make me cringe and his friend that's he was looking for the whole time not being real and he forgets his name because this superhero has become his identity and he grows wings at the end it was weird. Whatever. I wrote this all in highschool. I'm not sure which draft it was (there were only two versions) but one of them basically was supposed to be symbolic of cancer and the problems one faced when dealing with that. My best friend passed away sophomore year and this story has a lot to do with his struggle. Something to do with having a time limit on your life could maybe in a sick way allow you to do incredible things you never thought before. It wasn't that deep though and I don't really think it was the best way to look at it but it was a way of dealing with everything going on at the time. Didn't mean to make this post sad or anything. Sorry if all of this seemed harsh on this silly little highschool story. I actually really like Jumpman. His design was cool and his ability was fun to explore. Just because I didn't feel it was worth pursuing doesn't mean I didn't like bits and pieces. (I guess I'm talking to myself at this point) Ill probably actually incorporate some unused ideas into future endeavors. I don't think I'd ever forget about Jumpman. If you read this far thanksies you didn't have to.