- Why should audiences be interested in watching what your protagonists do? Are you trying to take your audience on an adventure, or are you just writing out a log of all the things you wish you could do or what you wish your life could be like? The latter is often fun to write, but not often fun to read.
The story is centered on a group of people, we will see them trying to stick together (at first) for multiple interests that mix between them. Later, we'll discover that they start to get attached to each other, but neither of them (except one) is that good at handling relationships, some worse than others, and it will be a big path to trust for them. Likewise, there will be a "side story" which would be the motivations and reasons that got them together on the first place; being heroes, except that not all of them are, or that they don't care following the hero protocol exactly as it should be. This, of course, causes conflict between them and everybody's moralities, which makes their relationship struggle all the time, but even so, they have meant so many good things to them that by the time they realize, they're in too deep to let go. (And now, I definitely don't wanna do or go through any of the thing they do, honestly).
- Why should audiences care about your protagonists, or what happens to your protagonists?
I pretty much explained the same thing on the first paragraph, but I can go and rant on it again; there will be two main points of the story, if we extremely simplify it, of course, and those will be a. their friendship and b. their moral, first of all, these characters are either outcasts or outlaws, even the most normal of them is to their own family and species, so they're a big mishap of similar things, hence why they're called Mosaic. Both their personal relationships will mix with their morals, as they will build a team to fight evil/crime (the fun part, yahoo!), and while we have heroes on the group, there are others that don't mind stepping out of the line to protect, or even, some that pretend being a hero when they even can't convince themselves of it. So, if you find this fun, then this is why. (And because I'm gonna make you love them so much you can't let go).
- What experience does your story offer audiences that they probably haven’t already experienced in a similar story?
Don't try looking into the background of how some got powers 'cause you got all that on both Marvel and DC, so better you can think of it as a more gore-y MLP with superpowers; I hope that's new enough. (Wasn't there recently The Defenders, though? Which is basically this? Oh shut up!)
- What are the main obstacles to be faced? What makes them legitimate challenges or threats?
I'M NOT WRITTING THAT AGAIN. No, for real, the question 1 & 2 basically got this, but there will be others, like more related to the villians they will face, such as one of them is the father of one of the guys part of Mosaic (boy, those were many of's). So even though their personal relationships will be a huge play, there will be challenges and threats that aren't those. (I don't wanna spoil, damn you!).
- Why should audiences care whether the protagonists succeed or not? What's at stake? What would happen if they fail?
If they don't manage to get along, to grow together and overcome, then their friendship are over. If they don't defeat enemies, people might die, that people could be other members of Mosaic or just innocent people. And, for one of them, if he dies (to is desire to die, or if he is killed) the whole world will suffer the attack of powerful interdimentional creatures.
- What motivates the main characters into taking on these challenges?
Well, they're aprox. 6-7 characters, and each got their own. I can't just say "because they wanna save people" because, in reality, not all of them got it that simple. Some do it for the thrill, the fun, they'll live forever so what's the matter? Others for personal demons that they want, that they need, to overcome, to prove themselves as something better. And lastly, the rest, really does wanna save innocents. And that's for saving people, which is what ot them together in the first place (sorta), so you can assume that one thing connects to another... (the friendship talk is getting tiring, don't worry I won't let the comic be this obvious).
- What will the protagonists lose or have to give up to see their goals through? What hard choices will they have to make?
Sometimes, their friends, other times, innocents lives, but often and most importantly, themselves.
- If your story is set in a fantasy world, what makes the conflicts in your world familiar and identifiable to people like us, who don’t live in your fantasy world?
The interpersonal relationships, the ethnicities, the personalities, their "real world" jobs, and whatever you feel connected to.
- What unexpected complications will arise that will make things more difficult than the protagonists anticipated? How will they adapt?
It's hard to answer these without spoiling, you know? Anyway, I dunno man, somethings I'll make on the go, what else can I say that I haven't already without gotting to much info out? And no, sometime they won't adapt, because sometimes real people can't adapt, or don't know how.
- What events will prompt the characters change and develop over the course of the story? How will they change?
Theeeeeeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiiiirrrrrrrrrr friendship. Some of them will change for worse or better, and viceversa.
- How will the events of the story change the status quo of the protagonists’ world forever? Will all of these changes be good?
Finally something I can answer! If some changes get to happen, they could end the world, if others do, they could save lives and send criminals to jail (or hell, depends on how does the job). They will discover truths that could put at stake all things humanity knows, and how they see their world, lives and history, if they choose to tell.
- Where will your protagonists be at the end of the story? What will they be doing? How satisfied will they all be with their situations?
WELL, there's no end? I wanna treat my comic like Marvel/DC does, it's just another chapter of their lives, so this question is chapter based, or arc based, since they might as well never end.
- What will your protagonists have learned by the end of the story? How will their perspectives and opinions changed?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(they might've learned the power of friendship or fucked it all, also, maye become the villians of the next arc).
- Are there any scenes or passages you could remove from the story, and still have the story make perfect sense and still have the audience know everything they need to know? If so, prune them off.
Don't think so.
- Are there any characters you could remove and still have the story work? Could you combine the roles of multiple characters and still tell the story just as effectively? If so, do it.
Not really. Everybody represents something different and acts differently.
anyway, credits goes to this wonderful page filled with resourses; I recommend doing this 'meme' to mostly answer yourself, certain things i left oout without much answer were answered in my head, if you happen to not want to spoil no one, either. I was talking all the time 'bout this universe, and you guys can only see 2 characters because I still got a designing job to do, but their personalities are fleshed out already. I could've done this meme with any of my other ones, but i'm particulary actively working on this one mostly, so there's that.
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