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Strangebuddy
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There's been this idea bouncing around in my head for awhile. What if there was a character who decided to take advantage of being immortal and travel the world, sowing their oats for a couple of hundred years? The character then retires back to their home for some time, or keeps wandering the world, deciding that they'll wait another hundred years or so before revisiting the places they traveled to in their youth, believing any impact he or she had will have been undone by then.
When the time has passed, the character decides to revisit the places they had such fun at during their youth, traveling as a prostitute to not arouse suspicion. When he or she returns however, they find that their impact was far greater than they could have ever anticipated.
I had a couple of ideas I had for it (in a fantasy or sci-fi setting)
1. The character goes back to a land she visited which was a savage land of debauchery and constant war. In her youth, she had seduced a soldier and took him as a lover for a month before stealing his money purse and wineskin. It turns out that the soldier actually returned to battle and became a successful general who eventually united the country under a new religion that promoted forgoing material wealth and banned drinking. The new religion worships the the character (in a highly exaggerated, ethereal form) as a goddess, without knowing that she had just visited the country in disguise and the only reason the soldier thought she was mysterious was because her people hadn't visited the land before and she couldn't properly communicate with him.
2. The character had a couple of children who were long-lived but not immortal. Several of them built powerful kingdoms and their descendants are now at war with each other, having no idea that they all have a common ancestor who is wandering the world.
Maybe not the sexiest idea but it's one i thought would be interesting. I was thinking of it in a fantasy setting though a clever writer could put it in a contemporary setting (I know there's been a couple of short films that were similar, like one where a caveman is still alive today and has to change his identity every 30 years to keep from being caught). The main thing though is that instead of a "woe is me" immortal who drones on and on about his/her problems or tries to stay away from the world, this protagonist would be an immature centuries old person who realizes the implications of what he/she did (and be a more lighthearted story).
When the time has passed, the character decides to revisit the places they had such fun at during their youth, traveling as a prostitute to not arouse suspicion. When he or she returns however, they find that their impact was far greater than they could have ever anticipated.
I had a couple of ideas I had for it (in a fantasy or sci-fi setting)
1. The character goes back to a land she visited which was a savage land of debauchery and constant war. In her youth, she had seduced a soldier and took him as a lover for a month before stealing his money purse and wineskin. It turns out that the soldier actually returned to battle and became a successful general who eventually united the country under a new religion that promoted forgoing material wealth and banned drinking. The new religion worships the the character (in a highly exaggerated, ethereal form) as a goddess, without knowing that she had just visited the country in disguise and the only reason the soldier thought she was mysterious was because her people hadn't visited the land before and she couldn't properly communicate with him.
2. The character had a couple of children who were long-lived but not immortal. Several of them built powerful kingdoms and their descendants are now at war with each other, having no idea that they all have a common ancestor who is wandering the world.
Maybe not the sexiest idea but it's one i thought would be interesting. I was thinking of it in a fantasy setting though a clever writer could put it in a contemporary setting (I know there's been a couple of short films that were similar, like one where a caveman is still alive today and has to change his identity every 30 years to keep from being caught). The main thing though is that instead of a "woe is me" immortal who drones on and on about his/her problems or tries to stay away from the world, this protagonist would be an immature centuries old person who realizes the implications of what he/she did (and be a more lighthearted story).
