Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Storybook Styles: Rakshasa Anthology

Storybook Topic: Rakshsa and Rakshasi.

(Image from: Pixabay)

Possible Titles: "My Life As A Teenage Rakshasi," "The Rakshasi/Demon (tome, files, codex)," "The Rakshasa Royals," or something else.

Storybook Style--Anthology:
  • An anthology with a set of stories that follow a girl (OR a guy) who discovers that she/he is a Rakshasi. It will follow her/him as she/he struggles to be a Rakshasi in a human world. She/he will encounter Rakshasa and Rakshasi that are benevolent and malevolent and try to have her/him join either side. The ultimate ending of this story will be which she/he chooses.
  • OR a set of stories. One involving the story told above. The other involving other Rakshasa and Rakshasai.
  • OR a world that has been tales over my Rakshasi, they now rule the world. This is a set of  Urban Fantasy Dystopian stories. Demons VS Humans. There will be three or four stories either: following a hero that will in the end save the world, OR follows several different stories of humans and demons living in this world. (The world may be ruled by Rakshasa Royality, that I could instead focus on, which is described next.)
  • OR an anthogy with a set of stories based around Rakshasa Royality, involving a King, Queen, Prince and Princess. It will have stories involving: Prince or Princess that falls in love with a pauper, Prince or Princess that falls in love with a human, the Prince or Princess that wants to run away and live from riches to rags, and someone who wants to assassinate the King so that the Prince or Princess can immediately become King or Queen. I will make the royalty concept different than the tales of royals in my Storybook,  "The Vampire Lexicon." (Can you tell royal supernatural creatures is a favorite trope of mine?)
Extra information: 
  • All the main characters will be teenagers, as this is Young Adult. Most of these have Romance, but others are survival based, and mystery based. So within the genre of Young Adult I will also explore the sub-genres of Young Adult Fantasy (or urban fantasy) with elements of: romance, dystopian/survival, or mystery. Some stories may even contain one or all of these.
  • Additionally since Rakshasa are a hybrid between vampires and demons, my story will either portray them as vampires OR demons, OR I will create my own design of a Rakshsa, and portray my original concept.
  • The tone should be somber, creepy, and mysterious. 
  • It will be filled with characters of grey (or questionable) morality.
Storybook Sources:
  • Ramayana (PDE)--Almost every story in here has Rakshasa involved.
  • Comic books that involve Rakshasa.
  • The Mythology of Supernatural: describes Rakshasas in a show that I like to watch, as well as discusses the Rakshasa in other things such as the Ramayana.
  • Tigress Book I, a free Kindle book that is an ADULT Romance novel, involving a Rakshasa. It is based off of Rakshasa mythology. Though this is not a SOURCE per say, it would be a nice read for inspiration as some of my stories will be Young Adult Romance.

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