Planning a Story
I first began to consider how I would be having the four elements of Earth, Water, Fire and Air play a significant role in the story and how I wanted to have a reason behind the 12 heroines having their power. This led me to a concept of four Gods/Goddesses being the entity that powers my characters, but I wanted to go further. It started to consider the idea of Gaia, an all mother that created everything. I started to realise my series would actually give a creationist backstory going down this route, which I liked as it was an avenue Precure had never explored before.
So with a concept of Gaia and the Gods/Goddesses I started to ask myself, so what is the reason for the conflict to require my 12 heroines? This led me to creating an additional God, a God of Light. Now I had the following: Gaia, The God of Earth, The Goddess of Water, The Goddess of Fire, The God of Air and The God of Light. This gave me the ingredients to create the following backstory:
So with a concept of Gaia and the Gods/Goddesses I started to ask myself, so what is the reason for the conflict to require my 12 heroines? This led me to creating an additional God, a God of Light. Now I had the following: Gaia, The God of Earth, The Goddess of Water, The Goddess of Fire, The God of Air and The God of Light. This gave me the ingredients to create the following backstory:
"The ancient all-mother Gaia existed for several millennia growing and maturing to the day where she created five elemental gods to aid her in creating the universe. The God of Light and Goddess of Fire gave birth to the lights of the universe making the first stars twinkle in the night sky. The God of Earth created the worlds that orbit the stars. The God of the Wind flowed through the universe to make the passage of time begin. The Goddess of the Water created the environments for life to live and thrive in. Leaving Gaia to create life itself to grow and explore the galaxy they had created. Watching their creation grow lead Gaia and her children to create 5 more galaxies. Gaia and the gods watched over a universe each aiding and guiding the galaxies as they grew and developed. To keep her connection to her for children Gaia created five fairies, one linked to each of her children to allow them to commune through the stars.
Peace rained throughout the universe but without Gaia or the other four gods being aware the God of Light had been corrupted by Chaos creating the first pure evil of the universe, Oblivion. Oblivion observed from a distance life interacting with each other and evolving into new forms getting stronger. Gaia is made aware of the fall of Light when his elemental fairy vanished, breaking her connection to the god. Gaia and the other four gods headed to Light's universe believing he had been defeated by something unknown, however upon their arrival they discovered a corrupted Light who was consuming the galaxy he had sworn to protect.
Gaia and her remaining children tried to reach Light, however he had completed fallen from grace and been consumed completely by the darkness. Now Oblivion he began creating evil twisted versions of anything he had already absorbed into himself. Creating his generals Petulance, Famine, War and Death they went to war against Gaia and the Gods. The war raged for centuries but neither side was gaining ground, until Oblivion sent his four generals to attack the galaxies protected by Earth, Water, Fire and Air.
With no choice remaining the Gods and Goddesses sealed Gaia in the original galaxy to protect her while they fought Oblivion and his forces. Creating the 12 signs of the Zodiac as a seal to protect their mother each of the Gods and Goddesses powered three of the constellations each. Gaia now trapped away from her children did the only thing she could. Going into a deep slumber she channeled her power through the fairies to give assistance to her children. Acting as the conduits for the power the fairies fell into a deep sleep along with the all-mother.
Hundreds of centuries have passed when the earth shakes violently waking the fairy of the Earth, Geon. Unable to remember everything from before his sleep he is left with an urge to find the legendary warriors knowing they will help him regain his memory and complete their mission, whatever it is."
Peace rained throughout the universe but without Gaia or the other four gods being aware the God of Light had been corrupted by Chaos creating the first pure evil of the universe, Oblivion. Oblivion observed from a distance life interacting with each other and evolving into new forms getting stronger. Gaia is made aware of the fall of Light when his elemental fairy vanished, breaking her connection to the god. Gaia and the other four gods headed to Light's universe believing he had been defeated by something unknown, however upon their arrival they discovered a corrupted Light who was consuming the galaxy he had sworn to protect.
Gaia and her remaining children tried to reach Light, however he had completed fallen from grace and been consumed completely by the darkness. Now Oblivion he began creating evil twisted versions of anything he had already absorbed into himself. Creating his generals Petulance, Famine, War and Death they went to war against Gaia and the Gods. The war raged for centuries but neither side was gaining ground, until Oblivion sent his four generals to attack the galaxies protected by Earth, Water, Fire and Air.
With no choice remaining the Gods and Goddesses sealed Gaia in the original galaxy to protect her while they fought Oblivion and his forces. Creating the 12 signs of the Zodiac as a seal to protect their mother each of the Gods and Goddesses powered three of the constellations each. Gaia now trapped away from her children did the only thing she could. Going into a deep slumber she channeled her power through the fairies to give assistance to her children. Acting as the conduits for the power the fairies fell into a deep sleep along with the all-mother.
Hundreds of centuries have passed when the earth shakes violently waking the fairy of the Earth, Geon. Unable to remember everything from before his sleep he is left with an urge to find the legendary warriors knowing they will help him regain his memory and complete their mission, whatever it is."
With my backstory created I then started considering how my actual story would play out. I had already decided I wanted to bring characters in slowly, so I decided it would be best to have a primary focus on the Cures of Earth first with the Cures of Water playing into the story. But how could I make two teams with the same mission now work together? Despite their fairy partners having memory loss there was no clear reason why they wouldn't trust each other. Then I suddenly thought, Precure have never had a story where Precure are fighting other Precure. They have had stories with Precure fighting evil Precure, but none of my 12 are evil. So how could I make 2 teams of good guys fight? This made me go back to thinking about my antagonists.
I had created Petulance, Famine, War and Death in the backstory, I also needed a trigger for the fairies awakening. The answer was simple. The first of the generals had broken through the seal to protect Gaia. So before I could go any further with my story development I needed to start thinking about these characters that were going to drive it forward. Please click the following link to go to character designs:
http://neptunestritonproductions.weebly.com/creating-the-main-characters.html
I had created Petulance, Famine, War and Death in the backstory, I also needed a trigger for the fairies awakening. The answer was simple. The first of the generals had broken through the seal to protect Gaia. So before I could go any further with my story development I needed to start thinking about these characters that were going to drive it forward. Please click the following link to go to character designs:
http://neptunestritonproductions.weebly.com/creating-the-main-characters.html