Eternal Camaraderie

[The Melancholy Spirit]

“The more you leave the less you lose.”

Revised version of an old collaboration idea between myself and Gunneh that revolves around the general idea/theme of the quote above, taken from a movie I watched the other day. The premise is a group of people in their early twenties in a small town that start to succumb to such an ideology. They are each remotely friends with each other, though in truth only because they are a handful of the very few people their own age still in town. Basically, there ‘friendships’ are a necessity to keep some connection to humanity and nothing more.

One of these characters has a slightly older brother, whom he hasn’t seen or hardly heard from in the past seven years. These two characters will be played by myself and Gunneh. The story begins with the older brother returning unannounced one day. He is a vagabond, wandering from place to place and never staying for very long, very set in the ideology of the previously mentioned quote. There was never a thought in his head of staying to long, he was just going to stay for a few days to see his family and gather a few old belongings.

However, unexpected things begin to unfold and his younger brother strikes up an idea. There is a double-decker bus in his parents’ yard that he lives in, used to belong to his brother who had put a lot of effort into making it a livable vehicle; after leaving it was passed down and since then the younger of the brothers has put his own effort into making it more ‘luxurious’. This is what lies at the heart of the plot, a bus full of different people who formed mock friendships out of desperation on an unplanned trip across the country.

What happens along the way is open-ended to obtain a sense of realism, and anyone is free to add something to the plot such as a destination and so forth. The goal is that they end up forming a true bond with each other and become a sort of strange motley ‘family’ per se. Focusing entirely on character progression anything is free to take place. Dark aspects of reality welcomed with vigor.

Only real requirement is that the characters are well thought out, more than one-dimensional, and between the ages of 20-23. Any questions are welcome. An OOC is already up.