Theme and Setting

So this week in the graphic novel, we have done a lot of planning, things like setting and theme (theme in the literary sense, not the “atmosphere” sense). The setting currently is a psuedo-utopian one. I’m using “psuedo” because it’s not quite distopia. To me a distopia would be something like “having the appearance of perfectness while actually being unheard chaos.” Not quite for us, our p-utopia is so named because it’s like the opposite of a distopia, i.e. appearing to be extremely chaotic while actually being somewhat peaceful. I say somewhat peaceful because there are still things like class dispute and religion discrimination (actually those are the themes, not just wandering, irrelvant story points), like any normal civilization. More on the theme: Now, I don’t want to talk about everything we have planned because that’s the definition of planning (things that are set to happen that don’t necessarily happen), but one of the more concrete plans is to have the different classes, for lack of a better word, discriminate against each other for their closeness to nature (which may or may not be an allegory for something). My final insight: We have made the main character, her name being Maya Redde (that’s not a typo, we changed it, the name Maya flows better). She does something to counteract the different class problems and religion and blah blah blah and maybe unite her people, something like that, we’re currently working on how she’ll do all of that, but after that, IT’S WRITING TIME.