Childhood OCs & Comic Ideas # 2: City Zombie
/confused? check out my master post about this self project here/
Age that I made this: 9
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Mystery, (a bit of) Drama
Series/ Anime I drawn inspiration from: Soul Eater, Naruto, and my fascination of angels vs. demons back then
I know the title is lame aaaa.
Story under the cut!
Story
Jam, Mark, and McHann are students of the St. Michael’s Fallen Hunters Academy, that rescues the souls of children who died accidentally, of a meaningless death, and revive, (but erases their memories) in order to give them a second chance to live another life by serving the academe; to rid of the world of the Fallen.
The Fallen are enemies of the academy and are called as such because of its origins, creatures of Lucifer, a.k.a. demons who escape hell to wreak havoc on earth. But Jam does call them “Them”, or Zombies in the City (where their team was assigned), hence the title of this comic.
Simply put, the story revolves the training days of the team, how their missions increases in difficultly (as they’ll discover how some cults infiltrated the academy), and strive to be the best hunters they can be so they can graduate— to enter heaven.
(So yes, its kind of my imaginary limbo)
Prologue
One evening, Jam and his best friend Mark were on their way home from their school field trip. The two were riding on their school bus, siting beside each other, while some of their classmates were minding their own business. After talking to Mark, Jam looked out of the window and gazed at the sky. The trip was cut short when some unknown creature suddenly crossed the road— which made the school bus driver jump in panic to avoid the obstruction, but instead drove the bus into a cliff and killing everyone in it.
Few moments later, Jam woke up, not from the accident, but in a well-lighted white room with no walls. The room only consists of a bed (where he woke up from), a table with a brown backpack sitting on top of it, a packed snack, and a piece of note. Confused yet curious, Jam stood up, his body didn’t have any sign of injury, and was able to walk normally toward the table across his bed.
“Eat the fish and bread and go to the registration room – M.”
Jam picked up the tuna sandwich and took a bite. Before he takes another bite, a door opened and a gust of wind pushed him outside of a school hallway— and accidentally bumped into a girl named McHann. After McHann gave a condescending look of Jam from head to toe, her expression changes from annoyed to a nice-to-meet-you vibe, then she offered to shake hands with him – and the two were instant friends. McHann seems to know where the newbies should head on their first day, while Jam just went with her despite having a lot of questions in mind:
“Why am I here?”, “What am I doing here?”, “Where’s Mark?, aren’t we supposed to be in a school bus on our way home?”, “Am I dead?” —
Jam’s train of thought was cut the moment he felt the back of McHann’s hand slapping his chest “take a look at this,” she says. Jam and McHann were astonished that they just arrived at the Academy’s common grounds—
Characters
This time I made an effort to describe them.
Jam – 15 year old kid who dyed his hair white because he likes it, he’s into video games and comics, he’s a slow-learner/ late-bloomer, often spaces out, but kind, brave, resilient, and willing to go far for his team. He looks up to Mark and he’s kinda into McHann.
Weapon: Bead bracelet
Mark – same age with childhood friend, Jam; like a yin to a yang, Mark’s traits are the opposite of Jam— who’s intelligent, smart but he becomes an introverted snob when Jam met him after the accident. Jam figures out why Mark does this to him. Little does Jam know, the students of the academy is mandated to have their memories of their pasts wiped out. (more of this in the fun facts below)
Weapon: M40 Sniper Rifle
McHann – a 16 turning into 17 year old whose death was caused by her mother who poisoned her and her siblings because of poverty. They were left by her dad and her mom was in despair of how to provide for the family so she resulted in such act. (Too dark for my 9 year old me to think of this). Being the second out of four of his siblings, McHann is like the eldest/ mid-child, she’s cheerful, social, will defend whoever fights her and her friends, but can be a super weirdo sometimes (that’s why she and Jam get along). McHann is also nicknamed as ‘cockroach-chan’ by her classmates in the academy.
Weapon: Scythe
Fun Facts
To get this out of the way, the academy believes that wiping the memory of the children’s past lives will help them focus and objectively fulfill their mission. I loved this idea so much that I used it in one of my comics in the future which both dwell in the same universe as this.
By the time I’m typing this, I find how nice I was able to post this comic idea just when the season of lent just started
There is a scene where St. Michael suddenly shows up as the principal to greet the new comers— he interrupts Jam and Mark’s argument in the common grounds— and just goes there lookin’ good with his all white suit and tie, greeting everyone and giving the students a warm welcome
Jam appears to have no powers and felt useless in the beginning of the comic— because of the weapon he got from the Gethsemane activity (where students are required one by one to meditate and pray alone to God—in the stone where Christ used to pray from in the Gethsemane Garden— to ask Him to give them the kind of weapon that will suite their fighting style), but all Jam received was a bracelet with beads. In comparison to how cool Mark & McHann’s were. He later realizes that it’s a rosary.
These three are the main characters. There are supposed to be a lot (like other teams/ their classmates) who were like enemies to them (like that team who always sees everything as a competition), the friendlier ones, etc.— I think I was really aiming for the dynamic of the teams of threes/ twos as seen in Naruto, Soul Eater, or if I compare it to a recent series, like RWBY. ~Powah of Frienship!~
Since I know the plot of this comic is leaning to that kind of stories in anime back then where you follow the characters’ development to “become the very best like no one ever was” – I decided to end it asap after I finish sketching, like, the first episode.
/End!