I've been rambling about how I want to make a remastered edition of an old story I wrote back in high school; chances are you've read it if you knew me from Pixar Planet in 2009. I've decided to remake the story not just because the writing is a little cringe now looking back at it, but because of tech advancements made since then that I wish to satirize in this fresh new take which is to be titled "Extended Vacation".
So, a quick rundown on these guys:
Siri Alexa is a virtual AI assistant with a hologram form and the speech pattern of a Meta AI search overview. She is the system mainframe for a cruise liner and YES HER NAME REFERENCES BOTH APPLE SIRI AND AMAZON ALEXA. As a heads-up, brand names as character names is a BIG thing related to the story's themes.
Grand Moff Armitage Gopher is, aside from being a parody of both Tarkin and Hux 🚨Star Wars fangirl alert!!!🚨the Head of Security of the cruise liner and second-in-command to the co-pilot. I imagine him to be portrayed by Domhnall Gleeson (General Hux). I realized I forgot to draw eyebrows on him but that's okay these are just concept sketches.
Boris McCrea is a luxury cruise liner captain who is also the father of Princess Evelyn McCrea. As captain, that makes him the de facto Emperor of the Empire™, set to succeed the late great Emperor Forthright if all goes according to plan YES IT'S SUPER OBVIOUS WHOSE HE'S BASED ON. 🤣
Augustus McCrea is Boris' elder brother (and thus Princess Evelyn's uncle) and co-pilot who is quiet but taciturn. I literally designed him to be portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch; I saw him in Star Trek Into Darkness and decided that he was the perfect match for this character. His outfit, however, is modeled on Director Krennic from Rogue One. Since Boris is kind of a massive couch potato, Augustus is the one taking the wheel.
And yes they all have socials since it's now a common part of everyday life in our time, it's gonna be second—even fifth nature to them in the story's setting anyway.
