Rule of Symbolism Game

Anyway, I've wanted to start one of these little writing exercises for a long time, and this seemed as good a topic as any.

Basically, a poster takes a situation:

"The Big Bad is revealed to be an Anti-Villain who actually has the same goal as the heroes, to the point that he's actually succeeding if he lets them win-but it's so ruthless that the means spoil the ends."

And then the poster under that one writes in some light symbolism for that moment:

"Said Big Bad's shirt burns off, revealing tattoos of angel wings...and one of them is broken. He's an angel who can't fly, ergo a Fallen Angel."

Then the next situation and thereon.

I'll start with something simple:

The Evil Genius has always felt isolated from the world, and his battle tactics reflect that.

He never killed anyone, not directly. He sat in his small windowless room piloting the robotic minions that did his dirty work.

The Action Girl has had her heart broken in the past and has given up on the idea of romantic love.

At one point she's wearing a t-shirt with a heart on it while battling mooks. It rips diagonally across where the heart is.

The Heart worried that he has always been a robot, despite having memories of being human, because he saw some things that may have contrasted his past.

edited 20th Jan '14 6:42:25 AM by MaplePlatoon

Whenever The Heart starts to worry about this, his shadow tends to fall on convenient machinery, making it look mechanized.

The local Necromancer is a hero who respects the dead, and this scene contrasts him with his far more amoral Evil Counterpart who views them as disposable minions.

A pause in the combat leaves our two necromancers facing eachother. Both have been given a cut to the cheek. The hero bleeds a deep red from the cut on his right cheek, whilst his nemesis bleeds a septic black from an identical cut to the left cheek

Our hero finds himself conflicted between keeping to the world he knows and delving deeper into the world he does not