Idea beginnings

This idea is based on a song from an episode of Danny Phantom called Fanning the Flames. It tells the story of a girl who dies in a house fire after being cheated on by her boyfriend and how she haunts  him in order to try and get her to remember her before carrying on with the girl he was cheating with.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wBMOc24_aIw

But when I looked at the basic story I found that it would be challenging to write the story and make it last twenty five minutes, so I added a character to act as a person who works out what Duncan (the character who is cheating) is doing, and the audience sees the action through his perspective until after the major event during the piece.

Character descriptions
Amber Lynns

Amber Lynns is the girl that Duncan is going out with at the start of the piece.

I see her as the girl who dies in the house fire the song mentions at one point.

Her name comes from slightly changing the the word Ember and taking the last name of a comic book villain who is an arsonist, linking her to fire even more.

She dies after hearing about Duncan cheating on her and her spirit haunts Duncan to get him to remember that they were once together.

Her character is loosely based on Shilo from Repo: the Genetic Opera and Hayden from American Horror Story.

Before death: happy, nice, peaceful, naive.
After death: aggressive, angry, vengeful, destructive.


Duncan Wells

 

He is the character who goes out with Amber at the start of the piece, but starts seeing Lindsay only a few weeks after they start dating.

His character is based on Ben from American Horror Story mixed with a few people I've know throughout the years.

Best friends with Eric even though they are nothing a like.

Plays guitar in a band (The Combustion) practises around the flat he shares with Eric.

Tells Eric he cheated on Amber but doesn't realise that Eric knows the girl he has been with.

Instantly moves on with his life after Amber dies, which is one of the reasons his friendship with Eric starts to crumble.

Throughout the second half of the piece he is slowly driven mad by Amber's spirit haunting.

Eric Andrews

He is loosely based on myself and Silent Bob from Kevin Smith's Clerks movies.

Best friend to Duncan, even though they are nothing a like.

A bit of a geek, making references to comics and movies nobody has even heard of before.

Knows when to be quiet and observe the world around him.

Cautious around people, thinks about what he can say without getting in trouble.

Is on first name terms with Lindsay (the girl Duncan cheats with).

After Lindsay dies Eric cannot understand why Duncan instantly moves on and begins to dislike Duncan because of this.

Works out that it's Amber's spirit haunting Duncan after she dies and finds little ways to help freak him out.






Lindsay Newton

Not sure if she will actually appear in the piece.

I thought of the character when I was listening to Girlfriend by Avril Lavigne, as I felt as though the lyrics told the side story of who this character would be and how she would act.

Works in a bar that Eric and Duncan go to occasionally.

Is on first name terms with Eric because of how often he goes to the bar she works in.