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Notes on Ognimod's universe
7 years ago
Things have happened which have provided me with the inspiration to try again.
The bios for Ogni, Ivory, Kate and Fido already exist in the pictures for each, although at some point I’ll draw Kate and Fido on my own. What I can do for now is write a summary of “The Adventures of Ognimod” and ideas I’ve come up with over the years but I’ve never realized, and why I came up with them.
“The Adventures of Ognimod” begins with Ivory leaving Ogni’s house because she’s sick of him being obsessed with spending as much time as possible near her. The day she’s going, they’re attacked by Anonymous. Ogni is tied to a chair and forced to play “The Game” (every time he thinks about The Game, he “loses” and gets an electric shock), but he escapes and discovers Anonymous’ plan is to exterminate the human race. He sets out to thwart them and rescue Ivory. In the end, as expected, Ogni destroys the Anonymous leader, who turns out to be a hideous, psychopathic, murderous alien, thus saving the world (which remains of it, for half the human race has already been exterminated by the end) and reuniting with Ivory, but allowing her to leave so she can remake her life without him, thinking he doesn’t deserve her.
I had just read about Anonymous, the 4chan activists, and although I had nothing against them at the time, I liked the idea of the villains being 4chan (who have always abhorred furries with all their might, and I liked using villains who were real life furry enemies) and them being a faceless, identity-less army. But I didn’t want to make them literally the real Anonymous for fear of retributon on their part. So I came up with their Anonymous Leader being really an alien who just discovered memes, got them wrong, and based a plan to annihilate the universe “for the lulz” on them. He was the ultimate normie. The governments of the world didn’t understand a thing about memes nor Internet humor (the latter a concept which I find utterly distasteful today), but Ogni did, so he realized he was the only one who could explain it to them. The entrances to Anonymous’ secret subterranean base were located under bridges because they were trolls, as a wink to the trolls of classic Western mythology. It’s curious that, in the end, world poltics in real life have been dominated by memes but nobody understands what they are and how they work still. On the other hand, today I abhor 4chan myself, and the kind of far-right thinking, antisemitism, racism, sexism and all the other things they and the rest of the world’s imageboards have associated themselves with because of the influence of /pol/. If I was writing “The Adventures...” today, I would make the real ones the actual villains, as well as portraying them as authentic inhuman fascists, all out of my saltiness. I have been very lucky to have written it before my opinion of them took such a sharp turn. The idea that one person could unravel a terrorist organization’s plans from within and undetected came from Die Hard, the movie from 1988, which I had just seen at the time, more or less around the year 2008.
The plan was for Ogni and Ivory to reunite forever in Part II, which I never finished and I don’t seem to conserve any drafts of. Nevertheless, at all times my further ideas assume Ivory and Ogni are back together.
At the beginning of “The Adventures of Ognimod, Part II”, she came visiting him and both ended up targeted by Manuel Gómez, a media mogul who was trying to portray them as bad people and encourage their killing because he simply didn’t like them; he saw them as anti-natural freaks. Unlike Anonymous, Gómez was meant to be an offensive caricature of a real person: Marcel Granier, who owned the TV station Radio Caracas Televisión before Hugo Chávez wouldn’t renew their broadcasting license, for purely political motives. I am left-wing, and I continue to call myself a partisan of Chávez’ even after his death; but not one of his replacement Nicolás Maduro, for reasons which I’m sure must be obvious. Back then I wasn’t bothered by the disappearance of RCTV, for after all I didn’t like the channel, nor what free Venezuelan TV in general has become (even if it was already a little gone to waste since before I was born; often I think it would be good for us to make productions which appealed to as many people of the world as possible, as Hollywood has been doing forever).
In Part II we were going to see the Furriverse for the first time. “[It] is different to everyone”, I had written referring to the way each person perceives it differently just as every furry perceives their fandom differently in real life; and Ogni saw it as a nostalgia Paradise where everything is a mishmash of things he and I remember between the years 1994 and 2000. But this doesn’t make it an ideal place; because interspecific discrimination and much social inequality does exist (a concept that Disney would later execute masterfully in their recent movie, “Zootopia”), and even some evil furries with world domination ambitions, although I only ever thought of one, a female, whom I’ll describe on another journal.
There was a character in the Furriverse called, sometimes Cait, sometimes Weyr, sometimes Zero, whose creator (he knows who he is) changed their species and gender many times. He had created Ivory, actually, but based on ideas of mine, so he ended up giving her completely to me. My idea was that Ivory had escaped her house because her parents were going to force her into marriage, and he was her bodyguard. He’s been looking for her for years to get her back to her house. When he bumps into Ogni in the Furriverse, he immediately realizes Ogni doesn’t belong there (he was born on Earth, remember), because he’s never seen him before. So on top of avoiding Gómez and the three furry bashers he hired to persecute him and slander him publicly (the webmasters of Something Awful, Portal of Evil and Crush Yiff Destroy, anti-fur heavyweights back then), he also had to avoid the bodyguard, who was looking for him in order to kill him and take Ivory away. In the end, I decided to replace the bodyguard with Kate and give her several of his powers, but not all, and explain them away as Kate being a bodybuilder, which is what makes her so strong.
The final character from Part II was Moonfire, a superior being from a higher dimensión who, on Earth and to the eyes of Ogni and crew, has the form of an anthropomorphic black cat with a long black robe and a staff with a headpiece shaped like a crescent moon. He has to do this in order for his presence to be comprehended by beings of lower dimensions. I haven’t drawn him yet. He’s the one who explains Earth and the Furriverse are part of the Omniverse, which is the collection of all alternate universes, real or ficticious, which were, are, and will be. He can teleport the main characters to any universe where they’re needed to fight enemies or whatever the current plot requires. Once I settled on this detail, I imagined Ognimod and company’s further adventures as a TV series in the style of He-Man, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or Power Rangers; mostly episodic, in which Ogni and crew would have to face a gallery of outlandish rogues.
With the exception of the three furry bashers (who were also not represented as the real people, and, truth be told, I didn’t really see them as unreedemably evil), all these characters and concepts still exist in my mind and I haven’t abandoned them – I just haven’t realized them yet. They apply today for (almost) anything other people would like to make that’s set in Ogni’s world.
The bios for Ogni, Ivory, Kate and Fido already exist in the pictures for each, although at some point I’ll draw Kate and Fido on my own. What I can do for now is write a summary of “The Adventures of Ognimod” and ideas I’ve come up with over the years but I’ve never realized, and why I came up with them.
“The Adventures of Ognimod” begins with Ivory leaving Ogni’s house because she’s sick of him being obsessed with spending as much time as possible near her. The day she’s going, they’re attacked by Anonymous. Ogni is tied to a chair and forced to play “The Game” (every time he thinks about The Game, he “loses” and gets an electric shock), but he escapes and discovers Anonymous’ plan is to exterminate the human race. He sets out to thwart them and rescue Ivory. In the end, as expected, Ogni destroys the Anonymous leader, who turns out to be a hideous, psychopathic, murderous alien, thus saving the world (which remains of it, for half the human race has already been exterminated by the end) and reuniting with Ivory, but allowing her to leave so she can remake her life without him, thinking he doesn’t deserve her.
I had just read about Anonymous, the 4chan activists, and although I had nothing against them at the time, I liked the idea of the villains being 4chan (who have always abhorred furries with all their might, and I liked using villains who were real life furry enemies) and them being a faceless, identity-less army. But I didn’t want to make them literally the real Anonymous for fear of retributon on their part. So I came up with their Anonymous Leader being really an alien who just discovered memes, got them wrong, and based a plan to annihilate the universe “for the lulz” on them. He was the ultimate normie. The governments of the world didn’t understand a thing about memes nor Internet humor (the latter a concept which I find utterly distasteful today), but Ogni did, so he realized he was the only one who could explain it to them. The entrances to Anonymous’ secret subterranean base were located under bridges because they were trolls, as a wink to the trolls of classic Western mythology. It’s curious that, in the end, world poltics in real life have been dominated by memes but nobody understands what they are and how they work still. On the other hand, today I abhor 4chan myself, and the kind of far-right thinking, antisemitism, racism, sexism and all the other things they and the rest of the world’s imageboards have associated themselves with because of the influence of /pol/. If I was writing “The Adventures...” today, I would make the real ones the actual villains, as well as portraying them as authentic inhuman fascists, all out of my saltiness. I have been very lucky to have written it before my opinion of them took such a sharp turn. The idea that one person could unravel a terrorist organization’s plans from within and undetected came from Die Hard, the movie from 1988, which I had just seen at the time, more or less around the year 2008.
The plan was for Ogni and Ivory to reunite forever in Part II, which I never finished and I don’t seem to conserve any drafts of. Nevertheless, at all times my further ideas assume Ivory and Ogni are back together.
At the beginning of “The Adventures of Ognimod, Part II”, she came visiting him and both ended up targeted by Manuel Gómez, a media mogul who was trying to portray them as bad people and encourage their killing because he simply didn’t like them; he saw them as anti-natural freaks. Unlike Anonymous, Gómez was meant to be an offensive caricature of a real person: Marcel Granier, who owned the TV station Radio Caracas Televisión before Hugo Chávez wouldn’t renew their broadcasting license, for purely political motives. I am left-wing, and I continue to call myself a partisan of Chávez’ even after his death; but not one of his replacement Nicolás Maduro, for reasons which I’m sure must be obvious. Back then I wasn’t bothered by the disappearance of RCTV, for after all I didn’t like the channel, nor what free Venezuelan TV in general has become (even if it was already a little gone to waste since before I was born; often I think it would be good for us to make productions which appealed to as many people of the world as possible, as Hollywood has been doing forever).
In Part II we were going to see the Furriverse for the first time. “[It] is different to everyone”, I had written referring to the way each person perceives it differently just as every furry perceives their fandom differently in real life; and Ogni saw it as a nostalgia Paradise where everything is a mishmash of things he and I remember between the years 1994 and 2000. But this doesn’t make it an ideal place; because interspecific discrimination and much social inequality does exist (a concept that Disney would later execute masterfully in their recent movie, “Zootopia”), and even some evil furries with world domination ambitions, although I only ever thought of one, a female, whom I’ll describe on another journal.
There was a character in the Furriverse called, sometimes Cait, sometimes Weyr, sometimes Zero, whose creator (he knows who he is) changed their species and gender many times. He had created Ivory, actually, but based on ideas of mine, so he ended up giving her completely to me. My idea was that Ivory had escaped her house because her parents were going to force her into marriage, and he was her bodyguard. He’s been looking for her for years to get her back to her house. When he bumps into Ogni in the Furriverse, he immediately realizes Ogni doesn’t belong there (he was born on Earth, remember), because he’s never seen him before. So on top of avoiding Gómez and the three furry bashers he hired to persecute him and slander him publicly (the webmasters of Something Awful, Portal of Evil and Crush Yiff Destroy, anti-fur heavyweights back then), he also had to avoid the bodyguard, who was looking for him in order to kill him and take Ivory away. In the end, I decided to replace the bodyguard with Kate and give her several of his powers, but not all, and explain them away as Kate being a bodybuilder, which is what makes her so strong.
The final character from Part II was Moonfire, a superior being from a higher dimensión who, on Earth and to the eyes of Ogni and crew, has the form of an anthropomorphic black cat with a long black robe and a staff with a headpiece shaped like a crescent moon. He has to do this in order for his presence to be comprehended by beings of lower dimensions. I haven’t drawn him yet. He’s the one who explains Earth and the Furriverse are part of the Omniverse, which is the collection of all alternate universes, real or ficticious, which were, are, and will be. He can teleport the main characters to any universe where they’re needed to fight enemies or whatever the current plot requires. Once I settled on this detail, I imagined Ognimod and company’s further adventures as a TV series in the style of He-Man, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or Power Rangers; mostly episodic, in which Ogni and crew would have to face a gallery of outlandish rogues.
With the exception of the three furry bashers (who were also not represented as the real people, and, truth be told, I didn’t really see them as unreedemably evil), all these characters and concepts still exist in my mind and I haven’t abandoned them – I just haven’t realized them yet. They apply today for (almost) anything other people would like to make that’s set in Ogni’s world.
