Black Voyage inspiration
When creating a story inspiration is needed even original stories are inspired/based on other events. That is the same with Black Voyage. When I come up with Ideas I first look up and research current and old urban legends until I find one I like.
After this I then find all the info I can on the legend and dissect all the essential information and rework that into my own original script.
This happened for Black Voyage the first and main inspiration for Black Voyage is a urban legend called "The White Death".
Here is the basics of this urban legend
"There was once a little girl that hated life and she wanted to get rid of every trace of herself off the planet. Soon, She killed herself and people found out. The people that found out died a few days later. Their limbs torn apart. They say if you know of The White Death, She will come and find you and constantly knock on your door. Each knock gets louder. You can’t tell anyone about her, But if you do, She strikes. Killing you and then goes for the person you told." (unexplained mysteries, 2013)
Here is the link to the site. http://unexplainedmysteries.org/post/65041835626/the-white-death-creepy-urban-legend
What I took from this legend is that the victim/killer needs to have a hatred for something and if you found out about her she killed you.
When I was coming up with Black Voyage I had my main character Elizabeth hating people and existence for ,spoilers, reasons. To cover the part about her killing people who find out about her I decided to add extra meanings for her killings but with the same rules applying. However to make it more interesting Elizabeth will be able to travel through time.
After I decided that Elizabeth was going to time travel she needed victims. I had always been interested in Jack the Ripper and Blackbeard so I though I'd reinvent there deaths for the purpose of Black Voyage.
Jack The Ripper is the "first victim" we see Elizabeth Kill. However the story doesn't focus on Elizabeth but on Jack and for this to work the way I presented Jack and the reason they kill will foreshadow and hint at Elizabeth's overall story.
I hope this has been insightful.
After this I then find all the info I can on the legend and dissect all the essential information and rework that into my own original script.
This happened for Black Voyage the first and main inspiration for Black Voyage is a urban legend called "The White Death".
Here is the basics of this urban legend
"There was once a little girl that hated life and she wanted to get rid of every trace of herself off the planet. Soon, She killed herself and people found out. The people that found out died a few days later. Their limbs torn apart. They say if you know of The White Death, She will come and find you and constantly knock on your door. Each knock gets louder. You can’t tell anyone about her, But if you do, She strikes. Killing you and then goes for the person you told." (unexplained mysteries, 2013)
Here is the link to the site. http://unexplainedmysteries.org/post/65041835626/the-white-death-creepy-urban-legend
What I took from this legend is that the victim/killer needs to have a hatred for something and if you found out about her she killed you.
When I was coming up with Black Voyage I had my main character Elizabeth hating people and existence for ,spoilers, reasons. To cover the part about her killing people who find out about her I decided to add extra meanings for her killings but with the same rules applying. However to make it more interesting Elizabeth will be able to travel through time.
After I decided that Elizabeth was going to time travel she needed victims. I had always been interested in Jack the Ripper and Blackbeard so I though I'd reinvent there deaths for the purpose of Black Voyage.
Jack The Ripper is the "first victim" we see Elizabeth Kill. However the story doesn't focus on Elizabeth but on Jack and for this to work the way I presented Jack and the reason they kill will foreshadow and hint at Elizabeth's overall story.
I hope this has been insightful.
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