Topic Research: Robin Hood

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Hood

    Although awareness of Robin Hood was common in the middle ages, there doesn't seem to be an exact date for when he was alive--or even if he was alive. If I'm searching for a theme to have present throughout all my stories, it would be that Robin Hood stole from the rich and gave to the poor. So getting away from an exact time period doesn't seem to go against the story of Robin Hood. In order to have more to write about it, I'm going to have to extrapolate some characteristics of Robin Hood and spin those out into the individual stories within the grand story. 

1. It would seem Robin Hood had allegiance to an authority that was no longer in power in some versions of the story.

2. He was devoted to a woman and had a group of loyal men.

3. He fought for others. 

With the first idea I could have Robin Hood be of royal descent and trying to bring glory back to his family's name. 

With the second idea I could have Robin Hood doing all he does to impress a woman. (So basic.)

With the third idea I could have Robin Hood be doing everything for himself. So while he does give to the poor, it's all for his own personal excitement. 

There could be three generations of Robin Hood, all doing things for their own selfish reasons. The transfer of wealth is completed each time, and the evil in the next chapter are the poor being fought for in the former chapter. 

There could be a Robin Hood figure who brought wealth to the pilgrims (or some other group of people who travel to a distant land). I suppose I don't have to follow real events and settings. My idea is this: those who come to America are persecuted, then they persecute (the Native Americans?), then that group is persecuted, then they persecute again. Well, that actually fits perfectly. Pilgrims to Native Americans to the British to imperialism. In reality the Native Americans never really became the ones in power. Either liberties will be taken, or I will go in a more fictional direction. 

There would have to be some resolution where someone does something truly sacrificially. Or is that too boring? I don't really care to have a downer ending where the cycle is going to constantly continue. 

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The ideas I mentioned before are so obvious. They could be background to actual characters. Maybe that could be my focus instead. Actual characters in each one of these generations. The main character could be the Robin Hood figure in some of the stories, but in others he could just be in the background. He could drive events forward, but the events are viewed by some other character. What do I really want to say? I want to say that no matter where the wealth is distributed evil will arise. That's easy to know. I want to say there will always be good men and women. That's obvious, too, but I think it's worth writing about if it can be interestingly said.

All the old English in the Wikipedia article is pretty funny.

Topic Brainstorm

Gospel of Mark

Messiah Netflix Show Trailer

    One of my ideas would be having Jesus' life take place now. For this story, Jesus' original coming wouldn't have taken place yet, so it wouldn't be a story about the end times but a story about how Jesus would start his teaching in the modern world. I had to imagine this story had been done before, so I looked it up and found a show called Messiah. It was a Netflix series that was quickly canceled after it was released because of the similarities between the show and the Muslim prophecy of the Dajjal. This is the Islamic equivalent to the Antichrist. I've never watched the show, although I am interested, but it would seem this storyline follows a second coming formula. That's not the avenue I would go down. The logistics of figuring it all out would be difficult. I think it would be better/easier to write it in the style of the Bible where all the details aren't mentioned. Otherwise I would be spending a lot of time writing about someone filming Jesus on their smartphone and things like that.

Robin Hood

    I would take the Robin Hood story and have him succeed in transferring all the wealth to the poor. I'm not sure how/if I would incorporate this into the story (ha, there's a trading service called Robinhood), but there's a lot of wealth distribution occurring right now. Members of a Reddit group realized there was a short taking place on GameStop stocks, so they bought a ton of the stocks which caused the prices to rise. Now services like Robinhood are preventing anyone from buying the stocks perhaps due to large fund organizations getting upset about losing their short money. Anyways, after Robin Hood gives all the money to the poor, the poor rise up and persecute the rich in the same way they were treated. It would be an endless cycle. Maybe there would be multiple generations of Robin Hood figures, and a new one would come and put an end to the misery and pain. 

Dante's Inferno

John's Vision of Heaven

    Instead of describing Hell I would attempt to describe Heaven. This task would be awfully lofty, although I'm sure it's been done many times before. I might use poetry to describe the immense pleasure of being in God's presence. I know Dante makes it to Purgatory and Heaven, but seeing as I haven't read those portions I won't have to worry about undue influence. This is the least satisfying of the ideas for me because I know I'm incapable of doing Heaven justice. 

Russian Folktales

    I have no basis for these stories, but I did see vampires mentioned. My idea is to have a vampire who doesn't want to drink blood as much as he wants someone to drink his own blood. In this story, a vampire's immortality can be transferred over when someone drinks its blood. The drawback is that someone has to drink blood to continue that immortality. So I caught myself right here and realize that if a vampire has to drink blood to continue their immortality, why doesn't the first vampire just stop drinking blood if he doesn't want to live anymore? My solution is that the vampire continues living, but its existence is excruciatingly painful and miserable. Maybe I'm not doing anything original here, but since I'm not aware, I'm claiming creativity. 

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