Jack Frost and Fira was a series I started writing in September 2018. Every week I would write a new installment and on a special occasion I would've written an event that would challenge the characters in a major way. This ultimately didn't happen due to personal matters beyond my control and I put the series on indefinite hiatus in December 2018. In this post, I'd like to explain what my intentions were for the planned 2 parter as well as what I would've liked to have done had the series continued to this day.
The Trail of the Twins
The 2 part event planned for December was to be the trial of Jack Frost and Fira. During battle with the Abraham family, Sheryl is badly injured and later "dies" in the ambulance. Jack Frost and Fira are taken into F.A.C.E. custody and are put on trial for alleged manslaughter. During this trial, we would see how the citizens of Braidsville view our heroes, both positive and negative. It would then be revealed that the Abrahams faked Sheryl's death to ruin the reputation of Jack Frost and Fira. While the case is dismissed, the damage would've already been done. Following this event, citizens would be more critical and less trusting of the twins and new costumed crime fighters would show up on an attempt to replace them.
Alternate Reality
I've always been a fan of the different reality plot in movies and tv shows. So naturally I had planned to do something like that with Jack Frost and Fira. During their battle with a villain named Edge Lord, Jack Frost and Fira are transported into an alternate dimension of Braidsville, now under the rule of Supreme Genreal Margran. Jack Frost and Fira would have to team up with the alternate version of Orson Reed, jr. and find their way back home while also saving this reality. The alternate reality of Braidsville would've been portrayed not so much as a post-apocalyptic world, but more of a world ruled by a tyrannical dictator. Think Germany after Hitler and the Nazi's took over. Less fires, more faded blues.
Jack Frost and Fira vs. Orson Reed, jr.
This is a battle that had been set up the minute Orson first heard of Jack Frost and Fira. Taking place in an abandoned warehouse, Orson challenges the twins using his most powerful weapon: his mind. Through a series of mind games, emotional manipulation and psychological torture, this would've been a fight that forces Jack Frost and Fira to use their wits over their powers to win. Sure, I could have Orson pilot a giant robot, but it's more fitting to his character to use his intelligence over heavy machinery.
Jack Frost and Fira meet The 3 Musketeers
You read that correctly, Jack Frost and Fira would meet the 3 Musketeers while the Gagnon family is on a much needed vacation in France. Of course it's not the original Musketeers (Athos, Aramis, and Porthos), as they died centuries ago. Rather it's 3 costumed crime fighters named Samuel, Anjelica and Gregory who take up the Musketeer name to fight criminalsin Paris. This would've potentially served as a backdoor pilot for a modern interpretation of the classic story by Alexandre Dumas.
Prequels
I had planned to do a number of prequel stories focusing on characters outside of Jack Frost and Fira. These included how Jerome met Stacey in college, how Jerome and Dan's childhood was like, how Orson used his intelligence to bypass school, how crime in Braidsville became an all time high by the time Jerome became mayor and many more. One prequel in particular would've focused on a costumed crime fighter known as the Boppin Butcher and it would've been about an aging diabetic hero fighting a giant cobra before finishing it off in a warehouse. This warehouse is the birthplace of Jacoba and Hayden as well as 10 other kids with powers. As the warehouse is crumbling due to the damage of the battle, the Boppin Butcher holds the debris up with all his strength, saving the infants. A couple driving by sees the struggling hero and it's revealed to be Jerome and Stacey. They take two babies (Hayden and Jacoba) before F.A.C.E. arrives to take the rest. They try to save the Boppin Butcher, but he insists that they just save the babies as his strength is starting to fail. Once the last infant is safely secured, the Boppin Butcher's strength finally gives in and the debris crushes him. This would've been told by Jerome and Stacey to a young Jacoba and Hayden. This also would've confirmed the existence of other kids with extraordinary powers.
The Futurian Kingdom Event
This was going to be an unprecedented event for Jack Frost and Fira. The Futurian Kingdom was meant to be set up early on via Easter eggs and allusions. It would've culminated in an epic saga in which our heroes face their most powerful opponent yet: Queen Vanessa Wilmot. This event would've had drama, shocking revelations, deaths, some comedy, social commentary and a gigantic climax in which Jack Frost and Fira team up with the villains from their rogues gallery to combat the Futurian army.
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