Some early stuff about Oliver & Monsterbutt

Remember the basics.
25%      intro / state of equilibrium / Definition of wanting something or getting something                denied something

50%      start of the journey to get the thing / lead to climax

25%      Resolution / climax hits and things start to go back to normal /new state of equilibrium

Idea 0
Redux 2.0

act 1 Boy gets hurt, boy needs protection. Boy finds in game how he can help himself. Boy needs monster.

Early on boy gets hurt by Daddy. Boy is imagining him being attacked by a mysterious creature. He is unable to defend himself.  He needs to figure out a way to fight back. He's tired of getting hurt.
Daddy is a monster. Boy plays a quest in the game, where a character is stuck and he has to save him. He uses teamwork to complete the mission and save the guy. The guy is a powerful wolf monk that uses powers of wind to fight. He's 10 levels higher than the rest of the team and he dispatches enemies with ease. Boy finds out he felt like the Wolf Monk in the mission. Trapped by the evil powers and he has to use the power of friends to save himself next time.
Monster has shown he's pretty strong. Maybe they can form an alliance.
Boy pulls out a map the map has a hut in an oasis that's near by. He remembers seeing a place that looks like it would help when he was out adventuring. 

act 2 Boy sees monster is sick. Needs to help him. Boy finds wizard to help. Wizard challenges boy to solve puzzles to find ingredients to save Monster.

Boy seeks out Monster. Monster is hidden away, hiding. He's hurt, from the spider fight. Boy has to find a way to revive him back to normal. The cleric in the party had magical spells to heal poison and other wounds. Maybe somewhere around here he can find a cleric to heal Monster.
Boy and monster set out to find a cleric.
Boy finds oasis not too far from where they started. The wizard in the hut has a beautiful set up, it's glorious, this beautiful peace pond with a place to meditate and all this. It's a place of peace and zen.
The wizard see's boys wound and helps him with a salve that makes him feel better.
He shows him Monster, and Wizard has to concoct a mixture to heal his poison.
The ingredients are sparse and hard to find.
Boy works to find the items and finds them after doing 3 trials. They are puzzles the wizard set up for the boy to overcome using his mind. The wizard had the stuff all to begin with and he comes back with monster healed. The supplies are for the boy to keep, they will help him in the future. The wizard tells him some weird thing that makes it apparent.

 act 3 Boy solves problems and gets monster healed but then wizard tells him about a bad prophecy. But everything is back to normal.

Boy and monster are all healed up and pepped up, boy asks monster if he would be willing to protect him from an evil presence. Monster agrees and they walk home.
Shows boy walking from one trailer house to his house. The wizard is a man who lives across the way. The house has a little pond with fishes, a hammock to lay in and


Idea 0 ----
The Hero of "S" is fighting against a goblin. He strikes him down. The frizzy haired elf witch kills a goblin with a fire blast. The battlefield is loaded with tons of tough enemies. The anthro wolf is surrounded, Boy has to find a way to rescue him before the generals kill him. Boy tries several strategies but keeps coming up a failure. The captains and guards are just really tough. Boy can't quite get it right.
With loud slam the reality of the game is crushed. The battlefield falls and Boy is standing in his room holding the controller in a pose as if he was holding a sword. Boy hears the sliding glass door close hard. It shook the house a little. Boy was startled because he was totally in the game. Reality was kind of bleak. His room was dark with the light of the TV putting a faint glow over everything.
There was this tension in the air. Boy looked around his room and tried to listen to the house, maybe something was going on? No one was in the room. It's silent.
He quickly dismisses it and gets back into the game. The Hero and the Elf start next to each other in the beginning of the round. He charges straight in with the Hero, attacking one of the Captains on the battlefield, and follows up with a fireball from the Elf mage. The mages fireball did extra damage. The Captain fades away in transparent red. Suddenly boy realizes it's about team work, again. It's a rough concept since he's alone a lot of the time. Boy is still too slow to help the Wolf. The Captains overwhelm the battlefield and troops surround him before he can do anything. He fails the mission again. He sets the controller down. The smell of cigarette smoke hits him. Boy gets really uncomfortable. It seems like everyone has a role to play in this fight but what am I doing wrong?

Boy hears an angry yell from outside his room. The smell of cigarette smoke is pretty strong. A sense of dread hits him. Something bad is happening. Boy picks up the controller and continues with the battle. The battle ensues, and reality turns into us in the game. Boy uses the Cleric boy to heal the Wolf during the fight. He didn't know he could heal non team members! That makes sense though, should have thought about that earlier. This realization turns the battle as Hero and the Elf slice down and burn the remaining captains. The battle was won, the Wolf is free. After a quick conversation the Wolf joins the Hero's cause. Boy examines the wolf's status, the wolf is 10 levels higher than his hero and other characters. They engage a group of mercenaries and Boy gets excited because he has seen the wolf man doing cool stuff on the intro video and we can finally see what he's all about.
The battle starts and Boy uses Wolf to fight all the mercenaries alone.
The wolf man busts out some crazy moves. Apparently he's a monk that has air powers. He uses a metal claw to fight, along with his actual claws. The level is dispatched easily and quickly and the boy is surprised!
Black smoke begins to envelop around the Hero and his party. Everything fades away and it's just boy standing in darkness. He circles around looking behind him

He finds a new team member after a difficult challenge to get him unlocked. It's the Anthro-wolf man with wind powers.
The wolfman is super over powered and kills enemies with ease in the next few missions.
Boy discovers he unlocked him early by completing the challenge early. Which is why it was so hard.

The way he unlocks the wolf man helps him fight the challenges upcoming fight with the "Evil"
There's a startling yell in the house and he gets a bad feeling.
Boy goes into imagination realm. He just feels like something's off and he doesn't want to be around.
He's trying to play but he feels this darkness creeping around him. He feels like he's being watch and it's making him nervous. The landscape gets more and more harsh and scary.
He's feeling like he's lost.
He's attacked by a thing called the Evil. The evil is a creature with black coloring. The Evil seems like a shape-shifter.

Rough idea for Idea 0
Boy is being boy, playing video games in his room. Daddy is doing something around the house.
Daddy is pissed about something. Hear Mom and Daddy fighting. Boy goes deeper into video game trying to not hear the fighting.
Mom sobbing, with a bruise on her face, everything is OK. Boy not convinced.
Daddy is still mad.
Boy gets held up by Daddy against the wall. Boy's mouth is covered. Boy is scared, breathing hard through his nose. Daddy is threatening him. Boy is held up by his throat with his mouth covered. Shirt ripped. Boy is freaked out. Tears rolling out of his eyes. Daddy says you can't tell anyone. Or it will be worse. It will get worse.


Idea 1  - The Oasis (Break in the Violence)
Boy sees that there is good in the world and not everyone is out there to hurt him.
Boy spends time at a neighbors house, he has an oasis. A little pond with fish and this cool hammock. Boy went over there one day to get away from the house. Boy and monster have a peaceful day relaxing from fighting monsters. Boy finds a bit of inner peace. The neighbor is a cool 70s/80s hair flowing button up t-shirt. Convertible Car with pop up lights. Puts on a record of some music.
They have a good time. Boy falls asleep on the hammock and the neighbor puts a blanket on him and Monster.

Idea 2 - You Fucked Up.
Mom drops boy off at the park near home. Boy has Monster with him. Mom says to be home at X time. Boy understands. Mom stresses how important it is that he's home at X time.
Boy plays most of the day but he gets lost at the park. Boy finally finds his bearings and heads home.
Boy was late getting home from the playground down the street. The day spent playing with Monster. Boy realizes what time it is and rushes home. Tears in his eyes because he knew he fucked up. Monster doesn't understand. Asks him what's up? What do we do? Boy is scared, he can't exactly explain what is going to happen but he knows it's going to be horrible.
 He gets home and Daddy is there waiting for him at the door.
Boy gets grabbed by the wrist and pulled inside. Boy is sent to the bedroom where he sits there crying.
Boy is dreading what's about to happen. He knows there's nothing he can do. His cries and begging for forgiveness-  is met on def ears.
Daddy grabs boy by the shirt and strikes him hard in the leg causing him to jerk
where he's then hit in the stomach and in the other leg.  

Idea 3 - Don't Touch.
School let's out and the kids scatter. Boy has to walk home but decided to kick back and walk slow. He didn't want to rush home because Daddy was home. Fear keeps him from wanting to go home.
At school Boy has to use the pocket knife to defend himself against a group of bullies.
Boys wearing white sneakers, light blue and dark blue shirts, and beanies that cover their faces.

What's up CUZ, I'm not your cousin. who are you even? Fuck you! You can't wear red here.

One of the people wearing white gloves punches Boy in the face, right in the eye.
But Boy gets surrounded by the bullies and his world plunges into darkness. He gets super scared and the towering figures over him become distorted monsters.
Monster isn't there to help him or defend him. Boy tries to think of ways to escape, he uses the speed boost power from the shoes, but as he's running away one of the monsters trips him, causing him to hit the ground. Dirt in his mouth... He gets up as they kick and hurt him.
He draws the sword to protect himself and cuts one of the monsters.

At school, boy gets in trouble with the pocket knife and the teacher sees the bruises on his arm.
She knows he's not OK but she can't do anything about it, Boy tells a story about what happened, when this monsters attack him but he did the only thing he could which was protect himself.

Idea 4 - Shattered Reality
New kid at school. This kid quickly becomes best friends with Boy. Boy learns about how a family who isn't abusive acts. Mom and Dad actually talk to each other. They have a look in their eyes that's unknown to him. He sees caring and love. It's a weird concept to Boy.

Idea 5 Power ups and Confidence. Multiple episode ideas involving him learning how to use the items in real life.

Kid uses power ups to help him fight Daddy Monster.
He uses courage to stand up to him.
He gets that by having the speed shoes. New shoes mom got him.
The Sword. Pocket knife gotten from the shed.
??? What are other items that are simple that can help him ...
Boy tries to stand up to daddy but he gets badly hurt and Monster gets ripped up and hurt. 

Idea 6 - Is it really over?
Boy witnesses domestic violence first hand. All the times he never really knew what was happening, but he kinda knew.
Boy wakes up to hear Mom yelling. Daddy is hitting her in the face in the hallway. Mom has a bloody face. The fight seems to have been happening from the bedroom into the hallway.
Mom is fully dressed even though it's late at night.
Daddy used a hammer to hurt Mom. 
Boy is terrified because if he does anything he could get hurt too.
 Daddy is frantic and angry. Daddy starts trashing the house.
He starts to leave. Boy is blocking the door.
Dad tells him to move. Boy resists. Boy stands up to Daddy.
Daddy threatens him and boy doesn't flinch. Daddy leaves and disappears. 
Daddy is gone. Police come. Daddy broke a lot of stuff in the house. It's wrecked.
Mom is scared he will come back. pleading with the police to find him.

Idea 7 - Discovery. needs to happen early.
Boy learns about Monster and what he's capable of. Monster is a defensive force, there to protect boy.


Idea 8 -  Not there.
Boy encounters the Evil. Boy is powerless to fight against it. Boy gets hurt, bruises and marks. Monster isn't there to help Boy can't find Monster.