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A Game of Life and Death WIP

Added 2021-04-18 12:00:03 +0000 UTC

I've already been working on my next big project since the start of April. As of the moment, I've decided to shelve the story that I worked on during the month of March and do this one instead. This is because the idea for this story is much simpler: Death and the Overseer (life) plays a game of "power and position" - meaning, whoever is compelled to bottom loses - to determine whether the life of a terminally ill patient continues or not.

Death is at odds with the Overseer's way of treating a particular woman: though it is obvious to Death that she will die in a manner of weeks, the Overseer continues to provide her with trials through suffering. He is optimistic that she will pull through his trials, earning her a chance for longer and better life, even though this chance is slim.

I characterized Death as a being with great compassion towards humans. After all, he leads them to a place where they could finally leave their former lives. He hates unnecessary suffering, which is why he has a bit of disdain towards the Overseer. Death sees his job as the taker of souls as something that he must do but not something that he's ever passionate about.

As for the Overseer, I see him as a being that is greatly passionate about humans. He is the caretaker of life, and his main task is to strengthen the human race through trials of suffering to prevent its extinction. The Overseer doesn't enjoy human suffering, though he sees it as a necessary ingredient to empower humans. He is simply delighted with the fighting spirit a person displays during his or her trials. This is something that Death misunderstands as just entirely being sadistic.

I've already done most of the rough animations of the scenes leading to their game. The ones that are posted here are just a few of them.