Week 6: Story Planning: Continuation of Wonder Woman and Rama Series

Wonder Woman. Source

For the story next week, I am planning to continue my Wonder Woman mix with the Hindu gods. I am unsure if I will be introducing any new characters from the Mahabharata just yet. I really enjoyed writing about the clash of the two universes. The last story focused in on the first time that there was a meeting between the Hindu characters, Rama and Hanuman, and Wonder Woman in the metropolitan scene.

For the next story, I want to do either a prequel or a sequel. If I do a prequel, I was thinking that I want to focus in on Wonder Woman and maybe somehow link her to the Hindu gods and that is why the portal appeared near Rama and brought them near her. It would be interesting to almost do a Superman style where he was born on another planet and brought to earth for safety. However, in this story, Wonder Woman would have maybe been born in the Rama era and teleported somehow to this new dimension in the modern-day metropolitan that she currently lives in. Somehow, she might be linked to a Hindu god and that is why she has some of the abilities that she does.

If I do a sequel, I might jump into another action scene with Rama and Hanuman fighting against modern weapons and villains with Wonder Woman. If I do choose to do the sequel first, I want to implement some kind of interaction that would trigger the next story I write to flash back to a prequel similar to what is mentioned above. I like being able to use the comic book pictures that are out there between Wonder Woman and Rama and revolving my story around them.

Therefore, whatever direction I decide to go, prequel or sequel, I think that I will continue on my Week 3 story with Wonder Woman and Rama.

Public Domain Ramayana, link to the reading online.
Pikapost. link to the website.

Reading Notes: Public Domain Mahabharata, Part D

Vyasa summons the ghosts at the Ganges River. Source.

Public Domain Mahabharata, link to the reading online.

• Amba had a vow to seek revenge, bring about Bhishma's death in her next life
• After, Bhishma's fall, Drona takes command of Duryodhana's armies and vows to make Yudhishthira his prisoner
• Arjuna voews to defend his brother no matter what
• Arjuna loses his son, Abhimanyu
• Bhima loses his rakshasa son, the mighty warrior, Ghatotkacha
• Bhima will secure his revenge for Duhshana's treatment of Draupadi
• Karna died
• Duryodhana is alive and uses his supernatural powers to take refuge beneath the waters of a lake
• Bhishma has the gift of choosing the moment of his own death
• Bhishma is wasting for the solstices and before he dies he will instruct the survivors of the battle on how to rule the world that has survived
• Vyasa will conjure up the ghosts of the dead warriors (photo above)
• A hunter mistook Krishna for an animal and shot on arrow at Krishna that killed him
• After Krishna dies, the Pandavas and Drauapdi decide to end their time on earth

Reading Notes: Public Domain Mahabharata, Part C

Cattle Raid. Source.

Public Domain Mahabharata, link to the reading online.

• The Pandavas are in a long period of exile in the forest similar to Rama
• Krishna pays a visit to the Pandavas in exile
• Ajuna went out on his own when he violated Draupadi's private time with Yudhishthira
• Arjuna is the god Indra
• Indra is Arjuna's father
• Arjuna goes to Swarga, Indra's heavenly house, where he meets Urvashi
• Hanuman, from the Ravana, is in this story too
• Bhimna, Hanuman's half-brother, encounters Hanuman
• Hanuman and Bhimna are sons of Vayu, the wind god
• When Karna was bord, his body was clad in golden armor and he had earrings that were a token of invincibility
• Draupadi faces terrible danger in the forest, similar to Sita
• The final year of Pandavas' exile must be spent in hiding
• Bhima defense Draupadi but she will claim that the deed was done by her husband who is an immortal gandharva
• Duryodhana and his allies attack King Virata and steal his cattle
• The Pandavas come to King Virata's defense
• Pandavas' exile is finally over
• Krishna tries to avoid war and make peace between the factions
• Krishna reveals to Karna the secret of his birth and tells him to go to the Pandavas in peace, assuring him that they will not only accept him but regard him as their elder brother
• The Bhagavad-Gita, "Lord's Song," is the most famous part of the Mahabharata
• Bhishma is the general of the Kaurava forces but does not feel the same loyalty to Duryodhana that Karna does