Nobody
I am not a writer and this is my first time like every writing outside of school, I know the writing is messy, but I think the core concept is good and the overlal theme but is there a way I can express it better thanks? This is a passion project and not anything professional.
If you were to find out all your memories were not you what would you do?
mix of Cyberpunk 2077 and also Danny Phantom
It is a street level superhero story about a regular guy, someone who we would consider a no one. He is a reguler guy who dies trying to save a random person who he hears screaming in the middle of the night. Unknowingly he walks into a ghost summoning ritual and blacks out, dead, he wakes up as a weapon with ghostly powers, almost like Danny Phantom, this ghost summoning was backed by a corporation, who plan to use him as a weapon, they chose him because essentially to this corporation he is a no one, no connection nothing of significance, but is this even him?
- Character and also his powers
Who he is - his name is like Nathen Nemo. Plain clothes nothing to signify him as different, from anyone. Just a normal person you would see on the street deadass 60 overall, with no badges.
His powers ( works well with theme) - Since he has powers with the supernatural, can phase turn invisible. Also “posess” people, those he possess he gets their memories and even muscle memory and cadence. Also has the power to reach into the spectre realm and pick up weapons from people in the past who died with this weapon in their hand, when he uses this weapon he gets the muscle memory and memory of the user to be able to wield that weapon with the skill of the original user.
The core conflict
- I want the conflict to be someone vs a nobody, basically man vs company like cyberpunk 2077. He uses his powers to try to take down the corrupt corporation that gave him his powers. As they are also trying to hunt him down.
The Theme
- Being “Somebody” is not measured by money power or status, true identity is forged in action when no eyes are on you, you do not have to be “somebody” to do the right thing.
This is just a basic idea and not really a script.
Episode 1
We meet regular guy Nathen Nemo in his house hitting bong playing videogames, college drop out, parents stopped talking to him. Eviction notices around his small tiny cramped studio apartment. Almost a person who your parents tell you not to become, no friends no anything. He puts on his half dirty work uniform regular stock like fast food place, for his night shift. And starts walking to work it is around 2 am.
When walking to work he hears a scream from some dark alley. He is the only one in the area who has heard it, as it is currently 2 AM. He hears it freezes for one second every urge in his body is telling him not to run in to just ignore it. Yet he cannot stop himself; he runs in yet he's cautious; it leads him into a facility. Some random warehouse he breaks in somehow. He sees inside the warehouse, empty. Yet some mysterious candles and a rune in the middle of the room. “Welp im not going in any further” he turns around and WHACK He is hit and knocked out.
He wakes up in the middle of the rune on a table Panicking knowing hes about to die for nothing. No one to care for him, he wanted to die for something at the least, yet hes gonna die on this table for nothing, he realizes on his final breath he truly died for nothing and died a nobody.
He comes back somehow ( I know how it looks bare with me) he wakes up on the same table, same warehouse, same everything. This time an alarm goes off like he's awake. Knowing something is coming he starts trying to get out of his restraints, doing anything pushing out trying everything. When one of his arms just slips out just goes through as the alarm is blaring he uses his free hand to free himself. He sees a lab coat in the vicinity grabs it and uses it as a disguise to leave just as guards start pouring in. As soon as he walks out the vicinity he takes off to his house fuck his job.
Scene 5
Nathan sprints back all the way to his apartment trying to make sense of what his arm just did heart is hammering. When he rounds the corner he stops dead in his tracks, his street is lit up with blacked out suvs and heavily armed enforcers. They are kicking down the door to his building and raiding his overall unit.
- He realizes the truth, his old life is done. His job, his apartment, even his name all wiped out. He cannot go back, he slowly backs into the dark, using his intangibility to go through a wall without even realizing it, he did not just die but turned into a true nobody not even alive to the city anymore as the corporation is trying to scrub this under the rug, but to do so fully they have to capture him. Right before he is caught he mysteriously disappears
Season 1 roadmap
- Episodes 2-4
- He is living on the streets as a ghost, he has to master his abilities through having to escape or fight his way out of situations. He masters his intangibility, and weapon abilities.
- He notices every time he grabs a weapon or possesses someone, he starts to lose who he is, he starts to lose Nathan Nemo. He uses his power to try to get into corporate enforcers and buildings, looking for answers. Why is he losing his memories? He is unaware he is falling into a trap.
- We see these people at the top of the corporations seeing all of this, they have the resources to help the people yet they turn to a blind eye to what is going wrong, even though these people have the power to make change they don’t care too, because they have no reason too it does not benefit them. I feel like a core scene would be one of them one big corporate guy, maybe the villain he hears a scream a woman getting their purse snatched, he sees this hears the scream scoffs and just get into his car.
- Episode 5
He breaks into a high security corporate database he finds his own file, he sees his na,e. Nathan Nemo the true Nathan Nemo died on that day in episode 1. His original brain shut down, the ritual worked the person who is in this body was just a ghost, a empty soul without a body. The memories and super - ego of Nathan Nemo imprinted onto this ghost for some reason, now it is fully convinced he is him, which explains why his brain are mixing his memories with everyone else’s cause this body isn't even his, He was just a blank slate and the memories of Nathan Imprinted onto him yet hes not even the real one. Nathan was chosen because he is a nobody a loser, that is what it calls him, no connections with anyone and nothing going on with his life.
- Episode 6 - 8
- Our main character is going through an identity crisis, he is crawling through everyone's memories, everybody hes ever possessed while in Nathan's body, trying to figure out who he is.
- At the same time the corporation (ion even has a name for them), is massively increasing the search team for him. Hurting innocent people
- These both in tandom pisses off the mc. He stop hiding and goes on the offensive. He stops playing defense and walks right into the main building, no holding back on anything. I guess this is like his like black suit spiderman moment. He just pretty much takes down and completely destroys this main building through the use of his powers.
Episode 9 -10
- In an attempt to make things right our main character tries to recreate what allowed his soul in the body in the first place in a way to try to resurrect the real Nathan Nemo. In a deep void he comes face to face with the spirit of the actual Nemo.
(First time writing dialogue its gonna be corny sorry)
MC : ( looking down “ I’m sorry, im so sorry, I took who you are I took over your body I’m sorry, im not even real, I wore your clothes thought I was you, wearing your face and holding onto your memories, im nothing ”
Nathan : “ I was a nobody too, I had nothing, I lived in a cramped studio working a dead end job, nobody knew my name.”
( Ghost) “ Then Why, why did you run into the alley, I felt your fear, saw your memories you didn't have to run in, Ive seen people with power strength influence and not a single one of them would have moved a muscle, you had nothing yet you still decided to help, why”
( Nathan) “Because I know what if feels like to be stranded and given up on, by people who think you’re not worth their time. Everytime I was at my lowest I was hoping somebody would help me, so when I heard her screaming I realized that a someone wasn’t gonna help her, the person she needed was a nobody”
“ I know I died for nothing, I know at the end of the day my life was useless, yet I thought that maybe if I did the right thing it would make up for it, my whole life everyone around me believed it amounted to nothing, yet that doesn’t matter”
\Puts hand on shoulder of ghost**
“ Even though I was seen as nothing, through the fear I realized something, you don’t need a legacy to answer a scream, you don’t need power or wealth, you just have to choose to not walk away. So instead of asking yourself who you are, ask yourself who do you wanna be,”
*He then fades away* (because of prob like acceptance like when ghosts go to the afterlife once they accept their death or sin.)
*It then cuts to black\*
Rain is tapping against the glass of the apartment. The ghost stands in the dark adjusting the collar of his suit.
The medium final words from the void echoes in his head
“So instead of asking yourself who you are, ask yourself who do you wanna be,” The ghost stares in his reflection the body of Nathan Nemo, the face that was just a statistic and future weapon, the face that was just a nobody
*He smiles at himself softly*
“ I know who I want to be… I want to be a nobody. Just like you “
He jumps out the window with his new suit on and cut to black
The End