I know it's a very overused thing: Greek mythology incorporated into the modern world. But I was thinking of writing characters from the actual myths and having them as characters in the modern day world.
For example, I was thinking of having a boy called Icarus whose father is a genius aeronautical engineer who drags his son into a situation and they both are forced to escape in planes, whereupon Icarus gets carried away and crashes.
Another idea was to have Bellerophon and Pegasus as aspiring rider and horse respectively, with everything that happens in the myth happening to them and giving Bellerophon the same outcome - crippled and forced to walk the lands in search of Pegasus alone until his death, or a modern equivalent of such a fate.
I'd tie all of the subplots together to have them culminate into one big climax where each character influences the fate of the other and it all ends interestingly but not necessarily positively.
What do you think of the idea? Is it overly cliched, or majorly flawed in some other way?
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