utopia
/juːˈtəʊpɪə/
noun
an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect.
dystopia
/dɪsˈtəʊpɪə/
noun
an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one.
Princess Utopia
Genre: Psychological | Sci-Fi | Experimental
Premis:
G1 is the first child to be created in Iyufae Garden — a utopian civilisation believed to encompous all of existence, eternal and unending. Here, all is happy, peaceful, good, beautiful, etc. Those that inhabit Iyufae Garden are created artificially, constructed of both biological and robotic parts. G1 (an innocent yet curious girl) adapts to her new society quickly. Her programming stores all the facts/information/knowledge of her civilisation, and there is no reason for her to need anything more... until she spots something she wasn't meant to. Something other. Something evil. Something that doesn't belong to Iyufae Garden.
G1 can no longer live contently knowing that something else exists outside of her society. She follows this mysterious, foreign thing/creature — despite knowing she shouldn't. It leads her to a passageway, and from there she is confronted with a shocking truth: Iyufae Garden is merely an enclosed civilisation within a much larger, gloomy dimension spanning upwards indefinitely. In this vertical reality of ascending levels, ugly and maliscious beings dominate. All along, a darker world towered over Iyufae Garden.
G1 finds a rusted, wind-up (sentient) robot her same size abandoned outside her utopia, who tells her of its goal: to reach the uppermost level of the gloomy world. The two soon become friends. G1 decides to join the wind-up robot's quest to discover the top of the world, leaving her utopian home behind.
As the duo journey upwards into the evolving intensity of evil, G1 discovers she is gifted with a mysterious power: the power to transform into Princess Utopia.
Philosophical ideas:
- Our perceptions of good and evil are moulded by the conditioning of our society.
- Human nature inevitably seeks to experience/know more of life, even if that curiosity leads to dangerous/sinister truths outside of what is comfortable: this is the fatal flaw of all human utopias.
- The concept of "utopia" is subjective.
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