Wonder Woman: Bound Together (Excerpts)

Wonder Woman: Bound Together (Excerpts)

A few selected scenes from a Wonder Woman origin story that focuses heavily on Amazon culture, history, symbolism, and on Diana's role as both superhero and diplomat. From a half-finished dust collector.

By Spock0Clock - Dec 02, 2015 12:12 AM EST
Filed Under: Fan Fic

Wonder Woman: Bound Together was an idea for a story I had a few years ago. More or less fan-fiction for my own enjoyment. I outlined it, wrote a fair amount, but there were still large sections that were left undone. I'm posting a few choice bits here, because why not. Just keep in mind: this is a bit rough, and there are some word choices that I would likely revise if I were to finish it. Even so, I'm pretty proud of it for what it is. I hope you enjoy it.

Bound Together is a Wonder Woman origin story about how she meets Steve Trevor and leaves the island, but revolves primarily around the bonds between Diana, her mentor Xanthe, and Xanthe's younger sister Cynna. The script opens cold in a flashback of Diana and Cynna being trained around the age 10:

CLICK HERE FOR "PRELUDE"


After that, there are scenes introducing Steve, an Air Force pilot specializing in clandestine transportation of high-value diplomatic assets. While flying from the United States to a sensitive mission in Bialia, Steve's plane's engines go dead and he crashes off the shore of Themiscyra. He is rescued by Diana, brought before Hippolyta and grudgingly accepted while he can make repairs. While there, Diana and Cynna prepare to endure the rites of an Amazon Warrior. These scenes kick off the second act proper and really delve into the heart of the film's themes (that unfortunately won't really be paid off in any of the scenes I'm sharing here).

CLICK HERE FOR "RITES"

 

Diana, Cynna, and Xanthe accompany Steve to Man's World, where he intends to introduce them to the world stage after completing his mission. But while he has been stranded, the situation in Bialia has deteriorated and all out war looms. This last short scene is around the middle of the second act, with plenty of story (and drama) planned for the third... But it's important because it shows the altered relationship between Steve and Diana, and what I consider to be some of her unique challenges as a character, but also what makes her so special.  It's important to note that Diana is now wearing the red-white-and-blue armor according to the Amazong tradition of honoring their host nation by wearing their colors.  (In a later scene, she addresses the UN in a white and blue version, and theoretically would wear the colors of whatever nation she was visiting in an official capacity).

CLICK HERE FOR "THIS IS A MAN'S WORLD"

 

Suffice it to say: Ares is behind the conflict and our heroes come to face him, but there are several wrinkles that tie back to the Amazons, and what their bonds really are, and what they mean.

Maybe I'll lay it all out there if people want to know the full story, but I'll hold back on the details now in case I do decide to finish this and maybe release it in a more complete form. All that aside, thanks for reading. I usually don't do this sort of thing, but if you like it (or even if you don't, but want to discuss it in a reasonable and constructive way), sound off in the comments.  

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Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 12/2/2015, 3:02 AM
@dethpillow
you don't have any Spidey laying around do you?


Not really. Did write an outline for a comic to undo One More Day (when the wound was still fresh), but when I write stuff like this, it's my way of exploring characters I'm not as familiar with, trying to figure out what makes them work and what kind of world I'd like to see them in. I tend to play a little loose with the canon (though generally more faithful than the real films, I think).

I have some Green Lantern stuff I was really enjoying, really digging down into Hal and Carol's relationship and playing with the rules of the Corps to make the whole organization more mysterious and alien. A core concept was "cultural quarantine". That an idea can be as infectious as any disease and could cause unknown chaos to a species that wasn't ready for it.
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 12/2/2015, 3:02 AM
And I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 12/2/2015, 3:28 AM
He continues to stare at Hal for a moment, until a thought breaks his trance and he turns away.

TOMAR RE (CONT’D)
I am sorry, Jordan. It’s frowned upon for a Lantern to take an interest in alien biology.

HAL
I don’t mind. I guess I would have thought you’d get tired of that sort of thing. You must meet... aliens all the time

TOMAR RE
Yes, but... I was a scientist before, and there is so much out there. Most races aren’t ready, so we have to keep a distance. Even among the Lanterns there are rules.

Even as he recites the argument, it’s clear that Tomar Re isn’t completely convinced of it.

TOMAR RE
Cultural quarantine. An idea can be as infectious as any pathogen, and everyone is afraid of what they might pass on.

HAL
I’m not sure I’m buying that one, but okay...

Tomar Re becomes much more serious.

TOMAR RE
Years ago, I discovered a dead world in my sector that had been recently inhabited by intelligent beings. As far as I could tell, they seemed to be peaceful philosophers and artisans. No weapons at all. Yet, every single one of them had been killed without an obvious cause.

HAL
Some kind of plague?

TOMAR RE
The remains I found suggested starvation, but they seemed to have abundant stockpiles of food. I mentioned it to a Lantern who had been an archaeologist, and she took an interest. She studied the ruins for weeks. She told me that they had built great libraries for centuries, then suddenly turned all of their attention to constructing a single enormous monument. And when it was finished, their society just stopped. They just stopped. There was something written on it that she couldn’t quite decipher.

One day, I found her lying in the sand in front of it. She’d taken off her ring and asphyxiated in the alien atmosphere. Whatever that monument says, whether its a story or a poem or a proof, it makes people unwilling to live with the knowledge of it. If someone were to spread it, by accident, by chance, it could kill another world.

Hal is speechless. It turns out the universe was far more dangerous than he’d ever imagined.

TOMAR RE (CONT’D)
The Guardians ordered the monument destroyed and the libraries burned.

To this day, I often find myself wondering what it said. I was a scientist, Jordan. Part of me wants to know, but I also understand that it’s better that we don’t.

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And then Hal proceeds to flagrantly violate that rule, because it's a story and American Humans believe in Freedom (guitar riff).

The overarching story was basically about how Hal crashed his car drunk and left Carol paralyzed the night he discovered the ring, and was using the Corps and the conspiracy of Abin Sur's death to run from his real world problems. With the only aliens he encounters being Tomar Re and Sinestro, and spending the majority of the story on Korugar and Hal sticking his nose into Sinestro's world's civil war.
CombatWombat
CombatWombat - 12/2/2015, 6:59 AM
I'm gonna have to bookmark this for later. Will definitely check it out when I have more time.
CombatWombat
CombatWombat - 12/2/2015, 8:40 PM
Yeah, you definitely have an idea of what you're doing @Spock0Clock
Do you do any original stuff as well?
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 12/3/2015, 7:22 AM
@CombatWombat

A bit. It's always harder to write from scratch than it is to start from someone else's foundation (and even that's hard enough).
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