Soulthief : a first draft

Abstract

How does one walk forward into the unknown while resisting the temptation to look back? More dangerously, how do we keep from standing still? Whether orphaned too young in an uncaring world, or desperately attempting to power through a career-ending injury, the desire to reach out to the past and wrench it forward to the present can be overwhelming. In the pilot of Soulthief, we kickstart the journey of a terminally-ill girl and a crippled knight in their struggles to regain what they lost in the aftermath of the local evil necromancer’s death. In order to tell their story, I confront my own tendencies towards stagnation in the name of perfectionism as I undertake the task of writing my first ever hour-long teleplay.