Wednesday, 13 May 2015

The updated hero's journey

Ordinary world
Jinx is at a fairground with her best friend and decides to go and get a psychic reading. 
Meeting with the mentor/goddess
The psychic Jinx goes to see tells her she has a very special gift for ‘bringing the too early and tragically departed back from the dead’
Call to adventure
Psychic tells Jinx that she will need her power very soon. 
Refusal of the call
Jinx calls the psychic crazy and does not believe she has this power, she leaves the tent angrily. 
Apotheosis
Jinx and her best friend get into their car and are in a car accident in which Jinx’s best friend is killed.
The road of trials
Jinx unaware of what to do to bring her friend back to life dais to do this. She attends her friends funeral. Jinx is devastated. 
Crossing the threshold
Jinx, distraught and unaware of what to do returns to the psychic to try to understand what she meant, in an act of desperation, to bring her friend back.
Initiation
The psychic tells Jinx she knew she would return and starts her training for her to bring her friend back. She tells Jinx to not question her and to trust that everything she says will lead to her friend coming back. She starts Jinx off by trying to get her to feel her energy, the energy that will eventually allow her to resurrect herd friend. 
The belly of the whale
Jinx practises resurrection on dying plants and flowers restoring them to their healthy selves, she then practises on completely dead plants restoring them to health. This happens over a series of weeks.
Supernatural aide
Jinx is frustrated with the psychic telling her nothing that she has learned will allow her to be able to go back in time and be able to save her friend, the psychic informs Jinx that she is not the only one who has a gift. The psychic can turn back time for very special cases such as this one. 
Approach to the innermost cave
Jinx tells the psychic she is ready to go back in time and bring back her friend. She is scared though, to relive the accident. 
Atonement with the father
Jinx returns in time right as the accident happens, she is afraid that the same thing will happen and she will not be able to bring back her friend but she allows herself to feel the energy inside her that brings back her friend.
The ultimate boon
Jinx is able to resurrect her friend. 
The road back
Jinx and her friend are safe, and relieved that they are both aright. 
Master of two worlds
Secretly Jinx knows that she has mastered her ability. 
Freedom to live
Jinx returns to the psychic who congratulates her but tells her to use her power only when completely necessary. 

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