Wilderment

I hope to one day make this an animated tv show, but to do that I will need your help❤️. I want this show to be fun and give the same feeling that Keath Ósk has for their community. I would love to add a musical aspect of folk music and have regional variations for each area (country) on the map that take inspiration from real world folk songs, from: (these are areas of the top of my head) Angelo-Saxon, Nordic, Native American, and many more from different regions from all over the world (if you know one, please tell me the song and the country and people of origin). But also I want this show to tackle hard themes and bring to light real experiences in a good way that actually represents people. But I cannot do that alone, I’ll need your experiences and stories. As well as your perspective on how a story can actually show the effects of these harsh themes. I can only give so many experiences like mental health, growing up in and out of hospital, being lgbt, etc. but some themes I cannot tackle like racism, i have never faced hard discrimination for it as I am white and privileged in that sense so I need other peoples experiences of every race to help me understand this perspective and create characters and narrative that can highlife these struggles in a way that connects people and makes them feel heard. I know that’s experiences I like to connect with in my struggles so I can imagine for racial injustice seeing the idea of rising up and trying to fight for a better life would also be connecting

My idea for this part of the show would have 2 countries with group A (light skinned fish people) and group B (the darker skinned fish people). Their character designs try to grab at the condition vitiligo in a much simplified sense of patches (it makes it easier to animate but if this is a problem then I’d love suggestions on how to do it better) as well as these glow with music to push the idea that music runs deep in people’s lives (especially with trauma and escapism). Group A will be shown as a tyrannical government that spreads propaganda about group B to give fear to their people and make them racist, while also portraying themselves as the victims and good guys to the rest of the world. This gives war to group B’s country as it gets plunged into poverty, destruction and danger. The first main character will be a child called Mira, we will see her first run really young on a battle field to try flee but get knocked out, before following a teenage version of a masked Mira, hardened and emotionally disconnected. She will then stubble on a member of group A impaled to a tree, this character will be racist but she will be heavily reliant on Mira and eventually help them to break down the racist conventions of their countries and live peacefully (maybe they eventually fall in love, idk). But the idea is to show hardship and then growth to tell people in the real world, you may have been taught this thing but it’s wrong and you can still change for the better

Some of the themes I want to include are: racism, homophobia, poor mental health, tyrannical governments, religious power and freedom, native oppression and many more I have not yet thought of.