Panel 1. The small apartment is dark. Sidney Faulkner was knelt on a knee; short black hair neatly styled to compliment the two out of three-piece suit he wears. His hazel eyes are looking beyond the ring box he extends.
Panel 2. Maeliana Hughes wears her golden hair in a simple braid. She is dressed down in an oversized t-shirt and pajama pants. Her blue eyes are wide as they focus on the ring box.
Panel 3. Sidney opens the box. The ring sparkles faintly in the lack of light. Maeliana’s eyes shine in return.
Sidney
Mae… will you be my wife?
Panel 4. [BLACK]
[description]
4 months earlier…
Panel 5. Maeliana sits on a rooftop at dusk. She wears heavy, dark leathers trimmed in baby blue, and a dark wig attached to a mask that exposes her eyes, nose, and mouth; her Ouija outfit. She holds a scope to her eye, looking down.
Panel 6. In the scope, two big, brutish men stalk around outside a battered and spray painted door.
Panel 7. Maeliana lowers her scope.
Maeliana [v.o.]
Same guys that guarded the last place I busted.
Panel 8. Maeliana attaches a pully to her chest piece.
Panel 9. Maeliana jumps off the roof, controlling how quickly she falls using the pully.
Panel 10. Maeliana’s black boots with extra grip hit the asphalt.
Panel 11. Maeliana unhooks the pully and flung a smoke grenade at the guards in one smooth movement.
Panel 12. Maeliana got behind them in the confusion, knocking Thug One to the ground with a step on the back of the knees.
Panel 13. Maeliana holds a fake pistol to the back of Thug Two.
Maeliana [hoarsely]
Long time, boys.
Panel 14. Maeliana presses the pistol harder, twisting the wrist of Thug Two.
Maeliana [hoarsely]
You want to talk about Red Star this time?
Panel 15. Thug One points a gun at Maeliana and Thug Two. Maeliana chuckles.
Maeliana [hoarsely]
Can we not? You’ll only hit him and free me up to shoot you.
Thug One
You could miss.
Maeliana [hoarsely]
From two feet? Not probable.
Panel 16. Thug One lowers his gun. Maeliana keeps her twist on Thug Two tight.
Thug One
A red star… That’s the logo for—.
Maeliana [hoarsely]
You know I’m not asking about a logo.
Panel 17. Maeliana taps the fake gun against Thug Two’s shoulder blade.
Maeliana [hoarsely]
I got places to be. Red Star. Woman. Pays you.
Thug Two
Yer gon twist off my hand!
Maeliana [hoarsely]
Then talk about Red Star!
Panel 18. Thug One and Thug Two exchange a look.
Thug One
We don’t know much.
Thug Two
Woman. Speaks NL creole mostly.
Thug One
Seen her at distance once or twice in the six years we’ve been working.
Thug Two
We too low on the food chain.
Panel 19. Maeliana drops a smoke bomb. She releases Thug Two.
Panel 20. Maeliana is hooked to the pully and up the building before the smoke clears.
Panel 21. Maeliana runs over a few close rooftops to create distance.
Panel 22. Maeliana crouches behind an abandoned billboard on a condemned building, pulling a backpack from an old crate.
Panel 23. The dark wig and mask are shoved into the backpack.
Panel 24. The dark leather top is stuffed into the backpack.
Panel 25. Maeliana shoulders the backpack and pulls out a cell phone.
Panel 26. Maeliana’s feet hit the sidewalk as the phone picks up.
Maeliana
Hey, Lu, you got a sec to look something up?
Luelle [o.s.]
I thought you and Sidney were at dinner?
Panel 27. Maeliana halts. Her expression is dread.
Luelle [o.s]
Mae? You there?
Maeliana
I forgot.
Luelle [o.s.]
Oof.
Panel 28. Maeliana pulls her phone away to check the time.
Luelle [o.s.]
That reservation was at least three weeks in advance, wasn’t it?
Maeliana
And it’s two hours since the seating time.
[beat]
You know that address I sent you a few days ago?
Panel 29.
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Clearly, I forgot what was going on/lost interest. This one says last modified July 31, so my brain was tired a lot. This was my second attemt for Maeliana stuff, this one in script/comic format. Two struggles I have with Mae stuff is figuring out what the first issue/chapter would be, and balancing the personal/hero stuff. When I first came up with her, she was going to be established hero and career wise, early to mid 30s, with a child (baby or toddler, I forget which), and starting divorce talks. But, I really like watching heroes become heroes and watching relationships build up, so she was aged down to 18 so I could work on her Year One. You just don't start with Year One typically.
