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The Underdog, is a psychological mystery set at a bus stop during a rainy night in London. After a chance encounter with a mysterious woman called, 'Jake', she begins to tell you, the reader, a story about her life, and something inside you feels inclined to listen – as though you’ve heard her stories before; somewhere deep inside your own soul.
You listen on, following Jake throughout the night as the world around you begins to dull out.
With an unending rain, The Underdog, keeps you trapped in Jake's drowning reflection of London, leaving you as a bystander to watch Jake be consumed by the guilt of grief and blame she feels for her past. The only difference, is that this time, you may have a chance to change things - a chance to save at least one of you.
Will you let the underdog continue the cycle of self-punishment, or will you take her place at the bottom of the lake?
Development sketches of the underdogs
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Creating Jake
The Underdog acts to create an interpersonal dynamic between the reader and Jake; because of, The Underdogs', use of 2nd perspective, with terminology such as, “You reach over the counter”, and “You take a deep breath”, it puts the reader in the same scene with Jake.
She talks, and acts, as if she is talking to you. The Underdog, is a lived experience for its readers, making whatever happens in the story personal to you.
Alternative cover designs for The Underdog
Jake, our protagonist, has unconfronted grief - the traumatic events she’s experienced in her past have not found any resolutions.
As far as she is concerned, her trauma doesn’t affect her daily life; she believes that though she’s never confronted her past, she is capable of living with it.
This is polarizing to what the reader sees in Jake after meeting her; witnessing instead a woman completely under the control of her past, to the point where she doesn’t even acknowledge it as the root cause of her depression.
Leaving it to us, as both the reader and a friend, to help her.
Development sketches of the underdogs
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