31 Plays in 31 Days, #13 - "I Have Weathered You All"

So one of the most unexpected reactions I got to the Adonis script was the near universal question of "What happens next?" Pretty much everybody seemed to think that the ending was begging for sequels. While working on THAT cannot be a priority for a long while yet, of course bits and bob of ideas for it have come into my mind. Today's piece is some very, very early noodling on a character relationship for that.

Something that's important to me if this story goes on is that I want Aidan's road to recovery from his history as a rape survivor to be an ongoing process. He's not magically healed by love or purpose or whatever by the end of the first film. Separately from this, I know I would want the main antagonist for the next one to be a general who was on campaign but returns to take command of Rome against the slave revolt. And I had a vague idea that perhaps she could have been one of his old abusers from his past. I'm not a hundred percent set on that, but confronting her in that way could be an interesting way to demonstrate how Aidan's recovery is a process. Not sure yet just how it would work or how it would fit into the larger conflict, but here's some exploration of that. It's very rough-- the language that they would use is consistently difficult for me to nail down, but here goes.

( Day #13 - "I Have Weathered You All" )