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=The Epic of Tomorrow=

Characters
Yannis Theodorelis, Georgios Rossallis, Vassia Strakeli, Rea Mateli, Lizard people

Yannis Theodorelis
Son of Zeus, 17 years of age, renowned for his brute strength and long flowing locks. He grew up in New York City with no knowledge of his relation with the Gods. Yannis lead a normal teenage life, playing sports and hanging out with friends but he often felt that he was somehow different than his peers.

Georgios Rossalis
Son of Hermes and Demeter, 18 years of age, mirroring his father, Georgios is clever and intelligent very deceptive but also kind. Georgios grew up with his family in Olympus and Greek culture. He lived a double life, humanized in Rome but frequently was in contact with his father and surrounding Gods.

Vassia Strakeli
Daughter of Tyche, 17, she was gorgeous, dripping in the most lavish clothing. She valued fate and fortune and grew up with her Mother and muggle father in San Francisco, hidden away in a spacious mansion in the rolling California hills. Tyche hid her godliness from Vassia because she thought it would only expose her to more danger.

Countess Elizard
Supreme leader of the

Rea Mateli
Daughter of Nike, 16, she grew up in a small town outside of Chicago. She was adopted as a baby, but still had a relationship with her birth mother. Over the years Rea became a super athlete, a glorified track star who ironically was on the path to race in the Olympics. She had a kind heart and an athletic gift.

Background
After 200 years of pollution and neglect, the old Greek gods abandoned the Earth leaving the planet deprived of vegetation and making it harder to survive. Complete depletion of the ozone layer leaves the earth a hopeless fiery hellscape. Pockets of humanity still survive in various locations but are quickly fading. Hades sees an oncoming threat for the people of Earth through divine intervention and appeals to the rest of the gods. They decide that they will choose a champion/hero to save the earth. To do this they must choose someone of partial mortal decent to plant a magic seed to resuscitate the entire earth.

The God's Dilemma
The gods agree to select a hero, but none of them can decide on what a modern hero is supposed to be based off of their Homeric ideals. They closely review Homer's works such as The Iliad and create a list of heroic traits. However, they can not find anyone that fits the extensive list on what it means to be a Hero, but instead many candidates who strongly display one of these traits. To attempt to solve this, they prompt a tournament that tests the candidates under pressure.

The Tournament
The gods throw a tournament consisting of four parts testing candidates abilities regarding: strength, rhetoric, knowledge, and likeability. The goal of the tournament is to attempt to pick holistically the best hero for the story. This displays to the audience the pros and cons of each trait homeric of a homeric hero. Meanwhile, the ending is left ambiguous for the audience to make the decision of what is the dominant trait. They begin with a contest of power where the contestants will fight each other with lasers, a weapon none of them are formally trained in, to display their power. The contest involves the potential heroes fighting off not only each other, but also trained laser assassins. Because of his incredible strength,Yannis Theodorelis is the favorite for this event, but bulking muscles can not defeat lasers. Georgios Rossallis wins the contest by using deception and mirrors. The second contest is a debate; Vassia Strakeli wins the contest. The debate is regarding the current the classic topic: should human cloning be legalized? All opponents pose excellent points, yet no point excellent enough to put them as a clear winner. Vassia Strakeli won due to her being the most formally dressed. Thus the judges confusing wearing a suit with having actual knowledge. The third contest is a written test. Although there is no completely accurate test, the test covers a varity of subjects ranging The last contest is a popular vote by all the people in the town; Yannis Theodorelis wins their hearts with her loyalty and merciful spirit.

Results
As each contestant wins one aspect of the tournament, the gods are unable to select one Hero. So, they send all four characters on the journey because they realize that there is not one realistic interpretation of what a hero is. The Gods send down four golden seeds for the heroes to plant. they are tasked with planting one seed in every corner of the Earth. They claim that the seeds will restore the world to its former glory.