Step 9 - Reward (Seizing The Sword)
Vogler says at this point the hero should have survived death and the ordeal, being cause of celebration for both hero and audience. The hero gets her reward.
Which is fine but basically flies in the face of what I was imagining the outcome of the ordeal to be. In my mind I was imagining the crux of my stories ordeal to be dark and horrific, you know in that funny and entertaining the light side of rape kind of way I was discussing for step 5.
So what is Emily's reward for having helped the faeries fight the gnomes? I guess one reward is she can help them access the gateway to the other world. God knows what that will mean for my story? Plus I didn't mention it earlier but at some point I wanted to explore the notion that this really wasn't a story of good vs. evil but rather a story of one side vs. another.
I think whatever reward comes from all of this, at least at this point in the story it should be majorly tainted. I think i've gone off track somewhere in regards to Voglers teachings.
Vogler and those godless executives at Disney would be most displeased.
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