The Story

The story, specially the plot is still in development, but the whole idea will be based on a saying, which I don’t know if it’s mexican but I learned it as a child and it is always there whenever I have to make a decision, in spanish it reads “más vale maña que fuerza” and it means that it is better to be smart than strong, it basically talks about being tricky and finding smart ways to solve things instead of rushing and going violent.

The story involves two characters, an old man and a skeleton which will be my version of a grim reaper, inspired on all the history I wrote about before. The skeleton is part of an agency that is in charged of the dead of the living ones, they make all of the paper work for people to die, for whatever reason, when their time is up, they have to sign the deal with the agency. The skeleton is the best of all of the agents, he is fast, smart and mean, he uses modern technology and is always dressed elegantly, like a catrín, but with the skills of a bad-ass secret agent. The old man lives in a small town, inspired in what we call in Mexico “magic towns”, he is quiet, cute and humble, but very very smart.

.... Now the actual story..

The story starts when the skeleton gets the mission to kill the old man, and when the skeleton sees the man he decides to have fun with him as he sees him as an easy target. The skeleton wants to kill the old man with a game, or a trick, something fun, but he didn’t know that the old man is smart enough to avoid his trickery. The skeleton’s ego is compromised now and he takes the challenge of killing the old man in the most awesome and cool way possible... In the end the skeleton will be forced to learn a lesson of humbleness and smartness, realizing that “más vale maña que fuerza”.

Any comments, or name ideas for the old man will be appreciated! (The skeleton is already named)

Fernando