I had a talk with Justin and he suggested that I change the
idea of a wolf as the hero but have it as the villain. Justin also advised that
until I have definitely thought of a name I should not name the characters, and
that the names I used for my last idea sounded too much like sidekicks.
So I started thinking
what parts of the story I could keep and what should go. The first thing that
could stay is that one of Odin’s wolves drinks from the fountain of wisdom and
turns into the villain. Justin said if I am going with animal/ human hybrids I
should have a big strong creature that can go into the hero archetype.
So I looked at a bear as the hero for his strength and size.
As a sidekick I looked at a dragon for its fantasy feel and because it links in
nicely with Viking Fantasy.
My new idea for my story
You have the villain (who may be a
hybrid of a wolf/human) who drinks from the fountain of wisdom and decides to
want to take over Midgard which is land of the giants. So the villain starts
sending out these giants and they attack a small village but luckily they get
stopped by the hero and the sidekick. (Hero may be a bear, sidekick may be a
dragon) After they defend the town they set off to stop the villain from
destroying any other villages.
Okay - wolf as villain makes sense, and bear as hero feels right too; the dragon as sidekick might be a problem, because, if he's a dragon, he'd have to be a rather sweet one, or at least not as powerful as the wolf or the bear, or your trio won't make sense in terms of their weighting. The other thing that's not clear is just how much of a hybrid your animals are. I would look at werewolves obviously for your wolf; for example, Eddie, from The Howling:
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