After the talk with Phil and Montynero, my concept for The Jean Djinni was brought up as the most original and interesting. The idea is that a Djinn (Genie) has found their bottle has ended up in an Edinburgh pub, and must now deal with this new home and its patrons. This was originally first created as part of the Memorable Characters brief from Animation last year - and while it didn't fit that brief, it was an idea I enjoyed and kept as something to work on. It would essentially be my 'Hellblazer' - a supernatural story set in Britain, the main characters investigating paranormal goings on to find out, if Genies are real, what other myths and monsters might be. This version is a kind of prequel to that story, showing the first time the Djinn has had any real interacting with people in the pub. Initially, it was quite hard to think of a scenario due to being the series idea being very much stuck in my head - however, a suggestion from Montynero of having someone drink the Djinn by accident got the ball rolling. Again, as it's an existing idea, there were already drawings and notes to work from, so once I know exactly what the story I was drawing would be (plus snippets of previous and ideas thrown in) the look was already sorted and not much more research had to be done into the characters. Some more will be done soon, just to double-check some of the lore to do with Djinn and some references as this will be set in 80s Edinburgh.
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