i wanna try a thing, comic posting style eventually
Muppetverse
Babe Strider ala miss piggy's half frog son (his legal name is Babe Hopper, Kermit's family name that got francophised to DeFrog when Babe's great-great-grandparents fled the canadian war of 1812)
a study for intersections of race and culture, as Miss Piggy's family are old money colonialists much the way the humble butcherpigs irl are somewhat of an invasive species to north american lands. sure, miss piggy had to work for her success --
actually hang on we should probably not include cannon muppet celebs, maybe just outline and hint? wink and a nod? shave and a haircut?
Smuppetverse, then.
Could take place some time pre-smartphone, unless there's something to be said about community disconnect fueled by isolationist dopamine-farming.
hell yeah it's gotta be crimesolving noire, except Babe isn't a genius he's just got high LCK and CHR stats and he's not even no copper neither the cops just follow him around catching the stray offenders that babe inevitably ensorcelles into outing themselves
the big bad for the first act could be a muppet cow typhoid mary situ, cow tuberculosis maybe? and the REAL criminal turns out to be one of those shitty raw milk advocates who don't care if their nine year old dies from lung fungus so long as they can brag about prairieLARPing trutherism on the 'gram.
and there's no inciting conflict either, just Babe getting tailed by the private detectives his celebrity smuppet parents hired to keep tabs on him. or maybe babe did crimes as a kid and teen that were so severe as to warrant lifelong surveillance, really terrible crimes like being mixed race and trans. babe makes a friend with one of those prairieLARPers specifically to clown on her with his secret blog, which isn't secret enough because it's titled his full legal name like he really truly believes that's hiding in plain sight
and the detectives or stalkers or whomever are like "that's so many people getting so much TB, probably should be illegal" but
what actually happens is the muppet cows (who were never vaccinated! like why) are upset that they have TB too, so they're already on their way out to a recovery abbey (tb ward) and on the road they pass the cop car that had parked just far enough away that babe wouldn't notice, and the cops aren't there
and the oldest cow she's really suffering, she can't do cardio so good and the prairieLARPers of course aren't taking nobody to no hospitals
the younger cows are passing the cop car and they notice it's a cop car and they ROB the cop car of its guns and there's an entire shootout while the detectives or stalkers or PIs or whomever are taking a mutual shit in the woods holding hands
the cows decimate the larpers, babe flees to find the cops he knows his parents hired to tail him (or the gov assigned to terrorism watch), not because he wants to stop the massacre but because he needs to be clocked as having no involvement whatsoever and thus no reason to arrest or charge (ffs)
the next acts should slowly reveal what it was that Babe DID as a kid to warrant such hypervigilance, parents absent because they were employed in showbiz.
