A Reflection on our 'Create a Monster Group Assignment'

     Creating Scott Lawrence was something I'll always cherish, cheesy, yet true. It was fun and exciting to come up with our character, all of our ideals colliding into something great. Though some of his details didn't come through in his origin story, we came up with more than what was necessary for the simple classroom grade presented to us. Even though it was all a bit rushed, and the drawing was done within 30 minutes, it was something special.
     We made him a teenager with a love for skateboarding, with a open mind and a open heart, a dork who's in love with Micheal Jackson and Madonna, who sings to the seagulls and pelicans during his late nights on the beach after he sneaks out to skatebaord on the abandoned peer.
     We set him in the 1980s so we could cover in him the time period's love of denim, and muted and loud colors alike. We gave him friends, such as Shareen Wiggins, the human girl who soothed his rage, who he later saves from his Father and Grandfather's gruesome past-time, and Emit Hughes, another monster who, unlike the others, didn't shy away from him at the realization that he was made of human and monster parts and limbs, similar to the Frankstein that they learn about in their history classes, the first of their kind.
     We set up a reality around these characters that coincided with their stories, making this a world where Monsters as a whole had become their own race, had come to a sort of peace with humanity as they still lived separate of one another.
     Despite this, Scott's creators and family went out of their way to cause more chaos and tension between man and monster kind, to sink them into old traditions and ways that were long forgotten by most as they stole body parts from the innocent, to make the character that I've grown to love, Scott Lawrence.