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Da Ogre (39)
Project: Family movie (“The Journey”)
Known as: Da Ogre
Real name: Dorian Alexander Ogreton
Group affiliation: None
Physical description: Da Ogre is, well, an ogre. He’s eight feet tall, cartoonish muscular, and dark orange. His head is abnormally large for his body and he has very little neck visible. He has two black ram’s horns that curl around his ears and stick out past his chin. His lower canines are huge and their tips are even with his nose (which is tiny – basically just two holes). He carries a rough club that looks like it just might have been a small tree ripped out of the ground.
Personality: Da Ogre is vicious, roaring monster. At least to what he considers easy prey. He is quite refined and proper with those he considers powerful.
History: When Grant, Eri, and Kana get back to Grant’s apartment, Eri takes some time trying to charge or somehow get the broken smart phone from Uncle Lynn to work. After some time, she gives up and leaves it to study. Kana curiously picks up the smart phone, and it begins to glow. It then begins to shake and she drops it. It then begins to blaze with light and Kana calls to her family.
When Grant and Eri arrive in the room, the phone is in the middle of the room with a large energy vortex surging from it. Kana desperately grasping the edge of a couch as the vortex attempts to pull her in. Everything loose in the room is flying about. Eri without hesitation leaps to the other end of the couch and starts making her way to her sister. Grant, entering seconds after Eri is stunned and confused.
Eri calls to her sister to hold on while Kana cries for help. Grant tells them he’ll get something to help, takes a step away, but immediately returns as he’s at a loss on what to get. He holds the door frame and tries to reach out to the couch which has started to slide. Eri reaches her sister and grabs her wrist and uses her other arm to grab the back of the couch. The couch begins to slide more and the other edge of it moves past Grant’s reach. The couch tips forward and both girls yell as they are pulled into the vortex and vanish.
Grant stands agape for a moment and glances around utterly confused. He calls to the girls then notices the vortex is starting to shrink. He reaches out a hand and hesitates. He then swallows hard and dives to the vortex and vanishes.
After a crazy trip through a mystical portal, on a wooded hill a couch suddenly falls from the sky and lands with a crash. Two young women soon follow and land on the couch before bouncing off. Moments later, their father hits the ground with a grunt, missing the couch. A couch cushion falls a moment later, hitting Grant in the face. The stunned people get to their knees and stare at each other. Grant begins to speak only for what he was going to say to be drowned out by a deafening roar and a crash of something large moving through the woods. Without comment the three begin running away from the sound.
A large wooden club crashes down on the couch shattering it. It is held by Da Ogre, which again bellows and begins running after the people. Running through the forest, Grant begins to fall behind. He yells, “Keep running!” and then mutters under his breath “when did both of them get faster than me?” Da Ogre meanwhile is running through the forest like a wrecking ball, roaring the whole time. Kana, running full tilt, trips and falls hard. Her sister several steps ahead hears her fall and turns around. Grant nearly collides with both of them. Spinning around, he sees Da Ogre run up and raise his club above them. Uselessly, Grant stands in front of his daughters and throws up his arm to block the blow.
One of the girls yells, “Daddy!” and in a flash of light Grant is transformed. He becomes larger and is covered from head to toe in shining silver armor. A great shield appears on Grant’s outstretched arm and Da Ogre’s club splinters against it. Grant and his shield do not move an inch. Da Ogre, surprised, looks at the remaining stub of his club then down at Grant.
“My liege,” Da Ogre says (in a rich English accent), as he kneels before Grant. “Terribly sorry about that. Are you injured? Of course not – a feeble blow such as I can manage would not trouble King Granite. You see I was…ah…defending the realm against what I assumed to be interlopers. It is not as if I was pursuing what I thought to be easy prey, or anything along those lines. No sir – I remember you forbad eating people, quite clear on that. But, well, interlopers, you understand. The consumption of interlopers is something we should discuss at your leisure.”
Grant stands motionless, looking up at Da Ogre.
Da Ogre scratches his chin, and says “Should I perhaps…”
Grant interrupts him “Go.”
“Of course, of course,” Da Ogre bows his head a final time and rises to leave. “Delightful to see you, my liege, regardless of the circumstances.”
Da Ogre stomps off. King Granite melts away into mist, leaving only Grant behind. He and the girls look at one another, dumbstruck.
Role in the narrative: Da Ogre provides some action and shows that the realm they have landed in is not completely safe. Grant’s transformation into King Granite will at first make Grant believe the Journey is somehow about him. He will later learn that he only becomes King Granite when one of his daughters believes in him the way she did when she was a small child. This will convince Grant that the Journey is about him restoring his daughters’ faith in him (he’ll be wrong again).
Abilities: Fabulously strong, incredibly hungry, and fairly eloquent.
Inspirations: Grant and his shield reminds me of Captain America taking a hit from Thor in the Avengers (I was going to have Da Ogre knocked over by a backlash of energy until I realized that was a rip off). The monster not quite being what he seems at first has been used lots of times (the Snowman offering snow cones in Monsters, Inc. comes to mind).
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