STORY DETAILS
Storyline Creation Date:
Idea: 1980s
First known writing: 1980s
Stories:
Horsey & Friends
Horsey & Black Mountain
The Wind
CONTENT WARNINGS
Generic warnings: None.
DISCLAIMERS
None.
STORYLINE HISTORY/INSPIRATION
This is actually two different storylines--Horsey and his friends, and the Wind and his friends--but they were rather similar in style, and I think they were able to cross over, so I've decided to combine them for convenience. I can't recall what inspired the idea of Horsey; with the Wind and his friends (and enemies, such as Volcano--why were the Wind and Volcano enemies?--I don't know), I've already described how I often based entire sets of characters on categories like colors, planets, elements, constellations, etc., so to base a bunch of characters on natural and weather phenomena isn't so odd. I remember also Tornado and Hurricane (Hurricane was just a bigger funnel cloud, I didn't understand hurricanes)...and oddly, aside from Mrs. Wind and the Wind kids, that is ALL I remember. I think Sun was a character but not an important one, weirdly enough.
As best as I can recall, I never wrote any fiction about these guys...I drew comics! These two series were visually based, so the character designs were deliberately kept simple. (Horsey is a literal stick figure...Volcano's eyes are teardrop shapes, simulating lava drips.) There might be one unfinished Horsey comic still extant (featuring Horsey with a speech bubble saying, "I duel you to a fight!"--my dad helped me correct it, changing it to "I challenge you to a duel!" and transforming the speech bubble into a thundercloud with lightning), but I'm not sure, and I don't believe any featuring the Wind survived. There were never a lot of them, and I doubt anything was finished, so, it's not like the world has lost a treasure trove of childhood comics or anything...just saying that there's no written fiction, either.
Both storylines were intended to be more daily slice-of-life stuff, episodic adventures, rather than any coherent, larger plot. I remember coming up with one distinct dramatic plotline for Horsey, however, called something like "Horsey & (or On?) Black Mountain." Black Mountain is an actual location near where my dad worked when I was a kid, but it's not a real mountain, and my Black Mountain had nothing to do with it. This story involved Horsey--an avid mountain climber, as evidenced by the crampons I drew on his hooves--and pals Cindy and Claud (yes, Claud, not Claude) tackling the treacherous mountain in question...now, I don't THINK this mountain was to be portrayed as a living thing like Volcano, but still it seemed to be the antagonist of the story, with Horsey and friends in a melodramatic struggle to reach the peak. There could have been other enemies in the story, I can't recall; it was kind of odd of me to make a bad guy out of an inanimate object (I'd suggest it was more of a chaotic force of nature than a "bad guy," except I doubt my worldview was that nuanced at that age), so that's what stands out to me. I think I made a "movie poster" artwork of the three equine characters climbing the mountain, concerned looks on their faces, as ominous storm clouds loomed overhead...but I never really got around to working on the story itself.
Horsey and the Wind seem to have gotten more actual material devoted to them than most of my early storylines, though again, not much, before I moved on.
RANDOM OBSERVATIONS
Friendship and all the challenges it can conquer. Camaraderie. Teamwork. Imagination. Perseverance. Fortitude and inner strength. Let's go!
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