The Color Of Static

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    --header-title: "Pseudogenesis Productions";
    --header-subtitle: "Art Imitates Life";
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[[include :scp-wiki:theme:darkqueer]]
[[include :scp-wiki:component:screenplay]]
[[module css]]
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Vast+Shadow&display=swap');

.staticTransition {
    background-image: url(https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/pseudogenesis-productions-hub/Vhs_Glitch-cropped-flipped.gif);
    background-position-x: center;
    background-clip: border-box;
    width: 100%;
    height: 4em;
    overflow: hidden;
    background-size: cover;
    padding: 0em 1.5em;
    margin-left: -1.5em;
}

div#extra-div-1 {
    height: 150px;
    background-image: url('http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/local--files/theme:queerstyle/Pseudogenesis_Logo_Flatter.png');
}

:root {
    --header-title: "Pseudogenesis Productions";
    --header-subtitle: "Art Imitates Life";
}

#header h1 a::before, #header h2 p{
    font-size: 0.7em;
    font-family: "Vast Shadow", serif !important;
}

@media only screen and (max-width: 600px) {
    #header h1 a::before, #header h2 p{
        font-size: 0.6em;
    }
}

#header h1 a::before {
  line-height: 1;
  position: relative;
  top: -0.5lh;
}

@media (max-width: 415px) {
  #header h1 a::before {
    top: -1lh;
  }
}


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[[module CSS]]
:root
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[[>]]
[[module rate]]
[[/>]]

[[div class="script"]]
+ THE COLOR OF STATIC
+ A MONOLOGUE BY FAEOWYNN WILSON
[[/div]]

[[div class="script"]]
+++ int. blackbox

THE STAGE begins in darkness, as all house lights FADE DOWN.

A LIGHT turns on overhead, creating a spotlight on the stage over a GIANT CATERPILLAR.

THE GIANT CATERPILLAR wriggles about aimlessly on the stage.

+ Fae (vo)
As a child, my father fell in love with caterpillars. He always preferred them to any other animal.

THE LIGHT turns off. A second spotlight appears, center stage. Two MANNEQUINS, one small and one tall, stand in THE LIGHT. They watch THE GIANT CATERPILLAR move about aimlessly. 

+ Fae (cont.) (vo)
It's only natural that as an extension of his love for them, he called me "his little caterpillar" when I was born, a nickname he continued to call me for years...

THE SECOND SPOTLIGHT turns off. The stage remains in darkness.

+ Fae (cont.) (vo)
... Even after I had emerged from my chrysalis, having completed my metamorphosis. 

++++ SCENE CHANGE:

THE LIGHTS burst into COUNTLESS BUTTERFLIES, which fly around the theater producing flashes of colored lights as they sail through the air. After a minute, they return to THE LIGHTS overlooking the stage. 

+++ int. blackbox

+ Fae (vo)
But let's go back a little bit, to when I was still in my chrysalis. I had recently graduated high school; having had to be homeschooled for the last two years of it because I was a walking target for being openly trans. I went from San Diego and off to NYC for college to study accounting. Not my dream, but I was good at numbers and it was a high-paying job so my mother encouraged me to pursue it. It was there that I met someone. Let me tell you about it.

A spotlight turns on, illuminating a green cocoon with the silhouette of an adult MANNEQUIN within it. The cocoon pulses.

+ Fae (cont'd) (vo)
Girl meets boy. Boy tells girl she's beautiful. Girl believes him. Girl takes off her clothes. Boy wants her for what she's packing. 

A SECOND MANNEQUIN appears behind the cocoon. It attempts to rip the green silk to get to the FIRST MANNEQUIN within the cocoon.

+ Fae (cont'd) (vo)
It was my first sexual experience, the first time I felt wanted, and I never felt more disgusting in my life. 

The SECOND MANNEQUIN's hand enters the cocoon, but is dissolved. The cocoon closes itself up again as the SECOND MANNEQUIN  disappears. 

+ Fae (cont'd) (vo)
It wasn't all bad, though. I did meet friends. 

A LIGHT shines on stage right, where A BOULDER in the shape of a cocoon sits. 

+ Fae (cont'd) (vo)
Her name was Katie. It wasn't always, and I could only call her that when it was just us two, but I'm grateful I found her. We would go out and drink coffee at any of NYC's plurality of coffee shops and talk about books we were reading. It formed a lifelong interest in writing for me, which I have pursued [[[escapism-hub|self-publishing]]] for. 

The LIGHT turns off.

+ Fae (cont'd) (vo)
We graduated. I went back home to my mother who was dying of cancer. My father would not face her.

The LIGHTS turn back on, revealing three MANNEQUINS; two on center stage, one is in visible disrepair and is laying on a bed, being comforted by the second, and the third is walking off-stage left.

+ Fae (cont'd) (vo)
I held her hand as she died. And my father? He was too busy working. Chasing his dream. Working with animals, you know the type.
++ (laughing)
I guess now it's my dream too.

The LIGHTS turn off once more. 

+ Fae (cont'd) (vo)
But again, it's not all that bad. Had it not been for me following my father up to Oregon to demand answers, I wouldn't have learned about this magical world we live in. I wouldn't have met the love of my life. I wouldn't have found greater purpose.

The LIGHTS turn on one last time. The stage is empty. FAE walks onstage from stage right.

+ Fae (cont'd) 
Women like me don't get invited onto //The Vagina Monologues//. For this reason, I would like to thank my friend Duplo for helping me put on this vent piece, //"The Color of Static"//, for all of you tonight. I would like to thank my wonderful fiancé Alex. I would also like to thank some people who are no longer with us; my father Tim, my mother Audrey, and my old friend [[[because-of-the-shame|Katie Calhoun]]]. That's right, she is why we are gathered here tonight.
++ (she sighs)
All proceeds from tonight's ticket sales will go towards sponsoring transgender youth to have a place to live at and a job for the summer at my NPO, Wilson's Wildlife Solutions, for our initiative, Katie's Gift. Thank you. Please enjoy the rest of the show, Pseudogenesis Productions has a great selection of one-act plays, monologues, and performances for you tonight. And once more, thank you for entertaining my monologue.
++ (she bows)
[[/div]]

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