The Alpha Project
Bunelly for Aria
Manipulative, power-hungry, and prideful, Aria is Rocky's sister. She is one of my favorite characters since she also has internal conflicts that have to do with what she should be doing with her life. Since she is the daughter of an alpha male, Aria automatically receives a high yield of potential mates. None of what she is interested in because she strives to alter old traditions and cultivate new ones that allow female wolves to not just be looked at as an elite token for breeding, but for leadership as well. She truly believes that she deserves to be the next alpha wolf, but since she is a female, that goal is only a dream she can wish for. It angers her to know that her brother Rocky has been handed royalty on a silver spoon when he does not even want it while she is constantly being told to be put in her place in society. A note reference would be to look at how AZULA is characterized by Avatar The Last Airbender. Not necessarily sound the same, but rather take into consideration how she presents herself in front of others.
I currently do not have an official script written for this project. But I do have a rough draft I made that showcases some tension between ROCKY with his sister ARIA. Some background: Rocky had just found out that Aria has been disguising herself as him during training and manipulated him into thinking it was a couple of days away. A friend of Rocky's has been injured because of Aria's aggressive behavior during training in which she wasn't even supposed to be at.
ROCKY: (Coldly) “What did you do?”
ARIA: “I do things every day, you’ll have to be more specific than that.”
ROCKY: “You know posing as me isn’t going to do you any good. In case you forgot father doesn’t want you to be the next alpha.”
ARIA: (Smirks) “Oh, but once he sees it’s me he’ll change his mind.”ROCKY: “You’re delusional. It’s not like him to change his mind. Tradition has me next in line. He believes that, and so does everyone else.”
ARIA: “Rocky. You don’t even want to be the next alpha. Why are we arguing?”
ROCKY: “Why? Because you hurt my friend!”ARIA: “And what are you going to do about it? Tell dad? I don’t know about you, but I’ve been training these last few days with everyone else. He’s going to ask where you’ve been all this time if you weren’t training.”
ROCKY: “You’d be in just as much trouble. You’re not even allowed to be training.”
ARIA: “Maybe. But I think I've been making myself productive unlike you. When dad inevitably finds out that it was me, and you weren’t training, I’d be thrilled to tell him that you were playing in the meadow with Bunn Bunn and Bambi.”
ROCKY: “It'll all be over tomorrow.”
ARIA: “I just find it funny that the only time father is happy with you, is when it was actually me all along. If that doesn’t say something about you I don’t know what does. Goodnight brother.”
ARIA finally reveals herself in front of the entire wolfpack that she had been posing as ROCKY. This is a very important moment for ARIA since this is the first time she discussed going against tradition and declares to adopt new ones. ARIA is speaking out and attempting to gather other pack members to accept her as the next alpha wolf.
“I am in the same bloodline as my brother, yet you all decide to choose him as the next alpha simply because of tradition. I am living proof that tradition needs to change. Our sisters need to stop being condescended and need to have the same opportunities as our brothers. What keeps a species from going extinct is their ability to change and adapt over time. I believe that if we keep our close-minded traditions, our pack will cease to exist. I, Aria, daughter of Elena and Ulric, would be honored to serve as this pack's new alpha, and lead us with not what has always been done, but lead us with new ideas on what should and needs to be done.”
more to come
