Melodious Agency has been a passion project for like half a decade now. I started writing it around the same time I started writing Dimension Hoppers. I've been keeping this as a personal project for a while, and haven't really wrote for it for a long time. I think it's been at least a year! I've recently got a lot of inspiration and motivation to work on it because of a certain franchise that was an influence from the start.
What is Melodious Agency? Melodious Agency, or MA as an acronym, is a story about musically-titled agents working together to stop evil from taking over the world or harming innocent people, usually being evil agents. If you can't already tell, Melodious Agency is like a mix of 007 and JoJo's Bizarre Adventures. No, there are no such thing like a stand in MA, but many agents do have powers. If they don't, maybe it's based on something they're good at, something about their background, or something they love. I've tried my best to make all of the agent's names make sense with the context of their character. Every agent has a musical reference, and that's it. (I mean, it's called Melodious Agency.) No other references when it comes to agent names. Whether it be a song, an album, or a band, it's all musical reference.
As a musician myselft, this project quickly became one of my favorite projects. When I listen to music, I always envision a scene, a story, a journey, what have you. Music, not surprisingly, is my biggest source of story ideas. So, why don't I turn the music I listen to into an integral force for a project?
Back when I started writing Melodious Agency, and jotting down the first agent names, I was an outside fan of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. I didn't really get into it fully until last year. But the concepts of JJBA were a massive source of inspiration for MA. I've tried my best to make no same reference that JJBA made. I remember when I wrote the first full story, "Stopping the Cult", in a Discord server, I think someone tried to suggest Agent Weather Report. Do you see the problem here? Also, this project is a big excuse to show off my music taste. {:
There isn't much to read right now as there is for Dimension Hoppers, but I hope you enjoy what's there. -Rafe (RonZak) LaNore
I have over one-hundred agents in the planning document. Please be patient with me. This format will also change at a later date. I need to figure out how to code spoiler tags.
Name Reference: "Igneous" by I Remember 2006
Powers: Anything dealing with fire and lava.
Age: 40s
Gender/Sex: Male, Heterosexual
Marital: Married
Side: Good
Notes: I did not intent for him to be the main character, but it happened quickly.
Name Reference: "Lazuli" by Beach House
Powers: N/A
Age: 30s
Gender/Sex: Female, Unknown
Marital: Single
Side: Good
Notes: She loves lazulies.
Name Reference: "Siberian Khatru" by Yes
Powers: None
Age: Late 30s
Gender/Sex: Male, Hetero
Marital: Married
Side: Good
Notes: He's able to "go through the motions". Ala, even though he has to go through tough shit, he knows he has to get through them, for his family.
Name Reference: "Falling Stars" by Blankenberge
Age: 20s
Gender/Sex: Female, Heterosexual
Marital:
Powers: Being able to fire star projectiles. Small stars.
Side: Good
Name Reference: "Love Shack" by B-52's
Powers: None, but if being rad was a power, he'd be no matched.
Side: Good
Age: Late 20s
Gender/Sex: Male, Asexual
Marital: Single
Notes: He rides a skateboard, can play the saxophone, and wears tie-die.
Name Reference: "Touch-Tone Telephone" by Lemon Demon
Powers: None
Age: 30s
Gender/Sex: Female, Asexual
Marital: Single
Side: Good
Notes: She deals with communication
Name Reference: "Beta Carotene" by Modest Mouse
Powers: None
Age: Late 20s
Gender/Sex: Male, Unknown
Marital: Single
Side: Good
Notes: It's a shame that Beta Carotene was never officially released. It's honestly one of the best Modest Mouse songs.
Name Reference: The album, Kid A, by Radiohead. (Though, his power is based on the song, "How to Disappear Completely".)
Powers: Invisibility; Turning objects and people invisible temporarily.
Age: 20s
Gender/Sex: Male, Asexual
Marital: Single
Side: Good (Though a handful don't trust him)
Notes: He's a quiet individual. He tends to find himself working closely with Agent Baby Vampire. Agent Tetrachromacy hates him. He doesn't know why.
Name Reference: "Baby Vampire Made Me" by Helium
Powers: None, but is very agile
Age: 30s
Gender/Sex: Female, Unknown
Marital: Single
Side: Somehow Good
Notes: No, she is not a vampire, but she loves the vampire mythos. Her weapon of choice is a stake gun. She, uh, really likes hunting people down.
Name Reference: "Tetrachromacy" by King Gizzard [&] the Lizard Wizard
Powers: Seeing ultraviolet light/heat sources.
Age: 20s
Gender/Sex: Male, Heterosexual
Marital: Single
Side: Good
Notes: He despises Agent Kid A.
Name Reference: "Anisina" by Pink Floyd
Powers: None
Age: 30s
Gender/Sex: Female, Unknown
Marital: Divorced
Side: Good
Name Reference: "Sunspots" by Nine Inch Nails
Powers: The unmatched power of the Sun! (Sun-themed powers.)
Age: Late 30s
Gender/Sex: Male, Unknown
Marital: Single
Side: Evil
Notes: He's THE main villain.
So, this is going to be a bit of a haphazard setup. The earliest writings for Melodious Agency have actually been lost and I never got around to writing them, but I need to get to them eventually. These stories will be organized in the way I see them fitting chronologically in the timeline of Melodious Agency's story. That's why you'll see some ???. They're temporary placeholders, if you will.
This is supposed to be where I introduce the main agents, but that's been lost to time. I'll have to rewrite it eventually
The Agency finds out that one of their agents are running a religious suicide cult. Melodious Agency must stop them before it's too late.
[I can't really reveal what this is about, because spoilers.]
There is a mysterious force roaming the streets that are stealing people's souls. Melodious Agency must get to the bottom of it before things get worse.
The Melodious Agency got hit with a crippling cyber-security breach, with several agents' computers getting encrypted. Was this an outside attack, or is there someone doing this from the inside?