Peter and Ellie Vs The World (cancelled)

Peter and Ellie Vs The World was an unfinished pencil-and-paper comic serial that served as the precursor to the Action/Comedy webcomic series Team Season With Superpsion, and was inspired by John MIlton's *Paradise Lost.* The serial's artwork was done by Thundermoth, while the story was written by an anonymous student at his art school. It had a similar plot to its successor, but its location, story details and characters were heavily different. The serial, which was aimed at teens and adults, was developed in September 2017, and was intended to run from November of 2017 to April of 2019. However, the project was scrapped in December of 2017 after Thundermoth, or "Moth" got tired of its random plotlines, the effort taken to produce a single issue, and crude humor, which was far more prevalent than that of its successor series, and decided to use the characters for other projects. As a result of the time and effort taken to produce a single issue, only three issues were ever written. Moth has since stated that though he was developing a one-shot remake of the first episode, he ultimately scrapped this project and is not interested in reviving the rest of the serial.

## Synopsis

In the mid-2000's, angel siblings Peter and Ellie Remiel are cast out of heaven for bad behavior, and must find an artifact called the Hellgate Crystal in order to return. They are sent to Portland, Oregon, where they take up residence in a local mansion under the watchful eye of resident protector spirit Goden Tenshin. With his guidance, the defiant duo are able to receive mandates from heaven that lead them to the whereabouts of various enemies. As it happens, Portland is a town that happens to contain an overabundance of demons, ghosts, and malevolent creatures, as well as a shadowy teenage mastermind by the name of Psychic Fox, who is really troubled psychic teenager Dexter Maxim. While battling Fox's evil minions to retrieve Cipher Scrolls to locate the Hellgate Crystal, and competing with other angels to find it first, Peter and Ellie are constantly sidetracked by their respective interests in men and goth subculture, owing to the fact that they represent Wrath and Lust, respectively.

## Characters

### Protagonists

#### Ellie Remiel

Ellie was the younger of the Remiel siblings. Her age is estimated to have been around 1800 years old, but her apparent age was 18. She was a blue-haired pale-skinned angel who commonly dressed in purple and pink. She is thought of as a "ditzy bimbo" with an uncontrollable desire for men, who enjoyed being an angel solely for the purposes of attracting men. Ellie was reckless and scatterbrained, but also highly lecherous and perverted. She constantly annoyed her brother Peter with her shameless flirting and double entendres. Her name and basic character would go on to be redesigned into Eclipse Season, while her personality was modified until Equinox Season's character was built around it. In battle, she fought with a sword that she concealed in her hairband, although she occasionally wielded a second one using her brother Peter's belt.

#### Peter Remiel (Not to be confused with Peter Minella)

Peter was the older of the Remiel siblings. He was a black-and-red-haired goth angel who wore black, red, dark grey, and similar colors. He was estimated to have been at least one year older than his sister Ellie, and appeared to have been around 19 years old. While he was more level-headed than his sister, he was also overtly rude, aggressive, belligerent, and foul-mouthed. He was heavily antisocial and largely misanthropic, which was based on, but not a carbon copy of, Thundermoth's own worst qualities while growing up. He was annoyed by his sister's uncouthness, and constantly berated her for it. He was also highly focused on learning about and emulating all aspects of goth culture. His design was genderbent to create the overall character design for Eclipse, who also received much of his irascibility and mean-spirited personality, while Winter received his abrasiveness, insolence, and sailor mouth. While Moth was remaking the series to make a special set of characters for his Ink Man comic project, Peter was removed completely. This was because after Eclipse's creation, Moth decided to embody all the Seven Deadly Sins rather than just two, and so the other Season Siblings were created to replace Peter. This was also when Moth decided to make the Season Siblings aliens rather than angels. When Moth decided to give Team Season their own series in the fall of 2019, Peter was completely revamped and reintroduced as Patrick Holliday in the second season of the series, while his first name was given to Superpsion. In battle, Peter fought with a pistol that he converted from his mobile phone, although his sister Ellie would occasionally lend him hers and he would wield it as a second pistol.

#### Goden Tenshin

A highly powerful primordial protector spirit, Goden Tenshin's name was a pun on the term "good intention". He was the Remiel siblings' guide and guardian during their exile on Earth, and acted as a bridge between them and heaven. Tenshin was usually depicted as a petite, irate anthropomorphic dragon whose tail possessed a head capable of speech. Despite his short height and apparent weakness, he was incredibly powerful, but also incredibly ancient. So ancient, in fact, that he apparently witnessed the creation of the human race, Lucifer's exile from heaven, and all of recorded history. As a result, his age was said to rival that of God. Tenshin in fact once stated that he was unsure who was older: himself or God. He would often act as a sort of mailbox for heaven, by standing outside the Remiels' home, getting struck by lightning, then coughing up a newly materialized mandate from heaven, providing the Remiels with a clue to an enemy's whereabouts. He would also wake up the Remiels in the morning, earning him much verbal abuse at their hands, and would speak to them sternly regarding the status of their mission. This was because Tenshin genuinely cared about the Remiels' desire to eventually get back into heaven, and was shocked by their unwillingness to work to find the Hellgate Crystal in order to do so. Though he usually appeared in dragon form, Tenshin also possessed the ability to shapeshift, changing into various human and animal forms for stealth and disguise, going under the alias "Bob" when doing so. Though he was frequently insulted by the Remiels, it was implied that they cared for him very deeply. When the cast of Peter and Ellie Vs The World were being repurposed following the scrapping of the serial, Tenshin was removed along with Psychic Fox, Peter Remiel, and the hellbeasts. However, while all the others would eventually be re-added as different characters in Team Season With Superpsion, an equivalent character for Tenshin does not appear, although Eclipse did receive his diligence for fighting villains and desire to succeed.

### Antagonists

#### Hellbeasts

Hellbeasts, now referred to by Moth as "proto-Metas", were the villains of the week in the serial. They were demonic abominations that devastated huge areas of Portland, and were the precursors that would go on to become the Meta-Villains. A new and random hellbeast would appear in each episode, and many of the designs that Moth came up with during development were downright bizarre. After discarding many as too frightening or too weird, Moth was restricted to those that resembled cliche demons, which was part of what led him to scrap PAEVTW (Peter And Ellie Vs The World) and later remake it as TSWS (Team Season With Superpsion). When the series was redesigned, the hellbeasts were removed, and later replaced with the Meta-Villains when TSWS was in development in October of 2019. This was also when the setting was updated from the mid-2000's to the early 1990's.

#### Psychic Fox

Dexter Maxim, known by his villain name Psychic Fox, was the primary antagonist of the serial. He was a teenage psychic and was the only villain to survive beyond a single issue. He usually dressed in civilian attire, but when acting out donned a stylish tuxedo and an anime-style fox mask, which was painted white with red eyes. Dexter sought vengeance on Portland's citizens for the death of his parents and was a fairly sinister villain if not a very competent one. He was not responsible for the appearance of the hellbeasts, but often took control of them to use for his own ends, although they usually turned on him after his control of them wore off. He was removed when the series was redesigned, and was later reintroduced as Superpsion. Lord Lochindorb ended up replacing Psychic Fox as the main antagonist when TSWS was in development, and the demons were added as a nod to the hellbeasts of the original serial that inspired them.

#### Easter Egg: creation of the Royals

A group of unnamed rich bullies appeared in the concept art in the early phases of the serial's development. While they did not appear in the few completed issues that were written, their designs later inspired the creation of the Royals, although the original designs and characters were radically different from those of the Royals.

## Fate

Peter and Ellie Vs The World is not canon to Team Season With Superpsion. The plots and characters are entirely unrelated except for design purposes, and the serial will not be revived on any platform, as confirmed by Moth. Though Moth has discarded the original, the popular successor series continues on. A one-shot remake of the pilot episode was briefly in the works, but fell into development hell and was never released.