Starcrossed story
An escaped alien finds love while hiding out on Earth.
10 total · 6 major · 4 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| extraterrestrial being | major | Mary was an escaped alien who was hiding out on Earth with Joey's help. |
| facing organized pursuit | major | Mary the Alien was being pursued by both enemy aliens and federal agents. |
| learning about a foreign culture | major | Joey tutored the escaped alien Mary in the ways of human culture, including everything from eating habits to lovemaking. |
| romantic love | major | Mary the Alien and Joey fell passionately in love. |
| star-crossed lovers | major | Mary the Alien and Joey's love was not to be as Mary had to go back to her planet to lead the fight for her people's freedom. |
| the need for freedom | major | Mary the Alien and her people had been deprived of their freedom by their conquerers. Mary escaped to Earth but ultimately decided to return to her world to fight for the freedom of her people. |
| hope | minor | Mary the Alien and Joey agreed that they'd never give up hope of seeing one another again before parting ways. |
| speculative spaceship | minor | Mary the Alien left in a strange one-person spaceship built out of neon lights with no walls. |
| telekinetic ability | minor | Mary the Alien made a bunch of pool balls move into their pockets by the simple expedient of concentrating on them one by one. This was the first of various telekinetic feats performed by Mary. |
| telepathic ability | minor | Mary the Alien telepathically transmitted knowledge to Joey's mind that she was being held by federal agents. |