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Jul 22, 2016 Exploration Programs Conversation

Meet Raphael from Brazil

Raphael is an ambitious and purposeful learner, who wants to be prepared to write a trilogy after he has completed his courses here at Explo.

Mari Armei

Raphael is an ambitious and purposeful learner, who is preparing to write a trilogy after he has completed his courses here at Explo. He talks about his ideas and where it all began.


I am taking more of writing-type classes, but I still play my guitar. I take Rock Performance to play in a group, and Fantasy Writing and Action + Plot because I have a trilogy in my mind that I want to write. I wanted to get some inspiration and find out more about how to write epic scenes.

The trilogy is about time travel. The first book is about a guy who is from the future, and demons have conquered the whole planet because of human mistakes. The guy from the future was sent back in time to fix these mistakes. The second one uses a stone that allows time travel, where a cop tries to solve a murder, but in order to do that he has to go the past, and by doing that, he messes up the timeline. It gets complicated. The third one is the most sci-fi. It’s when our universe is at the end of our capacities of exploration and people have discovered a way to go to a parallel dimension, where they can find other living creatures. By doing that, they kind of break these sort of dimensions and not just time, but everything that exists in every dimension is being broken to little parts. People still use time travel to fix them, but in the end, only one dimension will be stable enough to live. I imagine it would be the universe where we live now, with the world that we live in now.

The idea began from Princess Mononoke. In that film, there is a god of all nature, and people want their head. I don’t get why they want the head itself — it is like a prize of a hunt. Does it include all of the creature itself? I would say it’s more in the heart. And as a god of nature… Nature involves in itself so many great things. It kind of defies even time itself. I imagine the whole power of nature residing in one stone that is the heart of that god. And the god actually died, but the heart still remained. That’s where I got the inspiration for the stone [for time travel].

I’m still learning here [at Explo]. I am going to take the whole time in my courses to be fully prepared to write the books. But not only that, I want to make friends and enjoy my courses.

Mari Armei