The Symphonic Pastures

All characters are pantomime Toons from a cartoon without dialogue, so they rely on music, ballet-like body language, sign language, and subtitle cards

Persephone is a cartoon paint-nymph in charge of keeping it always Spring in the Enchanted Easel, using a magic paintbrush, a palette of limited spring colors, and pastel crayons. She is bored with this responsibility, and wants to experiment with other colors and create other seasons. She’s fascinated with stories of Summer, Autumn, and Winter in other realms. She wonders if she could create a new season unique to the Enchanted Easel. Her mother has forbidden her from experimenting with the seasons.

Persephone is often accompanied by Lavinia, a sassy cartoon pixie. Lavinia is about five-and-a-half inches tall and lives in a sour plum tree. Lavinia’s job is to create soft Spring breezes scented with lavender and plum blossoms, but she likes to misbehave, creating little storms and whirlwinds, and breezes that smell like tart plum lemonade, or spicy cinnamon gingersnaps, that make people sneeze in a comically exaggerated manner. Lavinia also loves flying fast and racing. She always has to win her races. Lavinia has a tendency to get into fights with people much larger than she is, but she is comically disproportionately strong, very fast, and likes to pull people’s hair and pinch them with her tiny hands. Lavinia’s speech is represented by metallic chimes, which become more harshly high-pitched when she’s angry. Lavinia has a crush on the unicorn scholar Vanilla Velvet.

Persephone and Lavinia are friends with a scholarly unicorn named Vanilla Velvet. He lives in a large library made of many white marble columns, and filled with mysterious scrolls. Vanilla Velvet is introverted and focused on his Spell Studies. He likes Persephone’s curiosity and intelligent questions about magic, but Lavinia’s attention is rather annoying.

There are two mysterious Entities. The Light Entity appears as a shape of white paint and bright light. The Light Entity brings kindness and true love, good lessons, wisdom, and knowledge. They are the “Breath of Life” that gives animation to cartoons, and they are said to be “The Great Artist who Animated the Animators, the Audience, and the Toons.” The Light Entity is said to be omnipresent, but rarely visible. The Dark Entity appears as a shape of black paint and shadow. It brings misfortune, but it is much weaker than the Light Entity. The Dark Entity must be visible where it is present. Some toons call the Dark Entity “Chernobog”.