Ravana.
I decided to go with Ravana because even though I am not done with my Ramayana reading, I am still liking his character, and how he isn't wholly good or wholly evil but a good mix of both, and I think he could make an interesting project.
To get more research done on him, I clicked on the page you put together that acted as the hub for sources for him here. I looked at past projects and I want to look at Ravana: Roar of the Demon King, along with prior knowledge of Ravana from Ramayana and wiki articles I've already read to brainstorm possible stories.
For my first idea, I have thought about a type of origin story with Ravana. Since the gods seemed to have a great interest in Ravana, I think it could be interesting to explore his early relationships with those gods (like how Ravana has that curse on him from Brahma that only allows him to have consensual sex), and explore his time before Rama.
For a second Idea, I think I could flip the story in Ramayana around a little bit, and have Ravana bow down to Rama, and then when Shurpanka gets her ears cut off, instead of Ravana getting angry and going after Rama, he decides to side with Ramam since he is wise and can see that he would be no match for him. I think there are a lot of ways I could go with this story, I would just have to be creative and descriptive and give good reasons for his actions that still are true to his character.
For the last idea, I've thought about changing the story to where after Ravana takes Sita away from Rama, he is unable to get her back for a long long time because of reasons I will think of later, so she ends up reluctantly liking Ravana more and more until she eventually shares mutual interest with him, and she becomes Queen of Lanka. This story would be pretty crazy, because there are a lot of ways I could go with the story.
This is how I think of Ravana; How could Sita not want this?
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