as promised, here is the premise of our sci-fi-romanti-tragi-comedy. this is just the basic premise but do expect some [insert manly voice-over] gut-wrenching emotion (schapelle corby styles yo') ... heart-stopping plot twists ... dizzying highs and rock-bottomular lows ... etcetc
so without further ado, from the forces that brought you samuel l. jackson's papal campaign (minus one), samuraibunny in conjunction with the ultratoxophilic stooge bring you:
background story:
humanoid race is created by a god (God? proper noun? let's just call him G) who decided that gaps should exist between the digits of said race, because that way, members of the opposite sex could find their true love by finding the someone from somewhere whose fingers fill their finger-gaps perfectly. how does this work? (rhetorical question) well these humanoids are made such that their fingers on one hand are fused together at the tips, and the person who is meant for them is born with a matching side, so that their fingers slot into the gaps perfectly.
tadaa.
also, the fingers will be the right size to fit finger-gaps so it's really quite a difficult potentially life-long quest! however, when they do find each other, their sense of satisfaction will be so grea they can i dunno ... create a blog of love or something. but anyway, i digress.
in our story, boy and girl meet, boy and girl fall in love, HOWEVER !! boy and girl are *gasp*shock*horror* not matching finger-gappy partners. die lah so how ??!! after much emotional turmoil and many sleepless nights, boy and girl decided to go for finger splicing operation together so they can forever fill in gaps between their fingers ambidextrously.
knn so complicated. but WAIT! not done yet.
after going through operation, boy and girl are elated that they can mutually finger-gap fill, but then, not conforming to society's norms, they are ostracised. their families disown them and they are banished to live in a tundra (or some similarly poetic barren wasteland). on their way to this tundra (for it is far away) they meet similar couples who have been banished (perhaps it shall be called the tundra of bittersweet love) and together they work to build a small commune.
slowly, more couples hear of this and the community grows, and soon things get ugly because
this community is becoming more militant at the thought of having to live like refugees all because of their undying love and unfortunate finger configurations.
these people start forming plans to storm the rest the planet (loopholular but we'll fix it. maybe it's a very small planet inhabited by very big people. ANYWAY ...) their seige works because unlike the so-called normal folk who effectively have only ONE functional hand, these "freaks" actually have two working hand and therefore can hold TWO guns.
being outnumbered thus, "regular" society kowtows to the awesome power of two working hands and the power of love. boy and girl live as king and queen of this new freeform society.
THE END
linda's suggestion with minor embellishments: girl no. 2 who believes in old-fashioned love come along with finger configurations that perfectly match that of the boy (now the king), thereby creating a saucy love-triangle. ooooooooooh ... i smell a sequel.
