Project Jeptha

Project Jeptha is an American animated television show created by Borace Horace and produced for Kingson. It is Horace's second series made for the channel following Knight Plight. The show follows the exploits of an alien nicknamed Jeptha who crash lands onto Earth after 15 years of aimlessly drifting in space in comatose. There, he struggles to understand Earth society and culture, find his past, understand his place in this new world, and ultimately overthrow a fear-mongering dictator alongside a group of ragtag individuals who seek to free their city from the impenetrable dome it is placed in. The stories and events portrayed are heavily character-driven and serialized, though still contains many stand-alone titles - each with their own purpose of progressing the world and characters. Exploring themes of purpose, destiny and identity, the show is characterized as one of Kingson's more dramatic animated programs. The series premiered on January 6, 2012, and concluded with its fifth season in November 2017. Horace's succeeding Kingson series Multiverse Men serves as a follow-up.

Setting
Project Jeptha takes place in New City, Oregon - a futuristic metropolis sealed within an impenetrable barrier from the rest of the planet. Similar to Syndicate's Elysium, the city is home to a wide array of differing intelligent species.

Premise
A young alien crash lands and later awakens on Earth - specifically into New City, Oregon; a technologically advanced metropolis that is enclosed in an impenetrable barrier from the rest of Earth. With no memories of who he is or where he came from, he soon finds himself in the aid of Othon; a teenage tech genius with an extremely strong sense of morality and justice, who nicknames the confused alien "Jeptha". Othon desires to seize control of the city from its maniacal ruler, Kingman, and free its citizens from his reign, and promises Jeptha that he will help him "find himself" if he helps him take back the city. Thrusted into a world he does not understand and fighting for a cause he does not care about, Jeptha must learn "find himself" in much more ways than one.

Season One
The first season primarily focuses on world building and character development. Othon, having enough of Kingman's reign, desires to kickstart a resistance effort against him, and persuades his new alien captive ally, Jeptha, into assisting him under the promise that he will help him figure out who he is. Two members join in the following episode; bubbly humanoid Kay, and the egomaniac Roger. Together the three attempt to get Jeptha acquainted with Earth culture, emotions and ideologies while attempting to figure out how they should exactly fight back against Kingman. Othon and Roger constantly butt heads over the direction they should be taking the resistance and their methods of dealing with Kingman. Jeptha and Key find a connection between each other over their similar situations. By the end of the season, Kingman acknowledges them as a threat and their existence is made aware to the citizens; but its made clear that they will have to earn their praise.

The Resistance

 * Jeptha: The show's title character and main protagonist, Jeptha is an alien who hails from the now destroyed planet Kreon. He knows very little about his past and spends a majority of the series attempting to piece together who he is and where he came from. He starts out as impatient, irritable, depressed and generally uncaring for most people due to his current situation and his frustration with understanding Earth society. As the series progresses, he begins to soften up as he realizes that the city needs a willing and determined person like him to fight for their freedom, becoming an overall much more jovial and righteous (if still irritable and dry) person. Despite that newfound confidence, Jeptha remains extremely weak in combat; which is a side effect of his Kreonian DNA that stunts growth of certain body functions whilst living on a planet with a different atmosphere for too long, which in turn causes him to have an over-reliance on his friends and allies. Voiced by.


 * Othon: Jeptha's caretaker and leader of the Resistance, Othon is a fellow alien - though is a wanted fugitive by his species - and, at first, acts as a foil to Jeptha's hostility and detached mindset. In that, he is very strong-willed and passionate about the people he knows and the concepts he believes in, and that mindset leads to him starting an underground resistance against Kingman's forces. Alongside his several positive extroverted qualities, Othon is very tech-savy and knowledgeable in the field of science - constructing weaponry and tools as a hobby. Despite all this, however, Othon very much lives in his own little world, having somewhat of a messiah complex, and his endless pursuit of justice ultimately does more harm than good. In the final season, it is revealed that he was in on Lote's plan since the third season; going along with it so the Resistance can keep challenging Kingman and can be hailed as a hero by the citizens, as well as to protect his long-time friend from his inevitable persecution. He shifts to Lote's side completely when he begins phasing in his final plan for the city, but realizes how much of his morality he has lost to envy and ego before sacrificing his life for the Resistance in the finale. Voiced by
 * Kay: A bubbly, playful and optimistic humanoid alien. She is very much in a similar position to Jeptha - not knowing much about her past nor her species, and still isn't all that used to Earth customs. But unlike Jeptha, she doesn't view this lack of knowledge as a hindrance or something she even needs to know to enhance her life or her as a person, having already found a "purpose" here on Earth just being the best she can be. Voiced by


 * Roger: A small, stubby green alien of unknown origin, Roger is an ambitious, hot-headed, ego-maniacal prick who, at first, views the growing resistance as nothing more than another chance to inflate his (obviously delicate) ego, wanting to be viewed as the "hero" he so desperately thinks he should be viewed as. Whilst still a narcissist, he eventually realizes the audacity of the situation New City is in and stops trying to play hero and actually be one. Even at that, Roger is the self-proclaimed comic relief, often making attempts to lighten the mood when he thinks things go too bleak, which is far too often. Voiced by


 * Selena: A human citizen who initially looked up to Kingman and viewed his reign as a necessity for the city and possibly the world, but her ideals are later tested when the Resistance begin making their mark and fighting back against him. Voiced by


 * Lucy: A vigilante fighting against Kingman on her own, with a very different path in mind to end New City's siege. At first viewing the Resistance as obstacles who are too "soft" to make any real changes, she later joins them because she's a hypocrite. Voiced by

New City Denizens

 * Collector
 * Mage
 * Lote: Kingman's underling and former apprentice forced to remain in his fortress against his will, often the guinea pig of his experiments and projects. He communicates with Othon and the rest of the resistance in short bursts, often relaying information about Kingman unto them, including his behavior, thoughts and details as to what his supposed "magnum opus" is. It is ultimately revealed that he is behind Kingman's sudden descent into villainy, brainwashing him with his own creations in order to follow his tattered and torn blueprint to construct a powerful device to exude his will upon reality, wrought from his own displeasure with the way the world works and never understanding basic integrity to the point where it drove him mad. Ultimately expressing pleasure in controlling Kingman and plunging New City into years of fear and chaos, Lote is a pitiable, sadistic misanthrope who has too much fun wearing the skin of a once living, breathing person to get to the point of his whole orchestrated piece. His final plan to rewrite reality itself is foiled by the Resistance and New City is freed from his fist, though at the cost of both Kingman and Othon's lives, with Lote's final fate ambiguous. Voiced by
 * Aki
 * Memento: An artificial intelligence created by Othon initially to serve as an emotionless weapon of mass destruction, but later develops AIDS
 * Loa
 * Wright: Chief commissioner of Kingman's enforced "police".

Antagonists

 * Kingman: Once a beloved public figure for New City, a pioneer in shaping new-age technology that would benefit the world, Kingman suddenly went mad and used the very same technological feats against the city's denizens, forever enclosing it in an impenetrable barrier and appointing himself as its ruler until he finishes his supposed "magnum opus". Under this new personality, Kingman exudes a brutal authority over his city; enacting unjust laws and keeping a serious eye on his people with his tech, claiming that the outside world is inferior to his "salvation", whatever that may be. His past and motives remain shrouded in mystery, and keeps his former apprentice, Lote, prisoner within his fortress. After Lote's facade is revealed in the final season, Kingman is freed from his trance and spends most of the season distraught and suicidal over the damage he has unintentionally done to the world, more than willing to ally with the Resistance so he can reverse everything Lote has caused. Voiced by
 * Trove:
 * Orpheus: A high-ranking solider from Xial, who has a personal grudge against Othon and everything he stands for after he betrayed the ideology of their kind. Orpheus is exceedingly desperate in bringing him to justice and being loyal to the Potens, who govern over Xial, as well as the supremacist ideology of the Xeein species, who are bent on cleansing the universe.
 * Order: A force of the galaxy's most powerful individuals, assembled against their will by Kingman to serve in combating against the Resistance to maintain his order within New City once he views them as a threat.
 * Deus: Soon revealed to be a fellow Kreonian, Deus is the de facto leader of "Order", forced to clash with the Resistance to serve Kingman, but secretly has a ulterior motive of his own. Before becoming Kingman's servant, he was a powerful force within the deep galaxy, taking apart planets and using them in an attempt to re-create Kreon in his own image. He is able to speak on a telepathic wavelength with Jeptha, acknowledging him as one of his kind and at first has no intention of harming him, egging him on to release him from Kingman's grasp so the two of them can recreate Kreon together.
 * Mithra
 * Asura
 * Mot

Reception
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