Character treatment & action

Here is a character treatment and an action/tagline. As a potential story, I'm offering this only as a character who would be a kind of "test particle" to drop into different situations to see what happens. I'm not suggesting any particular genre. I think it's flexible; open to interpretation for its structure. I'm using the "Labels" feature to tag this post with "story" and "character"... we can add others, but should soon decide on a list of tags to limit the tagging so the search function is useful.

Character

            The Hipster: Mid-to-late twenties; white male; master’s degree in media studies from the London School of Economics; unemployed; living at home with insufferable parents in a 55+ suburban community in the Inland Empire; $50,000+ in student loans to pay off.

            His mother is selfish and demanding. His father is a used car salesman doormat.

            In public he is always immaculately dressed and has his hair coiffed. Dress: leather shoes with buckles, tight jeans, collared shirts, has been known to wear bow ties. He always looks forward to what he calls “cardigan weather,” once the highs dip below the mid-60s in the LA Basin.

            He wants to be journalist or cultural commentator. His dream job would be to replace Joel McHale on The Soup, but he doesn’t always admit that he’s really more intellectual than he lets on. He seeks mental and aesthetic stimulation, which pop culture sometimes provides for him as an object of criticism, but more often than not it reinforces his contempt for the world. He often uses bitterness to conceal his otherwise strong emotions about the world, but he’s by no means a saint (ableism is one of his prejudices).

            He is our lens/protagonist/narrator.

Action

            The Hipster takes a cruise to Hawaii with his parents for a family vacation and, trying to escape his parents while on board, explores the ship only to encounter all the different kinds of guests and crew members dealing with problems that keep mounting until everything on board ends up going wrong. Woo is the Captain.

--James