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Madame Momo
Host. Guide. Keeper of questions.
Some truths need a microphone.
A warm, sharp presence at the centre of Monsters on the Mic.
Created and published under Velvet Onion
Why Velvet Onion is making monsters
Momo & Yeti brings together books, characters, artwork and original music. We’re now developing the stories into screenplays, opening up another way to experience the world.
But first, the stories.
Momo & Yeti
Monsters, humans and everyone in between.
An original story world about identity, belonging and becoming more fully yourself.
You Be You.
Enter San Magos
01 / The world
Welcome to San Magos.
Humans, monsters, vampires and mythical creatures share a city shaped by strange science, humour, identity and layered mythology.
There are secrets here. There are ordinary days too. The world is large enough to hold both, and curious enough not to explain itself all at once.
Monsters. Humans. Vampires. Yetis. Strange science. Music. Podcasts. San Magos.
02 / Key characters
Nobody here is only one thing.
Meet a few.
Not all.
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Yeti
Host. Elder. Unexpected philosopher.
Wisdom often arrives sideways.
A gentle, observant Yeti with stories, humour and a better employment arrangement than AIN’T.
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Momo Jr
Host. Instigator. Story shifter.
The story wasn’t planning to go there.
Larger, louder and usually first to pull a conversation somewhere unexpected.
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Venus Akino
Vampire. Hacker. Inventor.
Doesn’t do haemoglobin. Doesn’t do people.
A brilliant, guarded problem-solver who tampers where she shouldn’t.
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Sunshine Arachna
Monster. Original. Vampire-Jorōgumo hybrid.
Not everything with eight legs hides in the dark.
A vivid presence in San Magos, still revealing the full shape of her story.
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Bolt Vrathos
Cyclops. Meditation teacher in the making.
Learning to control the rage.
Bolt is learning to control the rage that comes with being a Cyclops and is becoming a meditation teacher.
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Eva Fangoria
Medusa. Nine-part creative team.
Eight active snakes. At least nine opinions.
Eva works with eight active snakes, each with a personality and opinions of their own. Together, they’re a creative team.
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Lola Ricci
Frankenstein. Identity seeker.
Who am I?
Lola is made from body parts that weren’t originally hers. Her question sits beneath the world: if we’re all made from friends, family, religion, place and experience, what makes us ourselves?
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Ash
Three-headed Balaur dragon. Café proprietor.
MTHRNTR has three heads at the helm.
A three-headed Balaur dragon who runs the café called MTHRNTR.
03 / What it’s really about
Beneath the monsters, science, comedy and adventure sits a question:
Who are you when you strip away everything you have been told you’re supposed to be?
You Be You.
Identity lives throughout the world: what we believe ourselves to be, what other people expect us to be, inherited identity, limiting beliefs, belonging, transformation and becoming more fully ourselves.
On air04 / Monsters on the Mic
The microphones are already on.
Part podcast, part storytelling device, part Greek chorus with considerably more fur.
Madame Momo, Yeti and Momo Jr open the door into the story, argue about what should be revealed and return to unpack what just happened.
05 / Demo and concept material
Music lives inside the world.
Music is part of Momo & Yeti’s storytelling language.
Demo tracks, themes and musical concepts have been developed alongside the stories to explore how San Magos sounds as well as how it looks.
The structure is ready to support embedded demo tracks, songs, character themes, world themes and Monsters on the Mic material. Audio will be added here when the final assets and presentation are confirmed.
Demo / concept material
06 / Screen development
Built for a bigger screen.
Momo & Yeti began in books and has grown into a substantial story world spanning characters, narrative, visual development and music.
It’s now being developed for episodic screen storytelling and animation.
For producers and collaborators
A developed world. A clear ambition.
- Episodic series ambition
- Existing manuscripts
- Developed world and mythology
- Character development
- Published books
- Visual development
- Demo music
- Creator information
- Adaptation work underway
07 / Original worlds
More worlds are taking shape.
Our original worlds have their own inhabitants, questions and possibilities.
Explore Dino Loco’s illustrated satire and a glimpse of Kith9.
Illustrated books and original world
Dino Loco
Prehistoric meets cosmic
Illustrated cosmic adventures with dinosaurs and some suspiciously familiar human behaviour.
Early development
Kith9
Beasts, trees, bees and seas
A character world growing from the characters first imagined through Alt Saints.
08 / Producers and collaborators
Talk about Momo & Yeti.
For screen, animation, publishing, music and other serious forms of imaginative trouble.
Your enquiry goes directly to the Velvet Onion team.