Inside Out

Emotions...Are ALIVE?!

Do you ever look at someone and wonder, "What is going on inside their head?"

Well, I know. ...Well, I know Riley's head.

Fades up in a white space; Mr. and Mrs. Andersen are admiring their newborn baby Riley, who wakes up and coos happily. Zoom in on Riley's head.

In Riley's mind, everything is black. From out of the darkness steps a glowing figure, Joy. He comes forward and sees a blank screen above him; below him is a single button. He presses it, and it turns yellow like him. Riley is heard cooing.

Zoom back from Joy to the real world, showing the baby Riley as she coos and giggles happily.

And there she was...

On the screen, Mr. and Mrs. Andersens' faces materialize into view.

"Hello, Riley." Mrs. Andersen smiled happily.

Mr. Andersen pokes his baby's cheek, "Oh, look at you. Aren't you a little bundle of joy?"

A ding is heard, and a glowing yellow orb of what just happened is formed from behind the screen. Joy examines it.

Memory Mr. Andersen pokes his baby's cheek in the memory, "Aren't you a little bundle of joy?"

"Isn't it just so...beautiful.." A voice sighs heavenly as Joy looked next to him as he sees a hot pink figure with pure white clothes on, her hair was a mix of baby pink and (h/c) while her (e/c) eyes had hearts in them, "Ahh...Family Love...It'll be with you forever!" She placed her hand on her cheek.

This was (Y/N), aka Love.

She's...gee...there really are no words for what (Y/N) is. Is there?

I...I'm sorry! I'm getting way off track here!

But (Y/N) and I quickly hit it off since we both have to do something joyous.

(Y/N) noticed an hot pink memory enter the roll as she picked it up and stared at it, the first time Riley looked at her parents, as she puts the memory back in place and it rolls across a rack around the area, making the lights come up and revealing a red-violet space of gears, as Headquarters is starting to form. Joy is astounded; he presses the button again, and Riley coos in response. Joy beams as (Y/N) walked next to him and watched as well.

It was amazing. Just Riley, (Y/N), me... Forever.

Riley keeps giggling and Joy smiles in reply; suddenly, Riley starts crying, which confuses her. (Y/N) looked behind them as she nudged Joy's arm as Joy turned around as well.

Er, for thirty three seconds.

Next to Joy, a droopy and gloomy blue figure, Sadness, is working the button, which turns blue in response.

"I'm Sadness." She introduces herself to the two as Joy slowly scoots (Y/N) away from Sadness.

"Hi! I'm Love but I prefer (Y/N) better...but call me whatever feels comfortable!" (Y/N) smiled brightly.

"Oh, hello. I... I'm Joy. So... Can I just... If you could... I just want to fix that. Thanks." Joy rolled his eyes annoyed.

The two start arguing over the button as he speaks. As (Y/N) just watches the two until she's needed.

And that was just the beginning. Headquarters only got more crowded from there.

Riley, now a toddler, runs through the house pulling a wagon and giggling. In her mind, in the now formed Headquarters, Fear, a jagged purple figure, comes out from behind joy. The single button is now replaced with a control console.