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I want to do an mc superpower fic, with the catch that the mc had the power of lying all along. Not as long in scope as CoT, maybe a 35 to 50k fic or so. The first arc is intended to be him as an office worker drone, with his night hustle as an insurance scammer and petty thief with a tight knit crew. As it goes on, and more and more super-factions are introduced, it slowly becomes the reveal that the mc is actually a bloodthirsty sociopath, whose entire character I have a summary for. 'I'm tired of playing by other people's rules. I want them to play by mine.' Simple. Any idea can work with the right execution in my book. The premise is rather mundane. The mc is not an anti-hero. He does not kill criminals out of a sense of vigilantism or justice. He does so because he has the drive to want to commit harms to people. But, he's not lost in the sauce, to say. He knows vigilantism is a shield. That, by simply choosing victims other people dislike, he can attain a crowd following. But inside, he doesn't give an absolute fuck. In other words, I have an idea I've been giving a lot of thought in my spare time to. Unlike Children of Terra, I'm thinking of including y'all even more thoroughly in this one. Who knows? Maybe it'll never be. What I can promise, is I am actively in the stage of thinking about this topic. Peace and see ya.Notes 1 - First Steps - 28 December 2025
December 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I have some ideas that I just know the effort is far too diminishing of, me, fundamentally.
The vast majority of my snippets are simply, to be loose with the term, plot bunnies. I have little to zero intention to do followups on most of them.
One idea, however, has been nagging me in the same vein as Children of Terra.
I'm posting about this in line with the original statements of the Meta-Review; in that I always had the intention for this to be essentially a 'director's commentary' but for writing.
I think not too many authors do that, and I personally would find it interesting to see more of it. I don't think ideas are much of 'trade secrets' in all honesty. I don't really care much about the whole derivative works and such arguments. All human experiences are derivative, for chungus' sake. I do, however, have enough awareness that people care a hell of a lot about plagiarism.
That is my impetus for why I want credit. Not because I clutch to my ideas in a vein of self-import. It's because I have dealt with enough shit in my life. I don't feel like being harassed especially over my own shit as being particularly fair.
Ideals and romanticism, right?
Anyway, what's this fucking idea I'm so enamored with?