An actual serious blog post rambling about stories and characters I'll never actually write about... part 1 I guess · 3:06pm Jul 14th, 2017
So I was bored the other day, but instead of making nihilistic ramblings about how this world isn't worth living on, I got a little introspective. I ended up lingering on one point in my life where I thought I had the rest of it figured out and what I wanted to to with it: once upon a time I wanted to write my own original stories and have them published and get successful. I thought up all these concepts and wanted to act on them, but would always be stuck on the execution, It's part of why I admire people who can actually write an entire story regardless of the quality, because it's hard to act on creative ideas. I get so self conscious about my ideas that my desire to make a good story causes me to not write one at all. But anyway, I felt like getting every concept and character I created, for original stories or fanfics, out there so that maybe someone can find inspiration in my lack thereof (hence me using this where a couple bronies who follow my occasional shitposts will read it instead of a tumblr or site of my own to use).
My earliest and most nonsensical character was that of a young boy who mined gems known as Jacio. I created him when I was in fifth grade from a treasure map that crosses into all sorts of generic dimensions to fine rare gems more valuable than the ones he would dig up. Along the way the kid would befriend an ice dragon with extra powers over lightning, because I was a fan of Pokemon and to this day would like to see an electric/ice type mon be a thing, and he would ride it all over these uninspired other worlds until the kid found the treasure. It was barely thought out, and that's because it was barely taken to word form. Instead I would often spend my recesses pretending to be Jacio riding my epic dragon with my friends following me (of course on their own dragons) as we ran around the field which was a new dimension in search of le epic treasure.
My first real concept for an actual story was a trilogy I planned out respectively called "The Royal Curse", "The Royal Crystals", and "The Royal Darkness". This was thought out shortly after the launch of flipnote studio on the DS and I was immediately in on all the popular artists who would use anime tropes to try to tell Naruto-inspired stories that went nowhere. Before I even got all that into anime, I came up with a story featuring cliches on video games and flipnotes that themselves borrowed anime cliches to the point where you thought eleven year old me could at any moment start talking about the Fall 2009 anime chart. But anyway, the stories themselves told of a pair of "half twins" who were children of the former King. However, because he cheated on the wife his wife with another woman (at the perfect time so that both children are born on the same day, I wanted him to be portrayed as scum so the villains of the story would hate our heroes for a good reason), the two children were given a curse by the gods to become powerful warriors, but wouldn't have any control over themselves in this powered up state. For some reason the son of the queen was put into hiding in a small village while his half sister was raised as the true heir. I later made it so that the king's mistress was a shapeshifter who could turn into cats, and the princess would grow cat ears and a tail made of pure energy when in her "cursed" form. I had it be that the twins would be given gear to control this curse and make it... not much of one, then they would fight off their father's enemies to have the sister take the throne because despite being the true heir Roy (get it... ROYal) felt cut out as a knight. The other two stories planned to have a timeskip to Roy as a teenager using power crystals to fight more bad guys, then darkness would cap off with the curse taking form as a "Dark Roy" and be the main villain because all the most famous heroes have an evil clone. I was really enthusiastic about this story, I would share this idea with everyone, but an eleven year old kid couldn't just be told that this story idea required too much suspension of disbelief so the rest of my prepubescent days, and most of my time while in puberty, I held the delusion that I was a creative genius who had so much talent at writing and I sat around playing video games because I was too lazy to have a masterpiece done at age 14, rather than because my unoriginal ideas had premises too ridiculous to actually execute.
And execute I never did, though I came close in my next, and worst work which I'll come back to talk about later. I literally started writing this at like 6 am today and need more time, plus you all are gonna ignore this because tl;dr anyway so I best not make it too long...
Those ideas aren't that bad with some tweaks the first at least could work.
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Eh... I have a point to bring up at a concept later that sort of revives all my ideas... but I'll get to it later.
Oh okay.
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It's brought up in my most recent post, feel free to suggest an OC for me to use if you would like.