EliseValkyria
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Hello everyone again
And well, the subject is already in the title, I need help to see which of the following possible plot arcs would make the most sense for to write next in my novel.
My problem is not that I don't know what else to write. It's that I have several very disparate ideas that all point to the same result.
First, a little context, which I believe will not be short. My novel is long and quite detailed, it combines many different and diverse themes, but I try to be deep with them, so no matter how crazy they look here, I assure you that they do make sense within the story.
Actually, my novel already comes from a pretty important and heavy story arc, basically, the protagonist trying to overcome his mental trauma and his depression due to survivor's guilt. So right now the story is in a calmer state without much going on, mainly showing how the characters go about their day-to-day lives when they are not fighting and enjoying each other's company, teasing each other, and making jokes. So now is where I should try to work behind the scenes to put details about the next story arc, the next conflict in the story.
School conflict: The first is a low-risk school conflict. The protagonist is 40 years old and has already gone to school, but for reasons of the story he ends up in a much younger body and has to protect a girl from possible dangers, the typical knight and princess (but not romantically related). The protagonist is going to school for the second time and this makes him seem distant from his classmates and detached from school life in general. The idea is that the protagonist has a confrontation with one of his classmates, giving you the opportunity to get to know all the members of his class a little better and how they relate to each other. As they will be more important in the final arcs of the series.
Conflict in Africa: The second in a large VIP extraction mission. The main character's big dream is to have his own racing team and maybe one day become a racer. For this, he wants to start by having a garage and car mechanic workshop, and for the same, he needs large amounts of money to get started. One of his relatives, his mother who works as an important secretary of the Alliance (an armed section of the UN) is working on a project to have an armed global response army against the Empire (Nazis 2.0) that is capable of attacking any place in the world without warning, because they have portals technology. The Alliance believes it must reach any part of the world in 5 hours or less, for this they will use bases around the world from where contingents of this new army will be dispatched.
The president of Kongo wants to lend his country to host the alliance army, so he has several meetings with his neighbors, typical diplomatic stuff and so on. Due to the tensions, he hires a team of mercenaries to act as his bodyguards, Fenrir PMC, who will be future villains, this would be his introduction in the novel. They ask for the protagonist's support, in return, he will receive good money as pay, which will help him enormously to follow his dream of a mechanic shop.The protagonist accepts the job and ends up being one of the African president's bodyguards, he gets to know other members of Fenrir PMC, their personalities, equipment, tactics. But after a certain point they are attacked by a surprise uprising and must take the President alive to a safe extraction point from the rebellion. The protagonist finally manages to get paid the money, but not all the bodyguards make it out alive. I'm still not sure whether to write that the president was saved or if Fenrir's tactics were evil or made the situation worse.
Demon Hunting: A short adventure with little risk. The protagonist has a rival, Sakura, a future villain, a girl born from a clan of dragon slayers, a descendant of Beowolf, an Isekai heroine who has already lived her adventure and is back on earth. An extremely powerful, skilled, and expert fighter, her biggest problem is her personality, an overachiever, narcissistic, highly competitive person who sees herself as the number one human being that has ever existed. She does not know anything about the protagonist, but talking to other people she suspects that the protagonist is a more important person than she is (which is correct). She tries to approach the protagonist to get more information and learn more about him as they are classmates and members of the same club of amateur investigators, but the protagonist sees him coming from miles away so he keeps as much distance from her as possible, becoming quite cold in his interactions with her.
Sakura, looking for an excuse to get closer to the protagonist and learn more about him, releases a Yokai in the city so that both are forced to work together hunting him. The protagonist instead, uses the personality of Sakura in her when she always wants to be the center of attention is dedicated to pursuing the demon and attacking it she alone without leaving him a chance to fight in some moment, the protagonist gladly stays behind noting as Sakura battles against the demon and seeing her tactics and weaknesses.
Assassins Duel: An intermission connecting two larger story arcs . The protagonist's mother has hired a professional assassin as her main bodyguard and assistant. She is a good person, who is trying to put her past behind her and leave a different legacy to the world than just being a hired assassin, she now has standards. But she has an origin and family that she herself is unaware of. Her change of attitude and quest for improvement is nothing more than an illusion, she is the tool of an old Chinese magician who has been alive for thousands of years, a puppet who doesn't know she is one. This Chinese magician knows the important position of the protagonist's mother and wants to replace her, thus gaining great power over the world.
But her plan comes to a bit of a halt when she herself sends another tool, the assassin's sister, to try to get more information from her target, which causes the two to end up clashing over conflicting orders. The protagonist notices that his mother's bodyguard is not a normal human and decides to investigate her origin, taking him on a journey through China to confront the evil wizard.In the end, he will win the loyalty of the bodyguard and a new companion for his adventure.
Human experimentation: The main plot throughout the story. The I.S.C. (umbrella among friends) It is under the command of its president Damien Raven, who wants to keep the legacy of his late wife alive, an important researcher and inventor way ahead of her time, so much so that other scientists called her crazy throughout her life. She died suddenly of cardiac arrest, her husband, Damien, vowed to carry out each and every one of her inventions as a way to fight for her loss. He has succeeded in most of them, but there is one that escapes his ability.
His wife at some point reseaching a rare mutagen that is able to improve the DNA of everything it touches, (Part that makes the dragon slayers so powerful) but she canceled the whole project for fear of his predictions and destroyed everything, she suspected that someone was manipulating her from the shadows, the Chinese magician. Damien tries to bring it back to reality but he doesn't have the right formula, so he experiments on humans to find the answer. These experiments are also used for commercial purposes. They sell monsters to individuals or countries with money. Due to the conflict between the Alliance and the Empire, the countries are in the middle of an arms war and believe that the project is a serum for super soldiers. A couple of African countries want to have the serum, which the president of the Congo wanted to avoid and in return, he suffers the rebellion.
Should I try to focus on the protagonist while continuing to investigate the main villain of the story?
I know that this topic has a lot of information and that it is more relevant if you are readers of my novel, but I want to know what you think even from a first impression point of view.
What should be the next arc and how do you think I should order them?
And well, the subject is already in the title, I need help to see which of the following possible plot arcs would make the most sense for to write next in my novel.
My problem is not that I don't know what else to write. It's that I have several very disparate ideas that all point to the same result.
First, a little context, which I believe will not be short. My novel is long and quite detailed, it combines many different and diverse themes, but I try to be deep with them, so no matter how crazy they look here, I assure you that they do make sense within the story.
Actually, my novel already comes from a pretty important and heavy story arc, basically, the protagonist trying to overcome his mental trauma and his depression due to survivor's guilt. So right now the story is in a calmer state without much going on, mainly showing how the characters go about their day-to-day lives when they are not fighting and enjoying each other's company, teasing each other, and making jokes. So now is where I should try to work behind the scenes to put details about the next story arc, the next conflict in the story.
School conflict: The first is a low-risk school conflict. The protagonist is 40 years old and has already gone to school, but for reasons of the story he ends up in a much younger body and has to protect a girl from possible dangers, the typical knight and princess (but not romantically related). The protagonist is going to school for the second time and this makes him seem distant from his classmates and detached from school life in general. The idea is that the protagonist has a confrontation with one of his classmates, giving you the opportunity to get to know all the members of his class a little better and how they relate to each other. As they will be more important in the final arcs of the series.
Conflict in Africa: The second in a large VIP extraction mission. The main character's big dream is to have his own racing team and maybe one day become a racer. For this, he wants to start by having a garage and car mechanic workshop, and for the same, he needs large amounts of money to get started. One of his relatives, his mother who works as an important secretary of the Alliance (an armed section of the UN) is working on a project to have an armed global response army against the Empire (Nazis 2.0) that is capable of attacking any place in the world without warning, because they have portals technology. The Alliance believes it must reach any part of the world in 5 hours or less, for this they will use bases around the world from where contingents of this new army will be dispatched.
The president of Kongo wants to lend his country to host the alliance army, so he has several meetings with his neighbors, typical diplomatic stuff and so on. Due to the tensions, he hires a team of mercenaries to act as his bodyguards, Fenrir PMC, who will be future villains, this would be his introduction in the novel. They ask for the protagonist's support, in return, he will receive good money as pay, which will help him enormously to follow his dream of a mechanic shop.The protagonist accepts the job and ends up being one of the African president's bodyguards, he gets to know other members of Fenrir PMC, their personalities, equipment, tactics. But after a certain point they are attacked by a surprise uprising and must take the President alive to a safe extraction point from the rebellion. The protagonist finally manages to get paid the money, but not all the bodyguards make it out alive. I'm still not sure whether to write that the president was saved or if Fenrir's tactics were evil or made the situation worse.
Demon Hunting: A short adventure with little risk. The protagonist has a rival, Sakura, a future villain, a girl born from a clan of dragon slayers, a descendant of Beowolf, an Isekai heroine who has already lived her adventure and is back on earth. An extremely powerful, skilled, and expert fighter, her biggest problem is her personality, an overachiever, narcissistic, highly competitive person who sees herself as the number one human being that has ever existed. She does not know anything about the protagonist, but talking to other people she suspects that the protagonist is a more important person than she is (which is correct). She tries to approach the protagonist to get more information and learn more about him as they are classmates and members of the same club of amateur investigators, but the protagonist sees him coming from miles away so he keeps as much distance from her as possible, becoming quite cold in his interactions with her.
Sakura, looking for an excuse to get closer to the protagonist and learn more about him, releases a Yokai in the city so that both are forced to work together hunting him. The protagonist instead, uses the personality of Sakura in her when she always wants to be the center of attention is dedicated to pursuing the demon and attacking it she alone without leaving him a chance to fight in some moment, the protagonist gladly stays behind noting as Sakura battles against the demon and seeing her tactics and weaknesses.
Assassins Duel: An intermission connecting two larger story arcs . The protagonist's mother has hired a professional assassin as her main bodyguard and assistant. She is a good person, who is trying to put her past behind her and leave a different legacy to the world than just being a hired assassin, she now has standards. But she has an origin and family that she herself is unaware of. Her change of attitude and quest for improvement is nothing more than an illusion, she is the tool of an old Chinese magician who has been alive for thousands of years, a puppet who doesn't know she is one. This Chinese magician knows the important position of the protagonist's mother and wants to replace her, thus gaining great power over the world.
But her plan comes to a bit of a halt when she herself sends another tool, the assassin's sister, to try to get more information from her target, which causes the two to end up clashing over conflicting orders. The protagonist notices that his mother's bodyguard is not a normal human and decides to investigate her origin, taking him on a journey through China to confront the evil wizard.In the end, he will win the loyalty of the bodyguard and a new companion for his adventure.
Human experimentation: The main plot throughout the story. The I.S.C. (umbrella among friends) It is under the command of its president Damien Raven, who wants to keep the legacy of his late wife alive, an important researcher and inventor way ahead of her time, so much so that other scientists called her crazy throughout her life. She died suddenly of cardiac arrest, her husband, Damien, vowed to carry out each and every one of her inventions as a way to fight for her loss. He has succeeded in most of them, but there is one that escapes his ability.
His wife at some point reseaching a rare mutagen that is able to improve the DNA of everything it touches, (Part that makes the dragon slayers so powerful) but she canceled the whole project for fear of his predictions and destroyed everything, she suspected that someone was manipulating her from the shadows, the Chinese magician. Damien tries to bring it back to reality but he doesn't have the right formula, so he experiments on humans to find the answer. These experiments are also used for commercial purposes. They sell monsters to individuals or countries with money. Due to the conflict between the Alliance and the Empire, the countries are in the middle of an arms war and believe that the project is a serum for super soldiers. A couple of African countries want to have the serum, which the president of the Congo wanted to avoid and in return, he suffers the rebellion.
Should I try to focus on the protagonist while continuing to investigate the main villain of the story?
I know that this topic has a lot of information and that it is more relevant if you are readers of my novel, but I want to know what you think even from a first impression point of view.
What should be the next arc and how do you think I should order them?
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