Arch9CivilReactor
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Honestly, wasn’t sure how to post this. Was going to make this an update on my status, but realised it might be too long for that. This is pretty much an update on how far I’ve gotten in the first of a three part trilogy I’m working on.
I’m calling them in my head Battlefield Restart 1, 2 and 3 (even though they’re not called that or interconnected in characters. Let’s just call them ‘BR’ 1, 2, and 3). I tend to put extra effort into these stories from the groundwork to testing ideas (was originally gonna go for the ‘global’ trope, but scrapped that after testing).
So why am I doing things like this?
Originally, I was going to go forwards into sequels for the expected trilogy I was writing, but I ended up making prequels instead. Much easier to write the past in my eyes.
BR3 = An Adventure Beyond Greatness. A very non-standard story where the omniscient narrator learns what it means to be ‘human’. The mistakes and misadventures that come with it.
BR2 = The One Being Protected. A [Magical Girl Urban Fantasy] more about staying human despite being human. The absence of urgency when you attain a ‘Returning’ power with no demerits. What will the main character do with it?
The common thing between these two works is that they have a non-standard narration aspect to them. That, along with a driving theme that questions what would the character do when given power. How important ‘power’ really is.
Now I’m working on BR1 and made progress.
The name hasn’t been decided on yet but the story is being invented. I’m thinking of making it purely equipment-based in power system with no ‘Internal Martial Arts’ aspects other than through using weapons.
Will be using Second Person Perspective in a unique way. If BR2 has the 1st person PoV narration done by a god to another god about their favourite human, and BR3 is the omniscient 3rd person PoV narrator gaining a sentience, then BR1 will be a god narrating to a human.
Going the DnD style without the control aspect of it. No choices the human can make.
It will begin with a god talking to a human who has amnesia. They cannot remember why they are there. However, the god tells the human that he came to him on purpose. Losing memories was a ‘rule’ so any wish made was unbiased.
After some small talk, the god begs the human to wish for a second chance. That he had seen the human’s past and wanted him to see a better future. To give him the freedom of knowing what will be undone, the god places a total of 26 memory cards in front of him. One of them his own.
These are a collection of fates that were unavoidable. Things that happened that were either a fortune or tragedy. The human watches how these scenes are related to him, and eventually chooses to make that wish.
He chooses to change the entire timeline.
However, there is a catch.
The god is named ‘Mystery’, and he is the god of androids that governs falsehood. To redo the past, the human from back then was replaced by an Android replica. One that itself does not know that it isn’t real. Having all of the human’s memory and relationships at the time.
The god then starts narrating about the past that is being rewritten from the beginning. As time is distorted in this dimension, they have the leisure of ‘pausing’ narration to talk occasionally. The human hearing about his own past and new present.
All until that Android comes to where he is now.
What does the god of falsehoods have planned? …Will be a good question as the story goes on.
That’s as far as I’ve gotten for now. Still deciding on those 26 character fates and backstories. Along with world details and where the human would travel.
Thought I might as well make an update.
I’m calling them in my head Battlefield Restart 1, 2 and 3 (even though they’re not called that or interconnected in characters. Let’s just call them ‘BR’ 1, 2, and 3). I tend to put extra effort into these stories from the groundwork to testing ideas (was originally gonna go for the ‘global’ trope, but scrapped that after testing).
So why am I doing things like this?
Originally, I was going to go forwards into sequels for the expected trilogy I was writing, but I ended up making prequels instead. Much easier to write the past in my eyes.
BR3 = An Adventure Beyond Greatness. A very non-standard story where the omniscient narrator learns what it means to be ‘human’. The mistakes and misadventures that come with it.
BR2 = The One Being Protected. A [Magical Girl Urban Fantasy] more about staying human despite being human. The absence of urgency when you attain a ‘Returning’ power with no demerits. What will the main character do with it?
The common thing between these two works is that they have a non-standard narration aspect to them. That, along with a driving theme that questions what would the character do when given power. How important ‘power’ really is.
Now I’m working on BR1 and made progress.
The name hasn’t been decided on yet but the story is being invented. I’m thinking of making it purely equipment-based in power system with no ‘Internal Martial Arts’ aspects other than through using weapons.
Will be using Second Person Perspective in a unique way. If BR2 has the 1st person PoV narration done by a god to another god about their favourite human, and BR3 is the omniscient 3rd person PoV narrator gaining a sentience, then BR1 will be a god narrating to a human.
Going the DnD style without the control aspect of it. No choices the human can make.
It will begin with a god talking to a human who has amnesia. They cannot remember why they are there. However, the god tells the human that he came to him on purpose. Losing memories was a ‘rule’ so any wish made was unbiased.
After some small talk, the god begs the human to wish for a second chance. That he had seen the human’s past and wanted him to see a better future. To give him the freedom of knowing what will be undone, the god places a total of 26 memory cards in front of him. One of them his own.
These are a collection of fates that were unavoidable. Things that happened that were either a fortune or tragedy. The human watches how these scenes are related to him, and eventually chooses to make that wish.
He chooses to change the entire timeline.
However, there is a catch.
The god is named ‘Mystery’, and he is the god of androids that governs falsehood. To redo the past, the human from back then was replaced by an Android replica. One that itself does not know that it isn’t real. Having all of the human’s memory and relationships at the time.
The god then starts narrating about the past that is being rewritten from the beginning. As time is distorted in this dimension, they have the leisure of ‘pausing’ narration to talk occasionally. The human hearing about his own past and new present.
All until that Android comes to where he is now.
What does the god of falsehoods have planned? …Will be a good question as the story goes on.
That’s as far as I’ve gotten for now. Still deciding on those 26 character fates and backstories. Along with world details and where the human would travel.
Thought I might as well make an update.