I Really Need To Stop Thinking, Cause Every Time I Do I Go Into A Previously Unexplored Section Of The

I really need to stop thinking, cause every time I do I go into a previously unexplored section of the world building and now I have even more things to worry about. Like just now, I was thinking about how normal people would behave if Lord Valthoraxe actually ruled an entire world. Obviously, mostly paranoia and fear, but there would also be idiots dumb enough to see it as a good thing and create cults worshipping him. Now Valthoraxe is undoubtedly evil, but he always fights fair. Honor is everything to him, and by that logic, he would be extremely offended by cultists murdering defenseless innocents in his name.

He would as first go after them himself, but realize they crave to be killed by “their master” and would need a better solution to the problem. He turns to bounty hunters, who are obviously skeptical at first, but he is willing to give anyone who can prove they’ve killed cult members that worship him one of his many relics that they can choose themselves.

Valthoraxe is one of the heavy sci-fi factions I told you about earlier, and so this created a lot of potential for some very interesting characters. My favorite so far is an autistic, bisexual half-elf named Meloï Dio, who is shunned by her people for her disability, sexuality, and race. (I’ll explain my take on elves in a later weekly update, but tldr, very racist culture) Feeling desperate, hated, and depressed, she successfully hunts down a cultist and reluctantly claims her reward at Lord Valthoraxe’s castle in the Lord’s Wastelands. She is welcomed in personally by Valthoraxe, who is behaving far politer than she expected, and he leads her to a large room full of magical and electrical tools, relics, and weapons.

One particular set of items catch her eye, a pair of boots, fingerless gloves, and headphones dancing with light and a faint rhythmic beat. Valthoraxe explains these are magic conduits basic on music, amplifying the wearers magical capabilities, but only for the duration and to the beat of the of a selected song. She tries on the headphones, and the music immediately makes her feel calm and safe, despite being in the most dangerous place on the planet. She happily takes the musical clothing and thanks Valthoraxe as she leave, his expression not having changed once during the entire encounter.

After a lot of practice and music, she regains her confidence and tries returning back to her Elven home. The Elves however, hate her even more now, calling her a traitor, slut, murderer, and many other thing too terrible to say. They even threaten to kill her if she didn’t leave, and so she did, not with sadness this time, but with new found purpose, and she never looked back.

Hating her Elvish name, she changed it to Melody, and became a bounty hunter full time. She fully embraced the musical aspects of her abilities. She now wears the Magic boots, gloves, and headphones, a pair of dark purple knee-socks, as well as a gray skirt and a lime and cyan crop top. She also dyes her hair the same colour, making it look like the bars of a visualizer. The openness of her clothes made her feel as free physically as the music did mentally, and her new found family of bounty hunters was all she needs now.

I’m not good at drawing humanoids, so feel free to draw this unique character in whatever style you like. Unfortunately this character is not planned to be in any full lengths books I am writing, but perhaps I could write a short story if you guys like her concept enough.

How I feel when I'm writing and can manipulate the lives and events of an entire fictional world:

That third one is very important.

It’s important to recognize the difference between “I’m nitpicking scientific facts because I’m willfully ignoring how suspension of disbelief, fantasy, and sci-fi work and just trying to be obnoxious about how unrealistic this is”, and “I’m nitpicking scientific facts because there are actually some intriguing worldbuilding possibilities if we use them that can add another dimension to the story”, and “I’m nitpicking scientific facts because considering the real-world implications of how this would happen are FUCKING HILARIOUS”

It's such a good feeling when all your little details you have planned start to fall in place for your story like a big puzzle. And you're just there staring and smiling because hey, I did that by accident and it fits.

Holy shit, this is the best day of my life.

this hit me like a fucking truck. literally just started sobbing. all of the aro/ace people who found comfort in his content and headcanoning his character. man.