If I were to introduce you to a character, who would it be?
Will he be someone worthy of being my first character, my main character? Will he be some super powered op guy with handsome physique and all the plot holes saving him?
My Main character needs a good introduction.
Like:-
The twenty two year old guy, who used to live his happy life in his hometown, but kinda happened to find out about what the world is when he turn on his imagination.
So, let's dive in to his introduction along with the world building.
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there once lived a guy in his early twenties, trying to live a normal life.
the world he lived in, was so strangely realistic to my(the author's) own world, that even i could get confused it as our earth.
he was a normal guy. nothing out of ordinary. the only thing which separated him from the others was that he had everything he needed and in the most ordinary way.
he had a loving family, was born in a middle-class family in India, was neither good nor too bad at study and sports, was a coward by nature but had a good physique and personality. which resulted in him never having any enemies. was close to his teachers. he was a kind soul but knew how to say no when needed. and that's how he spent his whole starting 20 years as an ordinary kid.
[ Date : 7/3/25]
by the time he matured, he realized everything around him being so perfect? he realized that things shouldn't be this normal. it felt like he had made some great sacrifice or something in his past life and had wished for a normal life in the next life. which resulted in the god giving him a perfectly normal life. this was weird. nobody can have a perfectly normal life. that will just break the equilibrium of mother nature.
that was when he realized that he was weird. the things around him were weird. the common sense of the earth he lived in was weird. it wasn't too late for him, neither was he too early to realize the fact. imagine him realizing this in his childhood? in his teenage? in his old age? but, nah! it had to be his early twenties. when he would be starting to grow towards his peak self. the starting point.
"But, what now? how can i be sure that this is not my mind playing games with me? to make me sound someone special? to fuel my protagonist syndrome? hmm? " asked our MC.
wait, to whom? damn! did this guy just broke the fourth wall? this early? I haven't even completed the introduction here...
Remember you lil..fella! I'm the one creating you. I'm your god. so, don't go out there taking all the spotlight...alone!
Well, that's the intro for the main character.
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Now, let's focus on the world building.
Ahem! WORLD BUILDING.
Before beginning this skit of mine, let me tell all the wannabe genius writers that,
I don't know anything about the world you live in. I don't know how you guys can create such wonderful worlds in and wrap it in a book.
For that, I have mad respect for all the creators, writers, artists, poets and other people out there who can bring a life just by using one pen and a bunch of papers.
But, that to be said, I don't know anything about creating a novel. I don't have the luxury (time) to understand the basics of writing a novel, neither do i have the motivation to do the studying here (at least not right now.)
So, kindly do not expect me to do anything normal here. I'll make mistakes. a lot of them at that. So, bear with it, or go away, searching for the one which fits you in.. (I do that, so i won't force you to stay.)
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World Building. By the world, I can understand that I'm supposed to build the world and backstories for our main character. I've got no idea what to do here. Build a world huh! But, I'm not even sure if he's the sole main character in my novel. I don't know. Maybe he is. May there are several others. Maybe there are only a few others. I don't know.
The world he lived in until now, was an ordinary earth. Nothing fantasy like.
He had an ordinary upbringing, along with the traumas one accumulate from the generational traumas, middle school bullying, neglectance in caring of a kid's mental health, and a few more.
But, that's normal. who doesn't have that nowadays. I mean, look at yourself. reading this shit, while holding your source of addiction in front of you, and recalling your dark pasts.
Well, this guy too had a not-so- good past, but, now he's good. i think? He focuses on the present moment, i think? Nah! I'm sure...I think?
That's it for the world building.
Haa! That was annoying. Bought back my past.
Now, let's focus on the less annoying thing.
His specialties.
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His specialties...are.
Above average in most of the things.
Good adaptability.
Height: 5' 10"
Weight: 70 kg. (No! convert it to lbs on your own accord. I'm too lazy for that.)
Charm : Above Average.
Attractiveness : Average.
Devil Side : 49% ( Hidden).
Communication Skills.
Wishes to stay single now.
Jack of all trades.
Unlimited Potential.
Mediocre Mindset.
Ambitious.
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That's it for that as well.
Now, let's bring the spice in his life. (Remember, His Earth is similar to ours. Not exactly same.)
Let's start.
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( I don't know much about changing the pov or staying with one. So, I'm gonna mess things up as we go. so.... ENDURE IT.)
One day, He was going on a walk after his study session ended. Oh! We haven't named him huh! Umm...Let's call him Z.
Z is a normal guy in his early twenties. He wishes to get a job in cybersecurity. He wakes up early, do a quick meditation. then, do a two-hour session of cybersecurity practice. then, at 7 am, he moves to do his calisthenics routine.
then, he take a bath. That's how his morning starts every day.
His daily schedule includes, doing the morning routine. then in noon, he does another 2-hour session. then, at evening he does a thirty-minute typing practice. and that's it. before he goes to bed, he writes his journal on the ai, and wind up everything at 10 pm, then sleeps in. ready to tackle the next day at 4 am again.
That's been his daily routine for the past few months now. He decided with this routine after several trails and errors when he decided that he'll shift towards cybersecurity even though he's an arts graduate and get a job within a year.
Well, today was another normal day, at least that's how it was supposed to be. (Damn! I always wanted to say this line.) Today, After completing his morning routine, he went for a walk.
A walk around the streets to freshen his mind after the intense focus session. But, suddenly, his mind wiggled. He felt dizzy and weak. He moved to the side of the road taking support of a wall. He felt weak, so he decided to drop today's walk and go back to his house and get some rest and hydrate himself.
Z went home. His dizziness was no more but still felt sluggish. so, he decided to read a light novel. (what's the difference between a light novel and a web novel?).
He had been reading his favorite novel in his phone, instead of doing the mindless scrolling now. (I'm this close to say the actual name of that novel, but I'm ignorant about the copyright San, so I'll just let the sleeping cats lie.)
He had read a good number of novels, Mangas, manhwas and watched a good amount of anime, web series, and movies before he started to take things seriously now.
He didn't like completing things. When I always asked my main character the reason for that, he always said that he felt it more for to imagine all sorts of endings, be it good or bad, instead of forcing a single ending upon that. and also that he didn't like that that fictional things ended with the the end. with him never finding out what happened after the end, after their happy end, after their sad end. that's why he never finished any work he read.
This gave him an infinite amount of imagination power when it came to keeping himself from ever being bored.
Now, back to present.
Z lied on his bed and started reading his favorite novel. it was a fantasy setting which showcased a Villan's will to survive the gruesome world he's been transmigrated into. ( i really hope I don't get any copyright strikes for this. I'm broke af. my future editor San, take care of this for me.)
Even though it's only been like thirty minutes, and he's only read two chapters, he felt sleepy. So, he turned off his phone and went to sleep after putting the timer of one hour in his phone. Z slept like a kid, with a blanket covering his body, whether it's cold or hot outside.
That's how chapter 1 ended.
How was it? pretty ordinary right? I feel like it's going to be interesting, i think? Well, we'll see about that?
[ Date : 14/3/25]
Note to the future me: - introducing a fantasy setting related to his infinite imagination power. AKA make this delulu into a solulu. Over!
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