One of my life time goals is to write essays and stories. I didn’t have the strength or luxury to be a philosopher, but when it comes to stories I think that is something I can do. I’ve always loved them. I loved being immersed in other worlds. Three things I want to do.
- SAO type story, where the main character is a cynical sort engaging in a war in a virtual world while navigating everyday reality.
- I kind of want to imitate Rance. This would probably be the most ambition, since I’d want to spread it over three books. Main character would be an intelligent, but self-serving and not caring a lot for what other people want or think. Also, he’d be very horny and have few qualms about where he took out that energy. I want to replace the demons with an elven type race. Like the Kalars.
- Third is a more generic, highly idealistic romance story between a couple of high-schoolers. I’m not entirely sure what the main girl would be. It’d either be a Chitanda or a Shio. The real story would probably mostly be about her, but the main character would still have personality. Think I’d want to base it in a private Christian school of some sort. Then the girl would be coming from a well off family. She is highly conservative, possesses noble ideals, and dismissive of others.
I think the second one is the one that’d be the most work. I was thinking about it yesterday. I think the origin would be that once upon a time all humans lived upon a single continent, then somehow humans discovered a “new world.” Upon that new continent there lived an ancient race called the Kalars (or replace this with something else). The Kalars had a curse where they could only be born female, in all other regards they were outstanding. They were nimble, intelligent, orderly, lived long lives, and didn’t show much signs of aging. They integrate in nature. They live in a kingdom dominated by the same house that as long as anybody can remember has ruled. The Kalars should be portrayed sympathetically, but should also showcase their ruthlessness. On the edge of the continent there exists an island. This island will mimic England. On the continent there will be four empires. One is an imitation of ancient China, one is an imitation of Tsarist Russia, one is imitation of imitation of the Roman republic, and last is a Papal like state. Monotheistic religion in (fake) Rome, (fake) Russia, and fake (Britain). (fake) China would be the largest out of them taking up 1/3 of the human-side of the continent. (fake) Russia would be 2/5, then (fake) Rome and is the other 4/15. Papacy exists within (fake) Rome. (fake) China was powerful once upon a time, but is towards the end of the current dynasties and is plagued with problems. (fake) Russia is large and has lots of people, but is ruled quite backwardly - a society with little morals and where the upper classes of society own most of the land and people as slaves or sharecroppers.
In England, new technologies would be emerging that gives it a superior advantage in war. Main character would get on to pseudo-English throne. Maybe could take it from Rance somehow where the princess is crazy then falls in love with the main character after getting thoroughly raped by him. Would need to differentiate the story from Rance 01 though. Then through marriage, main character becomes king. The Kalars had long cherished the ambition that they’d regain the territories that they lost. The first human settlements were in pseudo-England, then they began to move more and more on to the main land. In the beginning, all humans was under the same ruler and there were no countries. Wars broke out between Kalars and humans who resented their land being taken. Humans in time got the Kalars to give ground. A series of three wars (maybe mocking the Punic wars) eventually led to the situation where Kalars gave up half of their land. Then civil war broke out among the humans. The one human country split into two, then two became three, then three became four. The Kalars during this time set up a 30 mile no mans land across the agreed border, but they never forgot the wrong done to them.
Maybe the original intention of founding pseudo-England was because of Kalar pirate raids, who would raid human ships, loot the ships, kidnap the healthy, young men, and kill all the women. Eventually the goal would be to subjugate the Kalars. The Kalars resenting the land taken from them, always yearned to earn it back. Now that the human were divided, the humans no longer had the strength individually to fight the Kalars, so it became a stalemate. The Kalars though are planning a large-scale invasion into human territory, and if humans continue the wars amongst themselves, the human race will be wiped from the continent. Main character, now king of Britian, sees this and uses it as justification for his conquests.
Book 1: Pseudo-Rance becomes king. Book 2: Pseudo-King Rance’s conquests. Book 3: Kalar invasion.
The Kalars are fighting a war of extermination. If men are captured, they will either be used like livestock, milked for their semen and eventually killed, or they will be killed on the spot. Kalars are archers, they don’t fight headon. They also resent being taken alive. Humans filled with anger and stress of the battlefield, if they capture a Kalar before she can kill herself or they find one who doesn’t want to die, will mercilessly rape her then she will be given to a soldier as a trophy.
I think I should make the conclusion where the Kalars are subjugated, but pseudo-Rance dies in the war. Quickly after subjugation of the Kalars, humans break out into civil war amongst themselves, the continent is then divided again. The Kalars are forced to learn co-existence. Relations improve, sometimes marriages between the races occur. Mutual trade and sharing of knowledge. Though humans don’t forget the atrocities done to them by the Kalars. Kalars in turn don’t soon forget that this was land they once ruled. There is mutual distrust and occasional fighting. One kingdom sets up program where the Kalars are no longer forced to resort to kidnapping.
A curse of this beautiful race. In the end, doomed to destruction. Many Kalars resent their fate. Pride is still not broken, but fighting spirit is no more.
This actually sounds pretty decent. I’d have to decide on names. Don’t just call them pseudo-China, etc.
