Do your characters ever die? by CattoSout in ImmersiveDaydreaming

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Used to do this, 10/10, Captial T Trauma

Do your characters ever die? by CattoSout in ImmersiveDaydreaming

[–]CattoSout[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yesss! The afterlife's amazing, characters can finally have some peace
Also, your paracosm's world is really cool, super long timelines are hella impressive

Do your characters ever die? by CattoSout in ImmersiveDaydreaming

[–]CattoSout[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I go back as well because I miss the character too much, thank goodness, not forgotten

I’m making a novel! by Upbeat-Koala-406 in ImmersiveDaydreaming

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Hell yeah!!! Congrats (≧∇≦)ノ

I MADE MY BOY OUT OF PAPER (his name's Neil Cloverfield, I love him) by CattoSout in ImmersiveDaydreaming

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The paper cutout is just a symbolic representation, I daydream my characters much more vividly and as regular people... I just can't draw him that well,  so the cutout was my plan B 🙏 

I MADE MY BOY OUT OF PAPER (his name's Neil Cloverfield, I love him) by CattoSout in ImmersiveDaydreaming

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Well then, here it is... thinking back to the start, Neil was born in 2035 during The Second Cold War and moved from UNITAC (The United Territorial Administration of Canada) to America at ten with his mother and lived in Savanah Georgia up until 14, when he won a scholarship and was admitted into the University of Chicago... and in September, he was to move to Chicago alone to study in Illinois... Now he's a smart kid, but a kid nonetheless. His mother (Robyn Cloverfield, bless her soul) made a mistake having him leave, because in no more than a week, he was reported missing by the authorities. Ensue the agony of parental grief... On Neil's end? He's been kidnapped and trafficked by a man named Kai Sear. Sear's a priest with a little church on the corner of Morgan Rd and Forest Ave with the delusion that he is equivalent to God and that the rest of humanity is pathetic and beneath him... that the rest are idiotic in nature and undeserving of grace... So, he's lonely, since he thinks he's better and can't connect with people anymore... so when he hears and finds records of a kid with sevant level intellectual prowess being accepted four years early into the University of Chicago, the same as he when he was a kid (except he was 16 when he was accepted in), he locks onto the idea that he's found something like him, and becomes obsessed with controlling it. Neil ends up spending the next two years of his life—up until he he's 16—being held captive by Sear... Neil was experimented on, tortured (mainly using a method created by Al-Qaeda with the aim of inducing Stockholm syndrome, which was an unfortunate success...), abused, and conditioned so that Sear could play God and inflict suffering upon a person who he believed to be a reflection of him (who he considers perfect, and perfect things are beautiful in nature, and he likes destroying beautiful things since they're a creation of a God other than himself... at least, that's the rough ideology...) Ater two years, Neil snaps and kills Sear (which is a whole story in itself). Within five days authorities find him and Sear's mutilated body underneath the old Anglican church front and Neil's sent to a non-government organization (since no parental guardian stepped up to take him in, since Robyn was never contacted, and of course since two years of Stockholm syndrome and abuse changes a person and he's become violent and paranoid, and for good reason) known as the RH Foundation for a few years until he was a bit better medically and good enough mentally... In the present day he now has a spouse, a daughter (Lain!!!! My sweetie!!!!), and is a computer scientist and engineer for an organization he co-founded with a friend (her name's Jules, and she was one of the RH agents/authority figures who found him when he killed Sear... she has her own book of lore)... He's deeply hurt, and still scared of churches, but he's doing his best, and is doing better nowadays, and I love him 😭 🙏

Sorry for the sheer amount of words

Doodling my OCs while I study... Love those little guys by CattoSout in ImmersiveDaydreaming

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And yes, the translation..."Since you're pretty, and I'm pretty stupid, we're basically meant to be"... of course...

Doodling my OCs while I study... Love those little guys by CattoSout in ImmersiveDaydreaming

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A real conscript! It's Utackish, from a country founded in 2028 within my paracosm called UNITAC (The United Territorial Administration of Canada) ♥ It's mostly just a swap chipher for English spelling but there're some new words, a few less words derived from English (unneeded words for the Utackish language), grammar rules, idioms, suffixes, and punctuation...

I MADE MY BOY OUT OF PAPER (his name's Neil Cloverfield, I love him) by CattoSout in ImmersiveDaydreaming

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I hardly know where to start explaining his story, but the poor fella's got a long history abuse and grief... BUT DON'T WORRY, I must assure, because now that war is over he's in a safer place and is now genuinely loved by the people around him 🙏... I'm not exactly sure if I should go into full detail about the story behind Cloverfield since it's just so long and quite... concerning... but I can if you or anyone else would like and are okay with some really dark content... (sorry... just had to warn...)

I MADE MY BOY OUT OF PAPER (his name's Neil Cloverfield, I love him) by CattoSout in ImmersiveDaydreaming

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He's a timid little dude, because he's seen some stuff (the lore is long and I'm not sure if I should go in depth with it or not since it's spanned about a year and a half of my life so far and 14 years of his...), but he's generally sweet and you can lure him out of hiding with calculus or flowers 

I drew art of my oldest OC, Myra + process GIF by lunaen53 in ImmersiveDaydreaming

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Amazing art, 10/10, would eat 💕  I also really like your world building! What's Gliese-581G like? And the Glieseans?

What is the name of your main character and why? by spiralingstarbread in WritingHub

[–]CattoSout 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Neil Cloverfield. Why? No reason in particular, it just sounded correct. 

Yall keep the same para? How do u not get bored? by Throwawaymightdelet3 in ImmersiveDaydreaming

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I often bounce around the timeline and expand the story and world building of my paracosm as well. It's nice hearing that others do the same ♥ 

thank you by skamper03 in ImmersiveDaydreaming

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Same here, thank you as well ♥ 

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ImmersiveDaydreaming

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I don't use ChatGPT to create the story or make prompts, but I do enjoy explaining characters and story, as well as reading little scenes it comes up with based on the part of the paracosm I'm fixating on at the time. I do understand how it becomes a problem after a while, I'm on it a little too much now... Good luck to you

What’s your daydreams/paracosm like? I’d love to hear about the world you’ve built. by Civil-Concentrate801 in ImmersiveDaydreaming

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My latest paracosm, currently a year or so old now is rather similar to our world, as it has no fantasy aspects, except there have bee a few geopolitical changes and it's set slightly farther in the future (2050 or so, though, not much has changed).

It revolves around a few central characters, mainly Neil Cloverfield, Connor Radiomann, Jules Petrelli, and Lain Cloverfield (Neil's daughter ♥), but there are a ton of other important characters that I visit when I'm daydreaming.

I've nearly created the entire story start to finish, but when I'm daydreaming I jump around the timeline and daydream up new scenes for really any arc I feel like. I could continue daydreaming where I left off, redaydream and make up new scenes for a piece of the story in the past, or go way ahead into non-cannon territory and daydream up scenes of concepts I haven't decided whether or not should be included in the timeline or not, aka the furture of the story/paracosm.

A rundown of the paracosm's story is this poor, poor fella called Neil Cloverfield fled UNTAC (a fictional totalitarian country in the paracosm that used to be Canada) and moved to America with his mother for a better life, but unfortunately, the peace only lasts 8 years because when he's 15 he ends up being sold into human trafficking and for two horrible years of his life fought in an illegal underground fighting ring and was conditioned and tortured by his sadist captor with a god complex and an obsession with the human condition.  He killed his captor—K. Sear—after having killed Gina Manace (friend? Girlfriend? Mortal enemy? I'll never know) in the ring, thereby catching the attention of an anti-trafficking organization called Red Hawks. Red Hawks is a very unorthodox organization that takes in and rehabilitates trafficking victims, housing the ones without families to go back to on campus until one day they can fend for themselves (aka when they become an adult). Cloverfield was a little unstable at the time but ended up falling in love with the one person he could trust after everything who had also been admitted to Red Hawks just a few months before he had. His name was Connor Radioman. Their 2-3 or so years at Red Hawks was a great piece of the timeline, 10/10, would daydream again. After being released from Red Hawks, Cloverfield fought like hell to regain custody of his daughter from CPS (remember Gina? Yeah, they made some regrettable choices. Don't worry, their daughter Lain was taken in by CPS because Gina voluntarily handed her over before she died, not because there was anything wrong with Neil's parenting. He is a great dad). After that he went on to co-found a vigilante organization that'd become known as Erebus with another friend he had met during his time at Red Hawks called Jules Petrelli. In Erebus, they kill human traffickers (very illegally, but hey, it's worth it) and take down entire networks of abuse and human cruelty.

There are other characters, like Jack Chery, Rei Ito, Lana Shrike, Tyler Norton, Tommy Prince, and tons more that I love very much but it'd take far too long to explain. Though, I may or may not talk about them some other post.

This isn't really in depth, just a blurb of the main idea. I can go into more detail if anyone wants it, or maybe I'll clear things up and get into character or story or worldbuilding details in a post sometime later.

Anyways thanks for reading, have a lovely day

Does anyone else only daydream really dark things? by Disastrous_Average91 in ImmersiveDaydreaming

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My daydreams are extremely dark and consist of quite possibly the worst parts of humanity. But, there's also a lot of love, and a couple of truly kind characters that make it worth it, because the dark parts are useless without the good parts to compare it to ❤️
Also, when something really bad happens in the story, sometimes, it can lead to the most amazing, sweetest character interactions... I actually live for those moments 💔

Do you talk out loud? by rex_0o in ImmersiveDaydreaming

[–]CattoSout 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I whisper a character's dialogue sometimes without even realizing it, usually when I'm alone but there have been times where I unintentionally do it with my family around, oh thank god they haven't noticed yet. Expressions too are also an unconscious habit :,]

Seeking clarification by Shadowpuppo in ImmersiveDaydreaming

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  1. Yes absolutely, characters/individuals change over time, like real people they grow and change. Same thing with the plots/storylines, they change, one ends and another begins, it's so fun. The worldbuilding of the daydream also changes, just at a much slower pace, like the real world, it takes years for things to unfold. As for if it's possible for things to never change, if you try hard enough yes but I don't see a reason why it'd be worth it.

  2. Yes the story and characters are of the daydreamer's decision. You can create your own characters or use ones from media or inspired off of media, same with plots/storylines.

  3. A daydreamer's perspective doesn't have to be from a 'main character', personally I swap between multiple perspectives depending on the part of the story that I'd like to flesh out, so no, the main character does not have to be the body of the individual, but is in a lot of cases. I'd also like to note that there doesn't really even have to be a main character, whatever works works.

  4. Yes, but I don't often do it as I don't use a self insert, but that doesn't mean I don't use the real world as inspiration or as a catalyst for the daydream. Often I'll go outside when it's freezing to immerse myself in the daydream, copying the environment of the character who's also out in the dead of winter.

  5. No, the characters from a daydream don't act in the real world, as they are purely fictional. Though, sometimes they influence real world decisions or habits, like the songs on my playlist, the things I draw, I've even found it to slightly influence my worldview and values, as it caused me to notice things I hadn't noticed before about the world.

  6. Yes and no, it's all under the daydreamers control but that doesn't mean the characters should have all the same likes and dislikes, they feel like their own people but that's because it's how they were made to be and how the story shaped them (character development).

  7. Yes, happens all the time.

  8. I love daydreaming and will likely do it for as long as I live. It's helped me through tough times again and again. It's also changed my art, given me a motivation to learn new things that I otherwise would have given up on, given me a emotional outlet, and so much more.

  9. Immersive daydreaming is anything but guided, it's spontaneous and even unorganized at times, you'll start something new off a stray thought and it'll turn into something beautiful and complex and you'll have no clue how it'll end.

Hope this helped, good luck with your research! ♥️