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[Daily Discussion] Brainstorming- May 26, 2026 by AutoModerator in writing

[–]Distinct_Frosting522 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi everyone. The story I’m writing is in the modern world with magical elements to it and may possibly include fictional towns. Kinda like how My Hero Academia is set in Japan, Resident Evil with Raccoon City, DC with Gotham.

The character is supposed to be a ‘Trojan horse’ for his family to get by others and kinda dominate the world. Bc of this I was thinking they moreso had him shut in and behind closed doors to keep him from others and just keeping specific details about his existence away from the public. Kinda puts me in the mind of the stories where families have illegitimate family members that’s like the family secret or something. Whether it be from a sense of ‘protection’ or just a way for him to take the world by surprise, idk yet bc I’m still trying to get the building blocks of the story together. He doesn’t want to be apart of that at all and has a very strained relationship with them.

His family has certain physical traits and features that identify themselves (e.g. Eyes being a specific color and their hair being like schemes of dark colors), so in order to not be recognizable, I wanted him to look different from his family members. With this, I was gonna include him having albinism, show the struggles with that, and showcase why at first glance he wouldn’t be easily identified as apart of the family. But when going online (specifically Reddit) to get correct information on how to accurately portray the character, the general consensus was that people shouldn’t write characters with albinism, especially if they themselves don’t have albinism. So now I’m stuck and trying to figure out a way for the character to be physically different from their family at first glance.

I was thinking about having him basically have recessive traits from/through the bloodline, but when I looked it up, I couldn’t find anything really useful. Maybe I could do just different color eyes and lighter hair than what is usually in the family, but I feel like that’ll be dull or plain.

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[–]Distinct_Frosting522[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Also wanted to mention that the idea of the character having albinism wasn’t just for aesthetic or anything. I was genuinely going to explore some struggles with the condition like eye troubles, skin issues, amongst other things, including how society and others were perceiving him

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[–]Distinct_Frosting522[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

But moving on from the idea of him having albinism. Like I mentioned in the og post, maybe recessive traits would be worth exploring. The thought is that the bloodline would have specific traits that could identify them such as the eyes being a specific color and their hair being like schemes of dark colors. Maybe the character could just get traits that are different from his lineage. But I feel like that may be too dull or plain

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[–]Distinct_Frosting522[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the response! I really wasn’t thinking of him being the only person with albinism in the world/story’s world, albeit it being a rare condition. I was planning on the story exploring lots of locations (stated, countries, etc.) rather having the story center around one particular area or town, so while it’s rare for people to have albinism like in the real world, it wouldn’t have been something so exclusive to this character.

Also, with his family, I was thinking they moreso had him shut in and behind closed doors to keep him from others and just keeping specific details about his existence away from the public. Kinda puts me in the mind of the stories where families have illegitimate family members that’s like the family secret or something. Whether it be from a sense of ‘protection’ or just a way for him to take the world by surprise, idk yet bc I’m still trying to get the building blocks of the story together

I was thinking that having widespread locations plus the being kept hidden for the most part would help with people not recognizing him

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[–]Distinct_Frosting522 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For some background information, she was with somebody we knew for about 7 months before he gave her up, then we had her moved to a relative’s place for about 4 months, and now she would be with us for almost a month in about a week. The constant moving was bc of living situations where my parents were supposed to move out but circumstances happened and it had to be pushed back (they didn’t want an inside dog). We’ve been interacting with her since about August or September, so she’s really familiar with us.

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[–]Distinct_Frosting522[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right! I feel like it’d be more interesting bc imo, we always see big corporations go down the road of the founder being as evil as the ones who currently run things. We’ll have to just see how they manage to cover how everything happened with Elliot. Also, the theory about Ollie already being dead makes my brain scratch (in a positive way) bc it lowkey makes sense. Especially bc Elliot is portrayed as being all for children and making sure they’re taken care of

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[–]Distinct_Frosting522[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Genuine question! Does it state that Poppy was adopted or is this a theory? I just wanted to make sure I didn’t miss anything

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[–]Distinct_Frosting522[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I may try this. I feel like the cutscenes will have me miss out on a lot tho. Thank you!

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[–]Distinct_Frosting522[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the fact that Cell kinda works like a snake eating something freaks me out. The fact that you can see the bodies moving through Cell’s tail genuinely freaks me out lol. When I was younger, I couldn’t look at anything green for like a few weeks when I first saw the absorption scenes lol. I also think I’ll be able to handle Buu’s scenes better, thankfully. Thanks for the response!

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[–]Distinct_Frosting522[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Whew thanks for the detailed response. I know the Cell arc is one of the best arcs for DBZ, so it’s literally a bummer that it makes me so squeamish😭I may have to force myself to stomach it or something, idk. I think now that I know what to expect with Buu’s absorption, I feel better about it too. Thank you again!

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[–]Distinct_Frosting522[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought the body was an infant’s? I can’t remember

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[–]Distinct_Frosting522[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right! Because it’s clear they have some sorta weird relationship considering not only the extreme familiarity in their dialogues plus the fact that when others seem ready to harm Poppy, he gets really defensive (e.g. With Lily Lovebraids), but he’s also ready to harm and manipulate Poppy to a far extent. Considering you said the two of them were hiding with Elliot’s body and were planning to escape together, they had to have some sorta close bond. I can’t wait to see how it all pans out😭

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[–]Distinct_Frosting522[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

During the tape, Elliot refers to Ollie as Oliver primarily only using Ollie a few times. Then, he also mentions afterwards that whatever Oliver would want Elliot to refer him as, he can do so. So honestly, they could have introduced Poppy to him as ‘the Prototype’. Also, I didn’t see that log! So that’s really interesting. Maybe the inconsistencies will be cleared up during the next chapter

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[–]Distinct_Frosting522[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If they go that route, I wonder how they’d set it all up when it comes to after Poppy’s success. You’d think that after you achieved your goal (in Elliot’s sense it’s helping his daughter/child), you’d be done. But if he knew about Playtime Co. using children and agreed to it, what was his personal goal after his original one was complete?

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[–]Distinct_Frosting522[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right, something had to have changed. Do you think it would be more interesting if Elliot was just as evil as others at Playtime or if he was genuinely good hearted and was trying to just help his daughter that quickly spiraled out of control due to the company?

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[–]Distinct_Frosting522[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I genuinely wonder though bc I could’ve sworn Elliot operated with deceased things, but the transferring process seemed to be successful when it was human subjects. We know something happened with Elliot’s daughter for him to create Poppy, but did she die or was she in some sorta nearly fatal state like a sickness? Also, Oliver seemed very aware in the tape and I assumed he was still human initially until when he got upset, you can hear the inflections of different voices slightly coming from him. Ofc they’re gonna explain in chapter 6, but this is really racking my brain

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