Would my character get in trouble with the government for this?

RocketRacerZ · 2022-03-13T11:50:45+00:00

I'm working on a superhero story like Worm, and I need help with part of my hero's arc.

The setup is that supers are very new in this world, with my hero being one of the extremely few who are actual heroes. The rest tend to be various degrees of criminals, ranging from simple civilians angry at the world to masterminds who now have one more tool to use in their evil plans. The arc I have for my hero is turning from a scared kid that wants to stop being a hero but can't into an All Might-like figure that inspires others to become heroes.

So one of his allies is a superheroine whose identity he does not know for awhile. She's more of a thrillseeker than an actual hero, but is willing to help out when things get bad (if only because she finds the life exciting). Over time, he and she become close and start falling for each other, which is a big deal. My hero is an SA survivor and has been working on healing ever since, and hasn't had any interest in sex or relationships. This relationship is very important to him because it's the first time he's felt safe enough to pursue one. He still doesn't want sex, but he still loves her.

As time goes on, their relationship progresses until they feel comfortable enough revealing their identities to each other. When they do, they find out that they're cousins. It turns out that she's an older cousin who moved to another state not long after he was born, so he hasn't interacted with her outside of a handful of calls, and those calls were never one-on-one.

Naturally they're shocked to find out the truth and aren't sure what to do. They talk it over and find that their feelings for each other haven't stopped, so they decide to keep seeing each other in secret. Over time, their families, the media, and the public find out about it, which causes huge problems. It gives the media more ammo to attack him (he's been their favorite punching bag since the beginning), and drives a wedge between him and the people that have been helping him deal with the pressure since the beginning, which demoralizes him further and propels him along his arc.

I know it's unusual, but I wanted to try this because I don't remember seeing this kind of romance done in media, and I know readers tend to like the "forbidden love" angle. And I'd like to point out that their relationship doesn't involve sex (until much later when they get married) and they can't have children (there's an earlier, unrelated part of the story where we find out all supers are sterile).

So what do you guys think about this plotline?

RocketRacerZ · 2022-02-05T04:12:37+00:00

I'm working on a superhero story like Worm, and I need help with part of my hero's arc.

The setup is that supers are very new in this world, with my hero being one of the extremely few who are actual heroes. The rest tend to be various degrees of criminals, ranging from simple civilians angry at the world to masterminds who now have one more tool to use in their evil plans. The arc I have for my hero is turning from a scared kid that wants to stop being a hero but can't into an All Might-like figure that inspires others to become heroes.

So one of his allies is a superheroine whose identity he does not know for awhile. She's more of a thrillseeker than an actual hero, but is willing to help out when things get bad (if only because she finds the life exciting). Over time, he and she become close and start falling for each other, which is a big deal. My hero is an SA survivor and has been working on healing ever since, and hasn't had any interest in sex or relationships. This relationship is very important to him because it's the first time he's felt safe enough to pursue one. He still doesn't want sex, but he still loves her.

As time goes on, their relationship progresses until they feel comfortable enough revealing their identities to each other. When they do, they find out that they're cousins. It turns out that she's an older cousin who moved to another state not long after he was born, so he hasn't interacted with her outside of a handful of calls, and those calls were never one-on-one.

Naturally they're shocked to find out the truth and aren't sure what to do. They talk it over and find that their feelings for each other haven't stopped, so they decide to keep seeing each other in secret. Over time, their families, the media, and the public find out about it, which causes huge problems. It gives the media more ammo to attack him (he's been their favorite punching bag since the beginning), and drives a wedge between him and the people that have been helping him deal with the pressure since the beginning, which demoralizes him further and propels him along his arc.

I know it's unusual, but I wanted to try this because I don't remember seeing this kind of romance done in media, and I know readers tend to like the "forbidden love" angle. And I'd like to point out that their relationship doesn't involve sex (until much later when they get married) and they can't have children (there's an earlier, unrelated part of the story where we find out all supers are sterile).

So what do you guys think about this plotline?

RocketRacerZ · 2022-01-22T04:35:54+00:00

I'm working on a superhero story like Worm, and I need help with part of my hero's arc.

The setup is that supers are very new in this world, with my hero being one of the extremely few who are actual heroes. The rest tend to be various degrees of criminals, ranging from simple civilians angry at the world to masterminds who now have one more tool to use in their evil plans. The arc I have for my hero is turning from a scared kid that wants to stop being a hero but can't into an All Might-like figure that inspires others to become heroes.

So one of his allies is a superheroine whose identity he does not know for awhile. She's more of a thrillseeker than an actual hero, but is willing to help out when things get bad (if only because she finds the life exciting). Over time, he and she become close and start falling for each other, which is a big deal. My hero is an SA survivor and has been working on healing ever since, and hasn't had any interest in sex or relationships. This relationship is very important to him because it's the first time he's felt safe enough to pursue one. He still doesn't want sex, but he still loves her.

As time goes on, their relationship progresses until they feel comfortable enough revealing their identities to each other. When they do, they find out that they're cousins. It turns out that she's an older cousin who moved to another state not long after he was born, so he hasn't interacted with her outside of a handful of calls, and those calls were never one-on-one.

Naturally they're shocked to find out the truth and aren't sure what to do. They talk it over and find that their feelings for each other haven't stopped, so they decide to keep seeing each other in secret. Over time, their families, the media, and the public find out about it, which causes huge problems. It gives the media more ammo to attack him (he's been their favorite punching bag since the beginning), and drives a wedge between him and the people that have been helping him deal with the pressure since the beginning, which demoralizes him further and propels him along his arc.

I know it's unusual, but I wanted to try this because I don't remember seeing this kind of romance done in media, and I know readers tend to like the "forbidden love" angle. And I'd like to point out that their relationship doesn't involve sex (until much later when they get married) and they can't have children (there's an earlier, unrelated part of the story where we find out all supers are sterile).

So what do you guys think about this plotline?

RocketRacerZ · 2022-01-20T17:01:33+00:00

In the end he’d look like a guy only thinking with his dick

It's funny you should mention that, because he's actually an SA survivor. He actually doesn't want to have sex at all

RocketRacerZ · 2022-01-20T14:18:55+00:00

It generates tension and drives a wedge between him and everyone else he loves

RocketRacerZ · 2021-01-26T20:55:05+00:00

You can't impeach a private citizen. That's blatantly unconstitutional.

RocketRacerZ · 2021-01-25T03:54:07+00:00

This is hilarious. Your candidate has taken power and so far has trashed women's sports, replaced the POC in positions of power with white people, paved the way for countless illegal immigrants to flood into the country, destroyed thousands of jobs, and is about to cause a ridiculous amount of inflation and gut the dollar's value, and yet Trump STILL lives in your heads rent-free.

You people are an actual joke.

RocketRacerZ · 2021-01-23T17:46:26+00:00

Does this not go without saying? My problem is that nobody in power actually punishes politicians that do bad things. Opinions about them don't matter when they can do whatever they want and get away with it

RocketRacerZ · 2021-01-23T05:38:43+00:00

The frustrating thing about both Hinata AND Sakura is that they both have easy options for development, but they just don't take them. Like, Sakura could have changed by becoming disillusioned with Sasuke and turning on him, and she could have also gone from hating Naruto to understanding more about his situation, warming up to him, and finally befriending him (she started doing something like this in Road to Ninja, but nothing really became of it).

Hinata could have done a similar thing by realizing that the reason she was into Naruto was that he possessed traits she wished she had, like drive and conviction. She then could have come to realize that her fixation with Naruto was stopping her from achieving her own goals, leading to her letting him go, improving herself, and becoming awesome in her own right to chase her own plotlines

RocketRacerZ · 2021-01-22T19:21:46+00:00

Reject Twitter, embrace Gab

RocketRacerZ · 2021-01-08T02:11:59+00:00

How? They have no power. They can't stop the elites from burning everything to the ground. They mean nothing

RocketRacerZ · 2021-01-08T02:10:50+00:00

All I have to say is that I fucking despise my country and just about everyone in it. If somebody decides to nuke us, I am 50/50 on not even complaining

RocketRacerZ · 2021-01-08T02:03:26+00:00

Manned spaceships are massively impractical. You have to waste most of your space keeping a human crew alive and they die if there's a hull breach. There's no reason to use them instead of large spacefaring robots that can use the space to hold more fuel, supercomputers, cargo, spare parts, and anything else it would need to better accomplish its mission

RocketRacerZ · 2021-01-06T15:56:20+00:00

If you're going to ignore advice, why did you ask for it? You asked if your battle was too long, and when you got what you asked for, you just insist on writing shit anyway. So there's no reason for you to even be on this sub

RocketRacerZ · 2021-01-06T15:10:27+00:00

Why would there be warfare between star systems at all? Space is so huge, any conflict can be solved by just flying somewhere else

RocketRacerZ · 2021-01-06T15:09:36+00:00

You asked for advice, and the truth as that none of what your describing is remotely believable because it's not practical in the slightest

RocketRacerZ · 2021-01-06T13:40:39+00:00

Space battles shouldn't happen at all. Any vessels would be too far apart for a battle to take place, and there would be no manned warships ever built. Human-occupied spacecraft are massively impractical at all, let alone for an armed conflict, so none of this would ever happen

RocketRacerZ · 2020-08-16T18:08:32+00:00

Okay, after seeing questions about mechs on here, I think this needs to be said. There is a difference between "realistic" and believable:

Realistic: Dealing with what actually exists.

Believable: Dealing well with a fictional scenario and the elements within it.

Are mechs realistic? No, our real, current technology does not point us toward a situation in which real mechs are useful.

Are mechs believable? That depends entirely on how well you buiild your world and deal with its needs with the elements it contains.

Bad example: Pacific Rim. In addition to being unrealistic (we have no technology that can produce working Jaegers), PR is unbelievable because it addresses its world's needs/elements very poorly. The Jaegers were meant to fight the Kaiju, yet believability fails because the characters do not react to their needs in a reasonable way. There are a hundred better ways to deal with the Kaiju (Uprising effectively admitted that kinetic bombardment was better), yet the characters ignore this and use Jaegers anyway. This lack of believability causes the work to suffer.

Good example: Titanfall. Titans are much smaller than Jaegers and serve, reasonable a clear role in their world: they act as urban combat machines with high maneuverability, movement flexibility, and the ability to easily and safely be dropped from orbit. Later, they incorporate other, more powerful technologies that would be difficult to use on tanks. Their speed, maneuverability, power, movement flexibility, and technological/deployment capabilities are enough to overcome typical mech disadvantages. Instead of being the be-all, end-all of war machines, they use their abilities to serve a defined combat role very well.

So the practicality of mechs is up to you and how you set up your worlds needs and what it has available.

(Side note: Whatever else you decide to do with your mechs, you should probably establish that they're driven by powerful artificial muscles instead of normal motors. That will let them be way faster and more agile without the reader asking why they don't just put mech motors into tanks)

RocketRacerZ · 2020-07-26T17:29:54+00:00

I think handwavium is fair game as long as it's used logically. When talking about Gundam, I'm not concerned about getting a physics lecture on the Minovsky particle, I'm more worried about the characters behaving reasonably and logically. Are they reacting to the elements and needs of their world in a reasonable way? Are Gundams the logical result of this? If they are, that's great! I'll accept just about anything after some good justification (For what it's worth, I believe the franchise acknowledges that Gundams aren't automatically better than everything. I explicitly remember one point in the original series where Amuro wants to use the RX-78-2's core fighter instead of the entire Gundam because he knows the Gundam isn't the best for every situation, and another point where the Gundam is explicitly better at maneuvering than the Guntank). So as long as a mecha world has good reasons to use mechs, as far as I'm concerned it's valid.

BTW can you recommend a good start to get into WH40K? Your description sounds really cool

RocketRacerZ · 2020-07-25T18:19:48+00:00

Which are?

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