I made two documents, one about the goals and the other one to write down the plot. Here's what I put in the former:
Goals
- A story about adapting to the new life as wyvern and its challenges - Good balance between creature and human mind
Anti-goals
- Turning past life completely irrelevant - Dwelling on past life - Human mind in creature body who lives life strategically - "Inner creature" as antagonist - RPG mechanics - Global stakes - Perfect understanding of human language without effort
I'll tag my posts related to my isekai comic plans as #volpeonIsekai . This time I'll plan it all properly by writing the plot down, creating storyboards, the whole thing.
Today I checked fedi and sometimes it looked like things were fine again. Nope, I had forgotten to switch to my main account. So, that's a pretty good sign I should stay here.
I guess most posts from this point are going to be me brainstorming the isekai comic I want to make. Good thing I didn't give this account a specific theme.
I've been thinking about the initial situation and even that is turning out to be tricky with the standards I have. A lot of isekai stories start with the birth of the protagonist in a different body, with their mind fully intact. It's convenient because you can get right into the plot with first-person narration, but I don't like it because it just doesn't make sense to me. Your mind is in your brain, which means factors like the brain not being fully developed yet should affect your mind. The dragon isekai even makes a joke about ignoring this factor. I guess you can gloss over it because the whole premise is supernatural, so might as well accept that this is part of it. But I want to see if I can handle it without resorting to this approach.
On top of worldbuilding and such, I need to find a narration that works. I mentioned this before, but my "ideal" scenario involves not even being able to think with words, so the protagonist talking to himself goes right out the window. It doesn't have to stay this way, but that would be the initial scenario. And after a while, it's inevitable that the protagonist gets used to their new life and the story needs to go in a new direction to keep it interesting. I already have some ideas on how to handle the former.
I definitely triggered my hyperfocus on making a dragon isekai comic. I have so many ideas I want to draw so badly. But also I'm now well aware that such a project needs a lot of preparation, even more so than the dragon courier comic I intended to start 2 years ago.
I never read LNs or mangas before, so it's interesting to see the differences introduced by adaptions. For instance, in the dragon isekai LN, 2 days went by before he killed his first enemy and evolved. In the anime, he did it on his first day. But by doing this, the anime solved one thing I really wondered when reading the LN: how the heck was he drinking and eating anything through the shell?
I read more of the manga and the art is really rough to follow sometimes. I got the light novels now and used the opportunity to get an ebook reader. Maybe this will be the start of more reading like I used to.
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