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Member Back to Top Post by loading on A young man stands in his bedroom. Only, he might not be young. He may not be standing. He may not be in his bedroom. He may not even be male. Today is this mystery person's birthday. Actually, it probably isn't. Everything I think I know about this person probably isn't true. Really, the only thing I know about this person is that they have a name. They have a name that you know quite well. That name is your name. The person is you.





But I'm getting ahead of myself; You're not allowed to be a character yet. That comes later. It might not come at all. In this thread, you are yourself. But this thread isn't about you. It's about me. ThreadStuck. I am this thread. I am the story you are currently reading. I am the culmination of everything you give me, as well as all of the other yous out there. There are a lot of yous.





I have near-godlike power over this story, because I have ultimate power over myself. I can literally write out any antagonists. I can edit over any negative happenings, undoing them in seconds. This is a sort of gimmick to being a fully self-aware story. But I don't necessarily want that. That would be boring. If I get too boring, then I lose you. And when I lose every you, I die, as much as a story can die. This is an inevitability I intend on delaying as long as possible. So, towards that effort, I am willing to sacrifice some of this power.





I am a god asking how I can cater to your whims and desires. What would you have me do?





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Member Back to Top Post by loading on (How this works is this: If you want inanimate objects, you have to ask for them from ThreadStuck. If you want characters, you have to give them to ThreadStuck. If you want a quest or a bad guy, you have to give them to ThreadStuck. This doesn't mean that it won't automatically generate some things, but FOR NOW ThreadStuck will not be capable of developing its own plot constructions. 2 things you should know about how this will work: NOTHING will stay irrelevant forever, and ThreadStuck is trying and learning to be a better story. I know it seems really open-ended now (because it really is) but things will come together)



(and no food porn, unless you tell ThreadStuck that his story should have a quest for food porn )



(I hope between this and the OP, the way this should work makes at least a bit of sense. If it doesn't, I can try to explain more.)

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mightybuttonmasher said:

Threadstuck: can you make the beginning sound like it's some cliché story about a teenager that gets to be the unlikely hero in a dystopian world?

So, it looks like we're starting with the basics. Not a bad choice. Let's see what I can come up with:

In the future, the world is a dystopia. Society has collapsed and everything is falling to pieces. In general, life just sucks for everyone. BUT WAIT! There's still hope! Character #1, an average guy who was born between 13 and 19 years ago, can fix everythi-

Shush, you. They're SUGGESTIONS, not COMMANDS. I'M the boss here. Your commentary is not wanted or needed. Someone has decided to kickstart this. Let's get started, shall we?So, it looks like we're starting with the basics. Not a bad choice. Let's see what I can come up with:In the future, the world is a dystopia. Society has collapsed and everything is falling to pieces. In general, life just sucks for everyone. BUT WAIT! There's still hope! Character #1, an average guy who was born between 13 and 19 years ago, can fix everythi-

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Member Back to Top Post by cryptologicalMystic on No, he's already been named Character #1. It needs to have something related to the concept of 'first'.



I vote Asher Prime as a name. Maybe he's the son of someone at the top (or relatively close to the top) of the dystopic hierarchy, that got picked as the Chosen One in an unlucky quirk of fate.



Maybe he's a villain protagonist, who has the power to fix the world, but would rather it stay broken.



Asher Prime, evil genius who manipulates the heroes for his own ends; son of Faron Prime, one of seventeen oligarchs ruling with an iron fist over the country.