Recommendations Hivemind MC

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  1. Grand_Rider_Iskandar

    Grand_Rider_Iskandar Well-Known Member

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    Note: I'm specifically looking for MCs being a hive mind as the focus of the story. To be honest, I doubt I can actually find something without it being a Starcraft fanfic with the Overmind being the MC.

    Edit: Another example are the Misaka clones I guess.

    Yep. Something like the zergs. But I'm looking for something like the MC is the entire swarm itself. Every single unit is just like a part of uts body. There's that Starcraft x WH40k crossver fanfic I've read, but I don't like it and it's not a true hive mind.

    Just imagine it like our own body. The entire swarm is the hive mind's body. And just like our body, we have parts that we directly and indirectly control. We control our limbs directly to move it more accurately. Unlike the heart for example that We control indirectly. It literally only has one job, so our body just automates it. Pump blood, is the body active, then pump faster, is it at rest, them pump slower. If it stops working, we just fix or replace it.

    Or something inferior like eusocial insects. No. Not Chrysalis. The MC is not a eusocial animal. Not at all. He's literally just raising a bunch of slaves. He said it himself.
     
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    Soul of Negary perhaps? it’s quite close to what you are looking for
    The Mc can control germs, PLUS the mc himself is just a clusterfuck of memories and wills, so he isn’t a single entity
     
  4. Korose

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    Does it have to be bugs?

    Like, a nanite swarm mc is technically also a hivemind?

    Omnipocalypse Monsters on RR e.g. has a Shapeshifting Chimera that fused with a nanite swarm to become a chimeric nanite golem or whatever
     
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    Bright_Lucky_Star [Previously Known as OrdinaryUser] The Blessed One

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    Zorian Kazinski from MoL became a hivemind for several chapters.
     
  6. Grand_Rider_Iskandar

    Grand_Rider_Iskandar Well-Known Member

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    Nope. I only gave Zergs as an example since they're famous and that the majority of eusocial animals are insects. So yeah, it can be anything. Even a robot swarm.
     
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    But it's not the focus of the story.
     
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    AbsoluteNothingness Lumen De Aurora

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    Soul of Negary might fulfil what you are looking for.
    Starting from controlling germs with a soul, to becoming a soul virus, (the next stages are untranslated yet).
    Simply put, as the novel goes on, MC becomes less a single entity and more into a conceptual entity.
     
  9. Grand_Rider_Iskandar

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    Yeah, I remembered reading this. I was very interested until the steampunk was introduced. Holy hell, if you can make mechanized horses through steam, why stop there? And I really, really hate steampunk.
     
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    AbsoluteNothingness Lumen De Aurora

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    You should definitely read till the end, I found it great.