I want to write an interstellar omegaverse but i have problem with MC

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  1. Melikachan

    Melikachan Well-Known Member

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    Hi, how are you?
    So as title says i have a cool idea for an interstellar omegaverse novel but i have a serious problem with MC

    I need MC(Omega) to be a little ignorant of the way of the world, most of author use transmigration to solve this problem but i don't want to use such cliche move so i need your suggestions

    MC's description: Omega, Serious(sometimes cold), clever, he's sold to ML(Alpha) because only Omegas can give birth to Alphas
     
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    thisworldofmine1 Grandmaster of Danmei Cultivation

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    Maybe he's an orphan? Or a captured omega since he was out on the streets and not registered as an omega?
     
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    thisworldofmine1 Grandmaster of Danmei Cultivation

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    Or maybe he's a spy from a different country and went through the whole ordeal to get some documents/secrets that may be in the ML's possession.
     
  4. SerialBeggar

    SerialBeggar Hate your family? Got no friends? Gimme your stuff

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    Well, if the MC is "sold", then I assume he's a slave of sorts. If so, then he could be raised in a "farm" focused on breeding prime stock. And hey, you can even slip in the term "animal husbandry".
     
  5. Melikachan

    Melikachan Well-Known Member

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    Hmm i want to make him well raised even with serious racism against omegas in the story

    I like that idea:blobhyperthink: but i need to change the scenario for if
     
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    MR.Klein Well-Known Member

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    Amnesia is a good way to go. if you feel it cliched use agonasia
    make him a clone with a back up (kinda like altered carbon) and while transplanting/uploading the memories back he doesn't get it completely.
     
  7. Melikachan

    Melikachan Well-Known Member

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    That's more likely because there is serious racism against omegas in the world setting
     
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    Melikachan Well-Known Member

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    That's good because I was going to heavily focus on science to explain events in story
     
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    Melikachan Well-Known Member

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    Sorry i posted before writing anythingXD
     
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    leo.d. Well-Known Member

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    Okay how ignorant do you need him to be?
     
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    Teadragon Book Wyrm

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    So here are two things interstellar authors usually forget:
    1) Space is BIG! Think about the Earth and all the different cultures. Now images you have hundreds of worlds, both bigger and smaller than the Earth, and the massive variety of sub-cultures that would spring up. You could easily have someone raised ‘well’ on a more distant planet. What your MC think of as ‘proper manners’ and ‘high fashion’ would be looked down on in the place he travels to. Culture shock is real, and could slap your MC in the face.

    2) I admit this one is my personal pet peeve. Please, please use the terms ‘galaxy’ and ‘star system’ correctly in your novel!! Most interstellar authors have no idea what the definitions of those terms are, and they misuse them terribly. Galaxy are collections of a million to trillions of stars, gravitationally bound together. Average galaxy has 100 billion stars. Star systems typically have 1-2 stars (with a few having more stars, but any stars over four makes the system unstable). Star systems may or may not have planets, although most do have them. Unless you are aiming for a crazy cultivation novel, your characters should all be in and from the same galaxy.
     
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    I would recommend watching/reading/studying some stuff about chemistry, general science, economy, and politics too.

    I get that the space sounds cool and all that but lazy world-building ruins pretty much everything for people who knows even the most basic stuff about science.
     
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    Melikachan Well-Known Member

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    no worries XD I'm a science freak myself and i usually do complete research before writing about something but thank you for advice i will remember these:blobokhand:
     
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    You could go with a single parent situation. He would have one wealthy parent that never wanted him treated as an omega. So he was raised differently. But the parent dies suddenly and the ‘trusted’ family betray him for the inheritance and sell him off as soon as they find out he’s an omega.
     
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    Ignorant about how serious the racism against omegas is and world large gap between social classes
     
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    Melikachan Well-Known Member

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    That close to what i was looking for, thanks for your suggestion
     
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    Sheltered noble, common worker who never left the planet or has been in contact with planets controlled by their own civilization, soldier drafted for war, etc.

    I suggest you first create the opposing civilizations properly first and you will figure out what kind of enviroment will lead to your desired MC.
     
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    Melikachan Well-Known Member

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    Thanks for your suggestions i will put them in good use❤
     
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    melomarl Burning Red

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    Feels to me that he was raised somewhere in a rural planet if he's poor or a private one (like a planet owned by mc's parent or smth) if you want the cultured personality to be there.

    All in all the suggestions above are awesome already and looking forward for this work. Can you link it here once you post it?