A Story Idea

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Recent feelings of irrational biterness and resentment have motivated me to write a storyline based on it, and quite an early one as well. If this is what helps me work through my frustration, then I'll do it.

Anyway, in Asterism, many characters have objects called Attachments that can heal them if they're injured, but there's some kind of corruption that can affect them which can result in the characters becoming Misunderstood - that means they become a version of themselves based on negative perceptions of them, which inreases their own negative feelings. Very often, they'll demand some kind of catharsis, which they will try to obtain by taking out their negative feelings on people they believe have wronged them. They also take on the physical traits of the personifications of their Attachments, resulting in some rather terrifying appearances, which don't really help matters.

 

Here is someone who became Misunderstood, resulting in his irrational grudge towards a celebrity turning into a hatred that drives him to make hateful posts online and eventually kidnap said celebrity. His design is meant to be based on a few different corvid birds. When he's not Misunderstood, though, he looks quite different.

The thing is, Misunderstood people all want to be changed back, so, consciously or not, they sabotage their own actions or do something that they believe will lead to them getting the catharsis they desire. The main conflict comes from different characters trying to find the right away to placate someone in a way that will satisfy everyone involved. One character believes that the Misunderstood person shouldn't get what they want because then they won't learn from it, based on her own experiences from childhood where people gave her what she wanted whenever she was unhappy, until they didn't, and she had to adjust to it the hard way.

Not every Misunderstanding is the same, of course, especially if someone has enough self-hatred and believes they don't deserve any catharsis of any kind.

Some day I'll be able to share enough of these stories. Maybe if I had some more motivation in the form of dreams or grudges... 

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