Project W Post: April 2024 (Patreon)

Hey, everybody. It’s the end of April so it’s the one day of the month that I get to talk about Project W.

And this time I’m gonna tell you some info about the leading characters. The people you can fall in love with or have a very strong platonic bond with or neither, whatever you prefer. These are the facts-

1. There will be three of them.

2. I’m not gonna have romance/friendship options who each have the exact same gender/sex/pronouns.

3. I’ve decided there will be one male (he/him) guy ‘cause there weren’t any last time.

4. I haven’t decided who the leads are!

Yeah, even after all this time and hundreds of thousands of words of brainstorming. There are options here. Many paths lie before us.

Currently, I’m agonizing over a situation I have put myself into. Basically, I came up with a character concept to be a lead specifically. And part of this character is that they’re in a role and situation so unlikely to be a lead that it’s kind of amazing and compelling that they are. A big reason for that is because there’s what I’ll call a more “attention grabbing” character in their orbit. The problem is, I have made the attention grabber so attention grabbing even to myself that I’m wondering if they really should be a lead instead of that first idea, ahah. And I know the obvious solution is having them both be leads, but it simply won’t work. Not only would it be a bad call in a story with a lot going on to have two out of three leads be in such similar contexts within the world, but circumstances require at most one being a lead. Things don’t work between them if they both are. Technically neither has to be a lead, though I doubt I’ll go with that possibility.

So, I must choose. It is very upsetting to me. Of course, the one not selected to be a star is still gonna exist and will have a meaningful part in the lead’s story. But it does feel like I have to give up on something I want to do no matter what I decide.

I will add, there are other attention grabbers in the cast. If I did go with that as a lead maybe it’d even be overkill. However, there are other underdogs, too. I might have to leave this alone for now and focus on the two other lead positions, decide on them 100% first. Then I could choose an option between these characters that rounds the set of romance/friendship choices out best.

Well, that’s it for now. I can’t give much more details on the leads currently other than that I’m struggling with them. These “information posts” might sometimes just end up being me continuing the brainstorming process semi-publicly. That’s kinda neat in its own way, hopefully. Thanks for reading, haha.

Previous Posts----

January 2024 (Basic Info)

February 2024 (Time Period, world, and MC details) 

March 2024 (Story and release structures)