The World Was Destroyed, and I had to Fight for the Right to NOT be the Main Character.

  This isn’t a story I planned on writing, but to be fair, few of my stories were planned. But this one came about in a slightly more convoluted way than most.

  It starts with my co-scripter making a resolution to write and post a chapter a week of a story to a furry site, and sending me his first chapter. I send him mine, he sends me his and we comment. It’s how we do things.

  I read it, commented, he replied, made alteration where things I’d pointed out needed to be adjusted, and I ask more questions, and then I asked this one.

  “Do you mind if I write my version of this with a character of my own creation?”

  He said yes, and I wrote it. This wasn’t to impress him, or to start a story. It was just to get the bug out of my head. I sent it to him.

  His first comment was that I got a lot of stuff wrong, starting with the Celestial Secretary. I pointed out that yes, I got stuff wrong, because, unlike him, I don’t know all the rules of the world.

  He asked if I minded him doing a rewrite to address those mistakes, and I said go for it.

  A few days later he tagged me the goggle doc saying he’d reached a point where he needed the character’s input, and instead of guessing at how I’d write him, did I want to look at the question and give him the character’s answers?

  So I did.

  In reading what he’d written, I inserted things where he had the character’s reaction wrong. And sent that to him. He kept writing until another place he needed the characters input and gave me the doc and that lead to a series of back and forth between him and me as the two characters involved until we reached the end.

  And if not for one detail among that, this wouldn’t have become a story.

  But first I need to back up and give you some context to the story.

  My co-scripter had decided on a LitRPG Isekai. His twist on the idea was that instead of being the summoned hero, his character, and everyone else in the world, died as collateral damage of the hero’s summoning. The deaths were on such a scale that the celestial administration(I think that’s my term for them) gave everyone a chance to be summoned to other worlds as refugees.

  His character went through the process and ended up on a world.

  When I wrote my version, I had my character end up on that same world for no other reasons then it was the only world I knew of.

  As part of the back and forth when came the time of making the selection of the character’s species, which would dictate the world he’d end up on, he created a different world for each of the species, and I made a conscious effort not to pick the one landing him on that world just because it was the only world I knew of, but to look at the options provided, the descriptions, and what would be expected and go with that.

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  And in the end, the species the character picked landed him on that same world.

  Or so I thought.

  When I pointed that out, he said that no. That species is on a different world. Hadn’t I noticed the different name? I had, but hadn’t paid attention to the detail. His world was in another part, which he expected me to have the character chose as none of those provided should have fit him.

  So then, as part of the continuing interactions between the character and the Celestial Secretary she had to add details to the world the character would be going to. This my Co-scripter made up on the fly, because, like me, he didn’t think this was leading anywhere other than us passing the time.

  And it was, until it was all done and I read it over and my mind started spinning up. I didn’t get a story then. Just ideas. The big one being the character’s first moment on that new world, along with one or two more.

  Immediately, I asked if he was okay with me doing a rewrite to bring this all under ‘my voice’. He said yes.

  One detail I knew from the start was that this character wouldn’t be a willing protagonist. As he keeps saying, he isn’t main character material.

  Still no story.

  As I rewrote what ended up being the first three chapter, because we had put over 9000 words in the ‘opening’, more ideas came, these involving interactions, the character doing something, making decisions and actively trying to fight against being a main character.

  I had a story. Well, more of a character plotline/arc. Something playing off who the character is to force him to get involved.

  The back and forth was also fun in and of itself. I firmly believe I write decent story, but everything about them is crafted to allow the story to happen. So, without telling him anything of my story idea. I asked if he was willing to provide me more details on the world, which he did. Then, I asked if he’d be willing, when I asked, to provide story elements? He said yes.

  So I asked for the location the character was summoned to, the people involved in summoning him(well the group he’s part of), and what they wanted out of the group. He provided me that information and immediately justified the process in giving me a location I hadn’t accounted for in my ‘planning’. One I’d never have planned for.

  See, the Secretary described the world as fantasy medieval like.

  I don’t know about you, but to me, that brings up one and only one kind of setting The English Country Side. All my plans were made with that setting in mind. In one scene I had a character abandon the MC after an argument and just walk off into the woods.

  The setting my co-scripter gave me? An Egypt equivalent. Think the Nile, with lush fertile lands along it and desert everywhere else.

  How was I going to get that character to walk off after the argument if they’re in a desert? That one detail forced me to consider new directions. And I needed that.

  Alright. So you now have how this came about. What can you expect from this?

  This is going to be Furry, but I not all that in depth. It’s more because of my co-scripter’s target audience, and his preference. I’m keeping it as is, even if I know furry isn’t much of a draw here, out of respect for his setting.

  This is going to be Gay. The main character is gay. He will be attracted to men. If you aren’t okay with that, this story is not for you. There will be NO explicit sex, but it will most certainly be implied to have happened.

  This is a Pleasure project. That means chapters will be posted when I’m done with them, and not on a fixed schedule. They also won’t be overly edited. You’re getting a first draft written between my official projects. The only way I’d be willing to change any of that is if I were paid to write this story. So don’t expect it to happen.

  With all of that out of the way. If you’re read this far. I hope you enjoy this. I am certainly going to have fun writing it.