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Hi guys, this is just my idea dump for various VN ideas I have that eventually will be used (most probably haha).

No assets for them have been created. Any feedback for these ideas is appreciated.

IDEA 1:

This idea is a dark slice of life/romance game set in high school. The protagonist is a 17 year old boy from a high tier criminal family, who is brought back into his hometown and family home to act as a bodyguard to his sister. He lef because of a dispute when he was 8 with his father over why he had to learn martial arts and fight which turned violent, eventually causing a fire in the kitchen which scarred his face and torso incredibly bad on one side. Because of this he has deep psychological issues, particularly pertaining to how he finds the fact that he is naturally good at fighting (after having to constantly fend off bullies after the incident) and seeing himself as a monster. He left to stay with another crime family who are his family's long time allies after overhearing his younger sister compare his looks to a monster and telling his mother how his new face scared her. He also naturally has a dislike of fire, though whenever someone tries to instead use this fear to goad or scare him, he tends to break out in a blind rage.

The protagonist's personality is incredibly quiet and much of the VN will focus on his monologues and few interactions with the characters when he speaks up. His speaking tends to either be to pipe up with something incredibly cynical and sarcastic, or logical and insulting. He has a knack for pissing people off and witty retorts, but seldom uses it. Also has a childish love for pranks, though this is not ever shown outward due to his now incredibly introverted nature.

He also meets up with old childhood friends and new acquaintances through his sister. The interactions between these will be used to flesh out his character before the incident, and to flesh out the other characters.

Common Route: Consists of introducng and fleshing out the characters. Also there is a common route after the branching path, which sees the MC become incredibly obsessed with violent approaches and involved in the crime aspect of his family after finding out that someone was hired who was responsible for messing with the gas which caused the fire. This arc will completely focus on the MC and his psychology as he breaks down and desperately goes on a vengeance quest, essentially pinning all of his problems on this unknown person.

Childhood Friend Route: This route focuses on his male childhood friend and female childhood friend. Since the start of the VN, these two childhood friends are together as a couple. During this route the male friend and MC become close agan, and the increased interactions with the female friend ignite old feelings that the MC had for this girl. The girl also struggles with her reignited feelings, and eventually the two almost sleep together. This ends up with the MC using this to reinforce his vision as himself as a monster and spiralling more downward as him and the female friend become even closer as the couple become more estranged.

Sister Route: This focuses on the MC's family relations and their crime negotiations with varying families far more intensely. This route is used to flesh out the sister, the mother and the father. The father becomes ill and as the sister is still seen as the heir she must officially take over as the family head.

Stranger route: This route focuses on the one person the MC finds of his own accord during a walk to calm himself during the end of the common route (before branching). This girl is in crutches and has an illness which will eventually leave her in a wheelchair. This route focuses on the MC and the girl opening up to each other because of their similar deformities and eventually overcoming their issues together as they become closer and eventually fall in love. Has issues such as suicidal thoughts and attempting suicide in this route.

Only these routes are the ones I plan on certainly completing, however I am not against other routes for other characters happening.

IDEA2: This idea is a sci-fi space opera/war drama, similar in vein to that of the famous Gundam series, which will span multiple games.

Begins with a massive attack on one of the colonised planets by a different political human power. The MC is 5 at this point and by the end of the story he will be in his 30s-40s,probably dying at the end. Here is a rundown of the general arcs for each game. Each game will also have various side routes with a different side character as the main perspective in each one to flesh them out.

Arc/Game 1: Initial attack at the start. Widespread destruction on the MC's home planet and services and facilities are in absolute chaos. Military has been crippled by organsed strikes rendering communication and such almost impossible. Arc focuses on the MC and his heavily injured father attempting to find a safe space with food, shelter and medical supplies to heal the father as they struggle to stay alive in the now desecrated and chaos filled city. Ends with the dad dying, leaving the young boy on his own.

Arc/Game 2: The MC is now 14 and has been surviving solely on his own for the past nine years, the only remaining proof of his dad being a family photo. Having been taken in by a small band of people at the age of 7, the now very large and self sufficient group has him working in maintenance in their controlled part of the destroyed city to keep utilities like water and elecricity running. With the war still raging on above, but the MC's planet's army all but gone, the last few cities which were left intact and part of the government territory are reported to have fallen, which spreads panic throughout all groups. The ending is where a former military soldier rises up and tells everybody that she will lead them into aking their planet back.

Arc/Game 3: This is an arc that focuses on a completely different set of characters and a new MC from the side of the invading army. As a young soldier it focuses on his inability to come to terms with the fact that killing these people is just, his father commanding the mass killings and that it feels like a slaughter at times. Has a romance throughout the game, however during the climax his lover is killed in an on foot raid on the previous MC's group, which ends with the other MC killing this one's lover.

Arc/Game 4: Focuses on former MC again, and records the events within the time space between the ending of Game 2 and the ending of Game 3. The soldier has been given power by the people and makes the group more militaristic, swallowing smaller groups and focusing on guerilla warfare on the enemy whilst scavenging military tech such as mech robots and ships to repair and fortify themselves. The MC enrolls in the armed forces to try and help out, going on several recon missions, one wih the commander herself. During this mission she says he has great potential, and afterwards they interact more and more after she offers to train him in combat in various disciplines. Eventually this leads to them having a pseudo Mother/Son relationship with one another and him idolising her in an unhealthy, almost obsessive light. As her command and the group's power and reputation become increasingly known, the enemy eventually strikes back with full force after a still intact and functioning industrial city is taken over. This leads to an airstrike and the ground mechs/on foot attack where the MC takes on a full combat role as they lose tons of ground and eventually has his first kills.

NOTE: Arc3 and 4 take place over the course of several years.

Arc/Game 5: This focuses on the retreat and recuperation of the group, as they attempt to strategise their survival given the heavy defeat. Faith has been lost in the commander, barring the MC and his idolising of her. Also, each chapter switches between the MC and the third arcs MC as he mourns his lover's death and upon learning the killer becomes obsessed with revenge. Ends with another massive attack, this time ending with a face off between both MCs, which leaves the MC from Arc 1,2 and 4 heavily injured and crippled. The commander for the small guerrilla group is also fatally injured during this last attack.

Arc/Game 6: MC survives after the commander demands that they use her organs to transplant into him to keep him alive. He is also heavily crippled, so they force a metal endoskeleton onto his skeleton and give a mechanic prosthetic left arm to replace the one he lost. The second MC is now a commanding officer for the space division surrounding the planet, and this arc focuses on him accepting his lover's death and eventually falling in love and marrying. The first MC becomes a squad commander after recovering and is sent to once again secure and hold the industrial city until the rest of the group can move their resources there to work on the army ships and mechas the city was creating before the war began. Ends with them successfully defending from an attack this time.

Arc/Game 7 (Final Arc so far): Another few years pass, and now both MCs are the supreme commanders on their respective sides. However, the invading MC has taken a far less active approach on the frontline due to now being married and having a child. However, his thirst for vengeance once again boils when it is revealed that the MC is still alive and commanding what remains of the enemy forces. The defending side have now successfully maintained and fixed the ships, and now having re-established contact with other surviving groups organise a planet wide offensive on both the held cities and the surrounding space fleet. The MC commands the fleet during the offensive, and both face off in a battle of tactics in a massive space battle wih both ships and mechas, reminiscent of classic Gundam. With the planet's MC still being far more active on the battlefield, he eventually enters a mech himself after gearing up with everything from portable shields to grenades and storms the opposition's flagship himself. After hacking into the network to disable cameras and sentries (with the virus constantly being fought so each MC has control of 50% of the ship) he charges through the ship killing any guards until they face off again. Ending still unknown.

Final idea is a short one.

Follows a lone survivor through an apocalypse as he trudges home with a heavy injury from fighting a hostile monster. Focuses on only one character and his flashbacks to a time when others were around, his broken mind and his desire to embrace his own death as he sits in his hut pathetically bleeding out.

This is my current project as well, it will be around 20-40k in word count and I plan to have the writing done before I go back to college in summer. Manipulation is on hiatus due to me wanting to make sure that I have more experience for such a large writing project.