1. Thedamnedsaint

    Thedamnedsaint New Member

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    Creating male characters with powers that come from a female catalyst

    Discussion in 'Character Development' started by Thedamnedsaint, Apr 17, 2019.

    Okay so I have a character named Zane, and he has always had the ability to be empathic. Like if he walks into a room with several peolle he can feel everyones emotions and he hates it and wants to die. Also his father has been training him for something he never told him why though. So he resented him and his fathrr died mysteryiously. I need help creating more characters I have two sets and theys callrd Players in whats called The Game. Thwy will have to face eachother. Hr ends up having to have eves blood injected into him to gain his true power. He has to go into a dream state. Where he finally fights his father.
     
  2. Kalisto

    Kalisto Senior Member

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    I'm not sure I'm understanding your question. Your story sounds like it's solid enough premise to go with.
     
  3. GrJs

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    So, you've basically got a hunger games type world in the making and have some kind of blood bond between this Eve chick and Zane right?

    Just having her blood as a catalyst is kinda weird unless they're both the result of some genetic experiment, supernatural intervention or your world has a soulmate type system going on.

    Presumably the father has also kept Zane ignorant of much of the world so he doesn't have the resources to find out why his father is training him. Unless, of course, the father is part of secret organisation that kidnaps children to make them players in The Game in which the characters need a psychic bond to unleash both their powers to the fullest. That would explain the Empathy ability in Zane if they have to bond mentally and have some kind of blood ritual to fulfil whatever ritual that sets the bond.

    If that's the route you're taking here then you could easily have the information regarding the blood to unlock the powers be manipulated to Zane to make him believe he only needs to inject her blood to unleash his own full powers. But then you have to think about the consequences of that on whatever bonds the two.
     
  4. J. J. Wilding

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    From just reading what you have already, I would make each set of 'Players' twins. If you do that and you introduce to the reader the concept of a shared inherited power, the 'Game' between them suddenly has a lot on the line. I would then make it a fight to the death, the winning twin gaining the power of the dead twin. Zane doesn't want to kill his twin, for he learns before his 'Game' just what his father was grooming them both to become, so when he dies they use it to escape and run away.
     

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