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Newton Catcher really is like, the reverse Frankenstein. He creates an artificial human and loves his creation so much, but his creation rejects his love and hates him, but he still loves him, he attacks his creator and leaves but he is still loved, he haunts Newton for years and years and years, constantly reappearing in his life to try and kill and ruin him and he still loves him, he is so much stronger than his creation, he could obliterate every piece of his being, he could destroy the very concept of his creation and erase him from history, but he cannot bring himself to do so, he cannot bring himself to hate his child, every time his creation comes to kill him he tries to reason with him, tries to get him to not hate him, and his creation understands the hatred is irrational, he knows there is no reason for it, but cannot stop hating his creator any more than his creator could stop loving him. Even when he integrates the last remaining shard of Newton’s worst enemy, the being that made his entire existence a living hell, that made so many others into monsters, that made the universe fuel for its cruel unending war, the only being Newton truly hates, he cannot bring himself to hate his creation still, and when his creation thinks he has won, and that shard begins to grow and take over his body, revealing he was just a pawn to it, that he only mattered in his ability to get rid of his creator, Newton steps in and destroys the shard, prevents it from killing his creation, he could have let the shard kill him, and then destroyed it, the two beings that hated him most in the universe would be gone, but he let his creation live, and his creation gazing upon the visage of his creator, realizing he is not dead, realizing he has saved him, the hate bubbling up again, the creation restrains his own hand from reaching for a weapon to attempt to strike his creator down, the creation still hates, still hates with a fury of a thousand suns, still hates his creator more than anything in the universe, but he stops himself, he runs away before the hate can overpower him, make him attack his creator, and Newton smiles knowing it was not in vain, knowing not giving up on Micheal was the right choice, knowing he’s finally getting through to his creation, that finally in the end, after three trillion years of hate, a bit of the creator’s love finally grew onto his creation

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Least developed concept in your story? Specifically world or technological building

Hmmm, I feel like technology is pretty well developed, there is one thing though, The Afterlife Complex. So the way it used to be was this: when someone died their body created something called an “imprint” which is an almost imperceptibly small amount of energy basically serving as a Blackbox recording of the person (they’re ghosts okay?)

Now this worked out fine and dandy for a while, imprints would fade away relatively quick and when they were around there wasn’t enough of them to really interfere with anything, but then there gets to be enough of them they start being able to interact with things with a large amount of them working together, the Orb and Obelisk (the two gods waging an eternal war) don’t like this one bit, so they have this farmer guy named Milo Lancaster turned into a being called The Harvester which just kind of ate all the imprints.

Enter Newton Catcher, really important guy, he catches wind of this and is like “hey that’s kind of fucked up”, and secretly starts building the afterlife, eventually the Orb finds out and he justifies it because if the Obelisk ever somehow wiped out a bunch of people theoretically they could be brought back, and he gets permission to finish the project.

After Newton kills the Orb and Obelisk he starts renovating the afterlife, it is basically just a set of a near infinite amount of worlds it’s inhabitants can exist in, and it is constantly expanding to house more inhabitants. There isn’t a “hell” to it, exactly but there is varying levels of good places, it is rare that someone enters the afterlife and goes to one of the worse places, but it does happen, it works like this: The person’s imprint arrives at the afterlife and is “repaired” (when you go from human being to imprint there is data loss) using data from the Historian’s Archives (historians are immortal beings that can travel through time at will, their only real purpose in existence is catalogue everything that has ever happened). Then the imprint is evaluated by an AI that was made to be as impartial as it could be, the vast majority get through this just fine but if it flags an imprint a council who’s members are kept extremely secret (we do know it does include two Historians) judge the person and decide on where they should go in the afterlife (this is never permanent, the less good planes of existence are focused on helping the imprint become a better person), if they cannot get a decision it becomes a public vote between all members of the afterlife, this has never happened before.

There’s only been 4 people who ever escaped from the afterlife, they’re a group called Sector Two. You see, Newton Catcher was the result of a program where the basis was “how fast can we take an ordinary guy and make him extremely powerful” and he was fully expected to die during this, he was just a test run, Sector Two was going to be a replacement for him, but then Newton didn’t die, so the Orb trapped Sector Two in a simulated hellscape as storage until Newton killed the Orb and they escaped. They proceeded to have adventures through the universe until getting killed by a fungus hotel. So, right before their imprisonment Sector Two helped make the plans for the Afterlife Complex, Newton thought he had found everyone who knew about the Afterlife and erased their memories of it but missed Sector Two because the Orb did not want Newton to know about them, so they knew about an emergency escape passage and the way to get it open, which hadn’t been changed because there was no reason to have changed it, and then outside of the Afterlife managed to get back into corporeal form. Newton found out and was like “Ok I’m not going to kill you guys but I do need to erase your memories of the Afterlife, deal?” and they agreed and went back to their normal life, and they’re still alive to this day.

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Any characters you haven't super fleshed out yet that you love, but either are so new or haven't been tied in yet, so you don't have a ton about them?

Oh just, so many, the newest like member of the main cast is something called “The Spectre”, it’s an entity that jumps from person to person looking for people with grudges and basically makes whoever it attaches to immortal until the grudge is taken care of.

Another character I need to flesh out is Cecylia I think, she was one of the main four characters in the like original main storyline, but left early on because she had a life to get back too and didn’t want to keep hanging out on some farm that shouldn’t exist messing with powers beyond her comprehension. Though following that she became the only long term successful rebel leader against the two gods fighting a cruel, never ending, and ultimately useless war. She’s very impulsive and hurts peoples feelings a lot, though most of the time she doesn’t mean to, but at her core she’s a good person. I haven’t really done a large storyline focused on her which I think is a big shame, she lives on a pirate spaceship called The Songbird with her crew and cocaptian, who is a cat (this is because one of the cats I had early in life was named Captain, the cats name is Martin in the story and I put him in as a sort of memorial to Captain), having adventures through the universe, I just think I’d be fun.

There’s also the two hunters, Hunter Ouroboros and Hunter Mobius. They were originally partners in crime before mutually deciding to betray each other and from then on spend every second of their lives hunting down the other and planning to kill them. They enjoyed it, a lot, Ouroboros eventually won and established The Hunters Game, where anyone could join and partake in the jolly sport of hunting. I’d like to flesh out more what they were like before the hunt fully consumed them, because that’s when we meet them, we don’t really know what they were like before then, what kind of people they were.

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Hardest part of coming up with ideas for plot?

Hmmm, honestly for me it’s weeding out the bad ideas, I’m like constantly thinking of new ideas for plot lines and I only usually go with a couple out of dozens, so I have to consider which ones I want and which ones I don’t like as much. I do have a thing I like to call “My Mind’s Compost Bin”, it’s like a concept where I just sort of halfheartedly remember scrapped ideas, and whenever I’m thinking of new plot points I’ll sometimes remember something from the “Compost Bin” and be like “Oh with a little reworking that could fit really well here!”

There’s also the problem of remembering and trying to keep everything consistent, because when you’ve been creating a world for a very long time you’re bound to forget something (Did you know Tolkien started writing the Hobbit because it was originally a bedtime story he would tell to his children, but when they called him out on getting details wrong in it from the last time he told the story he started writing it down?). That’s really the reason I started writing at all in the first place, I wanted to have everything down so I could have a reference.