Help,I'm out of ideas on how to continue this fanfic of mine due to worldbuilding reasons

[lavosspawn1729]

My fanfic

So I've hit an impasse with my fanfic which is about a former overworked grad student , forced into a life he didn't want rediscovering himself as a Frogadier. In particular I'm not sure what kind of Pokemon world fits with the theme of this fanfic and what the equivilent of the guild and Wigglytuff should be in this fic and the main conflict on the Pokemon world's side should be(as well as whether or not to go for switching back and forth between the pokemon and human world).

Does anyone have any ideas on how to world build so that this story hits hard? Or for that matter is the premise of my story flawed so that the story becomes hard to continue.
I'd like some specific tips and guidance .

thank you.

 

[SparklingBlue]

If this were me, I'd turn the guild into a research guild, with a Noctowl as its head. I would mainly set it in your imagined Pokeworld, but show your hero's former human life in flashbacks.

What is the story's main theme? Being true to yourself? Learning where you truly belong?

 

[lavosspawn1729]

If this were me, I'd turn the guild into a research guild, with a Noctowl as its head. I would mainly set it in your imagined Pokeworld, but show your hero's former human life in flashbacks.

What is the story's main theme? Being true to yourself? Learning where you truly belong?

Well Long story short, yeah the main theme is learning where you truly belong and discovering your roots. The idea for this story came from my experience in undergraduate, which was a pressure cooker of an undergraduate experience(I've gone to one of the most academically rigorous schools in the country, and lets just say that the PMD and Breath of Fire communities have been one of the only things keeping it more sane and pretty much the de facto public forum during college[even though grad school is practically designed to take your time and I don't want to be here, so my time is limited] . Without PMD, I would have become a complete workaholic with 0 personality and empathy. ) . I've also seen just how much of a pressure cooker academia is first hand during grad school and the sheer amount of beauracracy and time stealing it really does and 100% agree with this blog: 100 reasons not to go to grad school . This is also designed as a criticism of cult like work places, with toxic positivity cultures.

 

[K_S]

If we are going for hits hard... and wanna skip flashbacks?

Well how about a world collides?

Have him be a hero in the mon world and a mundane drifter in the r.l. (perhaps pull a wolfwalkers where he advwntures when he dreams?) and as hus mon adventures get wider and wider and then eventually breech the mon's "forbidden territory" and he starts recognizing its a) human territory and b) his home town...


Itd add a certian odd kick to things.

 

[lavosspawn1729]

If we are going for hits hard... and wanna skip flashbacks?

Well how about a world collides?

Have him be a hero in the mon world and a mundane drifter in the r.l. (perhaps pull a wolfwalkers where he advwntures when he dreams?) and as hus mon adventures get wider and wider and then eventually breech the mon's "forbidden territory" and he starts recognizing its a) human territory and b) his home town...


Itd add a certian odd kick to things.

You know what, that sounds like a good direction to go in(although I haven't watched wolfwalkers, only song of the sea). Although I may have to change the pokemon he becomes because I was going to have him be in a bit more of a supporting role, and him being a Frogadier was symbolic of how ninjas were some of the most trustworthy people during Sengoku Jidai, and it symbolized him becoming one of the most important allies to one of the greatest heroes. Hattori Hanzo literally showed his loyalty to Tokugawa Iieyasu by driving back Shingen when he was down to only 5 men.

 

[K_S]

You know what, that sounds like a good direction to go in(although I haven't watched wolfwalkers, only song of the sea). Although I may have to change the pokemon he becomes because I was going to have him be in a bit more of a supporting role, and him being a Frogadier was symbolic of how ninjas were some of the most trustworthy people during Sengoku Jidai, and it symbolized him becoming one of the most important allies to one of the greatest heroes. Hattori Hanzo literally showed his loyalty to Tokugawa Iieyasu by driving back Shingen when he was down to only 5 men.

Basically the take away is the human body sleeps (and is very vulnerable) and the spirit/mind takes becomes a wolf (well mon in this case) and does its own thing until the person wakes up.

 

[lavosspawn1729]

You know what, that sounds like a good direction to go in(although I haven't watched wolfwalkers, only song of the sea). Although I may have to change the pokemon he becomes because I was going to have him be in a bit more of a supporting role, and him being a Frogadier was symbolic of how ninjas were some of the most trustworthy people during Sengoku Jidai, and it symbolized him becoming one of the most important allies to one of the greatest heroes. Hattori Hanzo literally showed his loyalty to Tokugawa Iieyasu by driving back Shingen when he was down to only 5 men.

it's a maybe

 

[K_S]

It alsonties into the duality of the ninja thing. Between him hiding in plain sight, being support in his r.l. life in a way, ect.