AN: This is what started my hobby of coming up with stupid story ideas, so I’m going to finally put this on paper.
Anyone who reads web-comics knows the idea, a character is introduced as a weakling, and in the first couple episodes, they get some life-changing event and somehow end up with a secret ability, making them incredibly powerful. The problem with this style of story is nobody would care if that character actually just died. The readers don’t know the character, they feel no attachment to the character, they don’t care about the character. My idea with Gun Knight could really be any sort of story, Gun Knight is just what came to my mind originally. The story of Gun Knight follows a, believe it or not, knight. Just a regular knight, wields a spear, goes on quests, and you continue to follow his story of just a regular knight. He’ll make companions, he’ll develop his skills, but he won’t get a gun.
After this story has been going on for a while, say, 30 chapters, and the readers can actually feel a connection to the MC, he’ll take on some quest, the biggest one yet, to, say, kill the dark lord. The knight will take his companions and embark on the journey. He’ll fight against the forces of evil, and eventually confront the dark lord himself. And he’ll lose. Our MC, the one the readers have gained an understanding of, the one the readers actually care about at this point, will be on the brink of death, and only then, would he acquire his gun. An angel or something will fly down from the heavens, and finally gift our knight with an m1911. The knight can use that to defeat the dark lord, and more story will be added on.
The main idea is to show the character living a life, make them an actual character the readers can root for, before you put them in the near death situation. Before you give them the deus ex machina that saves them and makes them powerful. It doesn’t have to be a knight, or a gun, it just needs to make the readers care whether or not the MC dies, otherwise you could end up with a story where the MC legitimately just dies at the beginning and nobody cares.
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