Dartz Wrote:I'm sitting here having a hard time coming up with plots beyond "We're here having a good time with fictional characters in reality".Ah yes, basically my entire plot idea lol. Take one slice of life series, and combine it with another slice of life, and what do you get? I'm waiting for other people to come up with the main plot, and maybe I'll tag along.
For the initial storylines, I'm just going to be dealing with the trials of the refugee experience. I suppose I should do a little more research as to what that's actually like in real life, but it's a quite bit different in this case. None of the characters will suffer hunger, violence, or the kind of economic insecurity of real-life refugees. By transporting groups, they have the core of their emotional support networks intact. On the other hand, it's not an ordinary immigrant experience either -- they've been forcibly removed from their homes, and there is no way to return, or to even contact friends or family left behind. They've lost the majority of their possessions, and have to learn to live and work in a foreign land.
For the kind of soft series I'm writing, that's plenty of drama for now. The blows aren't anything above what the characters could handle. Chiyo-chan was going to America anyway, and all of them would be moving out for college. (Sakaki won't be doing vet school, as Vet Med comes after a bachelor's degree in the U.S.) Akari was actually a canon immigrant with very few Earthly possessions, so she'll be fine.
As for Dartz' problem, perhaps just have Washuu unavailable for a while? Cell phones could completely destroy plots, especially in horror genre, so maybe the cell phone just doesn't work, or it's "out of range". Apply the same principle to Washuu -- the attention of the greatest scientist who ever lived is as valuable as it is whimsical. And there's plenty of ordinary trouble one can get into on the internet, like trolling all of Reddit siumultaneously, hacking the Gibson, or taking a majority share of a cryptocoin by CPU power. Even if Washuu can undo most of the long-term effects, it can be pretty troublesome in the meantime.
(The answer is two slices of life, obviously.)
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