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My MC’s a teen hero who forms a rebellion against his dystopian government with the help of other heros. His mentor Rafa, is one of the most powerful heros yet he doesnt stop his government mostly due to fear of being a wanted criminal. He has more power than them yet doesn’t use it

Most of what he does at first is just what anyone would do. He scolds and goes to extremes to stop the rebellion in order to keep his mentee safe. He doesn’t care about the the citizens, just keeping someone he personally knows safe.

Near the end is when he does cross bad person territory, as he sells out the rebellion excluding his student to try to protect just the Mc. And eventually when the Mc is captured, he watches frozen in place, being too scared even now to save his student.

But in the beggining, i don’t have much else for how to make him morally gray and not just a responsible adult trying to stop a a dangerous rebellion plan

The characters in my story are kids, so I do write scenes of regular hang outs, doing dumb stuff, playing sports etc, a friend read what i currently have and told me that those scenes always have to tie back to advancing the plot/conflict somehow or else just remove them

This is my first story so is she right or do you just have to balance it well

My story is set in a fantasy environment, with kingdoms, creatures etc. The main conflict is the main characters starting a rebellion against the government that steals resources and oppresses other kingdoms, threatening to quit protecting them from the evil creatures if they fight back

Advancing the plot for my characters would be, fighting the government officials while evading them. But I also want to explore the fantasy side of my story since the wilderness in my world is a place where you could find any creature or town etc.

But I don’t really know how to fit this into the main conflict, sometimes I would like to have a secondary conflict between the characters and a creature they encounter but Im not sure how to tie it back in to the main conflict

Im talking about shows like avatar, adventure time etc not shows like bluey with no overarching plot. Why did hour long 8 episodes start becoming the norm

If i want to write a superhero horror story, If a villain walks into a room of full of people, I feel like there would be more suspense or it would be scarier for the audience if the villain was maybe strong enough to punch a human so hard they crack a wall. But for some reason I just can’t feel that same way if the villain is superman world ending level of strong.

Or feel more impact at a hero struggling but managing to lift a car off someone than them struggling but managing to push a comet back to space

For about a year ive been making a story in my head but since i didn’t intent to actually try to make it a real book, its very scrambled almost like the marvel universe where there are so many plotlines and settings in one world. Im finally deciding to write this story but I don’t know on what to focus on so its not cluter. My story is sorta like AOT(humans surviving and hunting monsters that hunt them). The humans in my story survive in a magical world trying to kill them, seems like enough, but at the same time the B plot of it is the main characters trying to rebel against their government (which is basically a just a big evil company) which is a completely different thing. So I have 2 plots, one where i think i could get more creative with, having the Mcs explore a magical world where they could encounter anything but i also have the idea of them being a rebellion which I feel would be fun to write.

I know I can simply just make 2 different stories, but im so attatched to this world and characters that if i did seperate them, i wouldnt feel any attatchment to the second story

In my story there are both superheros and supernatural creatures that roam earth. For the human side, its pretty easy, imagine a human living in a cabin seeing a creature outside at night and having to hide during a break in. But for the hero characters i feel like its more difficult. Since horror relies on the helplessness, while action/superheros are about power which makes them not helpless.

Since them encountering a creature wouldn’t be scary, it would just be a good vs evil battle. Maybe i can make the ones they encounter be stronger, but how would i convey that to the audience. Its like trying to imagine superman in a horror movie, it just takes away from the horror

The theme of my story is about those who turn a blind eye to wrong. Centuries ago,KORPS a secretly evil government found a sentient magic source, that they planed on using for their own gain. This magic source knowing their intentions, set a seal where someone could only awaken their magic the moment they found out KORPS was evil. In hopes that every magic user would by default know their plans and be able to stop it

Centuries later, there are thousands of magic users, yet not one has stopped KORPS. Despite them awakening their magic the moment they whitnesses KORPS doing a bad action. The main character is one of these but unlike the others, he fights to put korps down and he also had moral arguments on other magic users who turned the other way despite having the power to stop KORPS.

Yet i want to explore my world’s magical side, like hidden civilizations, magical creatures, yet since i don’t know how to tie them back with the theme, they would be filler and im not sure if thats okay