Medieval War was the name I gave to a roleplay I did many years ago, and one that I still think back on from time to time. In my defense, I named it before any parts of the story were really established, characters included, but good lord, if I had put a little effort in. Regardless, it was both the first roleplay and the first story that I was able to put "The End" on, which is among a few reasons why it has stuck with me for so long, although in retrospect it was a mess, and incredibly uncreative. But I was like 12. Give me a break.
The story followed Hunter and Sage - two friends turned eventual lovers - as they attempted to put a stop to an uncoming war between monsters and humans. If that sounds dull, guess what, that's because that's hardly a basis for a story at all. There was really no planned direction for anything going in, and seeing as it was a public roleplay, several people would occassionally intervene. This provided for some strange twists that, in the end, really had nothing to do with anything.
On top of that, as has already been clearly evident, I was not on my A-game in the creativity department. I can not tell you how many things I lifted directly from other sources - namely Kingdom Hearts. And there's nothing wrong with emulating or taking bits and pieces of other stories that inspire you. But these were things I straight lifted and claimed as my own, and I was well aware of it at the time.
Not only that, but this was a time where my characters needed to win. They needed to be the most powerful, and the most capable. Anything ahort of an almighty god in a human's body with a heart of gold simply wasn't good enough for me. And I thought I was trying to put in moments of weakness, and show that there was more to my character than just a Gary Sue, but what I used were hardly weaknesses at all. There may have been consequences, but they were totally uneven. The closest I came to doing right was that he didn't live to see the end of the story - but he also took out every single monster with him singlehandedly. If that's not saying something about what stupid lengths I would go to, I'm not sure what would.
But I still enjoyed the characters in that story. I enjoyed seeing them evolve - specifically romantically - and I really enjoyed having a story that felt like it might actually be going somewhere. Although this was well after I had decided I wanted to be a writer, this was the first time I think I really got a taste for writing a full story.
It's just unfortunate that that first story was such garbage. Although I suppose that everyone's is.
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