>Writing a short story about a kid touched by the spirit world/magic/

What? You're not making any sense

>>9193107
It sounds like ALL you have for this story is what your character looks like. That is not a foundation for a story. Take your image conscious self-insert YA genre fiction somewhere else.

>>9193107
>out of nowhere from somewhere

Your book is going to be great.

>>9193107

>somebody found the kid as a baby and raised him

Too similar to Elf or the Jim Carey Grinch movie. Go with the former option. Makes him more mysterious too.

Do the horns symbolize DUDE NOBODY UNDERSTAND ME?

>>9193166
Shut your whore mouth. the 21st century's christmas specials did not invent that.

>>9193180

Name one other story where the main character is a mysterious outsider who was discovered as a child and raised by loving parents.

Protip: Fuck you.

I'd read it if there were sex scenes with the kid and older women.

>>9193202
he didn't even mention older women, lol wtf

your mind is filthy, anon

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>>9193107
I too, played Megami Tensei: Nocturne

HELL BOY

>>9193107
>>9193273
>>9193293
>>9193180
about 700 rpgs, including a bunch of demos I forgot the names of.

"I'm a weird space baby that maybe can travel through time, also I have weird hair and spooky eyes"- That's like basic anime rules. There are slice of life anime with this premise for fuck's sake.

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>>9193273
Wasn't Nocturne actually inspired by Nietzsche's philosophy? It's probably more /lit/ than most of what this board reads desu.

>>9193553
Video games inspired by [Insert any philosophers] usually just namedrop a bunch of concepts and play the philosophical concepts straight.

i.e : Xenogears.

>>9193666
Meh, I never played xenogears, but nocturne seemed a bit more subtle about it than your describing. Definitely more worthwhile than whatever OP is working on.

>>9193553
I think SMT has potential to be interesting but it constantly undermines itself by making all the non neutral choices too extreme

>>9193107
i think your best bet with that kind of thing is how you want to show his character. if he's other worldly he's found, if he's sympathetic he's born.

i'd go with the way they do the judge in blood meridian -- find him in the middle of the wilderness somewhere or something. just enough to be uncanny

good luck on your ya novel op

>>9194923
That's why I liked how nocturne does away with the traditional law/neutral/chaos endings. Although, in SMT I the neutral ending basically requires you to kill your old party members and that's sort of the downside to making that choice is your leave a trail of bodies in your wake, I wished they had done some similar things in later games, like make it the utilitarian choice that has some sort of heavy cost to pull off.