Ever wanted something enough to make it happen? Even though it is highly unlikely? Well it happened for me, not without consequence of course. But I can get back to that later As all amazing stories start, it was a normal day like no other. I had just finished work. Back then I was a plumber, quite normal, quite boring, and quite stressful. Wanting to be something more than you are to me seamed normal But to the extent of obsession maybe not. I mainly wanted to release myself of my plain old human body and maybe make some sort of difference to the planet.
After that intensely bad day at work I felt infuriated and stressed beyond anything I had done before, Id had enough of this type of life I wanted to change it, I got myself worked up into a manic state of desire and began to research all sorts of supernatural occurrences. With humans and gaining abilities, as we know in this day and age all the amazing scientific and technological advances could easily make this possible. Well If I had the money or was willing to work for some sort of evil organization or didnt mind being prodded, poked and go through all the regular routine tests of human augmentation, that didnt sound good enough to me. Just as I was about to give up and return to my boring life a side article on humans unlocking abilities that already manifest inside themselves caught my attention, It was a complicated article explaining the dangers and how to do it safely and other things such as how long it takes for abilities to manifest, what sort of results are possible and why doing it should be seriously reconsidered. But as I said a crazed desire drove me, I must have been borderline insane to even attempt this. Fuelled with frustration and anger I pushed on hoping to become more than I was.
The article said the process had some sort of link to emotion and would yield different results, not necessarily what abilities would manifest but what could happen to your body and mind. Following the steps the article listed I focused on willing my mind to unlock something, I thought of cages opening, walls falling down and even busting out of an endless glass prison with huge energy blasts. The thoughts were vivid I felt as If I was there, I watched as the giant blue ball of energy shattered though the endless walls of glass the shards of glass twirled and spun as the light reflected off them, I chased the energy through the walls faster and faster, further and further I felt as if it would never end. I was unable to snap out of the coma like state, yet I was aware of my situation and that I wasnt physically here.
I was stuck I pushed on worrying about whether I would break out of this. I was no longer fuelled by anger but fear. Fear of being trapped in this chain of shattering glass. I kept going hoping to reaching the end would lead to my escape, I couldnt give up I couldnt stop. I was still pushing on but no longer touching the ground. I was flying faster and faster still wonder why it wouldnt end at that moment the energy sort of dissolved into the air and there were still a couple of solid walls of glass in front of me, I knew the glass could injure me I had been cut a few times running through and it did hurt but what else could I do?
I placed my palms on the glass and focused on my hands I thought about a flowing feeling to my palms after I felt I had gathered enough energy I released it shattering a single wall I could clearly see that the next wall was thicker I attempted the same method to no avail so I focused my body filling up with the same energy and took a head dive right through it as I broke through I awoke half way through busting my bedroom wall down.
The first thing I realised is that I FLEW THROUGH MY FREAKING BEDROOM WALL! My hands were burning and my head was hurting, but I had done it I had achieved what I had always hoped for. Unfortunately the celebration ended there I turned round to a dark shadowy figure that had such a familiar presence It felt as if it was part of me It flew through me draining me of all my remaining energy I dropped to the ground and watched the figure disappear into the night sky. I dropped off to sleep there and then. When I awoke I began to question the shadow I was sure it was part of me and must have separated from me due to all my negative feelings during the process what else could it be, no one was around. So have I unleashed some sort of evil upon the planet? Im sure it isnt the last Ive seen of it. For the meantime I had decided to work on my new energy powers.
Three weeks later, I was once again confronted by the dark being that faced me the night I gained my powers, this time he spoke. He called himself Coalition, He looked like me and sounded like me. He knew of his own origin and my theories were right, he is, or infact was part of me, He had my memories, he knew my weaknesses and my strengths, well the ones that I had before my rebirth. He was here to attempt to reunite with my body, but I would not be in control of it, he would be, and his power would double. That wasnt going to happen. It was apparent his own form hadnt completely manifested, in combat his abilities were only half the power of mine and he wasnt as fast. By the looks of it he was feeling impatient, he wasnt ready for this fight, probably the reason he was here in the first place, fusing with me would probably increase the rate he would get stronger. Knowing he was going to loose this fight he fled.
I registered myself as Gouitsu with UNTIL a month after confronting Coalition. I chose Gouitsu, thinking a name meaning Unification would be quite ironic. I also had a theory that I could fuse with Coalition with the benefits of doubling my power and still be in control. A day passed and I received a call. It was a request, a request for assistance at project greenskin. The first week I was there I was enrolled for combat training. They knew I was a rookie hero and had very little combat experience.
Throughout the next six weeks they taught me to better control my new found energy powers and taught me martial arts combat for situations when my powers could not be used. After my training had finished, Millennium City had been invaded. I had no time to do anymore training or do any missions, I was sent to help fight the invading Qularr
Couple of things, make sure you break up your story here so that it isn't one giant paragraph. Break it off in sections. Like...
After that intensely bad day at work I felt infuriated and stressed beyond anything I had done before, Id had enough of this type of life I wanted to change it, I got myself worked up into a manic state of desire and began to research all sorts of supernatural occurrences. With humans and gaining abilities, as we know in this day and age all the amazing scientific and technological advances could easily make this possible.
Well If I had the money or was willing to work for some sort of evil organization or didnt mind being prodded, poke and go through all the regular routine tests of human augmentation, that didnt sound good enough to me. Just as I was about to give up and return to my boring life a side article on humans unlocking abilities that already manifest inside themselves caught my attention, It was a complicated article explaining the dangers and how to do it safely and other things such as how long it takes for abilities to manifest what sort of results are possible and why doing it should be seriously reconsidered, but as I said a crazed desire drove me.
Change that comma to a period too, it'll make it so that sentence isn't so large. Also, perhaps to add to the sense that the character is telling the story, make it so the story itself is in quotations? Take his name and hyphen away at the beginning too, so it'd look more like this.
The Origin of Gouitsu as told by Goutisu
"Ever wanted something enough to make it happen?...."
Thanks for the advice it is very much apprechiated. I made changes to the things you mentioned and also added a few extra paragraphs. Adding in little filler bits, like information about Gouitsu's Nemesis, why his name is what it is and lead it upto where the game starts.
Id like to know what you think to the story and would like some help on fitting it into the tiny backstory box ingame.
How I could keep the basic jist of the story while cutting it down.
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Change that comma to a period too, it'll make it so that sentence isn't so large. Also, perhaps to add to the sense that the character is telling the story, make it so the story itself is in quotations? Take his name and hyphen away at the beginning too, so it'd look more like this.
Id like to know what you think to the story and would like some help on fitting it into the tiny backstory box ingame.
How I could keep the basic jist of the story while cutting it down.