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The story will take place during Luka's quest across the land with Alice. His heroic deeds and adventures will become a popular topic of conversation in human towns and cities, and the main character will eventually learn about them and identify with Luka's views on coexistence between humans and monsters.

 

This is where multiple ideas come into play. The main character could have had a past experience with monsters, or have never even seen one before.

 

a. The main character met a young monster child at a young age after accidentally getting lost in the woods. The monster child helps him get out of the forest and back to his parents, but the boy often returns to the woods to play and spend time with the monster girl. The parents eventually discover this and forbid him to go back to the woods or come into contact with monsters ever again, telling him how they're all evil creatures that will hurt him. The monster girl he befriends could either become his romantic interest later in the story, or simply be physical evidence of the fact that not all monsters are bad or dangerous, an opinion that the main character still has in the back of his mind, despite years of being told otherwise by his parents.

 

b. Because the main character has never left town and, by extension, never seen an actual monster before, his views on them are not completely accurate and he underestimates the potential danger of some species of monster. Not expecting anything dangerous or threatening, he blindly goes into the woods outside of town and is confronted by either a single monster, or a group of them. They are malicious and violent, just like everyone in town said they would be, and the main character begins to believe that it's possible that all monsters are evil and violent. At this point, after receiving a slight beating from the monsters, he will be rescued by another monster. It can either be the child monster he befriended earlier in life if that story idea is used, or an entirely new character. This monster that saves him by either scaring or fighting the other monsters away or convincing them to leave him alone through words will likely become his romantic interest, a symbol of every positive quality that monsters can possess.

 

Either way, his romantic interest, a monster, will be used as a symbol of all of the good qualities that the main character sees in monsters, and his reason to fight for coexistence.

 

Most likely going to go with option b since it allows for more action and development. The monster that saves him could be abducted or defeated by the opposing monsters in a physical confrontation, and the main character could go on a quest to rescue her. That would provide a basis and a general direction for the entire story. This would require me to pick a very good initial group of monster villains from the beginning, and create a believable situation for them to be so close to civilization, as the main character hasn't yet ventured very far from his town. To create a general sense of constant conflict and danger, the main character could encounter different types of monsters on his quest, just like Luka does. He could learn things from them in addition to knowledge about the motives and location of the monsters that have his romantic interest.

 

He could first encounter his romantic interest in the forest before any other monsters, and she could talk to him and walk around with him for a while, and they could exhibit attraction and chemistry to establish their potential for a relationship. Eventually, they could get separated, or the monster could go back to her village, or something could happen to separate them, but she would come back to rescue him when he was being attacked by other monsters. They abduct her and escape with her instead of hurting the main character.

 

From here, it basically unfolds into a complete story.

 

He goes back to town, quite traumatized by the whole event. After doing a little thinking, he realizes how much he connected with the monster girl he met in the short time that they had interacted. He decides that he should find her and rescue her. It would be wrong to simply let her be taken by those bad monsters.

 

He trains with a sword and starts working out for a few weeks, preparing for his journey. He leaves town and begins his quest.

 

It takes him to various settlements and environments where he meets a variety of humans and monsters that are both for and against coexistence on either side, he goes to monster settlements for information about the monsters that abducted his romantic interest, and he learns much about that and monsters and humans coexisting before he finally finds them.

 

His romantic interest is a young Kitsune.

 

Tamamo could possibly help him save her during the final confrontation.

 

They could get married at the end, or just be together.

 

The monsters that take her don't want coexistence, and believe that if the human rescues the Kitsune, they could use his invasion of their territory and violent acts as a way of making a strike against humans justified.

 

At his lowest point, when it seems that his hopes of finding and rescuing her are lost, he could have an encounter with Alice that either hints at Tamamo helping him, or basically just encourages him to keep going for it.

 

Main character is quiet and shy, but intelligent and very open about monsters and humans coexisting. He is quite traumatized after his encounter with the enemy monsters, but must get past his fear of conflict and danger to save the Kitsune. He longs for a partner to simply love and be loved by, and she is the perfect example of everything he wants in a partner.

 

The romantic interest herself is a friendly Kitsune, but she shares some personality traits with the main character. She is sweet, shy, and rather quiet, but identifies with the main character because they both love relaxing and sleeping.

 

Needs chapters or scenes focusing on the Kitsune. She could temporarily escape from the monsters or overhear their plans to start a war with the humans in her time as a captive. Escape scene where main character finds her and attempts to sneak away with her. They almost escape, but the boss monster finds and confronts them. This is where Tamamo would likely help. If not at that moment, she would help the main character penetrate the area where she is being held.

 

Scenes where she is left alone in her captivity with just her thoughts would be important. She could elaborate on her feelings for the human and her hopes for him rescuing her.

 

The various monster settlements the main character visits will be where he goes for information about the monsters that abducted the Kitsune. Some will be helpful and support both his quest and his views on coexistence, while others will not be so helpful, and even give him trouble for it. The human settlements will not be a source of any information about the monsters or their location, but humans will give their opinions about monsters. Some will support coexistence, while others will be just as against it as the violent monsters.

 

Stay away from sequencing the story like the game. The main character won't go to a new settlement and fight a different type of monster with a boss at the end like Luka does. That would be boring and redundant. If anything, there will be one particularly violent monster civilization where a confrontation could take place, and possibly one human settlement that's also like that.

 

Kitsune village is also a big thing. Should the main character go there for help in getting back the Kitsune? Tamamo could be away from the village when he visits. The residents could either shun him or not believe his story because of lack of trust, or let him in to ask Tamamo herself for help, if she happens to be there. I'd like Tamamo to be a big surprise character, though, so it might be better to have her appear for help without warning or foreshadowing prior to her appearance.