Idea X Change

[Sir Kiken]

Perhaps he was bred for a purpose that he didn't fulfill and would have been killed had it not been for _____.

Maybe he is a product of rape or something and was going to be destroyed until _____ was discovered about him.

He grows up rough and doesn't fit in so he sets out as a mercenary until he meets up with _____ who changes his life forever.


I dunno. Does that help at all?

[Dirt]

yeah still not sure I keep getting side tracked on all my thought processes

[The Chronic Dragon]

You'll figure something out. I often have similar problems. For example:

This is a story I have in the works. A genius inventor uses already existing technology to create a practical suit of armor which when activated grows almost instantly from a minute computer embedded in the skin. But he gets gipped by the company that buys it, and spends 36 years developing the armor into an extremely powerful version, just out of pure spite (he goes a little bit nuts in there somewhere as well). Somehow, the main character gets this armor at a young age, and it is vastly different than the model now being used by the military. My trouble is that I can't come up with an event which allows for the character to get the armor when he does so it is believable, or at least plausible. Nor do I know what the backdrop of the plot should be. Post apocalyptic, on the brink of world war, corporate monopoly of the country, or something else completely. The uncertainty of it really bothers me. Then there's the matter of how the main character and his armor play into the plot, in addition to the allies he makes. I don't know if he should be an outlaw, mercenary, detective, or something benign. Specifics can be frustrating.


However, in your case, there are actually a few solutions I can think of, but they are all very different plot-wise.

(S)he was the offspring of a magical ritual. It would be even darker if his/her mother, as part of the ritual, was forced to get pregnant and forced to be killed to complete said ritual.

(S)he was left with the orcs on purpose to be raised to be just as ruthless as them. A villain protagonist would fit this role.

Of course you could flip that having the goal for him/her to have been raised as a despot, but the village is full of non-stereotypical, affable orcs who raise him/her to be a paragon of decency, much to the chagrin of his/her abandoner. Though the latter is more comedic, it would offer some interesting character possibilities.

Grasping for straws, you could do a Romeo & Juliet type thing with his/her parents, putting your own spin on things. Which is the friendlier version of Sir. Kiken's idea. Only partially friendlier if whoever the elf was fell in love with the orc, who did not reciprocate the affection but also didn't want to pass up an opportunity to get laid, so pretended to anyway.

That's the best I could come up with.

[Sir Kiken]

One way (s)he can obtain it would be that the scientist injects it into someone who meets certain requirements so that he know it will be used against the company someday, but he does it without letting them know of course.