#ardency

THE PEOPLE; FOLLOWING YOUR LEAD,

A THING BRUISED IS BEAUTIFUL IN ITS NEW COLORS

IT IS; LOVE-FOUND, LOVE-WORN,

PAIN IS NOT A THING TO BE SHAMEFUL OF / TO BE HIDDEN IS A FAILURE TO LIVE; EMBODIED

LOVER to VISIONARY: YOU ARE THE ONLY REASON I CARE ABOUT SPAWN.

Im trying to write out Ardency, and the main issue I'm having with it is "How am I gonna do a story of this size about a girl with eight friends?"

Like...one I figure out how to properly incorporate them into thr story i am GOLDEN. My main issues are thus.

This is for one of my game ideas, and because of the plot + my own SRPG brain rot+rpg party balance, there are a decent number of characters in the main group. They all fill a specific role, both in gameplay and in the story, but I want to keep the story relatively short.

The main thing that I want to focus on is that all of her friends have flaws and that trying to manage all of them, while maintaining all of these relationships is hard. And while this could be easy to do with side content(social links/optional interactions/etc) doing that in the main story feels a little off to me.

By the time all of the characters join the cast, the game would be entering it'd halfway mark. It's the longest part of the story, with a lot of content to view in it, but there isn't a lot of time. I'm also just not sure what to have them do outside of that. Adding another section wouldn't be an awful idea if I could figure out what the section could have inside it/make it not feel like padding.

A very complicated set of issues I have here~! It sucks because I love this cast and the ideas of this story are close to my heart. But getting it to stick is hard for me.

ARDENT FLAMES. act iii.