Hi.
I've been wanting to make a series about my 15 years of online life at Hamtaro message boards, called Hamster Rivals. (it wouldn't have any copyrighted Hamtaro stuff in it, it'd use original characters.) I've been having this idea in my head for 15 years, and whenever something happens in my life, I imagine it being the next part of my Hamster Rivals story.
I've been on a road of redemption where I realize I acted kinda horrible in the past.
Anyways the main character, Abu the martial artist character, in my series is a very selfish character. When the guy that has a crush on him finds out that he's a guy and not a girl and Abu thinks to himself "Haha, I wouldn't even care if this guy commits suicide because of what I did." and stuff.
Of course, in Shadow Saga Part B, Abu learns how he felt when he feels the same way about someone else (although he's still a jerk to that guy.)
And then there's like four story arcs about my online ex-girlfriends and how I acted horrible and I was a horrible jerk of a person that's completely unlikable.
The end of the story, I guess (I'm not really fully sure how it'll end yet,) is that he wants to become like CREATER the clown (the character I made in a Pokemon RPG Maker 95 game in year 1998, and when I was a kid I thought I'd always be in clown make up and no one would know my identity and I would be CREATER the clown that makes American Anime and lots of video games and is very famous all around the world. But that never happened, instead I'm now a 31 year old loser and everyone online keeps making fun of me, saying that I'm "worst than Chris-chan" on my youtube videos and such.)
I thought recently, maybe people wouldn't want to watch my animated Hamster Rivals series (I live with my parents and I have no job, I hope I can make this series someday, I wanted to make it for 15 years but I can't draw at all and I have no money at all, so I'm trying to at least collaborate with a comic artist to make a comic about my Hamster Rivals series, but its hard for me to find someone. And now I'm considering writing a novel or books or short stories about it and trying to have a publisher put my stories in stores.)
But I started thinking very recently, like six years ago, that maybe the audience wouldn't like watching a series about Abu, the huge selfish jerk that acts inappropriate (he doesn't realize it though, he thinks its the opposite) and he grows at the end. (I'm not sure how yet. That's the part of the series I'm stuck at. Right now the Hamster Rivals series is at the part where Abu is a shy lonely nerd that vents on Hamsterrit all day (parody of Reddit) but all the hamsters make fun of me and ask him if he's a troll when he's not. I gotta figure out what happens in the story that makes Abu the hamster start making games on his laptop again and transform from Abu the hamster, into CREATER the human clown that makes games and comics and other things and finally has good friends.
And a person that usually disapproves of me in a discord said that just because I like the story doesn't mean other people will and that he doesn't think people will like it.
Would I be ok with writing a story where for the first like nine or eleven story arcs, the main character is an incredibly huge inappropriate selfish jerk that keeps messing everything up and everyone hates him?
Because I just read someone say on another website about Scott Pilgrim vs. The World:
"It's visually very stylish but has no heart. The biggest point the comic conveyed very well that the film totally misses is Scott is a total creepy ASSHOLE. He is not a good person, and he only becomes one in the books by finally confronting the worst parts of himself head on. The film instead opts for an easy gag rather than genuine introspection."
This person is very ticked off that the movie of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World didn't show that the main character is "a total creepy ASSHOLE" and apparently the big appeal of the visual novel is reading about Scott Pilgrim be a creepy inappropriate asshole but at the last moment he faces himself and becomes better. (I never read Scott Pilgrim, just bits and pieces, so I wouldn't know.) So I guess my story would be ok..? What do you think?