I posted about it already, but I want to write a story that explores internets cultures and how fucked up it sometimes is. I want the main protagonist to be completely alien to internet and it's culture, that's why he's from a future where modern society is replaced with a medieval-tier one. That's also why I thought making the protagonist female would make it more alien, since internet (especially the non-surface net) is male dominated, also there would be this contrast of a pure village girl being thrown in to the fucked up world of internet.
Here's a summary of the story I've written so far:
In the far future, centuries after modern civilization has collapsed, a girl from rural village starts having vivid dreams of fascinating worlds.
Enamoured and obsessed by these dreams, she loses touch with those close to her. Until one day, the dreams stop.
Being estranged from the people from her village, she wants to escape back to those fascinating worlds again.
Guided by a feeling from her last dream, she leaves her village, finding an ancient bunker filled with enigmatic circuitry and machines.
Exhausted, she falls asleep in the compound, unknowingly transferring her consciousness to a virtual reality network.
In this strange new reality, she meets it's eccentric and diverse netizens and communities.
With their customs and cultures being completely alien to her, she quickly realizes this world isn't as friendly as those from her dreams and tries to escape back to real life.
However, the deeper she enters the Net, the more she becomes intertwined with it, doubting if reality is worth returning to...
I posted about it already, but I want to write a story that explores internets cultures and how fucked up it sometimes is. I want the main protagonist to be completely alien to internet and it's culture, that's why he's from a future where modern society is replaced with a medieval-tier one. That's also why I thought making the protagonist female would make it more alien, since internet (especially the non-surface net) is male dominated, also there would be this contrast of a pure village girl being thrown in to the fucked up world of internet.
Here's a summary of the story I've written so far:
In the far future, centuries after modern civilization has collapsed, a girl from rural village starts having vivid dreams of fascinating worlds.
Enamoured and obsessed by these dreams, she loses touch with those close to her. Until one day, the dreams stop.
Being estranged from the people from her village, she wants to escape back to those fascinating worlds again.
Guided by a feeling from her last dream, she leaves her village, finding an ancient bunker filled with enigmatic circuitry and machines.
Exhausted, she falls asleep in the compound, unknowingly transferring her consciousness to a virtual reality network.
In this strange new reality, she meets it's eccentric and diverse netizens and communities.
With their customs and cultures being completely alien to her, she quickly realizes this world isn't as friendly as those from her dreams and tries to escape back to real life.
However, the deeper she enters the Net, the more she becomes intertwined with it, doubting if reality is worth returning to...
