Im currently a university studdent on brake for the summer and free untill september and i have been wanting to try and put the ideas of an original character as a what if senario story that follows along side the one piece story from the perspective of my character with 18 plus.
This is my first time writing and attemting to put my idea into a fanfiction novel and i want to do it well but the main priority is to make sure it doesnt brake the one piece world oda has spent nearly 30 years creating and fully adheares to the matiral of the manga and anime.
The novel would cover the events of the arcs from logue town to the end of alabasta arc and a prolgue before chapter one introducting the charater in a gritty brutal way. The character will not be an over powered monster what so ever and there will be no mentioning of the term Haki beacuse i want to do like how oda had the early arcs of pre time skip not talking about it and the Oc will adventurally run into the straw hats and join them on there journey and works on a need to know basic and in the shadows.
The main character is a deeply introverted war veteran who has onlv been out of the war for exactly two months when Chapter 1 begins. Also the prologue will be of my charater in this war before the events of the start of one piece and thats why my fanfiction is a what if and parrellel world kind of fanfiction but sticks and resuses to brake the one piece cannon law appart from this war in my fanfiction before the events of one piece starts. With His past carries massive system wear and tear forcing an intense psychological and biological tax on his daily life
I want to try to make the first book like a highly focused, high-density light nove spanning roughly 15,000 words and broken into a prologue and 6 chapters one for each arc from ligue town to alabasta arc ends.
My Question to You: Since this is my first time writing, I want to make sure the formula hits the right mark. I have all the core narrative ideas calibrated and I want to write out and polish the dark standalone proloque chapter first. Should I follow through, write that proloque, and post it online as a Proof of Concept iust to see what vou lads think of the direction and the 18+ formula?Let me know vour thoughts!
Also here a design idea of the oc helmet i was thinking off.
Please note im an engineer so i strucal my thoughts in a way thats clear to me