My name is Alec Mezera, and I am the youngest of three children. In my society, families only have one or two children within one family. Unwanted or bastard children are rare, but here I am. Due to my unexpectedness, my parents were unable to choose the way in which I look. I am what they call an old 'beauty,' but this I do not understand, and for this I am ridiculed.
I was born in the year 2097. It is now the year 2114. Age is a term no longer used by our society for those who are older than 18. People still age, but with today's technology age is hard to determine. Vanity is a common and dominant trait.
I am a junior in high school who can pass as a popular student due to my academic and athletic abilities. Many people like me. I should say that many people like me for the role that I play. If I were to act as I wish and as I truly am, life would be unbearable. The norm of the society that surrounds me can be summed up into a single word - selfishness. Success is measured in the ability to reach the top no matter how you get there. When you fall, pain doesn't explain the hardship that is to come. Revenge does.
I belong to one of the most prideful families of all the Fierezza Territory. I belong to the Mezera Family.
The history of the 'new' society is short, and not much before it is known...anymore. All that we are taught is that it was an era of pain and suffering that we were saved from. Today there is no more disease, no more hunger, no more war. It is a time of peace- at least in the physical view. We lost something when we lost the length of pain and suffering. Now, pain is short and rare and by choice. The simple term of choice evolved to exhibit desire and is expressed as so. This is the norm. I do not feel as if I belong, but as if I am one of them, the race of purity. The one minority that exhists today. The slaves of today's society.
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I like what you have here a lot, and I think you have a good idea in your head of what you want to do with this character. I'm just a little confused as to what the..I guess, real conflict is? Is Alec fed up with the society he lives in because of the vanity and selfishness that exists around him? Or is there a deeper "threat"? I would just go into more detail about the society and it's strains on Alec. I get that he doesn't want to put on this act his whole life because he realizes he's not like these people, but are there repercussions to this? What happens when people act like themselves instead of conforming? Maybe elaborate on that.
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I think the idea of children being preprogrammed before they are born to be as the parents want them to be is a great idea and you should build on that thoroughly, considering how that whole process works in this society. Also, I am wondering: what is the society? Maybe work on a name or identity for the society. Is it a country or place reminiscent of a modern society or is it a different form of what we have today (like two countries combining or one country splitting)? What makes this student popular?
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