Alright Peeps. This is gonna be The Quest to Give Toru Hagakure A Story!
Essentially: my girl Toru over here (Yall cant see but she's waving) {get the joke its so horrible its great} [cause she's invisible] has extremely few fics about her AS THE MAIN CHARACTER. I wanna change that, but there are a lot of obstacles in the way.
The first, and honestly hardest obstacle is that I'm not the best writer. I've done one short story on here before and it reminded me of the second major obstacle.
SHE IS INVISIBLE
That fact makes writing actions very difficult. I can really describe much of her movements well since she is INVISIBLE and when she's actually in her costume and if she takes off her gloves it will be almost impossible. I mean if I write her as if I (the author/narrator) CAN see her, that makes me feel like the authenticity of the story is being taken away and I can't do that to best girl Toru. HOWEVER: I have thought of a workaround! Only issue is that it's not exactly… pg, and therefor will not be used.
My solution is as follows: Toru is only invisible to everyone else, aka she can still see herself. If I write it from more of a first person perspective than it feels doable. However, two issues with that approach. First, that would make me very uncomfortable to write. Secondly, I write best with things I actually have a lot of experience with, which is why my other short story was significantly better than other prompts I've tried to start (NO I dont mean the kidnapping part I mean the emotional turmoil). Despite me really liking the idea of Toru struggling to learn to deal with having to be essentially naked in order to be a hero, I know that it would be a horrifically written story and I would be a literal tomato after each paragraph. Ergo: I want to look for another workaround.
I do think that the best realistic option here would be to write from a 1st person point of view, with even Toru being invisible to herself. That would set up a lot of feels based around her not even knowing what she looks like (essentially what I did in my other short story).
NOW. The reason I called y'all here today (I mean I didnt but you clicked to read this so now you are trapped and are obligated to give me advice) is because I need more that just that to write this. Honestly not a lot is known about Toru so I'm asking all of you fancy readers out there to give advice!
What I'm asking from you all is as follows!
What are some struggles that Toru could deal with?
Outside of ditsy (which I'm cancelling for this fic, in order to pass the written exam you had to have brains, and in order to pass the physical portion w/out an offensive quirk you have to be extra smart or clever), energetic, and excitable, what sort of character traits do you think she has?
If Toru were to be visible, what do you think she would look like?
And finally,
Do you have anything other suggestions?
Thanks so much to everyone who gives any sort of suggestions!