Brainstorming “Save the World, Change for the Better”

So the other day I wrote a piece of fiction and posted it here called "Save the World, Change for the Better", and it kinda took my brain lots of places as a potential novel idea. So I guess I'm just gonna write down the ideas I had for it? Because I love to brain storm when I'm inspired. This probably won't make a lot of sense, it's like one in the morning and only getting later... I'm open to input by the way. I don't know if I'd actually write this as a novel or something but who knows.

I thought about Della potentially being a supernatural being like an angel, maybe? I wasn't really sure how I was feeling about that, but I just know she knows more about Wyatt than Wyatt knows about her. I'm not sure how they met or how long ago it was from the first scene... at first I thought this was their first meeting, but he lets her into his apartment without much of a fight, so I don't think it is. I think it's more that Della has some gifts and is just human.

Della means "noble" and "noble" means "having or showing fine personal qualities or high moral principles and ideals." I like to think about the meaning of names for my characters because I really dont like naming characters. While it may be accurate to her, and her parents thought a lot about it when they named her, I think it'd be neat to explore how she is not noble in every way. She falls short, her name isn't always an accurate description. I think it's definitely how she views herself, and it's a little prideful so she might have to get humbled.

Wyatt means "little warrior", which is kinda what I was thinking. I think when I originally looked up names I got the meaning "brave warrior". I'm finding a lot of conflicting info, it seems to depend on origin and website and mood. I wasn't sure exactly how he was saving the world when I wrote the piece, just that I knew he was going to save it. I would say it's not an accurate name to his life. I think his parents called him that, hoping he might not make their same mistakes in life. You know, of not answering their calling.

The details on his family are unclear to me. On one hand, I'm thinking the story could be about overthrowing the government (because corrupt governments should be overthrown but self control you know... but if my FBI agent is looking this is just fiction and I literally don't know how to overthrow the government). And his family is basically lines of people working in government. He might even still have a great grandparent or two who is well enough to keep being in office... you know those high salaries can make for that health care yo. This story takes place in America.

But Wyatt is estranged from his family, for he didn't want to continue in the family line and he probably has some siblings who are willing. Maybe they are willing to continue with the family's generational curse of selfishness and complacency and willful ignorance to reality. I just think they're a part of the problem either by inaction toward the evil or they are the evil they're not fighting. I'm not sure how it equates to the world ending unless it's more like "world as we know it" ending. So like the world currently.

I feel like Della would be part of an underground operation who has been planning this for years, and probably had a few failed attempts that were kept under the rug (aka media covered it the heck up). Somehow the underground operation find out about Wyatt, maybe Della stumbled across him by accident and realized he resembles some of the people in office. I don't know anything about the operation, and I'm debating if Wyatt would stay with them or if he would try to live as normal. I feel like a few days before the end of the world as they know it, he would get kidnapped, so he's kind of out of the picture for some extra drama. I mean, he'll get out and save the world in time. Or will he? Who are these people planning this? How many are there? What am I gonna name them?

I used to write so much fanfiction (that's all I wrote for about eight years) that it's hard to not want to write Della and Wyatt as a ship if I wrote this, but currently, I couldn't imagine them being together since they're two totally different people. Maybe they don't end up together, just two lives who came together to save the world, with some others to help. Maybe I would only figure it out if I wrote the story. Maybe they wouldn't when they first met, but as they got to know each other and grow, they might? But like, is that lame if they didn't end up together?

Also I feel like I need to figure out who they are as people and their personalities and likes and dislikes and stuff. I want their voices to sound unique from each other, since that's something I struggle with. I feel like everybody talks the same in my head. What I liked about fanfiction was that I could write two already existing characters and their distinct personalities as I understood them from the media, and it's hard. Do I try to write those dynamics but with my own characters? Or do I try to make my own? Decisions, decisions.

I think that's everything I thought of? I'm tired and need to get up in like six hours or so, so... goodnight.

To anyone who actually read all this, you're rad. Thanks for reading. :)