What is the premise of your fiction in the form of a thesis question?

[Eldoria]

What is the Premise of Your Fiction in the Form of A Thesis Question?
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Can you wrap your fiction around your thesis question as if you were answering a speculative-fictional question? This way, readers can understand both the conceptual outline of your work and the narrative promise of what your fiction will tell. Examples:

1. Attack on Titan: How does the oppression inherited from history shape the meaning of freedom for a boy who dreams of going beyond the walls?
2. Death Note: What if a genius high school student was given the power to kill just by writing a name, and then decided to become the world's judge?
3. LOTR: What if the fate of the world depended on the smallest creature to destroy the greatest power?

Spoiler: If you ask about my work...

Blood Rose Princess: What if the world chose to forget its saviour and its sins, while the saviour chose instead to protect her daughter’s innocence?

 

[Envylope]

Overpowered Witch Reincarnation: What if the dumbest witch had all of the power with none of the brain and had to save the world?

The Crimson Queen: How would a regular girl feel if she was foist into her vampire player character, surrounded by a world that forgot her?

Frozen Vampire Queen: What if a girl's heart became as frozen as her body in a world that hates her existence?

 

[EMatthews18]

Reincarnated Vampire Prince:
What happens when a K-Pop idol who happens to be undead falls for his best friend whilst protecting him from a vampire?

 

[Racosharko]

In which part of creating fiction holds value to an author? / Is this there meaning in being writers beyond a payday?

 

[Eldoria]

In which part of creating fiction holds value to an author? / Is this there meaning in being writers beyond a payday?

You are free to define your fiction thesis question regardless of its value and importance... this thread does not limit that.

 

[Racosharko]

You are free to define your fiction thesis question regardless of its value and importance... this thread does not limit that.

No, you misunderstand, that is the theme/thesis question of my book the mc is a failed author.

 

[pangmida]

I’ve actually asked this question in one of my chapter’s author’s notes:

If you were an immortal who fell in love with a mortal, would you want them to become an immortal with you but through a risky, potentially painful method? Or would you rather let them go and follow their natural rhythm of life and death?

Edit: btw I love your threads! They make me turn the gears in my brain. :)

 

[MasterY001]

Heroines* – Is there no difference between a hero and a villain except the roles they're assigned in their story?
Executive Order: TVOL – Is it right to sacrifice and struggle on behalf of patriotism?

 

[CountVanBadger]

XNPC (the first book, anyway) - Can someone earn the right to be forgiven?

 

[Cipiteca396]

From my Synopsis:

Is it really possible to change?

Evidently, the answer was no, based on the fact I stopped writing. Oh well. I could elaborate, but who cares.

From my other, unwritten stories:

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Is strength really the only path to creating a better world?

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What happens when a truly remarkable n[Person]c lives in a braindead hentai poorly thought out [Story]?

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Can you create joy when forced into a miserable situation?

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Should you continue to rely on others after being betrayed already?

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Can a "Monster" be good; do "Monsters" deserve happiness?

The last unwritten one is just wish fulfillment and world building, a side story for my published story, lol. So no thesis.

 

[AliceMoonvale]

Hmm, good question. Think mine would be something like;

'Can human tenderness survive in a beastly world that only respects strength?'

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Strange Awakening: Initial concept was: "What if a man woke up in another world where he'd been born female." It kind of morphed into something else quickly.

The Jack Diamond stories: Overall: "Can a 'classic noir' story feature a superhero as the detective?" Book one is: "How does this detective deal with discovering magic is real, and gaining magical items?" Book two is: "How does the detective deal with meeting vampires and other superbeings who are not demons?" Book three, if I ever get to it, is "How does a dark and gritty detective (with powers) deal with a traditional (though flirtatious) 4-color hero (and a demonic serial killer)?" four would be "How does the detectives support cast deal with him being taken out of commission, on death's door, thanks to a demon attack?" and there would still be at least one more in the series.

True Blue: Overall: "After his death in an alien invasion, the memoirs of a superhero who spent most of his life posing as a detective fall into the hands of his child, his Legacy." Each individual story would have a different thesis. There would probably have been ten if I'd been able to keep up with it but...

The Kaiju System: (On Honeyfeed - though I did make some joking comments about it here before writing it there) Initial concept: What would be the craziest, silliest thing I could do with a System. Eventual thesis: "What if a young man suddenly stumbled on an ancient secret that could potentially turn the tide in an interstellar war?"

Digital Cowboy (On PocketFM as Digital Cowboy Dane): "What if someone were isekai'd into not a traditional medieval or generic Asian feudal era fantasy but a Western?"

Between Worlds (On PocketFM as Between Earth and Pyrroth; full title should be: "Between Worlds, Book 1: The Lost Arch Mage"): The series thesis would be: "What if an ancient prophecy, spanning a sixty-year sequence of events, brought people from the modern world to team up with people from a traditional fantasy world to save all of Creation?" Book One's thesis is: "What if a group of gamers discovered the game they played is based on another, very real world - one that expected them?"

 

[DireBadger]

ALL of my fiction:

what if the premise of fictional stories were all simply 'worlds' created by a particularly stupid AI in order to answer a particularly stupid question? they are all real 'programmed constructs' somewhere to discover the best way to fight chaos, and 'humans' were the only real thing in them?

 

[Amrasil207]

Arknights: Final Rebirth - Gladius Belii: How does memory reshape one's outlook? How far does the past dictates the present to reshape one's future? How much influence does memory exert in forming the sense of self irrespective to cause and effect on on the latest reality? When did an identity could be regarded as 'unique'?

Records of Regalia: What's the severity of dissonance between the previous world and the next? What would be the psychological aspects of a veteran from the Fourth World War cope with having her coping mechanism translated into reality? How does the Grand Autarch exerts her influence? What is the prospect of rebuilding a battered nation in a whole new world? Why did active geopolitical landscape affects rebuilding effort? What is the Grand Autarch's policy when New World's geopolitical landscape was taken into account?

 

[Avarice_Of_The_Seven]

The Paralle Paradox : What is the correct way to live your life? Chasing after a dream that you might never be able to fulfil or becoming satisfied with the life that you already have and living without any purpose?

 

[Naravelt]

Ending A: Life for Present, Leave knowledge and morality for new generation. Is Happiness Might Come from Small Things and Gratitude for Life Today?

Ending B: Is the pursuit of a perfect world inherently flawed, or can utopia be achieved without sacrificing individuality, freedom, and morality?

Ending C: Is Good Intention, If You Take the Devil’s Hand, Likely to Lead to Indifference and Nihilism?

All Ending: What do you define as Real? Is it your birthright? Or what your heart tells you? Or is it shaped by experience?

 

[Sylver]

Monster Girls Book 1: A Tale of Tails: What makes a Monster? Is it your actions, your heritage, or your biology? Would the world accept you if you rid yourself of what they see wrong in you, or would they accept you if you embrace the differences that make you who you are?

I’ve actually asked this question in one of my chapter’s author’s notes:

If you were an immortal who fell in love with a mortal, would you want them to become an immortal with you but through a risky, potentially painful method? Or would you rather let them go and follow their natural rhythm of life and death?

Edit: btw I love your threads! They make me turn the gears in my brain. :)

Hey wait a tick, this is just Aragorn and Arwen from Lord of the Rings x)

Please continue, I want to learn more

 

[Golden_Hyde]

The Horizon Crowns
What's going to happen when the author doesn't abide with the common trope of modern fantasy in favor of a prestige drama and traditional epic fantasy solely focusing on the human's thoughts, ego and ingenuity in the world of infinite mana, and the realization where they weren't alone, but discovering other races and species living in the same planet?

And how will they going to coexist? Will it going to be met with enmity, curiosity, or the dawn of something both sought and find in each other?

 

[SirContro]

The Minor Villain Will Stay Relevant!: How far can one man's obsession go in preventing the loss of his status?

Silk Mother: What if a caring mother accidentally raised the most abhorrent evil little shits imaginable?

The Genius Streamer is a Furry?: How quickly would a wolf who's just gained human form and sentience adjust to its new lifestyle, and how much online bullying would it receive for its behavior in this adjustment period?

 

[CheertheSecond]

May I find myself: What will happen when the strongest female warrior who embraced the relief of death found herself in a similar but different world? What is she going to do in this life facing completely new challenges? What will she do when she is violated, has to bear the children of the humiliation, engages in a mortal pursuit with her own unloved blood, is stuck between killing innocent bystanders and letting the disguised enemy slip through, face with worldwide backlash for committing uncompromised massacre and lastly, dread for the future of her descendants due to not killing all of her enemies?

Starcraft in the 69th century: Is it ok to feel tired of living? What is life? Is it organic? Where do you draw the line between the living and the unliving? If a cell of you or a copy of your data can generate an entire being, will the copy still be you? are you the physical vessel? Are you the sea of information? Are you the essence that defines your origin? Or is it an union of everything? Then when will you stop being you? How many atoms need to be stripped from your hyper regenerative tissue for you to stop being you? How much data need to be lost for you to stop being the AI and just a interfacing system? Does having cybernetic implantation elevating your biological functions transform you into something else? After all, you are now capable of benefiting from all forms of energy and able to experience thing your body previously couldn't. You are now you but more or are you just not you anymore? Is a living being still a living being without its flaws, its errors?

@Eldoria what's with the frown? :3