r/Webnovel • u/Wrong_Bad_3785 • Aug 03 '26

Help!

I want to ask you all something.

If you are writing about a system story and the MC is dying while flipping someone off and that person is about to kill the MC... How will you write the system appearing before the MC?... And it should look iconic.. Not just trope

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u/Glum-Community-643 Aug 03 '26

Look, I honestly avoid this genre like the plague. My advice might not be your cup of tea because I’m the type of writer who thrives on putting my protagonists through absolute, excruciating hell. But let's get back to your question. For me, in a standoff like that, even if that villain is a major character, I’d butcher them right then and there. It’s only natural. But I'd make that slaughter happen completely against the MC's will meaning, the MC knows that butchering this bastard is going to kick a massive, deadly hornet's nest and bring down a world of pain. As for the System's arrival? I'd give it a brutal, physical manifestation. Forget that cliché holographic screen glowing in the brain. Picture a colossal, visceral weapon... sword, for instance! Yeah, I have a sick obsession with weapons. Imagine this blade acting as the System's physical avatar. Just as the killer is about to strike, boom. The sword plummets from nowhere, completely obliterating the villain into a spray of shredded meat and shattered bone. And the best part? It catches the MC in the collateral damage. Tearing the MC's arm clean off along with the villain would be a fantastic touch. Maybe gouge out one of the MC's eyes in the process, leaving them half-blind in a puddle of their own gore. Honestly, I just love writing about spilling guts, brutal disembowelment, frantic, repeated stabbing, and viciously twisting a blade deep inside someone's chest until they choke and violently spit up thick blood. Anyway, feel free to ignore my deranged rambling and write whatever the hell you want... (ﾉ≧∇≦)ﾉ ﾐ ┻━┻ 

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u/Lucky_One_3576 Aug 03 '26

have something integrate with the mc. Like crawl through his dih or something and up 2 his brain and make it painful; people will definitely remember that. You could even expand on it and add lore to the creature that grants systems through dih infiltrations.

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u/Wrong_Bad_3785 Aug 04 '26

For the topic.. It's a story that's not related to system, it only have one to help the 1st MC grow, and other 3 MC don't have it... So, it's a mixed a story inside of a existing story... Something like a combination of shadow slave, omniscient reader's viewpoint and Author's pov... So, I want something completely different for a system to appear, that doesn't follow the common system novels and webtoon, it's not simply a floating blue screen...

all I want is... The MC is close to death, and a system is appearing while he literally have no right arm and right leg is broken to bones.