http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Mera_Mera_no_Mi

But the reason he’s rather invincible is cos this guy can turn into fire, as in he can be intangible…. And I guess it’s not good to make your main just too unbeatable… That character’s only weakness would be water and a few other things unique to the series like seastone (no need for you to know).

But who says he can’t have a personal life, it’ll kinda be like a part-time thing or kinda like how Mr. Lee is A.T.O.M ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Teens_On_Machines ). It can work, plus I’m a fan of shows when being a hero kinda seems like an everyday factor life to the character or when it’s like a job (but still enjoyable, not too serious).

I agree that a really lazy character might have trouble affecting the plot. Proactivity problems?

I think the toilet problems are a bit out there. Maybe they’d work if this were a comedy about a total bumbler like Inspector Closseau, but I don’t get that impression here.

And I planned to change things so that his dad was killed by a criminal organization that originally planned the micro-cyborg program and when he sees that his dad was killed by criminals; he feels a sort of rage and wants to stop them, this gets to him to a point where he starts to consider killing criminals. And as for his mom, instead of killing like you said; how’s about she just abandons him because she just can’t take his powers; like she saw him as some kind of freak.

This can also be one thing that keeps him down; like everyone loves him and his powers but the one person he wanted admiration from abandoned him. So he kinda feels conflicted towards his powers. And yeah it’d be nice if he gets more cynical and obsessive as it goes on. But his friends try to keep him in check however he distances himself from them as it goes on, to the point where he just starts treating them like hired help. Like they don’t have a relationship, and all that matters is getting the “job” done.

He’ll optimistic but as it goes on he gets cynical and cold. But according to his friends he becomes much more efficient in the process. As he’s willing to do anything to get the job done and he doesn’t show much mercy. But I kinda find characters that kill bad ass but I don’t think he should kill… He shouldn’t fall that far from his moral code, of believing in the good in people.

He also doesn’t really believe in the police and government, heck as he gets darker he starts to believe that they’re in cahoots with criminal groups. My inspiration for him comes from these characters; Ron Stoppable(http://kimpossible.wikia.com/wiki/Ron ), Terry Mcginnis(http://dcanimated.wikia.com/wiki/Batman_(Terry_McGinnis) ) and Cole Mcgarath (http://infamous.wikia.com/wiki/Cole ) ( a vid game character, that I really like) Check those wiki pages if you wanna see what kinda people he’s inspired from.

So he’ll be more of a normal but over optimistic hero, that starts jade as it goes on, and he should have trust issues like maybe his friends do some things like take big risks and he feels like there’s no one to trust around him. Making him feel uneasy in the city.

The good thing about having a story set in an university setting is that you don’t have to worry about the MC answering to any sort of authority figure (some kind of parent or guardian); they are also free to roam at all hours (great if you’re out saving the world every night); and depending on the class or college, profs don’t really care whether you’re there or not. Well, at my uni, they care, but mine is really small.

Of course, them being in some kind of boarding school may be interesting as well. There are a lot of conflicts that come from high school stories that can add flavor to the story. (See everything I said about hs above.)

So far as your character goes, I think you’re def. in the pre-planning stages with him. Having the parents die can be overdone, so make sure to work a creative spin on their deaths. Or perhaps even give another reason why they may have abandoned him (perhaps it was their choice because they couldn’t handle him having super powers.)

Having friends who push him to be a hero may be a good reason for him to reluctantly begin fighting evil, but there has to be some driving force that makes him CONTINUE to fight. It could be something as simple as him inadvertently saving somebody’s life–their reaction to his heroic deeds, and a realization of what it means to be a hero.

Right now when I view what you have for your character, I see him as only the comedic relief team member in some superteam. He needs some more of a personality and some kind of drive to make readers want to continue reading. One thing I do like, however, is the idea that he will continually grows darker over the course of the book/series. I believe that as that happens, he should begin to distance himself more and more from his friends. However, overall, it is his friends that help him keep some sense of that earlier idealism and naivety that he had.

Well for Sam his dad’s the tragedy, but come on, sure you’ll feel bad you never got to see your dad… But would you feel so horrible for losing someone you’ve never even met. So why don’t I also kill off his mom, around the time that he’s 13. And just to spice it up, he had a strong and extremely friendly, like a best friend kinda bond with his mother and it killed him when she died.

So his two best friends see him as a really brave and lucky person, because he’s able to still, smile and laugh and fight for what he thinks is right, even though he lost so much. This also helps me add an industrialist character that he might work under at some point, but I’m against him working for people, other than his sidekick and his computer dude. Sam flies solo. But that character will be his adoptive parent, his great aunt Zahra (Zah-ra). But that would make him rich, and I don’t think he should be rich, I’ll see.

But being orphaned has kinda been abused nowadays, huh? But the circumstances of orphanage may help. Most of these character lose both parents at once. I rarely ever hear of or see an instance where they lose their parents at very different times and in very different ways. (His mom will die of skin cancer)

So I guess he should be rather funny and calm, but when he becomes a hero… His personality becomes more focused and keen on his job (but I guess that’s been done though, it’s way too generic)…. As for his identity, I guess he should be known; it adds some element of danger to his life and it endangers his friends, which could be fun to work on.

But he’ll keep almost all his lazy attributes, but I guess he’ll still know that he has responsibilities, and one interesting fact will be that since he started out as a hero at the age of 17… and the series will start a year later. People in the city will be used to him and they pretty much love him and say thanks but some people still give him trouble. So yeah he’ll have a social life that doesn’t involve people loving him cos of what he does as a hero, but some people do and that bothers him a lot.

His flaw is that he’s naive, sure I agree that we shouldn’t have hate in us. But it’s his endless belief that his enemies will change that gets the better of him. And as he grows, to the disdain of his friends he starts having a dark outlook on villains, thinking some people were just to be evil.

He got into the hero business, cos his friends Neeia and John told him that his powers make it his responsibility to help people. Cos then he’d be wasting a gift, he at first didn’t like it but he gets more into his hero life than they ever expected, he sorta plunges into it, like a heroholic (lol).

Well so he’ll be a mixed person, with really dark attributes to fun and comedic attributes and also at the same time; he’ll be calm and relate-able. His life will be more real in comparison to other heroes… Whereas he’ll exhibit more “real” problems like dating or getting through college despite or having issues like getting keeeping his friends around despite his busyness… That’s not really relate-able but I’ll find some relate-able features that make readers feel that he’s ya know; a real person, not some unmatchable hero and persona like Superman or something.