/lit/ - Literature

>>18757556
From there, I came up with the idea of a character who was abducted into the webways as a child, and where most people wander and languish in despair until they die alone and lost, he survived and learned the secrets of the ever changing landscape over time, and when he became an adult he began hunting doppelgangers by slipping between the doorways between worlds while wearing a jackalope mask, stalking the stalkers. Now, to humans in the normal world, it comes across as if hes a psycho serial killer in a jackalope mask stalking and killing normal humans, but hes actually killing doppelgangers who have replaced people. I'm not sure if I want to include the existence of other doppelganger hunters that are either abducted humans that have survived. I want the general story to progress in a way that several doppelgangers who rarely ever interact with each other, as they are EXTREMELY skittish and scared when they are seen in their true form even by other doppelgangers, form an alliance to try and combat the hunter protagonist as he is killing so many of them, pushing beyond replacing socially isolated loners and stalking people in positions of authority to combat him, from gang leaders at first to police chiefs at the end sending a SWAT team after him, forcing the protagonist to escalate his assassinations from killing poor and isolated people to killing high profile targets and having to escape.

My issue right now is I want to distance the webways from the creepypasta of the backrooms. I'm basing the concept of this on my own experiences of living in major cities in the midwest rust belt and not having a car and having to walk and ride a bike through so much urban decay and looking at a great deal of hidden alleys and abandoned buildings, and bizarre little patches of overgrown nature in the middle of the city and imagining that these little pockets of the world surrounded by thousands of people are totally ignored and invisible but secretly contain pathways into another world for those who do see them. Same with the doppelgangers, they target people who are isolated in society that I have seen, absolutely miserable and forgotten mentally ill and depressed people barely scraping by who could easily be replaced by a shapeshifting doppelganger and nobody would even notice. I also find the idea of a man in a jackalope mask stalking and killing people with a crossbow like a serial killer very appealing, even though hes actually a vigilante killing monsters. I want the webways to resemble all the dehumanizing factories and warehouses I worked in and the urban decay that I've lived around but I dont know if that distinct enough from the creepypasta