In my story, a character blacks out and an alter ego emerges. This alter ego drinks heavily, tries to invent a time machine (that is, in actuality, a giant microwave that kills whoever gets into it) and generally behaves badly. I need a trigger for his emergence.
I was thinking of having the quiet, well-mannered scientist - the one who is plagued by the alter ego and who is a good person (except when his other personality takes over - he doesn't remember these episodes, he just sees the destruction afterward) be plagued with severe insomnia. He gets a lot of inventive ideas, like his alter ego does, and stays up for days on end, thinking about them, and then eventually he collapses from exhaustion and his alter ego takes over.
Does this sound too easy? This story has elements of science fiction in it. Thanks.
- Heather
I was thinking of having the quiet, well-mannered scientist - the one who is plagued by the alter ego and who is a good person (except when his other personality takes over - he doesn't remember these episodes, he just sees the destruction afterward) be plagued with severe insomnia. He gets a lot of inventive ideas, like his alter ego does, and stays up for days on end, thinking about them, and then eventually he collapses from exhaustion and his alter ego takes over.
Does this sound too easy? This story has elements of science fiction in it. Thanks.
- Heather