Galaxy Tours and writing the outline

The main problem I had was Yawo. The writing became easier when I settled on the main theme of the story, which was Family and writing the characters became easier. The characters can then express different values of that theme helped the story become more coherent and they in term become their true selves. Originally the protagonist was the uncle Valentine in the place if Yawo but he was an older man and it didn't make sense that he would abandon his family and then go through an arc about finding family again when he is much older, while that can work it dint interest me and the relationship between him and Onye didn't have the spark I was looking for, and to be honest, not that interest to write. Yawo on the other hand, being an orphan and raised in let us say, an abusive relationship fit into the theme of family perfectly, as he himself was raised in a 'family' but not the ideal one. Of course, the family group he was in had its benefits being awesome in combat, etc. but without the love. It also made the potential love interest for Onye more interesting and being both young it could help each other their characters grow as they both could challenge each other's Self-deception of themselves and their wound. It's good as it reminded me of my love for stories about young people falling in love maybe because that never happened to me, at least not in any authentic way. I keep going back to Makoto and why I love his work and how he so good at telling stories about young people trying to or failing to connect in a rapidly modernizing world. The yearning for connection is a powerful force of human nature. Having Yawo and Onye at the center of it really opened up the story for me and allowing me to go into tomorrow with confidence in writing a vomit draft.