Help needed with story idea - character numbers and fantasy creatures

[TheOtherTeacher]

Hi!

I have an idea for a fantasy story - a fantastic school trip.

Imagine a magic school (similar to Hogwarts) and they are taking their over 18 students on a field trip to other worlds. Let's say it's to a music performance in the world of elves. Everyone knows the elves are boring and basically never have sex. And certainally wouldn't be interested in sex with such inferior species. Should be an easy trip. The students will even use tents specifically magiced to only allow one person inside at a time. Still, it's horny teenagers.

BUT during the field trip, a magical war breaks out. Dwarves vs Elves or something. And the way back to the human world is blocked. So these teachers have to take the students through other fantasy worlds to make it back home the long way.

I'm thinking goblins and fairies, but I'd love other suggestions. These horny teens finally find ways to fuck, both each other and the various fantasy creatures they meet.

For teachers, I had the idea of 2 newly qualified teachers (25 female and 26 male?) and an experienced male teacher (41?). This would allow for the male teacher to edit the magic on his tent to fuck the female teacher, and the students to see how he changed the magic and copy for their own tents.

So if I have 3 teachers.....how many students? Do I go for a few students (between 4 and 8) to allow for strong character development?
OR have a large group (15 male, 15 female) allowing for a wider range of characters and sexual encounters but with less specific character growth?

For writing style, I enjoy character head-hopping. Changing character POV frequently, allowing the viewpoint from both male and female. I'd probably do the viewpoints of both younger teachers, as well 2 students. Maybe a male jock and a shy, bookish girl? A Malfoy and a Hermione basically.

Thanks for all your suggestions and feedback!

 

[DarkSollat]

I think 5-9 characters is enough. I mean, you want your readers to remember them and not wonder "is the girl who fucked a fairy the same who fucked a goblin"?

When it comes to species it depends how bold you are. Are you ok for your character to ride a centaur's horselike dick? Or being knotted by a werewolf during the transformation? Or stick an undead's cold yet ever stiff penis in?

 

[Rob_Royale]

It's an interesting idea. Lot's of potential.
If it were me, I'd keep the cast to around seven. Two teachers, a 45year old MILF and her devoted teachers aide, a young man who's been fucking her silly since the beginning of the semester.

Then, I'd basically add a modern version of the cast of the Breakfast Club, albeit older, college age. The jock, the princess, the troublemaker, the goth chick and the geek.

With an ensemble cast, character development is key. Or else they blend together, just a collection of body parts. Add too many and this becomes very time consuming. Also, third person (head hopping) POV is going to be your best bet.

 

[StillStunned]

Or each chapter could focus on a different group of students. This will allow you to explore different kinks in each of the different worlds. The teachers can be the anchoring characters.

 

[LupusDei]

Just to offer alternate opinion from what's already said, aI would say, if you really want the large group feel, get those some-teen characters going along your two-three teachers from with really only one or two get focus and the third is there for running interference and creating comedy, and 3 to 5 students whose heads you ever visit, but they fuck/get fucked by some 5-7 more who get body descriptions and follow ups on what they're up to in major events or how or where some of them end up at the end. Another dozen is there just for a mass, and may or not have names, even less any real description. That would afford you to lose some on the way too. Just the random girl who inexplicably pledged willful slavery to goblin king and was left behind, or the guy eaten by werewolves or thorn to shreds by creeping poision ivy. Someone lost and later found changed or captured and rescued you may want a bit more description in, but don't have to mention for most of the going. But you don't need to mention those others much.

Just the other day I read a longish book where a guy went, kinda back in time, but of course fantasy version, as his first deed rescued a princess, her chambermaid and five(?) random girls from a village those same bandits had looted. So, of course he ended up with seven women right away, married the princess and the chambermaid, and the other five dotted along as willing slaves/maids whatever. He described one of them right away, another a few chapters in, a third in a later scene. Names of the other two come up late in the story when he started to name ships after those girls. But they kinda sorta were there all the time, it was occasionally mentioned they're present, but little personality.

Or a long time ago I read a Soviet propaganda youth novel, where a late high school class (from Moscow?) went for a summer trip to western Ukraine just in time for German operation Barbarossa. It started with ~40 students and two teachers, and they ended up trapped in this small village and divided up between local families, and the story gradually, but very soon lost track of basically everyone. A few dead for really stupid reasons, a few, kinda, yup, she's living over there, but haven't talked with her for a few months. Instead it was following this one guy, his new adopted family, and the local love interest neighbor girl, and that was it for ~70% of the bulk of the story, then the characters started to reoccur. A couple showed up as part of a guerilla squad, two girls were found living as whores with German officers, and so on. It wasn't actually important to remember them from the beginning, I'm not even sure they were really mentioned at the start, it's just that those weren't random guerillas and random local whores, but former classmates, so someone we instantly care about for realy no reason other than that, and that they may end up killing each other suddenly is a high tension plot point worth bending over backwards to try to solve.