Need help with writing a male character who has multiple children with multiple women

[WolfSpirit0909]

So in my family tree of werewolf soldiers, I have that my soldier who was born in 1946 from his WWII vet dad and camp victim werewolf mom, he was sent on missions throughout the Vietnam war. He's part of a breeding program of a platoon of werewolf soldiers that are treated as livestock, but he manages to escape in the early 70's somehow which the werewolf soldiers are kept under control to fight in all these war conflicts. In 1972 he meets a nurse during the Vietnam war, which that son becomes orphaned during the Operation Baby Lift and ends up with a US foster family and the US military. He then meets with an Eritrean/Ethiopian guerrilla freedom female fighter during the mid 70's having a son born. Then he meets an Angolan women in the 80's having another son who grows up fighting in the global wars on terror. Then in the early 90's he meets a female mercenary after the Gulf war having another son born.

Two things, how do I make sense of how he escaped if they are treated like lockdown livestock under the military's government's control?

And how do I make sense of him meeting all these different women, having 4 half siblings born, without making him some bad guy for doing this? What's a good reason this can happen?

 

[DannMcGrew]

And how do I make sense of him meeting all these different women, having 4 half siblings born, without making him some bad guy for doing this? What's a good reason this can happen?

Well that happens all the time. So I don't know that you need to dwell on it. Stretching over the decades as you describe, it sounds more like serial monagamy than being a "bad guy."

 

[WolfSpirit0909]

Well that happens all the time. So I don't know that you need to dwell on it. Stretching over the decades as you describe, it sounds more like serial monagamy than being a "bad guy."

Yeah but I want it to be more excused like maybe some of these women are killed in battle. Or because he was part of a breeding program, it's on his nature to wanna mate and produce and constantly on the run from his lovers to hide from the bad govt?

 

[The Judge]

Um... have you actually tried writing this man yet, instead of worrying about how to write him? And if I'm reading your posts right, it isn't so much his inner agonising, if any, that worries you -- which is the thing a writer should be concerned with -- so much as giving him some kind of excuse for being an apparent b*st*rd.

To be frank, unless you have extensive experience of war yourself, you really should be showing rather more concern about writing a soldier who is involved in so many different conflicts, not to mention likely carrying psychological burdens from his nature and upbringing. The fact you're fixating on his having impregnated four women over the course of 20 years suggests to me you have your priorities screwed here. Most villages in England have probably had lotharios and general ne'er-do-wells who have managed that and more, certainly before the pill became widespread, so it's making a mountain of a particularly small molehill.

And please don't go along the route that he's biologically programmed to mate, which frankly sounds like adolescent male wish-fulfillment. In reality someone with such programming would end up raping women everywhere he went, in the same way a programmed killer would be murdering, so any attempts to excuse him just won't wash. You might also usefully spend some time considering the women here, rather than simply having them as your man's breeding sows who conveniently get themselves killed.

 

[WolfSpirit0909]

You're right, sorry my writing hasn't evolved so well and so I may have given off the wrong idea

I'm actually going to have him to of met up with three women only. The first one was a nurse between the late 60's to early 70's. The second was a freedom rebel fighter in the mid-70's and then in the 80's a female nomad soldier, researcher or hostage maybe. It wouldn't be because he just wanted to sleep with them. Each would serve a reason for why it happened during those conflicts.

 

[Toby Frost]

I'm not trying to be rude or sarcastic here, but I think this needs to be asked: several times you've come up with an idea - often one that could backfire badly on the author if not done very well - and then asked for help as to how to write it. In all seriousness, have you considered writing something that you're more comfortable writing about?

 

[Montero]

Absolutely what Toby says. What you are proposing is quite complex to do and needs a skilled writer.
I rather like the Liaden books and in the foreword of one of the later ones, a prequel, the Crystal duology, the authors comment that they'd had the idea many years previously but realised they were not yet mature enough as writers to do it justice - and they wrote (lots of) other books before coming back to it.