Okay, so if I use this idea, it's going to be a massive spoiler. So be warned if I use the idea and you play the game.
Background on this idea; I've been having this character floating around in my head for awhile, before I even thought about getting RPG VX ACE, but I decided to wait until I'm confident with my RPG VX ACE skills before I use it. That said, it would be good to get feedback on it before I start. So, here goes.
EDIT: I also wanted to point out that this is just one version of the same character, there are multiple different ways I have thought of interpreting the idea.
Spoiler
Setting: Japan (who would have guessed), modern times.Story: You play a fifteen year old, socially awkward kid named Shepherd. He moved to Japan about three months ago with his mother, who is the CEO of a multinational company, for business purposes. He is finally getting used to life in Japan, although he doesn't really have any friends, although being a nice person. He is also good at analyzing situations, and estimating how they will turn out, probably a skill derived from him playing video games for so long. One day as he is going out to buy the latest Shonen Jump (a collection of Japanese Comics), he notices a girl from his school, named Mizuno, at the crosswalk he is coming up to. The light flashes to walk and she starts walking through the street, but she doesn't notice a car coming straight towards her, as she has headphones in. The driver of the car is drunk, and he isn't going to stop. Shepherd decides to push her out of the way, getting hit himself. He wakes up in a pitch black abyss. When he finaly finds a bonfire, he meets another character. This character looks like an older version of himself, and asks him why he saved the her. Shepherd(15) explains that he knew she had a large family that would mourn her loss(when you are ignored you can pick up information much easier), while his mother would hardly notice his death. After a short conversation, Shepherd(15) wakes up in a hospital bed, and finds out he had been in a coma for the past three days. Soon after waking up, Mizuno comes to his hospital room, and explains to him how she had visited him every day, as she found it sad how none of Shepherd's family visited him. The two become friends, and after being discharged from the hospital and going back to school, people start to talk to him (although he is still socially awkward). But since he left the hospital, he has been having strange, extremely lifelike dreams in which he is in a strange world set in a somewhat medieval times, although there is a strange combination of magic and technology being used as well. He soon comes to realize that the dreams are very reminiscent of his day, and he also soon finds that things that happen to people in his dreams affect their real world counter parts to some extent.
Basically the idea of the story, granted a very bare bones version of it.