Object made in C

In this program, I have designed an object system (which is similar to a JavaScript Object and is very hard given that all I really have in C is fixed length data types)without any maps, linear searches or binary searches.

The only thing I knew before beginning was about the concept of a linked list being a way to have an "array" which when taught in school didn't seem to make sense because you could not directly access anything in the array besides the next pointer.

Making an "array" like that means to access "position x" you would have to loop x times in just to access it, which is more similar to a nested object than an array. However this "nested object" can only have the struct's pre-set "keys"(those being the variables inside the struct on declaration)

Then it hit me.. what if the key to an object was a linked list itself, with each node pointing to an array of nodes of length n+1and each letter itself would be converted to numbers and if those numbers are not less than n, they would be broken down as a linked list to base n and then using the position n in the array to distinguish between letters

Now what do I mean by: n, n+1, less than n, base n?
Think of the letter l. It turns into 108(base 10) and if n is 10, it would be someNode->key[1]->key[0]->key[8].
If n was 50, the same number value of l would then translate to someNode->key[2]->key[8]

Finally, in multiple character keys, let's use lol as our example key for the object and have n at 10.
Accessing the *data value from that key would be something like:

data *result=someNode
->key[1]->key[0]->key[8] //l
->key[n] //new character
->key[1]->key[1]->key[1] //o
->key[n] //new character
->key[1]->key[0]->key[1] //l
->value

Admittently, the idea about the n+1 came in the middle of me making this