forum Tell me the vague ideas you want to flesh out further.

Started August 13, 2020 by walter

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Tell me vague ideas you want to flesh out further?

Ugh okay so bare with me, I wrote this at 10 pm last night right before I fell asleep.

• Time is relative. It goes back and forth on a 180º plain. Travel to the future would be impossible, as it hasn't happened yet. Time moves forwards, so going back is virtually impossible, too. However, with access to the correct memories, time travel can be simulated, but the subject would remain in their time period and just relive the moments from other's memories.
• For time travel to be feasible, the multiverse theory would have to be correct, as the only way to go forwards or backwards in time would be to access or create a new universe in the time period desired.
• 5 gen Z's are sent through time to accurately transcribe historical events. Shit hits the fan when one of of them gets fed up and Kills Adolf Hitler's parents, erasing WWII from the timeline. Now, with only two of them left, they must restore history to the way it was, but that's easier said than done.
• Changing one tiny piece of history completely merges one universe with another, creating a joint universe where everything is different. I.E. both Homosapiens and Neanderthals survive and evolve into different races, causing a race war to break out.

• Okay so like when you die you either become an imaginary friend or a guardian angel. You can swap if the opportunity is open but for the most part, angels stay within their career choice. Looking for a quick change of scenery, a Guardian angel takes a job as the imaginary friend of the young girl. Every other friend shes had retired from their spot. When the angel asks around about it, it is revealed that the young girl had bypassed her set fate, making her immortal until death (or Regret) catches her and kills her.
• in this universe, everyone is given a guardian angel. Nearing the date, the angel is told when their human will die, and how it will happen. They are advised not to make friends with their humans, as it can interfere with the fates path. If an angel prevents their human's fate out of love or whatever reason, they are killed for putting their human and others in danger. Said survivor is left without a guardian and vulnerable. Regret is left to track them down and kill them before the pace of things get out of hand. Survivors usually don't last over 2 weeks at most before they are caught. There have been two cases of people living longer than this. A 40-year-old woman who has been immortal for 200 years, and a 15-year-old Egyptian boy, who has dodged his fate for 5000 years. Once fate has been avoided, you stop growing and are stuck in this state of limbo where you are not really real, or whatever. Anyway- the girl has survived 4 years in limbo.
• Suddenly a spike of humans avoiding fate has arisen, so much so that the higher-ups can keep up with which angels are breaking laws. However, when none of the survivors are being killed, suspicions arise. Why isn't regret doing his job? Why does he seem to just follow survivors instead of killing them? What're the child father's friends have to do with this rebellion? What's with this looming black figure that's following the angel around?
• Turns out this reincarnation of regret (a new one is chosen every 300 years) is the angels past human, who he let die to the jaws of fate. Now, he's rebelling against fate, leading humans to immortality and superiority. However, when a second, unpredicted regret is brought into the picture, will the two get along, or cause a war?

i have three friends who go to high school and have fun, but over time we learn abt their relationships with themselves, their families, and their loved ones. in my head it's like a tv show but i'm contemplating whether or not i should write it. i can provide more information if needed

My protagonist basically has to stop a war that's about to start (tensions have been boiling under the surface for years), and re-enlighten a world that has mostly forgotten their magic (called 'shifting' in this world). I've written some of the further adventures and things she does to do these things, but I need to figure out an inciting incident that causes her to choose to leave the temple and start out on her journey.

A newly out trans kid ends up finding a group of friends, he's never really had friends before. and they just go on adventures. The premise thing was something like. What's the definition of being a man/boy? The group was all guys, the protagonist is one of the youngest. they all are very different in how they define being a guy. The protagonist was an awkward art nerd who was just so jazzed to finally have friends. He starts out having these stereotypes he forced himself to abide by to pass, the guys end up showing him that there isn't any rule that says you can't cross your legs or can't wear pink, or wear makeup or what ever. he realizes throughout the story that the only person he has to live up their expectations is himself.
there were also subplots, like this one guy was in this creepy relationship with a college professor, he was seventeen.
there was one kid who wanted to wear dresses and be fancy, his dad couldn't handle his only son doing such things, the kid ended up running away from home with his closest gay sister. There was one kid who seemed to be able to step back and look at the big picture, he could see problems with everyone, he wanted to help them but was kind of the quiet, edgy one, so he didn't feel like any of them would listen to him.
There was one kid who seemed to ask the strangest of questions at the most inappropriate of times, like at a funeral he asks "What would happen if a zombie ate a brain with brain cancer?" the funeral was for a person who died of brain cancer… He's the youngest of all of them. He's kinda stupid.
there were more characters but I hadn't really fleshed much out. There was a scene where the edgy one confronts the seventeen year old one about his relationship and how it's not good for him, the seventeen year old brushes his concerns off, like the edgy one thought he would. there was also a point where the two siblings who ran from home end up staying at edgy kid's house, and it's all very awkward since they've never hung out without the rest of the group. the siblings stay at a couple other friends' houses too, but eventually save up enough money they can live on their own once they turn eighteen. (they're twins)
It was supposed to be a dark comedy, kinda like End of the F***ing World, well a similar filmography, and writing style. also, some traumatizing dysphoria break downs set to some awesome music, like Body Terror by AJJ, among many other songs I put together in a list for the show. Honestly I never really went past what I've written down, never wrote anything for and don;t even have names for all the characters.
This is probably just rambling.

(This is based in a typical medieval, high-fantasy setting)
Jill Etcans, a member of the Blue Waters Clan, can't be angered by anyone despite being a barbarian in the barbaric clan, not even in battle. However… there is a way to "stimulate" anger within her…
I mean, who wouldn't want a demon possessing you, right?

Trying to figure out her clan (if it would be all family, or just a group of barbarians and their families.) Where I want her to go exactly in the story is unclear. I can see her as both a main protagonist and a protagonist that works with the main protagonist. Lots of uncertainties.

This is super old, but the idea is that there's a rare genetic mutation that causes some people to develop superpowers. The government sees this as a threat and decides that the people with powers need to be taken care of, but they want to save some face. So instead of straight-up killing them, they arrest them and just dump them on this abandoned island in the middle of the ocean. The story would follow one character I made when I was like twelve and got super attached to(obviously she's gonna undergo some SERIOUS changes) and her attempts at surviving on this island, possibly even escaping.