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sounds a bit like Owen: Dragon Slayer of Trondheim. which was fantastic.

edited 29th Mar '15 2:44:51 PM by Ellowen

A race of alien creatures that basically act just like big, friendly dogs: not too bright, but they love people and just wants to give us a hug.

...Unfortunately, they happen to be covered in poisonous spines that produce an extremely painful Body Horror reaction, followed very soon by death, on contact.

edited 30th Mar '15 12:05:09 PM by Wheezy

Call me a sadist...but that sounds hilarious! XD

A story that uses the Scooby-Doo formula: a group of teens and their pet(s) go around solving mysteries around a town, but the mysterious usually involve drugs, gang wars, and actual murderers, sprinkled in with supernatural activity.

A character with the Pathetic Fallacy as an explicit superpower.

Their anger summons storms, their happiness makes flowers bloom, and their arousal makes milk bottles explode.

edited 30th Mar '15 4:51:12 PM by Wheezy

An emo boy and a preacher's son have a rocky relationship, argue then makeup, fight then make out, repeat. All while suffering the prejudice of a small town.

Soon there's a global disaster and the two come to lead what's left of their school into helping rebuild the town. They fight with scavengers, try to keep the townsfolk from Dying Like Animals and welcoming fellow survivors...

...and the distant finale leads to the happy couple as prophets of a new religion, worshiped as "the two who rebuilt the world".

edited 30th Mar '15 7:25:15 PM by TairaMai

That actually sounds like a really interesting idea. Gives a whole new meaning to "wearing your emotions on your sleeve."

A reverse Avatar. Aliens come to Earth for whatever phlebotinum is found there, but they aren't intent on exterminating us. They just set up mining facilities in sparsely populated areas, and we can't do anything about it because they vastly outpower us. Scientists both human and alien are thrilled.

Until they announce they are going to mine under New York / Paris / Rome / Tokyo (take you pick)...

edited 1st Apr '15 10:11:51 AM by Aetol

A public broadcasting childrens' art show that teaches kids how to be a stereotypical tortured artist.

Subject matter includes basic ennui and nihilism, the finer points of hard drug use, and how to get out of paying rent.

edited 4th Apr '15 2:55:36 PM by Wheezy

Wheezy, your "poison spine dogs" sounds like a similar creature from 40k—specifically, Nurgle's slime hounds :-)

A Five-Man Band rallies around The Chosen One to defeat the Big Bad.

Only, The Dragon has found the little boy who is the chosen one and now the little tyke is Deader Than Disco.

The Obi-Wan is in shock, the group is now off the edge of the map. The scrolls and prophecies clearly state that the ex-Chosen One was it. There can be no more. Without him, what is the group going to do?

edited 8th Apr '15 8:39:45 PM by TairaMai

I could see this becoming a pretty unique story where the (formerly) side-characters say "Screw Destiny!" and take the prophecy into their own hands.

edited 8th Apr '15 10:07:07 PM by AwSamWeston

A character who exists in an Aerith and Bob sort of world, probably something urban fantasy. His name is pronounced gee-OR-gah. It's spelled exactly like "George." Do not call him "George."

Humanity hollows out the moon and turns it into a Planet Spaceship.

Edit: I was thinking more along the lines of a massive underground city, not an actual ship with propulsion, but it could be taken in that direction too...

edited 10th Apr '15 10:23:15 AM by Wheezy

The moon is an egg! Oh. Wait...

Uh...

A reporter (fresh out of journalism school) really wants to show how great the world is. The editor refuses to run the reporter's stories because "that's not what people want to see." But the reporter keeps slipping in bits of optimism in his work. Runs on the idea people have that says "The world's going to hell; it's all in the news!" contrasted with the unseen greatness of the world. And maybe some stuff about how the news media has become sensationalism and entertainment.

edited 10th Apr '15 8:51:40 PM by AwSamWeston

Hey! Spoilers!

Sorry. Tag added.

This has to have been done before, and I'm (probably) going to try it myself as an unofficial sequel to something I'm currently working on in the future, but in the meantime, if anyone else wants to try it...

A story that's told through a series of interconnected social media accounts. Basically, each character gets their own profile through which they tell their part of the story and comment on each others' - providing the links for different sections of the story to the reader - and through that, a Rashomon Plot unfolds.

There would be complications, but they could all be worked through:

You'd probably need a home site for the story to explain what's going on and start readers off with links to all the involved accounts.

Then you'd have to close off comments so that only the characters could comment on each others' statuses, but that's easily doable on most social networks.

Finally, Facebook might bring the banhammer down on this, but you could use Twitter and Tumblr. (Using retweets or reblog chains on the characters' homepages in lieu of comments.)

I think it would be a particularly good medium for a creepypasta.

edited 11th Apr '15 11:02:24 PM by Wheezy

The Hero's Journey as a relay race. One character sets the scene by living through a Call to Adventure up to the Belly of the Whale. Another character continues after the shared Belly of the Whale setting and researches from where the previous character came from. The Apotheosis, however, is fatal to this second character. A third character takes the story from post-Apotheosis to the return.

A couple, an immortal wizzard/fighter and a princess who starts as a Damsel in Distress. She dies, but then is reincarnated. It turns out she's the Chosen One and the immortal is The Obi-Wan. Only her spirit can end the Big Bad, but she doesn't have the time to learn all the skills-unless she comes back after death. The immortal has to take The Slow Path (as does the immoral Badddie's sidekick) . So with each "life" she learns skill after skill.

And the story starts from Fantasy and ends in the science fiction genre: the Big Bad and the Princess have an epic Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot throwdown.

That gave me an idea about a superhero reconstruction about a character whose power is the ability to respawn on the spot.

The deconstruction would lie in the fact that the setting would be brutally realistic, with all common superhero/action tropes leading to their realistic medical consequences: basically, the poor bastard's life would be one long episode of Honest Action.

The reconstruction would lie in the fact that the character is such a Determinator that they fight through it and win anyway.

edited 12th Apr '15 3:23:40 PM by Wheezy

Classic Disney Princess who works for the CIA because her kingdom has been annexed by the Soviet Union.

A "social justice warrior" type blogger has Foe Yay with a 4chan-esque frequent poster. She uses the tumblr, he mocks it. She tries to make AMV Youtube videos, he defaces them with vile comments.

But in the "real world" they are both just awkward and shy college students with few real friends. They meet and bond a little in English class in the classic Meet Cute. Not knowing that they are online enemies. You've got mail updated for The New '10s.

Until someone following them online decides that this is a One True Pairing. He/She (They?) is gonna be a Yandere Fixer Sue and makes their online and real lives hell until they "pair up".

edited 13th Apr '15 10:43:13 PM by TairaMai

I had a concept idea: that people can essentially transfer their brain/consciousness into other bodies and such. And there’s a huge nutrition/bodybuilding industry of taking over bodies and getting them in shape and selling them to celebrities/athletes/rich people.

I feel like any kind of story can be made off of that, but I don't want to do it.