What is the oddest story idea you've ever had?

An almighty dragon and a tiny superpowered dog going on silent adventures together. It was a very early idea and it didn't take long before I decided that I liked writing detailed character interactions a lot more.

Bump with one I just remembered. One time, I had the idea of arming one of my characters with a water gun filled with holy water.

So my OTP is in sort of a Fault In Our Stars-ish AU, except only one of them has cancer. The one who has cancer is an ASMR Youtuber. Anyway, she always likes to joke that the cancer is mutating her into a monster and so she jokingly growls after that but her boyfriend/husband (trying to decide which) is turned on by that so whenever he comes to visit her in the hospital, it becomes sort of a ritual. Anyway, when she's closer to dying, she makes up some recordings of her voice for him and puts them on a USB drive and gives it to him. One of those recordings is just 10 straight minutes of her growling. I'm 20 and my hormones are at a record high, pls don't judge.

I mean, if you're fighting vampires, why not? The Dresden Files went even further when the protagonist had to raid a vampire nest and used a paintball gun, with rounds filled with holy water and garlic. And unlike regular bullets, the rounds won't hurt humans. And saltwater is like acid to the Newcomers from Alien Nation, so some people started using squirt guns full of plain ol' seawater to take down Newcomers.

Edited by CrystalGlacia on Apr 25th 2019 at 8:06:24 AM

Bump with one I just remembered. This one time, I had the idea of a character whose power is the ability to multiply after eating a lot.

i have a lot of weird ones.

first one is about a boy with a disc for a head.

this boy's house gets invaded by aggressive monsters. after killing said monsters off, the boy who is a disc then gets visited by a ninja, who tells he is the prophesized one destined to send the president of the world a filed complaint. after filling his complaint, he, along with the ninja, then starts walking off to the even weirder world out there. and so begins the journey of DISCBOY, a little surreal idea i had.

the second one is around bad characters fighting bad characters. in my world, fiction exists as entities called Ideas, thoughts that take a form. either way, there is cleanup involved. once an idea is forgotten, they enter the Trash Heap, which is where all forgotten or repressed characters go. our protagonist is a Mary-Sue Hunter gone wrong, and as he explores the wasteland that is the Trash Heap, he embarks on a journey to find an exit, growing as an actual person in process.

the life story of a warrior cats oc. not weird...except for one chapter, where a fire god destroys their territory accidentally while looking for love. then there was a timeskip and it was never mentioned again.

I had an idea for a story about a girl who was transported from another dimension as a baby and taken in by a random family. Then years later, she gets a pet fish, which tells her she has to return to her own dimension before the world implodes. There were also dinosaurs. Very, very odd idea, and I have looked back on it wondering "what the ****?" many times.

An astronaut accidentally inhales some of a planet's dense gas due to a suit malfunction and it alters their voice. Obviously that wouldn't really happen but I'd love to write it if it didn't smack so much of Artistic License - Astronomy.

If it were Jupiter or Saturn, it wouldn't be too dense. It's made of hydrogen and helium, so yes, breathing it for long enough would probably permanently alter your voice.

Here's a more recent odd story idea I've had.

Since the talking gorilla Jason is a Barbarian Hero, I've had the idea of making his son a gorilla version of a Knight in Shining Armor. Either that or a cuirassier.

No Magic. No Alien Tech. No unexpected swapping genders.

Just a short in which nothing happens. Except a random stranger confesses a murder to a British journalist in a Mid-west diner, then drives off.

And the police have no idea if there was actually a murder, let alone who the man was - turns out he's been doing this for 20 years.

It just sort of wrote itself, I just did a bit of research into US geography.

I think the way that my books' prequels have developed have kind of been...strange.

New Dawn: Urban Fantasy leading into the Unmasqued World, hints of scifi and ancient precursors, but nothing too terribly outrageous.

Ends of Terra: Fantasy at the start, takes a hard turn into sprawling Scifi epic including a trip through outer space on three humongous mecha carrying the survivors of an ancient world, going from Old Terra to New Terra. Includes a predatory biomechanical planet as a villain. Actually takes place more than 65 million years before the present New Dawn stories, and details the origin story of the ancient astronauts that colonized our world in flying magical cities above the clouds.

Edited by NickTheSwing on Aug 31st 2020 at 12:24:42 PM

I once sketched a thing that was basically ww1, interwar period, ww2, and finnish and russian civil wars but with anthro birds. It featured such things as war, borderline gore, a fascist coup, genodice, a communist dictatorship, complex politics, people slowly going off the deep end and being generally messed up, terrorism, racism, attempts at complex psychology, and a lesbian main character. The main character's former girlfriend became a crazed communist dictator.

I couldn't figure out a good ending or rake up a sufficient word count for the civil war arc alone, so i built the rest of the story around it. I never managed to summarize the vague outlines in more detail.

I was inspired by Alfred J. Kwak and Animal Farm. It combined with the tendency for my works to steadily grow darker the longer i work on them. I'm currently revising it. Toning it down in general and watering down the ww2 allusion in particular while still keeping it dark enough that it can't fall into Animation Age Ghetto^note  It is not an animation, but that trope is the closest i know to what i would call Animal Story Ghetto.

Edited by Nukeli on Oct 26th 2020 at 9:43:24 PM

One of my free writing sessions ended up with a man going on a hike through the woods. He encounters a toad, who still his bacon and the man chases him through a portal, where they both end up in a cyberpunk city.

The man then finds himself being fussed at by a Venus flytrap who happens to be a trucker.

When I was a kid, I liked to write little stories in Silvine notebooks; I'd usually abandon them after a few paragraphs though, because I was yet to get my head around the concept that a story should have a beginning, a middle and an end.

I went through a stage of being obsessed with The Famous Five, also, kids LOVE gore. So my stories read a bit like Enid Blyton with blood and guts in it.

Belle vs Cinderella Light Saber battle.

Belle learned it from a book that happened to be sacred Jedi text, while Cindy (or should I say Ella) was trained by the Fairy Godmother.

They fight in Full dresses as well.

On the topic of crossovers, I've got this one I posted about in Fan Fiction:

3-2-1 Penguins! x Among Us.

No, really. Aside from both having a spaceship crew as their main characters, the paranoia, accusations, and general loss of cool under pressure typical of the latter would synergize really well with the former's tendency to end the episode on a lesson.

A novella about a crew of asteroid miners being infected by Cosmic Rays that eat their brains and such and make them go mad.

I have several odd story ideas. I believe the oddest one is the following. Rarity is an elder god that has to kill herself once a millenia (or so) in order to gain renewed strength. However, Sweetie Belle doesn't know this...

Norse mythology and giant robots. I decided to separate the two ideas and go from there.

I think it'd be cool to write a really chaotic, in-depth story but it all starts with something really minor- like a waitress spilling coffee on someone. I never got past that first part, though.

Oh, and a story based on one of the weirdest dreams I've ever had, where the world was being overrun with clones of a dude named Alan and he was like a tyrannical dictator. I want to use the "Alan clone" plot but in a different context.

Angel takes away children for no apparent reason, random woman tells him off for it.

I was, like, 7 or 6. Don’t judge me.

Edited by Routeferret on Nov 8th 2020 at 10:52:36 AM

The world has somehow split into two phases of reality, where people with high intelligence physically can't see or interact with people with low intelligence, and vice versa, but both live in the same physical space and feel the effects of each other's presence (for example if one group builds a building then the other group will be able to see it and use it)

A woman suffering from dementia regresses from one plane to the other as her mind degrades, allowing us to see what both worlds are like.

Edited by GNinja on Nov 19th 2020 at 7:39:16 PM

A recent idea involved the adventures of a girl whose neighbors are a polar bear and a walrus (who really dislike each other), who finds a storm god trapped in the form of an echidna in her backyard, visits a coffee shop with a ghost working at it, and whose small country is located right next to a country inhabited entirely by robotic versions of common household objects who are also Russian for some reason, including a vase named Vasily whom she befriends. Also her hat occasionally issues prophecies. And all this is treated as perfectly normal by all characters involved.