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

A resort where a Majin Buu-like figure fuses (straight) couples into a single hermaphrodite as some kind of couples' therapy w/o being legit (can't remember if he was evil or not) and no this before I knew such a fetish existed. Bless my best friend that I bounced such ideas off because that one was exceptionally weird and never did anything with it.

A Gag Series where some dude decides to prank call Eldritch Locations of metaphysical space that represent abstract concepts/metaphysics themselves. Each time the conversation ends up very very different and usually NOT in the way the prank caller wants it to go.

• Causality: The prank caller is pre-emptively called instead, and the operator then starts asking questions/using speech that just so happens to make the prank caller go through his usual prank call routine.
• Creation/Destruction: As the guy pulls the prank, the phone gets completely erased from existence, and then a new phone materializes.
• Change: Phone operator on the other end keeps changing voice/language, infuriating the prank caller... and then the phone the prank caller is calling from keeps changing into various weird telephone/communication device types.
• Eternity: "Please wait while we attend to you in an unspecified amount of time" (cue music...) and the guy keeps waiting and waiting and waiting until he dies of old age (Negative Continuity is in effect for each "episode")...
• Luck/probability: As soon as he dials, the response "CONGRATULATIONS YOU'RE THE NUMBER 99999999999th CALLER, PLEASE CLAIM YOUR PRIZE OF-!" Then the prize drops on the caller from offscreen and flattens him. Phone operator just shrugs and muses about the (mis)fortune of the situation.
• Emotion: Phone operator keeps making responses that trigger various strong emotions in the prank caller.
• Destiny/Fate: Operator: "Let me guess, it's a prank call, right? Yeah, already knew you'd do that at this exact point, it was prophesized." Operator proceeds by accurately determining what the prank caller would say.
• etc.

edited 4th May '18 7:42:50 AM by ironcommando

The story I wrote for the latest TV Tropes writing contest is the weirdest thing that came out of my pen and I hope it stays this way. I won't tell what the idea behind it was, but the theme of the contest was Eldritch Location and the story was from the POV of one of its inhabitant. That it ended up on the third place (out of five), despite it being two times below the lower word limit is probably more a testament to my overactive imagination than to my actual writing skill.

I have an entire multiverse dedicated to being weird and Mind Screw-y. It's called Alt-World

• One of the Alt-World stories I'm working on is about this mentally ill teenager who did his best to become The Spook (completely erasing every single record of his existence), always wears a WW1 Splatter Mask, and wanders all over the country, although he stays in the forest most of the time. His only known name/alias is "Shadow" (cliched, I know). He is considered a paranormal urban legend by most people who know of his existence, and there are many theories about him (all wildly inaccurate) that state that he's a ghost, alien, angel, demon, mass delusion, etc. He himself can see ghosts, but doesn't believe in ghosts, instead thinking the ghosts he sees and talks to are just "weird people". And the story is also about a teenage girl who is a paranormal investigator and is desperate to get to the bottom of the mystery of the kid in the WW1 splatter mask. A Love Triangle develops between Shadow, the paranormal investigator, and a Cute Ghost Girl from the (late) 1800s. Then things start getting really weird.
• Another Alt-World story I've been working on recently (which, strangely enough, was my first Alt-World story) is set in a city with No Name Given (to keep the location ambiguous) with a protagonist fascinated with all things Beneath the Earth (the fact that the city itself has an Absurdly Spacious Sewer system with a network of centuries worth of tunnels, bunkers, cellars, and other underground spaces with a cave system under that only provides more fuel for his fascination). Eventually, the protagonist goes really deep discovers that the Earth is hollow. It has strong themes of reincarnation and eternal recurrence.

edited 4th May '18 4:20:01 PM by SomethingRandom113

This is difficult to summarize in short, even by the standards of this thread, so might as well blue it up as much as possible.

My current side comic, a Creator's Oddball Gag Series which I've been writing on and off (mostly off) for the last couple years. The only one I've written so far where I don't hold back on Author Appeal, and let myself take Refuge in Vulgarity without worrying about the Unfortunate Implications.

It's a slightly unusual love story about a 5’6, Lovable Sex Maniac femboy and a 6’1, explosive Brawn Hilda who meet at a horriffic teen "reform" camp where they're locked in the worst cell for being the most torture-resistant subjects. (The former being Too Kinky to Torture and the latter constantly overpowering and beating the wardens much worse than they can her.) They immediately take a liking to each other and she saves his life. But soon afterwards, they're both thrown out separately.

They don’t see each other for several years, until one day, she runs into him at a gas station. He's working a shit job and living a lonely life in the small house his granddad left him in rural Pennsyltucky. She's a gutter punk who lives in a van.

They fall for each other, she moves in with him, and they try to live a "normal life" together.

It doesn't work.

Most of the story’s an episodic comedy that follows them as they try to make ends meet and deal with the pressures of modern life. That involves, among other things, getting shot at by Christian right neighbors who hate their guts, beating a Corrupt Hick half to death with a bat, accidentally crushing someone under a vending machine, trying to dispose of a body, blowing up a meth lab, poisoning someone, and commiting arson. (As a side note, everyone had it coming.)

In between, they binge, go on Mushroom Sambas, and experiment with every type of BDSM and Comic Sutra you can think of, a lot of it actually shown. (Don’t worry, she’s started showering by this point.)

Also the only one that's purely episodic with no end planned. I don't have any plans to release it widely, I'll probably just stick it on an obscure website.

The title, as it stands now, is "You Won't Like This."

edited 6th May '18 5:27:13 PM by Wheezy

you had me at "commit arson"

I'm surprised I didn't lose you with the rest of it.

I got one where a man goes to a carnival to see the freak show. He then encounters all sorts of unsettling EldritchAbominations.

edited 11th May '18 2:27:20 PM by Scarecrow4774

Probably the one in my mind right now: Imagine a real badass warrior. The kind of giant-sword wielding, dressed in all black, ubermensch you'd see in something like Berserk.

Now imagine that badass warrior as a Doting Parent happily caring for three children, unhesitatingly giving them horsey rides, joining them for tea parties, taking them tot he bathroom when they're too scared to go on their own, etc.

The idea started out with just a Child Mage, but the cast has since grown to three kids: A Wild Child still early in her integration into human society, a victim of Demonic Possession who fights control by unleashing her darker impulses on the demon, and the aforementioned Child Mage, who is a wizard who regressed himself looking for eternal life.

edited 15th May '18 7:01:07 PM by sgamer82

So much plagiarism and ripping off of other ideas. I don't want to talk about it.

As for the three stories I have going now, probably my pirate story. It's about a mermaid who has a treasure chest containing the devil so she asks a group of pirates to dispose of it for her.

Like a version of Pandora's Box?

Also sorry to hear you're having issues with plagiarism and similar, by the sound of it.

edited 17th May '18 4:04:20 AM by sgamer82

Never heard of Pandora's Box. As for the plagiarism, that was when I was 8 years old.

edited 17th May '18 10:19:39 AM by ParaChomp

Pandora's Box is a Greek myth in which the gods give Pandora a box she is told to never open. When she inevitably does, she unleashes the evils of humanity upon the world, closing the box in time only to keep Despair from escaping, which means that no matter how bad things get, we'll always have Hope.

(Most versions of the myth say Pandora stopped Hope from escaping, but that never made sense to me, so I abide by a version I saw saying it was despair in the box. )

Public Domain Artifact has a whole section directed to Pandora's box

edited 17th May '18 12:48:03 PM by sgamer82

That's pretty cool, thanks.

Not an odd story but an odd decision, this time I was in my early teens. My character, Remus, he was originally black. Only ten years later did I find out what Song of the South was.

A romantic comedy where a boring salaryman meets a quirky young woman who happens to be (benignly) possessed by an extra-dimensional travel agent who wants to recruit him for assistance with it's job. It a bit mundane compared to what I've read here, but it's out there for me.

My Fair Lady but with Dragons!

It's called Maid of Dragons and it's about a world where humanoid dragons rule the world as the elite & enlightened of society with humans as servants and workers. The protagonist is a young maid with a strict but loving master.

One day her master gets challenged to duel and in an attempt to save her master, the Maid ends up breathing fire and incinerating the opponent. Turns out the maid is a dragon/human hybrid which was previously thought impossible. Her master defends her honor and takes on wager to turn her into a TRUE dragon so that she can be a 'respectable' member of society.

Hippies take over America and divide the country into 12 kingdoms (one for each sign of the zodiac). Paul Revere leads the revolution.

It was called Quadrature and Trine, and it was about two couples who were close. One member of one of the couples died prematurely, and the story would be about the way in which that person's premature death affected the dynamics of the friendship. I quickly realized that at my age, I had no idea how that would work out.

I have an idea for a sci-fi setting set about a hundred years after a devastating nuclear war on Earth. However the war happened just after self-sufficient colonies were established on Mars and in the clouds above Venus.

During the subsequent hundred years there was little meaningful contact between Earth, Mars, and Venus, and in that time they diverged culturally a great deal. Venus and Mars could talk to each other, but had no real means of traveling between each other.

While Earth rebuilt into a society that we would at least kind of recognize, things got downright weird on Mars and Venus.

The people of Mars eventually merged into a sort of quasi-Hive Mind. People retain individuality, but everyone's thoughts and feelings are an open book to everyone else. So while they have little to no internal conflict, their nature has grown more and more incomprehensible to other humans. They don't even have a proper government anymore since they make most major decisions by consensus.

In the clouds of Venus, their people seem pretty normal at first glance. Until you realize their "president", and really their entire government, is actually a superintellegent AI...and basically everyone is fine with it. Why? Because the AI in question is just that good at running things and also truly benevolent. My plan is for the AI to be a major supporting protagonist of the story.

Apparently my imagination's rather tame; oddest idea I ever had (and tried to co-write with a guy who rather quickly lost interest) was a Dragon Ball Z fanfic where worlds collide (or knot, or something) and the cast meet their Rule 63 selves....

I once came up with a plotline for one of my original stories in which the mage protagonist is on a quest to retrieve a cosmic entity, and her Genre Savvy fae companion points out that she doesn't even have a proper vessel to contain it in. Cue several episodes spent making such a vessel.

The odd part isn't the idea itself, but the fact that it spawned from me overthinking what would have been a throwaway "Nebby get in the bag" joke.

I'm not extremely experienced in writing stories but I've come up with a sort of sci-fi idea where cooties is an actual virus. (I came up with this idea before I found out that Cooties is a movie. Plus, my idea's quite a bit different from that of that movie.) Anyway, a bunch of scientists were working on a way to genetically alter mosquitoes so that they could carry vaccinations for certain viruses but it ended up going horribly wrong and the cure mutated into a disease. Two of the scientists were bitten by the mosquitoes and ended up getting the exact same virus but were affected differently due to their being a different gender. In my story, estrogen and testosterone each react differently to the virus. (there's probably something scientifically wrong with this) Cooties also spreads via physical contact with the opposite gender and through the genetically altered mosquitoes. Anyway, the cooties virus affects men and women differently. When a male gets it, he's basically just tired and achy and delirious. When a woman gets it, if the virus gets bad enough, it ends up giving her the ability to turn into a monster. The symptoms for a female are a body rash, fever, hoarseness, and blurred vision. The fever has to get high enough for the transformation to trigger. (the transformation starts out being uncontrollable and depending on the severity of the virus, the ability to transform can be permanent) When it happens, the body rash changes to reptilian skin, the hoarseness to a deep gravelly voice, and the blurred vision to extraordinarily sharp vision. My main character got cooties really bad as a child and so she now has the permanent ability to turn into a monster. (she's able to turn back to human by the way) She had to be homeschooled because of the uncontrollable nature of the transformation at first. Fortunately, her father was a scientist (not one of the ones bitten but one assigned to study the virus). He helped her to gradually gain control of her monstrous nature and now she uses it to be a vigilante of sorts. Sorry for the rambling, you can probably tell this has been stewing in my head for a while.

I posted about it on "Fanfic ideas you're sure only you think are good", but I'll copy-paste it here:

It'd be a MEGA crossover in the vein of Roommates. However, it would focus on six of my favorite characters all sharing one house (the rent must be really expensive.) However, the implication is that basically all fiction is real in this verse.

The six leading ladies are:

Caitlin Snow/Killer Frost; Azula; Fantine; Galadriel; Elphaba from Wicked; and Bellatrix Lestrange.

There is no single, overarching plot (it's more like 'oh boy, what are they doing THIS time?'), but there are subplot and there's definite character development as well. My favorite subplots are the eventual friendship between Bellatrix and Fantine (Fantine becomes the only person capable of calming Bellatrix down) and the friendly rivalry between Azula and Killer Frost.

This was my first original idea, I got this idea in middle school, and if this already exist I will probably give up on having any original idea ever.

An ancient warrior tribe called "The Red Cloak" holds a combat ritual every one-hundred years, where the youngs fight in a big battle as teams, and they fight until only one team left alive, they then have to fight each other to the death, and whoever survive to the end is dubbed the title "The Red Riding Hood" and tasked with the mission to obtain items to offer to the Great Elder Goddess "The Grandma", so she can become the tribe's new protector with the Grandma's blessing.

These items inclue: The scale of the Leviathan, the feather of the Phoenix, and the heart of Cerberus.

Scarlet, the winner of this year's combat ritual, the youngest and smallest of all, nicknamed "The Little Red Riding Hood" went insane from slaughtering all her friends, kills all the tribe elders including her own mother, and set out on a journey to finish the task she's given so her friends won't die in vain.

But unbeknownst to her, the "wolfs" are watching.

Edited by Andermann on Jan 25th 2019 at 11:38:32 PM

Here's one I had pretty recently.

I had an idea for a villain who styles herself "the Angel of Death." However, one of my characters says that that title has become more cliched than fearsome, to which she madly and defensively replies "I am not a cliche! You dare doubt my power?! >.<"