What's the Laconic version of your story?

Pareidolia - Horror stories about cognitive biases and the pretence that familiarity breeds understanding.

Indelicate Phalene, Drow Attorney - Autistic drow librarian accidentally revolutionises the legal system using friendship and spite.

Long Live the New Flesh - A succession crisis in Weimar Überwald unravels a tangle of conspiracies involving State Security, machine cultists, queer revolutionaries, neighbourhood community groups, corporate monopolies, the Church of Babel, and a handful of urban legends.

Nadia Nowhere - Closeted trans girl explores her mental world with her imaginary girlfriend.

Can a first love be the next love, 25 years later?

• Mustarastas Myrsky (Storm the Blackbird) - A scheming dick and her activist on-and-off girlfriend live in matriarchial Diesel Punk Scandinavia and navigate the world of colonialism, speciesism, environmental destruction, social and economic inequality, widespread poverty and discontent in their country, and the looming thread of a world war. Oh, and they're birds.

• Red Revenge - In 1940, a young German man's father is murdered by the nazis. The man puts on a red balaclava and embarks on a revenge quest, encountering supersoldiers, robot troops, vampires, and ritual magic. Alternate history ensues.

‘’In the Council of Moths’’: A horror/supernatural novel. A private investigator searches for a missing girl in a small Arizona town hiding a dangerous and dark secret.

‘’Sunborn’’: Fantasy. A master assassin and his protege uncover a dangerous conspiracy that threatens to destroy their home, setting them on a course that will forever shape the future of their world.

• The Teresa Hagert series - A romani woman works as a private detective in south Finland. Most of her jobs are realistically boring like spying on paranoid peoples' spouses, but she also ends up investigating things like conspiracies, corporate plots, and more ordinary crimes she might or might not be getting actually paid to solve.
  • Hän Näki ("He/she^note  (hän is gender-neutral and finnish literal!y has no other pronouns) Saw") / Kaikkinäkevä ("The Allseeing") - A romani man witnesses a murder in a campground in Vuohensaari, Salo, and sees the murderer bury the body. He tells the police but gets accused himself because of racism, and his sister contacts Hagert because nobody else will help. Hagert has to work backwards from the conclusion to find evidence against and the motive of the real murderer, who suffers from a religious crisis and tries to provoke god into proving his existence by interfering, through committing increasing criminal acts.
  • Tulikärpäset Tammikuussa ("Fireflies In January") - Hagert investigates a series of arsons in Salo (nobody's paying her to) and notices a pattern with the dates. Further developments bring into question whether the arsonist is actually using the arsons as a device to point the investigating authorities at something somebody else has done.
  • Myrskyrintama ("Storm Front") / Pahan Akseli ("Axis Of Evil") - In 2015, investigating an years-old unsolved murder of a little boy leads Hagert to a neonazi from Turku. While spying on the man, Hagert finds out about an unrelated-to-the-murder conspiracy by neonazi ex-soldiers to execute terrorist attacks and frame middle eastern refugees for them^note  (similiarly to the Day X plot, as far as it's appliciable and plausible in the Finnish system. I'm still researching. I remember it being on the YLE news in 2017). The neonazi group is a thinly-veiled attack on the new real-life Finnish neonazi group Uudenmaan Akseli^note  ("Uusimaa's Axis") and the populist right-wing Perussuomalaiset party^note  (i don't refer to Perussuomalaiset as "the Finnish nazi party" for nothing. Also a leak to the news from 2015 or something showed what kind of fan mail they get from their supporters, featuring among others a person who believed there's a puppeteering entity inside their head, so yeah, they're not only cryptonazis and rabidly anti-poc people's immigration, but also fucking nuts in the clinical sense).
  • Ryssäruletti ("Russkie Roulette") - A Russian dissident flees to Finland and gets an apartment in Salo, but is targeted for assassination by Putin's regime. Hagert starts seeing connections between the dissident and a Russian karelian woman on the run from the Russian mafia she's met earlier.
  • Kolmesti Kuollut ("Thrice Dead") - A woman from Hagert's past, who died five years ago, suddenly turns up alive. This is the second time she faked her death but also the last, as she quickly dies for real. The police dismiss the mushroom poisoning as accidental, but Hager knows the dead woman never ate mushrooms at all.
  • Punainen Sielu ("Red Soul") -

Edited by Nukeli on Jun 29th 2022 at 11:59:12 AM

• Angelslayer: A little angel girl fated to be the new lucifer and harbinger of the end defies her destiny, and wages war against her own kind to prevent armageddon.

Edited by Gaddammitkyle on Jul 15th 2022 at 9:24:13 AM

• Ends of Terra: Halfway through a bog standard fantasy story about a prophecied surviving prince hero fighting an evil necromancer, there's a sudden time skip 1200 years in the future - and the plot turns into an effort to escape a living, cannibalistic planet, hordes of alien cyborgs, and the very same necromancer by activating ancient alien space ships to try and find a new planet to live on. Yes this is canon to New Dawn.
  • Ends of Terra II: Set on New Terra 21 years after the end of the last one, the prophecied hero from the first one has three sons. The nascent civilizations on New Terra must fight an evil giant, a spooky wraith, and the remaining alien cyborgs.

Diary of a Backup "Everybody knows they are a perfect couple. Except them."

• Kaamos (Polar Night) - A woman who moved south to live with relatives after her mother died when she was a child returns to Nuorgam, where she learns her mother was a member of a vampire-hunting secret society and was killed by a vampire. The polar night is beginning, meaning vampires won't need to sleep at all, and she's invited to join the order. However, things aren't as they seem.

Edited by Nukeli on Sep 9th 2022 at 2:11:49 PM

Infinity Pyromancer: A fire-bending autistic girl takes revenge for the abuse she's been put through and overthrows the government.

The Capeless: Supervillains exist. Superheroes don't.

The Latothe Chronicles: A former princess tries to find a new place in the world after being royalty doesn't work out for her.

A story of mine that's been stuck in draft format for a few months now but i plan to finish by the end of the year:

• A Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Multinational Team must stop a worldwide conspiracy from opening a rift between two universes, which could lead at worst to the End of the World as We Know It. Oh, and the Chekhov's Gag? A missing Tonka Truck.

The Genelord’s Daughter: The daughter of Not!Doctor Doom succeeds her father as ruler of Not!Latveria with an Organic Technology/LEGO Genetics twist.

• HOA Fic: The events of their graduation weren't the end, and in fact, were just the beginning of a conflict bigger and crazier than ever before.
• Fantasy: The story of various interpersonal and cultural conflicts and how they shape the entire setting, told through a massive number of viewpoints.
• Possible Warriors Thing (if I can get past Chapter 1): Four Clans struggle to survive as their environment turns hostile, with tensions rising even as the medicine cats try to keep the peace.
• Dystopian: An ultra-capitalist dystopia sees various factions form in the fight for power, equality, and justice.

A teenager from fantasy Greece becomes a Gravity Master as a result of a magical shockwave, and has to hide it from her suspicious parents. She gets some Enemy Compassion from the mage boy she's been enemies with since childhood, and falls in love with his Cool Big Sis.

A Mother's Wrath, a Mother's Mercy - A hadrosaur dinosaur adopts the newly-hatched babies of a tyrannosaur she just killed.

Sword Of The First Ones (working title) — On a robot-inhabited planet^note  (think Transformers or Bionicle) two former mine slaves, an exiled scientist, and a defecting doctor must find a mythological sword and use it to slay the evil god who threatens to destroy the city-states and bring the whole planet under her theocracy's heel.

A vaguely Baltic island society's peace is shattered when people form a cult around the albino seal found in a net, and begin oppressing and murdering other islanders to force their religion on them.

Edited by Nukeli on May 9th 2024 at 4:39:54 PM

• New Dawn - The Augur's Whisper: The Very Special Episode conceptualized due to an incident, and admittedly I'm still biased against the subject. Basically, Ayahuasca is evil, and leads to madness, destruction, and worshiping a spiky monster that curses a lot.

Edited by NickTheSwing on Oct 25th 2022 at 12:33:51 PM

• Untitled Story: You thought it was Magical Girls but it was me, American Comic Book Superheroes!

Edited by BackSet1 on Dec 24th 2022 at 4:56:43 AM

Title N/A : Cute girls doing cute things adventuring, idoling and Chess-sporting.

Edited by MorningStar1337 on Nov 6th 2022 at 7:42:11 AM

Fire Emblem: Three Houses: Fifth Path: Byleth goes back in time to prevent the war. Unfortunately, she's easily distracted and shenanigans ensue.

Fifth Path Supports: More shenanigans than ever before.

Edited by BackSet1 on Dec 16th 2022 at 9:32:17 AM

Untitled Mass Effect Fic: Following the finale of Mass Effect 3, Commander Shepard wakes up with conflicting memories of what happened. Meanwhile, a mysterious figure seems dead set on killing her.

Or

A retelling of the Citadel DLC but with the added conflict of Shepard somehow recalling all three endings happening when everyone else insists that none of them did.

Edited by BackSet1 on Dec 24th 2022 at 4:56:20 AM

LIBERI FATALIS: The Therianthrope Chronicles: A Japanese scientist creates two civilizations full of anthropomorphic animals with very nefarious plans behind it, while its creations and the people behind his plans are suffering the consequences from his actions.

Untitled Original Story (shocking, isn't it): A team of five sci-fi bounty hunters/mercs including Kitsune Pilot and Master of Disguise Fennec Reynard (alternatively known by one of their many pseudonyms), Cat Folk Former Spec Ops agent and expert shot Luck 'O the Draw aka Lucky, Snake Folk Medic and Muscle Hermes Asclepius, Human Engineer name TBD, and Spider Folk Hacker and Gal in the Chair Webs, take on jobs that no normal team of Mercs could ever dream of completing.