Jan. 20th, 2021 11:24 am
Plot Bunnies of Days Past
Hiya! Thought I'd share some my story ideas/plot bunnies of yore to shore up my word count. They're unfinished and messy, but if any of these jump out at you, grab them and run with them!
Fan Fiction
"Joanna Lives" (??)
"Vernon Dursley and The Bureaucratic Nonsense"
Original Fiction
"Briar Rose"
"In A Cave, Dreaming"
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Fan Fiction
"Joanna Lives" (??)
- An AU where Joanna Lannister survived Tyrion's birth and is disabled
- A softer Tywin
- Cersei and Jaime's relationship slowed down (still happens)
- Tyrion growing up tolerated and loved (by Joanna)
- Actually wrote the first chapter of this - if you want it, let me know!
"Vernon Dursley and The Bureaucratic Nonsense"
- Dudley's child is a wizard
- Vernon Dursley takes it upon himself to "fix the problem" by going all Karen on the Ministry
- "I'll have you know that I'm a very important person. You WILL fix this, or so help me, I'll go straight to the top!"
- Eventually ends up tolerating his wizard/witch grandchild... or is memory wiped. Who can say?
Original Fiction
"Briar Rose"
- Originally meant to be a short story, then morphed into a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure text game
- In a post apocalyptic world (specifically an alternate reality where the "1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident" wasn't caught by Stanislav Petrov), a scavenger comes to a small town and learns of a local legend - the sleeping beauty.
- The "sleeping beauty" is rumored to be a cache of pre-apocalypse medicine, a secret society of super humans, a living pre-apocalypse politician, an underground utopia, or even an old, still operational computer system.
- In reality, it's a secret bunker full of unexploded nuclear devices which have been abandoned for decades - and might just go off.
"In A Cave, Dreaming"
- A society of humanoids, living below the surfaces in icy caves
- Society is based off of Native Alaskan and Arctic cultures
- A mysterious river that flows deeper into the caves, sometimes bringing objects of great value and power from upstream
- A race of "deeper dwellers" who resemble humanoid bats
- A sentient planet??
- An Earth-like world, made icy by a harsh Ice Age??
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- A virtual world of children in stasis
- Children are the terminally ill offspring of the rich and powerful, given a world in which to live while they wait for a cure
- Virtual world has been corrupted by the vengeful daughter of a "charity case" who lashes out at those who looked down on her in life
- She's actively killing off the others by removing them from life support
- Think Lord of the Flies meets, I dunno, The Matrix?
- Actual story might take place decades after the kids were put in stasis (centuries?)
- Protagonist is a technician, either sent in to solve the killings or as part of an archival/discovery/archeology team
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- Short story
- Woman gives birth to an iguana
- No one else sees it that way
- Does she kill it? Does she grow to love it? Does she just give up?
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