Unwritten Plot Ideas, Settings, and Everything Else

[cherubplate]

We all have shitty or really good ideas we haven't written yet, so why not find some motivation looking at other people's good ideas? Plus, I need somewhere to write all of these down so that I can look back on them and I want to hear what you guys like and haven't had a chance for yet.

-Electro swing night clubs in the future where the vintage shit has come back with a twist. Cue color changing dresses, glowing cocktails, fluorescent night clubs, and probably a great aesthetic with an interesting mashup of the 1920's noir detective plot and a science fiction like dystopia.
-The X-Files type of AU with Aradia as someone akin to Fox Mulder, respectively. Black oil? Aliens? Freaky paranormal shit? Yes please.
-ANYTHING WITH HARVEST MOON. I'm such a sucker for farming simulators, it's sad, but I've never actually written anything for them.
-I'm incredibly fond of Southern gothics as a genre, and the idea of doing something with it would be a blast. It's also something I've never seen anybody else do, either. There's the cliche haunted houses and all, but they don't really fit the Southern gothic trope.
-Roleplaying ACTUAL GODS from ACTUAL MYTHOLOGY. This would be cool. Or conversely, canon characters in the roles of gods (not god tier, mind you) would be really fun too. Actually, classical mythology in general.
-Friend of mine did a thing with her character being raised really religious and then accidentally running away and getting kicked out of her house, and did I mention the other character is basically headless and keeps his head tied on with a scarf because he's kind of immortal? Seemed rad. Also has that "dusty desert town" sort of feel.
-Keeping with the dusty desert town, I've always wanted to do washed up old Hollywood picture stars who became barflies and smokers who reminisce about old times in a more tragic way. Because honestly, I live for angst.

Anyone else got some abandoned ideas they never got to write?

[Dave Strider]

Oh boy I /ABSOLUTELY/ want to write this one prompt I thought of about Eridan being a French corsair (hello this is me again, reminding everyone that I'm French, bonjour). Like this is so FUCKING IMPORTANT TO ME my ancestors were corsairs and I'm planning to write it happening in the town I grew up (St Malo), which was A HUGEASS CORSAIR LAIR.

Thing is, I wrote this prompt an eternity ago already, and none of my responders did their researches. So I ended up with three Spanish immigrants, even though St Malo is at the extreme North West of France, nowhere near Spain?

Ok I might be picky here but they all mentioned in their reply that they just crossed the border and I'm like *François Perusse voice* BUT IT'D TAKE TEN DAYS TO GET TO THE BORDER FROM ST MALO MISS, YOU'LL NEED A FUCKING STUNT TO MANAGE THAT. (Quebec humor poorly translated, hello)

[Chairubplay]

I've got a document where I stick all my ideas for later, and so far this amounts to Dirk finding a Death Note (tell me he wouldn't make a more compelling villain than Light), Aradia being a psychopomp (guide to the afterlife), urban fantasy police force (think The Wolf Among Us but for all sorts of mythical goodies instead of just fairytales), and something where a character takes in a child despite having no knowledge of how childrearing works whatsoever (you'll never get me to stop writing woefully unprepared parent prompts, never, don't even try.)

[skeppsbrott]

Apr 21, 2016 9:09:29 GMT Dave Strider said:

Thing is, I wrote this prompt an eternity ago already, and none of my responders did their researches. So I ended up with three Spanish immigrants, even though St Malo is at the extreme North West of France, nowhere near Spain?

Ok I might be picky here but they all mentioned in their reply that they just crossed the border and I'm like *François Perusse voice* BUT IT'D TAKE TEN DAYS TO GET TO THE BORDER FROM ST MALO MISS, YOU'LL NEED A FUCKING STUNT TO MANAGE THAT. (Quebec humor poorly translated, hello)

I am intrigued, care to post it?

[Dave Strider]

Apr 21, 2016 11:35:25 GMT skeppsbrott said:

Apr 21, 2016 9:09:29 GMT Dave Strider said:

Thing is, I wrote this prompt an eternity ago already, and none of my responders did their researches. So I ended up with three Spanish immigrants, even though St Malo is at the extreme North West of France, nowhere near Spain?

Ok I might be picky here but they all mentioned in their reply that they just crossed the border and I'm like *François Perusse voice* BUT IT'D TAKE TEN DAYS TO GET TO THE BORDER FROM ST MALO MISS, YOU'LL NEED A FUCKING STUNT TO MANAGE THAT. (Quebec humor poorly translated, hello)

I am intrigued, care to post it?

Sadly, I don't have it anymore. It was either on an old account to which I lost the password, or on this one, but long deleted. I don't like keeping ended chats, and completely forgot to save the prompt. I'm planning to rewrite it, though, so if you want, I'll share it once it's done.

[Ben Stiller]

ive been sitting on this worldbuilding-heavy idea for a prompt, kinda going back to my shonen anime roots in some thematic ways, where monsters (think like, a mix between horrorterrors (for the really big, really scary ones) lusii, and the imps and orcs that they had to fight early on in the game in canon) have been released in a kind of apocalyptic event orchestrated by the combined powers of Her Imperial Condescension and Lord English, and then on the other end there's an organization with some lowkey/highkey religious (specifically catholic bc thats what i was raised in) themes, puppetted by none other than Doc Scratch (who poses as an ally to humanity)

and here comes the anime part: there are Special People with Special Powers who can sense the more devastating creatures (the horrorterror types) and have abilities that make it easier to combat them, and these people are recruited under Doc Scratch's semi-cultic roof, where they're dispatched from periodically to handle situations with the "bigger monsters" while HIC and LE prepare for the real Big Events

i need to think through it a lot more before i can like, actually formulate it into an rp-able idea, but it's been on my mind since last summer and i need to do something with it tbh. my character's probably going to be someone who's been working under Doc for a while, and the other character might be a newer recruit who mine is going to mentor (to take some of the worldbuilding stress off of my rp partner ahahahahah) although i'd probably wanna have my character (probably dirk tbh, he's the favorite) be younger, despite taking the mentor role, to maybe even out the power dynamic a little bit, or at the least make it more ambiguous

yeah i got no idea how to proceed with this stuff but. im gettin there. im gettin there

[Astro]

Apr 21, 2016 10:37:38 GMT Chairubplay said:

I've got a document where I stick all my ideas for later, and so far this amounts to Dirk finding a Death Note (tell me he wouldn't make a more compelling villain than Light), Aradia being a psychopomp (guide to the afterlife), urban fantasy police force (think The Wolf Among Us but for all sorts of mythical goodies instead of just fairytales), and something where a character takes in a child despite having no knowledge of how childrearing works whatsoever (you'll never get me to stop writing woefully unprepared parent prompts, never, don't even try.)

Oh lordy, I've been meaning to write a psychopomp Aradia for eons now. There are so many possibilities but the au ive had planned is,,, just,,, so world-build heavy? I cant make myself tackle it, honestly. (not to mention the prompt would be so frickin long)

But yeah psychopomp aradia gives me the warmest and fuzziest warm fuzzies

[cinomari]

Apr 21, 2016 10:37:38 GMT Chairubplay said:

I've got a document where I stick all my ideas for later, and so far this amounts to Dirk finding a Death Note (tell me he wouldn't make a more compelling villain than Light), Aradia being a psychopomp (guide to the afterlife), urban fantasy police force (think The Wolf Among Us but for all sorts of mythical goodies instead of just fairytales), and something where a character takes in a child despite having no knowledge of how childrearing works whatsoever (you'll never get me to stop writing woefully unprepared parent prompts, never, don't even try.)

I used to have a Bro prompt where he was literally like "I'm bored. Let's adopt a kid." 

The responses I got were HILARIOUS but I retired it after a while, I got way better at writing. Maybe I should rewrite it. 

[Debbie Does Dallas]

Prompts I've never finished or will never be released from my basement of libre:

• College AU. Eridan and y/c playing FNAF. Eridan gets so scared he has a fucking asthma attack. He yells at y/c for being daft and bad at games
• Roomies AU. Sollux makes y/c waffles (badly) because they said he couldn't cook.
  

• Ballet dancer Dirk.
  

• My Autistic, runaway Dirk prompt that will eventually be my second most prized possession right under the Actual Ted Cruz Eridan Ampora prompt. As soon as I'm actually good at writing for Dirk,,
  

• A pirate Vriska prompt where all of the characters are actually based on old myths and legends of sea monsters.

• Another runaway Dave prompt on top of the millions of others, wherein he's escaping his abusive household because i love projecting
  

• Dirk is a thief in a futuristic world like Tron, and he's a GOOD thief, and all the cops want his ass thrown in jail. He has a long history with y/c attempting to catch him. It had high speed chases on space pods, and night clubs, and techno music up every nook and cranny.
  

• Another cop and robber AU, with police officer Jake Harley.

• AU where Dirk and Jake are long distance boyfriends and one of them is going to visit!
  

• RP between trolls having a healthy portrayal of blackrom but i ended up just turning that into a FLARPing prompt on accident
  

• Another FLARP prompt.
  

• Anootherr FLARRRP promptt......
  

• Y/c and Eridan playing the worlds most drunk game of Twister

i have tons more but..... this....... this is enough for now

[Draven]

I wanna write a prompt based on this comic about Sollux trying shibari because it looks pretty really badly and gelasticat even gave me her blessing to do so. It wouldn't even have to go NSFW unless the connecter wanted it to, Sollux is just being a dork who likes fancy designs.

[commandercomplainer]

I have had this unshakeable need to write a dystopian sci-fi au where genetically modified space hit man Darkleer has an emotional breakdown, hops a pirate ship and disappears into the void. And they clone him, resulting in Horuss who proceeds to have an identity crisis, steals a spaceship and runs away from home to try and find Zahhak number one and sort his identity out. Can't figure out how to make it sound like something that isn't just "road trip of self discovery /IN SPACE/"

[terepy]

i have a few major prompt ideas between homestuck and crossover, SO here goes the ideas im too lazy to make

homestuck:

• Stabdads (moms?) AU where terezi is a corrupt cop in a 30s-40s noir-esque world with ties to the Felt, through her mother snowman. so basically a mafia-esque thing where terezi uses her influence in the police to sort of let felt activity slide but try to target the midnight crew with bogus charges and false warrants because the world needs more snowman and scourge in their stabdads
• alien terezi crashlands on earth, only to burden some unfortunate earthling with her completely terrible curiosity and creepy alien ways; feat. weird alien biology, language barriers, and potential plot with government/alien agencies
• roborezi. honestly anything with a robot terezi for whatever reason
• electroswing trash with terezi as a cheesy archetypal noir detective, but add in a bunch of weird pseudo-future elements (ie: clunky robots and 60s sci-fi stuff come to life)
• lots more noir because honestly terezi was made for it
• viking terezi. i dont know what about viking terezi, but viking terezi
• super worldbuilding plot-heavy monstergirl prompt, where the other person plays a researcher/investigator and i get to create tons of creepy and weird monstergirls that inhabit the surroundings, and the other person gets to decide where to explore and learn about them with a focus on weird monster biology, possible danger, and lots of multi-musing. probably going to be a nap to provide with enough plotting

non-homestuck:

• Skullgirls prompt with Peacock hunting down Medicis, inspired heavily by Lone Digger by Caravan Palace, only with marginally less furries and more murder
• SU prompt with peridot working under yellow diamond on homeworld pre-earth mission. can either be canon, ie: lapis or jasper or the diamonds contacting her with work or important things, OR au where the crystal gems are somehow involved in homeworld
• human gem au that ive been writing as a fic but would like to rp. basically, peridot programs an AI to carry on her personality and memories that lives on long after she dies in a lab-related incident under diamond research labs. another humanized gem later finds the disk containing her ai and gets a computer friend/enemy/gf. sadness and background exploration occurs.

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• undertale au with prince asriel living after the chara incident, being groomed to become king of the underground while the human-monster war wages on after the death of chara.
• undertale exploration of charas backstory with me playing chara starting to plot their return to the human world to gain their shady revenge. either fights or sad background ensues (whoops i play chara with more sentiment than just a murder-machine, sue me. at least BEFORE they die. afterwards, i imagine that their anger and betrayal feelings grow to consume them until its all that keeps them determined to live on as a soul)
• ANOTHER UNDERTALE PAST only this time its undyne! how did she get here? why is she so cool? why does everyone love her? a more happy backstory about an angry and excitable fish babe.
• whoops more undertale. and back to sad. flowey backstory, and his slow descent into apathy and hatred! who doesnt want to be wrecked and tricked by a flower?

edit: nvm spoiler tags work