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

I have one crazy story idea and its still in development, but I'm pretty outclassed by most of the stories here. Let's see the most interesting that I've seen you guys post so far: Animal sex, Time Travel Sex... Huh everything that's intriguing always involves sex, is it just me or is this so fucked up?

Someone explores inside their own bodies in a weird paradoxical situation. That is all.

One of my most out-there ideas is one I'm currently working into a novella and it has nothing to do with sex at all. It's basically a Primer-level time travel hell situation crossed with a discussion of how to tell a "true" horror story in addition to being a riff on Arthur Machen and the Lovecraft mythos.

The main thing I'm writing is probably weirder, though. Basically, talking animals in '20s dress re-enact Tarkovsky's Stalker while an undead Hungarian alchemist tries to annihilate the universe with evil Zen. Granted, I am not speaking literally here. And I left out the existentialist Irish hitmen and the depressed teenage lesbians. Whole lotta gay in this story. But yeah. I dunno.

The thing is, I'm not trying to be weird or shocking or "strikingly original" here. I just write about what interests me and it turns out it sounds like a gibberish mindfuck when I try to summarise it because I suck at synopses and my interests are kind of eccentric and obsessive.

If it's any consolation, that last paragraph describes me to the letter. So you're definitely not alone on that front — doubly so if those "eccentric interests" involve a healthy(?) amount of Kamen Rider.

As for my stuff? There's an element of weirdness to pretty much everything I write, including (if not especially) the serious stuff. With that said, some of the actual premises of my stories are nutty, and probably not what anyone would consider conventional. Or reasonable. To wit:

• In a viking-themed world with magic and monsters, a widowed songstress meets a creepy cursed child and effectively becomes an adoptive single mother...and also steadily grows to Godzilla-size (and beyond). So begins her quest to find an ancient library so she can find a cure (and/or rewrite reality), while also doing battle with cruel warlords and wrestling giant monsters to death. Also, mechs are involved. Somehow.

• In a mystic world where long-lived manimals idolize a giant ethereal DNA helix in the sky to uncover the meaning of life, one coyote-themed manimal escapes from prison and decides to become a terrorist to destroy said world's way of life. He pretty much has to, because not bringing down his fellow manimals means that they'll destroy his creation: the young and uncultivated planet Earth. Trolling ensues.

• In a world where the 40s never went out of style and where imaginations run so rampant that reality itself ends up getting warped, a hyper-neurotic hitman-for-hire goes out on one last job to earn an all-expenses-paid vacation — only to get roped into a situation where he's married to an insane, murderous ogre of a princess. Together, they fight crime — "crime" in this case being gangsters, princesses, chickens, amoebas, and oatmeal.

Such is my way. And now I go back to waiting for new episodes of Kamen Rider. Or listen to some of those jingles. They're infectious, yo.

I made the following one for my creative writing story. Any thoughts?

Machine Logic: This story involved Justin Henderson, the villainous and extremely powerful cyborg, and his attempt to continue following Hector Gibbs' Eat the Rich philosophy. He creates a few morbid machines to achieve this. Including an angler fish-snake-beetle, a gigantic gryphon and finally an octopus-goblin shark. The first lures teenage boys to early deaths by presenting an angler lure of an attractive nude woman, then abducting them and sewing them into its body. The second divebombs Palm Beach and invokes Scenery Gorn as it rips its way through trying to find Matthew. That last one was intended to kill everyone at a particular beach via flesh-dissolving nanomachines it can vomit out, but was stopped ahead of time. This story gives us a look into Justin's head, and some of the frankly bizarre things that go on in there; I made this thing. It looks like it has a long, snake like body, many beetle limbs ending in elongated human hands. It has two large conjoined skulls for a head - which are attached to a scissor-like mechanism. It is made to lure rich boys to their early deaths. Several times as I recite this aloud, my voice defaults to machine monotone. But even this cannot conceal the bliss I get from creating such a thing. I think I'll call it The Sewing Machine.

Bael and Dagon? Winking reference, or happy coincidence? I'm okay with either.

Sound like your story is a showcase of all the craziest and deadliest monsters you can come up with. Again, I'm okay with that; if it's something you want to do or have skill with, then by all means keep it up. I do wonder how others will respond to it (since I assume there'll be horror and violence aplenty), but I wouldn't worry about it too much unless someone demands that you hit the brakes on it.

I'm also a little curious about what it'd be like to have a crazed cyborg as a main character. How much or how little an audience would see of his inner thoughts depends on how long the story is; regardless, there are plenty of directions you could go with him. Will he go all in with his villainy, or seek redemption by story's end? And why? Plenty of mysteries surrounding him, which means plenty of toys for you to play with.

So yeah. Sounds freaky and creepy, but cool nonetheless.

I once had a bad guy who walked around in an astronaut suit because, no thanks to his Deal with the Devil, if he stays in the Earth's atmosphere too long, he'll die.

Two more ideas that I've had but didn't do much with:

• A setting centered around an in-universe book called "Watch out, grandpa! Time travel for beginners." and the various people who would read it. Features include a millenia-spanning overarching plot which would include multiple timelines and alternate universes, at least one Ancient Conspiracy, a galaxy sized supercomputer, and no scientific or historical accuracy whatsoever.

• It's a world just like ours, except that everyone recently found out that they happen to live in a work of fiction. The story focuses on a government-funded group of experts on story telling tropes who have been tasked with figuring out what genre the story belongs to, what the plot is, and who the main characters are. It doesn't take very long. Lot's of crazy shit happens.

I once had this idea for another post-Cataclysm culture. It'd be made up of anthropoid apes, sort of in the vein of Planet of the Apes, but they'd be based on the Ottoman Empire, and they'd have chariots pulled by zebras.

This isn't my oddest idea, but I once had an idea about a Post Apocalyptic world where man had wiped himself out (by means I have not decided yet) and the more intelligent of animals, such as rats, chimps, magpies, pigs and crows, have evolved to a human-like level of intelligence. But the species have had little contact with each other, so in the jungles of Africa, a "chimp-topia" has been set up, for example. The story was to focus on a civilization of rats who have set up a Empire in the ruins of a school. The rat leadership had ambitions to imperialize the "less-civil" animals. Such as a nearby crow village, for it was God's wish that his children, the rats, command over all of his creation. Already the rats smaller and weaker cousins, mice, had become a Slave Race .

Other aspects of the rat civilization was that they were militaristic, and rode the smaller breeds of dogs as mounts. They had a caste system, and rat women (worats?) were expected to provide four sons each, so that the military may always be full. For the rats had many enemies, and a rat warriors life expectancy was low. The rats were very religious, worshiping their "God" (in reality an anatomy dummy) at least three times a week. Each of the schools classrooms was home to a different caste, one for scientists and scholars, another for builders, yet another for warriors, and so on. The rat hierarchy lived in what was once the principles office. The "arena" (cafeteria) was were every ratizen was expected to meet, for religious sermons, gladiatorial combat, and naming ceremonies. The rats technology was rather limited, being equal to pre-Renaissance humanity.

If I have an unusual idea for a piece of nonfiction, can I post that?

I actually never knew about that. Might be fun to play with.

What kind of unnerved even me a little was someone said that they rooted for Sewing Machine while it was attacking a fraternity guy, even when I added things showing he wasn't the usual unsympathetic frat guy.

Henderson wavers between fully embracing his villainy and wanting to die to atone, and eventually settles into seeking to die by becoming ever more destructive, making people hate him and want to destroy him permanently to save the world. He actually dies a few times...only for his robotic minions to bring him right back to life almost instantly.

He's living a Greek Tragedy.

We see Henderson in this story at his bleakest. He wants those people who lived more comfortably than him die, so that others learn of him and try to kill him. And then he kills them too, motivating yet more...

Some of his Mooks / Elite Mooks have some nasty traits. Yeah, instead of urban fantasy, Machine Logic is mostly bizarre Mind Screw / Horror.

I remember back when I was a teenager, I had a story idea that has since been scrapped, and it's definitely my most unusual story idea:

The story (I don't think it had a title) featured a cat who was living a happy life with her owner, when the sight of an attractive tom cat motivates her to go outside. From there, she gets more curious about the world around her and starts wandering about, eventually getting lost. At some point, she gets picked up by a creepy middle-aged man who likes to perform gruesome experiments on animals. After several days of agony, ending in her being unable to walk without an excruciating sensation in her paws, she plays dead and gets thrown out. All throughout this adventure, from the moment she heads outside, there is a lot of inner monologue and interpretations of emotion. By this point, she laments at how much she has been damaged, thinks briefly about her owner and how life with them seems so distant, and contemplates the shortness and insignificance of her own life, perhaps even figuring she might have eight more of them. That's when she looks up and sees she's right next to a candy store... so she sneaks in, splurges on chocolate, and dies. Basically the whole thing was meant to be an existential tragedy of sorts, but perhaps because of the absurdity of a cat having such a range of emotion (and discovering that chocolate may not be that harmful to cats), that idea never got too far.

edited 11th Dec '15 12:54:20 AM by ladytanuki

Admittedly it can from a dream so might not count, but recently I was smacked upside the head with a story of The Hunter who fought...clothes. As in articles of clothing that would come alive and attack people.

If dreams count, let me tell you the story of a woman who loved a certain unspecified brand of cookies so much her love brought an Anthropomorphic Personification of the company's products into existence to be her boyfriend. She keeps trying to eat him. I'm thinking of turning it into a short comic.

I'm not sure if it's that odd, but I had this one about the Cataclysm. When one of the T. rexes on Atlantis sees the Eldritch Abomination-caused wave of destruction, he tightly closes his eyes and braces for the impact.

my oddest story idea was a post apocalyptic story about sentient dinosaurs (on a hunter gather level of technology) trying to survive in a post asteroid impact world.

edited 16th Dec '15 3:38:57 PM by dragonkingofthestars

While on the subject of story ideas Based on a Dream, I once had a series of dreams on the same night where a Funny Animal gecko kept showing up and playing around in them. I turned the gecko into an actual character in my stories, resulting in a story where a character inadvertently brings her out of the dream world (where she lives), and Hilarity Ensues as she tries to return home while continuing to play by "dream physics/logic" in the "real world". During this, a Jerkass winds up with her abilities and things get really off the wall.

Really, most of the strangest story ideas I've ever had I came up with while half-asleep or dreaming. Among other things, I've had an idea where a character's body parts come to life, separate from the character himself, and wreck havoc on the town (though it wound up being All Just a Dream), a character being turned into a pair of legs (I never wrote that one, though), and a story where a bunch of characters eat strange berries and all trip out. In the lattermost case, I actually started writing it and well over halfway into it I realized: "Holy crap, I'm writing a story where everyone is stoned!"

A fanfic story idea (in a Pokemon-based series) I had that I quickly realized was bizarre even for someone who writes/draws Widget Series stories like myself was one where The Hero winds up in the hands of a strange mixing bowl that only good cooks can touch (anyone who can't cook gets turned into food if they touch it). There was a lot of Black Comedy involved over that latter aspect. At one point, Zekrom touches it and turns into black cake sprinkles, and Dialga and Palkia touch it and become blueberry jam (" Oh my gosh! Dialga's turned into blueberry jam! He...tastes delicious!") and a giant cake sculpture respectively (one that Groudon (who is a Big Eater in my fanon) eats before he realizes who it was). And just to put the icing on the cake, time and space begin to unravel (as Dialga and Palkia are incapacitated) and the mixing bowl goes missing. Deranged Animation ensues.

edited 16th Dec '15 8:37:09 PM by kablammin45

I've got another one where the MC is overpowered... if not for the enemies they fight being of a much higher power tier.

Long story short, MC can destroy universes casually, while another MC can create worlds/universes casually.

The catch? Their enemies are sentient multiverses that invade multiverses and hope to merge them with their forms. To these multiverses, universe creation/destruction abilities aren't even slightly significant to them.

Of course, the sentient multiverses can't be beaten by force, and the good guys have to come up with clever solutions to beat (or just befriend) said sentient multiverses.

I'm new to this post and writing in general so my stories are kind of pretty tame compare to yours:

My first story idea is a Deconstruction to Jack and the Beanstalk showing him to grow up to become a remorseless sociopath who thrive on adrenaline while continuously screw over other people. However, he got his karma when he screwed over Sleeping Beauty's descendant who still has her fairy godmothers.

My second story (still not publish) is set in the Marvel Universe about the Fantastic Four and the adventures of a grow up Franklin Richards when he hit puberty and need to decide whether or not he should go to the Xavier / Jean Grey institute. The crazy part is that I chose the most boring and overpower character possible in that franchise to write a story about.

My third story is about how my protagonist can turn into a griffin. Like, a real, feral, mindless griffin.

edited 18th Dec '15 9:59:49 PM by shatterstar

How does the protagonist turn back? Time limit?

One based on the "why is 6 afraid of 7?" joke; with 8 trying to move on with his life after becoming and unwilling accomplice to cannibalism.

edited 25th Dec '15 2:48:34 AM by Novis

Let's see here. A friend of mine once dared me to write a humorous science fiction story that would resemble something written on drugs. So, I took him to his word, and started to write the abomination of sanity I named Reactor. Name is completely unrelated to the story itself, and references an art class project I made when we were still in school, a fake movie poster. Anyway, the story begins with a reptilian alien being interrogated in a mysterious location named Darkanstorminat (which is later mentioned to be an actual nation that shares its border with Russia) and escaping by having his smartphone detonate itself. This plan almost fails because his three-year old sister had been tampering with the phone.

Then, chapter two introduces us to a creation myth which involves a cosmic insect named QWERTYPLANTE annoying the local Azathoth-Expy by continuously jumping on his noses. The Azathoth-Expy destroys a 1/16 of the universe trying to kill it. This leads to the Azathoth-Expy's girlfriend creating Earth and telling QWERTYPLANTE to hide inside it and pretend to be magma. She did this because she wanted the cosmic insect to stay out of sight and not ruin their romantic dinner. The Azathoth-Expy creates a being to hunt down QWERTYPLANTE, an immortal, self-replicating jellyfish who can explode at will. Some time later, the Azathoth-Expy's girlfriend (who is, BTW, an actual, if obscure, goddess of stars.) decides that their relationship is over and kicks him out of the universe. Meanwhile, the jellyfish is travelling through the universe, searching for Earth....

In the third chapter, we are introduced to a man in black, who looks suspiciously like Will Smith, trying to get his cargo past the Russia-Darkanstorminat border. Said cargo is a massive container filled with extraordinarily rude prawns who have somehow managed to get arrested for having flattened the North-Southern Sudanese ambassador's car by driving over it with a steam train that doesn't have functional rear lights. The last part is what makes it illegal. Also, the border guard is an inanimate basketball with a smiley face painted on. Named Sergei Potatov. Absolutely nobody figures this out.

Chapter four is a sudden Genre Shift into a Noir-esque New York, where a burglar with a superpower that allows her to speed up time when it comes to the natural decaying of objects, goes around her daily business, until she gets a very clear warning from her nephew, who just happens to be a blob monster who speaks entirely in Wing Dinglish. She sets off to Ghana, but her nephew is misdirecting her to get her out of the way of the actual threat. Said threat is the reptilian alien's three-year-old sister having started an Alien Invasion to save her brother. Too bad that she has absolutely no idea where he is, and starts with USA, since she is Genre Savvy and knows that if humanity is involved with aliens, America is always hiding something. Her primary method of looking for her brother is to dissolve buildings and hope that he falls out from somewhere.

And that's just the beginning. I'm still in the process of writing it, and (un?)fortunately this can probably be never published, since I WILL get accused of drug usage or being insane, or probably both, if that happens.

edited 29th Dec '15 12:30:18 AM by ArilouLaLeeLay

Welp, I had an interesting yet weird idea that could be used for a plot.

A race of higher beings that can create universes/multiverses... (Sounds cliche?)

...as a means of communication.

Which means, by saying "hi" in its "language", that's like, maybe 2 universes/multiverses made and destroyed, one for the word, one for the emotion to convey it. The contents of the universe/multiverse, would be what causes the difference in expressions.

Expanding on that, beings that use a higher-level power to communicate.

And in those examples, a being of lower power scale... would find it interesting to see them "talk".

The story would probably be a told by a person who had Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence observing these kind of beings.

Far in the future, after a religion that isn't Scientology converts its biggest ship in its subdivision which is not named Sea Org into a full-blown, nuke-armed battleship and declares war on all other religions, nasty stuff starts going down. The Pope, in response to this, declares the first Crusade in thousands of years. North Korea is among the first to be attacked, and in return blames Japan and launches nukes at it. Most of the nukes miss. Japan mobilizes its Giant Mecha to invade North Korea while most of North Korea invades Hawaii for being part of America, which is allied with Japan. China declares war on Japan for invading NK. Russia supports China, America supports Japan and from there nuclear haulocaust takes full effect around the world. Meanwhile, most of Central Europe is fending off attacks from the religion that isn't Scientology. More nukes happen and eventually, the world as we know it ends (But Finland's a-okay!). The main plot centers around Shu, a hot-blooded malfunctioning robot, John, an ex-cop cyborg who is always calm and Sarah, a mechanic who mediates between the two. Together, they drive around the remains of Europe, Africa and Asia in a big truck, fending off raiders. They also sometimes rob the remaining fast food resteraunts, because somehow, even in the apocalypse, they managed to survive.

Did I mention that the robot would be voiced by Christopher Walken? Because he would be. The robot would be voiced by Christopher Walken.