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

An artist of Asian descent that was based quite a bit on me has a hallucination/voice in his head/possibly his creative side that constantly trolls him, screws with his perceptions and memories and actually acknowledges it's own existence as something that's not there (But will call you a racist if you treat it as anything less than human) must return to his old hometown, a place filled with both good, bad, and utterly stupid memories, to reconcile with his dying mother. It's meant to be sad, funny and really really trippy

Heads up, much like writing an lgbt or autistic person without doing research first, there is a group out there that will get offended by inaccurate portrayals of plural characters. You may want to look up some basic facts about people with the real world condition and get a consultant who has the condition closest to what you are looking for.

....I am Asian

I think he was referring to writing about a character who hallucinates or could have schizophrenia sensitively, not writing about an Asian character.

That's kind of what I thought. Although, truth be told I never really planned on even detailing the main character's affliction, just having it there and letting the audience draw their own conclusion.

It is the year 201X and the zombie apocalypse has broken out.

A trained soldier is tasked with finding a young woman, who is living and surviving by herself in the middle of the zombie infested city. Said woman has panacea for blood, being able to cure any disease, poison, parasite, and heal injuries quickly. She's the only hope to save humanity from the zombie virus...

...if not for the fact that she's a foul-mouthed, selfish, abrasive bitch of an Action Girl who would attack those who attempt to obtain the cure from her.

After a rough first meeting, the soldier and the girl have to learn how to cooperate with each other, iron out their differences, find out how the disease came about, and look for ways to develop a vaccine/cure.

I had an idea for a sort of urban fantasy wizard school where all wizard students summoned spirits that were the "essence" of objects, animals, elements etc.

The main girl accidentally ended up summoning an anthropomorphic frappuccino as her spirit guardian. He also ended up being her love interest.

I was trying to see how far I could run with a premise that included and anthropomorphic frappuccino I thought of as a character exercise and a joke.

None of my ideas ever become stories, but there was this one I had ...

The protagonist is a Cloud Cuckoo Lander who finds an odd box next to a cornfield. She likes cornfields because you don't get sued for trespassing into one - so she thinks of cornfields as portals to a parallel fairy world where the rules are something other than black and white. She doesn't know how literal she's being. She decides it would be in the spirit of cornfields to open this box, despite it being evidently someone else's property (not random abandoned trash). My ideas after this are vague, but she does of course get trapped in the fairy dimension.

edited 6th Sep '16 11:53:49 PM by Elisabel

A fire elemental in a modern Fantasy Kitchen Sink getting his licence renewed at the Department of Motor Vehicles.

A Code Geass fanfic inspired by an RP Forum I participate in; essentially, after the SAZ Disaster, in the year between R1 and R2 we see some familiar figures rising up in Britannia - and we join Kenta and some remnant Black Knights struggling against the malevolent force of the "Specialized Security". Exact Synopsis;

After the destruction of the initial Black Rebellion, the way was open for whatever opportunistic forces desired to become the new dominant force in Area 11. A new government agency has been instituted by Britannia and taken over by one Heinrich "Henry" Himmler, for the purpose, seemingly, of "pacifying" Area 11 so as to turn it into "a cove of peace and prosperity for Britannia".

In reality, for those Japanese who do not join the Specialized Security group and disavow their heritage, the oppression of the Japanese has become if possible more severe and nightmarish.

Standing against them is a team of mercenaries joined by a small group of Black Knights who by some means survived the end of the Rebellion.

Essentially, take Code Geass, mix in elements of Gundam Iron Blooded Orphans, add numerous references toward World War II / Nazi Germany and the United States' own attempts to crush the Native American resistance to Manifest Destiny in the 17 / 1800s and the War on Terror in the modern day. All with Humongous Mecha.

A glut of really bizarre furry porn that not even FurAffinity seems to have found the deviancy for.

I did a thing where a man is having his lunch in the park, vomits, keels over into his (far too large) puddle of vomit and ends up somewhere he gets his jaw nailed shut before being told by everyone he meets to perform pointless tasks.

Every tasks ends in failure and leads to the next one becoming a series of mini-shaggy dog stories featuring nonsense like a furry creature that lacerates him with compliments, a swelling on his forehead that he pops and which disgorges rats and a farm of sorts where staked-out people have to be fed their own organs or else they set flocks of ravenous birds on their servants.

I got, like, 60K words in before realising it was 300% hot garbage.

Recently I realized that despite mandrake roots having the reputation of being plants that look like people, I've never seen a character that was a walking thanking mandrake root person.

This must be rectified.

EDIT: wait, I think Secret Of Mana had one.

edited 16th Sep '16 1:38:07 AM by Novis

"I am Root."

Mega Crossover of: Inside Out, Percy Jackson And The Olympians, The Tales Of Flagship Hiroto, Intercom, Zootopia, Guitar Hero, Scooby Doo And KISS Rock And Roll Mystery, The House Of The Dead, SCP Foundation and me.

edited 19th Sep '16 5:15:46 PM by joacobanfield

I once had this idea that isn't a story, but is weird as hell: a stone-age horror/fantasy TRPG were there would be no humans, and players would play as members of a semi-bestial species (the Kin) with simple stone tools and a very simple and low powered shamanistic magic while facing horrible monsters, rival tribes, hunger, sickness, the fury of the elements and sometimes a species of mysterious and alien beings called "Pitar", who while generally weak and unadapted to the wild are one of the biggest threats as a whole.

The Pitar are not individually malevolent, and may even surprise you by showing great mercy or tending to your wounds. The may also hunt your kind for sport and wear the skins of your children while slaughtering you.

They look like bad trackers at first, but if you steal from them and they don't find you at first, rest assured that they will find your village and may tear it apart. Or they may just give up on the chase.

They are weak, yet they have weapons, abilities and tools that you could never comprehend or use, and they are patient and much smarter than you. If you hurt one of them, you kind will pay the price tenfold as they declare open season, but if you earn the affection of one don't expect it to spread, even with their uncanny ability to communicate with one another with speed and precision that speaks of telepathy.

And they are very, very possessive of their lands and all things in it. Misplacing a single stone in their domains is a gamble like few others, as is wandering too close to their towers. Eating one of the animals they coexist with is a death-sentence, even if you escape their restless guardian-monsters, mutated versions of wild beasts.

They are also.possessive of the land itself, where they grow mazes of crystals and arrange the rivers, trees and stones in eerily even patterns, generally triangular or hexagonal ones. And they are very happy with expanding their lands.

The Pitar are unreadable, unknowable, and perhaps most interestingly, they are based on us from an animal perspective, with many of the attributes tgat differebtiate us from other animals being played Up To Eleven, distorted or in most of the cases given an alien slant.

The RPG would also have some very unique mechanics, like having to roll in order to properly communicate during stressful situations because the Kin is not as competent as we humans in that area, and a complex "analysis" system for controlling how much information players have. It would be very limiting, but that is a feature instead of a bug.

If I had a penny for every weird story idea that I'm still pending on the writing wheel, I would be a rich as J.K Rowling.

But in all seriousness, my weirdest story idea was a story that I legitimately read to my 4th/5th grade class a LONG time ago.

In which my elementary school getting attacked by gaint gummy bears jumping the chain link fence which was somehow set one on fire, firing assault rifles loaded with mini versoin of themselves (which also had assault rifles. They were lead by this one skelton-snake-dragon thing, whose first actoin was biting the head of supervisor, who I will only name as "Mr. PP". On December the 21st 2010, no less. (The day when the "apocalypse" was supposed to happen)

I had written in the names of some kids in my class into my story. The ones I liked got to jump over the fence and enjoy a free day from school. The ones that I didn't like, got killed attempting to stab the gummy bears with pencil. The class clown had went on the roof and started sniping the skeledragsnek with spit balls. He died of course. Through a gummy bear to the heart.

Which left me and my friends, who were in the middle ground of hate-love finatic. So they got a fate worsted than death.

A FEILDTRIP INTO SSSSSPPPPPPPAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCEEEE

Turns out the teachers were secretly CIA afflicated wizards, who had known about the gummy bear apocalypse. The herded all the kids that were left into the cafeteria.

Which turned out to be a Dragon.

A Cafeteria Dragon w/ an very large oxegen tank.

And we were going to space. On A FREAKING CAFETERIA DRAGON.

We had launched up all way to the orbit of earth in the matter of 3 second. Then we continued forward into space.

All the teachers were lined up against the window, holding onto wizard orb guns, shooting away at any asteroid or UFO that came that way. The driver of the ship was drunk, who was the custodian was drunk, the lunch lady was hurling tuna sandwiches at that one Martian, and my best friend was hurling her tuna sandwich out the window. And me and my friend were playing UNO like it was some kind of rainy day.

It only took us 1 hour till we reached a worm hole into an alternate dimension.

My teacher told us that they were going to take us to a school far, far away. Where they were going to train us to become the new CIA Wizards.

And so we did. That was the first and only chapter.

Sigh...I always have to end it as a cliff hanger.

Bonus: On the very same writing circle session, a classmate had written a Battle Royalesqe story with all 28 of my classmates in it. Had a lot more gore written into it that my story, with a boy running over another boy with a monster-truck with nail studded wheels, and a someone decapiating a girl (which if I renember correctly, was supposed to be me) with a chainsaw.

But somehow the class pet won. It was the gold fish that swam in a too-small Dr. Suess tank on the teacher's desk. We found it dead the next day, in a pool of it's own poop.

Sorry if there's any typos. I still have the grammerical capabilities of the same person that wrote this story long ago.

Also the same mental age. It shows.

edited 6th Oct '16 9:12:10 PM by PenguinxOwl

I don't know if I mentioned this already, but I was originally going to make my fourth novel a Space Opera, in that my characters would be fighting the forces of evil on other planets in addition to the Earth.

A more serious one that I've actually consider doing (and may came back to, though it's not particularly likely) is a setting that goes through multiple eons. The thing is, these eons are at once periods of time and also intelligent beings; the Big Bad is an eon trying to "happen" before it's supposed to.

Kind of sounds like why Cthulhu doesn't like humans; they keep trying to wake him up before the stars are right.

The mind of a goddess is stored on a computer upon an alien planet. Shenanigans occur as two mortals debate on whether or not to destroy the dormant computer.

edited 9th Oct '16 7:33:50 AM by sabrina_diamond

Not really a story, but a weird premise for a game:

There's a Metal Slime type of monster and it drops untold amounts of EXP, gold, and epic level legendary weapons if killed.

The catch: YOU play as the Metal Slime, and you can't attack, only run and use skills.

Game is basically a top-down "action" game. Enemies are basically various fantasy character classes trying to kill you for EXP/money/epic rare loot. You can however draw the heroes near various monsters to get the monsters to fight and stall and possibly kill them, and you gain skill points over time as well as whenever a monster successfully kills a hero.

Of course, one thing about Metal Slimes is that they're a b**** to kill, and your character has stats and skills that can be used to increase survivability.

Stats are permanent:

• Increase HP and Regeneration outside combat
• Increase Physical Defense and also add Physical Damage Reduction.
• Increase Magical Defense and also add Magical Damage Reduction.
• Increase speed and dodge rate

Skills are temporary and have a cooldown though.

• Multiply Physical/Magical Defenses and Damage Reduction by a great amount
• Gain a speed boost for a good few seconds.
• Gain a great amount of dodge chance against all attacks.
• Instantly break free from a You Will Not Evade Me type ability and gives short immunity duration to them.
• Attract Monsters to your aid (normally you need to kite the heroes to get near them).
• Teleport to another location far from the heroes.

There would probably be different modes such as survival (endless) or one where the player can successfully escape to another level (Story mode?)

As for the story mode, it's probably said Metal Slime trying to find something that will make him invincible or ascend so that he won't be killed or harassed by the heroes.

The plot would be some sort of Avengers style, massive city wide battle with protagonists wearing extremely distinctive outfits that are easy to identify. Entire story, each chapter, is seen through the eyes of a different character. Each character has their own unique voice, maybe differing fonts and formatting and writing styles and everything for each different viewpoint.

The twist?

NONE of the viewpoint characters are involved in the main plot in any way. For example, we might see the battle roll down some street from the perspective of a soccer mom, with her own mini conflicts and everything. Maybe the epic showdown between the Dragon and the Lancer is shown through the eyes of an accountant huddled behind a table, watching the fight unfold. The "Avengers, Assemble!" moment is seen through the eyes of a bartender. A low level technician watches the Big Bad test out his doomsday machine.

Maybe one viewpoint character, based off of what he observes, assumes that the protagonists are actually the bad guys. It would be extremely difficult to write compellingly, but it would let you observe the battle from the perspective of different people, with different interpretations of whats going on. Unreliable Narrator taken to the Illogical Extreme

There are weirder posts on this forum, but for me it's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, where at the start they aren't separate people, Mr. Hyde is Dr. Jekyll just without his god qualities, but as a result of Dr. Jekyll denying his actions as Mr. Hyde, Mr. Hyde becomes his own separate entity just sharing a body.

It follows the original book for the most part just following Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde instead of Utterson. Hyde murders a few more people than he did in the book.

... I feel like most of my story ideas straddle that odd area between 'too weird for mainstream' and 'not weird enough for widgetness'. The three (rather badly stalled right now) Works in Progress I've got at the moment are:

A) A soft sci-fi story wherein a race of enormous beetles (about four feet tall) are not only the largest and strongest sapient species, they are also the sole known intelligent species that is carnivorous. As a direct result of these traits, they have cultivated such a fearsome reputation that all they have to do to conquer a planet is show up. Then they tried to 'invade' Earth.

B) A more-or-less YA-oriented novel wherein that feeling you occasionally get that everything you touch is out to get you is factually true, driven by malevolent alien energies referred to as 'anima' that will quasi-possess human-made objects and cause bad luck, and which are driven out by either a dab of blood or a moderate EMP, something which one of the lead characters takes great delight in pointing out, mostly to provoke fistfights amongst the research staff (since some tend to believe that anima is mystical in origin, while others trend towards a more scientific mindset). Oh, and psychic powers are real too, and have weird interactions with anima. Also, the lead characters are part of an ancient conspiracy that dates back to the lost continent of Mu, which was, in actual fact, destroyed in a war with Atlantis (which was also destroyed in that war), and the equivalent Atlantean conspiracy is nominally at war with the Muvian one, at least on those rare occasions when they can actually find one another. And all the story titles are puns (the first novel being "My Own Worst Anima", and the projected second and third books being "Anima at the Gates" and "The Anima Within").

C) A Dresden Files/Harry Potter crossover fanfic called "A Wizard Named Harry", wherein Harry Dresden gets dumped into Harry Potter's 11-year-old body aboard the Hogwarts train. Dresden's read the books, has a tendency to meddle, and attracts danger, monsters, and problems the way the Youtube comments section attracts idiots. Things get 'interesting' rather quickly, and jump the rails completely before everything is said and done.