A dumping ground for various fic prompts. Should any of these receive actual writing installments, they'll be deleted from here and reposted to the WIP Fic Post.
MFC is a power hungry ex-sellsword looking to gather the fifteen legendary Daedric artifacts. She will do absolutely anything it takes to complete her collection, and nothing will distract or deter her.
An MFC is an adventurer with a strict set of morals. Besides hunting for food, she only kills the undead or under extreme circumstances that afford her no other choice (such as Alduin). She is an expert at sneaking past and calming enemies, and she travels alone rather than letting anyone compromise her morality.
A Nord, Breton, Imperial, or Redguard MFC is a truly selfless person. She'll fetch your lost sword, track down your family's kidnappers, and more than gladly save the world--hell, she'll even invite you along for the adventure! But the grey area between "right" and "wrong"--and the tough decisions therein--wear on her, and bittersweet character development ensues as she's forced to deal with all the nightmares and hardships that Skyrim has to offer.
MFC, a human thief, becomes a Nightingale alongside Karliah and Brynjolf, as well as the head of the thieves guild. (An unrequited crush on Brynjolf could prove interesting...)
An Argonian MFC has big ideas about how to improve the lives of her people in Skyrim--intending to get rich through thievery with perhaps a bit of paid assassination along the way--but they don't quite line up with her new destiny as the Last Dragonborn.
An MFC joins the Companions and becomes a werewolf... and eventually the Harbinger.
Because I don't really have any plans for Malene to ever get involved with the companions, there might be something to the thought of bringing in someone else to serve as the Harbinger (allowing the Companions plotline to still occur within the Children of Akatosh universe without directly involving Mal).
Alternately, I could just rewrite the Companions arc to compensate for the fact that I don't want Malene to be a werewolf (and don't think she'd agree to let Aela/Kodlak/the rest of the Circle turn her into one).
So, I just read a fairly enjoyable DA2 fic in which Marian becomes a Magister after killing Danarius and inheriting his entire estate--including Fenris. I enjoyed it... but I want more. Honestly, my favorite aspect of it was the various slaves' fear and distrust regarding Hawke and her apparent kindness--but also their reactions to her apparent relationship with Fenris. I am all but overcome with the need to emulate this somehow on my own terms and write to my heart's content; but how to set up the circumstances without stealing them wholesale from both the fic and the canon? I'm sure there's some way, but at the moment, it evades me.
ETA: This one comes easy, it seems. In what is subtly implied to be the post-Rapture/Apocalypse world, the Tevinter Imperium Expy is ruled by a host of demons and/or fallen angels. Humans--normal, purebred humans, that is--are enslaved (perhaps without the ability to be freed, for added drama) while the only free humans are the "mages", hybrid individuals who, like Merlin of Arthurian myth, have inherited the raw magical potential of their demonic parent and/or ancestor(s). (Mage/demon relations are common and mage/human relations are all but unheard of, given that any child born without magical potential is liable to be--or perhaps legally required to be--enslaved. And no one wants to see their children suffer that, so mages either settle with the most recently-blooded mage they can get their hands on, or they shack up with a demon... or they make sure they never conceive.) The Fenris Expy is a born human enslaved to the Danarius Expy, a demon, and he is special just as Fenris was. Henceforth referred to as MMC, the Febris Expy was subjected to the Danarius Expy's experiments; not!Danarius was attempting to turn a human into a mage (for decidedly not altruistic reasons) and more or less succeeded. Except MMC fled his sadistic master at the first opportunity, and that's what leads him to the MFC. She is a mage, just as her entire family has been for generations--or so she thinks. She stumbles across the MMC just as Hawke stumbled across Fenris, and she agrees to help him escape his master once and for all. During the story, MMC and MFC (perhaps reluctantly) fall in love, but concerns more immediately pressing prevent them from taking down not!Danarius in anything resembling a timely fashion. And just as Hawke became the Champion of Kirkwall, MFC becomes a local hero all but worshipped by the mages and at the very least begrudgingly tolerated by the demonic noble ranks. Until MFC and MMC finally face off against not!Danarius. They kill him, consequences be damned... and then the consequences hit them like a raging bull. MFC is declared MMC's new owner and not!Danarius' successor, and the fallout will be glorious.
Person A is forced into an arranged marriage with Person C (NoTP or BroTP). Person C realises Person A is in love with Person B, who loves them back – though both are oblivious to it. Person C tries their best to make them realise their love for each other and to make their romance possible. Whether they manage to stop the arranged wedding or if Person C allows them to see each other despite being married to Person A is up to you.
OT3: After spending so much time trying to make the dorks come together, Person C ends up developing feelings for both of them.
The year is 1730. Princess Septima Lalage of Lerena and her lover, Colobert Italus, steal away to a remote village on the outskirts of her kingdom--Colobert's ancestral village.
Theodore Kelemen, prince of Madara, is on the assault, though his enemy royals don't yet know it. And one of his early stops is the village of Italus. He attacks the inn where Septima and Colobert are staying; Colobert is lucky enough to be safe in their hidden bedroom; Septima, however, is caught in the lobby.
She is furious, instantly realizing what's going on before her eyes. Theodore, however, takes a moment to recognize her; specifically, it's when he notes her anger--fear is expected, not fury--that he realizes he has the overconfident Princess of Lerena herself in his clutches.
But he doesn't let on that he knows who she is--not yet. And for that matter, most of the peasants in the inn don't know, either. So Septima believes her identity is relatively safe--meaning the worst that's likely to happen to her is death. What would face her as a known political enemy is near unthinkable.
And so she doesn't hesitate to defend her people when Theodore's soldiers grow abusive. One of them goes to cut into a terrified civilian, and Septima pulls him put of the way of the blade, receiving a slice to her forearm for her efforts.
Theodore is very much amused by this. He reveals that he knows who Septima is, and offers her a speech about why she can't possibly protect her citizens from him. And as he'd hoped, she takes this as an invitation to martyr herself, so to speak.
He attacks her, her arms receiving further damage from his bladed gauntlet. When he is satisfied, he stops. But he certainly isn't done; he abandons his attack in favor of a kidnapping, and Septima finds herself on the road to the palace of Madara, where she is then held against her will.
Then the plot becomes reminiscent of the original incarnation of Yihasa's War, with Theodore taking on Chris's original role and Septima in Lynette's. Except Theo manages what Chris didn't, actually going through with the abduction-wedding.
Septima spends a few awkward days as a member of the Kelemen family, taking great care to remind every that her supposed marriage is not legal in her country--if she can just cross the border, she's a free woman again.
She holds onto that hope... until things take a turn for the worse. Theo has a surprise for her, and it's nothing good; Colobert followed them, and is now trying to confront the Kelemen family in the palace throne room. Theo consents to let him live, but Septima can see this is no consolation--Theo has that same predatory look in his eyes, and it occurs to her for that Colobert might just have gotten himself mixed up in the wrong "love triangle" with the wrong lunatic.
Person A comes home one evening only to be kidnapped by someone who looks like Person B. This evil [ or good, depending on their original alignment ] version of their partner seems to have a weird romantic attachment to A and keeps trying to convince them that they’re the better option. That they’re better than the real Person B. Only, A keeps refusing.
What happens next? Does the real B save A? Does A give in to the opposite B’s requests?
Imagine your OTP as gods. Imagine in recorded mythology, they were said to be enemies but in reality, they’re in a relationship but stupid humans are freaking inaccurate.
Mrs. Frizzle is a Time Lord, implied to be the thirteenth regeneration of Melody Pond aka River Song. When Arnold and his classmates are twenty-three, Arnold is dating his cousin Janet's best friend since middle school, Rosemary Locke.
Arnold/Rosemary Ralphie/Wanda
Arnold = in medical school Janet = Lawyer Rosemary = Bookstore Owner Keesha = Amateur Director Wanda = Robot Engineer Phoebe = Zoologist Dorothy Ann = University Librarian Tim = Graphic Novelist Carlos = TV Sitcom Writer Ralphie = Robot Engineer
Arnold and Rose are living together when one morning thy hear on the local news that Mrs. Valerie Frizzle, beloved teacher to many local children and adults, is officially a missing person. Then Liz appears in their doorstep, inexplicably still alive after a decade and a half. She leads them to the bus, which is sentient and in hiding. And the story starts to come out; Valerie isn't quite the woman everyone thought she was--she's a Time Lord(-human hybrid) and the bus is her TARDIS. Arnold and Janet, meanwhile, are her accidentally-begotten great-grandchildren. Now, on her final regeneration, she's looking into passing on her TARDIS. Janet wants it; Arnold doesn't. But Valerie is missing, and they know they have to find her--Rosemary won't think of letting them avoid it. She convinces them to let the old class back together, pulling the other seven students back into the tumult that is Mrs. Frizzle's world. In the end, Arnold and Rosemary leave their old lives behind; Rose gives DA management of her bookstore, and Arnold drops out of medical school. Janet reluctantly stays behind; she adores being a lawyer, and doesn't want to give up her life. But the cast gets one last adventure together, and Janet gets to join her cousin and best friend on their adventures every now and then.
At the end of Hercules, the title character defeats Hades and decides to stay a mortal with Megara. The problem is, however, that Hades is the immortal god of the Underworld, which is where Hercules will go when he dies as a mortal.
Ember lives in a world of super-heroes, super-villains, aliens, and monsters. A world in which normals like herself are looked down upon.
Ember is, however, the daughter of two normals who made something of themselves. Clark and Bess Rule were members of a since-disbanded organization called the Slayers. (The Slayers were disbanded by the government's Council for the Fair Protection of All Citizens, which strictly forbids normals from engaging hostile paranormals, after Bess was brutally killed in battle.)
Now, Ember is twenty-four and hasn't seen her Dad in years. (He's probably dead.) She lives in the same city as the highly publicized superhero, Robert Irons aka Ironheart, a billionaire with a notoriously terrible personal life, and an alien prince who has adopted the name Chris Stormborn, who has recently married a normal woman named Natalie Ringer.
The city is still recovering from an invasion by extraterrestrial hostiles led by Chris's brother Set, who has been imprisoned in a government correctional facility.
Ember is starting her final year of college when she's forced to continue her parents' legacy.
When she finds herself kicked off the list for her psychology course, she's forced to spend the first day of school waiting for administration to sort out the problem. She decides to wait in the practice auditorium, and so it's there that she experiences her first taste of the attack on the university.
From beneath the bleachers, a massive and monstrous creature bursts forth, killing a handful of students in its first hit. In spite of the sudden panic, Ember manages to get out just in time--before the creature devours everyone too slow to reach safety.
A few generations down the line, Estagon is conquered by a woman who comes to be known as the "Dragon Queen", claiming to be the descendant of Adrasteia and Sigurd (which should be heavily implied to be bullshit). Perhaps she's got herself a few actual dragons (hatchlings or otherwise) backing her claim?
King Whatever refuses to give Nell the mantle, choosing instead to bestow it upon Owen. Except Owen cannot be the Imperial Wizard without his twin sister, and so the darkness continues to grow stronger while the light weakens.
Years pass, and Nell's efforts to help the people are routinely thwarted by her father. And then she is approached by a familiar face--her cousin--who hopes to use her as a weapon against her father and brother.
Over the years, Nell has grown increasingly frustrated toward and hateful toward her narrow-minded, selfish father, and this is just the opportunity she needs to start tearing down his world.
A young woman wakes up one day to find the world seemingly empty. Her family is gone (except for her dog), and so, it seems at first, is the rest of humanity. After realizing that her parents aren't coming back and she's completely on her own, MFC has to find a way to survive in an empty world.
The ultimate goal is to start a new society that remembers but doesn't replicate the old one. The nature of the Apocalypse may be unraveled as a mystery subplot, but I think I might prefer everyone to have their own individual, unconfirmed theories. (The rapture, the Matrix, aliens running some experiment, etc.)
In any case, the sudden and unexplained disappearance of humanity is going to dredge up a lot of issues, obviously. There's no immediate threat of outlaws or beasts, but that'll be coming eventually. Time, though, is not on MFC's side. Food will start rotting as soon as the power goes out, and she wastes a day waiting on her parents, scared and confused.
The next biggest hurdle is weight. She'll be on the move, but she'll want to pack things. Whatever she takes, she'll have to carry herself (at least at first). She can (probably) carry at absolute maximum around seventy pounds, and it would be exhausting. So she'll likely be aiming for a max of thirty or so, and each pound will have to count. She can only take the essentials. (Some amusement should be made of how she insists on keeping her Harry Potter paperbacks with her and dry.)
Then there's the issue of transportation. MFC leaves her house to investigate the world's disappearance, but she never learned to drive. (Not to mention the looming scarcity of gas.) So she walks into town, where she has to face the reality of her predicament. She begins to prepare for a hard and potentially horrible life--not to mention short if she runs into bad luck--but is still anxious about the idea of driving (though empty roads sure take the pressure off). She may use her parent's SUV for storage, though?
Her goals at first are simple: find food and don't get caught outside after dark. At first, she uses her house as a home base, if only for the refrigerator (so she can keep fruits, vegetables, and meat until the power goes out). She raids the grocery store(s) for everything she can keep at first: clean water, precooked meats, produce, canned goods, cereals, candy, and anything else that doesn't require cooking and has a distant expiration date (not to mention dog food). She steals a shopping cart to help carry things back and forth. And once the grocery store(s) is/are used up, she starts in on the neighbor's houses.
But there are other necessities. (Let's not forget that she still has to go to the bathroom, and she's bleeding once a month.) She raids the Walmart for clothes, soap, medicine, toilet paper, and other essentials... and she runs into another human for the first time. (She might keep a journal at this point?) I think the first thing she needs is someone who can pick locks. I'm thinking a scared, mostly stereotypical middle class white girl with a subversive bad girl streak and a willingness to defer leadership to anyone who acts like they know what they're doing. She joins the MFC, and so the new world begins.
From here they start moving from house to house, taking resources and finding shelter as they go, but looking for other "survivors" all the while. They keep storing things in MFC's house, though, and still consider that "home" (until eventually forced to decide otherwise?). Or maybe they move into the second girl's much nicer house a few miles away?
Once the power goes out, though, things suddenly seem more dire. The loss of the modern world suddenly seems more real. The girls have the last fresh fruit and farm meat they'll have for a while, and the toilets no longer flush. At this point, MFC heads to the library; she's looking for anything that can help her survive: books about camping, books about safely edible plants in the area, and things like that.
I'm toying with the idea of having them find a child that first week--a little boy of about seven or eight who's hiding in one of the houses, still waiting for his parents to come home. But I also have the idea of the girls taking to rescuing cats and dogs that are trapped inside. They let the dogs go (except for puppies) and bring all the cats back to the cul de sac where the girls are living.
* Angela Petrelli takes control of the company and ropes Noah, Rene, Mohinder, and Molly Walker into joining her. Claire wants to help, but Noah forbids it. * Nathan is dying of radiation poisoning from helping Peter; eventually, they realize Claire's blood can cure him. * Peter is missing (lost at sea, actually), having broken away from Nathan while in flight. Even with Molly's help, Angela's having a hard time finding him. * Nikki, D.L., and Micah have returned to their house in Vegas; Nikki and D.L. want to go back to their "normal" lives, but Micah has superheroic aspirations. * Matt has returned home to be with Janice and their unborn son. Perhaps he calls up Audrey to let her know he got Sylar after all? * With Hiro trapped in the 1600s, Ando has returned to Tokyo & his job at Yamagato. Perhaps he pursues a relationship with Kimiko?
Other Ideas: [potential] Sylar gets the opportunity to attack Peter before Claire; he learns how to use empathic mimicry and leaves Peter for dead. When Claire finds him, she replaces the top of his skull, which brings him back to life. When Sylar hears about this, he goes after Claire (as he's realized his attack won't kill her).
After Marik and the Spirit establish a relationship, they're eager to get Ryou and Marik's dark half out of the equation. So the Spirit goes to an old friend of Zorc's, a Hell Goddess of hidden name known only by her title, Kore ("the maiden"). She agrees to separate each of the two pairs... at the price of one of their souls. They agree to give her Marik's dark half, and he seals the deal with the required Supernatural-style kiss... And this begins Kore's game of cat-and-mouse with the four men--the Spirit, who isn't quite satisfied with his role as Marik's uke; Marik, who's still convinced of his own heterosexuality (Bakura's just an exception!); Ryou, who ardently ships Marik/Bakura and couldn't be more thrilled to finally have his body back; and "Melvin", who can't stand bring tethered to a Hell Goddess only just *barely* as unhinged as he is.
"This is Hell, boys. There are no card games here."
I'd like to an F!DB who can't go a day or 20 minutes without being jumped by a large variety of skyrim's denizens intent on taking the F!DB by force (Nordic bandits or inhabitants of Windhelm, Thalmor agents, Falmer, Bandits in general, pesky spriggans, Forsworn, and dwarvan machinery modified by perverted scholers) I'd prefer the F!DB to be Dunmer because the racial tensions in Windhelm could be used for a lot of material (haven't seen any fills on here playing on these tensions yet). Bonus points if the Nord bandits use their "Skyrim has no place for your kind" and other cheesy battle quotes while raping the F!DB. More Bonus points if this starts at Helgen where Hadvar gets seperated from the F!DB before cutting the restraints off, leaving a helpless F!DB in a room full of Stormcloak prisoners who haven't seen a woman in ages.
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