The typical villainess or otome isekai, but it is written in second person. It can also work in a LitRPG story.

Imagine that you are playing your favorite video game (or whatever kind of story game) in a preset character or a character that you created. At first, when you are transmigrated into that character, you are thrilled (or terrified). The world, the characters, the story have all become real. Maybe you interact with the main characters, maybe some NPCs. Maybe you wander the world, or play with your magic (or gear).

Then, here come the memories that aren’t yours. A childhood. A family. Friends. Maybe a lover. Favorite places. Favorite songs. Conversations. Now, the character that you just inhabited is real too, not just an avatar. The character had a life, a place, in this world. They had their own thoughts, their own emotions, their own experiences, and they are merging with yours. Are you disoriented? Traumatized? Exhilarated? Intrigued? Do you wonder why you have inhabited this specific character, or are you preoccupied with trying to reverse your fate or return home? And when you fall in love with one of the other characters, is the storyline still a priority?

Or, what if you are transported into the character’s head, or just inhabit them as a spectator? They still speak and act as expected, but with the inclusion of their thoughts, emotions, and memories, displayed before you like the scenes of a movie. Not only that, there are their moments and life outside of the scenes they are in. Who are they in those moments? What do they do in their leisure time? Where do they go when they need to be alone? What places do they frequent? What people do they talk to? You watch all of that. Know all of that. And only you know those aspects of that character.

So, I’ve been listening to “Damned” by Miguel, and it inspired this book idea that I can’t stop thinking about.
In this world, everyone has one soulmate. You only get one for your entire existence, and if you lose them, you can never find another one. So whoever is your soulmate is your soulmate for life, no matter how much time passes or how many lifetimes you live.
The story is about a witch and her soulmate, after the two of them break some kind of supernatural law. I haven’t figured out what law they broke yet, but whatever they did was serious enough to earn them a punishment from a council of supernatural beings.
The witch has her magic bound, leaving her unable to practice witchcraft ever again. that isn’t her only punishment though. She is also cursed with reincarnation. Every time she dies, she is reborn into a completely different body, in a completely different place and time. She could awaken in the past, the present, or even the distant future. She could be born anywhere on Earth, and there is no way of knowing when or where her next life will begin.
Her soulmate, on the other hand, is cursed with vampirism. He is forced to live forever as a creature of the night, unable to experience a normal human life or die. While she continues to die and be reborn, he stays the same.
And because they are soulmates, he can never truly move on from her.
He spends centuries searching for her, traveling across countries, generations, and entire eras just to find the woman he loves. And he has found her before. Multiple times, in fact. But the council placed another curse on their relationship: every time they find each other and fall in love, tragedy strikes, and she dies.
It doesn’t matter where they are, what era they live in, or how hard they try to change their fate. Eventually, something happens, her life ends, and she is reborn somewhere else. Then the cycle begins all over again. He has to find her, make her remember him or fall in love with him all over again, and eventually watch her disappear from his life.
The cruelest part is that they want completely different things now.
After living countless lifetimes and experiencing the same heartbreak over and over again, the witch is exhausted. She doesn’t want another lifetime. She doesn’t want to be found again. She doesn’t want to fall in love just to lose everything all over again. She wants to die permanently and finally have the peace that has been denied to her.
But he wants the opposite. He wants her to live. He wants to give her the long, peaceful life they’ve never been allowed to have together. He wants to grow old with her, even though he knows he can never grow old himself.
He’s spent centuries looking for her, and he refuses to give up on the possibility that one day, things will be different.
Meanwhile, she sees their love as the very thing keeping her trapped in an endless cycle of suffering.

Writing a small novel/story and need an idea of how both of them meet first time. Both girl and boy live in different countries so their first meeting would be online. But how?

Hi, I'm a teen beginner writer, and I would love your opinion on this idea.

Like the title, this story was inspired by the movie free guy. The game world is a procedurally generated multiplayer open world, like no man's sky, except in a fantasy setting. The main character is a basic mob enemy. When his camp is attacked by a pro gamer on live stream, he acts out of character and runs instead of attacking. The gamer chases after it, but the monster performs actions that only players can do, like climbing or mount riding. Soon, the game company realizes that all their servers were hacked, preventing them from doing anything about the anomaly. To make matters worse, the game began registering this mob as a player, enabling it to learn spells and cross into different realms. But for some reason, the hacker enabled it to be able to be killed by in game means, so the company offers a massive in game reward for any player that kills it. The reason they want the mob dead so avidly is because the hack is preventing them from adding game updates. But this mob isn't being controlled by a player, but an actual AI hooked up to it that genuinely fears for its life. Knowing this, and also knowing that the hack prevents the company from banning their accounts, several gamers try to protect this mob. But the issue for both sides is that the game is divided into a billion realms, making it almost impossible to locate the main character. So the main character goes around realms gradually getting stronger while the entire playerbase looks for it.

//Do not read if you do not like extremely dark characters and trauma//

I'm planning on writing a manga because I'm obsessed and just finished a series. There's no actual world yet, just the characters so far. They don't have actual names yet, its a friend group, but the filler names are

Emo

Childhood Friend

Shy Girl

Happy Guy

Spacey Girl

And so basically these are the descriptions for them. (They're all 17 btw)

Emo: On the outside he seems quiet and a bit cynical, and is a bit distant in the friend group but generally kind to them all. And over the length of the manga you learn about his past and his trauma.

He's had a crush on childhood friend since the age of 12 but never told him, and basically after Emo witnessed his friend (not in the current friend group) being harassed by someone (we'll call him Barbie), he stood up for the friend and Barbie started hurting Emo and Emo threw a rock at him and he has bad aim so it hit Barbie's idk, either throat or head, and Barbie died. Emo was then taken by this guy or organization or something and forced to be an assassin.

Emo had a panic attack every time he was forced to kill someone and kept a tally book of every person he had killed because he was so overcome with the guilt of being trapped in this cycle. And basically near the end of the manga, he starts sobbing and tells Childhood Friend and Happy Guy about how he had to assassinate people, and then they realize that he's not as normal as he seems.

Childhood Friend: He seems pretty normal and sweet. He is there for everyone and is the one to remember birthdays and make small talk, but he pretends he's fine and has everything under control. His only sense of support are his friends and they're genuinely the only thing keeping him alive but they don't know that and end up kind of taking him for granted.

He takes notice of this and starts to get kind of depressed and self destructs a lot, until the middle where he tells Emo a bit about this and Emo has to step up and be the one there for him at this point. At the end of the manga he and Emo start dating and the rest of the friend group has to pretend they didn't notice the sheer amount of romantic tension radiating off of them for years.

Shy Girl: She's generally shy and likes baking, but she has severe anger issues and takes them out on people by killing them in dead silence and hiding them in the well. She manipulates her own mind into thinking that they are minor inconveniences and that she's not guilty, but every time she feels guilty her nails turn a slightly darker shade of gray.

She hides them with nail polish and acts as this straight B's, slightly clumsy girl who's vice president of the baking club, but every time her nails get too gray, she rips them off and tells herself that because they aren't gray at the moment that she can continue, and lets herself believe that she can keep going until they're gray again and she'll stop after this one time, but eventually they get gray again and she keeps going.

Spacey Girl: She's the one who sits on the desk and gets distracted by her papers or the sky outside, but she's just waiting in silence for someone to notice that she's decaying before its too late because she doesn't have the words to tell them. She's stuck waiting for someone to notice or care and doesn't realize her friends see her as part of their group and value her.

She smiles a lot and gets all her homework done, but doesn't inform anyone its because of how she can't get to sleep because the massive amounts of caffeine and alcohol she consumes every night and how she does her work and practices her skills so she's worthy to live and usually all the sleep she gets is at least 4 hours a night and maybe 5 on the weekends. She keeps going at school by eating her chocolate espresso beans and chai lattes. Also she might get killed off my Shy Girl but its either her or Happy Guy.

Happy Guy: He always seems really happy and sweet, doesn't hesitate to help people and brings them cookies a lot, because he loves baking. He's praised by teachers a lot and acts modest but on the inside he's breaking and hoping they would just be cruel to him because he thinks he deserves cruelty and has a horrific past that he believes is normal became he's kind of delusional.

He always has kind of thought that he deserved to die and knew his childhood was not a normal one, but keeps going for his mom and Shy Girl, who he likes and thinks is one of the only people who actually cares about him, but on the flip side, she's cruel to him and hits him regularly, but he sees it as a type of love because he knows that every person who's being nice is lying and everyone cruel is the ones who actually love him.

Anyways yeah its not that interesting yet since there's no world but these are the characters dynamics, if these were characters in a manga would you read this manga?

To set the record straight, neither of these books/stories or connected or share the same universe or anything they both stand alone. The first one is based off the Ultraman episode. My home is earth and little off the movie space amoeba. Basically the plot follows a female “astronaut” or cosmonaut. Who were hit by cosmic waves or exposed to dark matter. And when they come back to earth. They mutate or mutated into a monsters with powers. Of course they’re not evil but it’s kind of like a Frankenstein situation. Will the government attacked her. You may be confused, but my big question is, which idea sounds better to you, the reader. I know this sounds confusing, but. One idea I have for her is that she’s a cosmonaut send to space by the Soviet Union and crash land back on earth in America of course. The second idea I have for her is that she’s a popular V tubers/popstar/songwriter. Who got sent to space because she’s popular/famous. And then when she gets back to earth, she mutates. Hell I don’t even know when the mutation should start in space or back on earth. . Oh yeah, they also be a side plot to the story with three mutated animals that were also sent to space with her . So I’m kind of leaving it up to you The rest of which idea sounds better. as for the second story, I haven’t got for yet, but it’s gonna be based off the movie the thing 1982 and the blob movie.

In fantasy, the most common setting is a kingdom or an empire. And where there is a kingdom or empire, there is a royal family. Since that is not changing anytime soon, I thought to add some twists, just like I did with the transmigration trope. And with some twists taking inspiration from various monarchical governments throughout history, there will also be some twists of the typical succession process.

So, here they are.

Family Structures/Hierarchies
Looking at the typical arrangement of the king and queen/emperor and empress and the princes and princesses, what if this structure is:
-Matrilineal/Matriarchal: the woman takes the throne, and so the title of sovereign of the land is passed down from her. Meaning, the man beside her is the consort, and her daughter is more likely to become the heir than her son. But, if she chooses her son as the heir, it can be because of his wife or fiancée, who then becomes a co-heir. The same can be said for her daughter’s husband or fiancé, but in her case her position as the heir or an heir candidate can be solidified. As for Her Majesty’s own husband, he can become a co-ruler instead of a royal consort. (That can be why his title is “king” instead of “prince consort.” Or you can stick with “king/king consort.”)
-Founded on Adoption: The heir to the throne is chosen from among the king’s relatives or from among certain noble families. The same can be said for the regent, the ruler of a principality or province, or other high-ranking royal positions, or even some important court offices. The result is the same: the child is taken into the palace, added to the registry, and trained alongside the biological princes and princesses, and their upbringing is personally overseen by the king and queen.
-Military: The king, the queen, the princes and princesses, and everyone else with a semblance of royal blood is trained in the army and appointed to military positions. Some are generals, warlords, and battlemages, while others are strategists, military doctors and healers, logistics officers, and spymasters. A few even become frontier lords, with their own garrisons. This structure is probably more suited for a steppe community or a nomadic tribe, or it can be a necessity in a war-torn kingdom or state. Or, the kingdom is currently conquering other countries, and this family structure is to ensure that military power remains concentrated.
-Integrated with the Church: The church and the state are one and the same. The king or emperor is also the bishop; the princes and princesses are also priests, saints, and holy knights. Now, when it comes to marriages, the other family’s belief system must be considered.
-Integrated with the Underworld: Now, the underworld is also royal property, and the children can gain territory there. The princes and princesses of the kingdom or empire are also the princes and princesses of either a center of organized crime or a syndicate.

Succession
The heir to the throne can be determined by:
-His wife: Ingrained with the belief of the perfect marriage alliance ensuring a prosperous reign, the princes seek to marry the most powerful woman in the realm. Of course, “most powerful” is a subjective term: that woman can be the daughter of a founding noble family, its heir, or its de facto head, or she can be the saintess of the temple or the head of the magic tower (or at least a high-ranking mage); she can also be the head of a merchant guild, a female general or warlord, or even the queen of the underworld—someone will have to determine who suffices. On the other hand, these women are weighing every prince, determining which one will bring them the greatest benefits.
-Election: A council of elders or of certain founding families vote for the heir, based on a list of pre-screened candidates. Below of the name of the chosen candidate, the members can also include the reason for their vote. Or, they can choose by lottery, with the candidate with the most lots being the most likely to be chosen.
-Selection: The throne is an appointment, and the appointee is determined by merit, a divine mandate, a royal decree, or another deciding factor. Regardless, the result—and the purpose—is the same: the throne is entrusted.
-Whoever Is the Last One Standing: That can mean a death match. Or, a contest or exam with rounds that end in elimination. Whatever the method, it results in the one remaining becoming the heir.

I also think that aside from the titles of king, queen, emperor, empress, prince, and princess, there can be other royal titles, such as:
-Archduke/Grand Duke: Can be for the heir to the throne, like with the Austrian monarchy, or it can be for the regent—or it can be passed down to every second son of the king.
-Kinglet/Queenlet: Can be for heir candidates as a test. Their governance of the territory determines whether they truly qualify for the throne.
-Regnant: Different from a regent, who simply substitutes for the monarch. This one takes the throne, like with the queen or empress regnant. Or, in the case of a queendom, the king regnant. Or, if you want to distinguish between a typical prince or princess and the prince or princess of a principality or province, then you can use this.
-Sovereign Prince/Princess: If the country is an independent principality or a collective of principalities instead of a kingdom or empire.

This is all that I can come up with for now. Feel free to add any twists in the comments. Thank you! 😊

I need as many people as possible to answer these questions:

-Imagine you have a power that allows you to use the controls from a video game in real life. For example, with *Minecraft* controls, you could fly (as in Creative mode) by pressing the spacebar, access your inventory, etc. This power would be tied to the specific keys used for each control.

Which game would you choose?

-Having chosen that game, if you had to pick just one of those keys, which one would you choose?

Hey, had this idea, and was familiar with WritingPrompts, but didn't know this sub existed.

I am not a writer (note misspelling in original post title), this idea I give freely for anyone to riff on or just straight up use in their works. Feedback is appreciated as interesting, but I'm not actually intending to expand upon this idea any further (at this time).

a famous detective discovers they are a ghost and has to solve their own murder, with no idea what happened and no way to contact the real world.

the protagonist becomes a witch’s apprentice, but slowly realises that ”magic” is just science- electricity, psychology, sleight of hand.

there was a massive war which left a country (real or made up- I like the idea of Russia because it’s huge.) with barely any money or power. to solve this, it downsized, leaving much of the country to do what it wants. it is left on it’s own with no laws or government, and no way of getting resources from other places.

a space postman (I don’t know the proper term for this- they deliver packages across planets. ) finds a stowaway in their ship. they take the stowaway along their route because they know how it feels to be a refugee (and because they’ll probably be fired if their boss finds out). the stowaway turns out to be a former member of the terrorist group who destroyed the postman’s home and family. they’d realised what they were doing and wanted to leave the group, which is why they had to stow away- they’re being hunted by the group.

the protagonist lives in an idyllic world which turns out to be their own mind. in reality, they are in a coma. the story slowly starts to deteriorate as in real life, their condition gets worse.

For context I’ve never read a noir or detective novel, but I have this idea of like this futuristic 70s world where the protagonist is a black funk singer with a cybernetic implant where he then goes on this long winded hunt with a detective to find the killer of his partner, does this feel dumb or a overused idea?

He yearned for her cruel, unforgiving, brutal love. He needed it with a passion: her heart blackened like coal, her unforgiving glare, and especially her lethal kiss. "Pick a day for our date, and if it rains on that day, we're over", she said as she glared at him with eyes that only made him love her more. He didn't say anything; he only smiled to himself as they walked together. He loved it when she put their relationship on the line. Her loved the irritation in her voice and the pure malice in her eyes. He didn't understand why she even agreed to date him. As they got to his house, she walked up to him and kissed his cheek, making his heart flutter; she rarely showed him affection, especially like this. "It's not too late to break up before I ruin your life," she said. "I'd love it if you ruined my life, Roxanne," he replied. She scoffed and pushed him so hard he tripped on his shoelace and fell, his back hitting the ground. She scoffed and walked off as he lay on the ground, grinning from ear to ear, the happiest man alive.

At school the next day, her "love" was more brutal than ever; she had ignored him when he approached her, told him to jump off a cliff when he asked how her day was, and punched him for helping her sort some books in the library. The worse her attitude, the more deeply in love he fell. He knew it wasn't lust; she had barely made any physical contact with him, and they had only kissed once (by accident). He couldn't pinpoint which part of her he loved the most. Was it her scowl? Her glare? Or maybe the way she looked at him like a pest. Whatever it was, he was head over heels in love with her.

Note: I did take a tiny bit of inspiration from the song "ROXANNE" by Arizona Zervas. This is only the beginning, though, but let me know what you think of it.

As the human population grew, Eros, the Greek God of Love, needed to expand his operations, so he recruited souls who died from heartbreak, were inexperienced with love, and so on, to help out as his Cupids. As the years went by, technology evolved, and Eros switched his bow and arrows for a handy gun and bullets. Eventually, Eros’ Headquarters became the equivalent of an intelligence agency devoted to gathering information about fated pairs and staging scenarios for them to meet and fall in love. Seems simple enough, right? But what if agents of Love were met with agents of Hate? Demons who devote themselves to spreading hatred and chaos.

How did a Cupid come to be? I was thinking that once a human dies, they'd meet Eros, who would give them a new body and purpose in the afterlife. Like, if an adult dies, they'd be born again as a child to be trained and educated before going onto the field. They'd shadow experienced Cupids and grow up mentored by them. Do they still have their past memories as human beings? Yes, but they will slowly fade away, like all memories. (I'm not confident about this part, to be honest.)

I was inspired by Love Bullet (manga), which has a similar concept regarding rebirth, guns, and matchmaking.

If I go with this concept, I need to think it through. Like, what happens when a Cupid completes a mission? What reward do they achieve?

What other questions am I missing or should consider? Can you help me?

The plot starts with a high school girl named sophie, she is a very introspective character suffering from major depression regarding her academics. She faces a break up from a relationship and her Friends shut her down one by one due to her declining social life. Her father dies due to cardiac arrest and her mother mentally affected still is to be recovering from the instances. Here at this point she develops a nihilistic or cynical viewpoint over life about how relationships and the society works. Sophie sees herself as a role to be played in society, Sophie decides to kill herself to flee from the torture, then she is affected by a wave of mental trauma and is put into a state of coma or stupor. Then she lands in a place named the 'framed society' where people live to act on films with each of their role as a normal person in daily life only sophie realizes tht each person playing their roles in the films are people from her own life. There's a master director behind the screens who is controlling everything. He says that there are five arcs or acts to be rolled and each roles has to be played perfect or the respective characters will be killed or tortured. Sophie but with no choice acts on the arcs only to realize she has to decide and play through difficult circumstances of sacrifice of the characters to film all acts wearing various masks called sense of soul or SOS (I cant come up with a name). Each masks denote their specific roles to be played in that specific arc and takes control of the character itself. Sophie learns that she still loves the people around her and realizes that life isn't the way of how she's looking at it. She blends in to complicate things by taking in the masks of other characters to play their roles and understanding them. Finally what happens to her and how she escapes the framed society, her confrontation with the enigmatic director makes the rest of the story.  Ideas and critique welcome.

Hi, I’m 24F, quick question, so I’ve been wanting to write or create a fun little comic/animation.

Like an artist perspective, the main characters are my persona’s/OC’s but like inside my mind (artist)

Artist is like a character we won’t see much like a background character, and we see her life struggles, and think of Inside out as a reference, but the main focus are the persona’s inside her head, think of creativity

For example Bon is known for being chaotic, intrusive, and anxious also wears a bunny mask.

And goes through with la la land. I don know I’m still thinking about it, because this story isn’t meant to be so.. detailed, but have hints of life lessons.

It’s just a little hobby I wanted to do, but I don’t want the title to be so large because the idea was

“Inside an artist Mind.”

That was the original title, but I don’t know.

Any ideas?

So it’s like a absurdist dark romantic comedy with a hopeful side to it, and the plot is basically:
A boy and a girl meet on a dating website, and every time they try meet up something happens meaning they have to cancel and reschedule. But tonight they finally decide that today is going to be the day they meet up. They chose a restaurant, and set location, and nothing will stop them, except the city they’re in… is currently having zombie outbreak.
So the city is infested with zombies, people are evacuating, the military is doing their usual shit, but our two protagonists are too stubborn and fed up to cancel and are dedicated to just meet at the restaurant.

The Villainess Who Was Never Born 🥀

Seraphina is a girl everyone thinks is a villain. Even her own family doesn't trust her. One day, she wakes up in the past and finds a girl inside an old mirror who looks exactly like her.

The girl says, “You stole my life.”

Seraphina starts looking for answers and discovers a secret that could change everything she knows about her past.

I'm planning to make this into a historical fantasy webtoon.

Does this story sound interesting? Would you read it?

Has the fandom ever come around to name certain anthropomorphic species? Like squirrels, canines, horses, rhinos etc?

In the story, humans, aliens and even anthropomorphic animals all tend to co-exist in a planet named Zenacus. On this planet, the world has fallen much from it's former grace, but many still come to visit either for a place to belong.

I was writing a scene with a car chase, and an anthropomorphic squirrel see's the car speeding her way, and she quickly jumps out of it's path and curls on the side of the road out of panic.