Stories and characters you have written

[tomtom94]

Always start, never finish.

I've tried writing a Pratchett-esque fantasy narrated by a living diary, considered writing a "proper" vampire story, and I've attempted to start writing the script for a potential web video/comic series.

Maybe in the future I'll take up that last one.

 

[Charisma]

I'm cobbling together a series of adventure games [http://www.bigbluecup.com/games.php?action=detail&id=1368](Technobabylon, working on episode 2 at the moment) featuring a young woman named Latha Sesame.

I figured that Sri Lankans as a group don't get enough representation in games, so her ethnicity is thus. She's an addict of a deeply-interactive medium that's a descendant of the internet, is agoraphobic, and is living in a squalid and messy state-provided apartment. She has absolutely no drive to improve herself or her current situation in the real world, content to remain within her virtual bubble of solipsism, and maintain her body only as much as she needs to to remain alive.

While she's somewhat frail, the time she's spent developing her mind will come in useful, now that someone has disconnected her from the outside world, and trapped her within the apartment.

This sounds unique and interesting, a far cry from the million billion anime stories about angels and immortals and half demon antiheroes.

You should probably realize that I don't pay compliments lightly.

 

[Cogwheel]

Made a whole bunch of stories and characters, mostly in the course of running D&D games (commence mockery).

Also wrote two short stories, working on two more. Of the two in progress, one is about 1/3 done and I haven't started on the other one yet. Haven't done any work on that in quite a few months, come to think of it. I'm lazy like that.

I could post the short stories here, I suppose. Pretty terrible stuff, though. If anyone wants to see it, let me know. If not, I'll carefully spare anyone who happens to look into the thread. I would at least explain more or less what they're about, but even explaining the premise would be a spoiler of sorts. Less so for the ones in progress, which - again - I can explain if anyone wants to hear, and will shut up otherwise.

 

[warprincenataku]

I have written and penned my own manga, currently I have about 22 chapters.

I have also written two full-length books in two different universes with plans on continuing one of them. I have no plans to get them published and only have shown my friends and family.

 

[Technocrat]

I'm cobbling together a series of adventure games [http://www.bigbluecup.com/games.php?action=detail&id=1368](Technobabylon, working on episode 2 at the moment) featuring a young woman named Latha Sesame.

I figured that Sri Lankans as a group don't get enough representation in games, so her ethnicity is thus. She's an addict of a deeply-interactive medium that's a descendant of the internet, is agoraphobic, and is living in a squalid and messy state-provided apartment. She has absolutely no drive to improve herself or her current situation in the real world, content to remain within her virtual bubble of solipsism, and maintain her body only as much as she needs to to remain alive.

While she's somewhat frail, the time she's spent developing her mind will come in useful, now that someone has disconnected her from the outside world, and trapped her within the apartment.

This sounds unique and interesting, a far cry from the million billion anime stories about angels and immortals and half demon antiheroes.

You should probably realize that I don't pay compliments lightly.

I'm glad you approve! I like to cite my inspirations as things like Philip Dick and Ridley Scott, rather then Naruto and Twilight.

For the next episode, you're dealing with the problems of an inconsolable Professor being blackmailed with the lives of the unborn children of his long-dead wife. Welcome to the futuuuuure...

 

[Serenegoose]

My ongoing creation is of a world based around a fictional city called Selaan - a prosperous trading port that's leading the world into the renaissance, and out of its traditional 'fantasy/medieval' past. It's a strong, vibrant place, like Venice. The 'twist' on the world involves that as far as humans are concerned,it's mundane. It's like the world we live in, but a little further back in our past. However, there's an entire race of Faeries and Half-fae that live alongside or nearby to them that they have no idea about. In part because most of the Fae have no interest in humans - the Fae mostly live in an entirely different reality with one tiny slithering through to the Human world, but in part because the Half-Fae are mercilessly hunted down and killed - or enslaved - by both Human and Fae alike - ensuring that only a small portion of humans are actually aware of this entire other world that they live in. The story involves a girl who discovers that she is not as human as she thought she was; that she is a Half-Fae, and that her life is about to come to a premature end unless she manages to evade both the humans who hunt the Half-Fae, and the Fae who come from their secluded other realm to enslave the Half-Fae. It involves how she manages to survive her entire world collapsing around her, how she manages the revelation that she is not human - how she copes with the knowledge that magic is real, and how she struggles to rebuild her existence despite being hunted by two races.

 

[StarStruckStrumpets]

I'm kinda bummed, because when I was 12, I wrote about 24 A4 pages of a story on my PC, and my hard-drive exploded, so I lost it all. This is all I could salvage of it, 1 paragraph that I posted on the Escapist some time ago. Yes, this is copy-pasted.

I fancy myself as a bit of a writer, and I have a hell-load of bits and bobs here and there...I also have this if you're interested. It's the first paragraph of a novel I attempted to write at the age of 12.

Spoiler

It all started after his mother died, he was left with his aggressive father, who had no care for his own son. Kids at school sorted out his weak spots, and picked at him like vultures, constantly reminding him that he had no blood mother left in this world. His teachers tried to help him deal with his recent tragedy, but despite their best efforts, they could not rebuild his broken mind. Returning home from school he shuffled in his pockets, looking for his house key, but he had lost it. He rang the doorbell, awaiting his father. The door handle turned. The door opened slowly. His fathers bludgeoned face peered through the gap. His father had recently been in a brawl outside the Shadows pub, hence the battered face. His father shouted and bawled as his son ran in. His father grabbed him by the wrist and punched him in the cheek. His father was a drunk, and beat him on a regular basis for entertainment. The boy always hid his wounds, his teachers never saw. He charged upstairs to his bedroom, and brushed everything off of his desk to do his homework. He put pen to paper, but could not concentrate. His father began to curse at his son and walked back into the lounge where he was watching the grand prize fight. The boy slammed his arms onto the desk in anger and frustration. He lifted up the catch on his bedroom window and launched himself from the sill, out into the green. He ran, trying to escape from his cruel nightmare. He ran, hopelessly towards the lake. He reached the embankment, then collapsed on all fours. He cried, it was all he could do. The moonlight bounced off his warm tears. He lifted his head, still crying. At the other side of the lake, were two orange lights, staring ominously toward him. He lifted his body and raced toward the mysterious lights. It was a man, his body stained black. He bowed his head and folded his arms, black wisps of thin smoke drifting away from him. Then, it spoke in a monster like tone. "you seek freedom from this nightmare yet you throw yourself further into it by seeking revenge upon people like your father. I can give you opportunity to gain such freedom, and revenge." all the bad events in the young boy's life came back to him in memories. He nodded his head, then closed his eyes and clenched his fists, ready to embrace the darkness. Only thirteen, and he had already made a decision that would alter the course of his life.

Yes. I was 12 when I wrote that, and I absolutely hate it. Like someone above said, too many demon anti-hero stories. I'm actually highly ashamed of it now.

Recently my inspirations have changed. Everything I write now has a lot more whimsical charm to it. Think Rebecca's World mixed with Tron mixed with Silent Hill. Yeah, it's that bizarre.

I'm writing a novel right now as a bit of a hobby.
I'm not going to say what it's about because I'm completely paranoid about plagiarism.

Please don't laugh.

I share that paranoia, believe me. It's the same reason I never show anyone the songs I write, especially considering my best friends are in a band...

 

[Doclector]

Often when I think of characters, I draw alot from my own personality. The upside of having an unfair share of negative (or just plain unusal) life experience is, it appears, that I have more odd personality traits to translate into entire characters than most. I suppose it factors into some of the main reasons why I want to work in film; People do not understand me, but in a film I can invite people inside my own mind, and also, to a certain extent, sometimes it helps me understand my own thoughts better.

Beware, wild pokemon lurk in tall grass, and small walls of text lurk in spoilers.

Spoiler

I've written the first episode of a sitcom revolving around three gamers whose lives are completely seperate besides their online interactions. The characters had full personalities of their own, of course, but I used three main traits as a basis: A Paranoid and socially awkward wannabe filmmaker, who becomes far more confident online. A politically minded law student, with good intentions but an ambition to change the world around him that veers on obsession. And a sarcastic joker who uses both humour and gaming as a defence mechanism. It would've gone great, but once the project got into the hands of a director who had never touched a controller it all went to hell. Seriously, I've heard of scripts being murdered, but this was like it ending up in one of the "hostel" films.

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I suppose my most disturbing and yet most personal creation was "the vigilante". It was done for national poetry day, and revolved around the thoughts of an unhinged man, grown frustrated with the lack of morals in the world around him, deciding whether to take the law into his own hands. He was pretty much a personification of my own anger against the world, and what I always feared my potential for evil may be. I like to think everyone has that kind of character in some form, a characterisation of their own darkest thoughts. He has since become my symbol of the "wrong" moral choice in most situations, and has even appeared in my dreams sometimes. Unhealthy? Perhaps. But I feel it more helpful than anything else to have a clear indicator of what is the wrong thing to do in a situation.

 

[Hosker]

My ongoing creation is of a world based around a fictional city called Selaan - a prosperous trading port that's leading the world into the renaissance, and out of its traditional 'fantasy/medieval' past. It's a strong, vibrant place, like Venice. The 'twist' on the world involves that as far as humans are concerned,it's mundane. It's like the world we live in, but a little further back in our past. However, there's an entire race of Faeries and Half-fae that live alongside or nearby to them that they have no idea about. In part because most of the Fae have no interest in humans - the Fae mostly live in an entirely different reality with one tiny slithering through to the Human world, but in part because the Half-Fae are mercilessly hunted down and killed - or enslaved - by both Human and Fae alike - ensuring that only a small portion of humans are actually aware of this entire other world that they live in. The story involves a girl who discovers that she is not as human as she thought she was; that she is a Half-Fae, and that her life is about to come to a premature end unless she manages to evade both the humans who hunt the Half-Fae, and the Fae who come from their secluded other realm to enslave the Half-Fae. It involves how she manages to survive her entire world collapsing around her, how she manages the revelation that she is not human - how she copes with the knowledge that magic is real, and how she struggles to rebuild her existence despite being hunted by two races.

That seems interesting, but is a reason that the Half-Fae are hunted by two races?

 

[Charisma]

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This sounds like it has potential.

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That's pretty sophisticated for a 12 year old. I wrote a horror-style short story when I was ten following the Monkey's Paw wishes-going-wrong formula, and if I still had it I probably wouldn't even have the stomach to reread it, much less post it on the intertubes.

 

[Serenegoose]

That seems interesting, but is a reason that the Half-Fae are hunted by two races?

Yep. The humans had a fantasy-esque past, but it's treated in much the same regard as myth and legend. Like how we treat king arthur. The truth of it is that it happened. Human society used to be run by magi of surpassing power - the Half-Fae. Physically indistinguishable from humans but wielding the magical power of the Fae, they set themselves up as overlords and tyrants until the invention of gunpowder. What was once a harmless fireworks display for their amusement became cannon and musket - and whilst they're powerful, the ferocity of these weapons took them totally by surprise. A small cadre of humans who knew the truth of them united in their aim to overthrow the Half-Fae one by one - and succeeded. To keep humanity safe they formed a secret military organisation known as 'The Dragoons' with one aim. No Half-Fae left alive. They're too dangerous to exist.

The Fae on the other hand have developed a society with rigid rules and privileges and status symbols to organise themselves. They're almost demigodlike in power, and so resolving their disputes with violence has led to their near extinction as a race innumerable times. They absolutely love having fans, devotees, worshippers, sycophantic friends, and so their society is set up like a game they play to accumulate the most stuff. Humans to them are cattle. They barely think, they have no magical potential, they just run around everywhere for about 70 years and then keel over dead. They create nothing of true beauty, and are pitifully weak. Now the Half-Fae on the other hand aren't Fae, so they aren't protected by the rules the Fae set out to keep their race going. But they're immortal and magic capable. Owning one is a mark of great prestige for a Fae, so they conspired to bring the entirety of the Half-Fae race into captivity, using their magical powers to essentially over-write Half-Fae personalities into the ideal servants. So any Half-Fae that exists free exists in the human realm - where once the Dragoons get wind of them, their life is in danger - and eventually that will filter through to the Fae realm, who will usually send out Hunters to kidnap the Half-Fae child and enslave them.

 

[Marik Bentusi]

I think the most info I've released on it can be found here (The name was changed to Aitia* tho): http://comments.deviantart.com/1/99163764/1435666566
My dA gallery also got a bit of artwork to go with it. Mainly conceptual. I have no intentions of actually releasing the stuff, it's just a hobby for me. It's also more of an idea dump than anything else, so why it's a single coherent story, it doesn't have a genre (I think) and the whole "world traveling" mechanic empowers me to use almost any setting I want if it fits.
I think I'm juggling with and deconstructing a lot of tropes, or at least that's what tropers whom I told about it confirm.

In case you should go through the gallery, mind you all character concepts are just ideas and that their appearance doesn't matter a lot for me when I'm writing, except for the few passages when it's relevant.

Feel free to ask me about anything, tho I doubt that will be the case, but I got detailed thoughts about a lot of stuff.


*Aitia (plural) = Greek word for stories/myths that describe why something is the way it is now. For example that mountain over there exists because a giant died at that place and trees began to grow on it. I chose it because it combines fiction and reality quite well, which is one of the main premises of the story.

 

[APSunder]

I came up with this story a couple of months ago and made it into the first episode of a webseries, which I submitted to The Escapist for the film contest (maybe you can tell by the avatar). The story is about items that give people superpowers, but have drawbacks and are horded by some people. The items come into existence on January 1st, 2011 (slightly in the future) but no one knows how or why.

The main character is named Bill (who I play), but it's basically an ensemble cast with six main characters appearing in the first episode (even if two of them only have 2 lines each in the episode) and Bill receives a comic with the ability of teleportation.

The series is about Bill, Luke, and later on other members of what will become The League fighting what will become The Syndicate (the first group wants to destroy The Vis before they are used for devious purposes, the second group wants to use them for devious purposes).

That's the basic premise. Hopefully, though, if the story continues it'll get very complex, science fictiony, and more actiony if pacing permits. If you like the premise of the story and/or our execution, vote for Sunder when it goes up tomorrow *shameless promotion*

 

[Johnny Reb]

Well when i was in 7th Grade (12-13 years old) i went trough a phase i like to call the "Enlightening of My Heritage" when all the other white kids in my school were listing to 50 cent and Lil' Wayne and trying to be Black, i was listening to The Wolftones, The Clancy Bros., The Dubliners, etc. I was trying to truly discover my heritage. And through that time period when i was trying to learn about Irish history and Culture i started reading about the Irish Republican Movement. So me being me i decided to pull a George Lucas and start from the beginning after reading about the present. So eventually i was learning about the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and the United Irishmen. I was absolutely infatuated with the subject that for the past year or so I've been trying to wright a novel about a young man who I've named Daniel Lynch and his Volunteering in The United Irishmen and inevitable death at the hands of the British Army at The Gibbet Rath massacre. Its still in the making but i hope to complete it in the next 1-2 years hopefully.

 

[StarStruckStrumpets]

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This sounds like it has potential.

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That's pretty sophisticated for a 12 year old. I wrote a horror-style short story when I was ten following the Monkey's Paw wishes-going-wrong formula, and if I still had it I probably wouldn't even have the stomach to reread it, much less post it on the intertubes.

I have a similarly twisted story. I wrote it for my English GCSE coursework. It was so drenched in symbolism and subtle mind-benders that my teacher didn't understand it. Then again, she had another 30 pieces to mark and probably didn't put her mind to reading it properly, she would have just gone through the criteria. I only got a high grade B...

:'(

 

[Hosker]

That seems interesting, but is a reason that the Half-Fae are hunted by two races?

Yep. The humans had a fantasy-esque past, but it's treated in much the same regard as myth and legend. Like how we treat king arthur. The truth of it is that it happened. Human society used to be run by magi of surpassing power - the Half-Fae. Physically indistinguishable from humans but wielding the magical power of the Fae, they set themselves up as overlords and tyrants until the invention of gunpowder. What was once a harmless fireworks display for their amusement became cannon and musket - and whilst they're powerful, the ferocity of these weapons took them totally by surprise. A small cadre of humans who knew the truth of them united in their aim to overthrow the Half-Fae one by one - and succeeded. To keep humanity safe they formed a secret military organisation known as 'The Dragoons' with one aim. No Half-Fae left alive. They're too dangerous to exist.

The Fae on the other hand have developed a society with rigid rules and privileges and status symbols to organise themselves. They're almost demigodlike in power, and so resolving their disputes with violence has led to their near extinction as a race innumerable times. They absolutely love having fans, devotees, worshippers, sycophantic friends, and so their society is set up like a game they play to accumulate the most stuff. Humans to them are cattle. They barely think, they have no magical potential, they just run around everywhere for about 70 years and then keel over dead. They create nothing of true beauty, and are pitifully weak. Now the Half-Fae on the other hand aren't Fae, so they aren't protected by the rules the Fae set out to keep their race going. But they're immortal and magic capable. Owning one is a mark of great prestige for a Fae, so they conspired to bring the entirety of the Half-Fae race into captivity, using their magical powers to essentially over-write Half-Fae personalities into the ideal servants. So any Half-Fae that exists free exists in the human realm - where once the Dragoons get wind of them, their life is in danger - and eventually that will filter through to the Fae realm, who will usually send out Hunters to kidnap the Half-Fae child and enslave them.

Very interesting; nothing like some lore to give a story richness. Do you intend it to be a novel?

 

[Serenegoose]

Very interesting; nothing like some lore to give a story richness. Do you intend it to be a novel?

Among other things. I intend it to be a universe filled with characters and stories. At the moment I have a second person perspective short story in the works, just to keep the ideas flowing, that is set in that worlds future - or our present. (it's not the same world but it's advancing on a similar technological footing, so it has a medieval age, a renaissance, an industrial age, a modern age, and beyond) As I come up with them, I intend to get my own site and distribute them for free, kind of like a webcomic but for short stories. That said, I'd love to do a webcomic at some point, but my skill lies in writing, not in drawing, and I want to prioritise effectively. If I do end up learning to draw well enough to do a webcomic, it'll be after I've finished my first novel.

 

[TheRundownRabbit]

Im writing a script for a 5 part movie about a guy (he has 2 other people with him that have their own skill sets) bent on toppling the fictitious totalitarian gov't in America in the year 2120, a lot of humor, blood, guns, sword-play, basically a good action movie
EDIT: wait, not a script, a story-board, sorry

 

[orangebandguy]

Just a few funny musings I had.


Nothing epic or particularly developed.