HECK I THINK I’M ACTUALLY GONNA MAKE THAT WOODLAND-Y IDEA INTO AN ACTUAL WIP NOW
I’M THINKING THE MAGIC TREEHOUSE AND BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA AND OVER THE GARDEN WALL AND GRAVITY FALLS AND SOMEHOW EVEN SOME SCOOBY DOO MIXED IN.
rant under the cut as I try and figure some stuff out
It’s a group of four (middle-school aged maybe?) friends who just go into the woods in their neighbourhood to play imagination games! Like I used to do as a kid! Where you roleplay as though you’re a dragon or you have magic powers or you’re a fairy or a knight? And then these kids stumble across this old ruin of a greenhouse, and when they go inside, ~wonky magical/time-shifty things~ happen and there’s some kind of mystery they have to solve? Idk but I like the vibes I’m getting from it.
One of the kids is definitely going to have a lot of nature knowledge, like herbal science background ‘cause maybe his dads are biologists or witches or something? I have yet to decide whether this world has magic or not. Anyways. He’s definitely the shy flower prince. Always putting flowers on everything. Flower crowns and basket weaving and other fancy crafts.
Then there’s gotta be the “new kid” who just moved into the neighbourhood and was invited to join their games and is a newbie to everything.
And... maybe an enby who just wants to fight literally everything? They have a sword (stick) and shield (cardboard) and they just... wail on leaves and tree stumps for no particular reason. They also like climbing trees and rocks and stuff. And they like making weapons. Bows and arrows and fake traps and stuff. They’re a survivalist. (But they can’t actually harm any living thing.)
And then there’s the techie girl who always likes to play some sci-fi character! The strategic nerd who has the best plans and creative ideas. Very booksmart and your classic trope of a nerd kid, but everything she owns is yellow and/or orange. She always wears dresses or skirts and makes everything very effective and efficient and feminine-presenting.
Maybe there are monsters lurking the forest too? Maybe the greenhouse is a portal and when they find it they activate something that lets the monsters out? And maybe the kids have to solve a mystery to get the monsters back there?
There are totally going to be magical artifacts that they have to collect. There’s definitely going to be some sort of twist about the monsters. Hmmm ahhhhhh IDK BUT I’M GETTING THE STARTS TO AN IDEA WOO
