#plot ideas.

[soulrph]

some vibes that i absolutely think need to be explored in a dnd thread (bc baldur's gate 3 has the lot of us CAUGHT!)

first, characters sitting by the campfire. cooking a nice meal with the supplies they've gathered along the way. maybe they use a very highly sought-after ration as a treat after a long day, like cream or fresh meat or a spice of some sort. they sit around the blaze together, and tell stories of their earlier travels, adding ingredients to the meal and fuel to the fire, and bonding as they discuss what's next in their shared adventure.

i also love the potential of them walking together along a long, winding country road! maybe they pick some flowers idly, or for each other, or maybe they find herbs or vegetables or fruits to add to their supplies. maybe they overhear footsteps up ahead and have to decide between keeping to the path or rushing into the nearby stream to avoid being seen or smelled. perhaps they have a horse, or two horses, or even a carriage, or maybe they're just walking along together. they could discuss what's next in a journey, or their choices from earlier encounters. if we think of roads as liminal spaces, this is an opportunity for many things to be happening, from a fallen tree blocking the road, to the road forking at a junction in the woods, or enemies/allies travelling along the same path, or even a side quest of sorts awaiting them in the woods!

character A meets character B when they're wounded and unconscious, and brings them back to their camp, either out of fear of what might happen if they don't, or for concern for B, or maybe they recognize them from somewhere! they nurse them back to health, and have to fend off attacks along the way because B is too weak to retaliate, and ultimately it leads to a curious bond where neither are willing to separate from the other, but they also don't know nearly enough about each other to understand what makes them trust each other so much.

the last one for this post: the two characters have travelled a long way. they're tired and weary, battered and bruised from past battles, and they find themselves in a merry kingdom that welcomes them heartily to a party, where they get to eat and rest and bathe and dress in finery and attend a ball together. and this may sound romantically leaning, but i also think it works in a platonic sense or a parental sense, because i think the concept of watching someone you've grown to care about finally laugh and smile and enjoy themselves after a long, brutal journey, is smth that would make many people very happy. and they get pulled to their feet for a dance, and this night of levity and merriment, as beautiful as it is, still inspires a transformation in the journey. perhaps the more experienced or worn-out of the two decides to slip away in the middle of the night, leaving a letter that begs the other to stay where they're happy and safe and allow them to finish the journey alone. or maybe they're about to leave but the other character intercepts. like there's so many outcomes for this one besties!!

[soulprompts]

fast zombies will always be elite but like. i also wanna acknowledge certain movies that explore the notion of zombies becoming selective and developing social norms. like wwz explores the idea of an infectious virus that needs healthy hosts to survive, and so they won’t infect people who have any degree of disease that could be fatal. ravenous studies the idea of an unknown culture forming within the infected society. warm bodies has the idea of newly infected zombies becoming deranged with time, and the consumption of human victims brings forward moments of humanity within the infected, and that the newly infected even develop a sort of language as time passes, too. there’s so many movies that entertain the zombie genre but also offer insight into ways to enhance it, and that’s why i love the au sm, bc we could literally say anything about the zombies and it’ll be fine bc nobody is expected to have an indepth scientific knowledge in these things, the survivors just want to survive a little longer, there’s no real interest in studying the infection. aside from some media that does attempt to provide exposition, but we don’t NEED that. you can say there’s a fire-breathing zombie species and nobody can really say “MAKE IT MAKE SENSE???” bc guess what besties, a zombie virus itself doesn’t make much sense either. 

TL;DR: i used a very specific example to get here, but as writers, we don’t need to have explanations for everything we write. you don’t need to justify everything. we live in an era of “somehow, palpatine returned”. u can say “somehow there’s a fire-breathing zombie species in arizona”.

[galaxyvoices]

Random Plot Ideas (so far) / Ideas for interaction:

Quin interacting with Cal. Quin interacting with Merrin. Tala interacting with anyone. Trilla post-JFO as I'm making a verse for that. Vos finding Kenobi after o66. Anything Vos post o66. More with Shin so I can build her character more!

[interstcller]

⤥ 𝓁𝒾𝒻𝑒 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒻𝒶𝓈𝓉 𝓁𝒶𝓃𝑒 ⤦ ➢ muse a and muse b dated for almost seven years, the entire time muse b was trying to make it in the music industry and muse a supported them along the way, when muse b was discovered and the tours and album recording began muse a felt left behind and eventually ended things with muse b after almost a year of only seeing them twice and rumors spreading around the internet but muse a and muse b bumped into each other at a party one night.

- oc muse plot!

[ryvjin]

a fine list of things i’d like to write!

(please lmk if ur interested in any of these and we can plot our little hearts out dafkjhdns)

general ow timeline:

genji’s early ow days including his recovery / adjusting to his new body, meeting other agents for the first time, and being recruited into bw after he gets back on his feet!

genji’s time spent exploring the desert pre-zenyatta! or genji exploring in general! give me ur ocs!!! let them guide him through their favorite cities / towns / wilderness! also stargazing!

genji meeting zenyatta & his time spent in nepal with the shambali! genji learning to come to terms with what happened to him and accepting himself!!!

literally anything between genji and mondatta!!

literally anything between genji and gabriel during blackwatch!!!

genji actively seeking out hanzo post-dragons short! genji trying to mend burned bridges whether hanzo wants him to or not (or vice versa)! alternatively: genji and hanzo meeting purely by accident! also see: genji and hanzo content after they’ve made up and come to terms with their pasts! literally just give me genji and hanzo!!

genji’s young adult years and the events leading up to the conflict with hanzo! come right @ me ocs!

genji reflecting on childhood memories and his relationship with his parents with somebody he’s close to or a complete stranger he doesn’t expect to ever see again! where are the ocs at?

undercover bw missions!!!

blackwatch things in general!!!!

genji meeting new agents post-zero hour! ocs are v welcome!

genji meeting ana / s76 / reaper in passing and unknowingly (re)connecting with them! alternatively: genji hearing rumors of their activity and actively seeking them out for [reason xyz] and later discovering their true identities (willingly or unwillingly would be up to u)! genji getting attached to these people and being absolutely shaken when he discovers who they really are lmfao i’m already having a lot of feelings about this;;;;

‘endgame’ content set far in the future where genji is Much Older and Much Slower than he used to be! genji still trying to make a difference in the world despite this! –whether ow 2.0 ended badly or not would have to be discussed dfkjhdf–

AUs:

warframe because i’m on the biggest warframe kick right now > after learning about the nature of transference, genji scours the solar system and the depths of the void in search of his operator! ...............if he even still exists.

destiny > new guardian genji struggling to come to terms with his existence as a lightbearer! exo hunter genji retaining fragments of his past life and trying to make sense of them / put them back in order! genji struggling to learn how to wield the traveler’s light! genji helping out new guardians later down the line! genji excelling in the crucible and/or srl and making friends & enemies along the way! SRL competitions!!! guardians forming found families together!!!

yakuza > genji remains a part of the shimada clan as his brother’s second-in-command! possible double agent!genji for ow or triple agent!genji for his family to keep things interesting!

talon > after the fall of overwatch, genji--still v unhappy knowing that shimada loyalists continue to prowl the streets of japan + shimada castle--is tempted by another agent to join their ranks; having been promised the resources he needs to eliminate what remains of the clan, genji dubiously accepts, and offers his skills as a trained assassin + former bw operative to them. alternatively: zenyatta meeting talon!genji and making him question all of his life choices that led him into talon’s clutches! alternatively x2: talon!genji gets his talon!zenyatta counterpart i’ve low key been dying for! alternatively x3: talon!genji receives winston’s recall and rejoins overwatch but low key works for talon as a double agent (or a triple agent for ovw, because apparently i have a weird thing for double agent scenarios)!!

ships:

i’m always a sucker for mcg//enji, gen//yatta, and gen//cy, but i’m a very open-minded individual with a massive soft spot for shippy content. i’m open to talking about a possible ship if u ever wanted to try writing one with me. ♥ ocs are not exempt from this!

other ships i high key enjoy are sym//menji, gen//cio, gen//ji76, and genr//eaper.

[soulrph]

Hi! I'm writing a fantasy story with gods (I took inspiration by the Greek mythology). I wanted to ask you what activities could they do to spend time among friends but also something more romantic (in particular a date // friends with benefits date). Thank you!

i’m so excited to do this but i’m also very aware that i may have misunderstood the situation, so here’s hoping some of these will be useful to you, my love!!

visiting a museum together!! granted, this is more for like, gods in the modern-era, but the idea of a pair of gods going into a historical museum together, moving through the wing dedicated to ancient greece, reading the historians’ and archaeologists’ perspectives and laughing at the parts that they got wrong, listening to the tour guide telling a group about the ancient myths and love stories. the tour guide saying “ah yes, this was his closest companion, he cared so deeply for him that he insisted they share the same bed, meals, even the same bath!” and the two gods just sharing a bag of sweets like “excuse me they were and remain to be passionately in love, you try sitting across the banquet table from them for a few thousand years and tell me they’re heterosexuals, DEBORAH--”

going star-gazing!! this is more era-neutral, but like, spreading out a blanket on a hilltop, lying down together side-by-side, gazing at the night sky and pointing out the different constellations, the shooting stars, idk if gods have like, incredibly vision or anything but maybe they can see distant planets. maybe there’s some of that “staring at the other person while they’re distracted when they should be staring at the stars” action, who knows.........

swimming in the ocean!! literally like. idk the rules, but if they’re gods, they might survive leaping off a cliff to cannon-ball into the ocean, right? and maybe they go diving down and seeing all the fish and coral and sealife down at the bottom, sneaking a little kiss down under the water where nobody can see them, emerging from the waves to build sand castles together and find a perfect shell to bring home as a souvenir. maybe they find pearls or something and make necklaces out of them, just for a little easter egg along the way where people say “that’s a great necklace!” and they’re like “oh yeah... it was a gift...”

pretending to be mortals for a day. no bc this could be so funny?? two gods doing absolutely everything in their power to be Very Convincing And Totally Real Mortals, and ending up celebrating every interaction with a human that doesn’t directly end with “hey, are you a god?”. they get to eat mortal food and drink mortal drinks, and for a full day they just pretend that they’re ordinary people without the burdens of godliness on their shoulders, and they get to see each other properly relax and be themselves for the first time ever, and it’s just the perfect relaxing day for both of them! (plus then u can dabble in a little angst revolving around them potentially being able to become mortal and the pros and cons of that, yk?? yk. )

going for a picnic!! swiping bottles of wine and platters of food and a few blankets, escaping their chambers and running into the forest or out to the beach or somewhere and sitting back and enjoying good food, the warm sun, and each other’s company in the process. maybe one of them has a musical instrument and plays it for the other, and maybe they pull flowers and braid them into each other’s hair, who knows!

learning how to dance together! a huge godly party is coming up, and they don’t want to be involved in preparing for it, so they come up with this excuse that they need to learn how to dance, and they hide away in some beautiful dancing hall, but after a few hours one of them finds out that the other person genuinely cannot dance, and is so affronted that they insist on teaching them how to, and they just end up dancing together and laughing at their mistakes and stepping on toes and tripping over, like dancing lessons are an UNDERRATED EXPERIENCE--

slipping away from a banquet/feast together! hiding in an old room full of relics, sharing a plate of food and getting giggly as they look through the old things in the room, watching the stars through the window, hiding under curtains as people search for them, using their powers idly as the evening stretches on and the party whirls around them.

[soulrph]

Hey!

I just wanted to ask you what could be the reason why two deities do not get along and therefore quarrel at a party (not in front of everyone, but in a corner of the garden/palace)

oh my god yes yes YES!! this has been in my inbox for a while but i promise u have ideas now!! here we go, and i hope these are what you’re looking for!

arguing over a mortal for romantic reasons! so like, maybe one of them genuinely loved this mortal from the very start, and the other just started flirting with the mortal as a bit of a joke against the other deity, just to get them to actually open up and tell the mortal how they feel, but then oops uh oh oh no, the second deity begins to fall in love w the mortal too!! and they both obviously know that they won’t have a lifetime with the mortal, but that’s what makes it worse, bc it’s like five minutes in their lifetime, and then there can be ongoing debates bc “it’s selfish!” “but you love them too!” “you only did this to tease me!” “i didn’t want any of this!” and it’s all happening in private bc maybe mortal/deity relations are frowned upon or smth, who knows!

okay, arguing over a mortal, but going the other way with this one, where deity A falls in love with a mortal and deity B is like “this is literally the dumbest thing u have ever done” bc the mortal’s. yk. mortal. and the deity is decidedly not. so then B decides to use their powers and their connections to get the mortal to marry sb else or to go travelling or whatever, and A is IRATE bc “how is it any of your business who i love?” and B is losing their patience bc “oh my actual god what part of “mortal” isn’t sinking in here?” and THAT could go on for centuries too, bc it’s matters of the heart and maybe B inevitably causes the mortal to die before A can see them again??

okay this is the same context, but the third and FINAL rearrangement of the plot! so, deity A loves a mortal. deity B loves deity A. growing jealous of A’s visits and adorations towards the mortal, deity B arrives, either tells the mortal that A is a deity, or unintentionally kills the mortal. A finds out, either from the radio silence or the dead body, and is both heartbroken and unforgiving towards B, who either regrets what they did or doesn’t regret it at all. that doesn’t matter much, that only changes the dialogue between them in the aftermath, where B either doesn’t experience remorse for what they did, and A refuses to see them ever again, resulting in B relentlessly finding ways to get them on their own, or B does regret it, and pleads with A for forgiveness.

secondly, A and B work together on a godly task assigned by the Main Boss Deity. like the zeus or odin of the deities, yk? anyway, A and B work together on this miracle, and A ends up stealing one of B’s ideas and taking all the credit for it, resulting in endless altars being dedicated to them, and a godly promotion granted to them as mortals and deities alike praise them endlessly. B, hurt and enraged by their audacity, corners them during a party in their honour, and demands that A tell the truth. A does not. Thus, a feud is born, and a friendship destroyed, and many parties interrupted by stolen private arguments in a garden.

A has a child with a mortal and unwittingly results in a prophecy being formed in which the child of a deity and a mortal is destined to kill deity B. A, unaware that such a prophecy existed, is devastated, and hastens to warn B at a party that B is throwing. however, B is horrified, and believes A, a lower ranking deity than B, set out intentionally to satisfy the prophecy. B’s ensuing anger and pain leads A to decide to train their child to actually be capable of killing B, whose accusations of jealousy and envy hurt A far more than they will ever know.

A and B are lovers. so much so, that they inspire passionate myths and legends of love and passion in the mortal world. adorable, right? WRONG! a mortal witnesses A interact with a new deity, C, and innocently creates a new myth inspired by the fictional love affair between A and C. B overhears it, and is immediately displeased. cornering A, they ask if they’re in love with C. A finds this hysterical, and assures them that they’re wrong. appeased, B moves on. however, another mortal witnessed the interaction, and adds to the new myth, saying that B is enraged and plans to take revenge against C. C finds out. C is terrified. C goes to A and begs them to intervene against B’s wrath. A is frustrated, and tells B to back off, because C told A of B’s intentions. B accuses C of lying. and so on, so forth. the twist? the mortal isn’t even mortal. they’re the child of the boss deity, who has grown bored of the tales of war and grief, and now designs comedy myths which they listen to with great amusement from their temple.