#snails writing

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Sequel to this post here on world building ideas.

Cast ideas(in this case talking about the last idea for the most part)-

Penny(after the coin, like a lucky Penny)- main protag.

-Kinda ‘clueless’, for lack of a better word, but less in the naive and doesn’t know things but more in the very forgetful and takes her an little bit longer to put two things together.

-in fact she has a tendency to know things others don’t because ghosts tell her stuff.

-shes combat avoidant, not because she doesn’t like it, but because she gets riled up really easily, and doesn’t want to get violent if she can help it (which, when she’s mad, she tends to do.)

-family consists of: unnamed parents I haven’t put much thought into, older brother, and ghost friends.

-Shapeshifter, as in a human who can take one other form (some kind of big cat I’m thinking for her)

Phoebe(bright or radiant)- one of the ghosts that Penny hangs out with.

-kinda crazy/chaotic older sibling energy

-good at reading people, and also pressuring/intimidating them into doing things.

-stayed with Penny because she’d rather be with her then with family.

Cliff- the other main ghost that hangs out with Penny, they choose to call him Cliff because he didn’t remember his real name and they found him by a Cliff.

-plant child of nature, he makes Penny stop and take care of them sometimes.

-very much a sweet boy. Kinda naive, but really nice.

-chatty but not in an annoying way because he’s actually pretty great to listen too.

-amnesia

Sword-Penny’s cat. Yes. I’m giving Penny a cat. Yes she named it Sword.

- siamese kitty.

-just kinda follows them around and sits on things at all the worst moments.

-very LOUD.

-sharp.

Liam(will or guardian)-Pennys brother, a traveler with a tendency for disaster. Wanted in a few different places.

-accidents follow this man like a trail

-he just kinda laughs it off though because he’s managed to avoid consequence so far

-although he laughs it off verbally he actually kinda hates the fact he hasn’t had to face consequences for the problems he’s caused.

-his relationship with Penny is super strained but for the most part they get along.

Calliope(yes named after the Greek muse, means beautiful voice)- a ghost that shows up temporarily as Penny transports her from one spot to another.

-sweet but also kinda sad.

-she died pretty young and is (reasonably) upset about it.

-music/poetry lover(yes, in reference to her name).

Tiffany and Card- other travels Penny knows fairly well.

-Tiffany is boisterous and curious.

-Card is skeptical but very loyal to things they’re certain of.

-they are dating/a couple, became background romance is nice.

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And that’s about all I have so far.

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New story idea:

Whenever a person dies they become a ghost and have to stay in that room/if it’s outside, like, 10 by 10 feet square or so.

They can only be moved by some sort of magical rock. There are hundreds of these rocks but their powerless until one of the ghost people/maybe I’ll call them seers(will explain in a second) picks them up and brings them to a spot where someone dies

Every generation or so there’s a few people who can see and interact with ghosts, like 8 or 9 at a time, which isn’t a lot because their are billions of people in the world. I’m gonna call them seer until I can come up with a better name for now.

It’s the seers job to make ghost rocks and use them to move ghosts to, like. Special ghost places, maybe some sort of grand ghost palace or massive burial site.

Seers have a few abilities(may add more):

The ability to see, hear, talk to, and to some extent interact with ghosts.

One, the ability to make ghost rocks(again I’ll come up with a better name later) and give them to ghosts.

And finally make spirit burns(a name I’m actually proud of, but still a wip). Spirit burns is basically when a seer makes a fire, puts a ghost rock in it(it’s harmless to the rocks if a seer does ir), and then some of their own blood, hair, or other kind of dna in it. It has to be from a seer. Spirit burns are harmless to anyone/thing alive, but can burn ghosts. It also has the ability to make ghost-like versions of objects that ghosts can touch and feel and taste and stuff. This is often how offerings to the dead are made in this world.

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Technically speaking non-seers can attempt to make Spirit Burns, but when they do it can go wrong and break the ghost rocks, trapping that spirit there forever.

Oh and, one more thing. Ghost rocks have more special properties besides moving around souls!

Ghost rocks if held by a seer are what allow ghosts to interact with them. They can, to some extent, force the seer to do basic movements(basically a ghost could, like, push the slightly in a direction or out of the way of something), but only if the seer gives consent to the ghost at some point, it doesn’t have to be in the moment. As long as at some point the seer has in some way said yes to this or allowed the ghost to do it, ghosts can do it anytime they want.

To non-seers, if they have a ghost rock in physical contact with their skin, they can talk to the ghost inside to a limited amount. And see kinda vaguely what they looked like.

Also this is like. A fantasy-esq world, one with minimal magic and fantasy species.

Okay so that’s kinda the world building-ish stuff I have, but here’s a few actually stories ideas-

(Note: unless stated otherwise, the protag will be a seer in most of these)

Someone starts to take and hoard ghost rocks (starting because they wanted to see someone close to them, but later for information and stuff) and protag has to stop them.

Maybe try writing something from a ghosts perspective as their moved from a place where they could have seen their family and are bitter about it(this would probably be a short story if I did it)

Or, my personal favorite, do a sort of post apocalyptic setting, or maybe something where seers are seen as bad and for some reason were removed from history or something. But basically-seers no longer move ghosts to a certain spot because it’s gone or they don’t no too, so protag just goes around befriending ghosts and reuniting families.

Mostly made this for myself, but if people like it I may reblog it with more ideas when I get them.

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This post will probably vanish into the void but would anyone actually be interested in my writing if I shared it here?

I’ve never put it out publicly besides for school(competitions, creative writing in class, a literary magazine, scripts or monologues I’ve written for drama class, and other such things).

It would be 99% original works, but maybe one or two fanfiction bits thrown in rarely.