Adopted Plots
- The autobiography of an imaginary friend.
- MMC has a twin brother. His twin died a long time ago, back when he was still younger. In the present day, MMC has a horrible job, he's struggling to pay the rent even with a sympathetic landlord, he's had to drop out of high school so he has very little options, and his life is generally falling apart. Switch back to a new dimension, where his twin is living the life of his dreams. It turns out that in that other dimension, it was his twin that lived and he that died. He sees this dimension when he sleeps and is determined to reach there. He starts meddling in the occult, and things start spiraling horribly out of control in his twin's dimension, and things get even worse in his own. But now, he's in far too deep and things just won't stop...
- Someone somehow ends up at an old, previously abandoned resort property in cottage country, and finds a box of lost and found items. Each item tells a story about the resort from the past, with each one getting more current.
- The Freedmonts are a quite well to-do society family. Everything seems to be going perfectly in their lives and they are quickly climbing to the top of the social ladder. Then their daughter Madeleine winds up in an asylum, ranting about "the city killed with water" and "the man with the coat of darkness." After an initial scandal and several weeks' worth of defamatory newspaper articles, Madeleine is forgotten and the Freedmonts move on. Some time later (anywhere from a month to a year), a nearby city is destroyed in a devastating flood and the youngest Freedmont child, Annelise, is kidnapped by a man in a jet black trenchcoat. Will the Freedmonts realize that perhaps they were long to simply shut away their daughter? And what has become of Madeleine in the asylum?
- Heroism has gone commercial. There's really no such thing as real heroes any more. They're all just paid to go around and stop evil villains and save the princess and so on. But, to do this, they need villains to endanger the population. As such, the NVA (National Villain's Association) was formed.
I figured the story would be told from the point of view one of these "villains," a younger man, probably in his twenties, who is bored out of his mind by the routine of it all. Burn down a village, kidnap a princess, get into a climactic battle only to give up half-way through and "die" dramatically, and then wait again for the next month.
In my head, some "real" heroes (foreigners, perhaps?) turned up an took the whole thing seriously and begin going around actually trying to kill these over-the-top cliche villains with the MC ecstatic over an actual challenge to his abilities, but take it however you want.
- A girl is walking her dog through her neighborhood, which is eerily quiet. A few cars are parked in the driveways, and the streets are completely empty. Most of her neighborhood is empty, due to government officials evacuating everyone months prior. The only reason why the girl and her dog were left behind is because her mother sent her back to the house to pick up the dog, and when she tried to leave, the barricades were closed. The girl has been living alone at her family's house ever since. But lately, she's come to think that maybe she isn't completely alone in the neighborhood, and there are a few people who are still around and may have gone crazy due to the isolation (since all access to the outside world, from the phones to TV to the internet, have been cut). So what prompted the evacuation? Why didn't anyone come back for the girl and her other neighbors?
- The MMC is part of a very violent religious cult. Think Indiana Jones Temple of Doom-esque. They eat only raw meat torn straight from the animal and in special ceremonies, the higher ups even eat human hearts. It is completely devoid of love and compassion. There is not even marriage, just violent mating rituals.
Somehow, the MMC ends up in suburbia and gets caught eating a pet rabbit by the FMC. She seems horrified, and he tells her about his lifestyle, thinking it could be his only way out. It is. She seems strangely intrigued. When someone else stumbles across the pair and freaks out over the half eaten rabbit, the FMC kills them (in my dream, it was a little boy, and she closed a garage door on him to try to shut him up and it ended up breaking his neck).
The pair escape together and fall in love. They have to appear normal to society, and the MMC starts thinking that he could never go back to the cult, the two could get married and lead socially acceptable lives together. However, the FMC is still curious about his cult and convinces him to return and bring her along. He is still trying to figure out a way that they can live together within the cult.
Once he returns to the cult, things go well for the FMC but disastrous for the MMC. (Sorry, nothing specific for you here... I have a lot of jumbled mess that doesn't make sense.)
In the end it turned out that the FMC was part of another sect of the cult and lured in the MMC so she could eat his heart.
- What if a soul could be stored on a USB flash drive? Who can do this and what happens when he/she plugs the flash drive into a computer is entirely your call.
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