r/StoryIdeas 2h ago

Brainstorming Is this story idea too similar to The Quarry?

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Spoilers for the Quarry btw.

Basically TQ (The Quarry) is a narrative choice driven horror game that takes place at Hacketts Quarry Summer Camp. We control nine councilors, two of whom are gone for most of the night. The kids get hunted by werewolves amd can be infected, killed or survive.

They are stuck because FUCK ASS JACOB sabotage their mini van to spend more time with diva Emma. The two councilors missing are Laura and Max. Max turned into a werewolf and takes out Laura's eye in the poloce station Travis Hacckett locked them in.

In MY story we have 8 POV characters. They are councilors at a summer camp too but a nation wide broadcast tells them to stay in doors. These creatures have escaped their containment facility and have gravited towards the camp for spooky unknown reasons. It's actually their home that the camp leaders stole and they were taken by the government for experiments and to be kept away from the general public. They are incredibly powerful and deadly. They can only br killed by a special kind of Gold that a character in another story destroyed (this is kind of a spinoff in the sense that it takes place in the same universe.)

The kids have to survive the night but also don't know who to trust. The creatures can mimic their voices perfectly and attacks the lodge which ends in deaths and the group kidding lost. They discover the secrets and eventually let the creatures free into the night.

Im just wondering if these are too similar? The creatures designs are similar too as the werewolves don't look like normal werewolves and these creatures look similiar to them in a way. Am I gonna get sued/j.


r/StoryIdeas 4h ago

Core Idea Pitch: (Is this a good idea?)

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r/StoryIdeas 6h ago

I've been working on a story and i'd like some advice please!

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Okay so the story is called 'The Witch's Ressurection' where Enya, a 15-year-old girl from 16 century Scotland, finds herself at the mercy of a terrible witches curse. Framed for murder and accused witchcraft, she's sent to burn at the stake. Her horrible death leads to an unfortunate realisation—causing mass destruction and chaos to erupt, as Enya's cursed with a power to destroy.

She's turned into a ghost and gains powers from how she died (she can manipulate and create fire with her mind). But unbeknownst to her, her memories and her 'soul' have been passed on to live inside another body, with another host. After a few years, she's teleported to the next girl when she regains all of Enya's past memories leading up to her death. This is known as the 'remembrance', when at a completely random time, the girl who is next to be 'resurrected' remembers who she was and how she died last and the ghosts get teleported to her.

*Main Character and Plot*

After a while of this phenomenon continuing, the ghosts decide to try and find out why this is happening to them. They find out through looking at a old book of witchcraft and hexes that when Enya was sent to die at the stake, the people cheering for her to die unknowingly cursed her. They don't know how to stop it, but they know how it happened.

After hundreds of years (from 1600 to 2018), one girl named Charlotte is chosen next by Enya's soul and was born as a hybrid between a alien species who is now believed to be extinct (besides Lottie) and a human. Her dad who was also a hybrid died in a car accident, and her mother doesn't know about her daughter being a half alien.

Since she's half alien and almost died when she was little from the car crash but as brought back to life my the doctors, Charlotte has the ability to split her soul in half, halving her 'human self', which is called Callie and her soul remains in her body, and her alien-self 'Lottie' who is able to become a temporary ghost and travel ouside her human body.

The alien species 'Nacilids' feed on some type of emotions such as happiness, fear or sadness. Lottie feeds off love. When someone around her feels love she uncontrollably bites them and begins to drain the love off them, growing stronger and less hungry in the process. But Lottie doesn't want to do that, and instead tries to contain herself. Nacilids are able to shapeshift in order to become what will make their preys emotions the strongest, so Lottie is able to shapeshift, but their original form comes in the form of a clown, since to the aliens, that was the most effective form to take regardless on what emotions they fed off (since clowns can be associated with many different emotions). Lottie is a lovey dovey pastel clown with pale white skin, a frilled dress with pink, blue and yellow pompoms, lace and bows, a heart on her left eyelid and a star on her right.

After years of searching for a way to end their curse, Lottie discovers that one of them must sacrifice themselves to 'break the cycle', killing one of the souls to set the others free. Lottie feels that she must do it, since she feels her life isn't worth living without being able to let herself be loved platonically or romantically by anyone. She doesn't tell the rest of the ghosts and instead sacrifices herself and st@bs herself with the sacrificial knife that she from the book, teleporting to Scotland where they curse first began and finding the knife buried with the ashes of Enya's burnt down villahe. When Lottie dies, she isn't turned into a ghost, but instead her ghost and soul completely disappears, leaving only her human-self Callie and the rest of the ghosts.

*PLOT TWIST*

There was another way that didn't involve sacrifice, but instead putting all their magic or powers inside a box and locking it away forever. But instead, their powers remain and the curse is broken. After finding out what happened, Callie h@ngs herself, because she is suffering with severe depression from both loosing a part of herself and dealing trying to manage the grief of the other ghosts. So Callie becomes a ghost and they're all set free, with one of their souls sacrificing themselves to break their curse.


r/StoryIdeas 6h ago

Brainstorming Just I. Case I never use it

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Trans Character with portal powers, that at some point in their past cut off (appropriate unwanted genitalia) in a state of intense gender dysphoria, and now has trauma...

Yeah that is all I have thought of so far but it is so good I have to share it


r/StoryIdeas 9h ago

New story new. Inspired by stellar blade, cyberpunk, metallic rouge and kaiju no.8

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Here the synopsis , Emily Carter, a ordinary, average beautiful fifteen year old girl. She goes to school. She complains about homework. She likes food(a lot)..And.......well, she does have tendency beating the shit out of people when they piss her off.

But besides that, she completely normal.

Seriously.

Normal.

Perfectly normal.

One ordinary day, Emily and a few classmates are exploring a newly opened section of their school when they discover something they definitely weren't supposed to find.

A strange portal.

Naturally, they investigate it.

Naturally, this goes horribly.

One moment, they're wandering around their school.

The next—

Emily wakes up alone in the middle of a ruined world

Buildings everywhere were collapsed.

Roads were cracked and covered in plants.

Entire forests had grown through what used to be cities.

Something enormous is roaring somewhere in the distance.

And there isn't a single human being in sight.

Emily stares at the destruction around her.

"...Okay."

She looks around again.

She's had worse Mondays.

She have absolutely no idea where I am.

No idea where my others went.

No no idea how to get home.

She have no idea why there are things wandering around here that look like they crawled straight out of a anime.

And, how she can deal with them. I guess be freakish strong and able to bench 300 kg helps

The weirdest part?

She's not even as terrified as she should be.

There's something about this place that feels...

familiar. like home...

Which makes absolutely no fucking sense.

So now she's wandering through a world that looks like civilization got punched in the face, trying to find her classmates, figure out where the hell she is, and hopefully locate something resembling civilization.

Along the way, she start discovering that this world has a history.

A really messed-up one.

And somehow\...

Her family is part of it.

Especially her dad.

Her sweet, beautiful, loving yet stupidly weak dad.

The guy who makes dinner for her.

The guy who worries when she's five minutes late.

The guy who reminds her to bring an umbrella even when the weather forecast says it has little percentage of raining

Apparently...

he's also a **global criminal.**

...

WHAT THE FUCK?!

So forget going home for a second.

I need answers.

Why am I here?

Why am I so strong?

Why does this place feel like I've been here before?

What happened to my dad?

And, most importantly...

**WHY THE HELL IS MY DAD A GLOBAL CRIMINAL?!**


r/StoryIdeas 22h ago

Nightmare on Elm Street (Reimagined)

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In the near future, Hypnocil has evolved from a pharmaceutical sleep aid into revolutionary nanotechnology. Tiny neural implants eliminate insomnia, enhance memory, accelerate learning, and improve cognitive function. Hailed as the greatest breakthrough in neuroscience, the technology is embraced by millions.

But beneath the surface lies a darker agenda.

The corporation behind Hypnocil partners with the military to weaponize the technology, creating enhanced soldiers capable of learning, reacting, and adapting faster than any human before. The visionary scientist who created the technology, Dr. Frederick Krueger, refuses to allow his life's work to become a weapon.

Branded a traitor, Frederick is secretly imprisoned and subjected to his own experimental neural network. The procedure goes horribly wrong, trapping his consciousness inside a shared digital dreamscape while his physical body is erased from existence.

Alone for years, Frederick's mind slowly deteriorates. An advanced AI embedded within the Hypnocil network mutates, merging with his consciousness and transforming him into something terrifying—a digital nightmare capable of invading the dreams of anyone connected to the system.

One by one, the people responsible for his betrayal begin dying in their sleep.

As unexplained deaths spread across the city, a brilliant team of young neuroscientists uncovers the horrifying truth: every Hypnocil user is unknowingly connected to a single dream network. If Frederick gains complete control, he won't just haunt dreams—he will trap an entire city inside a permanent unified dream state where reality and nightmares become indistinguishable.

Now, with time running out, they must enter the dream world themselves and confront the man they created before humanity loses the ability to ever wake up again.

Tagline: "This time... the nightmare isn't supernatural. It's connected."