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villains, amazing, of course. But HEROES??? yes.

Actually, though, the morally grey character that isn't on anyone's side but their own; they'll help whoever mutually benefits them but they'll drop once you're no longer useful while making it very clear the entire time. The character that does not care, will do anything for their goal no matter who it hurts or what they have to do. Morally neutral

Big big fan of characters who are willing to do whatever it takes. That’s it. Send post.

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bingewatching will never come close to bingereading. there is nothing like blocking out the entire Earth for ten hours to read a book in one sitting no food no water no shower no bra and emerging at the end with no idea what time it is or where you are, a dried-up prune that's sensitive to light and loud noises because you've been in your room in the dark reading by the glow of a single LED. it's like coming back after a three-month vacation in another dimension and now you have to go downstairs and make dinner. absolutely transcendental

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yknow that moment when you finish reading something in one sitting and you're just so absorbed into the story that after finishing it takes a good chunk of time to remove yourself from the fiction and remember who you are and the concept that you exist?

Like wdym those characters aren't me?? wdym I didn't live through that trauma that character just experienced too? wdym everything in that story isn't happening all at once simultaneously to me at this very moment??? huh????

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this literally frfr

hyperfixation please stay with me long enough to complete the project. hyperfixation do not fade. hyperfixation finish what you started for the love of god

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i kind of love hero and villain stories that is random dynamics, like civilian or henchman or this, this is great

concept:

supervillain × henchman with the twist that the supervillain is a sort of cartoon foppish dramatic gay villain with gonzo schemes and no bodycount. and the henchman is secretly a grimdark ultrapowerful Apex Predator supervilllain who came to Stake Out the competition. got mistaken for a henchman and found this so fucking funny hes just 100% committed to the bit.

hes carrying around boxes of fucking Acme Corporation sticks of dynamite. hes dressing in the matching stylish outfit. hes managing the other henchmen to execute gonzo schemes flawlessly. genuinely the most fun hes ever had in his life

his dumbass gay boss has literally no idea the lengths he is going to behind the scenes to make sure nobody interferes with any of this shit.

(apex supervillain, in his Supervillain Disguise. homoerotically and terrifyingly flirt/threatens flamboyant supervillain. smash cut to this poor man lying face down on a couch unpacking this with the very attentive henchman)

("hes going to eat me maybe????? but GOD that was the HOTTEST fucking thing thats ever happened to me. but i might DIE?? do u think he LIKES me...."

henchman: i think he does :3)

the ruse comes out when someone who the apex supervillain didnt catch comes to ACTUALLY challenge/harm his gay boss in public and apex supervillain is like. yeah no we're not doing this. time for the power of unfathomable violence.

gay supervillain promptly has a FULL MELTDOWN. oh my god the blood. and also. "you LIED TO ME???"

apex supervillain, apologetically: "I was waiting to see if you'd ever figure it out yourself. And the longer it went the funnier it got."

gay supervillain: "I TRUSTED you!! you were my BEST HENCHMAN"

apex supervillain: aw. past tense?

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Prompt #30

“My sleep schedule is fucked,” hero started, scratching their hair. “So I’d like to request a day off.”

“Sir, this is a Wendy’s…" the cashier’s voice faltered, lightly trembling.

“Mm… well… I’d like to quit my job.” hero blurted out, a couple of chuckles making their way out of the hero’s mouth. “I heard villains make a hundred thousand a month…”

The cashier jumped. One hundred thousand?! A month?! That would pay all of the bills they owe to their landlord in just a second.

The hero formed a weary smirk on their lips. “Surprising right? That’s not all though, I heard-”

“Just tell me what you want!” The cashier snapped, already annoyed by the hero’s shenanigans.

“Be my villain sidekick.”

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future pending

To start, I don't know how to tumblr properly. just, btw. Fake it till you make it though, right? Maybe.

Okay, that aside, I'm trying to figure out what to put on here. Lowkey thinking about just throwing random scenario plot-points out and big plot twists and working from there, backwards. But then, if I start with the interesting stuff, I can't really progress past that. This blog is honestly just for me to sort my thoughts and outline too, but I want people to be interested too. It gives me motivation haha.

If I posted outlines and plot points, a post per arc or so, would anyone find that interesting ?? (It's also hard to ask questions like this when no one even knows what the story is about) (but I don't know how to explain it in interesting ways to ask) (or how much to tell and how) (see the dilemma?)

Anyway, I'll figure it out and start being extra annoying on here soon. It kind of seems like an unsmart idea to put every plot point ever to this story I'm trying to write out on here with no copyright anything.. but I'll cross that bridge when I get there? I'm not sure, someone yell at me in reblogs or something. I still don't know how Tumblr works. (to be clear: I go on here all the time and read stuff, I just have never done the actual blogging part before. still learning)

On another note- I figured out some tags! I'll edit and add them and everything, but I'm excited. Also slightly nervous everyone will think it's real stupid. But I think they'll help me sort through things, so even if no one uses them it's fine. This is the first post with the new tag though! So that's cool.

See you soon!

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Supervillain monologuing to the entire civilization of Villains: I will burn this world down and remake it into a thriving, beautiful metropolis where we will all be free to do as we wish without all that bullshit --

Hero (leaning against the wall, studying their nails): Language.

*everyone turns to look at Hero in shock; they didn't see them come in*

Hero: Oh, were you having like an epic bad guy moment there? Sorry for that man, I’ll just back up and you take from the top…

Supervillain: What-what are you doing here? Didn't I kill you?

Villain (hanging from the ceiling): Yeah, well, it clearly didn't work did it?

Supervillain: AND DIDN'T I FIRE YOU?

Villain: *shrugs*

Supervillain: AND HOW DID YOU TWO EVEN GET IN THIS IS THE MOST FORTIFIED BUILDING IN THE WORLD?

Villain: Well I'm glad you asked allow me to explain my brilliant idea -

Hero: You mean my brilliant idea --

Supervillain: Why do I even bother -- what do you two want?

Hero: Um, it's literally in my name. I'm a hero. I'm here to beat up villains. So unless you can prove yourself to be a good guy in the next two seconds it’s gonna get ugly.

Villain: i am so in love with you right now.

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i love writing prompts and scenarios

prompt #8

“Do it.” Hero lifted their chin, a thin line of blood rising from the space on their neck Villain’s knife was pressed against. “Do it.”

Villain twisted a strand of their nemesis’ hair between two of the fingers on their free hand. “Why is it that you so badly want me to slit that pretty throat of yours?”

Hero let out a hollow chuckle. “Isn’t it you who wants to do that?”

“Is that right?” Villain asked mildly.

“You tell me. It’s your blade and my blood,” the crime fighter pointed out. “I just want to get this over with.”

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Hero x Villain Prompts

They may be archenemies, but outsiders couldn't really tell, because they only call each other by cute nicknames.

One of the villain's experiments goes wrong (or right?) and it body-swaps them with the hero. Now they are having an annoying sidekick by their side and get to know the hero and their life more.

The villain has lost their immortality and when the hero finds out, the villain expects them to finally end their feud for good.

Being friends with both the designated hero and the villain was taking a toll on them.

The hero and the villain grew up together on the same street and it's still always awkward to meet each other's mothers and them treating them like the little boys they once were.

When the villain loses their memories, the city decides that they can end the fighting by acting like the villain is just a normal person. But they have to live with the hero, in case they get their memories back.

The hero and the villain have to work together to defeat the greater evil, putting aside their differences and issues with each other.

The villain disguises themself to get close to the hero as a new friend. And they get really close. So close that they don't want to think about eventually having to betray their new friend.

More: Hero & Villain Masterpost

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literally

“you’re a writer, right?”

me, staring at the one sentence i’ve managed to add in the last hour and the 12 open tabs on the specifics of shoes in 1845 Ireland: In theory.

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sometimes the best writing advice is "just let it be bad." revolutionary. terrifying. but it works.

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most important part of the writing process actually is when you loop a single song on max volume and stare at the word document and imagine the characters doing things for 14 hours. this is known as getting in the zone

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Tag !

I'm going to try and make a tag for this story idea! Because I really want to also repost things (like hero x villain stuff, story prompts, vibes similar to this idea) to also help get the vibes of the story as well. But I want people to be able to filter with the tag to find just my story things.

Only issue- I don't have a book title yet. And probably won't for a while. So I'm making placeholder tags in the meantime. Let me know if you like any of these, or have any new ideas that would be fitting and cool!

Someone made the suggestion of one tag for everything relating (like random thoughts and stuff) and second for breakdown/lore/outlines ONLY. Which would also have the Everything tag. This would also be helpful for me during writing processes!

For the "everything" tag,

poetic, mysterious, Blondie-coded, fantasy-sci-fi fusion vibes of hero outside of work with flying, glowing jellyfish, corrupted beauty, quiet terror, pulling fate apart, ethereal, haunting, control, corruption, puppetmaster.

Ideas: blondierror, blondiexe, blondie.exe, goldprotocol, codegold, goldenthreadexe, gold.exe, thechosen.error, deadendhero, zero.arc, errorarc, mission:end, threadofgold, goldenshatter, goldentide, quietoverride, hauntingprophecy, stormeyes, fateunraveled, wovenfate, legendstomyths, whispersofgold, undonebyfate, prophecyburnsgold, bleedingolden, sunbroken, silentdescent,

(I got carried away and don't even know what I'm talking about honestly oops)

For the "lore & breakdown" tag:

glitchier, technical, “casefile” adjacent but still haunted by humanity, a system analyzing, a prophecy unraveling, corrupted files, project names, arc records, derailed. Clean and coded—but still bleeding through with fantasy. Focused more on the dystopian, holograms, skyscrapers, hero work vibes. Logs of descent, cold technical names for warm human tragedy.

Ideas: villainfiles, casefilezero, heroerror, protocol:error, missiondrift, error404hero, gold404, 404signal, protocol:gold, gold.casefiles, classified.gold, error:gold, endfile.log, goldenglitch

Keywords I liked: protocol, (the use of colons), exe, files, project, zero, (the letter x), arc, operation, code, override, status, redacted

This kind of makes zero sense, but still. I'm trying to find the vibes still. I'm also trying to regain my interest because I was so obsessed but for a small amount of time. The more I talk about anything relating, even just vibes and random thoughts, the more often I'll actually work on it.

Also, this isn't necessarily for the tag itself. I know these don't all feel very tag-ish. It's also for my own notes and folders and outlines, a way for me to refer to it. Just for fill-in title ideas. Anyway, I will pick soon and then start posting on this blog more. Hopefully the idea will gain more interest as I talk about it more! I'm very excited.

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Setting [pt. 1]

or so

-Quick note: I will maybe release a character sheet thing(?) soon! Only issue: the characters are not developed yet. So, eventually! This entire story isn't very fleshed out yet, keep that in mind for anything I ever say, really.-

The main story is compiled of two main books (I have an ideaa for a third?? But no actual plot points at all) (and highly lack of motivation, so unlikely). Each have very different vibes, so it's good to separate them.

Book One: -dystopian -futuristic -ish?

I'm not entirely settled on this. Originally, there was going to be a magic system or superpowers involved. But I decided to scrap that (which requires more rewriting, since the hero systems were built around superpowers) (still working on that) There is still magic, but completely different than before? I think it'll mostly come off in a sci-fi type of way anyway.

The planets ebb and flow with a locked energy source. (More if there's life on them?? Not sure yet, but something like this I think) The planets are like gods, old and long forgotten, but more ancient than anything here. Magic (term used loosely) flows through the ground and they can tap into it to do stuff that's only a little of a stretch from existing things. Small stretches of reality, some people better than others. Just being in control of science like another language to nature, and the better you speak the language of the planet the more you can control. Maybe some people, like Monks kind of, that go on temple retreats for years to become connected to the magic? That'd be interesting, but anyway.

Some people are also naturally better at it. Some can use the magic for all sorts of unique things, but only barely. Others can only control a few aspects but much stronger. Some barely at all. It all depends. Kind of like how good you are at math, haha. You can practice a ton but overall sometimes some people's minds just click faster and work less for it.

There's also lots of weird fantasy-type things. Still figuring out how many if at all new creatures and nature things are changed (because a LOT will change in the second book). I don't want to keep it too close to Earth, but I don't want it tooo fantasy vibes, either. Some ideas so far, though:

-Sea creatures work differently >smaller sea creatures can fly in the air (idk what qualifies as small, though, because manta rays can but whales can't. maybe I'll do only the small reef manta rays?) >And fish could too, but not too much, but it'd be interesting >Idea: maybe gravity is a little lighter here too? So people can jump around more and have cool rooftop scenes, idea, idk >manta rays are used for large travel, like trains or planes maybe >originally with the powers it was power based, so I need to figure out more explanations now >but anyway, you climb into the mouth of a manta ray and they put you to sleep and cover you in a neon green goo, then when you arrive they clean the goo off and that brings you awake. so no travel time in your eyes, and if something bad happened (nothing currently in the book but cool perspective, or maybe a hero rescue mission?) while inside you wouldn't age or notice. so you could wake up stranded years later with no time passed to you. maybe it could just be mentioned in a news thing? Like "oh wow, they just found a fallen manta ray with a clipped wing- there was a whole batch of missing people in stasis inside" random thought I dunno >There'll be a scene later with Blondie and Hero where they jump around on top of a field of flying, glowing jellyfish >That's all so far I just like the concept lol so I need to figure out more ideas with it too

-Ocean is broken >Relating to the sea creatures thing, the ocean is deadly to people (is it weird to call them humans? Like, it's not Earth exactly, but. Idk) >I don't know why yet though- too much salt, like the dead sea? Or too acidity? No idea. Maybe it's not actually toxic but there are so many deadly overwhelming sea creatures (that don't fly) that it's practically toxic? Poisonous? To be determined. >Maybe there's a certain type of animal you cAn ride inside- something see-through? Or a giant type of angler fish? Squid? Idk >So maybe because of this I'll need to add a ton of crazy sea creatures. Orr leave it a big mystery, who knows

-Okay now moving on from that type of stuff (we'll get more into it with book two though!) -Cityscapes >I want lots of city-vibes, probably (and ample hero & villain rooftop moments) with high skyscrapers >Possible idea: I was thinking maybe the sea levels have been rising, maybe there was a time a while ago with it idk, and if so lots of the old city are falling apart underwater, unreachable. And most buildings now would be designed to hold from this and maybe the bottoms built to not actually start until above water with deep support systems, but some older ones would be just normal buildings a little underwater that you skip over (might not go with this fs though) >Probably lots of smaller, poorer suburbs surrounding the big city points but I'm not sure how much or the dynamics yet >Probably a few big cities centered around hero work but without powers I still need to reevaluate things >Also need to work on figuring out differences across the globe. Are some countries less interested in hero work? Are some more high tech? Are some more known for other things? Are some flying sea creatures only in specific areas? Is the planet too small to care? Is it less differentiated or is there strong cultural ties?

-High tech! >More of the dystopian aspect but I want probablyy more tech-based things (especially w/o power systems) >Maybe tech amplifiers? As in, specific things used to amplify certain magic qualities, or storing it for higher use? >Hologram wristbands, I think, instead of phones (or both?) (or maybe only hero agencies use the holograms much) >Need to figure out fighting stuff w/o powers >Also, maybe include things like flying or strong powered jump boots or antigravity boots? (Idk I just was really sad to give up mid-air battle scenes and floating, taunting villain lmao) >Maybee some type of tech things to get to each building so they often scale buildings and jump across rooftops. Because that's a vibe

-Government setup >I want a kingdom-type set up, I think >Maybee like Nimona with mixing futuristic with medieval? To a degree, but idk >The Hero (mc, still nameless) needs to be the son of someone important- either the king, ruler, military general- someone. Later his dad dies unexpectedly and he has to rule the military during the battle. >If it is a king and queen setup, I still want a government system, though. Not sure how but something more balanced. Probably also sector leaders. Should it be a bunch of kingdoms? Some more so than others? Some more focused on certain things than others? Or a big sole ruler with multiple mini leaders of kingdoms under it to organize the peace? I don't want world peace necessarily, but the battles are more hero vs villain focused than country vs country. Dunno how to balance that well, or how to make sure there's enough villain things for it anyway. Maybe a rebellion is starting?

>idea: in order to become the next ruler you need to spend a certain amount of years training under one of the Monk temples, learning to let go of previous thoughts and become one with the earth. Because maybe in order to understand the nature, and let it understand you, you simply cannot be evil. The two don't go together. Also maybe, what if there's a type of fruit or fungi or vine or something that vines up your arm when you're trying to become crowned, and it digs thorns into you and reveals if you're ready. Either glows or allows you to bleed a specific color or something like that, to show you are connected enough. Like how you can manipulate specific things using the magic of the planet, this is one thing that only if you are ready can you do. Also this way anyone could train to become the ruler if they wanted (if lots of people became ready, maybe a large test ceremony to determine your skills? Not just battle but problem solving and decision making and quick thinking as well as kindness) and it's not just royal bloodline, it's someone specially connected enough to their planet to understand the needs of being a great ruler >Government isn't completely evil. Maybe morally grey, but not really in the wrong. As much as I like the trope of hero slowly realizing that they were fighting on the wrong side, that's not what this hero -> villain story is exactly. It's literally a hero to villain. Being forced to make more and more morally grey decisions, put in situations that make you choose, examine how far you're willing to go until you break, until you're too far gone. Trying to justify everything for so long until you lose the connecting thread, and are only left with yourself and what you've become. >Anyway that's to say that the government will have flaws, of course, as all do, but the story isn't about it being secretly corrupt- at least not horribly

I think this is all I can think of for now! Let me know any questions, and sometime soon I (probably) will continue with a part two for book two.

Also, just, in general feel free to tell me anything you want to know about this story- I really want to info dump and talk about absolutely everything (this is also a good way for me to organize all my thoughts) but I'm not sure how. I'll go through the actual story itself soon, too! Dump a bunch of plot, so until then here's these random threads

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messy hero/villain info dump

Hello! I'm starting a new book project - title pending - and decided on a whim to post about it here. So, hey! It'll be super duper spoiler-y, mostly a place for me to dump any and all of my ideas. Follow along for the ride, though, if it interests you!

🌌hero x villain romance 🌌gay romance 🌌morally grey 🌌a hero's descent into villainy 🌌fantasy/dystopian vibes? 🌌plot twists! 🌌betrayal 🌌enemies to lovers 🌌and more!

So far I have a loose two books mapped out. But a lot can change! I am still very early in the entire story, but the more I talk about it, the more I'll stay invested. I'm super excited to share this here- so feel free to mention any thoughts or ideas, just anything on your mind! ✨