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What's an idea you have for a story that you think is really good, but don't have the skill or time to flesh out? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Ragdoll_X@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Shoutout to !writingprompts@lemmy.world, hope yall get more writers over there

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[–] Globulart@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

With all the oversaturation of superhero content I'm surprised I haven't seen anything where all superhero abilities are lost at puberty (and still only rarely seen before that).

I can see a lot of mileage in a setting where some people are castrated to try and retain powers (maybe this works partly and dulls your power), where non superheros are exploiting children and their powers, seems like there's a good amount of potential narrative in there which I'm way too lazy to come up with myself.

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What, like how Lyra stops being able to read the alethiometer when she hits puberty?

[–] Globulart@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've only read northern lights once and didn't continue with the series so I've either forgotten what an alethiometer is or never got to it.

From memory your daemon can be any creature it wants till you hit puberty though, so a bit like that I guess yeah.

It's basically just the reverse of xmen I suppose, just seems like an interesting concept to explore and I'm surprised I've not seen it done (maybe it has, I'm no tv/comic expert).

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 3 points 1 year ago

You know how baby snakes are more dangerous because they don't know how to inject the proper amount of venom?

Child super "heros" would be terrifying.