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This is just a list of LN style titles that would catch my interest as a reader, but which don't entice me at all as a writer. I put them in convenient poll form, so people can get an idea of which one might be popular (also, because it sounded more fun than just posting them).
Here are my own takes on each title, in the form of a single paragraph expanding on each idea, and spoilered so as not to take up too much space.
Here are my own takes on each title, in the form of a single paragraph expanding on each idea, and spoilered so as not to take up too much space.
I was supposed to design a system, but I ended up recreating anime instead.
The exact inane thing doesn’t matter, so long as it is sufficiently silly. This is the story of a person who is reincarnated into a fantasy world with the purpose of developing a video game like system for it on behalf of the gods. The MC is (obviously) not very enthusiastic about this, and decides to faff about instead.
I have to destroy the world to save it, but these damn hero’s keep getting in the way.
This is somewhat the inverse of the previous idea. Someone in a fantasy world has to remove the System from it, because it is defective and will eventually destroy the world. The people living there do not understand this, and keep causing problems for the MC, thinking they are dealing with a megalomaniacal villain.
I tried to learn how to dance, but ended up toppling an empire instead.
Basically what it says on the tin. A character in a dystopian world free from dancing/most other forms of artistic expression, discovers a recording of some people dancing in an old ruin/junkyard. They practice in secret, then introduce it to the populous. The backlash sparks a rebellion, and things proceed in the usual fashion. A bit YA, but might be fun regardless.
Neglecting my duties as the god of wisdom.
The divine manifestation of wisdom gets tired of the foolish populous of their world, so they decide to take a vacation, i.e. they incarnate into the world as a vagrant bum, trying to do nothing of importance. An opportunistic and villainous person notes their abdication, and tries to usurp the position, causing increasingly dire problems for the world and the god, before things end in a climactic battle between the god and the usurper.
A villain for hire.
A morally neutral, but generally competent character is induced to take the role of villain in a world, either explicitly invited, or simply to fill a power vacuum. They value pragmatism above idealism, and so they don’t adhere to some strict code of behavior, either heroic of villainous. They exist (or are invited into) in a superhero world, though they don’t necessarily have the greatest power set, favoring the use of wit and manipulation.
Isekaied into my own life, adventures in the psychic domain.
Someone hits a truck while at a full sprint, knocking themselves out. They don’t die, but are nevertheless prematurely reincarnated, only as a psychic construct in their own mind. The real them goes on living, while the MC tries to resolve their inner conflicts by doing battle with metaphorical constructs of their inner demons.
Trying to save the world, but my inane backstory keeps undercutting the plot.
The MC is a try-hard wannabe cool guy from a terminally silly place. They flee their home on a quest for a normal place that takes things seriously, so they can play the hero, but people from their old life keep showing up and solving things anticlimactically, or else reducing epic battles of will to very silly contests, like insisting that some conflict be resolved in favor of the person who wins a children’s card game.
This hero academy doesn’t understand right from wrong.
A character is unable to get into a prestigious academy for heroes, so they apply to a sketchy community college instead. The sketchy school goes about in a morally grey way at best, and no one there besides the MC seems to appreciate that things don’t really work the way the people there seem to think they do. It is left as an exercise for the writer to decide if the school is actually secretly villainous, or just very stupid.
The exact inane thing doesn’t matter, so long as it is sufficiently silly. This is the story of a person who is reincarnated into a fantasy world with the purpose of developing a video game like system for it on behalf of the gods. The MC is (obviously) not very enthusiastic about this, and decides to faff about instead.
I have to destroy the world to save it, but these damn hero’s keep getting in the way.
This is somewhat the inverse of the previous idea. Someone in a fantasy world has to remove the System from it, because it is defective and will eventually destroy the world. The people living there do not understand this, and keep causing problems for the MC, thinking they are dealing with a megalomaniacal villain.
I tried to learn how to dance, but ended up toppling an empire instead.
Basically what it says on the tin. A character in a dystopian world free from dancing/most other forms of artistic expression, discovers a recording of some people dancing in an old ruin/junkyard. They practice in secret, then introduce it to the populous. The backlash sparks a rebellion, and things proceed in the usual fashion. A bit YA, but might be fun regardless.
Neglecting my duties as the god of wisdom.
The divine manifestation of wisdom gets tired of the foolish populous of their world, so they decide to take a vacation, i.e. they incarnate into the world as a vagrant bum, trying to do nothing of importance. An opportunistic and villainous person notes their abdication, and tries to usurp the position, causing increasingly dire problems for the world and the god, before things end in a climactic battle between the god and the usurper.
A villain for hire.
A morally neutral, but generally competent character is induced to take the role of villain in a world, either explicitly invited, or simply to fill a power vacuum. They value pragmatism above idealism, and so they don’t adhere to some strict code of behavior, either heroic of villainous. They exist (or are invited into) in a superhero world, though they don’t necessarily have the greatest power set, favoring the use of wit and manipulation.
Isekaied into my own life, adventures in the psychic domain.
Someone hits a truck while at a full sprint, knocking themselves out. They don’t die, but are nevertheless prematurely reincarnated, only as a psychic construct in their own mind. The real them goes on living, while the MC tries to resolve their inner conflicts by doing battle with metaphorical constructs of their inner demons.
Trying to save the world, but my inane backstory keeps undercutting the plot.
The MC is a try-hard wannabe cool guy from a terminally silly place. They flee their home on a quest for a normal place that takes things seriously, so they can play the hero, but people from their old life keep showing up and solving things anticlimactically, or else reducing epic battles of will to very silly contests, like insisting that some conflict be resolved in favor of the person who wins a children’s card game.
This hero academy doesn’t understand right from wrong.
A character is unable to get into a prestigious academy for heroes, so they apply to a sketchy community college instead. The sketchy school goes about in a morally grey way at best, and no one there besides the MC seems to appreciate that things don’t really work the way the people there seem to think they do. It is left as an exercise for the writer to decide if the school is actually secretly villainous, or just very stupid.
