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alias_sqbrFirst: anything about werewolves (yes even fanfic) that takes into account modern understandings of wolfpacks as families, where "beta" wolves are just younger kids who'll eventually grow up and form their own packs, not inherently submissive losers. (I think it's something like that?)
Second: A story whose protagonist starts out being informed they're part of a special secret magic race/the chosen one/a lost heir etc (see: Harry Potter, most fantasy), then eventually realises they're not: it's a misunderstanding or a trick. Then they have to figure out how to deal with the situation they've gotten tangled up in without any special skills/blood etc (or with less than they expected to have, like if Harry really was a wizard but Neville had turned out to be the one in the prophecy).
The friend in the Twelve Kingdoms anime fits this, but she's a side character and intended as a contrast to the protagonist who is genuinely special. I want any genuinely "special" characters to be secondary.
I've had an idea along these lines knocking about in my head for years (and dream about it too, had a variation last night where all these people from the future got angry at me for not being the wise future religious leader they thought I was, turns out the real messiah was a throwaway clone I'd made of myself earlier) and I'd be curious to see how another author approached it.
Second: A story whose protagonist starts out being informed they're part of a special secret magic race/the chosen one/a lost heir etc (see: Harry Potter, most fantasy), then eventually realises they're not: it's a misunderstanding or a trick. Then they have to figure out how to deal with the situation they've gotten tangled up in without any special skills/blood etc (or with less than they expected to have, like if Harry really was a wizard but Neville had turned out to be the one in the prophecy).
The friend in the Twelve Kingdoms anime fits this, but she's a side character and intended as a contrast to the protagonist who is genuinely special. I want any genuinely "special" characters to be secondary.
I've had an idea along these lines knocking about in my head for years (and dream about it too, had a variation last night where all these people from the future got angry at me for not being the wise future religious leader they thought I was, turns out the real messiah was a throwaway clone I'd made of myself earlier) and I'd be curious to see how another author approached it.
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Date: 2013-02-14 01:30 am (UTC)