Concept Story

I guess I'll run something by you guys now. It's a bit of a story idea, based on originality. In fact, going by the awesome Zombie Pirate Ninja Dragon (ZPND) Principle, since mashing cliche on cliche results in originality, it can only make sense that it works in reverse. So perhaps by making a story original, and building originality on originality, it will result in something so cliche no publisher would touch it with a ten foot ninja pole. Make that a Zombie Ninja pole. Either way, here it is.

A kitsune, and here starts the originality. Because I know of no story that isn't myth that features a fox-person as a character, much less a main protagonist. He's practically addicted to coffee, chocolate, caffeine.

The world is the present, and thus will include pop culture references, historical references, and other things. If anyone's seen Angel you'd know the situation: a modern world with gothic myths throughout. Demons and Vampires. Normal people have no idea, even though they live in a world surrounded by these things they call legends. The main hero of the series is Angel, a vampire with a soul who runs a detective agency (Angel Investigations) that solves paranormal mysteries. So this world will be similar yet different. I'll go beyond simple vampires and demons and throw in some celtic myths, norse valkyries, mexican chupacabra, werewolves, japanese kami; though of course there'll be the old favorites of some vampyres or demons. So this character runs a small used book dealership. It's really a front for an even smaller supernatural outpost, started as a joke.

The story begins with the smallest of things, increased sightings of a certain myth in an area. It grows in size, and people still don't notice. I'm tossing up between the Antichrist and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. But of course, the Antichrist is apparently one of those horsemen, so there may be no issue. It turns out there's an end to an era coming up and the myths are becoming more and more obvious.

I think the government may try to cover it up to stop mass hysteria, though it will be harder and harder to cover it up. A dragon flyover above a major city (London or NYC or Sydney) will be covered up, but people will start to be quakey. The leaders will call a world conference on it, and will all be killed in some manner at this conference. A false prophet will appear in America and be endorsed by the Roman Catholic church as the second coming. But now we're at the middle of the book. How do we save the day?

Well the Book of Revelations has God save the day, and perhaps He/She will. I'm not entirely sure, but I don't want deus ex machina to win the day. I want the hero to do it. And that's the part of the story I have to work on. All this stuff goes in way above the average person's head. Maybe the hero will try to warn the governments, maybe they'll listen to him. Anyways, I'm tired and I have more of doing nothing tomorrow.