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962537 No.962537 [Reply] [Original]

Hey guys.

So I'm cautiously putting together prepwork for the first novel I have attempted to write. I decided that I want the protagonist to suffer a head injury that leaves him with some kind of supernatural ability. What should it be? I want to avoid cliche stuff, maybe something weird that doesn't even seem useful at first.

Any ideas? Thanks.

>> No.962541

give him the ability to talk to aquatic animals

>> No.962540

>supernatural ability
Don't do it, OP.

>> No.962545

you might want to start by coming up with another idea.

>> No.962542

a charming ability to befriend little girls

>> No.962546

>>962540

Why not? I'm thinking it will be a driving force in the story.

>> No.962547

You mean like "The Dead Zone" by Stephen King?

>> No.962548

The ability to have no special abilities what so ever

>> No.962550

>>962547

I guess so. But everything has already been done before, so I fail to see your point.

>> No.962551

invisible cock

>> No.962557

> suffer a head injury that leaves him with some kind of supernatural ability

Monocular vision

>> No.962556
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962556

Oracles are always very cool, but also old as the dawn of time.

I'd suggest you pull out one of those old creepy story volumes you read as a kid and look through. Maybe the protagonist can be in two places at once, maybe his scar looks like a face and has a mind of it's own, maybe he suffers muscle aches and pain when he is near something that is dying.... I dunno

>> No.962561

give him the ability to have metal claws come out of his knuckles.

>> No.962566

>>962556
>oracle

Interesting...maybe instead of a superpower he can have a vision of some kind. Or maybe I can go the Murakami route and have him experience some kind of violent, horrific nightmare and be altered as a result of it. Like maybe whenever he hurts someone, he feels pain too.

>> No.962572

His accident leaves him disfigured yet he has the ability to write hauntingly powerful operas.

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>>962572

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>> No.962595

>>962585

Is that supposed to be funny?

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>>962572
i lold

>> No.962601

>>962585

i don't get it either

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>>962585
i love the penny arcade.

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>>962585

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>>962602
>>962585

Is this what penny arcade has become? These are not funny in the least.

>> No.962608

The ability to shoot dicks out of his ass and into the vaginas of little girls.

>> No.962609

>>962572
I don't get it.

>> No.962610

The ability to fart REALLY loudly. And that's with capital letters.

>> No.962612

What is your pic from, OP?

>> No.962613

>>962606

LARGE AMOUNTS OF BUTTHURT DETECTED IN THIS SECTOR CAPTAIN

>> No.962617

>>962613
>>962613

seriously, the point of a comic is that it's funny. if it's not even ffulfilling this requirement, what is it doing?

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>> No.962624

>>962617

They are funny. The fact that they make fun of YOU doesn't make them less funny.

>> No.962634

>>962624
>>962624

I fail to see how they make fun of me, seeing as I have only just encountered them now, ITT. Even so, I said nothing about that.
The point I was making is that they aren't funny. Once you accept that, it doesn't matter who's being made fun of, it's just another failed comic strip.

>> No.962651

>So I'm cautiously putting together prepwork

What kinda prepwork is this?

>> No.962665

>>962537

Have it so the boy's in a car accident as a child. When he wakes up, he can perceive death in the form of lines. These lines run across everything: people, objects, the ground itself. If he cuts along those lines, it's like slicing into warm butter, and he is able to cut anything apart.

>> No.962678

his super-abilities must be connected in some way to the main problem. or not. you can make a red herring outta it

>> No.962689

>>962678
like, he can shatter glass just by staring at it. at first he's just doing embarassing things with it, but later learns how to use it properly. then, when some cataclysm comes, let's say earthquake, his loved ones/true love/innocent bypasers are trapped behind an armored glass and can't run from fire/will be smashed under debris. so now, the reader is thinking "oh cool, hero's gonna use glass-breaking sight and rescue everybody". so hero uses his abilities, glass breaks, but it was holding whole construction over victims, so now it smashes them, everybody he ever knew/loved die, everybody else blame him. bah, book ends, then you write a sequel with him as antagonist and FBI agent as guy who's hunting him

>> No.962697

>>962689
yeah, it sucks, but whatever

>> No.962731

it sounds like "soldier in the mist".

roman soldier in the persian army in greece in 450bc get hit in the head, gets amnesia, and gains the ability to see and converse with all the greek gods. except he doesnt know theyre are god, they just look like people to him, and due to his memory issues he cant tell the difference, or doesnt realize everyone else doesnt see the gods as well.

its a good series.