Prompt
They say when bears appear, Opossums will play dead, regardless of whether that’s the best way to survive. They simply fall to the ground and pray that the bear is not hungry.
And as Villain draws closer, I can’t help but feel a certain kinship with the Opossum.
But of course, what they say, isn’t always true. Opossums, when scared, enter a catatonic state - not out of choice; not out of strategic thinking - they simply fall to the ground, every muscle paralyzed. They do not recover until at least an hour after the danger has passed.
That must be why I can’t move, even as Villain brushes the hair out of my face, even as he speaks.
“I wonder… How long you’ll pretend to be asleep.”
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Prompt/short story?
Somehow this life carried me away. I went from world to world destroying; looking for a love that did not require work. I blamed others for what I did not have and took what they had. I can never repay them for what I have done. They are gone and died many eons ago. I went through an unspecified amount of time going through the motions after my evil deeds, and I changed. Though I did not realize my mistake I was one step closer to a good person.
I felt him behind me before he could startle me; I didn’t tell him that. I let him have this, if only to see him smile. He’s hands clamped over my shoulders lightly and I did my best to act startled. I tensed, did a little scream and tried to look bewildered.
I gave a small smile and when his eyes met mine I chuckled “You scared me!”
He gave a real laugh, I had convinced him, in more ways than one, and he was genuinely happy- a good human. He replied by removing my book from my hands, that I had been reading, and took my hand closest to him and pulled me gently from my seat and spun me. I hugged him.
I was married to this human, but not for much longer.
I had trusted him, but I had been wrong. I had always been wrong.
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Reasons to Kidnap Someone
It totally got rid of my cool formatting- Sorry :/
They are in your way
They saw too much
Maybe wrong place at the wrong time
To silence them
Maybe they are too smart and know too much? Or are guessing too correctly
Maybe they are a reporter and are placing too much emphasis on taking you down
Or just paying you attention on media
You disagree with their political statements
Vehemently hate them because of it
Maybe like sexism or racism
Or want to change their opinions
They are in your friend group and you don’t cope well with them being there
Things would be so much easier if your best friend didn’t have a fiance!
To mind wipe them/control them
Emotional Reasons
Vengeance
To conconquer/ prove your better
Because you love them
You want a friend!
Only they are good enough?
Or only they would be willing to love you?
You want a yes ma’am person
Because you feel like you own them
Because you want to mess with them
To eat them… this one’s kind of weird but oh whelp.
To play matchmaker
Maybe they’re like a civilian Hero pays close attention to and you be all over that ship and you want to blossom their romance by getting Hero to save them???!!! DRAMA!!!
OOOOooo what if they end up being like Hero’s cousin that would be awkward and hysterical.
You think they suck morally and the city deserves a better hero. A new one will come if you get rid of the current one
To shame them
Can either be super dark
Or can be light like ‘Ha! I’ve won more times than you!’
They are your sibling or someone of close relation
To get them to fall in love with you
To get them to make up with a mutual friend
Because you super unstable and you want to reenact an event.
To Help Them
They ask you to
Because you want to protect them
From themself
From fighting you
From someone/something else which they don’t think will be a problem
To make them a better hero
Maybe you want them to be more of a challenge for you?
Or maybe you want them to defeat someone you never could?
DRAMA you could die doing it and you both might be in love with each other **CUES DRAMATIC DEATH SCENE**
To team up
Hero’s been wrongly convicted and they resist your escape attempts insisting they believe in the justice system. They leave you no choice.
To heal them
Maybe because you owe them and this will somehow help them?
To save them from someone else
Like maybe from hero/supervillain/ect.
Or maybe they are a kid and you want to keep them from battle?
Because they are pregnant
Maybe you want to make sure they are not putting the unborn child in danger
To give them information or prove the information to them
For a surprise birthday thing???
Maybe you don’t understand emotions very well and so you kidnap Hero’s ex-lover/ex-friend and deliver them to and your thinking, ‘Hero’s mad and they probably want to take it out on their ex.’
Either Hero is down with this
Or they don’t correct you but is like do whatever you want to them
Maybe ship them to another country, get rid of them etc.
Or they be like ‘that's a big bundle of messed up bro.’
To Benefit From Them
To start up your career
For information
To barter with
To sell to someone else
You want something they have
You need them as a test subject
To figure out their powers
To figure out how to give yourself more powers
To figure out how to mind wipe
etc.
To steal their powers
You want them to bear your children????
Artificial insemination
Because they are pregnant
Maybe because you want to take their unborn child away from them to raise as your own
Maybe you can’t have children
Maybe the child is predicted to be super powerful
You Want them to...
Make something for you
Like a weapon
Heal you
Power your technology
Teach You
How to be kind
Oooo for moral reasons
Or for acting reasons
Drama! They may think they are changing you but really they are helping you in your espionage!
How to use your powers
How to fight
Some other skill
To learn how to kidnap someone else
How to be them so they can trick you friends or the public?
Help You
By force
Willingly
To use as someone expendable or sacrifice them
To Use Against Others
To blackmail someone else
To distract others
Use their situation to distract the other heroes while you put on some other heist
To trap others
To make a point to someone else
You kidnap Hero’s friend/lover-- like no one else except me, hero! Muhahahahaha
To separate hero from them
Either like “they are no good for you, I’m saving you from a toxic relationship”
Or “they are improving you and motivating you waaaaaay too much! I better scare them away/kill them/make Hero think they just disappeared or broke up with them!”
Or something like I can get anyone of you at any time, nowhere is safe
An exchange?
To barter for someone else or something else
Social Expectations/ Fulfilling Obligations
You need a date to some work meeting or something
You need to pretend to be married
Because it’s expected of you as a villain
Outside pressure from peers or otherwise
Right of passage
You need to build your image with other villains
For your boss or someone more powerful
To give as a gift or favor to someone else
To teach other heroes to come what to expect from you
What if that was how you interviewed for henchmen?
To get an update on someone else
If you guys can think of any other reasons, clean- not icky, dirty ones- I’d love to put them on my list. These are definitely not all my ideas! I have seen them in other works and stuff, so they are kind of for anyone to use.
When I ask people ‘why would someone kidnap someone else’ the usual response is rape. And it’s sometimes hard to think outside of that reason, especially when you favor writing female protagonists. So next time, choose from this fancy list and have a good whump.
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The Super-Cast
The Main Cast
Hero
Villain
Vigilante
Thief
Super Villains
Super Hero
Detective
Mad Scientist
The Supporting Cast
Reporters
Boss
The bank tellers
The way I look at it is that you either have to be really stupid to have a bank in a world that is constantly being robbed by people with super powers, or you have to be really strong. So no banks or heavily fortified banks. So thus the bank teller is one of the most powerful people on the city. What powers do they have? Do they live a solitary life? Do they feel justified in working at a bank instead of saving the city like other supers? Are they thousands of years old or brand new? Is it passed down from generation to generation or simply randomly inherited power? Do they bond with the bank house? Does the bank choose them?
Like one day you walk into a bank, and then super villain comes in and kills the bank teller. The bank is like Yooooooou shall be my new bank teller! And now you have to learn these awesome powers and take on super villain. AND what if you got captured!?? Do your powers travel with you???
Coworkers
Civilians
Sidekicks
Parents
Siblings
Random not-named side characters
The Villain Wrangler
Mentors
Lovers
Organization leaders
Friends
The Enforcer
The Fall Guy
The police
Detectives?
Technically they don’t fight. They would like, follow the trail of breadcrumbs and look up to see Villain and be like ‘oh my! What have I gotten myself into!’
Courtroom people?
Lawyers
Judges
Jury
OOOOooo imagine the Villain threatening each and everyone of them! Like ‘you better vote ‘not guilty,’ or else!’
Henchmen
Doctors
Award Givers
Bounty Hunters
Tenant
This could be fun, like you rent out the flat above you to the Hero and Villain (Unbeknownst to any of you Hero and Villain’s secret identities). And you describe what it’s like to live with two of the most crazy people on the planet. Maybe you find out before both of them and try your best to contain their crazy by establishing ‘necessary rules.’
Roommate
Nullifiers
People being used as leverage/Insurance- so like hostages
Animals
preferably a cat (personal preference). Maybe the cat is a spy for the villain or vise versa maybe it can turn into a person that way we can have that dramatic moment when Hero sees their cat transform into a human and they are outraged like ‘You’ve seen me naked!’ and the cat-person responds “Yes, and I was suffering for the greater good!” or like ‘Well remember that time you had a vet stick their finger up my butt? We’ve all suffered here.’
Spies
Children
Teachers
Classmates
Principals
Customers
Scientist
Repairman
Maybe they are on call because Villain or Hero keeps breaking each others stuff, or their own stuff in their frustrations
Could be kind of cool to see the Villain and the Hero fight over the repairman like ‘I had her first! Find your own Repairman!’
Bat crazy Grandma who offers words of advice that make no sense
Maybe after Hero/Villain leaves Grandma drops the vacant incoherent act and laughs saying ‘I love doing that!’ Now back to work. And they’ve got hero/villain telling them everything because they think Grandma has altizmers or dementia but really grandma is a spy 0.o
Stalker/exuberant fan
Bomb maker/ gun dealer
The clean up crew
Maybe Hero gets buried under a building and Crew digs them out and with Hero’s last dying breath they give Crew their powers
Student of Hero or Villain in classroom setting?
Attractive person
Chef
Maid/butler/servant/slave
Assistant
Who had NO idea they work for an evil/super person and just goes along scheduling and getting stuff for their boss. Like why the heck does my boss need me to get B+ blood??? I don’t care. I don’t get paid enough to care. That’s what they keep telling themself as more and more obvious clues stack up. I don’t care. I don’t.
Artists- like commissioned to do a paint job? Or kidnapped to do a paint job?
Mechanic
Tutor
When I refused to give little Timn a cookie I didn’t know he was going to electrocute me!
Kid/adult that gets bullied into doing villain/hero’s homework
Politician
Dry Cleaners
High school bully
Government agents
Snoopy Neighbor?
Therapist
Negotiator for hostages and the like
The getaway driver
If you’ve got anymore side characters, or main characters, I’d love to put them on my list. Also if you see anything, that is appropriate, related to any of these characters I’d love to put a link in so other people can read them.
Appropriate meaning not rape or anything too rape-y.
Again some, if not all, are not my ideas. I have seen them in other works, or gotten them from friends. I’ve tried to put a couple links in that will direct you to some cool stories, some are mine, others are not.
Though the what-if prompts on the side are mostly mine. I’m not sure if I’ve seen a bank teller one or if I made that up.
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