The_Good_Devil The idea is interesting, up to 3 points. But you should not mention sacred things in the novel if you do not want to damage your karma
Need an idea!
Allen_Clay012 Maybe the ability should be within the limits of realism - like his instinct tells him that in this place there are gold coins or that he should buy this fish and have a ring in her belly? Although this was also the case with European storytellers. It seems to be Anderson and his tales? Damn, how hard is it to come up with something new ?!
The_Good_Devil yup, indeed but it is a bit weird. No offense tho... Hehehe
Somehow if I cannot find something that is indeed original. I just manipulate facts or knowledge around me. We can make use of those cliches to make new ideas. Or should we say change some rules with regarding to some of the properties of its abilities.
I duno...
Gourmet_DAO Yes, here you need to be able to use the cliché and ironize over them, it is a talent to have good humor or sarcasm!
DarkRay The main character can turn out to be some kind of asshole :) both in the direct and figurative sense of Khe-khe
Gourmet_DAO Not really sarcasm but those are really just my thoughts. Its really hard to find new ideas but I do not think it has to be weird at the same time.
It goes with the saying that "the early bird gets the worm. I wish I could just have been born earlier hahaha.
Kidding aside, those who make use of the idea worthwile will make it. I mean yeah, they had the idea before you. Sometimes remakes make better fiction out of the original. But not always.
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He can also have his superpowers from birth, but they need to be awakened. (So basically, he is not human from the start, or has a special legacy)
The good points are that you don't need to explains all the why at the beginning. The bad point is that you will have at some point. That means world-building, explaining his origins, why he is special ect.. So a short-story that wouldn't be so short finally.
Gourmet_DAO Alternative name could be: Capitan Wind Breaker XD A very cool and respectable hero name I'd say. But on more of a serious note (or maybe not). It's quite unique, that superpower. Not very useful at least in most cases (useful if you want to end a date very quickly :D), but original!
Allen_Clay012 and an early bird has an early eagle ... it’s like the Russians have no method against scrap, except for another scrap.
But I explained what I mean! Yes, you're right, remakes are sometimes better than the original but not always, like the first seasons are usually better than the second and third seasons
Arkinslize But this was with Superman the story of Marvel, he is an alien, cliché.
Yes, you’re right, the creation of a new world, the most lousy thing is to describe it, from a funny story, a scientific treatise about a skky world begins to turn out. The cliché is better here, since the world is already known! Like Star Trek, the original version of 1965!
DarkRay Ahhahahahhahaha !!!! Then the novel seems banned very quickly.
Ok ok, that aside. A real, thought out way to gain something like that... Nope, everything was used already? I mean you have animals biting you and so on. Any derivative from that is not original, it was influenced. Any radioactivity, used many times (hulk for instance). You have self made "super" powers, like batman whose, and I just can't... His super power is "being rich", priceless. Or iron man. He made the suit and whatnot himself.
Going further, chemicals were used. There is nothing to be honest, you have to derive from something. Naturally born was used as well. Having gifts from birth, it was used many times. Psychic powers, same thing. I don't know about the meteor thing Xd but I suspect it was used as well. Seriously, it's not going to be easy finding something truly original.
What about crossing thz 4th wall?
You say your character always felt he was special, as if his story was written by someone else and he would always be fine.
He has no real power, but believe it because so far everything is always as the life of a good MC should be.
At some point he makes a leap of faith and survive (thanks to your plume) and then rename himself as Plot-armor man.
Don't thank me x)
DarkRay The helminthes in my opinion are the most original! But nasty!
Or maybe everything is easier, the main character bought on the street, a pie, ate it .... but this is from Alice and the worm and the mushroom ...
Yes, it scratches the back of the head ... you probably have to use a cliche ... but more realistic.
Try it in the real world, get access to radiation? Immediately squeezed by sanctions! The same for chemicals, but that's ninja turtles ...
Except that?! The protagonist sank into the desert, fell into a hole, and there they extracted uranium ... and of the type was irradiated ... and became the Hulk.
Or maybe even easier ... drank a glass of water from an unknown source in the forest ... and the sto possess super-power ?! But probably this is also somewhere and someone already had ...
SP1RIT Then it’s better to have udon or spaghettonni with Italian sauce, and in the sauce there was that very substance ?! And so I would eat "Genghis Khan" or Tandori Chicken, it is tastier!
Arkinslize This is too confusing and complicated. Something reminiscent of the super cult Russian director Tarkovsky with his "Stalker" or "Salyaris". It’s easier to be and people will stretch!
Something simple, should be more or less realistic.
The best option, the main character, went to the library and a book accidentally fell on his head - analytical geometry. But under the cover was a grimoire!
Or a student after a noisy party went to a lecture, but he had an allergy attack, he drank an antihistamine, but did not read the instructions that he could slow down his reaction. Stumbled on something and grunting his head on the asphalt, woke up and became the owner of super-power ...
... the whole novel he performed all sorts of miracles feats ... and then it appears at the end of the book that he is in the hospital ... or opens his eyes and he is on the pavement, comes to his senses, people are running to help him. It turns out that his whole long life was just a dream or a game of the subconscious during for example 2-3 minutes of his fusion?
Gourmet_DAO See, it's not easy. Marvel and DC did a good job exploiting all possibilities :D If I had to go with most original, least used kind of thing... Dude that fucking "struck by meteor" sits in my head all the time. It's so ridiculous, and stupid, that it is viable. Like seriously, this is a one in billions or trillions chance of that happening. I'm not saying the meteorite should be you know large...