Once again, my Muse has gone off on a temporary tangent.
She threw another idea at me for a series she wants to do. This time around she wants to do a superhero story.
She’s not after your four color comic book type of superhero story. No overly colorful spandex-wearing supers with flashy powers having knock-down, drag-out battles inside a major metropolis, causing millions in property damage and nightmares for insurance companies.
She started with the premise of “what if people did start getting super powers?”
People aren’t going to start putting on costumes and fighting crime. More than likely, people given power don’t handle it well. I reference most people in Home Owner Associations (HOAs). Petty tyrants who get a tiny bit of power and abuse the Hell out of it. Don’t get me started.
Now, if you had the power to melt cars with laser beams you shoot out of your eyes, and you had it up to your neck with your boss being a jerk, I’d imagine that the boss’s car would be the first one to go. Probably followed by the boss being the next thing to get melted.
There’s a lot of pent up frustration and aggression in this world. If you introduce superpowers into it, I don’t imagine it going well.
This is a little darker than what my Muse had in mind. Her idea was teenagers suddenly getting power and how they’d deal with it. Nothing new here, to be sure. But instead of getting to go someplace like Professor Xavier’s Academy where they can train to use their powers, or even getting a mentor like Batman training Robin, these kids are left to figure it out on their own. What do they do? And how does the world react around them? How did they end up getting these powers?
I’m thinking something more like Heroes, Misfits, or Marvel’s Runaways. Superpowers causing problems in the real world. Lots of problems.
Maybe they have one of their own rise up to become their leader, establish their own nation? Do they manage to become better and be saviors of mankind? Or do they become tyrants? Or do they try to remain separate but neutral?
My Muse has been playing with these ideas. Nothing concrete has emerged yet. I’m trying to give her some room to explore the ideas, making some notes here and there. Let her get it out of her system.
Then I’ll gently guide her back to the supernatural soap opera.
Muses. Interacting with them is sort of like herding cats.
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