User blog:Garr9988/Story Ideas

So, for the past few months, I've been brainstorming some story ideas and plot concepts that I've been meaning to get to, but just haven't had the time, energy, or motivation to work on them. Rather than keep them locked up in my head, I think it's for the best I let you all know about them so it might motivate me to work - and, perhaps, we might make them a collaborative effort?

A satellite, as planned, crashes into the Marianas Trench. On its way down, the last few moments of its camera feed record what appear to be strange aquatic creatures unknown to the world.
The Warehouse is called, and several agents are sent to investigate with the help of the Nautilus III submarine and, more importantly, the HMS Challenger, capable of submerging like a submarine and encasing itself in a giant bubble of air. Garrett decides it would also be useful to utilize the various jewelry props from the Australian show H2O: Just Add Water and it's spin-off Mako: Island of Secrets, which allow the wearers to become merpeople with various magical abilities.

Down in the trench they discover a kind of "city" crafted from hundreds of years' worth of shipwrecks, crashed satellites, etc., all created by a small community of fish-people hybrids.

The fish-people were previously the crew of a ship caught in a horrible storm. The captain, feeling responsible for the safety of his vessel and his crew, wished and prayed for some way for everyone to survive; the mermaid figurehead of his ship became an artifact and, as the ship submerged, transformed the crew into what they are now (as well as made them ageless). From a mix of magic-inspired awe and hundreds of years of isolation, they came to revere/worship the figurehead.

B Plot
The B Plot revolved around Felix and a few other agents having to solve an issue at the Warehouse. In the Origin Circle, a collection of Pele's Tears (link to an article about their curse ) and Poli'ahu 's Lava Sled have gotten into a row with each other and escaped the stacks to wreack havoc on their opponent's climate:

Poli'ahu's Sled made its way to the Lehmann Fornax and are freezing it solid, while Pele's Tears are turning the tip of Mount Denali into a lava-spouting volcano.

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It's been a while since I thought about this one, but I remember that Affectos and I discussed the idea that Tyler and Bri may have been having relationship issues. As a result, Bri would go on the Challenger, while Tyler stayed behind and would end up helping solve the Warehouse problem.

Bri or Nikki, as a mermaid, would end up getting kidnapped by the fish-people and worshipped (until the gang show up to free her and get attacked instead). I imagined that she may somehow get transformed into a fish-person as well and, as the only one able to write in English (either because the fish-people forgot English or never spoke it in the first place), acts as a translator between them and the gang to let everyone know what the deal is so they can work out a truce.

I liked to imagine the fish-people would choose to stay as they are down in the trench, even given the option to return to the surface, since it's better than trying to adjust to a world they no longer recognize.

Beyond the Laughing Sky
Basically, Alice's origin story told from Lewis Carroll's point of view. It starts out with Alice's mother's death and details her descent into a sociopathic madness over the next few years until her eventual imprisonment.

At first he tries to accomodate Alice, having been in love with her mother, and sometimes helps her hide a body or two (to his own loathing). Eventually he has enough and accidentally becomes the one to trap her in his own mirror.

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Given Alice was a real person, I tried to do a lot of research to make sure the story would be historically accurate, but I got burnt out.

I had the idea that several characters may have been inspired by her murders rather than artifacts (since some part of the story has to be based on her, remember). One such example would be the Cheshire Cat; one day Lewis came home to see that Alice had carved a big smile into her cat Dinah's (or one of her kittens') mouths. The Dodo would have been inspired, obviously, by Carroll/Dodgson and, in a moment I thought was clever, his gifting of a silver thimble to Alice in the book would be based on him giving Harriet Tubman's Thimble to her after she charms him.

Also, given that Artie says that Carroll never wrote any of his books and that they were all inspired by Alice's murders, I wanted to incorporate his other works into the story as well; the murder of a WH12 agent would have inspired The Hunting of the Snark (a group of various people are out hunting for a snark and, in the end, one disappears).

A plot idea that I had that I was iffy about because, as much as I liked it, it would contradict with canon, was the idea that Alice would suffer from hallucinations of "siblings" (since she had several in reality, but they were never mentioned in the show). Unfortunately, as I said, the show only ever says she went into a "sociopathic madness", and never showed any symptoms of schizophrenia in the show.

Something I thought of that does make sense, I think, is how the Looking-Glass works: since Alice murdered her own mother in front of the mirror, its effects are based around both complete isolation and escapism. In the story, I'd have Alice be an only child living with her mother, and whose father has by now passed away. With her mother dead, she'd be completely alone (not really feeling any closeness with Carroll after her descent) and would want a world of her own.

Well, in the end, she gets one...

Blackbird
has just joined the Vermont-based mafia gang The Blackbirds, led by his older brother. He remains aprt of it for several years, committing various crimes including theft and at least one murder, until August of 1954. During some planned crime, the Unitarian Church is struck by lightning and set ablaze, and someone is trapped inside. Deciding to rescue them instead of assist with the crime, he rushes into the inferno and rescues a woman named Clemency Columbus - and gets his brother captured and executed.

Later on he's recruited by the WH for his criminal insight and bravery. While there, he does his best to keep his criminal past hidden from his coworkers.

At some point during his work, something happens that convinces him he has to face the Blackbirds (they kill a fellow agent, they kidnap his Celmency (now his fiance), etc.). (If Clemency isn't kidnapped) he contemplates leaving her to try and spare her the pain of losing a fiance should he die, but Mrs. Frederic shows up and convinces him otherwise.

Just as his confrontation with the Blackbirds ends, one shoots him in the back; he survives, but is paralyzed from the waist down, confining him to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. He remains a WH agent for a few more years until he retires and moves to Mexico with Clemency (where their daughter, Leda, ).

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I was going to set this story to various Alter Bridge songs after listening to some of their songs and finding them inspirational, and surprisingly applicable to chapters I had in mind; it was also inspired by Daughtry's song "Traitor", since is has a bitof a mafia-feel to me.

Most of the middle of this story is missing, I'll admit - it's been a while since I thought about this story too.

Collision Course
Nothing too detailed, but the idea would be that Claudia has a bit of a relationship crisis: Fargo, Todd (Witness Protection Program guy), and Dwayne Maddox (Dead Rent guitarist from "Insatiable") all end up together in Eureka while a setellite (or something) is on a collision course (ehhhh) with the town.

I mostly want this because the show had a horrible habit of being full of one-off characters that were meant to be important to the main cast but never showed up. I mean, all the way in Season 2, Claudia said she would find Todd, but she ends up kissing someone else the next season, and we don't see HIM ever again either!

Draco informed me that Fargo ended up getting in a relationship by the end of Eureka (which, I believe, took place before "Don't Hate the Player"), so he's not really competition; he also said that a genius like Todd might be smart enough to be welcomed into the public parts of Eureka, but nowhere as secret as Global Dynamics (side note, would Joshua be welcome?).

A Plot
A relative of Garrett's he was somewhat close to dies and he goes with at least one other WH agent to attend. While there, he encounters the abusive family the WH rescued him from.

B Plot
Some children go hide in the treehouse they recently finished building with their parents after they decide to run away. The treehouse, as it turns out, has been affected by the/a woodcarving tool(s) belonging to Benjamin Randolph, who created the lap desk Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence on. As a result, the treehouse has become a sort of pocket world, a land of freedom for the kids that the parents cannot enter and the kids can't leave unless they want to - and the tool(s) is/are inside with them.

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Nothing too detailed for the A Plot, I'm not even sure if I want an artifact involved.

As for the B Plot, as I think about it, I'm not sure whether I want any WH agents trapped in the treehouse with the kids or not. While it'd be interesting if they were, and more conventional, it would also be interesting if they had to solve the entire case and convince the kids to come out somehow from the outside.

A Plot
A former famous Italian power couple including famed opera diva Ottavia Bramante has, without warning, gotten back together and are planning a special performance to be aired across Italy and the rest of the world - after several decades of being divorced. While Pete and (at least) Myka are there, they meet some old faces - The Bricktones, Eric Marsden's band, are on a global tour!

During the final confrontation it's revealed that Ottavia is using Maria Callas ' gloves to give ehr voice the power to manipulate the emotions of those who hear her sing. The Bricktones and co. must recreate Eric Marsden's euphoric song (or create a new one themselves) to combat her voice in the opera house, or she'll hypnotize everyone watching her broadcast!

B Plot
Mrs. Frederic decides to take Claudia on another Caretaker outting, including a visit to where her family is buried together; sister, husband, children, and grandchildren. She informs Claudia that the life of a Caretaker is a lonely one, and to appreciate her family while she has one.

She senses that Claudia's time is coming close...

Toa e Vašeto Vreme
It is time for Claudia Donovan to succeed Irene Frederic as the Caretaker of Warehouse 13. And, in an unprecedented decision never made before, she has decided she wants her family to witness the ritual.

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The exact events are up in the air until we decide what to do with Haphestus' Anvil and the Tree of Idun, since that's a bit of a mess, but something I know will happen is that the spirits of all the previous Caretakers will appear and perhaps speak to Claudia, including Mrs. Frederic's sister and (at least one) Paracelsus.

It might also tie in to my Caretaker story ideas...

((WH2 Caretaker Story))
TBA

What Goes Around/My Immortal
TBA

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Yes, I'm seriously considering titling this story My Immortal.

Artifact Group/Major Arc Idea
TBA

(Psst, it involves the Minoan Trident and the Chinese Orchid - and hopefully it won't trample on Ailuro's toes...)