Story Idea: The Invisible Pervert

[Nephlim14]

In invisible mask? If he's invisible and the mask isn't, that's rather a giveaway -- look, a floating mask! If the mask is invisible and he materializes, he's not masked -- look, it's Wilhelm!

But if he DOES switch off invisibility in a situation allowing his capture and punishment, that makes him an idiot. If he's a non-idiot and is threatened with capture he need merely go invisible again, and escape.

Okay, he's not a rapist. He's a nice, moral guy with quirks. Right. He never thinks of exploiting his power / ability beyond playing flashing pranks. Right. Are readers going to buy that he's a sweet one-trick dumbass?

EDIT: As you might gather, I'm not a big fan of stories about people with 'powers'. Nothing personal. I tend to approach those as farces, like Randy Randy (The Pornomancer). That's just me.

1. Of course the mask turns invisible when he's invisible. He is able to turn invisible while wearing clothes, he just chooses to go around naked cause it's more arousing to him, and he wears the mask to conceal his face. If there are any other issues with the method, please read "Sean Renaud"'s first reply, he explains it perfectly.

2. Of course he knows he could do more to his victims with his power, but chooses not to. I never said it made him a decent moral guy, I just said he was a prankster, and a flasher ONLY.
3. He would turn off his invisibilty only to flash his targets, the same reason normal flashers open their trench coats. But if you still have issues with this, you could switch up the method and say instead of having the power of invisibility, he uses some sort of object that gives him the power.
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[Nephlim14]

Oh wow, you guys threw a party and forgot to invite the Emperor of Erotica, the Sultan of Smut, the Prince of Pornography, the Duke of Debauchery, the one and only Sean Renaud? I'm crushed. Positively crushed.

1. HAHAHAHAHAHAH you are THE most colorful replyer I have conversed with so far.

Let's see if I can keep this short. First Neph, I normally want to be furious with people who write posts of "here are fifty ideas I have rattling around my empty skull" you have shown me the error of my ways and I apologize to those I've wronged in the past. Its worse to post fifty ideas separately.

2. I've already gotten that same complaint. I apologize, I didn't know there was a rule about how many ideas you can post at once.

Second Neph I'm reading you here. Stick with the fact that you want to read the story not write it.

3. You're right, I should have made my wants more clear to any readers.

That said catching an invisible man isn't really THAT difficult assuming you know the game you're playing. Powder, liquids and other things generally make them visible. So do foot prints in things like mud or water or other similar substances.


Invisibility like most super powers requires some degree of conscious effort so if they died or lost consciousness they would revert to visible. Granted sometimes it's somewhat involuntary. Violet from the Incredibles and Sue Storm/Ms. Fantastic (whom Violet was clearly based on. In fact the Incredibles are clearly based on the Fantastic Four with Human Torch apparently swapped elementally for Frozone and in the family for a speedster) both go invisible when embarassed by reflex but it's still something that gets turned on.

As for clothing and the such while this varies dependent on all sorts of rules that are not always consistent (Even within the same work) invisibility generally includes your clothing and held items at the time you go invisible. So no need for super magical clothing and if there is whatever gave them the power they understand well enough to make the appropriate gear to go with it. That's simple enough. But unless it's stated otherwise it's just a required secondary super power. (Go Read TvTropes. The short answer is most super powers have other powers that the character must have in order for the primary power to function as presented.) It's hardly worthy of worrying about.

4. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! If you have read the replies from "Hypoxia" you'll know that they have been doing nothing but try to poke holes in how the flasher uses his power, and how he is supposed to get caught, both of which should have been painfully obvious to anyone who has.

IF you are reasonable certain the invisible man is harmless (either because you're too stupid to consider it or because you realize if so and so was going to hurt you they would have let you get run over by that car instead of shoving you out of the way.

5. Of course he knows he could do more to his victims with his power, but chooses not to. I never said it made him a decent moral guy, I just said he was a prankster, and a flasher ONLY.

The idea is actually intriguing.

6. Thank you. If you or anyone finds interest in writing a story based on it, please reply.

 

[Sean Renaud]

There is no rule about how many ideas you can throw up at once. Just throwing up fifteen. . .it's like you being that guy who put the milk back in the fridge with only half a glass. You should have finished the damn thing! Do you know what it's like to eat some warm chocolate cookies go to the fridge and find. . . a splash of milk?! Oh the murders we'd commit. Or that guy who could have parked on the corner but instead is like seven feet back so you have to parallel park behind him? Or the guy in line at the grocery store juggling his phone instead of paying for his fucking groceries. And you're just contemplating how many languages he can scream "please, that's my spleen don't make me eat it!" in before you cram it down his gullet." It's like that. Not a rule, just heavily appreciated.

It's not that you should have made your wants clearer. . .okay it is but story ideas is as much for help as it is for getting others to write things. So our first instinct is to help you not rob you blind.

Yeah people poke holes. In Hypoxia's defense we have a LOT of super hero and magical stories so we do get into the nitty gritty of mechanics a lot. I mean shit like how Super Girl must have some kind of Super Anchoring power that stops her from going flying when she gets hit. Sure she's super strong. . .but she still weighs 133 pounds MAX. A car hitting her should send her flying. Might hurt the car a lot too but physics is physics.

My point about knowing he's harmless is for the kids not for him or for you. Which is why I pointed out them being stupid or simply realizing he could have done more. See in real life if I know there's an invisible man running around my house because doors are opening and shutting and once I saw a newspaper carry itself up the stairs. I'M NOT HUNTING IT DOWN. I'M GETTING THE HELL OUT. I'm not fucking with something like that. But maybe a teen who's just too dumb to realize don't do that might. OR again maybe they figure out that he won't hurt them. I can easily buy a bunch of cheerleaders who hear heaving breathing and then hear footsteps followed by a door slamming putting enough pieces together (especially with a flasher) to realize the following. A) They are in no danger. It's a geek sneaking peaks at them, not a murderer and not a rapist. B) telling the authorities will acomplish pretty much nothing. (Though one has to wonder how that works in a "high magic setting." I mean if I lived in the current Marvel Universe which at bare minimum includes Loki who seems capable of going invisible (see his illusion tricks and how he's always behind you even with no place to hide. Hell a few times he seems to teleport but I'll chalk that up to the writers not really knowing where he was or how he'd get there.) Antman and Quicksilver I'm not sure if the girls of my school said "There's an invisible man watching me pee" that my first instinct would be "You're crazy Suzy! Stop acting crazy!"

We're already replying. I wouldn't expect much but you occasionally get lucky when you stumble on a good idea.

 

[Nephlim14]

There is no rule about how many ideas you can throw up at once. Just throwing up fifteen. . .it's like you being that guy who put the milk back in the fridge with only half a glass. You should have finished the damn thing! Do you know what it's like to eat some warm chocolate cookies go to the fridge and find. . . a splash of milk?! Oh the murders we'd commit. Or that guy who could have parked on the corner but instead is like seven feet back so you have to parallel park behind him? Or the guy in line at the grocery store juggling his phone instead of paying for his fucking groceries. And you're just contemplating how many languages he can scream "please, that's my spleen don't make me eat it!" in before you cram it down his gullet." It's like that. Not a rule, just heavily appreciated.

It's not that you should have made your wants clearer. . .okay it is but story ideas is as much for help as it is for getting others to write things. So our first instinct is to help you not rob you blind.

Yeah people poke holes. In Hypoxia's defense we have a LOT of super hero and magical stories so we do get into the nitty gritty of mechanics a lot. I mean shit like how Super Girl must have some kind of Super Anchoring power that stops her from going flying when she gets hit. Sure she's super strong. . .but she still weighs 133 pounds MAX. A car hitting her should send her flying. Might hurt the car a lot too but physics is physics.

My point about knowing he's harmless is for the kids not for him or for you. Which is why I pointed out them being stupid or simply realizing he could have done more. See in real life if I know there's an invisible man running around my house because doors are opening and shutting and once I saw a newspaper carry itself up the stairs. I'M NOT HUNTING IT DOWN. I'M GETTING THE HELL OUT. I'm not fucking with something like that. But maybe a teen who's just too dumb to realize don't do that might. OR again maybe they figure out that he won't hurt them. I can easily buy a bunch of cheerleaders who hear heaving breathing and then hear footsteps followed by a door slamming putting enough pieces together (especially with a flasher) to realize the following. A) They are in no danger. It's a geek sneaking peaks at them, not a murderer and not a rapist. B) telling the authorities will acomplish pretty much nothing. (Though one has to wonder how that works in a "high magic setting." I mean if I lived in the current Marvel Universe which at bare minimum includes Loki who seems capable of going invisible (see his illusion tricks and how he's always behind you even with no place to hide. Hell a few times he seems to teleport but I'll chalk that up to the writers not really knowing where he was or how he'd get there.) Antman and Quicksilver I'm not sure if the girls of my school said "There's an invisible man watching me pee" that my first instinct would be "You're crazy Suzy! Stop acting crazy!"

We're already replying. I wouldn't expect much but you occasionally get lucky when you stumble on a good idea.

Well when you put it that way, there could be a part where one of the two girls was showering, and when she goes to her lockers, the flasher reveals himself and flashes her. The girl runs away, only to trip and knock herself out. She wakes up to find the rest of the group tending to her, and they tell her that they got a call from her phone to come to the lockers. This would be a good way to establish that while he harasses the coeds, he is not a rapist.