Super hero story idea

[zen83]

This story idea is inspired by shows like Heros and The Boys. The plot is, there are different "magical" groups that exist. Witches are one group, they are not popular or well liked (think Salem Witch trials) and have for the most part keep to themselves. They usually go into intellectual pursuits (many teachers and professors are witches). Then there are the super heros (or the casual term is capes). Yes, the major heros like wonder women or batman exist, but also, new and up and coming heros exist in this world.

So, going back to the witches. There is a family of witches, and mostly they only use their magic for house hold chores, or other little things they can do, in the privacy of their home. They have a young daughter who is just starting to be trained in magic. Well one day she is out and about and sees 3 of the young, in training heros (all female, all college students) goes and talks to them, and tries mind control. While not doing anything to draw attention, just decided to bring 3 of the capes home, just to see if she can hold the mind control that long.

Heros and witches do not get along, they have agreed to keep their distance. The mom witch comes home to find her daughter is just hanging out with 3 capes. The mom realizes, that if the other heros find out, that 3 capes were mind controlled by a novice witch, that could set back relations between the groups.

The mom thinks fast and comes up with the idea, of offering a job to the 3 ladies. (the family owns a farm). For example, one of the capes is a business major, so she could see working on the farm as a kind of internship (ordering supplies, selling items in the market).

To give a mental image to go with the story, have you seen or played the game the SIMS? Something like that, on a farm, with 3 super hero women.

 

[Hypoxia]

Gotta be careful with superpowers. Y'know that if Clark Kent ever fucked Lois Lane or Lana Lang, his super-sperm would tear them into bloody shreds, right? The Human Torch's lovers would look like exemplars of spontaneous human combustion. Wonder Woman's Whip of Truth (or any mind-reader) would show that all men are pigs.

Take a look at Alan Moore's 10th Precinct comix series, set in a city where EVERYONE has a superpower. Things get messy. It's tough being a cop there.

 

[LupusDei]

There is a family of witches, and mostly they only use their magic for house hold chores, or other little things they can do, in the privacy of their home. They have a young daughter who is just starting to be trained in magic.

Yes, I know them rather well.

They're living in one of the three original homesteads around here (by "original" I mean the homestead was probably here well before the 1201, the start of German crusader's robbery campaign), but not really locals, for what I know, they moved in there sometime mind eighteen century or so.

Then, by now effectively nobody is, by that standard. Even my grandfather's wife's grandfather moved in when he bought the house out of the mansion. My grandfather too married in, well, he only moved twenty miles from where his brothers had their farm, but his father was on the run for what we know. Russian Cossacks on a retribution run caught him just before the Great War started.

Ah, the witches. There's all four generations of them living there, total of at least eight women currently, but not all there full time, both daughters have city flats too, for what I know. At least one of the granddaughters have too. The grandmother was still mad at my grandfather -- for dumping her back around 1930 to marry my grandmother instead -- when I had trouble with one of her granddaughters in the nineties. And yes, she was a teacher in the local elementary school all trough Soviet occupation until it was closed in one of the reforms allegedly intended to bring in EU standards when we joined.

One of the granddaughters now has a grown up daughter of her own, well, not from me, curiously from a locally fairly famous politician who now does menial labor around their house and haven't been seen in public since. There is, or at least was another man too, but I have only seen him about twice since 1992 or so, don't know is he still alive. I used to buy milk from them for a while, so visited their yard regularly. Well I myself too don't need a stick for dowsing, so there's that. Too bad my sister wasn't interested, and my grandmother passed away untimely.

One of them do take care of one of my uncles. He lives next door, less than half a mile away. Used to be the head huntsman for a club of rich city folks, but now can hardly walk. He's never married, but has a son who's working overseas. I sometimes wonder what her plan is, but she visits once to trice a week and old chap seems happy.