eternalparticle
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Concept- Paradoxic Love
Genre- Psychological Romantic Horror, Sci-fi
An idea where romance and horror coexist because the bond itself is impossible to fully perceive or narrate.
**Can be male pov or female pov depending on the author or even TPP.
"The act of loving destructs the concept of love itself"
Central conflict: "Can love survive if it cannot be spoken, remembered in order, or fully understood?"
Paradoxic Love is a concept where two people fall in love, but their relationship contradicts reality. One might meet the other for the first time while the other has already met them before. Sometimes they remember, sometimes they don’t. Their emotions bend reality and how time flows between them.
Antagonist- Fate, Universe
Lore
The boy and the girl meet for the first time and fall in love at first sight, but the universe shifts the timeline so the meeting never happened. In this new timeline, they still end up meeting later, which is again followed by a timeline shift which rewrites reality.
The universe, the construct of time, in order to balance the timeline, would use these time shifts to ensure stability. This means the boy and the girl cannot be together; fate itself is against it.
After several such shifts, in one seemingly ordinary timeline, they both meet again, but this time the girl has a feeling of déjà vu. She feels as if this isn’t the first time they are meeting. The memory residue collected over hundreds of shifted timelines slowly surfaces, and then it clicks—she remembers. But as she does, she sees reality break. She sees the sky turn into puzzle pieces slowly fragmenting, herself slowly fading away, everything breaking, and the timeline shifting again.
She forgets.
However, this time the boy remembers. He feels as if he forgot something really important to him, and then he witnesses the same thing as the girl. They go on for thousands of time shifts. At times one remembers, at times the other does. They can’t communicate, they can’t plan, yet both of them slowly realize something. They both seem to understand what their counterpart would want to do; as if their hearts remain in sync. They both will achieve the ideal timeline—a timeline where they both remember. They try everything they can, trying as hard as possible to remember, to not forget. After multiple near misses, they achieve it—the ideal timeline. They’ve won.... They’ve won?
They can’t meet each other. They can’t love each other. Trying too hard to remember is enough to shift the timeline again. Despite being so close, they can only be so far. What could mere mortals do when the universe itself is against them? How would they love each other when the act of loving destroys the concept of love itself?
Paradox Elements
- Emotional: Their love sustains them emotionally but annihilates them existentially.
Philosophical Elements
- They can’t tell whether their emotions are real or just residues of memories, yet they feel it.
- If you remember loving someone, do you still love them, or do you only love the memory of love?
- When memory and emotion loop endlessly, where does the true feeling even exist?
Honestly, not quite sure if I am allowed to post concept ideas in the Writing Prompts section but this is the closest I found to where this could go. I was sitting on this idea for some time but I figured I'll probably never utilise it like several other ideas and so I'll just post it here for someone who finds it interesting enough to pick it up.
This isn't technically a writing prompt or maybe it is if someone decides to use it, well whatever, moderators do let me know if I am not allowed to and where can I post it instead.
If someone does decide to write something on it, then do share, I would love to read it! And just in case, if someone wants some ideas about the story, then well I have imagined some scenes, I can share them.
Genre- Psychological Romantic Horror, Sci-fi
An idea where romance and horror coexist because the bond itself is impossible to fully perceive or narrate.
**Can be male pov or female pov depending on the author or even TPP.
"The act of loving destructs the concept of love itself"
Central conflict: "Can love survive if it cannot be spoken, remembered in order, or fully understood?"
Paradoxic Love is a concept where two people fall in love, but their relationship contradicts reality. One might meet the other for the first time while the other has already met them before. Sometimes they remember, sometimes they don’t. Their emotions bend reality and how time flows between them.
Antagonist- Fate, Universe
Lore
The boy and the girl meet for the first time and fall in love at first sight, but the universe shifts the timeline so the meeting never happened. In this new timeline, they still end up meeting later, which is again followed by a timeline shift which rewrites reality.
The universe, the construct of time, in order to balance the timeline, would use these time shifts to ensure stability. This means the boy and the girl cannot be together; fate itself is against it.
After several such shifts, in one seemingly ordinary timeline, they both meet again, but this time the girl has a feeling of déjà vu. She feels as if this isn’t the first time they are meeting. The memory residue collected over hundreds of shifted timelines slowly surfaces, and then it clicks—she remembers. But as she does, she sees reality break. She sees the sky turn into puzzle pieces slowly fragmenting, herself slowly fading away, everything breaking, and the timeline shifting again.
She forgets.
However, this time the boy remembers. He feels as if he forgot something really important to him, and then he witnesses the same thing as the girl. They go on for thousands of time shifts. At times one remembers, at times the other does. They can’t communicate, they can’t plan, yet both of them slowly realize something. They both seem to understand what their counterpart would want to do; as if their hearts remain in sync. They both will achieve the ideal timeline—a timeline where they both remember. They try everything they can, trying as hard as possible to remember, to not forget. After multiple near misses, they achieve it—the ideal timeline. They’ve won.... They’ve won?
They can’t meet each other. They can’t love each other. Trying too hard to remember is enough to shift the timeline again. Despite being so close, they can only be so far. What could mere mortals do when the universe itself is against them? How would they love each other when the act of loving destroys the concept of love itself?
Paradox Elements
- Emotional: Their love sustains them emotionally but annihilates them existentially.
Philosophical Elements
- They can’t tell whether their emotions are real or just residues of memories, yet they feel it.
- If you remember loving someone, do you still love them, or do you only love the memory of love?
- When memory and emotion loop endlessly, where does the true feeling even exist?
Honestly, not quite sure if I am allowed to post concept ideas in the Writing Prompts section but this is the closest I found to where this could go. I was sitting on this idea for some time but I figured I'll probably never utilise it like several other ideas and so I'll just post it here for someone who finds it interesting enough to pick it up.
This isn't technically a writing prompt or maybe it is if someone decides to use it, well whatever, moderators do let me know if I am not allowed to and where can I post it instead.
If someone does decide to write something on it, then do share, I would love to read it! And just in case, if someone wants some ideas about the story, then well I have imagined some scenes, I can share them.
