Legends of Windemere

From Scenic Reflections

I should mention that this idea is evolving as I type.  It popped into my head this morning as I read more poems and stories about love.  Pandora with its songs about women, love, broken hearts, and whatnot didn’t help.  My mind turned its hamster wheel, which reminds me that I need to feed the thing.  The result is the following idea that might be put into Project Phoenix:

A man and woman are cursed lovers.  Both are adventurers, heroes, or something like that.  Their quests is, of course, to break the curse and live happily ever after.  I have to figure out the curse and one unique idea I have is plain strange.  They can only hear each other. To each other they are invisible and they pass through each other if they try to touch with the body.  They can still accidentally hit each other with a blunt object, a weapon, or a spell.  To everyone else, they are both visible and touchable, so it makes for some awkward situations.  This makes fighting alongside each other rather difficult because how do you swing a sword with confidence if your lover could be standing in front of you.  I would need to carefully pick their powers too because Project Phoenix means they’re Mylrixians (superheroes of Windemere) They would need a system to locate each other.

Reason for curse could be a coven of ex-lovers or jealous people or maybe someone that believes their child will be a powerful agent of good.  That does lead into to a great hero to join Serum in his series.  I’m making this up as I go along.  I don’t even know where to begin with the cure.  I do know that I don’t want to go tragedy because it feels like everyone goes for the tragic ending these days.  Not to get into this rant, but when did everyone want to be the edgy author that gave their protagonists an unhappy ending?  I’m at the point where a happy ending is more surprising than an unhappy one.

I’ve wanted to try a cursed lover idea before, but it always got swallowed up by a bigger story.  The Project Phoenix system of stand-alone stories instead of a big, on-going storyline could help this one blossom.  I’d have to learn more about romance writing, minus the erotica part.  It would depend a lot on dialogue, but that’s one of my specialties.

So, that’s a new idea that’s brewing while I haven’t touched any of the other 40 ideas.  I have issues.