What is the premise of your story in a prompt that readers can understand your story?

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Write Your Premise of the Story

What is the premise of your story in one prompt so that readers can understand the essence of your story?

Please write your premise of the story in the prompt:
[main protagonist with/without his/her identity] + [main conflict of the story] + [goal of the MC] + [worldbuilding] + [potential antagonists] + [protagonist's allies]

Examples:
(1) LOTR:
[Frodo Baggins, the hobbit chosen to carry the One Ring full of evil power] +
[The world of Middle-Earth is threatened by Sauron who wants to conquer all races with the One Ring] +
[Destroys the One Ring at Mount Doom to stop the darkness and save the world] +
[High fantasy world with various races (Hobbits, Humans, Elves, Dwarves, Orcs), kingdoms, long history, and ancient magic] +
[Sauron and the forces of Mordor as the main threat, as well as agents of darkness such as Saruman] +
[Sam, Gandalf, Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, Merry, and Pippin as friends and allies in the mission to destroy the Ring]

(2) Death Note:
[Light Yagami, a genius student who discovers the Death Note, which grants him the power to determine life and death] +
[A modern world that appears peaceful but is filled with crime, corruption, and moral hypocrisy] +
[Creating a world without crime by becoming a “god of justice” who executes criminals through the Death Note] +
[A realistic world with a human legal system, where supernatural powers (Shinigami and the Death Note) test the limits of morality and the logic of justice] +
[L as a genius detective who becomes Light's intellectual and ideological opponent, followed by Near and Mello as heirs to L's ideological struggle] +
[Ryuk the Shinigami as an observer, Misa Amane as a fanatical ally, and the family and police force as victims of the clash between morality, ambition, and false justice]

Note:
Write a prompt without giving spoilers, but making the reader immediately understand the essence of your story without much additional explanation.
 
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Write Your Premise of the Story

[Ryuk the Shinigami as a neutral observer, Misa Amane as a fanatical ally, and the family and police force as victims of the clash between morality, ambition, and false justice]
Ryuk is far from neutral (especially in the live action version, where he shows some active malice at times) - he actively encourages Light to use his book and gets much amusement from what the boy accomplishes.

Have five stories (three active here, two on PocketFM) so this could take some time to figure out for even one...
 

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Ryuk is far from neutral (especially in the live action version, where he shows some active malice at times) - he actively encourages Light to use his book and gets much amusement from what the boy accomplishes.

Have five stories (three active here, two on PocketFM) so this could take some time to figure out for even one...
Okay, I revised it to be an observer, without being neutral.
Have five stories (three active here, two on PocketFM) so this could take some time to figure out for even one...
Please take your time. Thank you.
 

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[main protagonist] + [find a job] + [to pay bills] + [in this economy] + [but no companies are hiring humans anymore] + [the power of god and anime on the main protagonist sides]
 

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[Zhang Xiyu, a dead scholar and official in the royal court of late 17th century, is now a "chosen one" of the Blue Lotus in Hell ] + [Lord Enma ignoring his duties which led the demons to torture and eat mortal souls while his 3 sons aim to take his throne as King of Hell.] + [Hidden goals + killing the 3 princes and bring back the Blue Lotus who promised him the throne] + [Buddhist hell, 3 princes of hell, Blue Lotus is the mother of that realm. Multiple hells and heavens. The modern world is also featured.] + [The princes while the rest are hidden. In essence everyone is an antagonist. ] + [Yutao, A spy who died in the same era as him and was also kidnapped by the Blue Lotus. Renhu, a powerful genderfluid demon made of thousands of condensed souls, created by Zhang Xiyu.] The plot is more intricate than I can put in here but I guess this is a good general idea.
 

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There are a few points that define my story
  • "People are gray , not black and white. They have a reason for what they are"
  • "People don't change overnight, if they did there would be no conflict in the world"
  • "Destiny is pre determined only when you accept it as it is"
  • Bonds are born from understanding not from color, race or family.
 

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[A man displaced in time, who lost everything, an Order member and veteran of the Abyss War from an era long past.]

[Seeks to learn the true purpose of his artifact. Is the cycle of civilization's rise and fall inevitable, or can a utopia be achieved?]

[Set in a high-fantasy, magical, futuristic world that seems peaceful, yet darker deeds lie beneath.]

[Mysterious revolutionary groups dissatisfied with the Order and world government - The Abyss - The Order.]

[A shadowy faceless figure connected to his time-displacement, likely an antagonist (gaslighting the protagonist) - academy instructors and students in the future world]
 

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Shari, a medieval village daughter of a herbalist,
gets abducted by Liqu, a mutated slime, and transformed into one, obsessed Liqu won't leave her alone,
Shari wants to survive/not get killed on sight, while still existing in civilization,
fantasy world, with rather basic elemental magic (mages are hardly limited, people no stronger than max five times the average), sees slimes as pests, and is against monsters in general,
enemies are at first exposure, then criminal underground, later on a noble revolt, threatening to topple the country,
allies are people who can be convinced not to kill on sight, later on loyalist factions she convinces of her alignment.


Might be a double post, but after remembering a comment from the poster, I'd like to mention this a bit darker one:

Neri, a 12-year-old girl on a farm,
gets her parents killed in a raid, flees into the forest, right into a bunch of Arachnae, who kill her pursuer, and transform her (quite harshly) into an Arachne herself,
Neri got severe Arachnophobia, is basically heavily traumatized on a constant basis, and thoroughly out of her depth, and struggles a lot with her existence,
same world as above, yet mostly the huge spider lair below the forest,
enemies, maybe the guys responsible for the raid, but mostly Neri's own circumstances and what the spider sisters push her through,
allies, ironically, five very intense siscon Arachnae. Maybe friends along the way (if they survive).
 
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Golden Knight Garo cross Suikoden with a flavor of Japanese loosely-tolkien-based fantasy anime
 

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Write Your Premise of the Story

What is the premise of your story in one prompt so that readers can understand the essence of your story?

Please write your premise of the story in the prompt:


Examples:
(1) LOTR:
[Frodo Baggins, the hobbit chosen to carry the One Ring full of evil power] +
[The world of Middle-Earth is threatened by Sauron who wants to conquer all races with the One Ring] +
[Destroys the One Ring at Mount Doom to stop the darkness and save the world] +
[High fantasy world with various races (Hobbits, Humans, Elves, Dwarves, Orcs), kingdoms, long history, and ancient magic] +
[Sauron and the forces of Mordor as the main threat, as well as agents of darkness such as Saruman] +
[Sam, Gandalf, Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, Merry, and Pippin as friends and allies in the mission to destroy the Ring]

(2) Death Note:
[Light Yagami, a genius student who discovers the Death Note, which grants him the power to determine life and death] +
[A modern world that appears peaceful but is filled with crime, corruption, and moral hypocrisy] +
[Creating a world without crime by becoming a “god of justice” who executes criminals through the Death Note] +
[A realistic world with a human legal system, where supernatural powers (Shinigami and the Death Note) test the limits of morality and the logic of justice] +
[L as a genius detective who becomes Light's intellectual and ideological opponent, followed by Near and Mello as heirs to L's ideological struggle] +
[Ryuk the Shinigami as an observer, Misa Amane as a fanatical ally, and the family and police force as victims of the clash between morality, ambition, and false justice]

Note:
Write a prompt without giving spoilers, but making the reader immediately understand the essence of your story without much additional explanation.
[Yul Suyeon, a time traveler is regressed to the past 30 years ago] + [In the past she has to deal with the coming apocalypse to a Hunter-based world order] + [She wants to beat up her dad and the monsters] + [A typical hunter dungeon story but with details fleshed out covering the transition from modern society to the Hunter world] + [her dad, monsters, special interests] + [Russian girl, mage girl, rich girl with comically big tits, her mom from the past]
 
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