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A lot of people worldbuild when they daydream and have the bones of a story kicking around in their brain, but have to pay the bills and raise the kids etc so they never flesh it out and write it down. What's your story's premise? Fantasy, sci-fi, alternate history, mystery, western, whatever genre.

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[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

A doppelganger of sorts replaces a character, but it's entirely for the better. Despite being an unearthly monstrosity, it's well meaning, good intentioned and has everyone's best in mind. Unfortunately this isn't seen as a good thing by the crowd the original ran with, and those who find out are at a crux between liking the person and fearing the monster.

[–] Summzashi@lemmy.one 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is a Star trek Voyager episode. Can't remember which one.

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

There's a similar episode in the twilight zone that could be interpreted as this too, but I'd like to play with it a bit. As an otherworldly entity it doesn't play by human rules, imagine a gang thinking their just bumping off some cleaned up junky that's gone straight and all of a sudden they're being stalked through a mirror realm by a nightmare abomination who periodically dips out to take it's estranged kids to therapy and volunteer at the community garden.