Thank you for the idea for a new story of mine. Look for it in the coming months on Wattpad under my username, Lawrence260317. Not quite the same but a similar story I've been working on titled, "The Wrong Road Taken"
Alternatively a knight hired by the king comes to 'rescue' her and finds out she locked herself in the tower because she was an introvert who hated all the court drama and just wanted to study magic.
Love this idea/narrative! Also, for anyone who hasn't watched the movie 'Nimona' on Netflix, you REALLY should, it's fantastic and definitely along these lines! Here's a link to the trailer: https://youtu.be/f_fuHRyQbOc?si=8kWi20x0AbE1rdPK
long parrallel, but in the kid/teen book I'm writing, the main character learns magic because shehangs out in a library that used to belong to a wizard.
Then she takes one step outside the tower and finds out that.. oh, the tower was a source of boosted power for the wizard's magic. No wonder wizards stay inside all the time :P
I came up with the idea for a video game a while ago that I call 'Pissed off Princess'. The overall narrative is that a princess is kidnapped by an evil sorcerer/Bowser type. She waits in the castle for a "hero" to come save her, and they do come, but A) They're all douchebags, and B) They're keep dying in various ways. So she finally gets fed up and decides to escape on her own. So initially she escapes her holding cell/room, and decides she needs equipment and supplies to properly escape.
She comes across typical overly sexualized armor and imagines all the idiotic absolutely impractical ways it would get her killed, says 'F that' and goes for genuinely protective armor. From there she can acquire basic weaponry that suits the player's style, sword, shield, bow, whip, magic, and begins the long journey back to her home, fighting and conquering all the challenges and horrors along the way. Eventually she finally makes it home and the final boss ends up being her father, the king..
who doesn't approve of her having rescued herself in a non-traditional way. Gameplay style would be 2.5-D, presented in the overall style of a Metroidvania. Not too heavy on the narrative, no excessive dialogue, just a girl getting fed up and deciding to do it herself, because why shouldn't she?
Honestly, sounds like fun. Except maybe the bursting out and wreaking havoc, if we're doing trope subversion then we might as well go all the way. Instead of going on an over vengeful rampage, she just impersonates a wizard (or just a 'shady cloaked indiviudal'), and starts doing her own thing and/or wreaking havoc in more subtle ways. Bonus if she gaslights the population(s) of any towns she visits into believing her princess persona never existed.
I started outlining a game a while ago where you play the damsel in distress. Each play through, as you explore the castle where you're imprisoned, you learn things that will help you unlock new endings. This would be a fantastic ending to get. Man, so many ideas I wish I could make happen!
Just time. I have a dozen other projects all desperate for attention, including a location-based game for Android, an escape room in a box, and a TTRPG system. Thanks for asking :)
That’s pretty cool. Tbh I was being a bit selfish and looking for an opportunity for a side project. I’m an experienced programmer that has always wanted to get into games programming. I’d be willing to help build something on the side if I had a creative person to help guide the direction. Obviously we’d need to chat more in private before committing to anything from either side
I mean, it's a fun setup, but most of it is stuff you'd time skip. Study, experimentation, learning. If ch1 is woe is me and ch2 is hey this says magic on it, ch3 is the training montage and ch4 is vengeance. Maybe a short story, or as a setup for a wider story beyond vengeance, or a story that's a roadblock to her vengeance.
As a subplot: The wizard who moved into the wrong tower. it's luxurious to a regal degree but all the tomes are about romance instead of arcane knowledge. enchanted animals and animated objects keep trying to sing with him and changing his drab but functional robes into grand dresses. Every time he looks out of the window wishing for a simple orb to ponder, some bloody prince starts climbing up his beard.
I was expecting that when the Princess was trapped inside the tower, it's original owner *came back* and without wanting to get exiled *again* had to try to do their work with the Princess constantly trying to get them to help her escape.
How about she getting trapped in there while the original owner is taking a nap? - What the hell are you doing in my tower? I was just imprisoned here. What are YOU doing here? - I live here! *looks around chaos and dirt* You live like this? - *flustered* I'm a busy Mage, I don't have time for housekeeping. Are there no spells for that? - *even more flustered* it's a work in progress - are you leaving or what? One *points at barricaded door* and Two - do you think I go back to those jerks?
I would watch the HELL out of that with one change: she doesn't burst out of the tower, she comes & goes as she pleases. I mean, have you priced towers lately? Good ones don't come cheap, and moving an entire wizard library is a pain.
ziph3326
You just did…And you own the rights to it!
ffrank642000
Thank you for the idea for a new story of mine. Look for it in the coming months on Wattpad under my username, Lawrence260317.
Not quite the same but a similar story I've been working on titled, "The Wrong Road Taken"
Zingbo
I started thinking about an odd couple comedy - the princess is locked in a tower, but nobody checked whether it was unoccupied first.
Vendura
wannasee
10/10 would watch
maddeninglemon
Alternatively a knight hired by the king comes to 'rescue' her and finds out she locked herself in the tower because she was an introvert who hated all the court drama and just wanted to study magic.
silentjay01
It would also make for a excellent morally grey BBEG in DnD.
ywmqm
Now I'm imagining this is how all wizards come about. Lock a princess in a tower = get a wizard.
Wheee12
I would read this
SpikesGuns
Love this idea/narrative!
Also, for anyone who hasn't watched the movie 'Nimona' on Netflix, you REALLY should, it's fantastic and definitely along these lines!
Here's a link to the trailer: https://youtu.be/f_fuHRyQbOc?si=8kWi20x0AbE1rdPK
icantbelieveistillhavetoprotestthiscrap
Old Pixar maybe. Disney has made them completely toothless.
Colopty
Yeah these days Sony is the safer bet. Possibly Dreamworks as well but that's a 50/50 on whether the movie will turn out great or awful.
GussDeBlod
long parrallel, but in the kid/teen book I'm writing, the main character learns magic because shehangs out in a library that used to belong to a wizard.
itdoesntmatternoneofthismatters
Oook.
GussDeBlod
Sadly, no ape in that library!
4vie
Then she takes one step outside the tower and finds out that.. oh, the tower was a source of boosted power for the wizard's magic. No wonder wizards stay inside all the time :P
AFelineMassofEyes
This is almost certainly already a Korean e-novel/future webtoon.
TheFastpaws
Then it will likely be generic and full of bad tropes with bog standard copy paste from every other dime a dozen manga style art webtoon.
pip1
Sounds like a Discworld novel
itdoesntmatternoneofthismatters
Equal Rites is sorta close...
MioTaalas
There's already an isekai anime being worked on that concept...
(This was a joke!)
DarkfireDragon
I'd watch it.
skwint
Get hit by the right truck and you can live it! Believe in your dreams!
SpikesGuns
I came up with the idea for a video game a while ago that I call 'Pissed off Princess'. The overall narrative is that a princess is kidnapped by an evil sorcerer/Bowser type. She waits in the castle for a "hero" to come save her, and they do come, but A) They're all douchebags, and B) They're keep dying in various ways. So she finally gets fed up and decides to escape on her own. So initially she escapes her holding cell/room, and decides she needs equipment and supplies to properly escape.
SpikesGuns
She comes across typical overly sexualized armor and imagines all the idiotic absolutely impractical ways it would get her killed, says 'F that' and goes for genuinely protective armor. From there she can acquire basic weaponry that suits the player's style, sword, shield, bow, whip, magic, and begins the long journey back to her home, fighting and conquering all the challenges and horrors along the way. Eventually she finally makes it home and the final boss ends up being her father, the king..
SpikesGuns
who doesn't approve of her having rescued herself in a non-traditional way.
Gameplay style would be 2.5-D, presented in the overall style of a Metroidvania.
Not too heavy on the narrative, no excessive dialogue, just a girl getting fed up and deciding to do it herself, because why shouldn't she?
Ivain
Honestly, sounds like fun. Except maybe the bursting out and wreaking havoc, if we're doing trope subversion then we might as well go all the way. Instead of going on an over vengeful rampage, she just impersonates a wizard (or just a 'shady cloaked indiviudal'), and starts doing her own thing and/or wreaking havoc in more subtle ways.
Bonus if she gaslights the population(s) of any towns she visits into believing her princess persona never existed.
draginator
If she was that powerful she would probably be able to leave the tower way earlier and she wouldn't spend nearly as much time stuck there
RedCamaro
Have you met introverts?
xizar
plot twist: upon bursting out, she remembers *People* are out there!, and goes back inside, after using powerful magicks to repair the wall.
Colopty
Or going with the direction of the story in the OP, decides that the people will have to go.
kaneinencanto
Since OP failed to give the sauce: PunkeyDoodles8 on YouTube, and this is their most recent short.
https://youtube.com/shorts/973LskL_ur0
MadamPuddifoot
This is the kinda witch that Aubrey Plaza should play.
Xcelion
You might enjoy "Dealing with Dragons" by Patricia Wrede. She's really developed the idea of the Damsel-NOT-in-distress well.
PrincessWasabi
Bases on the below comments, you may enjoy a standalone novel Hemlock and Silver by T. Kingfisher, same energy :)
TheLiteraryMachine
+1 to the Dealing with Dragons rec. It's the best book of the tetralogy, but the rest are good too.
redsmerf
Okay, THAT was the name of the book. It popped into my head a few months ago, but I hadn't read it in 30ish years and couldn't remember the name.
Also... damnit, now I feel old!
YoureWaifuAShit
i loved the dealing with dragons. i read the shit out of them from my middle school library
bendaresall
Oh my mistake. That's book 1
bendaresall
Oh that's book 2, when she meets Mendanbar.
SpikesGuns
Every time they describe the cider the witch makes it always makes me think of sparkling cider
neospor1n
My wife read these a LOt growing up
Druidhunter77
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Zixtank
*sigh* heeere we go. Another D&D character idea I'll never have time to play.
CouldntCakeLess
InconspicuousLampshade
I started outlining a game a while ago where you play the damsel in distress. Each play through, as you explore the castle where you're imprisoned, you learn things that will help you unlock new endings. This would be a fantastic ending to get. Man, so many ideas I wish I could make happen!
qwertdeep
What happened to your plan for it? What held you back in the end?
InconspicuousLampshade
Just time. I have a dozen other projects all desperate for attention, including a location-based game for Android, an escape room in a box, and a TTRPG system. Thanks for asking :)
qwertdeep
That’s pretty cool. Tbh I was being a bit selfish and looking for an opportunity for a side project. I’m an experienced programmer that has always wanted to get into games programming. I’d be willing to help build something on the side if I had a creative person to help guide the direction. Obviously we’d need to chat more in private before committing to anything from either side
IgnisInvictus
Yeah, that is a perfect story.
BishlamekGurpgork
I mean, it's a fun setup, but most of it is stuff you'd time skip. Study, experimentation, learning. If ch1 is woe is me and ch2 is hey this says magic on it, ch3 is the training montage and ch4 is vengeance. Maybe a short story, or as a setup for a wider story beyond vengeance, or a story that's a roadblock to her vengeance.
Rayfire3535
Unlessss, you make it an odd couple comedy.
BishlamekGurpgork
I mean, she's along until the vengeance arc, in this presentation. But there are a lot of changes you can make to the form that would make it work.
factcheckmate
Idk about Disney or Pixar but thats going straight into my DnD campaign
Pishposhbingbong
As a subplot: The wizard who moved into the wrong tower. it's luxurious to a regal degree but all the tomes are about romance instead of arcane knowledge. enchanted animals and animated objects keep trying to sing with him and changing his drab but functional robes into grand dresses. Every time he looks out of the window wishing for a simple orb to ponder, some bloody prince starts climbing up his beard.
HeadJamistan
Guillermo Del Toro would be perfect. Or the foot man
zaxlor
I was expecting that when the Princess was trapped inside the tower, it's original owner *came back* and without wanting to get exiled *again* had to try to do their work with the Princess constantly trying to get them to help her escape.
kevbot5000
One perfect story does not preclude another different, but also equally perfect story.
ParaspriteHugger
How about she getting trapped in there while the original owner is taking a nap?
- What the hell are you doing in my tower?
I was just imprisoned here. What are YOU doing here?
- I live here!
*looks around chaos and dirt* You live like this?
- *flustered* I'm a busy Mage, I don't have time for housekeeping.
Are there no spells for that?
- *even more flustered* it's a work in progress - are you leaving or what?
One *points at barricaded door* and Two - do you think I go back to those jerks?
ParaspriteHugger
- One *blasts open door with a spell* and Two - do you want to stay? I've been looking for an apprentice....
zaxlor
I've already hired Danny DeVito as the Wizard and Anne Hathaway as the Maiden ;)
Kreia
Check out Tamsyn Muirs Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower
PrincessWolf
Was about to say this. What a book.
Scathescrit
Precisely! I love everything Muir has written too.
LootenetDan
Was looking for this!
BDBottom
I would watch the HELL out of that with one change: she doesn't burst out of the tower, she comes & goes as she pleases. I mean, have you priced towers lately? Good ones don't come cheap, and moving an entire wizard library is a pain.
TypicallyVigo
Maybe for the scrub wizards. https://media2.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1bTR6Z3RzMmNpM3A4NnAzcDlrc2ZsenRwcTBqc213aG1jNzRhbmR3aSZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/3BKf0I2PVxAfC/200w.webp
oldguyexlurker
The MOST powerful magic user? Someone would like to have a word...
Jonmbram
I’M MARY POPPINS YALL.
SlyMrFox
Semi-related. Marry Poppins as an aspect of God in the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was wild.
oldguyexlurker
I've seen the version with Sean Connery a number of times but do not recall that. Perhaps I'll have to watch it again.
WhoIsFlabbergasted
Specifically the comics by Alan Moore. It gets wild
xizar
Was she there as a character? Granted, it's been a long time since I read it, but I don't recall her there.
WhoIsFlabbergasted
Shows up at the end of vol 3
SlyMrFox
Read the comics the movie is based on. Highly recommended.