I'm writing a story that revolves around people with subtle superpowers, a private investigator protagonist and something to do with kidnapping (will make sense later). The story is still pretty vague and I'm still working on the physics of it. (Usually, before I write a story, I have to get the fundamentals of the world down.
I cannot think of an antagonist group/organization to go in my story which hasn't got something to do with "Secret government experimentation" or "DNA stealers" or the generic "evil" organization plot. I need something different. Here are the points to consider:
- The world of the story is like our own except there are subtle abilities. These abilities could range from having a really strong tolerance of spicy food to having a photographic memory/ability to create deja vu. (I'm thinking these abilities could come from a gene everyone has and there are certain nucleotides that create them. Longer the sequence of nucleotides, stronger the ability)
- However, I could leave the origin of the abilities are secret and could add that as a motivation for the plot… and the villain…
- I don't know whether the public of the world should know about the abilities or not. It could a) be a big secret and later revealed, the less "powered" people could start creating prejudice. b) everyone knows but it's not been categorized as abilities. People know that some people have a great tolerance of spicy food or have the ability to always creep upon them, they just don't know it's because of "superpowers" nor do they know about the more obvious ones c) Everyone knows about the abilities, they've been categorized as abilities and the prejudice could already exist.
- There are about 9 main characters. Therefore it would make sense for the villain to be a group or of multiple aliases.
- I need this antagonist to somehow incorporate the need to kidnap people as that's a strong part of the plot. I know a father comes to the private investigator to help find his daughter and on this case, the PI finds an escaped "kidnapee"
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How would you react in a world where some people are more "heightened" than others? Would you be jealous? Outraged? Or accepting? What if you didn't have any of these abilities? Do you think extremist groups would be formed in retaliation?
- All the points listed are for context and assistance for the creation of an antagonist