Anyone up for brainstorming?

Okay guys: I need your help.
I had a dream a while back and it’s been in my head for quite some time.

It was about super heroes of some kind. I dreamt of my fiancé Sam, my sister Susie and I. So, for now, I’ll keep our names.
I dreamt Sam was super strong, I could fly and Suz could zap people. That was it, the dream ended. But, the idea stuck.
What if? Susie could zap people but she was always high powered (powered on) and unless she calmed down, was really mellow, she couldn’t be in the rain, couldn’t take a bath or shower.
Sam was not only super strong, he could only lift up to twice his weight. He has weight issues his whole life, because the bigger he is, the stronger he is. But he’s also more sluggish, hard to move and get out of bed in the morning.
And me. I could fly, but only if I give myself a jump start. Like, run twenty feet before launching myself in the air.
There you have it. My characters. In my dream, they were in our modern world, every day heroes. But I dug out some old ideas of mine and found one.
A world where there are three suns. With each sun, a race is born. The sun is in the sky like four months per year, when it sets, another sun/race rises. I thought maybe the suns could also be seasons.
Now, while the seasons are slumbering, the other one is causing havoc. An old war has kept them hating each other. They think that if they destroy the other races, they won’t have to slumber anymore and they’ll rule their planet. Because, in fact, they don’t slumber, they are caught in limbo and don’t want to go back there anymore.
I thought that as time goes by, the races actually have to live together. At first, they would all be awake a few seconds every few years. Like, an eclipse awakens them or something. But the planet and suns and whatever are whacked and now they spend like, a day together every ten years or so. Last time that happened, there were rapes and brutalities and children were born from those unions.
Which is where my mc’s would come in.
I thought of having Susie kidnapped (actually, it was my sister’s idea haha) and taking into the wet season. She would need to remain calm or be locked up while everyone around her died.
I thought maybe the children could find a cave or house or something and start writing on walls. They get to know each other by finding the others’ comments. They form a friendship this way.

Those are my general ideas. I need help. Can you guys see anything I can’t? Can you find a link in this that I can’t? The puzzles pieces aren’t quite fitting in, and I don’t know if it’s because I don’t have the full picture yet, or because I don’t have the right setting for my characters, or I need to think about it more.
Any input/insight you have would be great and might help jog my own ideas.
Thanks in advance!
Tanya

Heya. . .
Hmm interesting storyline. Usually what I do before doing my characters i develop my general story. The best way to start is exactly what you have, a description of the world its set in. I love the 3 suns/races idea. My suggestion to that is instead of hibernation you make it such that during a races respective moon they become stronger and that is when they let loose on the other races. Another idea i feel, is that your 3 M.c's be offspring from when people of diffrent races were either raped, or mixed. These M.c's must be one of a kind though. Another point since their are 3 races and 3 M.c's make it such that each M.c reprsents a certian race. This will lead to a situation where your heroes can either listen to their races and wage war with the other races or try and unify them all under one banner. This could lead up to serious twists and turns in your stories plot. Also it will make it easier to show background relationships and allow you to write with flavouring material. Lol if you really want any help im here and I'm really intrested in your piece. I have many ideas, the only reason I don't voice them is because Im typing this from my phone and my fingers are kind of sore now lol. Email me or something, maybe I could help you a bit.
Looking foward to hearing from you.
ToLy (G)

Darn right the kidnapping was my idea; I take full credit! Muhahahahahahaha!
(and for the fact I suggested you post your idea here, nya-nya

I have nothing further to say as I've already told you my thoughts...

So people, let's try our best and help her out!! Hip hip, hooray!

The superhero dream! *will help in the morning/asap* I'm glad you haven't forgotten about this or put it to one side (:

Hm, let me ponder this a tad myself and I'll get back to you.

Woah, you're totally maxing out on creativity here, B2. I mean, linking together a dream and an idea you had before?
Anyways, about the whole three seasons thing. You mentioned one of them as being the 'wet season' and therefore dangerous to Suz. However, I think you also mean for the other two to be dangerous for the other two heroes/races.
I think you should think a little more on these 'seasons' before going forward.
Oh, and it reminded me of Asimov's Nightfall because of the eclipse deal. Look it up.

Thanks everyone for giving this some thought.

And Jent, about the two seasons harming the other two? Huh. Nope. Never came to mind.

I appreciate your help, everyone!

Tanya

Hey Mom! Shubhi here, and I can predict beforehand the waste that I'm going to prove here. lol

But anyways I am here.

I love this superhero idea and more than that I love the three suns' idea. It's totally unique and unlike what I have read before. For a second, it seemed like an SB idea, but it is going to be great for a novel, too.

I was kind of confused about the fact that when a sun sets, like after four months, then a new race evolves. What happens to the race after that? Like if I am a race and my sun's period is over for the year, then where do I get to go? Maybe you did explain it and I am just being my usual lame self and creating questions, but I didn't understand it.

And I loved the idea of how you're going to project Suzie. It's definitely cool. So I would like to know that since these three are superheroes, then what is their actual need? What are they going to prevent? protect people from each other? Also, do they belong from different races?

Also, like Jen said I would suggest you to first make a profile for all the three races and maybe once you're done, there might be more ideas knocking on your head.

And...world? Is it earth or some other new planet?

Anyways, sorry I failed at being of any help so sorry.

I would love this to be an SB xD

The only input I have at the moment is this, kind of a comedic idea if you wanted to go more that direction (if you want something serious then just ignore this, I guess):

For Susy's character, for example - because she can't bathe or shower as long as she's high-powered, maybe you could have some running joke about how people don't want to stand too close because she always smells unless she's recently powered down and taken a bath. (That was the first idea that popped into my head upon reading this, sorry.)

And then for Sam's character, you already started suggesting this: He has a weight problem you said, because the bigger he is the strong he is but he's also more sluggish and stuff. So maybe he could be a couch potato or something, and your character could tell him to stop being so lazy or something, and he could be like, "Leave me alone, woman! I'm working on my power!" (or however Sam would say such a thing, if he said such a thing). Or he could just keep getting fatter and fatter, like it could be a problem - he could be a stress-eater or something. I dunno, didn't have as clear of an idea for that one.

And then for your character, maybe your character could be kind of clumsy, or maybe sometimes her flight power won't work if she's, I don't know, not concentrating or something, so she maybe tends to sometimes just fall off the mountainside (not getting TOO seriously hurt of course).

So, those are my ideas, but they depend on how serious or comical you want this to be....

~Blue

Back as promised

Now, while the seasons are slumbering, the other one is causing havoc. An old war has kept them hating each other. They think that if they destroy the other races, they won’t have to slumber anymore and they’ll rule their planet. Because, in fact, they don’t slumber, they are caught in limbo and don’t want to go back there anymore.

Okay, on the up side the idea of tension and hatred between the different races makes perfect sense. I couldn't imagine them liking each other at all, considering the other races kept them from being "awake" all the time. On the down side, how exactly would one race go about destroying the other? What actually happens to one race while it is "asleep"? Does everyone just hunker down for a long nap or are they sent to some limbo-like area off of the main world? Either way, I'd expect every race has some darn good defense against all this, granted they don't like each other.

But the planet and suns and whatever are whacked and now they spend like, a day together every ten years or so.

Just a note: make sure you have a solid reason why this is going down. It'll be more believable that way. Also, I feel like whatever it is should be set on a system. Like, it always happens on the same exact day in the same exact interval of time. And if it were to change, there better be a really solid reason why. Mostly I'm saying this cause it really bothers a reader when a writer just starts making things happen all willy nilly cause they want it to. xD

Last time that happened, there were rapes and brutalities and children were born from those unions.

Okay, so here I may have actual helpful brainstorming ideas. xD So, considering how much the different races hate each other, it would make a lot of sense if a woman who had one of these ill-conceived children would try to get rid of the child. Whether this means killing them or sending them off away from wherever the race lives. This makes it plausible for your MCs to find each other (I'm assuming they are all these sorts of children). It would also make sense (at least to me) that these children wouldn't just be awake for one season.

Let's say we have Race A and Race B. They get together and have Child 1. Since Child 1 has equal heritage in Race A and Race B, then they would be awake for both Season A and Season B because it's in their blood.

Actually, now that I think of it, maybe the races would want these children. Since they want to try to destroy each other, they could use these children who are able to be awake through two seasons and raise them to be an army. So, that way, they can destroy the other races when they are away, but when the race they live with is asleep. Of course, you'd have these children living in whatever race their mother lives in. So the women may go out during these ten-year-days-of-shared-existence and try to get pregnant so that they can have a child like this. That puts a weird spin on things.

Then, of course, you have the children who don't want to fight their father's (your MCs perhaps?) and maybe they run away. Or you could have mothers who don't want their children to be warriors and send them away from the race (again, possibly your MCs).

Okay, I've rambled on enough xD Hope I've helped!