I've come up with a bunch of ideas for other stories, and I came up with a really interesting idea for like...I'm not quite sure if they'll be the center of the story or more like background characters or what...but this group called The Watchers, and I actually got the idea from a prompt at the NaNo forums.
The prompt was to have a character who can move silently through a forest, possibly leaving no footprints.
So I came up with the idea of this person being called a Watcher, sort of like a guardian angel. They're assigned to future Watchers or just magic users in general. I've expanded the idea with silently moving through a forest in to silently moving wherever they want, and not just a forest.
Here's the problem. I don't know how many people have seen the show Charmed, but there's basically a character who is more or less all ready like that. He's a White Lighter, which...is an angel, and eventually becomes an Elder, which is the group of White Lighters that regular White Lighters go to. They're assigned to witches and future White Lighters to help them and prepare them for when they become White Lighters and all that.
I do NOT want these Watchers to be an exact replica of the White Lighters on Charmed, but I don't know how else to make them really different.
I'm thinking that it might be in the view of a Watcher, and how they take on an apprentice/someone to watch and the things they go through. Kind of like...Obi-Wan's journal through out the years of training Anakin Skywalker (yay for Star Wars analogies), only it might not be in first person. Something interesting I could do is I could have the Watcher still be fairly young and they could screw something up and accidentally let their person they're watching see them. If I actually go somewhere with this story I might try writing a series of stories about the Watchers.
I'm not quite sure what the audience would be. Maybe young adult? I dunno. I usually don't try to figure out what the audience will be for my stories, but it'll definitely be fantasy.
So does anyone have any ideas for how I could make these Watchers original and not make them so similar to the White Lighters on Charmed? Also, does anyone have any ideas for what the Watchers could call the people that they watch? On Charmed, they're called Charges. Eventually on the show they also run a magic school. I'd like to have that if possible but it's not something that would really be key to the story I don't think.
Basically, any detailed ideas that you can give me about these people would be great. Are they neutral, or are they "the good guys"? That kind of stuff. I'm really not good at coming up with detailed ideas for...groups, I guess, like this.
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