Open Thread Ideas

[Violet MacFusty]

A lovely little list of member submitted ideas and suggestions for open threads. It could be a starter, a concept, a theme, etc. that all would fit in with Charming's setting. If you come up with an idea (or several) just post them up here!

1. Character has an overly affectionate animal following them (a cat, owl, dog, toad would be funny, etc.)
2. Character has a wardrobe malfunction
3. Character gets cursed and has to sing whenever they speak
4. Character gets cursed and has to make animal noises
5. Character mistakes another for someone else
6. Character gets attacked by a bird
7. Character gets pooed on by a fly by bird
8. Character means to visit someone but gets the address wrong
9. Character vomits in public
10. Character is having a very bad day
11. Character has had too much to drink
12. Character sets fire to something (or someone)
13. Propose courtship/marriage to a stranger
14. Character challenges another to a duel of some kind
15. Character falls asleep in public
16. Character hasn't slept for 3 days
17. Character gets caught doing something they shouldn't be

  

[Beatrice Skye]

This thread is awesome! I will no longer have to go to random story ideas generators.

18. Character breaks a product in a shop.
19. Character is falsely accused of stealing in a shop.
20. Female character faints in public because of corset.
21. Student character randomly ask a student he doesn't know well to be his partner in a class.

  

[Tiberius Lestrange]

22. Find someone who is asleep or drunk, assume they are dead, react accordingly.

23. Practice a difficult conversation you will have in the future (aka a marriage proposal, a confession of some sort) and be overheard by someone.

  

[Flora Abernethy]

24. Your character is playing make-believe in public and someone hears them.

25. Your character must buy an embarrassing gift for a parent/sibling/friend/significant other.

26. Your character is playing with a ball, a fanged frisbee, or whatever, when it flies out of control and threatens to hit someone in the face. Better hope whoever it hits isn't the violent type.

27. Your character has purchased an invisibility cloak and decided to do all the things they'd never do if someone was watching. Little do they know that the invisibility cloak doesn't work.

  

[Sophronia Van Helsing]

28. Character accidentally sets something on fire
29. Character floos to the wrong house

  

[Beatrice Skye]

30. Character gets run over by a carriage
31. Character gets involved in a bar fight
32. Character gets locked in a room he shouldn't be in
33. Character gets hit by a spell and temporarily becomes scared of a colour
34. Character turns another into an animal because he's an asshat
35. Character is hit by a spell that makes them talk with another language's accent
36. Character is paranoid that they were poisoned at a shop that sells food/drinks
37. Character is paranoid that another is stalking them

  

[Odin Greyback]

Hogwarts edition!

38. Character falls asleep in potions and misses the instructions, so their potion goes horribly wrong
39. Character loses textbook(s)
40. Character is late to class because they were held back by their previous teacher/they slept in
41. Character's wand starts acting up for no specific reason, chaos ensues
42. Character is practicing a spell for an exam and it hits a random passerby
43. Character calls out for their friend in the hallway and it turns out to be a stranger.
44. Character was so engrossed in a book/was studying and didn't notice it was already past curfew, so they have to sneak back to their common room from the library.
45. Character is insulted by a painting.

  

[Owen McFayden]

46. Character accidentally grabs someone else's hat
47. Character begins talking to a stranger in an attempt to avoid someone.

  

[Astoria Champagne]

48. Character gets puked on by a different character

  

[Love Darby]

49. Character knocks over an entire bookshelf in one of the bookshops or librarya

  

[Toussaint Favreau]

50. Your character has done a Neville and forgotten the common room password/couldn't answer the riddle and is now stuck outside.

  

[Clarissa Cosgrove]

51. Get a cat suck up a tree
52. Oops, someone accidentally reads your diary

  

[Tom O'Hare]

/bringing this back

53. Your character apparates to Hogsmeade, only to land on top of someone.

  

[Cassius Lestrange]

Home of the middle class, the Bartonburg District is a modest but extremely dense bit of Hogsmeade, holding more than half of its inhabitants in a series of townhouses that all interconnect in various, confusing ways.

54. Accidentally invading your neighbor's house shenanigans.

  

[Xenon Pyrites]

Elastic/Rubber bands have been a thing since 1845!

Your character snaps one at someone or has been zinged by one.

  

[Philip Aymslowe]

The largest city in Britain—larger even than the muggles know. With several magical side streets accessible only to those who know they are there, the city boasts the most commercial magic activity outside of Hogsmeade.

56. Get lost in magical London!