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I'm just going to list off stuff. Hahaha.

-- I thought about doing a 'magical' 'fantasy' 'girly' type shop cause that seems to be popular, like you know. Fairies, elves, stuff like that with bright happy colors.
-- I also wanted to make a Digimon gijinka shop. Hahaha.
-- Something with royals/jesters/kingdom sort of thing.
-- Also thought about doing something based off Dr. Seuss.
-- And if you've read The Golden Compass, I thought about that as well.
-- Medieval?
-- Victorian?
-- Heaven/Hell thing, but I've always wanted to do my own version of this regardless of other shops that already do it. Hahaha.
-- Fruit gijinkas. Ahahaha. Just because I love fruit.
-- Also, I'm sure you saw the old Disturbia thread I was discussing with Tox/Shiva and a long-time friend of mine Muri. That was something dark/sinister that I reaaaaaaally enjoyed coming up with. Though it would require a LOT of work still.
-- Something based off Beetlejuice, that whole dead living with the living and stuff like that.
-- I had an idea for a shop called Paper Magic, which would be like origami figures/creatures/monsters that come to life.
-- A shop that had to do with colors.
-- A cemetery shop. (You might notice I really like dark/dead things. Hahaha.)
-- Something with alien invasion.
-- Or instead of alien invasion, just an alien world type deal.
-- This idea is actually an RP plot idea I had on an old forum I used to be a part of, but basically it's in the future where our world is extremely digital and stuff but there's a virus that causes black mutations/stuff. It was divided into sections where those living on the bottom level were the poorest and as you rise up the levels, the more noble the bloodline gets. So those living at the top are 'royal'. The setting: think The Jetsons and Tron combined except more white/black. Haha.
-- This one just came to me, but something similar to the feel of a children's book. Like, soft and kind of playful? Extremely vague, I know. Haha.
-- Something with thieves/bandits.
-- Something with pirates. (Gaia has a great deficiency in pirates sad to say. :T)
-- Some sort of dream world.
-- Limbo?
-- Gods/Goddesses? Something to do with ancient myths/legends. I've always liked that stuff.
-- Deals with the devil/demons, I like that sort of stuff too. Hahaha.
-- Things in jars. I wrote that down vaguely a long time ago. lol.
-- This list really could go on and on and on.... (Can you imagine the difficulty I had in choosing RM out of everything? xD)

So I'll stop there. Hahaha. Just tell me which you like/don't like/why and all that stuff.

And feel free to make a list of your own so I can do the same. : D

Also, did I mention that I love that you're a Shnazz-fan. ;___; <3
I've always been a Saint-Cinq's writing fan. I love reading your prompts/journal.

The only issues I have with going on that dark/sinister side is it's harder to do more colorful things as well. I like having the option to do what I want artistically. xD;
This is where my vast sea of likes comes at a disadvantage. I like too many things. Hahaha.

I'm just not sure how to make the Golden Compass idea more interesting. It would just be humans and daemons... Unless it was like... You start out as a kid (10-12), and then the next stage is the daemon choosing one form as you become a teen. And it could be an alternate world where the human/daemon would fuse together. So instead of how they did our world in which we couldn't see our daemons and how in Lyra's world the daemon was a separate being, in this world it would be the daemon and human fusing together and having two minds in one body sort of. Obviously the human would take on attributes of the chosen animal form. I think that would be really cool. But. It'd be limiting to only draw half-animal, half-human things. And I would get really bored. <.<

Yes. Fruit gijinkas is funny. :B <3

Nah, you wouldn't be stepping on any toes with Disturbia. Though even with that, it's highly unlikely for this to be the idea of choice because of how much work it needs done still. And that's after a lot of brainstorming and idea-writing I spent on it already. It's still one of my favorite ideas. Haha.

I'm pretty terrible at drawing sci-fi things though. So I was just throwing it out there. xD

Pirates/thieves would be hard things to work out... I think thieves would probably be more doable. There'd be more variety in the types of thieves there could be. But eh, I don't think I would want to work on this as much as some other things. Though there was a shop with villains ruling the world, Melancholy. I think I remember you winning their flatsale but the owner disappeared. Too bad about that. :/

Yeah. Demon pacts are a crowd-pleaser. Haha. And now that I've said that, I've lost interest in it. lol.

Yeah, I was thinking experiments in jars. Hahaha.

I actually got an idea while I was on the train for something with myths/legends/spirits. It's silly but. lol. Here it is: there's this magical train that flies to this city in the sky where all sorts of different spirits live and there are a few different islands with different themes. Think Kingdom Hearts, each island is like a different world but they're all in close vicinity to each other. I just thought it was hilarious. But yeah, you don't have to take it seriously. xD

There were actually some ideas I really like that I forgot to mention in that long list:
-- A fantastical magician that summons spirits into masks. The masks come alive and yadda yadda. The fun thing I was thinking about this was that for the first few stages they wouldn't be able to remove the mask and are mute, eventually of course they can remove it and talk and what not. Though talking would come first. I really mostly got this idea from Studio Ghibli films though, I really loved Mononokehime and then I also wanted very badly to do a No Face mask. That was actually what I wanted to name the shop. I am really quite the dork as you can see. xD
-- This other one is kind of... Complicated like Disturbia. I was working on it around the time I'd made BoS but just never felt my art was good enough to put it into the works. It gist of it is though that you would receive a cross and across one length of it is a number and then across the width there's something else. And it's like summoning beings from different worlds, the number determines which portal/world it comes from and the other thing is its species or something like that. I can't remember. I have to find my notes on it. lol. But it's basically in a world I made up, it's in jeopardy or something and it's summoning creatures from other worlds to help. I think.

I actually wanted to combine the cemetery idea with the whole Beetlejuice thing. I haven't really figured out how things would work though... I have to think about that more.

But did anything stick out to you as your favorite? Did you have any of your own shop ideas?

Yeah, I think most shop owners don't pay that much attention. Hahaha. Probably cause they have a lot of owners.
I'm glad we're friends too. D: /cling

It's okay Cinq. I know you're busy. (:

Yeah. I'm really loving the train thing.
Ahahaha. I think trains are magical. :T
Not that using them to commute everyday has anything at all to do with it. :B;
I think right now that's one of my top choices. Hahaha.

I actually like your idea of the masks giving the user an ability. I think inevitably it would have to be one or the other though, turning into live spirits or masks that give the user abilities and/or sort of fuse with them. If you get what I mean. :B

It would be spirits I think. Not humans. Humans wouldn't even know it existed. so it leaves a lot to the imagination. It could be spirits in nature or spirits of... I don't know. Think Spirited Away. 8D;
As you can see I'm a huge fan of Studio Ghibli. Hahaha.

But yeah. I don't know what kind of setting the real world would be in. I was thinking maybe Renaissance. Or Victorian. Just to change things up. The last two shops I made were both modern setting. xD;
I need to break out of that habit of just shoving everything into the present day.

I remember it being just a regular old fantasy world. And the guy who was doing it was a wizard/magician. Nothing special. I mean. I guess I could come up with something more elaborate and less 'shoving this here just to open a shop'. Hahaha. Cause at the time I actually couldn't come up with a really striking story idea for it.

I also really like the whole urban dystopian fantasy thing. Probably why I still partially want to do that future sci-fi one with the virus. xD

I don't know. Did you have any ideas for shops you wanted to do? Besides the one you started your IT for.
Unless that's something you want to do now. I can help you out with that if you want. (:

EDIT:
I just had idea for the train thing. What if the spirits can also be reincarnations of gods/legends/myths? Like reincarnation of Zeus or Sun Wu Kong or other well-known characters?
And then you could also do things like unicorns/phoenixes/dragons. And then other things like cemetery spirits or ocean spirits, moon spirits.
And then I had an idea for meta stuff of spirits from outer space, like alien spirits. xD
I don't know, let me know what you think.

EDIT AGAIN:
AND what if the train was actually come from all over the place? What if these islands were in a sort of limbo/paradise thing? 8D;;;
And the train goes all over the universe to gather spirits from alternative worlds and other dimensions to bring them to this sort of spirit sanctuary?