great hero with cute bunny tattoo

A system of magic based on tattoos, starting when the magic-users are children. The first tattoo is a power tattoo and usually fierce, frightening things, intense symbols from which a Mage's power derives. Children are prepared for this by a series of non-permanent tattoos of less terrifying things: bunnies, mice, birds, butterflies, etc.

Hero of story must select his/her coming-of-age tattoo design and chooses a child's tattoo! Something small and totally unintimidating, like a bunny or a butterfly. His/her parents are ashamed, etc. But then the hero's time comes...and he/she is POWERFULL.

AAP by annekaelber

Controlling the Elements

Four teens at the same summer camp realize that they share the ability to control one of the four elements - but the fun is over when it becomes clear they didn't meet by accident.

AAP by strdst_grl

Broadcasting Thoughts

In this world, everyone can hear the thoughts of the people around them, but they learn to block them out pretty early on. But the MC can't hear anyone's thoughts but his own. Instead, he broadcasts his thoughts to the people around him uncontrollably. I don't remember figuring out any more than that, so I don't have an explanation for it, but maybe someone else will come up with something.

AAP by KeikoCharna

Bored With Ruling the World

This one was going to be a silly story, but it could probably get more serious. Someone has succeeded in taking over the world, but now he's decided he doesn't want it. So he's rounded up all the people he thinks might be a good leader and is forcing them to take part in a competition to see which one of them he'll hand the world over to.

AAP by KeikoCharna

Pet Dolphin (sea-people)

A species of mermaids or sea elves or fish-people (whatever) has domesticated dolphins as hunters, herders and companions in much the same way that humans have domesticated dogs. Which explains why dolphins like to play with humans and sometimes rescue them from sharks; they're already people-oriented.

One day, a sea-girl's pet dolphin is captured by humans, and put in an aquarium tank. The girl wants her dolphin back, but getting it is going to be tricky...

AAP by Raksab

Portable Portal

A thief with a portable portal steals things from other dimensions, and sells them in his world (or in other worlds), where those objects are rare or unusual. Things get out of hand when a girl trying to hide from bullies goes through what looks like a regular door in an alley, and accidentally ends up in another world. She causes a stir when she introduces red hair to a world where that's never been seen before (the locals could fear her, revere her, or whatever you want).

The girl goes from dimension to dimension, until the portal has gone through it's cycle of worlds and ends up back where she went through. And the poor thief is without an exit from the world he's in, with the police after him, until she gets back. You can have any number of dimensions; it could work with few or many.

AAP by catwithpen