Me too...
@Penni you gotta tell us when you publish it
I was on Facebook playing petville and I realized how much I loved virtual pet and lifesim games and wanted to make a story based off them! So I drew a few really bad designs and it kept evolving and evolving into what it is now, which I hope is no longer really bad. 
(edit) Here is the link! I gottw get used to posting that.
With my webcomic, Joe Flamingo, It's a project that I let myself make mistakes with and push myself. Doing things I'm not used to so I can improve. But for the story itself, I just combined things I enjoy and give it my own twist to it. My own "Yanik-flair"! 
My Webtoon was originally going to be an overwatch fan fiction where I made an OC and the narrative was that all the characters in the game would come together against a common enemy, understanding one another. However, as I made it, I realized I had a lot of original ideas so I decided to add a magic system, create more orginal characters, pick the theme of Empathy as my foundation. I wrote the story and later, I decided to get it made into a Webtoon, directing every step of it. Gama Byeonhwan was actually Hana Song but she was modified into her own character. The Ingan were the Omnic. The man who is now Chibimask was previously my OC but he's been modified a ton.
Link: https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/veraque/list?title_no=401821
Oooohhhh, I know what you’re talking about. I actually read the manga 
To you, the Immortal. I found it on a whim like a year ago. I’ve never found anyone else who reads it 
it didn’t inspire my story but the reincarnation/immortal aspect did make me think of it
I found it this year while browsing Amazon. Isn't it so good??
Got it, it's different anyways but it still made me think of it haha
A team based Shooter with a decent amount of lore. I wanted the game to have a narrative so I was going to make my own but then I realized that I could just make it its own story. The webcomic I'm writing now is massively different from what my fanfiction would have been.
I used to have this habit, I did it with media both good and bad where I put a random voice into the existing story and just made fun of all the characters for their actions. I was doing this with Twilight and then I thought about making a parody of the vampire genre. I came up with this story of a vampire priest, but it was basically just a very straightfoward typical vampire story, but with a gay priest twist. However one of the side characters from that story, I ended up liking a lot. He was kind of a Danny Devito vampire and now he's my main character.
It evolved from the concept of just a creepy weird town with all the residents being secretly monsters and it followed an emotionless 8-year old girl. I remembered having no adult show their face as a style choice. All coming from a joke about "what the hell was wrong with this place".
It changed alot from there the characters are now 13, the every resident being monster point was eventually dropped, though it did had lasting effects on my human character designs. And my characters personalities were either tone down (hila, F) or just changed completely (Mc)
I had written a story in Turkish about people with masks covering their faces. The no face part reminds me of it
Just a prompt is enough for me to build an entire story. *Our Universe was actually a short story I wrote for a writing prompt in a discord server:
When someone's heart breaks so does a piece of our world. This creates fissures, valleys and even cracks in the pavement. Tell a story about one of the broken pieces in this world.
I made it a short cosmic horror romance story, and then I was like "this could be a comic". So I did that. It was supposed to be a oneshot as well. But then it just got bigger and bigger. Now I'm working on ending season 2 and leading into season 3.
I will say that even vague concepts can help with a story. The vaguer or the stranger, the better. Hell, I've been working on a comic based on the fact that butterflies also drink blood. I ended up doing concept art of a woman with butteflies in her hair because she's dead. And then I thought -- "what if she was a ghost or back from the dead?" Boom -- another cosmic horror story.
Thanks! I really like vague prompts when it comes to storytelling. And if not a vague prompt, then a certain aesthetic or basic concepts (such as the four seasons, the four elements, chess pieces, etc). It gives me a lot of room to play around with the ideas and really throw in the things I want.
It's like using flour for a base. The idea is the flour, and all of the spices and herbs are the things I want from the idea and my end goal. A sprinkle here, a dash there, and you got yourself a nice flour mixture you can use for recipes!
This may or may not be a little embarrassing, but I came up with Super after listening to the song “Shadow” by BTS. The lyrics gave me this idea of what it would be like to be famous but also have all of these terrible things going on in the background that the public doesn’t see. So while you get everything you want, fame and fortune, you’re also faced with challenges that most people would never in their lifetime encounter. It shows just how lonely it can be at the top.
Some of the events, especially in the beginning, are also based around real-life issues I faced.