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For the past 2 years I've had this idea for a book I've pitched it to a lot of people and it's had a lot of positive feed back, I just can't write urban fantasy, because the fantasy worlds I escape to in my head are never urban fantasy. And because it feels like a wonderful idea I would like to give someone better equipped to handle this story because i feel like it would be a great premise to throw out there.
It's a bed and breakfast owned by a incubus, the front counter worker is a asexual female who pockets the money spent by customers to stay in a room. They provide free food, made by a wraith who feeds on peoples anger, and the rooms are cleaned by a wraith who feeds on conflict. These demons got permission by higher ups to open this bed and breakfast in order to get a free meal from customers. Who are always having problems. The staff is the type of people that would make you just so minorly uncomfortable that the customers emotions would feed them.
The way the building works is you can only see the building on the highway if you have a problem these demons can fix. The prices differ from person to person, as the time spent there always fits your budget, and is just cheap enough that you find it hard to pick anywhere else to go to. Everything is just uncomfortable enough that you wouldn't pick up on it, but it'd still put you In an increasingly bad mood until the root of the issue comes out. And always have Adminities you personally would want but the hot tub is always 5degree to hot, or the pool is always 5 degrees too cold.
The main character is always the new customers, and typically they're the only guests there. In some cases they're not but in other cases they are. No matter what if any of the staff asks or talks about God they instantly say God is real. Without a doubt in their mind, because God gave them the ability to open the bed and breakfast. Typically the incubus looks like each persons idea of the perfect person, if you do a narcissist character this can become apparent by the fact the incubus would look exactly like that character. The incubus typically is the person who solves the problems whether it be sexual in nature, or relationship problems. Typically earning his meal by sleeping with the couple or singular guest, but when the guest leaves they always know what they have to do, whether that's to break up with their partner, or change their ways to be less selfish.
There is a minor character who's meant to act as an antagonist in a couple books, by taking away customers, to their hostel. The character who is an angel specifically opened it because he felt a certain way about a demon making people's problems better, and felt like hey could do a better job. And got permission to do so, however his actions often times feel detached from the situations because he constantly makes it about faith and ignoring the problem to focus on God. Which often times would throw fuel on the fire of resentment. Since they're not fixing the problems they're blatantly ignoring the bigger issues. This is meant to act as a parallel to how making everything about God, can often times make people lose faith as now they're not taking responsibility but instead blaming it on the creator. Which is a real thing that happens everyday.
The only person who knows what the incubus looks like is the asexual front desk girl, as she doesn't feel the same desires others do. There's no actual need for money, because the building it self is an abstract every changing construct, that always has what it needs. So they don't pay bills, but the human front desk lady can use the money to buy things she wants, like food and other things. And is designed to be just rude enough it'd irritate customers, but wouldn't drive them away either. She has to be asexual otherwise she'd just take away the point of needing customers emotions for food. With an added rule of demons can't get food from each other, and they have to make problems go away so that the customers can have a stronger faith failing to do so would eliminate the reason for God to allow this, since it is to help his followers believe in him more, and the demons are hungry so they're getting creative for food.
This could work for any religion but given the fact of the popularity of Christianity and the rise of shows that show a duality to angels and demons. I and everyone I've pitched it to has claimed it would be great. So I'd like to hand it off to any of you writers. Who might want to take it on, I left out a lit because I specifically am giving up on it and would like to see other takes on it. So if you do take this on and publish it please dm me so I can buy the book.
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