Been inspired by bad writing in TV shows to develop my short story from high school
So there's three TV shows that I'm a fan of and had bad writing, specifically the endings: Peacemaker S2, Stranger Things and The Boys finale seasons.
I reread my old short story and I feel like it still holds up. It's a fantasy, medieval setting and the royal family paid mercenaries to dress up as a hostile country's knights and burn down villages so they can go to war without people second guessing.
One of these villages, is where the main character is, a young adult woman who survives the mercenaries by hiding under the floorboards, and eventually after escaping she discovers this tomb of some kind and gets necromancy powers and it's a whole thing with her being alone with only corpses of things for company and trying to get revenge and eventually realising it does and doesn't help her get better.
This short story is from the pov of the mercancy leader of the group that attacked her village. In this story, she does brutally kill him with the undead's help, but after rereading it all. I'd like to keep him alive as a half-hearted mentor against his will, but eventually, they get along and ultimately deal with the corrupt royalty.
Current inspiration is Skyrim, Berserk, Vinland Saga, Chainsaw Man (having a somewhat crazy mc, morally 'grey' mc) and Overlord.