kriadydragon | Another Kind of Writer's Block

I got this idea for this (original) story that happens to involve unicorns, and I rather like it because it's different, quirky, a little dark and creepy and I think I could have a lot of fun with it. But the reputation of unicorns has become this big, cutsy, fluffy rainbow-pooping, My Little Pony thing that I can't get it out of my head. Seriously, every time I sit down to ponder this story idea stuff like My Little Ponies, The Last Unicorn, Legend, The Adventures so Unico and every cute, fluffy, delicate unicorn related thing keeps popping into my head and it's getting in the way of me pursuing this idea. It's driving me crazy.

I've always been somewhat of a sucker for unicorns. Not as much as dragons - probably not even quite up there with dragons - but enough that I do try to work them into my stories now and then if I can (very rarely, but I try), and I've always wanted to do something unicorn centric.

But these days unicorns have become the stuff of horse-loving little girls and satire, of rainbows, butterflies and cuddly pink bunnies or whatever. Don't get me wrong, we had some great unicorn stuff like The Last Unicorn and Legend but even then they were these dainty, innocent things meant to be protected but mostly sucked at defending themselves. And it keeps tainting my thoughts every time I attempt to plan this story.

And I'm not sure where I'm going with this except to get the frustration of it off my chest. It's not really something I need help with - that is, unless anyone knows any stories that takes a different spin on unicorns? Not evil!unicorns, just... something else, something that isn't the cliche unicorn. I just need to keep tweaking my own story until it finally reaches a point where the cliche unicorn quits trying to jump in and take over.