Blackprotagonist Stories

When seventeen-year-old Delta Okafor loses her mother to cancer, she's forced to leave New York City and move across the country to live with her glamorous Aunt Helen-a beloved television personality in the picture-perfect town of Danbury, Tennessee. When Delta arrives, she knows almost nothing about her mother's life there. As far as she knows, Vera grew up in Illinois, studied art, moved to New York, met Delta's father, and built a life far away from the South. Her new life at Danbury circles around getting into media club to honour her mums journalism, The hot athlete Bruce Wellis who she definitely doesn't have a thing for and Getting into Brown her dream Ivy school. Until she goes across her Aunts attic and find a hate list. A list of names her mother had written twenty years ago. A list of eleven people that she believes were her late Mums classmates. What happens when someone from that list dies. A descendant of the class of 95'. Then another Kid who had a parent from that list. And another And another Eleven names: one which belongs to her new Best friends Dad and another The hot athlete she's still not into. Thrown into a wild goose chase against time. Her world is thrown apart as she races against time to find the serial Killer responsible for her mums revenge. But nothing is at it looks. And the more deep she goes the more she realizes her mums life was way more complicated than she thought and that this picture perfect town might be more sinister than she thought.

🩸 BLOODLINE He thought turning eighteen meant becoming an adult. He never expected it to awaken something inside his blood. Kai Brooks has always been different. A quiet Black gay senior at Blackwood High, Kai has spent most of his life keeping to himself. He's adopted, and his biological family has always been a mystery. But on his eighteenth birthday, strange things begin happening. Objects move when he isn't touching them. He sees places he's never been. Voices whisper his name. And something inside him is waking up. Kai doesn't know what he is. He doesn't know where his powers came from. And he definitely doesn't know why people seem to know more about him than he knows about himself. Then he meets three seniors who are hiding secrets of their own. Ming is a mysterious siren. Jalen is a sarcastic vampire. Nia is a fierce werewolf with curly red hair and an attitude to match. Four teenagers. Four secrets. One supernatural world hiding beneath the ordinary halls of Blackwood High. As Kai's powers grow stronger, he begins discovering that his biological family wasn't ordinary either. His bloodline is connected to an old form of spiritual magic-and powerful people are willing to do anything to get their hands on it. But not everyone who gets close to Kai is really his friend. Someone will enter his life pretending to care about him, while secretly having their own reasons for getting close. Between school, friendships, parties, fights, enemies, secrets, and a supernatural world he never knew existed, Kai has to figure out who he can trust before his bloodline decides his fate for him. Because sometimes the blood you inherit isn't a blessing. Sometimes... it's a warning. 🩸 Welcome to BLOODLINE.

Ginikanwa "Kani" Asamizu, a Blasian girl from New Orleans, Louisiana, wants nothing more than to make it big in life; she believes that this starts with going to Japan, where she can start her Beyblading career and, more importantly, learn about her heritage. The plan is simple and straightforward, until life suddenly pulls her every which way. Watch as this girl struts her stuff, facing every situation with grace, sass, and magic. Also I live by Colossians 3:17, so there will be a LOT of Christian references/themes in this story. All canon characters belong to Hiro Morita.

Binti Nasra is a working-class sorcerer and occult detective. She's also cynical, foul-mouthed, and is known for doing whatever it takes to get the job done. When a new threat arrives in the city with the intention of taking her magic, she has to dig into her bag of tricks and escape this powerful foe or risk losing her life.

A young black boy grows up in a modest neighborhood, raised by a loving but struggling single mother. Despite the hardships around him, he sees the world with wide eyes of wonder. While the other kids play basketball and hip hop on the corner, he spends hours reading books and making up stories in his head. As he gets older, his vivid imagination and thirst for knowledge set him apart. While some call him "different" or "weird", a special teacher sees his gift and imagination as assets, not liabilities. With her support and encouragement, the young boy begins to understand his unique perspective is exactly what makes him special and able to change the world, one story at a time.

- events that's can happen in one's teenage years only if you wish hard enough ~~ short stories about love, friends, and teenagers

Socorran pirates are legendary for their integrity. Drake Paulsen's character is put to the test when a death cult kidnaps an innocent child. An act of aggression that threatens to send her sibling, a rogue Nightsister, down a deadly spiral into darkness. For the Final Round of the 2020 Kessel Run run SWF Profile Contest.

- "Cinematic + Romantic + Ancestral" Nyah Freeman has always been sensitive to the unseen-dreams too vivid, coincidences too perfect, gut feelings too loud. But nothing prepares her for the morning she meets the man she's been dreaming of for months. Their hands brush. The lights flicker. The air hums like an ancient drum waking up. Kalen Ward is a stranger... yet somehow, her spirit knows him. What neither of them realize is that they are the last descendants of an ancient African tribe-warriors whose souls were bound together lifetimes ago to protect the world from a rising darkness. The ancestors have waited centuries for them to reunite. But destiny doesn't guarantee peace... and love doesn't guarantee safety. Because the force that destroyed their past lives is hunting them still- and if Nyah and Kalen don't unlock their shared power in time, the bond that brought them together may be the very thing that ends the world. A mystical Southern romance about soulmates, ancestry, and a love older than time itself.

a pinterest writing prompt I found and wanted to try out! Each short will contain 3 items. I lost the prompt though so I am taking requests :)

Amari has been on the streets of Queens with some insane powers for almost her whole life. She has absolutely no answers to who she is, who her parents really are, or what she's supposed to do with this "gift." When her best friend AJ convinces her to use her powers to rob a bank, she gets way more than a fat stack of cash. Especially when she gets caught by Tony Stark. sequel - amari: finding wakanda out now

Breyona has been living a pretty normal life until her father disappeared when she was seven years old leaving nothing but a necklace and a note. Ever since then her relationship with her mother completely falls apart. Now she is 16 and her life is somewhat normal but everything changes when she walks passed a strange man. Who is he? What is in the note that her father left? What happened to her father?

As the dutiful daughter of Alfheim's foremost scholar, Loreli has learned to never ask for more than what she has been given. But when an Angel named Ryksten arrives bearing manuscripts from the Silver City, he plants a question in her heart that will not fade: 'How do you know what you are meant for?' - Loreli.

Taken at Dusk is a gripping coming-of-age thriller that follows Malik Johnson, a sixteen-year-old Black teen whose ordinary walk home turns into a fight for survival. When Malik is kidnapped without warning, he's forced into a shadowed world where every second matters and every decision could cost him his life. As fear presses in, Malik must rely on intelligence, awareness, and the lessons passed down by his family to outthink the people who believe they control his fate. With limited time and no certainty of rescue, Malik learns that survival isn't about strength alone-it's about identity, resilience, and refusing to be erased. Set against the backdrop of an urban community often misunderstood and overlooked, Taken at Dusk explores how quickly life can change, how danger can hide in plain sight, and how a young voice can still rise even when silenced. This is a story about instinct over panic, mind over fear, and the power of holding onto who you are when everything is trying to take it from you.

Born in the fields, raised under the strict rule of the Grain, Malik Cain is told obedience is survival. But visions of fire, flood, and kingship haunt him. When he begins to question the system, the world around him will change forever. Will freedom cost him everything, or is he destined to lead?

My name's Devon, and I don't really know how to say this... But I almost ended everything. One bridge. One night. One decision. That's where my story starts and maybe where it should've ended. But life had other plans. They say time heals everything. But what if time's the thing that's killing me? I'm seventeen. Black. Broke. And tired. Tired of hurting, tired of pretending, tired of chasing a future that feels so far away. Mama's gone. Pops is just... existing. Nana's holding it all together while raising my little sister-and me? I'm somewhere between who I used to be and who I'm trying to become. Some days I feel everything. Other days? Nothing at all. I'm just trying to hold it together long enough to figure out if this life is even worth the weight. This ain't no fairy tale. This is grief, survival, and the kind of pain you can't post about. It's soccer dreams, cracked faith, and praying God still sees me when I can barely see myself. This isn't about being saved. It's about staying alive long enough to save yourself. If you've ever felt lost... tired... invisible... This one's for you. This is my story. This is me-before I let go.

The Seventh Crown Earth has always believed it was alone. People wake up, go to work, sit through class, chase promotions, fall in love, and plan for tomorrow without ever questioning the world around them. To everyone else, history is complete. They're wrong. Beyond a hidden veil lies Aetheria-a realm where kingdoms were built on magic, dragons still rule the skies, and forgotten gods left their mark on the land. For centuries, Aetheria and Earth have remained separated by an ancient barrier, keeping their worlds-and their histories-apart. That barrier is beginning to crack. When seventeen-year-old Azriel Hayes survives a chance encounter with a mysterious Rift, he becomes bound to an artifact believed to have vanished long ago: the Seventh Crown. In a single night, the ordinary life he knew disappears. Creatures once dismissed as myths begin hunting him, secret organizations emerge from the shadows, and a conflict older than recorded history pulls him to its center. As Rifts appear across the globe, the line between Earth and Aetheria grows thinner. Monsters pour into modern cities, long-buried secrets come to light, and the truth behind humanity's forgotten past refuses to stay buried. The Seven Crowns were never forged to grant power. They were created to keep something locked away. Now one of them has awakened. Caught between two worlds on the edge of collapse, Azriel must uncover why the Crown chose him before the force imprisoned behind it is set free. The answer lies beyond the Rifts, where the fate of Earth and Aetheria has been waiting for him all along. Some inherit a crown. Azriel was chosen by one.