Okay like three things:
I know what you're talking about with the two & two, and I'd prefer not to do that. I much prefer to have a main character, and bring in my own sides as we go. I'm fine with playing males. I have a few in store that could be used & adapted easily.
I don't like to do high school role plays. It's uncomfortable for me to play someone that young. I enjoy characters in their twenties, so as an alternative we could to a college setting?
And third. I have a few pairings and plots I've done in the past that never took off. Take a look.
vampire* x human
arranged marriage
single mom x male
beauty & the beast
self harmer x former self harmer
friends with benefits
abusive boyfriend x girlfriend
rapunzel
best friend x best friend
drug addict x pregnant girlfriend
runaway teen x person who finds her
rape victim x ex boyfriend
counselor x mute patient
supernatural beings
drug addict x sheltered
drug addict x recovered addict
pregnancy
Idea: he's the rich boy being groomed for daddy's company. So rich they have a summer home in North Carolina, right on the coast. She comes from a family that has battled addictions among other things, and is on the poorer side. A resident of the vacation hot spot year round. They meet by chance on the boardwalk and fall under the spell of love at first sight.
Idea: She has lost her courage to speak. Raised by her deaf father, her mother was killed in a grocery store robbery gone wrong when she was only eight months old. Her father hired people to help him take care of his infant daughter. Growing up she never thought it odd that her dad never spoke and only signed. She herself was taught how to sign from the start, and could ask for the basics that way before she could speak. However her father caught ill with cancer and died when she was nine, and she was sent to be taken care of by a man who ran a group home by the name of davenport. But he was a sick man, who had the tendency to sexually abuse his wards, male or female. He took a special liking to her and the way she never screamed or called for help. This was all discovered when she was sixteen. The police raided the place, he went to jail, and she was sent to a nice family. But she still hadn't spoken since she was twelve, when he had started touching her every night before escalating to a few times a day. Enter the male role. A neighbor of her foster family, she was graduating high school the year she started at her new school. He tried to befriend her in any way he could but she never spoke. He thought he was just annoying her, and he never knew that she enjoyed his company. He went on to college and was only around during the summers. But now she's been out of high school for three years. It is fall and she's just gotten her own apartment above a little bookstore when they meet again. He's picked up some sign language and they get to 'talking'. He'd always thought she was deaf and had confided many personal things to her when they'd been neighbors. But the more time he spends with her, the more he notices how she reacts to sound. He picks up on the fact that she's chosen this way and is determined to help her speak again.
Idea: A young doctor/resident meets a young woman through an accident involving her son/daughter. Throughout the child's hospital stay, the two get to know each other and afterwards, the doctor/resident finds the woman to continue their friendship, which eventually sparks a few feelings.
Idea: A young woman is raped by her mother's boyfriend, yet no one believes her and he denies that he was even in the mother's home at the time of the attack. The police don't even issue a rape kit to her. Devastated, she is changed and even her boyfriend, who picked her up from her mother's afterwards, can't handle what she's not telling him (she can't bring herself to tell him she was raped). He breaks up with her, saying that she has become distant. Sucking it up, she moves back in with her mother and they pretend nothing ever happened. Two months later, she takes a home pregnancy test and it turns out positive. She has a break down before storming out and showing up on the ex's doorstep.
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Some of those, I prefer to have female. Because I already have them made and well, they're the reason I had the ideas.
