( aforementioned plots )
ANDROID/CREATOR
So depending on what you're into, this has the potential to be super on the slice of life side, a la Chobits, or it could go quite dark. I don't think much needs to be elaborated on, if we're gonna go with the cute route. We can hash out those details ourselves with no (potentially) nasty surprises.
On the other hand.
The Creator is playing God. Is playing with somebody else's toys. In the future, androids are regularly produced to replace more expensive human labour, to specialize in collecting and analyzing data, etc. But they're all stock machines, and are all built from the same mould. They lack social programming and true sentience.
The Creator works at a software firm that has launched its own android initiative, but he begins to tinker. In the end, he creates the Android because he's lonely. Because he's scratching that greedy, human itch to bring something of himself into the world, leave a mark, a legacy. Maybe it looks like a loved one. A dead wife. A dead husband, a dead child.
Grander plot ideas involve the social implications of creating a sentient machine, Homo Superior, corporations either after The Creator's designs, and the Android itself, either to keep it or destroy it.
Darker themes involve playing god, pseudo-fatherhood, innocence, blind trust, and power imbalances.
DELINQUENT/TUTOR
This one's just tooth achingly cute, to be honest. I picture The Delinquent as actually being the son of an oyabun, or some other kind of powerful, organized gang family. He tries to hide this at school though, to varying degrees of success. He's probably looks/acts a lot more scary and intimidating than he really is. He's also total shit at school, because he knows he going to inherit a gang someday, so why the fuck study, it's not like he's going to have any kind of post-secondary education.
So he saves some scrawny kid one day. From bullies or whatnot, we can decide the details on that. And the kid, if he's kind of outgoing and charismatic, takes a shining to him and attaches themself like a limpet, or if they're kind of more quiet and socially awkward, take it upon themself to chide him about his grades and insist that they'll pay him back by raising his position from dead last in exam scores to somewhere in the top ten.
At first, Delinquent doesn't wanna, because what the fuck. But then he sticks around because, well, this kid's kind of cute, so whatever. Eventually, he probably spends most of that tutoring hour alternatively trying (and failing) to do math and staring at the Tutor.
Later on, he'll probably realize that he doesn't want to be a god damn gokudo. Also, the Tutor probably gets involved in gang shit, either by rival gangs or by his own family's gang to try and stamp out his weaknesses/distractions etc.
SPOILS OF WAR
Also pretty dark, to be honest.
Picture two princes, or a prince and a princess, from two neighbouring kingdoms. When they'd been growing up, their countries had settled into a sort of uneasy truce, after centuries of bad blood. But they'd made peace long enough for there to be quite a few diplomatic visits between the two kingdoms, almost every summer. The kids got to know each other, became best friends, all that cute stuff.
But, predictably, the peace didn't last. As they grew older, the political atmosphere surrounding the two kingdoms became more turbulent. Territory disputes. Embargos. Increased trade tariffs. Then, suspicious deaths.
The two promised that they'd remain friends, no matter what happened, obviously. They swore a pinky promise, after all. When they became the sovereigns of their respective kingdoms, there would always be peace.
This turned out to not to be the case.
Those diplomatic visits ended, but the two still smuggled letters to each other, until one day, one of them just cut all contact. Prince(cess) A thought that perhaps Prince B's father had intercepted their letters, and tried to keep re-initiating contact, but to no avail. Eventually, years passed without them hearing a single word from each other, but Prince(cess) A spent those years believing that they were friends, that one day they'd see each other again.
At this point: either war breaks out, and when they meet on the front lines, Prince(cess) A finds Prince B a completely changed person, darker, bitter, and their enemy.
Or, Prince(cess) A finally receives a letter from Prince B, asking to rendezvous at their secret clearing, and it ends up being a trap lmao.
Eventually: Prince B marches in with his army and razes Prince(cess) A's kingdom to the ground. He reaches the heart of their capital, holds the city within the iron of his fist and squeezes, tighter and tighter until he just--stops.
And he promises that he'll stop. That he'll retreat. That he'll leave what's left of your kingdom alive, if you give him just one thing.
You.
NOBLE/MERCENARY
FINALLY! Something not fucked up. Anyway, this one's pretty light hearted and humorous. The noble is this kind of ponce, who's either been sent out on a fool's errand, or has to prove something to his family so he sets out to accomplish this task that he's woefully untrained for. Like, slaying a dragon. Or maybe his family is noble, but it's actually kind of destitute, so he gets betrothed to another family that's kind of nouveau riche, in order to save his family from poverty. But before he can, his betrothed, who he's never met, gets fucking kidnapped by some evil guy, so now he has to set off and save her before they recommence with the wedding.
Anyway, he gets to the Evil Lair, and realizes 'holy shit i can't do this' but then realizes that no one ever stipulated that he had to do any of this shit by himself, so he hires a mercenary to help him.
The mercenary wasn't exactly his first choice, but everyone else laughed in his face and refused when he told them their mission and what he was offering them. Only this crazy guy accepted.
Worlds clash. Silk vs straw, all that shit. The Noble thinks the Mercenary is a rough-hewn, uneducated lout and the Mercenary thinks the Noble is a useless ponce. They hate each other, until they don't. Somewhere along the way, they fall in love. Lmao.
DEMON/SUMMONER
More cute slice of life bullshit. This one's super simple. This stupid kid, either being hazed or thinking this will help him with his bullies and his awkward social problems, summons a fucking demon using a wikihow article. It wasn't supposed to work, but he fucked things up at
exactly the right time, and somehow, something heard him, and something came when he called.
And the Demon thinks that the Human is either criminally stupid, or actually a genius, because he fucks things up in a way that binds the Demon to him, in a way that ensures the Demon can't maim or kill him.
Cue cute/awkward/cutely horrifying scenes where the Demon figures out how televisions work, or kills Human's bullies for him, or leaves him friendly reminders written in blood on the mirror, etc. This is probably the loosest of all my plots, but maybe you can help me out with that.
WIZARD/APPRENTICE
You're a poor street urchin, with a big chip on your shoulder and something to prove. Your father was gypsy filth, the villagers say, and your mother was a whore. It's the stuff of tragic back stories. So you think, wouldn't it be just the thing if you could somehow show them all up? Prove them wrong? You're braver and smarter than the whole damn lot combined... and you'll prove it by stealing some shit from the mysterious, travelling magician who'd been staying in town for a few days. Because, like you said. You're smart. Ahem.
This turns out to be one of the most ill-conceived decisions of your very short life. Sure, you stole some shit, but you'd only managed to run about a few yards away before you were caught red-handed. You're scared shitless, and are convinced you're about to be turned into a frog, when the wizard grins, and asks you how you got past his wards.
BIt of an age difference in this one. Expect chosen one prophecies, and Karate Kid-esque training montages. Can either be romantic or platonic, depending on how you swing.
AGENT/AGENT
There's a legendary rivalry between two of the most promising field agents. Everyone's heard about it, from the techies down in R&D, to the paper pushers gossiping by the water cooler. Most people assume that such seething hatred must have come from a particularly grievous incident--someone accidentally shooting somebody else's mother, or running over their dog.
Little does everyone know that when those two field agents were new, green recruits, they were: A) Being evaluated for a promotion and B) Had had an ill advised, drunken one night stand with a stranger the night before the evaluation.
How do these two facts have any connection, you ask? Well first, working for a secret government agency tends to involve a great deal of suspicion and paranoia. Comes with the territory. Secondly, it's kind of a slap in the face to walk into work the next day and find out that your competitor for that shiny promotion was the person you'd fucked only last night.
Long story short, they both assume that the other person had only slept with them to try and get a one-up on them. Added friction of one person actually getting that promotion. Essentially, a lot of misunderstandings and hurt feelings. Cold War 2, basically.
Present day sees them both being assigned to a deep cover six month long mission. It's supposed to be a secret op, which of course means that everyone knows by lunch time, and their fellow agents are already making bets to see who will kill the other first.
Mostly light hearted. They're assassins but no one really takes themselves that seriously lmao.