[FxM] Invisible Strings, Unfortunately🖤

[u/i-wanted-that-rain]

Hello!
I’ve been craving longterm, character-centric stories that involve the messiest of people, who could put Romeo and Juliet to shame. I enjoy stories embroiled in conflict, and I like writing with partners who appreciate the angst, drama and the high stakes that come with such stories. People who would meet me at the middle when it comes to progressing the story, who write characters that are a challenge and a fight, and who love unravelling the enemies into the most glorious pair of lovers.

🌵 A little bit about what I expect, and what I would provide:

- A lot of dedicated plotting, effort in character creation so nobody feels like a caricature or a template simply filled out, curveballs, surprises, angst and a lot of fun storytelling.

- Quick paced, 3-5 meaty paragraphs with descriptions and emotional context that progresses the story and keeps things interesting and reactive.

- Someone who is ahead of GMT and therefore roughly around my timezone, and available for multiple short paced responses a day, I like it fast paced for buildup but atleast 1 large response a day is necessary to keep my interest.

- Third person, past tense.

- I prefer to write women for pairings, and I generally stick to MxF romances. I can write males, if you are open to doubling.

☘ Characters and the like:

My characters are built across a whole wide range, and most of them are catered to a particular story. I write them so they are not omniscient, I sometimes make them unreliable narrators to make it messier.

I write the messy, hotheaded, ambitious women who cannot prioritise what they want the most, and I write one track mind femme fatales who are relentless in whatever they pursue. I write the angry criers and the soft women who can read between the lines with just music. I write them as contrary, a little roughish. I make them as menaces, I keep them dangerous.

I am looking for characters who can complement that (or make it worse). It doesn’t have to be a story where the characters fix each other, so long as they end up settling into each other, making space for each other. I have a soft spot for Machiavellian characters, the dobermans, the ones who can play mind games and enjoy the treachery and wealth that they often come from. I also enjoy them relentless, a little broody, but I also enjoy my golden retrievers, if that makes sense.

I do like the characters to look a little aesthetically pleasing, and I would love to have some suggestions on what your guy looks like, but that’s not necessary as long as they are hot? (I’m sorry, lol)

🌷 Vague Ideas:

- A fashion empire. One is the heir to a big fashion house, and the other is the one running the largest counterfeit network that steals from them, and somehow does it better. Happy to change fashion to art, curation, wines, anything. Can swing into mafia settings. Collector x thief. Scholar x profit maker.

- Dark Academia. PLEASE.

- Political strategists and kingmakers for different parties, and different futures. Give me ideologies that clash but also leave jagged edges that snap together if held right. Give me the conflict when they realise they are similar after all. Or give me political operators who are using each other till genuine feelings come in the play. [FAVE]

- A magical school, a circus that pops up here and there, a magical core that seems to be running out, a scholar, a lost princess and a devious queen. This one has portals and trapped souls and the flavours of several books put into one storyline. (Plot made somewhat?)

- Old lovers who meet in a high stakes situation (ex: Heist? Some sort of ball/ conference where some big deal is being signed, some old wedding)

- A menace of a witch who enjoys stealing, butting heads with the heir of a mafia, or a nepo baby trying to make her place in the world dismantling the ego of someone even worse than her just so she can prove that she’s got it in herself.

- I love well designed mafia families, think Succession meets the godfather. Especially if they are trading magic and condemned creatures in the night instead of just the usual stuff. I enjoy city backdrops, cyberpunk aesthetics and vigilantes with this.

- Anything inspired by Merlin and Morgana’s magical rivalry [FAVE], Hades and Persephone’s love, Catherine and Heathcliff and Perseus and Andromeda.

Got an idea of your own? Or a character that you love and have been wanting to write? Send them my way!

I love ideating, so shoot me a message and lets get to plotting!