A Mundane Mystic
all my characters come with knives
- Joined
- Sep 5, 2022
General Information
Before I get too deep into what I'm looking for, let's get the necessary evils of who I am and my writing styles out of the way.
The Pairings/Plots
Some of these are looser ideas, meant for either quick, smutty action or otherwise collaborating on a broader plot. Others have a little more detail and some potential for a mix-and-match flair. Feel free to come to me with any mixtures of these that you may be interested in as well!
***At current I have a huge craving for the Crash Landed and Married at First Sight plots at the bottom of this list!
The Human Plaything - A classic alien abduction story! Could be one alien intending to make MC into a willing pet, or could see multiple wanting to experiment with a young woman's body.
The Habitat - Another sort of abduction plot, only this time my character winds up placed in some kind of habitat. Think of it as a kind of zoo or reserve, could be any number of settings but it’s clear that the inhabitants are on display. You could play another captive human, or again any number of monsters/creatures sharing the space with her.
Crash Landed (Craving!) - I would love to do something in which an abducted human woman winds up crash landed on a different planet than her destination altogether. I'm looking for it to be a harsh environment with not so many women. The alien civilization isn't as technologically advanced as humans, but they still have their own tribal sort of society. The idea is a big culture shock for the human and a sort of "Players vs Environment" aspect overall. I'm heavily basing this off of the Ice Planet Barbarians series, but familiarity is not at all required. That said, I'd love to include some of the soulmate/resonance dynamics if we go with a more one-on-one romantic approach.
Married at First Sight (Craving!) - I'm not a very big slice of life person, but I am a huge fan of arranged marriages. I'd love to play with one involving some other genre twist as well. I could see along the lines of a high fantasy sort of Game of Thrones style political marriage. Or something modern and dark with a crime boss blackmailing a politician or other high-roller figure into arranging a marriage with their daughter. Could do some kind of sci-fi dystopia thing with marriage becoming a requirement so anyone who hasn't married by a certain point or divorces has a certain amount of time to find someone before they're assigned a marriage instead. Or if horror is of interest, some kind of slasher villain or more supernatural being taking some mostly innocent final girl type as a bride. This could be any number of things for any number of genres, I just want to play with the shock of meeting someone for the first time at the altar.
These next ideas skew a little longer in description, so they can have their own spoilers! I'd love to play with the Passing the Baton idea listed here first!
These are just a few things that have inspired me, so I'm open to hearing other thoughts as well! Feel free to PM me with interest!
Before I get too deep into what I'm looking for, let's get the necessary evils of who I am and my writing styles out of the way.
- Frequency - Typically speaking, I'm a pretty casual RPer. I try to be fairly active and post at least once a day, but I do work full-time and consider RPing a hobby above all else. Sometimes my mental health takes a dive and it make take a few days for me to be in a place where I'm ready to write, so I will always understand if our frequency doesn't quite line up. If once a day or more doesn't work for you, that's perfectly fine!
- Length - Along with the casual approach, I trend away from novella-length posting but also don't particularly care for one-liners. I will try my best to match my partner, for these short form ideas I'd prefer shorter posts. Maybe a couple of paragraphs, and I likely won't ever write under 200 words.
- Plot/Smut - Put simply, I love both! I will never lean 100% one way or the other. I have a weakness for well-developed characters and interesting circumstances to put them in, so even if we're leaning heavier on the smut I'd love to have some plot brewing in between! When it comes to dom/sub dynamics, I am invariably the submissive type. My F-List can be found here!
- Characters - I'm looking to play one female character for any given plot. Whether you play one male opposite or multiple is up to your preference!
- Face Claims - I like to have visuals, and tend to prefer real life face claims. If we're working with sci-fi or fantasy races, that can change. In general I prefer to match my partner for what our face claims will be. I will provide a range of options, but please don't provide me a list of people to choose from for my own character. Autonomy is important to me in that sort of thing!
- Age - All main characters will be 18+, no exceptions. In any given pairing I prefer to play the younger of two characters.
- Location - I prefer to plan and write via PMs.
The Pairings/Plots
Some of these are looser ideas, meant for either quick, smutty action or otherwise collaborating on a broader plot. Others have a little more detail and some potential for a mix-and-match flair. Feel free to come to me with any mixtures of these that you may be interested in as well!
***At current I have a huge craving for the Crash Landed and Married at First Sight plots at the bottom of this list!
The Human Plaything - A classic alien abduction story! Could be one alien intending to make MC into a willing pet, or could see multiple wanting to experiment with a young woman's body.
The Habitat - Another sort of abduction plot, only this time my character winds up placed in some kind of habitat. Think of it as a kind of zoo or reserve, could be any number of settings but it’s clear that the inhabitants are on display. You could play another captive human, or again any number of monsters/creatures sharing the space with her.
Crash Landed (Craving!) - I would love to do something in which an abducted human woman winds up crash landed on a different planet than her destination altogether. I'm looking for it to be a harsh environment with not so many women. The alien civilization isn't as technologically advanced as humans, but they still have their own tribal sort of society. The idea is a big culture shock for the human and a sort of "Players vs Environment" aspect overall. I'm heavily basing this off of the Ice Planet Barbarians series, but familiarity is not at all required. That said, I'd love to include some of the soulmate/resonance dynamics if we go with a more one-on-one romantic approach.
Married at First Sight (Craving!) - I'm not a very big slice of life person, but I am a huge fan of arranged marriages. I'd love to play with one involving some other genre twist as well. I could see along the lines of a high fantasy sort of Game of Thrones style political marriage. Or something modern and dark with a crime boss blackmailing a politician or other high-roller figure into arranging a marriage with their daughter. Could do some kind of sci-fi dystopia thing with marriage becoming a requirement so anyone who hasn't married by a certain point or divorces has a certain amount of time to find someone before they're assigned a marriage instead. Or if horror is of interest, some kind of slasher villain or more supernatural being taking some mostly innocent final girl type as a bride. This could be any number of things for any number of genres, I just want to play with the shock of meeting someone for the first time at the altar.
These next ideas skew a little longer in description, so they can have their own spoilers! I'd love to play with the Passing the Baton idea listed here first!
I have a character idea in mind for a young female spellcaster who has a complicated relationship with her magic. While magic can be learned or earned in many forms, her version is somewhat unique. As a part of the world-building I like the idea that she's one of the last people to keep to "Old Magic", mostly because it's passed down in her family. She grew up learning how to do magic but lacking any magical abilities, those still belonged with her mother. Then, when she passes, the new caster has to complete a ritual in order to transfer the power. So magic is not only slightly new to her, but it's a reminder of her mother's absence. I like the idea of her either going to study magic somewhere to basically finish her education, or someone seeks her out specifically hoping to use her mother's powers but finding that she's the only one remaining. Either way, I'm looking for your character to be another caster to give her trouble over the fact that she can't control her magic. It's the idea that practicing magic is different from studying it. I'm looking for something that really gets into these character's relationships, maybe something of an "enemies-to-lovers" where they seem to dislike each other but are forced to work together. Eventually he can find out the reason she has technical knowledge but very little practical skill to back her up, and I love the thought of him mentoring her. Overall, I'd love a complex relationship with a couple of really rounded out characters that have a lot of other problems going on. I don't want this to be just about her abilities and backstory, though, I'd love to see them tangled up in each other's complicated lives!
I love horror. It's one of my favorite genres to watch, and I celebrate a lot of the tropes. What's even better is when they're turned on their head and infused with a bit of humor. I hope to accomplish a bit of that here. With this plot, our characters could be just about anyone. To really suit the tropes it may work best with them starting as college students, perhaps going on some vacation together. The main idea here is to throw different horrific villains at them in different scenarios until it just becomes ridiculous. Maybe one week a demon is terrorizing their friend group, then they stumble upon a haunted house, and for added measure the next weekend they're hunted down by some serial killer. Naturally the main characters are going to survive these endeavors, with some side characters thrown in that won't be so lucky. What starts as a terrifying series of events can end up becoming almost a parody of itself, as the surviving characters are left exasperated and wondering what comes next. We can assign some kind of higher meaning to this, a reason why they're being put through the horror wringer, or we can leave it nebulous just to make it a little extra frustrating for our unfortunate heroes.
*** Would love to do something like this but with MC running into YC, a persistent killer/demon/entity that comes after her. Or a series of them, truthfully most horror themed things are right up my alley!
*** Would love to do something like this but with MC running into YC, a persistent killer/demon/entity that comes after her. Or a series of them, truthfully most horror themed things are right up my alley!
In which a lavish setting gets turned into a near nightmare scenario. Our characters find themselves staying in a gorgeous mansion, think the historical vein of House on Haunted Hill or, similarly, Haunting of Hill House. Vast halls adorned with priceless art seem spectacular by day, but may come across a little bit macabre at night. I'm picturing this as a sort of vacation rental, or perhaps a project that the assigned group is working on. In either case, the place just reeks of supernatural intent. And then, when it comes time for them to leave, they find that they can't. This could be as simple as their cars not starting or the doors not opening, or we could play even darker and say that when they do think they've escaped the road leads right back to that mansion. At the very least it's being routinely stocked with all the food and water they need to survive. In fact in a lot of ways the place still seems eerily comfortable, as if it wants them to stay. This would see the characters struggling to find their way out, or to otherwise explain why they're being trapped in the first place. Whether they're successful or not... well we'll just have to decide that for ourselves!
I really want to play with the concept of characters being stuck in a bunker together for the foreseeable future. So this would deal with themes of the apocalypse, beginning not after the world has ended but in the process of it actively happening. My ideal situation would see my character scrambling for shelter and stumbling across your character's bunker. She would join him only to find it's just the two of them in this space, or that she may perhaps be the only woman around. The nature of the apocalypse can be completely up for debate, but I really like the idea of it polluting the air to an extent that everyone will be required to stay in the bunkers for years at least before the dust settles. The bunkers can be as indulgent and luxurious or as roughshod and bare minimum as we'd like, I really like the concept of my character being trapped with someone she doesn't know and forced to find a way to get along.
*** Bonus points, I have a combination between this and the Cult Captivations idea in mind that leans heavily on my replaying of Far Cry 5, essentially taking the backstory/"good" ending and exploring what might have come after in a similar scenario. If you haven't played the game but you are interested in something like this, I can explain a bit more in conversation to avoid any spoilers of the game itself. Essentially, it's the intersection of a doomsday cult and a bunker so what could go wrong?
*** Bonus points, I have a combination between this and the Cult Captivations idea in mind that leans heavily on my replaying of Far Cry 5, essentially taking the backstory/"good" ending and exploring what might have come after in a similar scenario. If you haven't played the game but you are interested in something like this, I can explain a bit more in conversation to avoid any spoilers of the game itself. Essentially, it's the intersection of a doomsday cult and a bunker so what could go wrong?
This idea is a classic Stockholm Syndrome plot for me. What I love in this is a kidnapping in which your character is trying desperately to keep my character not just through force but through care. It could be someone in her life or someone she's never met but he's been stalking her for some time. Essentially, her captivity would include a lot of almost surreal level spoiling as he tries to whittle down her resolve. He offers her the world if she'll be his, but she can only do that on his terms. I think there could be a lot of very interesting psychology at play here, with him trying to convince her that he's the only one to care for her while she tries to play along in an effort to weaken his guard until she can finally break free. But what's she got to look forward to in the real world anyway?
Leaning heavily on those classic horror tropes, this would play with the idea of a Final Girl who gets corrupted not just in the classic sense of seeking out pleasure from her would-be killer, but also slowly falls in line with his ideals as well. The setting can vary, the example I've had in my head is a more backwoods, rural concept with my character out camping with her group of "friends." Essentially these friends are all terrible to her in some way or another, some secretly and others right to her face. I'd love to see her with a boyfriend initially that's cheating on her, one of the few times where I could be interested in some cuckoldry aspects as the man who should be her killer instead uses his fascination with her to claim her as his own. As he starts to show her how horribly her friends treat her, he also pollutes her mind with desires to kill them herself. Setting for this is completely negotiable, camping was just the first example I had. Supernatural elements are also more than welcome!
*** Bonus points... again, but this would work really well combined with the Cult Captivations concept too!
*** Bonus points... again, but this would work really well combined with the Cult Captivations concept too!
I love a cult, maybe just because I grew up around enough religion that the idea of it making people absolutely crazy is fascinating to me. It doesn't much matter to me what this cult worships, only that they are widely regarded as bad. My character would then be someone who stands in some form of opposition to the cult, although that doesn't necessarily mean she's actively fighting them. However, the cult leader has taken an interest in her, perhaps leaning on concepts of her being some prophesied figure within their religion. It could all be real, or he could just be a conman with an obsession, either idea is completely valid. In any case, I'd like to plan out some kind of cat and mouse game between your character and mine, with her being targeted by him for indoctrination despite the fact that she tries her best to remain unwilling. I crave pitting someone domineering and persuasive against someone who wants to think they're too smart for that kind of thing. (And if he winds up being a conman just trying to exert a power fantasy over a bunch of easily manipulated people, we could get to a point where my character catches on to the secret and becomes a sort of right hand.)
*** Bonus points, I have a combination between this and the Don't They Know, It's the End of the World idea in mind that leans heavily on my replaying of Far Cry 5, essentially taking the backstory/"good" ending and exploring what might have come after in a similar scenario. If you haven't played the game but you are interested in something like this, I can explain a bit more in conversation to avoid any spoilers of the game itself. Essentially, it's the intersection of a doomsday cult and a bunker so what could go wrong?
*** Bonus points... again, but this would work really well combined with the Corruption of the Final Girl concept too!
*** Bonus points, I have a combination between this and the Don't They Know, It's the End of the World idea in mind that leans heavily on my replaying of Far Cry 5, essentially taking the backstory/"good" ending and exploring what might have come after in a similar scenario. If you haven't played the game but you are interested in something like this, I can explain a bit more in conversation to avoid any spoilers of the game itself. Essentially, it's the intersection of a doomsday cult and a bunker so what could go wrong?
*** Bonus points... again, but this would work really well combined with the Corruption of the Final Girl concept too!
These are just a few things that have inspired me, so I'm open to hearing other thoughts as well! Feel free to PM me with interest!
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