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ScarletStratholme
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03-18-2008, 04:53 AM
Some thoughts on plots/scenes for example. It's not detailed because if I wanted to type it all out, that'd be the story, not a rough-idea. Who is CharacterA or CharacterB doesn't matter to me. It doesn't even need to go this way or that--these are just examples.
On Campus & Off
CharacterA just started school. He is the youngest of a rather large, wealthy family. Most of his siblings are awesome. Unfortunately for CharacterA, this results in being overshadowed and thus looked upon as a failure and a disgrace. CharacterA's family has thrown him into this school to hide him from sight and basically to forget him. His upbringing with the constant insane expectations from family and society, and his inability to match or exceed those expectations has left CharacterA rather shaky. He doesn't socialize well. Compared to others overall, he isn't badly off, but CharacterA sees through a carnival mirror basically. Financially unsound, CharacterA works at a somewhat shady bar/strip joint, and sees more and more of humanity and wretched stories. As a result, CharacterA finally decides that people in general, are bad.
CharacterB meets CharacterA in the bar or strip joint. CharacterB sometime along the line also notes that it's the same person in his class (dunno which one). CharacterB has issues x, y, z. CharacterA and CharacterB get along a while, but how things go is up to you.
A Little Medieval
CharacterA and CharacterB know each other from childhood. Fond memories. CharacterA and CharacterB are both trying to get through training for becoming (insert something here..like mage, head of ____, some kind of guard/knight?) and meet up. They go through different adventures together. <Very general because it's a little difficult to pick just one specific example.>
They might start as petty thieves, amidst whatever they were supposed to be learning. Eventually they turn into spies and assassins, or possibly expert thieves. Something more risky and weirder, which involves magic traps, more characters, etc.
Vampy
Usually, my characters are Lasombra. They do only one thing (to resist the temptation of making them all-powerful), and that is weave shadows and solidify them.
CharacterA is neither at the top nor the bottom of the food chain. A series of events slowly moves him a little higher, and he brings his friend, CharacterB, along with him. CharacterB is non-vampy, or perhaps vampy but of a different guild. CharacterB actually doesn't like CharacterA much. CharacterA is thus, often trying to charm CharacterB, or going out of his way to help CharacterB.
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Or the classic vampy-hunter vs. vampy. ;) Depending on how you want to do this, it might be interesting to try.
Other
A very long time ago, CharacterA saw CharacterB dance at a fair or festival. CharacterA finally realized CharacterB was male -rofl-, and was then very confused. CharacterA and CharacterB are in a land that is at war. Events turn out in a way that CharacterB and CharacterA work together. CharacterB dies saving CharacterA, or somehow as a side-effect of a poor mistake on CharacterA's part.
CharacterA is really saddened for a long time. CharacterA finds, after months of travel, a child that resembles CharacterB, and raises it. Later, CharacterA has a slight problem when CharacterB resurfaces, but as the enemy. The weird child CharacterA picked up is the actual center of the story--that child has something the whole silly world is fighting for. Key, or treasure, to something. CharacterA's screwed. -lol-
Guardian/Benevolent Being
CharacterA happens to have some sort of supernatural abilities. CharacterA watches over CharacterB, whom CharacterA either owes something to, or CharacterA created somehow (painted into existence, for example). Slowly CharacterA falls for CharacterB, and in doing so, loses something-maybe not immortality, but perhaps CharacterA doesn't fit in with the race he originally came from anymore. CharacterA then roams around somewhat more aimlessly than usual, and now has to deal with living in the real world, or CharacterB's world. CharacterB has not seen CharacterA prior this, and is freaked out when CharacterA starts to follow them around or starts to seek them for help.
Forget Me Not
CharacterA and CharacterB previously met. (Yeah, not descriptive, because you and I need to figure out a story you like also.) CharacterA or CharacterB dies. That character becomes a ghost, and for whatever reason is unable to leave. Both characters still continue, day in, day out, in a sort of existence that mirrors normal life..or maybe "normal" life is only a pale shadow of theirs. This is about a relationship that doesn't care about time or place, something about a love so strong, nothing else matters.
The challenge here, of course, is building a believable reasoning behind that, and explaining it well enough that it's a coherent story.
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