FloatingAroundSpace
Three Thousand Club
Hello Again
Some things just don't last. No matter how much you want them to, they'll slip away and disappear down the stream that is the years before, with only nostalgia to comfort you and hopefully good memories. But what if there are no good memories or rather they have been clouded over by the bad ones, the ones that shout and scream and grate at the inside of your head, refusing to let go? What if the demons speak louder than the light, dragging you down into a despairing agony that nothing will ever fix what everything once was?
They say you'll love again. They say you'll put yourself back together again, that someone else will come along and heal your wounds, that perhaps you don't need the love you once got and that perhaps you are whole without it. They say to let go of the past, to say goodbye to the memories that cloud you and that if the memories come in the form of a person, to shut the door in their face.
What if instead you said "Hello again"?
Two individuals, once happy with one another. They were high school sweethearts, if anyone bothered to look close. Most people didn't back then, still wrapped up in their own little worlds and focusing on what was right and wrong. Character A and Character B were from a small town in the middle of nowhere, in a place where everyone knew everything or at least knew it through the tinted glasses they wore. Character A was insecure and believed that Character B was the love of their life, always showering them with affections and paying dutiful attention to them. Character B saw Character A's intelligence and beauty and took a liking to their passion hidden underneath their tumbling hair and shy smiles. The two dated, though it caused quite a stir in their respective friend groups. Character A was studious and hardworking and was forbidden from having a boyfriend like that. Character B was a little bit of a playboy, kissing and telling long before they landed on Character A and rumors still swirled of infidelity. No one was ever quiet about their opinions and the loudest one seemed to be that they weren't the same background, from the color of their skin to the ideals their parents held. But they made it through high school and into college without so much of a scratch.
It was the baby that threw the wrench in the works.
Character A had grown up imagining a knight in shining armor coming to save them, someone to scoop them up and give them the nice house and family they had always wanted and the love they had always craved. But they settled for Character B, wild though they were and begged them to stay. They obliged, though the marriage was far from simple or approved and isolation followed them as the tiny town frowned upon them both.
Things came to a head later in the relationship and as the fights grew worse and the child grew larger, Character A's vision of B was chipped away, slowly bit by bit. Until one night, when the unthinkable happened, and they left, surrounded by pieces of their own bleeding heart and a vow to make their child happy, happier than they had ever been.
A decade more later, their child has grown, happy and healthy and knowing only one parent and stories about the other, fragments of stories that spin colorful tales of a figure unseen and unknown aside from a picture that Character A keeps. On their sixteenth birthday, the day where they can finally "grow-up" and get a car, travel around, become free, they decide they want their present in the form of the missing gap in their life.
Except Character A doesn't know. And the knock on the door and the face on the other side are not wholly welcomed.
"Hello again."
*Character B can be the one that gets pregnant. I prefer Character A.
Rules:
Be tolerant of characters across the LGBT+ spectrum. The majority of mine fall somewhere on it.
Be willing to plot and plan. I enjoy plotting and knowing where the story is going, if only in a general direction. Going with the flow has never quite worked for me because it usually means that one of us will be driving the story and the other won't have any idea how to go about it.
Following up on the last one, please have ideas as well. Even if they come to you while we're planning, I'd like to hear them. Having someone else just be a "yes" man feels like they don't care.
No god-modding/Mary Sues. Overpowered characters are not something I find enjoyable to RP with. This extends to characters that have a BBC Sherlock-esque feel to them; able to tell everything about a character at a glance or having a lot of knowledge on everything. You can have a smart character, but just keep it reasonable.
Please have proper grammar, spelling, punctuation, etc. You don't have to have perfect grammar, spelling, punctuation, etc. and I get that people make mistakes but please at least try.
My time zone is EST. I am usually on from the afternoon to around 11:00 during the weekdays and from around mid-morning to late on the weekends. If we have similar schedules, that would be great.
Please be able to respond once every few days.
Please be willing to poke me and make sure I remember to respond if I don't for a few days. If I haven't responded in about a week or even four days, I've probably forgotten or it's slipped my mind. A poke will help me get back on track.
If you have an emergency, please tell me. I understand that IRL comes before anything online.
If you want to drop, please tell me. If you have not responded to the RP in two weeks, I will assume you have dropped. If I plan on dropping, I will usually tell you. Feel free to poke me and ask if I forget to.
Length doesn't matter to me in general. If it is a high-action scene or a dialog, I don't expect paragraphs in response. However, multiple one-liners that don't give me anything to respond to are a no-no. So long as it moves the plot along, I am fine though I do appreciate mirroring.
Please either link me or send me a writing sample. Anyone who does not in their intro post will be ignored.
Be polite.
I prefer threads over PMs.
Feel free to post here or PM me if you'd like to try this! I had one version of this started but it kind of died out.
Love is hard and so is the past
Some things just don't last. No matter how much you want them to, they'll slip away and disappear down the stream that is the years before, with only nostalgia to comfort you and hopefully good memories. But what if there are no good memories or rather they have been clouded over by the bad ones, the ones that shout and scream and grate at the inside of your head, refusing to let go? What if the demons speak louder than the light, dragging you down into a despairing agony that nothing will ever fix what everything once was?
They say you'll love again. They say you'll put yourself back together again, that someone else will come along and heal your wounds, that perhaps you don't need the love you once got and that perhaps you are whole without it. They say to let go of the past, to say goodbye to the memories that cloud you and that if the memories come in the form of a person, to shut the door in their face.
What if instead you said "Hello again"?
Two individuals, once happy with one another. They were high school sweethearts, if anyone bothered to look close. Most people didn't back then, still wrapped up in their own little worlds and focusing on what was right and wrong. Character A and Character B were from a small town in the middle of nowhere, in a place where everyone knew everything or at least knew it through the tinted glasses they wore. Character A was insecure and believed that Character B was the love of their life, always showering them with affections and paying dutiful attention to them. Character B saw Character A's intelligence and beauty and took a liking to their passion hidden underneath their tumbling hair and shy smiles. The two dated, though it caused quite a stir in their respective friend groups. Character A was studious and hardworking and was forbidden from having a boyfriend like that. Character B was a little bit of a playboy, kissing and telling long before they landed on Character A and rumors still swirled of infidelity. No one was ever quiet about their opinions and the loudest one seemed to be that they weren't the same background, from the color of their skin to the ideals their parents held. But they made it through high school and into college without so much of a scratch.
It was the baby that threw the wrench in the works.
Character A had grown up imagining a knight in shining armor coming to save them, someone to scoop them up and give them the nice house and family they had always wanted and the love they had always craved. But they settled for Character B, wild though they were and begged them to stay. They obliged, though the marriage was far from simple or approved and isolation followed them as the tiny town frowned upon them both.
Things came to a head later in the relationship and as the fights grew worse and the child grew larger, Character A's vision of B was chipped away, slowly bit by bit. Until one night, when the unthinkable happened, and they left, surrounded by pieces of their own bleeding heart and a vow to make their child happy, happier than they had ever been.
A decade more later, their child has grown, happy and healthy and knowing only one parent and stories about the other, fragments of stories that spin colorful tales of a figure unseen and unknown aside from a picture that Character A keeps. On their sixteenth birthday, the day where they can finally "grow-up" and get a car, travel around, become free, they decide they want their present in the form of the missing gap in their life.
Except Character A doesn't know. And the knock on the door and the face on the other side are not wholly welcomed.
"Hello again."
*Character B can be the one that gets pregnant. I prefer Character A.
Rules:
Be tolerant of characters across the LGBT+ spectrum. The majority of mine fall somewhere on it.
Be willing to plot and plan. I enjoy plotting and knowing where the story is going, if only in a general direction. Going with the flow has never quite worked for me because it usually means that one of us will be driving the story and the other won't have any idea how to go about it.
Following up on the last one, please have ideas as well. Even if they come to you while we're planning, I'd like to hear them. Having someone else just be a "yes" man feels like they don't care.
No god-modding/Mary Sues. Overpowered characters are not something I find enjoyable to RP with. This extends to characters that have a BBC Sherlock-esque feel to them; able to tell everything about a character at a glance or having a lot of knowledge on everything. You can have a smart character, but just keep it reasonable.
Please have proper grammar, spelling, punctuation, etc. You don't have to have perfect grammar, spelling, punctuation, etc. and I get that people make mistakes but please at least try.
My time zone is EST. I am usually on from the afternoon to around 11:00 during the weekdays and from around mid-morning to late on the weekends. If we have similar schedules, that would be great.
Please be able to respond once every few days.
Please be willing to poke me and make sure I remember to respond if I don't for a few days. If I haven't responded in about a week or even four days, I've probably forgotten or it's slipped my mind. A poke will help me get back on track.
If you have an emergency, please tell me. I understand that IRL comes before anything online.
If you want to drop, please tell me. If you have not responded to the RP in two weeks, I will assume you have dropped. If I plan on dropping, I will usually tell you. Feel free to poke me and ask if I forget to.
Length doesn't matter to me in general. If it is a high-action scene or a dialog, I don't expect paragraphs in response. However, multiple one-liners that don't give me anything to respond to are a no-no. So long as it moves the plot along, I am fine though I do appreciate mirroring.
Please either link me or send me a writing sample. Anyone who does not in their intro post will be ignored.
Be polite.
I prefer threads over PMs.
Feel free to post here or PM me if you'd like to try this! I had one version of this started but it kind of died out.
I don't have a writing sample...I should really write one. A lot of people seem to prefer that on this site! Good luck!
