#{ sorryyyyy this got long and rambly my brain is a disorganized mess of unlabeled filing cabinets }

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@sevenbulletsavior said: 🚢

do i ship our characters together?: yes | no | not yet but maybe soon

would i like to ship with you?: yes | maybe, i'm willing to try | no

type of relationship i could see: childhood or high school sweethearts | exes | engaged | married | long-term relationship | crushes | unrequited love | fling | long distance | online relationship | just dating | new relationship | toxic lovers | friends with benefits

tropes i'd enjoy writing for them: friends to lovers | enemies to lovers | exes to lovers | fake relationship / dating | forbidden love | grumpy and sunshine | star-crossed lovers | surprise pregnancy | second chance | soulmates | amnesia / mistaken identity | forced proximity | secret relationship | slow burn relationship

would i rather plot first or jump right in and see where it goes?: develop their relationship first | jump right in | something in between ( what specifically? )

what now?: let's plot something | send me shippy memes | i'll send you shippy memes | write me a random starter | i'll write you a random starter

anything else i want you to know about me / my character / my shipping habits: karen, my love, i am so sorry in advance. hellhound is a fun shipping partner but can also be soooo frustrating because they're sooOOOOOO STUBBORN. and so self-destructive, fearful, and especially in the present day, views herself as an undeserving and corrupted thing.

a couple potentially fun opportunities though (cut for length):

1) keep going the way we're going, plot some conflicts that keep them being drawn to each other and seeing where the chemistry takes them. always a good option.

2) hellhound wasn't always like this, karen wasn't always like this. both of them were tangled up in some shit before they became who they are today — persephone, not yet hellhound, was fresh off a failed escape attempt for the unseen (and, yknow, losing her arms + being reconditioned as a result) and desperately trying to prove herself trustworthy again. conflicted between a groomed toxic devotion to her boss and a relentless desire to rebel and be her own person. was a lot more of a Person then, more spunky, happier, still close with her twin brother, but also still part of a crime syndicate. i could see a drug-related link between them in their past, maybe leading to a fling or two — or whatever we end up plotting — before seph disappears for 2 years and comes back as This(tm). karen, too, is a very different person. they see each other again, and we can play with the mutual shock of what the fuck happened to them & the resulting conflict.

3) some kind of AU for seph — i have a less intense, less dark verse for seph where she's a bit younger, more of an ex-problem child/current petty criminal caught up in a drug ring that scares the shit out of her and she is in WAY too deep. WHILE struggling through jobs and school. still angry, traumatized and volatile, but dealing with fewer odds stacked against her (and those odds are much less powerful) which makes it easier overall for her to warm up to people.

4) some kind of AU for karen — queenpin AU could be fun to play with, given seph's potential to be an extremely devoted right hand/guard dog. i have a General Verse Path that i like to present to crime boss characters, where their organization manages to fully dismantle the unseen, but either:

A) the boss built in some kind of large-scale self-destruct mechanism that destroys the organization before someone else can take it over. the entire inner circle is killed, and so are many of the smaller scale members; the rest are scattered into pieces, leaving a power vacuum for the other character's organization to fill. seph, due to her paranoia and inhuman force of will, survives — but her entire world is shattered and she becomes the new boss's right hand. lost a potential organization, but inherited one (1) hound. this verse creates a little more of a Toxic Devotion dynamic that i personally LOVE to play with but ik it's not everyone's cup of tea!

B) the character performs a coup, Kills the boss, and takes their place. seph is probably more conflicted here, and how it plays out depends heavily on how the character reacts to taking power. do they take an iron-fist approach with the unseen's inner circle, or do they free them from the bonds of leverage The Tower kept them in?

ummmmm anyway that's my text wall infodump! mostly ideas i gleaned from seeing ur threads play out on my dash, learning about ur different AUs and my knowledge of karen & seph's histories :)

BONUS: i havent even gone into writing seph's two main antagonists with karen but that's also an option for whatever verse(s) we end up writing! prolly further down the line (... well. unless there's a backstory connection which there certainly could be, given that one of them is a socialist city politician) but just throwing that out there :D