This Must Be the Place (Story Ideas for MxF and MxTransF)

[Vulnicura]

UPDATE 6/4: Annnd we're back. Hi guys. For anyone I was talking to before I took some time off, feel free to check my A/As, yeah?

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STATUS: Open-ish ✦ POST LENGTH: Multi-Para ✦ PAIRINGS: MxF and MxTrans

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✶ THIS MUST BE THE PLACE Well, look at you! You've stumbled into my little neck of the woods! Like the proverbial fly in the allegorical web! Er... I mean... Hi! I'm Vulnicura! This — as I'm sure you've already gathered, you smartypants you — is my request thread. Snazzy, right? Whether you found yourself here on a whim, by accident, or with a purpose, I hope that you enjoy perusing all the words I've taken the time to type here. I'm not one to write too much about myself, but for those inquiring minds out there: I'm a 30something year old man who has been roleplaying in some form or fashion for more years than I can bother to tally. I've written on Elliquiy off and on for a small number of those years. Even though I have a tendency to float off when life gets too lifey, I always seem to end up floating back this way because... well.. this place is special, right? As you'll see below, I've plucked a few of my various ideas from their depths, herded them all here in this particular corral, and attempted to convey them with some semblance of conciseness for your reading pleasure. If you happen upon an idea that burrows into your brain or even if you just think we might get each other on some base level, feel free to message me. I'm a sweetheart; I promise. ✷ HERE'S THE THING... I'm particular. Picky. Persnickety, even. The older I've gotten, the more true this has become. I know this about myself and decided a long time ago to make the most of it. That being said, I think it's only fair to let prospective partners know exactly what they're getting themselves into before they start writing with me. Expectations are important, right? So, here are all the bits and pieces that will dictate whether or not we're a good fit for each other. As I'm sure you can imagine, this part is a bit boring, but I promise I'll make it worth your while. Bear with me, all right? GIDDY UP, PARTNER In seeking out new partners, chemistry is everything to me. I'm generally open to writing with just about anybody regardless of their gender, age, sexuality, and so forth. A general understanding and ability to communicate with one another is far more important to me than any desired post length, list of kinks, writing perspective, etc. I can adapt to most anything, but I can't see myself writing long term with someone who I don't get along with on an OOC basis. Being able to talk with my partner is important to me. On the same note, plotting and planning is also incredibly important to me. I'm not the type to dive right into writing with someone new without having a long discussion about the story, our characters, and where we'd like to see things go. This is all pretty much imperative with no room for compromise. This may also be a good place to point out that I only write Male characters paired with Females and Trans Females. Just to clarify since it has come up before: I'm not at all interested in futanaris, femboys, trans men, or any other gender outside of the narrow scope listed above. STYLIN' AND PROFILIN' I write in Third Person Omniscient or Limited by default, but I'm open to First Person for the right partner or story. The grand majority of my posts tend to be multiple paragraphs (3-6 paragraphs, give or take), but exact lengths can vary wildly depending on where we're at in the story, what needs to happen, and what I have to work with. I'm a strong proponent of quality over quantity, but I do give preference to partners who can match my post lengths. AVAILABILITY To be completely and totally honest, due to the nature of my job and personal life, my availability can be spastic at times. This has the unfortunate effect of slow posting on my end. Unfortunately, this cannot be avoided and I can make no promises on how long you might end up waiting for me if we write together. Along these same lines, real life always comes first; no exceptions. This should go without saying. I'll never pressure a partner to write for me when real life is getting in the way; I expect the same courtesy in return. SMUT, SEX, AND GETTIN' IT Look, I love smut. I really do! In fact, without a deep and abiding love for smut, I likely wouldn't be here at all. I enjoy writing it and I enjoy reading it. In the days of yore, when your humble Vulnicura was but a wee lad, it might even be safe to say that most of what I wrote was almost entirely comprised of all smut all the time. However, the more time I've spent roleplaying, the more I find that things have changed. Nowadays, I want story with my smut and smut with my story. I want sex scenes that advance the plot and a plot that makes the sex scenes actually matter beyond our characters getting the chance to bump uglies. Story and smut don't have to be mutually exclusive. Basically, I want balance. That's the key word in all of this. ✹ LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! You've been far too patient with me. With all that hullabaloo, brouhaha, and hubbub out of the way, we can get on to the actual festivities. This is where all of my story ideas live. Be honest: This is the part you were waiting for, right? All of these stories (unless otherwise specified) are open to both MxF and MxTrans pairings. Without further ado, let's get on with the show. [FLOATLEFT][/FLOATLEFT] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ GENRES: Surrealism/Mystery/Horror-ish? PAIRINGS: Two guests at a hotel that may or may not exist. INSPIRED BY: The Shining, Sleep No More, The Leftovers ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ “Living by your wits is always knowing where the wasps are." You wake up in a bed that's not your own. You look out the crack in the drapes at a city skyline you don't recognize. You sit up and wipe the sleep from your eyes, trying to gain your bearings in this dark, unknown room. You're in a hotel. Remember? You checked in last night after the hardest day of your life. Remember? Maybe you drank a little too much in the bar downstairs and decided to sleep it off instead of calling a cab. Remember? Maybe you just needed a night alone with your thoughts. Remember? Maybe you were planning to make an end of things; red lines down your pale wrists or a rough sewn rope around your skinny neck. Remember? Remember? Remember? You flick the light switch and find yourself in lavish dwellings; this has to be a suite, right? You crack open the front door and look out into hallway to see someone else a few doors down poking their head through an identical doorway, looking just as confused as you feel. Welcome to Hotel Oblivion. We hope you enjoy your stay. Hotel Oblivion has always existed. Always. Thousands upon thousands of downtrodden travelers check in year after year, but you would be hard pressed to find someone who knows what city the hotel is situated in or anyone who has actually stayed there for longer than a dream allows. The building houses more floors than you can count, more rooms than you can imagine, and more mysteries than you could begin to understand. This story follows two strangers who find themselves staying at the hotel with no memory how they got there to begin with. There was simply life before the hotel and life after the hotel with the time between a complete mystery. NOTES: A new idea! I'm still hammering out the details on this one, but I also like the idea of leaving it as a bit of a mystery box with plenty of room for worldbuilding, exploring, and making things up as we go along. The basics are pretty simple: Two strangers in a hotel that they don't remember checking into. They explore its endless corridors, search for answers where there are none to be found, and try to avoid what ever malevolence might be nipping at their heels. [FLOATLEFT][/FLOATLEFT] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ GENRES: Detective/Crime/Occult PAIRINGS: Humbug and Balderdash; occult detectives for hire. INSPIRED BY: True Detective, X-Files, Terrible Ghosthunting TV Shows, The Specials ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ “Fuck, I don't want to know anything anymore. This is a world where nothing is solved. Someone once told me, 'Time is a flat circle.'" Let's be honest here: This world is made of nightmares. In all likelihood, there are hundreds of monsters under your bed, thousands of skeletons in your closet, and a whole damn legion of demons dancing just outside of your periphery. You should be scared because everything is scary. However, when the ghost of your dead mother won't leave you alone or the cult next door chants to their false god at all hours of the night, you know you have someone you can call: Humbug and Balderdash, Occult Detectives For Hire. Humbug is a hard drinkin', chain smokin', fist fightin'' sonuvabitch with a death wish.. Balderdash is a quick talkin', gun totin', demon slayin' femme fatale who sometimes accidentally communes with the dead. Together, they're the best damn occult detective agency in the Greater Los Angeles Area. They've dealt with all manner of paranormal business, putting their body and soul on the line for justice, peace, and... well, money. Mostly money. In fact, forget about that whole 'justice and peace' bit. However, when a demure lady in red enters their office to report her twin brother going missing, the detectives face their strangest and most dangerous case yet... NOTES: So, this idea is a little bit different in the sense that the characters are already a little bit premade (by me). Humbug and Balderdash are a pair of occult detectives who take on paranormal cases. I have a general idea of the characters, but beyond the very basics I've listed in the blurb above, I want whoever I play this idea with to have absolute authority over their character's personality, traits, looks, and so forth. The ideas listed above are just a baseline. I'd like for this story to be somewhere between True Detective and Ghostbusters. I know, that's a weird mix. Basically, bizarre and outlandish and outright horrifying things can/will happen in this story. There will be plenty of room for existential crises and psychological meltdowns, but I also want there to be a lightheartedness shining through the roughness. Admittedly, a lot of the thoughts I have swirling around about this idea are a bit more out there than my other ideas (which is probably saying something), buuuut... it could be fun, right? [FLOATLEFT][/FLOATLEFT] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ GENRES: Science Fiction/Horror PAIRINGS: Two members of an expedition into a secret, otherworldly place. INSPIRED BY: Annihilation, The Southern Reach Trilogy, The Parts of LOST That Don't Suck, Radiohead ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ “That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality." If you were to ask three different scientists from three different fields of study what exactly The Inland Expanse is and why it exists, you would receive three very different answers. These are the facts: The Inland Expanse is located in Nevada, an hour South of Las Vegas. It is comprised of a fifty square mile section of land that was closed to the public in ’94 after various anomalous occurrences were detected there. It’s an ecological marvel in the sense that, for reasons still unknown, various flora and fauna that have never been observed before appeared there overnight. Prior to its closure, a clandestine government agency known as the Mojave Research Collective (hereby referred to as the MRC) made it their business to study, research, and better understand the phenomenon. As of 2021, the Inland Expanse still presents more questions than answers. The main method of research over the years has been the practice of sending in teams of researchers to study the Inland Expanse face to face. To date, there have been four expeditions in total. While every expedition has yielded a wealth of fascinating discoveries, the fourth expedition quickly became the most noteworthy after only one of the twenty researchers that crossed into the Inland Expanse returned. The researcher was found suffering from a form of amnesia regarding what happened during their six-month expedition and did not know the whereabouts of their fellow researchers. Two years later, the MRC has decided it’s time to send in a fifth expedition to uncover more secrets and, with any luck, discover what happened to the fourth expedition… NOTES: This story is heavily inspired by The Southern Reach book series and, to a lesser extent, the movie adaptation of Annihilation. I would highly recommend watching the movie if you're interested in this story as it does a pretty excellent job at giving the general vibe that we're going for. [FLOATLEFT][/FLOATLEFT] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ GENRES: Modern/Science Fiction/Incest PAIRINGS: A father and daughter who become trapped in a time loop. INSPIRED BY: Groundhog Day, Palm Springs, David fuckin' Bowie ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ "What if there is no tomorrow? There wasn't one today." Time is a funny thing. On the surface, it's just a social construct, a means of organizing moments into seconds into minutes into hours into days. It exists in the abstract, marching on into the infinite. Scott Harper had never been one to worry too much about time. He knew he didn't have enough of it, but beyond that, it wasn't something that he obsessed over... that was, of course, until one particular morning when he woke up and found his entire life turned on its head. The day wasn't anything special or even particularly peculiar. It was Halloween and the small town of Aberdeen was alive with all that holiday entails. Trick or treaters stumbling down the sidewalk, a small fair in the center of town where residents could bob for apples or go through haunted houses held together by duct tape, jack-o'-lanterns carved and lit on every front porch. Scott had spent most of the day with the house to himself, his wife away on a business trip and his daughter spending most of the day with her friends. Taking the chance to rest, relax, and recuperate before the start of another work week, Scott fell asleep that night just like any other night. He curled up beneath his blankets, alone in his King size bed, as the echo of candy crazed children echoed on the streets outside his bedroom window. Just another day. The next morning, he woke up to find it was still Halloween. Everything was exactly the same, as if time was repeating itself, but no one else seemed to realize or acknowledge it except for him... and as he would soon find out, his daughter. They found themselves caught in a time loop, repeating the same day over and over and over again. After the initial panic wore off and the existential crisis the situation presented waned, they began to work together to try to find a way out, soon depending on each other in ways they never knew they could. NOTES: As stated, this idea is obviously inspired by the movie Groundhog Day. It's ultimately just about a time loop on Halloween in a smallish town. The major difference, of course, it that it's two people experiencing the time loop as opposed to one (much like the movie Palm Springs). I'd like to explore a lot of the same themes as those movies; self-improvement, spiritual transcendence, eternal recurrence, and so on. Other, headier themes include life without consequence, the nature of love, and the concept of time. However, all of those themes and philosophical concepts aside, this is ultimately just supposed to be a fun story with a bit of taboo romance thrown in for good measure. In the actual Groundhog Day movie, there's been a lot of debate over the duration of the time loop with the director himself alluding that it lasted ten thousand years. That seems a bit extreme to me, but given that Scott and his daughter aren't predisposed to being in any sort of romantic relationship together, I do think leaning towards several years stuck in the time loop will work better. This can definitely be discussed. Worth noting, I do have a non-incest variant of this idea that I would be willing to play, but it definitely isn't my first choice and would likely only be offered to a partner I feel a real connection with. [FLOATLEFT][/FLOATLEFT] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ GENRES: Science Fiction/Adventure PAIRINGS: Two would-be treasure hunters pursuing the score of a lifetime. INSPIRED BY: Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Pixies ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ "This ain't no rock and roll town! This ain't no fuckin' around! This ain't no planet of sound!" Haven't you heard? The whole universe is made of gold! What are you waiting for?! Strap in, blast off, and go find your own fortune, space cadets! In the far-flung future, after all the fossil fuels have been burnt up and the ice caps have melted into oblivion, space travel has become a way of life. Everyone and their mother owns a starship and the skies are littered with so much space junk that you can't see the sun without squinting. This story revolves around two rival cosmonauts who have chosen the same lot in life: Treasure hunting. They spend their lives amongst the stars, zooming from planet to planet in search of ancient ruins, abandoned spaceships, and anything else they might be able to scrap for a profit. However, this time around, they may have bitten off more than they can chew... Legend has it that somewhere out there on the very edge of the known universe, a planet spins in orbit of two twin suns, constantly emitting an otherworldly hum. Down on the surface, you'll find a sprawling jungle filled with the ruins of a long dead alien civilization; a land of untold fortunes, uncovered riches, and enough treasure to spend the rest of your life in the lap of luxury. Known as the Planet of Sound, our two would-be adventurers find themselves putting aside their differences when they uncover a starmap that seems to indicate the Planet of Sound may be more than just a myth. They soon find themselves zipping through the cosmos on the search for the biggest score of either of their lives. Of course, they aren't the only ones on the hunt... NOTES: This is a newer idea of mine and one I'm still hammering out the kinks in. The basis is pretty simple: Indiana Jones meets Star Wars. We would be two treasure hunters, there's tons of room for worldbuilding, and I think the idea could be tons of fun with the right partner to help put it all together. [FLOATLEFT][/FLOATLEFT] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ GENRES: Magic Realism/Travelogue/Incest PAIRINGS: A father and daughter on a summer road trip that takes a turn for the surreal. INSPIRED BY: David Lynch, Kentucky Route Zero, House of Leaves ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ "This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top." WHERE? Long stretches of dark highway. All night diners, plagued by truckers and ne’er-do-wells alike. Little motels just off the interstate, red vacancy sign glowing bright in the cold machinery of night. Rundown tourist traps, ramshackle and worn down just like the rest of us. Cabins stranded up in the mountains, way out past all of the trees and all of the people. At the banks of rivers, illuminated by the light from that old Dixie moon. Forests full of chants and incantations, clear as day between the shadows. Places that shouldn’t exist, but do. Haunted dreamscapes, languid and unknowable. A possessed world caught between real and unreal. The ancient ruins of the American Dream. Everywhere and anywhere in these forty-eight continental states and beyond. This is The Land of Milk and Honey. Haven't you heard? WHO? A father and his only daughter as they travel the country over the course of one magical summer; three months of exploration and self-discovery. Along the way they’ll surely meet a rogue’s gallery of fellow travelers, ramblers, and roustabouts. The old gas station attendant who looks like the only thing keeping him alive is a fear of death. A talking cat who acts as an agent of chaos. A woman in a red dress hitchhiking on a desert road, suitcase still handcuffed to her skinny wrist. A bellhop in a palatial hotel from a bygone era, his skin as thin as his convictions. Roughnecks who will whittle you into kindling just for looking at them the wrong way. A would-be messiah way out in the desert, weaving miracles from thin air. Ghosts looking for purpose and old dreams waiting to be realized. Fortune tellers with gold teeth and permanent coughs. Anyone and everyone. We all have our parts to play. NOTES: Make no mistake: This is a love story. Not a traditional love story, admittedly, but that doesn’t make it any less of one. This story revolves around a father and daughter as they go on a road trip together. Along the way, things take a surreal turn as the couple find themselves in unlikely situations with uncanny results. They also grow closer along the way, their relationship unfurling in a thousand different ways they never could have expected. Just to drive the nail a bit further, the main inspirations for this story are David Lynch (the director), Kentucky Route Zero (the video game), and Magic Realism (the genre). If you’re unfamiliar or lost, just imagine a realistic representation of the United States interlaced with as many fantastical, surreal, or otherwise otherworldly elements as we can muster. That’s pretty much the length and width of it, though. A father and daughter exploring the United States on a summer road trip. Weird and wonderful things happen along the way. Isn’t it dreamy? ✺ ♡ thanx 4 readin bb

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