Briar's RP Dreams & Story Index (Gender & tag flexible)

[Briar]

Please PM if you're interested in any RP with me so I can keep this thread tidy. ^^

You can read my O/Os here, which cover what I'm looking for in collaborative storytelling. If our interests and goals don't align there, I doubt I'd be a good partner for you.

I prefer partners who can post at least 1/week for a given roleplay. I know that some weeks are hard, and I'm very accepting of communicated absences, but a constant frequency of less than 1/week tends to extinguish the flame for me on all but the most enticing roleplays. And if you are someone who likes to post more frequently, I can post a lot depending on the day and week, so just let me know your preferred posting 'schedule' and I'll try to match it.

I'm happy to communicate about everything (or even doing RP) via Discord in addition to PM, too.

For every roleplay, the listed concept and description isn't all I'm open to or interested in within the scope of the story. It's just what I've already put thought to for that story. Feel free to pitch modified versions to me!

As alluded to in my O/Os, I'm rarely actually looking for specific gender pairings. It's far more about the character design/personality/dynamic made intriguing than their gender or genitals, so I'm open to a variety of options for most of my stories and note where I have more stringent desires. I will more generally note that I am the least experienced and comfortable with m/m pairings, so I'll be less likely to enthusiastically thumbs up those; m/enby is typically more my speed. It's not impossible, though, seeing how formative Loveless was for me (less predatory age gaps like that though, please).

Regarding tag-flexible, I can happily range from (NA) to (EX). Graphicness of content can be great fun, but also isn't required for me to have a fun time of it. My main exception is (NC) content. There are some (NC) concepts I can work with, but since I'm far more focused on romance, story and kink vs smut-for-smut's-sake, I find most of that tag uninteresting or unpleasant.

Lastly, I'm not that picky between Human vs Exotic. Demons, Anthros, Sci-Fi Creatures, Slimegirls, Monsters, etc, are easy sales for me as long as they can fit the setting & concept.
Story Prompts

The Bite That Binds (UN): Courtship dance with a hidden monster, high kink, restricted sex, femme+any
In Toxic Threads Strung (UN): Toxic and/or abusive relationship, rest depends on iterations

The Taste of Love (BON to EX): Bound demon and witch, revenge quest, violence, sapphic/enby-only
The Suicide Café (UN): Surprisingly wholesome, mental health issues, (doomed) romance, sapphic/enby-only

A Bloom Slowly Unfurling (BON): Opening up a new side of kink, centering romance and relationship building, sapphic/enby-only
It Cannot End Like This (BON to EX): Love amidst a supernatural transformative/degenerative disease, horror-tragedy but with hope
It Could Be No Other (UN): Siblings to lovers amidst high society & necromancy, romantic pursuit

Journey (UN): Unintentional travel companions, slow burn, wholesome romance
A Monster By Any Other Name (UN): Creator/creation relationship twist on Frankenstein with romantic pursuit from creation
It Can Always Get Worse (BON): Captor/captive to lovers, light-hearted fun, back-and-forth dynamic

Song Prompt: I Want Your Polluted Marrow (UN): High kink, sapphic/enby-only
Song Prompt: Tear My Life Apart In Two (UN): High kink
Song Prompt: You Know That I Take Anything (UN): ??
The Bite That Binds (UN)
Setting: Contemporary Supernatural, Alt History Supernatural or Fantasy
Concept: Courtship Dance, Supernatural Predator, Edge Play, Slow Burn (for sex but not kink), High Erotic; Age-Gap optional
Dynamic: D/s with soft-power bottom
Gender: I specifically see Red as femme; Wolf can be any
Iterations: It wouldn't take much tweaking to make this fit another monster that can hide in plain sight, e.g. vampire

Red performs the role of escort especially well, playing off of partners' interests and personality to best draw out their monetary appreciation and inflame their insistence for her. Her greatest desires, however, lie rooted in kink; her heart holds dark appetites for suffering, received and inflicted, physical and emotional. To play up her exclusivity and keep work and fun separate, she restricts kink and fucking to paying clients only. The only exception she gives herself is indulging in kink at events where enough eyes keep her self-control in check.

It's not an easy life balancing so much hunger, but she manages.

Wolf is generally well-respected in society, because that serves as the best cover. Trying to exist openly as a lycanthrope is a death sentence, after all. They have little trouble playing out hunts in the streets or the countryside because they're careful about location and target. An outsider looking in might think they have it all, but their existence is highly solitary and they are tired of being lonely. They want a partner in all of it to share everything with.

Despite how easily they eat humans when the craving strikes, the thought of carelessly cursing another to live their kind of life makes them hesitate. Sure, there are all the concerns of compatibility for both romance and the lifestyle; they could not have regrets or seek to expose them in turn. But it's more fundamental than that. Their partner ought to be perfect for this life, and for them.

As a primal predator type with minimal innate sadism or masochism, Wolf finds plenty of satiation in their hunts and the occasional rough seduction. They accept an invitation on a lark to a particularly kinky party, though, and that's when they meet Red. Something about how she gasps and smiles when her blood is let calls to Wolf - this just might be who they're craving. It isn't easy to get close to Red, though, and Wolf needs to know who she is when she's not putting on a performance for a client or audience.

Red's used to rejecting courtship advances out of hand from clients. She doesn't want them trying to get any closer outside of her work. Receiving one from someone she's never seen, though, that's something different. And Wolf's mysterious charm and predatory glint invites more desire in her than she can rightly deny.

Relevant.

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In Toxic Threads Strung (UN)
Setting: Nearly any, as long as proximity is enforced
Concept: Spreading Toxicity, Ongoing Drama, Dark Acts; Abusive or Toxic Love, customizable
Dynamic: D/s

Poison and Muse looked like the gorgeous, popular, "it" couple... if you stood back a block and squinted real hard. That Poison was a toxic partner at best was an open fact. Nevertheless, Muse was infatuated; there was no arguing her out of the relationship, no matter what kinds of marks Poison left on her heart and body. It was generally written off that she was going to spiral out until Poison lost interest.

Until, against all odds, Muse broke it off with them.

Whatever her turning point was, she had had enough, full stop, leaving Poison dumbstruck by her refusal to continue. This, of course, was wonderful news to Muse's best friend, Hopeless. Hopeless knew it was pointless to try and dissuade Muse from her relationship, so they simply supported her as best they could. With Muse no longer in Poison's grip, they could finally slide back into their primary preoccupation: pining after Muse.

Muse wasn't oblivious. She knew Hopeless was lowkey obsessed with her and wished for nothing more than her love. Unfortunately for Hopeless, toxicity has a way of infecting its victims, and Muse indulges herself in a moment of weakness, wrapping Hopeless around a poison-drenched finger. The more time they spend together, the more they play into the twisted behavior and the darker their relationship becomes - all while Muse keeps it 'pleasantly platonic'. And to top it off, Poison persistently does their wretched best to wrench their way back into Muse's life.

Iterations: From there, I see several options (though you're welcome to pitch your own!)
. Hopeless pulls a Muse and demands proper treatment or they'll walk and Muse, surprisingly, apologizes and formally asks them out.
Navigating the mutual wounds and darkness to find happiness ensues. It'll probably still be kind of fucked, though.

. Poison picks up a new partner and descends into even worse behavior, leading the partner to come to Hopeless and Muse begging for their help.
They endeavor to then destroy Poison's life (literally or figuratively).
Optionally, new partner creates a V or triad relationship with Hopeless and Muse.

. Muse goes full Poison (never go full Poison) and inverts the obsessor/obsession relationship.
Hopeless becomes inescapably trapped in her web and made to do horrible things. Tragic ending ensues.

. Poison, in a surprise twist, repents their ways. They're still not... great or upstanding, honestly, but they're trying. Truly, honestly, trying.
Amidst Muse being not so great, Hopeless finds themself unexpectedly drawn to Poison, which only makes Muse want them more.
Lots of relationship drama ensues, possible V or triad consequences.

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The Taste of Love (BON to EX)
Setting: Alt History Supernatural or Fantasy
Concept: Revenge Quest, Demonic Pact, (Very) Dark Acts, Antipathy to Love
Dynamic: Probably either switches or Witch/demon D/s, but am flexible
Gender: I specifically only want sapphic or nonbinary matchups for this one

Living as an orphan was a predictably wretched existence for her, bereft of warmth and joy. That all changed when she was taken in by a family of herbalists. Life became pleasant toil instead of risky crime and humiliating begging, and she slowly warmed up to the family that loved and accepted her as one of their own.

All of that ended after the Heresy Proclamations. 'Pagan witches using the devil's powers' were tortured and given to the flame, and it wasn't hard to be condemned into this grouping. Her family's well-respected skill in banishing sickness earned them a place on the pyre, her two adoptive siblings dying first to their barbaric methods of interrogation. In truth, she shouldn't have escaped notice - she was born and raised an actual Witch before her mothers were executed for their identities. The grief in her was quickly overshadowed by a hatred for the people and kingdom that had murdered her family twice and committed unforgivable injustices.

Returning to where the ashes of her old life was buried, she claimed the magical knowledge left by her ancestors. Obtaining allies would overwhelmingly help her position, but she didn't want anyone else to suffer for association with her - so, the Witch summoned the Demon.

Outlooks vary among demons toward humanity, yet they are always seen as a source of sustenance. Demons feed off of the emotions of mortals, and the more intense, the better. Dead mortal souls aren't as exquisite as living ones, but they do well enough in the hells tormenting such souls to wring out agony and despair.

Between their food, their society, and their environs, politics are a major preoccupation of hellish life. Greater power directly translates to more food, more security, and less work. So it was that the Demon was in the midst of orchestrating a coup when they vanish from the hells to find themselves bound in a summoning circle. The Demon understandably resents the Witch for ruining their coup (and incurring dire punishment when they do return to the hells), and does not view humanity with anything resembling pleasant feels. The Witch remains patient, however, and with no comfortable home to return to for the indefinite future, the Demon eventually accepts a pact: they will aid the Witch in their quest for vengeance.

In the journey that follows, the Witch will come to trust and rely on the Demon contrary to any expectation, and learn of the misery of demonic society, while the Demon will be treated with empathy for the first time in their existence, and experience the intoxicating emotional dishes of a mortal with a singular intensity, learning one of the greatest lies of demonic society: joy and love taste infinitely better than pain and hatred.

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The Suicide Café (UN)
Setting: Modern or Cyberpunk
Concept: Mental Health, Doomed Romance, Surprisingly Wholesome, Terminal Illness/Suicide Pact (optional); can be played with an Escalating Tragedy trajectory, but doesn't have to be
Dynamic: Very much open
Gender: I specifically only want sapphic or nonbinary matchups for this one
Plot Arc: Unlike most of my prompts, I am 100% on board with this ending in utter tragedy; that said, I'm also up for having a happy twist ending

It's hard to talk to friends and family about suicide. They get upset, they make it about themselves, they argue with you about it - really, they just don't get it. The grey area between choosing life and death where many find themselves mired is a difficult place to see without being in it yourself. Sometimes you're tired of talking about trying to get better, too. And, well, there's a certain peace to be found in accepting that sort of fate.

So it was that The Suicide Café was started. An informal, biweekly meetup at a semi-popular café on Wednesdays, advertised fairly subtly to avoid protest or outreach. All you had to do was show up wearing a safety pin to flag your participation. This was a place and time for the terminally depressed and despairing to meet up and hang out with people who get it. No awkward reveals of mental health issues, no bottling up all of that misery. No judgment. Here, you could commiserate and laugh together about all of the awful without risking anything.

And with nothing to risk, many of the attendants who might have otherwise struggled with socializing found it easy to talk about anything and everything. More than a few close relationships developed.

So it went with Doomed and Cursed. Doomed had no prospects, little in the way of family and friends, and no hope for real, enduring change from their condition. Cursed suffered an unending string of bad fortune, always putting them back several steps any time they made any headway.

Outside the café, they probably would have never been in a space to talk to each other. At the café, they began a relationship that could spiral wide open into whatever hopes and dreams they could fulfill for one another. After all, they had nothing to lose.
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A Bloom Slowly Unfurling (BON)
Setting: Modern, Cyberpunk or Fantasy
Concept: Deeply Wholesome, Dialogue Heavy, Patient Kink Exploration; Slice of Life (optional), possibility of other elements, open to discuss
Dynamic: Clear D/s dynamic here, but the content can skew between mild kink to edge play kink, and I'm open to the possibility of an eventual switch dynamic as well
Gender: I specifically only want sapphic or nonbinary matchups for this one
Character: Unlike most of my prompts, I only want to play the shyly bottoming character of the two

It wasn't like they didn't know each other. They played in some of they same circles, enjoyed some of each other's company, and respected each other's work. Their kinship as fellow tops wasn't that intimate, but it was established; they were more like fellow enthusiasts than flirtatious friends.

One of them had been losing the pulse of desire, though. The spark in topping wasn't scratching the itches like it used to, and the care, energy and planning that went into it felt more like a burden than an exciting endeavor. They could try to explain it away with a variety of reasons, yet none of it quite resonated.

The deeper truth behind the control fatigue was a yearning for trust, vulnerability, and... bottoming. See, their introduction to bottoming was laden with trauma, and that door was quickly closed and locked tight. Yearning brewed beneath everything, though, and eventually the cry of it pushed its way toward the surface.

A fateful night spent talking more than usual breaks the dam, and the desire rises with a fierce intensity. But this sort of thing was fraught with fear, uncertainty, and pain. One doesn't just... ask for something like this, up front, after locking it away for so long. Something about their interactions, how they handled themselves, it just put them at ease. If it was at all possible to push past their skittishness, this was the person; this was the chance.

How long would it take for them to work up the courage, though? How would this friend see them if they opened up this side to them? Would they even be interested in an inexperienced bottom who needed lots of patience and trust?

Eventually, they couldn't help themselves: they had to ask. What followed was a journey of romance and kink that they never dared hope for in this lifetime.

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It Cannot End Like This (BON to EX)
Setting: Fantasy or Magepunk
Concept: Ghoul & Humanity, Necromancy, Poverty & Marginalization, Very Dark Acts
Dynamic: Can see either being more top/dominant, and both are interesting to me
Gender: In m/f matchups, I prefer the ghoul-bitten character be f

Little makes you lower in the realms' society than working with the dead, and necromancers make it their life. It doesn't matter that they can reconstruct and reattach your limb. You wouldn't want to be caught getting services from a necromancer when clean, respectable healers can you help at temples. There's a thin silver lining in that, though: when no one wants to look at you, you have a certain freedom to live your life as you please.

It's never been easy for these childhood friends, but they've always had each other. In work, in play, in trouble and success, they've been the only respite and aid they can truly count on for one another. With parents dead to plague or snared up in addictions, and a society that despised them well before they even started in dark magics, they've carved their own way to a semblance of a precarious yet happy life.

But then their partner got infected. They wanted to surprise their best friend with a special commission, and get them a gift they'd wanted for years. Instead, they stumbled in, half turned into a ghoul and getting worse by the hour. Most would have abandoned or mercy killed them there, yet unbeknownst to their partner, they'd been trying to find the words to tell them their true feelings. This... changed many things. But it didn't change their love or their loyalty. They would never abandon them.

Even if they now hungered for their flesh.

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It Could Be No Other (UN)
Setting: Fantasy or Magepunk, Victorian-esque
Concept: Fraternal Twins, High Society, Slow Burn, Secret Love, Necromancy
Dynamic: Possibly mutual switches; am pretty open for this one

It wasn't intentional. One does not mean to fall in love with their sibling; even the royals try to keep it to cousins. And yet, who else could be so perfect? Growing up together with distant and demanding parents, the twins kept each other's confidences. Following in the family footsteps of aiming for prestige in magic, they were both the strongest competition and the fiercest supporters of one another. In speech, in art, in dance, in craft - well, with a twin so perfect, how could they not love them?

But to admit that out loud... They tried to disabuse their heart of its notions. To separate affection and familial love from infatuation - no, that was too impotent a word for their feelings. No matter how hard they tried, it stung as the burning obsession of romantic love. And the more they tried to smother the feelings, the more their need grew.

Of course, time was not their friend. The twins were both adults, and despite their collegiate studies, the pressure to marry off and bring further power and prestige to their family was building. It would increase exponentially when they graduated. And atop all that, even if their twin shared their passions, the scandal would be tremendous. Surely their parents would disown or banish them if they found out. And so the struggle was twofold: win the heart of their twin and chart a future where they could be together. All while their parents and society endeavored to push them into different paths they resented.

There was no other option, though. They could love no other the way they yearned for their sibling.

Example starting post for this story at (EX).

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Journey (UN)
Setting: Fantasy or Alt History Supernatural
Concept: Long Journey, Slow Burn, Wholesome Companionship; direness of obstacles faced is open; see iterations below
Dynamic: Pretty open for this

Life as an itinerant healer isn't glamorous, lucrative, or often comfortable. At least one can usually count on being well received, and trade services for supplies, sustenance and lodging. It is, however, quite lonely. Still, the work is rewarding, and the freedom extravagant. They'd known this life for awhile, and felt no reservations about pursuing it for years upon years.

That solitude comes crashing to an end with the encounter of an unusual companion in need of assistance. What begins as a commitment of a few hours turns into a few days, and as they divulge their situation, it becomes clear that they could really use help in reaching their destination. And, even if they'd rather not admit it, the unusual companion has been facing loneliness for quite some time themselves. It wouldn't be that bad to have another soul with them on their journey.

Rather, it might be exactly what they both need.

Unusual Companion Iterations

• Semi-Monstrous Creature or Spirit must go in disguise or face persecution/death
• Wrongfully accused Warrior with a bounty on their head
• Exiled Highborn from another continent
• Typically-evil Creature or Demon who turned their back on their species/society's usual ways

Destination Iterations

• Unusual Companion's homeland/hometown to a location requiring months of travel
• Pilgrimage of the 13 Shrines, said to grant a wish at the end; half the shrines are unknown, and several are highly dangerous (optionally, both characters want to pursue this pilgrimage for different reasons)
• A hidden mountain sanctuary, where all sorts of outcasts find acceptance and peace, at the edge of the frontier
• Ancient and infamous ruins/dungeon said to contain an artifact that will largely solve Unusual Companion's predicament

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A Monster By Any Other Name (UN)
Setting: Steampunk, Alt History Supernatural, or Fantasy
Concept: Unrequited Love, Romantic Pursuit, Body Horror/Grotesquerie, Age-Related Power Imbalance
Dynamic: There's an obvious D/s dynamic that's interesting to me because of a reluctant top, but no dynamic is required

They only call you mad scientist when you're not wealthy enough to be called eccentric. Still, the Scientist was never one to be dissuaded from their obsessions because of things like propriety. And they were close - so close to succeeding in the reanimation of flesh, and the creation of life from death. A freak accident created a certain opportunity in a fresh body, and a second chance at life for a soul who died young in their adulthood.

The Monster born from it was a mix of fragmented memories, amalgamated personality, and a tabula rasa. Fortunately for the Monster, the Scientist was kind and surprisingly considerate in their nurturing of them. One might not be surprised that they developed an infatuation toward their reanimator, between their thoughtful care and lovably odd nature. Unfortunately, the Scientist had made it clear from the first sign of flirtation that they were a caretaker - not a love interest. It would feel wrong to take advantage of the multiple power imbalances, and the relative innocence of the infatuation only made it more unsettling to indulge it with them.

Perhaps, though, one thing the Monster learned from the Scientist was obsession. And no matter how difficult the world became toward the act of the Scientist and the existence of their creation, the Monster was decided: the Scientist would love them, however long it took.

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It Can Always Get Worse (BON)
Setting: Fantasy, Alt History, or else; not picky with this one
Concept: Captivity & Bondage, Fighting Over Control, Escapades & Shenanigans, Endless Complications
Dynamic: While it lends itself to the captive being more dominant to seduce their captor, dueling tops also sounds fun as they go back and forth in holding control, as does tops discovering bottoming with one other
Gender-Character: In m/f matchups, I'd want to play the m role

Being on the run isn't the worst thing for a rogue. They're already used to picking their own way through expectations and obstacles, finding fun wherever they can, and making coin from any opportunity that presents itself. Sure, it wasn't the wisest decision to bed the duke's progeny, but they were asking for it. And not even eloquently at that.

So it was that the rogue found themselves a target for enterprising bounty hunters. Eventually, a rogue's luck runs out, and they find themselves bound and being dragged back for a handsome reward. But can the hunter truly resist the rogue's wiles through the long trip back?

And worse - what's a rogue to do when they fall in love with their captor?

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Song Prompt: I Want Your Polluted Marrow (UN)
Gender: I specifically only want sapphic or nonbinary matchups for this vibe
Dynamic: D/s

This is just a song prompt, because I haven't nailed down a Concept for it yet, but it speaks to a dynamic and characters I'm low-key obsessed with, so throwing this out there in case it inspires a story idea. ^^

Flower Face - Spiracle

Alternatively, it could feature in the relationships within The Taste of Love, A Bloom Slowly Unfurling, or It Cannot End Like This.

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Song Prompt: Tear My Life Apart In Two (UN)
Dynamic: D/s, probably

I've loved this song for a few years now (and oh it feels so very deeply Dove Armitage). I'll be feeding it into broken glass to churn out a full plot sooner or later, but it's nevertheless a vibe that I've always wanted to see in an RP.
Show me how dark you can get.

Dove Armitage - In Chaos

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Song Prompt: You Know That I Take Anything (UN)
Dynamic: ??

I've tried to crack the code on this song, to turn it into an RP that contorts my insides like this song does, but I've failed. So please, dear reader, if you see a shape for it, please reach out and tell me.

July Talk - Push + Pull

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