Lesbian bullying / Life is Strange

[TheVariableX]

I'm looking for an enthusiastic partner for a roleplay, based on the Life is Strange universe using cannon characters.

Victoria and Maxine

I'd like to try to play as Max in a story featuring bullying and hazing as a gateway to more sexual acts, and a more developed relationship. 

Victoria Chase is the popular alpha bitch of Blackwell Academy, and Max Caulfield is the loner/loser who is secretly crushing on her hard.  Lately, whenever Victoria bullies or embarrasses her, it gives Max strange butterflies in her stomach.  Rather than avoid her bully, Max has begun a surreptitious campaign of sitting closer and closer to Victoria in class, passing by her in the halls, and lately even trying to sync up their showers.  Despite good social radar, Victoria hasn't necessarily noticed this yet, as her real energies are usually reserved to deal with girls she considers a threat to her social standing, of which Max certainly isn't.

The plot kicks off when Victoria releases a compromising and humiliating video of a fellow female student undergoing hazing to try to join the schools elitist social club.  The release was done anonymously, but at the same time everyone knows Victoria is behind it. Max is shocked and outraged, but when she sees Victoria and lots of other girls begin to tease and bully the girl irl, it doesn't take long before Max finds it shamefully arousing.  After being vocally against the snobby social club, Max now has to reverse course and come to Victoria begging to be allowed to join. 

Of course it is unthinkable that Victoria would let a loser like Max into the club, and Victoria will be pretty sure that even Max would know that, so it probably doesn't take her too long to work out Max isn't just accidentally risking public embarrassment but rather she is seeking it out.  Victoria will presumably oblige her, but when Max comes back for more it's nearly impossible to maintain the pretext that she is there for anything other than a masochistic high.  This is certainly not something Victoria will be expecting or probably have any experience with, and how she and they move forward is the meat of the story.



While it might be possible and enjoyably to attempt to follow some of the broad strokes of the plot, engaging with what is essentially a murder mystery, a general re-imagining along similar tone is also possible, as is just using personalities and settings to instead play out a more generic senior high school experience, with more focus on the characters and their relationships. I would be looking for a realistic tone to the story, at least in terms of the characters reliably making understandable choices within a world that makes sense, even if there is then some supernatural element introduced. 
             
Specific themes I would expect the story to cover would include lots of relationship themes, such as rekindling old friendships, feelings of isolation and abandonment, young love, growth and change.  Other themes could include conspiracy, with more than one exclusive or secret  club, cult or group moving behind the scenes.  Photography would also be a potential theme, including the permanence of images, the tentacles of social media, truth versus images, surveillance and control. 

As far as the characters go, I'd like to portray their inexperience as teenagers.  Despite her current social status, Victoria is still a vulnerable young woman with doubts and hangups.  She hasn't always been on top, and will worry, perhaps more than is healthy, about someone taking what's hers.  She isn't some closeted whip cracking mistress.  In theory, she could even still be a virgin.  She could be straight, bi-curious, or secretly (or unknowingly) gay.  She might become sexually interested in Maxine, or not.  Perhaps she has little to no interest in girls, but instead finds she enjoys control as much as Max enjoys surrendering power.  She might realize she loves causing humiliation (or even some pain) as much as Max craves it.  At the end of the day she isn't prepared to suddenly have this shy but deviant lesbian masochist crushing on her or even stalking her if necessary. 

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November