- Modern, present day setting in LA.
- MxF; need the female -- the plot starts with them just as college graduation looms for her.
- Plot is based on relationship, but more about the psychology than anything.
- Sex, drugs and rock n' roll will be referenced, but I'm not about writing in depth about sex; this is out in the forum, so those rules apply. Abuse and addiction are also major themes; these are parts of the characters lives, though not the basis of the RP. Rated-R works.
- We'll need to develop the history of the two characters a bit before starting.
- You will probably need to work up several NPC's as well.
- Ideal candidate is a rock fan.
- Advanced standards; I am cool with shorter posts for interaction, however. My first posts tend to be a bit long.
- If interested, please PM, preferably with character ideas as well as ideas for the NPC's that you would want to control, such as friends and family of your character. I don't mind you throwing your brainstorming at me -- to the contrary, I welcome it.

They're childhood friends; they shared the sandbox, and managed to survive puberty together as friends, though it never materialized into anything significant during high school.

She is about to graduate from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and has a seemingly nice boyfriend who attends school at University of Southern California (USC) that seems to have good prospects upon leaving school, economically. She seems dead set on having a nice, middle class lifestyle, the sort of thing parents like to imagine for their kids -- safe, stable and respectable. Her parents tell her she can do anything, but then they also exert subtle pressure for her to go in the direction they think is best for her; inevitably, that is the path of least resistance, of least risk. She has talents she could use to start a career, but instead she plays it safe. She grew up with both parents in a stable marriage, and had a fairly easy time of high school; popular, praised by teachers. There is, however, this subconscious anxiety-- that high school was the peak, and it's all downhill. Husband, family, picket fences, parties on the veranda. Mundanity. She's looking at a stark choice in life; postgraduate work or marry someone who is already high-flying and wealthy.

He didn't know who his father was, but his mother always seemed to have enough money to raise him in a middle class manner, and that was why they were next door neighbors. He struggled in school, considered a bit of loner up until the summer he found the guitar and started playing seriously, obsessively in fact, but had the opportunity to go to college alongside her and turned it down; instead he took a job at Manny's Power Sound on the Strip. He plays in a band, trying to make it big on the club circuit, where he now struggles to pay the bills. It isn't that he has talent, it's that he's not playing it safe in case things don't turn out so well - he's blowing his money on equipment and the lifestyle. His band does an awful lot of drugs and seems to live fast and dangerously, partying with a cast of unsavory characters, but they have a following that is only getting larger with every gig they play and the men with the deals are starting to circle, like vultures. He wants to live the life his way, rather than settle for normal or easy.

They split the rent on an apartment, while they each try to make the the so-called "good life" happen, but both find out that what they want isn't all they dreamed of.

I suppose the themes here will be the way both of them sort of wind up in their own nightmare, rock-bottom scenarios. Somewhere along the lines of this 1x1, I fully expect a lot of fights and a storming out, a deal-breaker where each character winds up somewhat isolated from each other; he has the drugs and she has a boyfriend that turns into a massive douche once she's slowly separated from her old friends and makes his friends her friends. It's an RP about fucking up and getting back on your feet, and how people sometimes need each other. I'm not sure what else to say, except that I am open to plot twists and variations on the theme; this was an RP I was going to do with someone else, but she seemed to bail, so I've organized my brainstorm into an interest check to see what we get.

I've put a lot of effort into this RP, and a lot of people tend to respond, but I don't feel as if it's for everyone. More than any other RP I do, I am uber-selective about who I will do this with. I feel as if I want to make sure justice is done to the concept and I've had a few false starts where the effort felt very one-sided. (Note: I've also had like two good runs where this thing just died because the other player left the Guild entirely; real life happens. That's why this check is up at all.) I have my flaws in writing, and my biggest is that I am often not as interactive as some, but I also want someone that can pull off plot and writing on their own, since a lot of this story is the characters sort of coping with their problems on their own and how they do lead separate lives that touch from time to time. While I am cool with collaborating, I want a partner that basically is willing to do their share in that collaboration, rather than sit back and expect me to come up with a lot.

This RP simply does not work without being fully engaged as a writer. The thing is, you don't have to be perfect or anything, because I've done this RP with partners (who disappeared from the Guild entirely, unfortunately, or this check wouldn't be up) who have made errors in grammar and spelling but were good at driving the plot and doing dialogue. What I really want is that you really like this RP and feel immediately compelled to write about the subject matter, and so when someone replies to this, I'd rather go beyond, "hi, I'm interested" and move straight to, "Hi, these are the ideas I have for my character and her friends/family" or other NPC's.

Plotwise, there's a lot of Beverly Hills 90210 and Melrose Place going on here. Then again, those shows were extremely popular in their time.