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Earth Abides (FxM or FxM see RP Description)

Men go and come but the earth abides. - George R. Stewart (1949)

You know that old insult, "Not if you were the last (man/woman) on Earth?" Well, you are the last. A virus had wiped "everyone" else out. You have a whole planet to yourself. Or rather you thought you did.

Characters
You would have been in your junior or senior year of high school when the Plague broke out. (My character was in her junior year and had turned 16 at the start of the school year. She will be 17.5 years old at the start of the RP.)

I designed my character as she was before the Plague - adjusting her age to the current time. I didn’t edit out her old life. But expect things to have changed quite a bit for her. I will make some adjustments depending on what sort of character you design.

My character … drive.google.com/open?id=1M68qutUE3RU…

This will be either an FxM or FxF. However, my character is hetero, so if this is an FxF, it will be a friendship. I also have some male NPC I may introduce.

NOTE: The characters are not actually Immune. They have a strong resistance much as you and I can resist the common cold or a touch of flu. I have a very specific origin to both the Plague and the “Immunes.”

Plague Chronology
Mar 2024. First Plague victims. The Plague is characterized as a flu-like disease with a slow, debilitating wasting symptom not unlike walking pneumonia. At first they appear in major population centers, then they spread rapidly to the rural areas. It is soon determined that the Plague is airborne, but may be spread by fluids, or contact. The disease is 100% fatal with patients becoming terminal in 1-3 months (dependent largely on original state of health).

April 2024. .01% of the planet has symptoms. First deaths.

May 2024. .05% of the planet infected. Death toll rises to 10,000.

August 2024. The virus is pandemic reaching every continent. 0.1% of the world's population is dead - 7 million. 1% are infected. Martial Law declared.

Sept 2024. 5% infected. 0.5% dead (35 million) Many consider this the start of the Hell Months.

Oct thru Dec 2024. The Hell months. During this time the world becomes nearly apocalyptic as 25% of the population is now dead. The virus continues to spread largely through panic to 90%. The power grid fails, internet crashes toward the end of Fall. Many Zoos release their specimens rather than simply allow them to starve. Many farmers do the same with livestock. Pets run wild. Dogs begin forming into packs. Cats turn feral.

Jan 2025 thru Feb 2025 Winter. The death toll is staggering. A few scattered remaining humans remain - less than 0.01% worldwide. (NYC with a population of 10 million before the Plague would now have less than 1000 survivors at this point. Most are infected and will die soon.) Small pockets of quarantine zones pop up in rumors - Sanctuaries. But most are discovered as lifeless husks of civilization. Those that still survive have strict quarantine policies. The remaining population of the Earth is now 70,000 or less - lower that ever in history since before biblical times. These figures continue to dwindle.

Equipment:
The world is our oyster. It isn’t as though anyone is gonna stop us from from taking whatever we want. The internet is gone. Electricity went down fast. Gasoline goes bad after 3 to 6 months (unless it was prepared before the infrastructure collapsed). By the end of a year most gas, (Sep 2025) will be near worthless. Even diesel is starting to have problems. Running water is a thing of the past. Regions powered by hydroelectric or solar may still be operational.

You know those shooting stars you are starting to see? Those aren’t meteors. They are all the crap we put in space.

Respond via PM please.

Couple of FxM Ideas

Diane Matthews

Age 15-16 (turns 16 in Sept of her junior year)
Height 5’6”
Hair: Black
Eyes: Blue (very intense)
Clothes: Looks like something she got at Goodwill when she first arrives. But has a tendency to go with jeans, or blue jean looking blues like the shirt above. Also will get a brown leather jacket for cooler weather, maybe a jean jacket.
Jewelry and Tattoos: None

Personality and interests
General:
Quiet unless she has been triggered by a dislike
Workaholic mentality (this includes homework)
She avoids social media for the most part, though she can't completely avoid it given her blogging. She's a bit of a hippie / treehugger. She is not in the slightest bit squeamish about gutting a fish ... and laughed herself silly watching an episode of TBBT where Penny is teaching how to bait a hook and gut fish to the boys.

Likes:
Health nut (won’t drink sodas, eat junk food)
Jogging
Rock Climbing
Swimming
Computers (building and coding)
Recycling
Digital photography and video
CGI fantasy art
Blogging
Writing

Dislikes:
SJW’s
Cyberbullies
Bullies in general
Gangs
Drugs, smoking, alcohol

Quirks:
Thinks Vegans are silly. (“Pass me the A1.”)
OCD (not extremely so. She’s not like Sheldon from TBBT. But her books are arranged on shelves by subject, alphabetized. When she buys groceries she organizes everything in neat rows and in set number - like 4 of everything. If bored she’ll start organizing everyone else’s stuff.)
Writes in calligraphy. Sometimes uses words that most people have to look up in dictionaries.

Phobias
Demophobia, mild
Arachnophobia

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I am looking for a good writing partner to team this character up with in an FxM. I would prefer Modern. I have a couple scenarios that just need to be tweaked a little for her. An FxF would also work, but that would be more of a friendship and co-conspirator setup.

New Girl
In this one she has just moved into the area. It needs be a bit rural as she has moved to get away from some bad stuff. She will quickly gain the nickname Junkyard Jane as her foster parents live next to and run a salvage yard.

Not If You Were the Last
This one begins with Diane about 17.5 years old. It is one year after a Plague began that has all but wiped out the human race. It is 100% fatal. But a handful of “Immunes” have survived (about 70,000 left, many in hiding). This one could be a small group.

I will entertain other scenarios. But these are the main two I am looking at.

Soulmate Swap (MxF)

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Soulmate Swap (MxF)

This RP about a teenage boy and girl who begin swapping bodies. They do not get the other’s memories. They will have to figure out how to live one another’s lives until they swap back. I plan to run the boy. In this case my character will be an 18 year old Freshman in college. That is a little older than in the anime. (Alternately, if you prefer younger characters, the youngest I would go is 16, which would adjust the RP start date to sometime in 2017. The actual date is going to be extremely important.)

Both should live in the USA. However, they may eventually learn that they live on alternate Earths. They have no counterpart in the other person’s realm.

It will take a few back and forth swaps but my character will eventually figure out when the next swap will occur. Depending on the nature of your character she may have some idea what is going on eventually as well.

Character
The CS will need to be far more detailed than usual. That is, we will need to know many of the details of each other’s setting, family, jobs, classes, etc. We will also need to know what possessions, pets, etc each other has. We will need to know where they live - real places. Describe their personal spaces. Use a good photo for your image (no animated gifs please).

Please no drugs, smoking or alcohol. It isn’t that this isn’t realistic. I simply won’t enjoy it.

Both should be single, unattached … still searching for their soulmate.

NOTE: You will need to run any NPC’s associated with your character. Family, boss, etc.

Mirrors
Mirrors allow them to see into each other’s realm when they are close to them at the same time.

If they both touch a mirror at the same time that can see the other rather than their own reflection.

If both touch the SAME mirror at the same time, they can speak to one another.

Swapping
Swapping only occurs at preset times. I actually have a list of the possible times that covers a 6000 year period. The times are roughly a week apart and are very exact - and even predictable down to the minute if you know what the times mean.

Respond via PM. The RP will be in PM's. Give me some idea of your preference on age - the young adult of the teen. I can work with either.

The Secretary (MxF Near Future)

Your origin story goes something like this:
youtu.be/0-dablOIdjY

Whisked away through the Twilight Zone by the simple act of making a photocopy to an alternate Earth where a good secretary is revered. Without a SECRETARY how can the world possibly function? Employers look like fools; businesses fail; nothing ever gets done.

Now unlike the secretary in this video, you don’t have the perfect job lined up. But you did run into a headhunter that gave you his card. SHE specializes in finding critical employees for helpless employers and negotiates salary and benefits. The job she finds you is one of working for DHS as a civilian contractor to assist a two time Nobel prize winning scientist - who doesn’t think he needs a secretary. However, HE isn’t the one hiring you. HE can’t fire you. And as many meetings as he has been late to or had to ‘wing it’ he clearly needs help. The man always wears the same clothes - well new versions of the same thing he wore yesterday. Okay … he has a butler for that.

PM me with a CS. I am not picky about format, but please no animated gifs or toons. I would prefer to run the RP in PM's.

Man's World (MxF)

Long ago (2037) a reign of nuclear bombs obliterated civilization in a few minutes of blazing horror. It was the end of the world - Doomsday - Skydark. With the first nuclear explosion, the tissue thin tapestry of civilization was ripped apart. The rule of law was replaced overnight with the somber draconian edict of survival of the fittest. Cannibals hunted prey. Cold hearts brutally raided farms. And slavers seized anybody they could as chattel. Electricity was seldom seen. Starvation universal. Rape a daily event. Death the only known means of escape. -paraphrased from James Axler’s Deathlands series intro.

Storyteller’s Note: Below does NOT reflect any personal views. It merely sets the environment.

Those were the early days after Skydark. Centuries have passed since those dark days and slowly mankind has begun to rise from this dark age. But we have yet a very long way to go. Noone is really sure just how many years have passed since that dark time. But with the fall of civilization humans reverted to older ways of life. Women, who had once won their freedom are once more second class citizens at best. Women have no rights.

A woman may not be a warrior. In many lands doing so brings a severe punishment. Females belong to the male head of household until she is married off, traded, or even sold into slavery. A woman who loses her husband is in an extremely vulnerable position.

Your Role
You will create a female character complete with origin story. You may come from one of a variety of backgrounds. A country noble's seventh daughter ... maybe. Really, the more common their origins the better. Butcher your families, have your hometown raped and pillaged, have Dad die of disease or battle, be some blacksmith's daughter disappointed for the lack of a son, or refuse to marry that A-hole of a noble. Lots of options.

You will have to cut your hair short and disguise yourself as a man, and set out to become a mercenary. This is a very risky process. First you must “sell” yourself to a dealer in labor. This is a little backwards as it really means bribing him to put you on the auction block. He has to feed you until he can sell you.

At the auction block military and mercenary captains, chain gang overlords will “buy” the contracts of raw recruits. The real kicker is that women, for the most part, make for some scrawny men and will fetch very low prices. If NOT get bought you end up on a chain gang - working in mines, or even in the cities harvesting steel. That means a harsh life, and probably an even shorter one at that. Still as times are harsh - and one must eat to survive - you need work. And it is either this, or less glamorous positions.

Now here is the real kicker. You are going to end up bought by some mercenary lord, who clearly is lacking in funds to buy the beefier men. He is actually buying the cheapest man for the most part, saving funds for perhaps one or two quality warrior potential individuals. He isn’t a fool though. He actually inspects each recruit for general health - and some qualities noone can be certain of. If he were a team captain picking players for a game, it would look like he was picking a losers.

Is he buying cannon fodder? Is that it? He doesn’t have a cruel look to him. Whatever his game, you have made it past the first stage - you have passed yourself off as a man. Now you have to make it work as you go through boot camp. Although this man called you a boy so young you haven’t even got peach fuzz. But he ‘likes them young.” You sure hope he means so he can train you from a young age. The way he looked you up and down made some of the other men look at him as though he had … other reasons.

Afterthought: Another option for your origin would be to come from the past - before Skydark and have found yourself in a nightmarish post apocalyptic world and find yourself being sold into slavery to our mercenary - presumably to service his men - or himself.

NOTE: As this is a Romance, one would think that our mercenary isn't quite as bad he seems.

Skills and Technologies:
It has been at least a century since Skydark. Martial arts are a forgotten art. Modern gunpowder is a forgotten science, but black powder is known in some regions. Repeating firearms are exceedingly rare. Possession of one is really just a good way to get killed.

Most people can’t even read.

Setting
The RP begins in the Southeastern USA. Locally, technology includes up to black powder weaponry, a secret closely guarded. Old baronies (city states) are beginning to collect into small kingdoms. Marauders ravage the countryside. The remnants of old cities of the Ancients are being mined for steel - creating Steel Wars.

The recruiting scene that starts the RP takes place in Rock City (near Chattanooga, TN). Old Chattanooga is heavily patrolled by Rock City. The lord of Rock City is conquest hungry and wants to control all the lands visible from his home. He is currently trying to enlarge his castle while expanding his domain. But he is a man of law and order and not a depraved A-hole like many barons.

Permanent Vacation (MxF)

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Permanent Vacation (MxF)

Spoiler Alert: The Island is New Zealand. The area is Bridal Veil Falls. The YEAR will come as a shock as no humans have ever set foot on New Zealand and won't for a very long time. The year is 1000 BCE.
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A little burned out from high school, then college, then working two jobs just to get by and starting to worry about wrinkles still having never met Mr Right, you made a wish. Correction, you made three wishes. You wished to get lost in a romantic vacation on a south seas island. You wished to live in a world where men worshipped the ground you walked on and wanted no more than to please you. And you wished you never had to worry about getting old.

When you woke up you did so to the sound of a waterfall not far off, the sounds of exotic birds. You were in a bungalow built from native materials of the area, like you were in an episode of Gilligan’s Island. The king-sized canopy bed you slept in was covered with what felt like 1000 count Egyptian cotton sheets. The pillows were absolutely perfect.

Then you realized you weren’t exactly alone in the bed. There was a blanket hog on the other side of the bed turned away from you. His clothes - and yours - were scattered in a path that had led to the bed - the last item some 10 feet from the bed. From you angle, all you could tell was that the guy was tall - at least 6’6” - tanned to a nice bronze, and had medium length jet black hair. Judging from the muscles that connected his neck to his shoulders, he was in superb condition.

Be careful what you wish for.

If interested, PM me. Include a CS for your character. For a pic, please no toons and no animated gifs. Your character age should be enough to account for college and a few years on the job. (Hint: You will arrived on the island at you perfect physical peak age in perfect health. And … you will never age.)

Not My Usual Cup of Tea (Double Gender Bender)

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Not My Usual Cup of Tea (Double Gender Bender)

physically changing gender. They do not even have to resemble the person they once were. Some 6'7 guy with black hair could become a petite redhead. (And if I make typos right now, I am at work and on a laptop in sunlight.)