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[Desdemonia]

Greetings and welcome to this humble little request thread! The name is Desdemonia. If you read my introduction post (no pressure if not!) then you know I am a lover of slow burn romances set in either a historical or fantasy setting. I don't mind elements of smut within post themselves though the amount would vary depending on the plot itself. I do tend to prefer an age difference between characters, if there is one, to be between 3-5 years with most of the characters I play ranging from 20-24 years old as a sort of reference. Again, this can change depending on what plot I'm ding with someone, but this is the range I tend to prefer to stick in. I tend to write between 600-800 words for an average post but I generally try to match how ever much my partner posts (ie. you write a novel, I write a novel. You write one line, I write one line). There are plenty more plots to come but here are one or two that has been nibbling at the back of my mind for some time.

Plots:

A World Apart
MC's world as she knows it has completely fallen apart in the past few months. The youngest child and only princess in the Kingdom of Ethil, she has watched diseases ravage her brothers. With two already dead and buried from the cursed plague, the royal household receives news that her mothers only brother, a ruler in her mother's far off homeland, has passed from the very illness that took the lives of her brothers. With her father still recovering from the disease, one brother still fighting for his life against the disease, and the youngest, though healthy, must remain within the Kingdom should the unthinkable happen; MC is nominated to travel to the Kingdom of her childless uncle until one of her brothers can join her. It is at this foreign court that she meets YC. However, when news arrives that her sickly brother has passed and that her last sibling must remain in their homeland to act as king in their sickly father's place, it becomes ever clear that . Foreign threats, assassination attempts, and enough manipulation to make George R. R Martin blush, what path will our characters take?

Once Upon a December
The House go Grygore seized the throne from the benevolent House of Gwyer in a bloody coup. MC, who was just a small babe in her mother's arms when it had happened, has spent the past 22 years living peacefully with her mother, the last remaining of House Gwyer, on the edge of a sleepy farming village at the edge of the Kingdom. Shortly before her death when MC was 20, her mother would often talk about a glittering childhood within the castle and her longing to see those she had lost after the coup. MC had always thought it was the mutterings of a broken hearted women who had lost those she loved shortly after the start of the wicked King of House Grygore's rule.
MC had resigned herself to fighting out a meager existence against the harsh rule of the King until she stumbled across YC when selling some herbs in the village center. Their chance encounter sets a light a path that will bring a nation to its knees. Will they survive to tell the tale?
****As an aside, this idea is also based on a sort of specific scene that does not have to be included, between MC and YC, which can also be discussed if interested.****

Pairings
Gladiator x Roman Noble woman ( I have like 3/4s thought out plot for this)
Viking x Celtic Woman (I have a plot for this...kind of)
Princess x Bodyguard
Arranged Marriage
Healer x Warrior (I think it would be fun to have a romantic story unfold between one who views life as something precious to save and another who is willing to give their life for a cause)
Reincarnated Lovers

Please feel free to PM with any interest in any of the plots and pairings above!
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