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❝ A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but he don't want to. Rightly so. Best not to look in there. It ain't the heart of a creature that is bound in the way that God has set for it. You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow.❞
- ᴄᴏʀᴍᴀᴄ ᴍᴄᴄᴀʀᴛʜʏ, ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴍᴇʀɪᴅɪᴀɴ
title: tbd.
relationship type: either m/m or m/f. happy to hear pitches for both
keywords: neo-noir, morality, memory loss, government conspiracies, slice of life, hurt/comfort, slow burn, redemption
fictional influences: drive (2011), the winter soldier, the bourne series, the man from nowhere (2012)
plot outline:
The man who lives in apartment 411 is a model tenant as far as his landlord is concerned. He's quiet and clean and he pays his rent by the year - in cash. The slumlord who owns the rundown apartment building is happy to accept his money and not ask questions, which is exactly why he'd chosen this place.
He works as a mechanic during the day, although as a worker with basically no documentation, he's paid under the table and horribly exploited as a result. He doesn't say anything, just keeps his head down and his thoughts to himself. If one cared to look, they might see that he was running away from something. But most people are too wrapped up in their own struggles to notice such a thing. They don't see the scars under his clothes, or the significant amount of lean muscle hidden by slightly baggy outfits. The man keeps to himself and avoids confrontation, seemingly immune to the demands of pride or machismo.
Your character is the neighbor in an adjoining apartment, a single parent (mother or father, doesn't matter) with a small child - or an older sibling acting as sole caretaker. They're the only person who has ever been kind to the man, bringing him cookies when he'd first moved in. Basically the only person who smiles at him. The relationship starts out small - saying hello in the elevator. He fixes their car for free. They bring casseroles. He bonds with their child. Both of them are wounded and slow to trust, but they do. Their brief interactions become the highlight of his otherwise staid life. YC thinks he's a little odd and very reserved, always declining to talk about himself. Still, they think he's a nice guy - especially because he's nice to their kid. That wins a lot of points, especially in a rough building like theirs.
But YC is also in trouble. The nature of this trouble could be anything you like: an abusive ex with mob ties? or they were forced to take loans from the only source available to them: the sharks, and now they owe a lot of money to some very bad people. I'm happy to take ideas. And there's always the matter of his past, because the bill always comes due at the end. He knows any accidental happiness was bound to be fleeting, because there are some very dangerous people who want him caught - or barring that, neutralized.
random scene ideas:
- mc loses his shit and murders someone fairly brutally in front of yc (because that person had hurt yc). yc is pretty understandably upset at being covered in blood
- yc patching mc up, maybe stitches or relocating limbs, yc telling him him he'd better not die in his living room
- tons of hurt/comfort, that's the name of the game here
- very remorseful 5 hour showers mc will sometimes take, like lady macbeth trying to wash out the bloody nightmares
- becoming fugitives from the law and going on the run. disguises! car chases! let's go
Writing sample:
Obviously this is a new story idea, but here's a sample from a slightly different character I've written - a violent vigilante. It's sort of thematically applicable, I guess.
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