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Unconventional Courtship
Last night I narrowed it down to 15 summaries out of the 300+ listed as potential prompts on ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
unconventionalcourtship.
Reading through those 15 again this morning, I've narrowed it down to 6. Mostly I'm putting them here so that I can easily pull them up if I can snatch a couple minutes to poke at them while I'm at work, lol.
All of these would be twisted around to fit Sora/Riku/Kairi, because I am Predictable (and don't feel 100% able to write the Leverage OT3, especially on a time crunch.) Some might involve some gender-swapping in terms of which of the trio fits which of the roles given in the summary, and the ones that don't have a clear third character would have various ways of bringing the third person in.
We're also allowed to combine a couple summaries into one, so I'll think about whether any of these could be mooshed together to make an interesting combo.
( 6 Romance Novel Summaries: )
Later edit, around 9:45pm:
I wrote out my "modified" summaries for each of the above... a couple it turns out I really didn't like all that much, and a few others I liked only if I drifted a bit too far from the original summary. Some also leaned a little too much on ideas I've used for the trio before (or hope to use again.)
I've now narrowed it down to two: coincidentally the first and the last of the summaries behind the cut.
The (slightly rough) modified summaries for those two:
Princess Kairi needs to appear with a partner in order to ensure a diplomatic mission goes smoothly. Unfortunately her fiancé, Sora, really doesn’t care to be in the spotlight! They come up with the perfect plan – their mutual friend, Riku, can pose as her partner for the duration of the mission. He’s far more well-acquainted with the social expectations for the royal consort, and knows her well enough to make it seem completely natural.
In the interests of ensuring they don’t compromise the friendship between any of them, they set a few ground rules. Rule No. 1: displays of affection in public only.
Chemistry between them in public is surprisingly easy… it’s turning the affection off when in private that becomes the problem.
And with heightened emotions in play, and some intense chemistry between Riku and Sora as well, that’s not the only very inconvenient complication…
-and-
Missing and presumed dead more than a year ago, Sora shocks everyone when he stumbled half-dead back onto the shore of the island. Suffering from some unknown trauma, he can barely recognize his family and friends.
His two best friends arrive to help him recover… but not everyone wants them to unearth the dangerous secrets he’s carrying.
Both Kairi and Riku, now romantically involved, have to fight their feelings for Sora, wanting to make sure he’s given the space he needs to heal… even as everything reminds them of how much they all once loved each other.
The more Sora remembers about his past, the more someone else ventures to ensure he never succeeds in sharing it.
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Not a big fan of the summaries as such, but I'm trying to keep them close to the originals, lol.
The second one I feel like is the more complicated one, and the one I'd have more trouble keeping short. So... I'll probably go for the first one.
Who doesn't want some mutual pining and fake dating?
My attention span is completely shot tonight, though, so that's a project for tomorrow.
unconventionalcourtship.Reading through those 15 again this morning, I've narrowed it down to 6. Mostly I'm putting them here so that I can easily pull them up if I can snatch a couple minutes to poke at them while I'm at work, lol.
All of these would be twisted around to fit Sora/Riku/Kairi, because I am Predictable (and don't feel 100% able to write the Leverage OT3, especially on a time crunch.) Some might involve some gender-swapping in terms of which of the trio fits which of the roles given in the summary, and the ones that don't have a clear third character would have various ways of bringing the third person in.
We're also allowed to combine a couple summaries into one, so I'll think about whether any of these could be mooshed together to make an interesting combo.
( 6 Romance Novel Summaries: )
Later edit, around 9:45pm:
I wrote out my "modified" summaries for each of the above... a couple it turns out I really didn't like all that much, and a few others I liked only if I drifted a bit too far from the original summary. Some also leaned a little too much on ideas I've used for the trio before (or hope to use again.)
I've now narrowed it down to two: coincidentally the first and the last of the summaries behind the cut.
The (slightly rough) modified summaries for those two:
Princess Kairi needs to appear with a partner in order to ensure a diplomatic mission goes smoothly. Unfortunately her fiancé, Sora, really doesn’t care to be in the spotlight! They come up with the perfect plan – their mutual friend, Riku, can pose as her partner for the duration of the mission. He’s far more well-acquainted with the social expectations for the royal consort, and knows her well enough to make it seem completely natural.
In the interests of ensuring they don’t compromise the friendship between any of them, they set a few ground rules. Rule No. 1: displays of affection in public only.
Chemistry between them in public is surprisingly easy… it’s turning the affection off when in private that becomes the problem.
And with heightened emotions in play, and some intense chemistry between Riku and Sora as well, that’s not the only very inconvenient complication…
-and-
Missing and presumed dead more than a year ago, Sora shocks everyone when he stumbled half-dead back onto the shore of the island. Suffering from some unknown trauma, he can barely recognize his family and friends.
His two best friends arrive to help him recover… but not everyone wants them to unearth the dangerous secrets he’s carrying.
Both Kairi and Riku, now romantically involved, have to fight their feelings for Sora, wanting to make sure he’s given the space he needs to heal… even as everything reminds them of how much they all once loved each other.
The more Sora remembers about his past, the more someone else ventures to ensure he never succeeds in sharing it.
-
Not a big fan of the summaries as such, but I'm trying to keep them close to the originals, lol.
The second one I feel like is the more complicated one, and the one I'd have more trouble keeping short. So... I'll probably go for the first one.
Who doesn't want some mutual pining and fake dating?
My attention span is completely shot tonight, though, so that's a project for tomorrow.