please tell us more about ur new oc!!!! 👀
Ok so she doesn’t have a name yet but I’m thinking of something high class ish. I had an idea earlier but I lost it.
But basically she’s a identical triplet who was born into like. Not a gang but like. Mafia???? Kinda???? Her family fucking sucks basically. But they front the awfulness with a traveling care group, going around and finding vulnerable people and saying they’re gonna “heal” then but really they’re indentured now sorry bud.
Anyways this girl. Middle triplet. Thing is, she actually wants to heal people, and her role in the mafia type thing is that she does the first half of the con, doing enough nursing for the people they take in to be in good enough shape to work off their indentures. Her older sister runs the second half of the con (basically keeps all the indentured in line) and the younger sister does admin, keeping track of debts and who’s doing what and where they’re planning to go etc. Neither of her sisters are particularly nice people, and haven’t caught onto the fact that she wants to do actual medicine and healthcare.
So she starts sneaking people out. But since all she knows is this group and how to hurt people she’s very….she’s an asshole. She doesn’t handle people with much gentleness and expects to be thanked for the rough handling. She definitely has killed people who she couldn’t heal because it was easier than going to her sister (who runs admin, very terrifying woman, think manic pixie dream girl but all the mania is in a locked box) and saying “hey do we have the funds to get equipment for surgery/routine treatment/whatever else”.
But yeah that’s all I got so far
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side note about last days: i say it’s detective noir-inspired in the tags. to elaborate, it’s not detective noir—it’s an urban fantasy thriller and for one thing it’s not nearly bleak enough to truly be noir fiction lol. but it is inspired by a lot of the noir tropes i know. it has vibes. class is a thing here. corrupt institutions leave our heroes with few places to turn. our heroes are willing to do some not-so-morally-upright things for their ultimate goals. it’s set in a dirty city filled with dirty secrets. but largely, i think, i’ve taken from my favorite piece of noir writing advice i’ve ever seen: “you need a dame with a past and a man with no future”. pearl is probably the single most detective-noir inspired character here; she’s not a femme fatale, sure, but a dame with a past…?
anyway make of this whatever you will fic’s not done yet and as i said it’s merely inspired by noir i wouldn’t even begin to claim that’s the genre it’s actually in. like I said. urban fantasy thriller/detective story thats a bit too bright and fun for that, and with protagonists who are probably way too likable and have a bit too much hope to be noir protagonists, lol. just wanted to elaborate a little bit about that one tag,
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