Thread: First Past the Post (Hetero female with starters and plots)

Re First Past the Post Lit het female with starters and plots Plot I dom x dom-ish, if you want definitions. Set in Renaissance Venice, an infamous poisonmaker has an apprentice--my character. A female. In any case, the poisonmaker sells blades with built in syringes and catches and whatnot, and also builds various traps into everyday items, and vends them to assassins and nobles and that ilk. In any case, the master poisonmaker is killed by one of his own devices, four-ish years before the roleplay begins. My character witnesses it, and swears an oath not to directly or indirectly kill another character again, and becomes apprenticed to a healer. Now what would work best here is if your character were a bouty hunter, professional assassin, or else had some sort of personal vendetta against another Venetian, and intended to kill them. Either already possessing a weapon crafted by the late master that was 'guaranteed for life' or somesuch, or else demanding a specific poison, and comes demanding that my healer character fulfill it. In any case, after some banter they agree on a sort of bet. If he avenges my character's master's death--which won't be easy--within a set time limit, she'll provide him with what he seeks. Though perhaps he'll wish the stakes higher, on her end. And of course, strong sparks of sexual tension flying between them, as he lusts after what he can't have. That's the basic premise, anyways. It's quite open to reworking, at leisure. Filippa del Viviano forked her hand through the escaping chestnut curls which had slipped from her vaguely-elabourate bun through the course of her eventful day, fresh-dipped quill steadily poised above her sheaf of blanked paper. It had grown now, to a lady??s proper length. On the burnished walnut desk were sprawled several open texts, displaying woodcut prints of various anatomical positions, and depicting the pathologies of a certain disease, her research for a very specific client. She??d sketched out rough copies of a few of these, more for her memory than any reference, and of the treatments and tools required. She was feeling rather confident about handling this case??and so, too, was the Physician Alonso, apparently so much so that he willingly gave the reins to his apprentice. Though Filippa well knew that he would step in within half a heartbeat if he so much as suspected any inadequacy on her part. And she did not wish to prove herself inadequate. So she held her quill high, lowering it to make a few occasional, experimental strokes, and then frowned as she noticed she??d filled up the paper with her meticulous scrawlings. Blowing it dry and tucking it atop of a larger stack, she drew another sheaf, scrawling her name atop it as was her habit. Filippa del Lama. Her hand moved to continue, but her eye did not. A weight dropped to her stomach, and her heart-shaped face blanched. Filippa of the Blade. How long had it been since she had last heard that name? Perhaps three months, though it had been four years since she??d permitted anyone to use it, in reference to her. She was Filippa del Viviano now, a woman of life, and apprentice to the Physician Alonso, for one more year before he loosed her. Pursing her lips determinedly, she silently revowed that it was all she ever would be, shy of becoming a physician herself. Del Lama was gone banished. And few now would recognize the properly modest, civilized-looking, skirted-and-gowned Venetian lady for the ragamuffin hose-wearing Poisonmaker??s apprentice, with her shorn off halo of curls, standing out from her head like the petals of a sunflower. Filippa dipped her quilltip to the ink again, then dribbled splatters over the four-letter misnomer, staining it away. But the page still appeared awry she knew what secret the splotches hid. Shaking her head a little, she turned back to her texts, to focusing on the study at hand. And she strove to blot everything else from her mind, until a rapping resounded at the study door. Click to expand...