Hostage situation. Both direct and more indirect situations would work. Like Nunnally is kidnapped (as an individual or in a larger group? targeted or accidental victim?) or she is actually a hostage in a royal setting. A princess sent away to the enemy/hostile kingdom to ensure the peace (obedience?) between the states. With or without arranged marriage in the background. The latter do can be also done in the mafia verse as I can imagine similar setting for the competing gangs. I really would like to explore the Stockholm syndrome more as that was the original idea for Nunnally, but, somehow, got missed a bit.
Building on that arranged marriage tropes (both for royal, mafia even perhaps human verse?). I really like this trope as it can go many different directions from fluff to angst and all the way round. But what I really want here is a bigger mess. Like Nunnally is betrothed to one man and in (mutual?) love in another. Like older and younger brother? A king and a knight? A mob boss and a hitman? Anything goes from both or one angle.
Then reincarnation plot…but not really and I do not have a good verse on that. But imagine Nunnally is thought to be (but is not) the reincarnation of someone’s lover/beloved wife? Preferably a king? Someone in the position of power. So that she cannot easily brush it off. Her family forcing her to pretend she is the one? A risky game? Or maybe not a king but an unnatural being? A demon? And then she actually falling in love while he realizes she is not the one. Or he is actually accepting her feelings even if she is not the one? There is such a great potential in it.
A disinherited princess? The only daughter of the deceased King who was deprived of her heritage. Managed to run away and now trying to get back the kingdom. With someone looking for the revenge on her distant family/usurpers? Another Lord who wants to use her to get into the power and throne? Or perhaps someone who believes in justice? Or perhaps she did not manage to escape and is forced into the marriage for securing the throne? Someone to rescue her? Running away together?
Witness protection programme (there is a verse for it) Nunnally got herself involved into the wrong kind of love (marriage). With the gang boss. But she could not adjust to living in the criminal world and decided to leave (still loving or not that person). So, she is covered under the witness protection programme. Could work with the agent protecting her? Her lawyer? The prosecutor? A hitman sent to kill her? Or a gang member she run away with? A member of another gang wanting to use the situation? Or if you’re adventurous, how about being her lover/husband and having the mixture of angst and fluff?
Would also like to write something in the Victorian settings…but no clear ideas here.
True! The above is messy, but these are more like ideas/settings I have and would like to explore. Happy to plot it further, adjust, swap roles? Give it a like if you are interested in something or drop into my DM or discord.
I am open to other ideas as Nunnally is really flexible and I love exploring new things. Plotting and chatting about our muses. And I do not mind how many threads we have ongoing. We can have another one or simply steer our current ones into something similar.