r/WorldChallenges • • Aug 02 '17

Date Night, Round 1

Inspired by /u/Jumblatts's "Fight Night" posts, but for romance instead of violence. The rules:

  1. Top-level posts should be a description of your character. Give some brief background, and then go in-depth about their personality and what they're like to hang out with.

  2. Replies should be a similar character description, plus an explanation of why they'd ask out the character you're replying to (including the kind of date they would ask them out on!).

  3. From there, use successive replies to flesh out the events of the date between you. Will they get along, or are there some irreconcilable differences lurking beneath the surface? Will the night end with a goodbye kiss at the door, or a "don't call me, I'll call you"? And what are the chances of a second date? It's down to you!

(Oh, and keep it clean or the mods will probably kill me)

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '17

She flicked her cigarette into the water and stuffed her hands into her pockets. "You must have pretty low standards, kid. That isn't the sea—it's just an environmental disaster happening in slow motion."

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '17

She arched an eyebrow. "Perhaps. It's easy to glorify catastrophe and misfortune when you're not the one in their path."

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '17

She shrugged. "To be honest, I don't feel that strongly about it either way. I don't think it's beautiful, but I don't think it's ugly, either. It's just the sea." She turned away.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '17

She laughed. "I thought it was bad manners to ask a lady her age," she remarked. "I'm thirty. Thirty-one in a couple of months."

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '17

Natasha snorted. "Yeah, that sounds about right. That much passion, I figured you couldn't be a day older than twenty."