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Re: Prompt help

[(Anonymous)]

So how would you want them to go?

Re: Prompt help

[(Anonymous)]

(Caveat: none of these are inherently better than what AIRT suggested. They'd just work better for me, because hysterically crying characters or farting would make me backbutton out of any meet cute. Different strokes etc.)


For the elevator scenario I'd have the elevator get stuck. Or someone tries to take out A in the elevator and B haplessly walks in on them, so A has to defend themselves and prevent the reckless, attractive idiot to be murdered.

A trying to intimidate B away from the area of a crime they've planned and playing it wrong? Great! Why not have B mistaking the attempt at intimidation for flirting?

Injured A running into B repeatedly sounds like a perfect premise for h/c.

A sliding into the seat next to B could lead to a 'quick, act as if we're here together' scenario. Though that might go against the 'have the meeting be too cutesy' thing OP asked for. The problem there is, that "meet cute" by definition implies some kind of cutesyness. If someone is requesting meet cutes, that's usually what they are expecting.

Re: Prompt help

[(Anonymous)]

Ayyy, you didn't need to roll in with apologies and caveats! It's a brainstorming thread, and if what I suggested got you to contribute then that's a good thing — and those are all fine meet cute prompts, I'm sure OP will appreciate it.

They could all definitely be improved with the threat of wolf rabies tho.