🍯 unrequited love prompts🍯
Selfless reactions (aka angst and suffering)
sacrificing your life for The Loved One
“I value your life more than my own”
perfect for angst (as most of those in the first category, actually)
sacrificing your life for The Loved One’s SO
if you wanna make the work even more angsty just. consider.
“You make them happy, not me, and I value their happiness over my own life”
just your classic quiet yearning
Why won’t the character express their feelings? Would they be scared of rejection, or would they know it has no sense?
staying friends (and suffering)
Would the Loved One know of the other’s feelings? Would they react? Would they act differently perhaps?
Selfish reactions
sabotaging any romantic relationship the Loved One has
planting evidence for cheating, mismatching communications, slandering the SO... so many ways you could screw the relationship over.
it all depends on how much of an arsehole you want the character to be!
cutting The Loved One’s out of The Character’s life
I was quite conflicted to the category this one falls into, but I guess that as much as it is selfish it’s the good kind of selfish - the self care and “I don’t want to destroy my mental health so it’s better if we don’t see each other” kind.
The Loved One obviously could get very upset over a loss of their friend! Would it be more “aww, I wish we could hang out but I understand your decision” upset though, or “I can’t believe you’d push me away like that” upset?
repeated attempts at getting The Loved One (against their clear wishes)
now, it’s quite enough to look around to see that “no” in many cases is heard as “try again!”. those people can get very irritating, because their actions may not be violent - they might actually be very nice, but the sole fact of not respecting the other character’s “no” is quite disrespectful.
how would The Loved One character react to that? would they get mad, or will they quietly suffer through it in order not to hurt the character?
emotional blackmail / manipulation
this one might be the worst.
TW: SUICIDE, SELF HARM AND MANIPULATION
“if you don’t go on a date with me, I’ll kill myself!”
“If you can’t seem to even like me I guess I have nothing to live for then...”
“I was your friend for so long, and you can’t even do me a small favor?”
how would the Loved One react to those? Would they get (rightfully) angry, would they try to calm the person down? Maybe they’d bend to the blackmail?
feel free to suggest what prompts should I do next!











