#plot hook meme

🪝 for Franky my son boy Franky 🥰

I FORGOT TO GET TO THIS SHENK I'M SORRY

HIM!!!!!

So the most obvious Franky plot hook.

Be a ghost!!! Franky doesn't just see them, he's cursed to attract them! His presence is very calming for restless spirits, which is why they won't leave him alone.

Other ways to connect with him are:

Animals! Franky likes to take care of small animals around his hive, and I could definitely see him bonding over that with someone.

Getting injured in the woods? Franky lives there. And he would definitely help, if not out of kindness, then just because he really doesn't want any more wandering souls around his hive.

Since I've been turning her over in my brain a lot lately....

Kiyana :)))

Easiest place to start: Kiyana's informants! She has a pretty vast network of them, some more reliable than others, and she prides herself on what she knows.

She's especially tuned in to things on the seedier side of the proverbial town. Lowbloods tucked away in back alleys. Injured soldiers camping in the shadows. She's willing to listen to the people society overlooks, and that's why she's so good at being in the know.

Kiyana also has a messy past dating life. She gets bored easily, so she's had plenty of short (and sometimes tumultuous) relationships. I'd definitely be open to giving her some exes. Messy breakups let's GO

CANDY TIMEEEE (second drawing done by @/zeebtrolls :])

SOOOO LET'S SEE

Candy's a college student! And she's studying pharmaceutical science of all things. This girl wants to fill your prescriptions. So anyways. Students and professors welcome!

Outside of school, she's really into the occult! She likes thrifting for "haunted" objects and is really hoping to find something that's for real actually cursed someday. Lots of opportunities for connection with thrift shop owners and patrons, and other occultists!

And this isn't really a plot hook but idk maybe it'll spark ideas? I just need it to be known that:

She's also friends with @/damistrolls' werewolf biker gang and she really wants to be turned, but with all her health issues, doing so just seems. Generally inadvisable. Too many unknowns. So she's living vicariously. FOR NOW >:(

Who knows, maybe she can meet someone at the library while she's studying up on lycanthropy lol

And she's Mollie's roommate and best friend :) Actually maybe that's a plot hook--

mye snaike..,.

Ferris is a bounty hunter!!! And a damn good one at that.

An easy in with him is his job! Either someone he's hunting or someone who's hired him. Just be warned, I'm reluctant to put him on jobs that he's allowed to fail.

Ferris definitely sleeps around. He could have some one night stands (or even people he's gotten with more than once?)

OOOOH MARQEZ.... Let's see

The biggest issue we run into with Marq is that he's a homebody. He rarely leaves Ilioneus these days, both out of an abundance of caution, and because he just doesn't feel much need to leave.

He IS however very active online, and I could definitely see him making connections that way. He could have friends or even rivals in the coding world, for example!

He also has a remote I.T. job, so he could be getting tech support phone calls from people too!

All that to say:

Waow, it’s Kulsot Khitie the Companion

-Here’s an easy one, he sleeps around. A lot. There’s even some nuance here as it could be a one time fling, or a slightly more regular thing, recent or long established. He won’t be particularly emotionally close to anyone like this, but still

-Anyone in a position of power that he could have an interest in manipulating (sorry he DOES actually suck :/)

-Actually he also loves cooking/baking so possibly something with that?

-Ah specific breed of ex pseudo partner that taught him a skill/hobby I know he has a lot of those

JARVIS...... my beautiful little freako.....

Mr Carnival Critic... Let's seeee

Pretty easy one right off the bat: Friends! Jarvis is a very charming guy, and he makes friends pretty easily! Other clowns especially. Get this guy some drinking buddies!!

On the side of more dramatic happenings... I can imagine someone coming after Jarvis because he gave their circus a negative review.

Or! Maybe that happens and Jarvis decides he needs some extra muscle around?

OH! THAT REMINDS ME! I can totally see him hiring a bodyguard to protect Halley when she's out running errands, since she's a mutant. Maybe she comes back from getting mugged and tells him she wants more than a fucking taser.

Could also have some backplotting!!! He's found a niche to occupy in the dark carnival, but I imagine at one time Jarvis was ostracized in his own church for his mutations. He teases Halley incessantly for hers, and I'm sure it's not lost on anyone that he has to have heard at least some of those same words flung at him.

reaches into my magic hat

Lunera Oshana :) She's an inspector for the fleet, entering ships that are under-performing to sniff out where (or who) the problems are. She's excellent at uncovering rebel infiltrators.

Easy plot hooks here:

Lunera being brought aboard a ship where a rebel is hiding out, with potential to interact via said rebel OR any of the other people in that crew.

In that vein: Lunera being bothered by a fleet brown noser who keeps insisting they can help/pointing random fingers at their crewmates?