Lately I've been having this itch about doing roleplays revolving around youths (18 - early 20s) that don't quite fit into the society around them, so I'm setting up a request thread specifically for these kinds of roleplays. What I am presenting here are my initial ideas that I would like to develop further with a roleplay-partner, and are in no way plots and ideas that are thought all through, they are starting points for further plotting. So if something sparks your interest or you have an idea along these lines you think I will like don't hesitate to tell me about it.

I am looking for plot and character-driven roleplays. I also enjoy more than one main character with several storylines interweaving together, but this is not a must though. I'm also flexible about the time period, if I'm looking for a specific time period I will say so.

I am looking for roleplaying-partners that are 18 years or older as there will be mature content.

In a small town in the middle of nowhere

There is something about a smalltown-setting with the freaks as the main focus that sounds like a lot of fun. Think late 80s or early 90s, before Internet to make the isolation even greater. Maybe a gang of metalheads about to finish high school or just having finished. Not going to college, so some might have a job, some don't. Ever in opposition against the small-minded town, and getting the blame for everything that happens. Maybe there is a girl from the right side of the tracks looking to do some slumming as well?

The Big City

Pretty similar to the small town-idea, only in an urban setting. We could do something with gangs, maybe something around urban decay. Anything from living on the streets to Beverly Hills could be of interest here really, as well as anything from suburbia to the inner city.

Empire Records

This will be based on the movie Empire Records, which follows a rather eventful day at a local record store. It's the feeling of the place I'm looking to recreate here, where the owner both hires those going down a bad road in an attempt to help them, as well as the prom queen, which makes them a rather eclectic group. They also have a lot of freedom at work, as long as the job gets done of course. This would be set in the mid-1990s, before downloading music from the internet killed records stores like this one.

Reality Bites

Youth without a purpose, they might be seniors in high school or just having graduated but not attending college. They don't know what they are going to do with their lives, but they have dreams. This could be their story.

Dazed and Confused

Loosely based on the movie. The last day of school and all kinds of shenanigans ensue, or another similar setting could work as well. Basically youth high on life (and more) doing stupid but fun things. It doesn't have to be set in the 1970s, it can be any era.

Okay SO for the On The Road plot I really like the idea of a young like just-out-of-highschool-aged girl, pretty straightedge, hitchhiking with truck drivers. Maybe she could be a runaway, tired of her conventional white-bread life, or maybe she has a fantasy of becoming an actress/musician and needs to get to California but she's never had to work a day in her life so she doesn't have a car or anything. Was Ivy-league bound and got fed up and dropped her whole life. Has made her way maybe a quarter of the way into her journey with nothing but bad, gross experiences and is about to just give up and go running back home when she runs into a truck driver / vagabond / whatever and they get to talking and she actually gets along with him and hitches a ride with him and then when he drops her off because he's at his stop, she's actually kinda sad that she has to leave and wants to stick around but doesn't wanna be even more of a burden so she takes off and then a few days later, by sheer chance, they meet again and that's when things really start to kick off.

I'm so so sorry if this sounds nonsensical and unorderly. As soon as I saw your hitch-hiking suggestion, my mind took off and I kind of just regurgitated my thoughts, I assure you I do have a more organized thought process than what I have probably portrayed, haha.

Obviously none of that at all is set in stone, and I don't want it to be too cutesy, it should still have edge to it and maybe some dark plot twists. It's just a baseline for an idea, please let me know what you think if you're interested :)

Removed an idea, but still looking for the other ones. :-)