mechanicalman

Strange New World (High Cas-Advanced 1x1 Search)

Sorry, I should have specified! I'm looking for a female for this one.

Strange New World (High Cas-Advanced 1x1 Search)

First off, please don't take this interest check as an example of my writing. I'm a bullet points kind of guy when it comes to these sort of things, but trust me, you'll get paragraphs. Oh, you'll get paragraphs.

I wanted to get this out there before I lose the few details already come to mind...

Basically, I'd like to base an RP around the idea of someone coming to a 'new world' of sorts, but it's the world we currently know (and love? maybe?). The when/where is TBD, and we can figure that out together if you'd like. It could be a different time period, different world, different 'realm'. The main relationship will be between my character and yours, one of us being the 'stranger', and one being your average, everyday citizen of the current world. The plot will focus on their relationship as friends, the things the 'stranger' learns, the things the citizen learns from them, etc. That being said, there is definitely room for romance in this.

I've got to admit, I haven't done too much fantasy in my RPing, so this idea is a bit of a stretch for me, but I'm ready for something new and hopefully we can work together to make it great. Like I said, this is a very 'bare bones' idea right now, with a lot to be filled in. Looking for someone who sees a spark in it and wants to fill in the blanks with me.

A few basic ground rules...

-Please be able to post at least once every other day. I've got a full time job and a life outside of that, so I totally get time gaps, but I feel like this is a reasonable amount? If you just can't do it, let me know, I can be patient.

-Please keep post length at a minimum of 3 paragraphs. I tend to match my partner in post length, but prefer 5+. Obviously, with dialogue-heavy posts, this can be different.

-You do not want me to play a girl. I can't. I won't. Maybe that's ignorant somehow, but it ain't a pretty writing site.

Hope to hear from you soon...feel free to shoot me a PM if you think this might interest you!

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"Just a couple blocks down the street, actually..." He motioned with his head as he continued to walk. What exactly he was doing with this girl, he really didn't know. It all happened so quickly, and while Noah wasn't the world's biggest believer in fate, he was beginning to wonder why Charlotte had quite literally run into him in the first place. He didn't want to leave her, that much he knew. And the way she was so quickly and easily willing to forego her original plans to spend time with him? Whatever they were doing, he was happy to be with her, and to learn more about her, as crazy as it might seem to anyone else.

A slight smirk pulled up his expression as they walked and she questioned him about being weird. "Well you're trusting a big tattooed guy who you just ran into this morning to take you to breakfast. I mean...that's a little weird, isn't it? Like I said, I'm not complaining. I like weird. I'm pretty weird, too. I'm trusting the pretty girl who's way out of my league and just ditched her friends to not be pulling my leg." His brows raised, and that grin didn't fade away for a moment. Noah often used a sarcastic sense of humor just to get by. Serious situations were far too frequent. If you didn't laugh sometimes, what was the point?

Heading down the road toward The Friendly Toast, Noah couldn't help but glance over to Charlotte every now and then, still trying to figure it all out. "Where you from, then? I mean...you needed directions, and you don't exactly look like you live downtown. I uh..I don't mean that in a bad way, I just.." He trailed off, shaking his head a bit with a slight laugh. "Sorry, I'm not the greatest when it comes to wording things. Just...where ya from?"

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"Yeah, no problem." Noah liked to believe he was a decent guy. He wasn't exactly a charmer, and he had his fair share of faults, but he'd never intentionally done anything to cause someone any distress. It was no different with Charlotte - he'd started out offering a nice gesture, just like anyone else might have done. But in their short walk, he'd found himself wanting to learn more about her. She was a book that certainly seemed to have more inside than what you would find on the cover. It made him intrigued to see more - maybe she would continue to surprise him, but that probably wasn't exactly in the cards for either of them.

He turned away to head the opposite direction, when he heard her voice pipe up again, and turned around. She was asking him...to hang out? Noah raised a brow, as if he was making sure she was talking to him and not someone else. "Kind of." He managed a grin at her question. "But I've always kinda liked weird." With a shrug, Noah glanced around again. He was already late for work, he knew he'd have to come up with some explanation, but at that point.

"You want to get a real breakfast somewhere?" His brows raised slightly. "I don't think there'll be mimosas or bloody marys, but the best blueberry pancakes in town." He offered, more interested than ever at the fact that she would want to spend that extra time with him. He wasn't going to take it for granted, though - if she was taking a chance on him, he would do the same for her.

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"Market research, eh? I gotta admit, I didn't have you pegged for that.." Noah managed a grin as they continued their walk, and he felt a thousand times better with an instant rush of caffeine running through his system. Maybe it had something to do with the company, too - Charlotte was turning out to be a pleasant surprise, even if he wouldn't admit that out loud. He was definitely used to a certain 'type' of girl, and Charlotte was just the opposite on the surface. Sure, he still didn't know much about her, but the more he learned, the more intrigued he found himself.

Raising his brows a bit at her question, he almost found it comical, but she wouldn't know that. "Not if I can help it. I know that's what my dad wants - me to take over the family business. It's a living, I don't hate it, but it's not what I want to do forever." He offered a shrug, pausing to wait at a crosswalk with her.

"I've been savin' up money for years, tryin' to get enough to go to school. My dream is to become an architect. Design new buildings, contribute to historical ones. Boston's so rich with history it ain't even funny. But I'd like to travel all over and create new things." It was a strange thing for him to admit. Everyone he knew laughed at that 'dream' of his, and his own family wanted nothing more for him than to stick with the family business, so it wasn't exactly something he shared all that often. "Anyway..it's a long shot. I mean you can probably tell just by talkin' to me it's hard for a lot of professional people to take me seriously. But that's alright."

As the light changed, Noah continued down the sidewalk with her, the sign for the restaurant she'd been looking for right ahead of them. Though he wouldn't admit it, he was actually a little disappointed their 'journey' had come to an end. It would only be a matter of moments, though, before she was with her friends, and their short time together would be nothing more than a distant memory. "Well...here you go. Ten dollar bloody mary's await." A small grin tugged at the corner of his mouth. "Hopefully that phone of yours keeps working. And be careful who you run into..not everyone's as charming as me." He joked.

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As Charlotte went off to the bathroom, Noah wondered what he was even doing. Sure, it may not have been unlike him to help someone out when they needed it. He had always been a big believer in karma, but the fact of the matter was...this girl didn't need his help, not really. Not to the extent he was giving it. She needed directions, sure. Did she need a morning smoothie and an escort down the street? Probably not. And he didn't need to be late for work, either, but there was a definite pull there that he just couldn't put his finger on.

By the time she'd returned, he'd gotten both drinks for them, handing her the bright red concoction before taking a sip of the caffeine he'd been missing out on. "Trust me, I'll be much nicer now that I actually have some." That grin returned. "And no problem. See? The city ain't as scary as it looks." Boston as a whole, was Noah's favorite place in the world. It didn't have the same 'big city' vibe as New York or even Philly...to him, it always felt like a small community shoved into the shell of a city.

"Well, we should get you to that brunch." He suggested, motioning toward the door with his head, before heading out with her - opening the door for her just like he had suggested, and just like she said she'd allow him to do.

"So...sociology? That's like...how people and groups interact with each other, right? What do you want to do for a living?" He could tell just by a glance that she probably could have lived off her parent's money for the rest of her life, or at least until she married a man with an even bigger trust fund, so to know that she was actually working toward something was definitely refreshing, and he found himself interested in just what she was studying, and why.

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"Huh? No, I do." Noah assured her he liked his job when she questioned, a bit confused at her intuition. Did he come across as though he hated it? Maybe he shouldn't have been so casual about it. He had never been embarrassed about it before, but a girl like her looked like she was used to men who owned stock and ran corporations, not worked on carburetors.

When Charlotte suggested that she'd prefer a smoothie, it caused a slow grin to creep across Noah's face, and he had no idea why. A smoothie. It practically screamed innocence, fun, simplicity - the exact opposite of what he may have thought about her based on appearances. As she started to dig into her purse, though, he raised his brows, shaking his head a bit. "No way, doll.." He placed a hand on top of her own that was holding her wallet, as if to encourage her to put it right back.

"I may not look it, but I'm a pretty old fashioned guy. And I know every woman in here would think I'm an asshole if I made you pay for anything. So...I'm sorry if you're one of those girls who is all...overly independent and won't let a guy hold a door or pay for anything even if they're a stranger, but that's just me. And besides, I've got a little old Italian mother who looks like you could snap her like a twig if you hug her too hard, but she scares the hell out of me and she'd be mad if I didn't pay. So..let me get this for ya." He managed a grin, waiting for her agreement before he stepped up in line to get himself a coffee, and a strawberry smoothie for her, pulling out his wallet after ordering.

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Charlotte. Pretty name to go along with a pretty girl. None of it made sense as to why she'd entrust a guy like him to walk her...well, anywhere, but she had taken a chance on the fact that he wasn't a serial killer, and he appreciated that. From her own appearance and the way she seemed so lost in the city, Noah was quick to judge. It seemed as though Charlotte wasn't as quick to judge him as some kind of fool, and that was something not only was he not used to, but something that he didn't really want to take for granted at that moment.

"Uh...I'm a mechanic." Noah paused his stride, turning slightly to face away from her so she could see the logo of his father's body shop on the back of his t-shirt. He had never been ashamed of his job. It wasn't what he wanted to do for a living, it certainly wasn't his 'dream'. His dream rested in his fingertips when they were pressed against a pencil and paper, designing buildings and interiors, city landscapes and towers. But for now, and...most likely forever, he was fixing mufflers. "It pays the bills." He shrugged, then motioned with his head to a small coffee shop on their path. "Mind if I grab a cup real quick?"

It was a short line there - was it Starbucks? No, but the caffeine was the only thing necessary at that point. "What about you, Charlotte? What do you do? Or hell, what do your friends do that they can get ten dollar bloody mary's on a Thursday morning? I want that job." He smirked, jokingly, ordering a cup of coffee before raising his brows and glancing back at her. "Did you want anything? They actually have really good coffee here. Even those weird girly drinks with whipped cream mountains." He offered, pulling his wallet from his back pocket. It was a strange encounter, the more he thought about it. Twenty minutes ago it was just any other day, strolling to work at the only time of day where he didn't have grease on his face and hands. And then in an instant, he was offering to buy coffee for a girl who'd spilled it in the first place - a girl who was quite obviously out of his league in every sense of the word.

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As much as he tried to resist, the girl's smile was infectious. Cute, even, with an innocent quality to it that caused Noah to mimic it without even realizing it. "It's never the greatest experience, don't worry." He assured her, but it was obvious that she ran the risk of getting lost all over again if she had the opportunity to go off on her own and find a means of transportation.

At her suggestion, Noah raised his brows, and he nearly looked behind him to double check that she wasn't talking to someone else. But no, it was only him. Coffee-less, late for work, still groggy from that fourth beer the night before, but she was asking him for some genuine help. And strangely enough, that kind of simple question of kindness from a stranger didn't happen every single day. Everyone was too wrapped up in their morning coffee, their newspaper, their cell phone. Well - the coffee and cell phone were both shot for them, so it made sense.

He was fairly certain, though, that he probably didn't look like much more than a thug to her, which he was used to. His stereotypical Bostonian accent was thick. On top of it, he was Italian. He'd lived his entire life with people thinking he was stupid the second he opened his mouth to say anything. His appearance didn't help, but it was a source of individuality; of the art he never got to produce himself. And she...had this simple beauty about her. He wouldn't have called it 'plain' by any means. Just...simple. And that was actually a bit refreshing.

What would twenty more minutes be, anyway? He was already late for work, and it wasn't as though he hadn't been yelled at by his father before.

"Yeah. Yeah sure, I can walk with ya. C'mon, it's just this way." He motioned with his head in the direction he'd been walking from before their collision. "I'm Noah, by the way. Now you don't have to feel bad about trusting a complete stranger." He extended his hand to her easily.

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No problem - totally get the shorter posts with dialogue. Just finished up one!