O Icarus of the fearless flight
For the greatest tragedy of them all
Is never to feel the burning light."
- Oscar Wilde
First of all, a note: This is gonna be one of those stories that take place in the future after The Hunger Games and all, so I'm going to say that the rules were changed so two people can win every time. To me it just makes more sense for romances to happen when people think that they both can escape, and I love a bit of romance here and there.
A snippet of a story for site rules purposes:
The Capitol was bustling at nighttime, people finding ways to occupy themselves before the Games began. The anticipation was in the air, social circles using their time to mingle to speculate about the Games. Would District One take another win this year? Would it be Two's turn to redeem themselves? Would Four step up to the plate? Or maybe one of the other districts would break the Career districts' four-year streak. The reapings were coming up. Already the escorts of the farer-away districts were beginning their travels. The Games were about to begin.
Rules:
All righty then. The form for this is on my profile. No review-submitted characters will be accepted. You must submit them via PM.
You may reserve spots. Reservation requests should be sent via PM and will be held for three days without further contact at most. If something comes up and you can't get it in, just message me so I know you're still working on the form and I'll understand.
In this day and age (and especially in the future's day and age where this obviously takes place) it just doesn't make sense to have a story full of straight white cis abled characters. Please make it interesting for me. If you want to do something I might not know about, I'm more than willing to do research. I honestly love researching things like mental illnesses and diseases. Give me gay characters, give me trans characters, give me autistic or blind or otherwise disabled/mentally ill characters. Not all characters are going to be diverse, I understand, so you don't have to, but I would love you if you did.
You can submit up to 4 characters, but the fourth should be a bloodbath.
I'm not going to put a system in place where you have to review or I'll kill your character, but I would be much more inclined to keep them alive if you gave me feedback on the story.
However, every time someone reviews to a chapter (only one per chapter counts) they get 25 credits for sponsor stuff. The submitter of a character automatically gets 300 credits. To give you an idea of what that'll get you, here's what I have so far for the sponsoring system. Feel free to review with ideas!
-Small food items (bread, a bottle of water, etc): 150 credits
-Large food items (meals, etc): 500 credits
-Small survival tools (blanket, empty canteen, empty bag): 50 credits
-Large survival tools (flint and steel, knife): 200 credits
Open to suggestions for more, of course! I haven't ever done this system before and it's been a while since I've written anything like this.
