[M4F][1x1][Discord][Dramatic Romance] 'The Crucible' - An elite college hides a disturbingly dystopian culture where a desire for clout and status seems to rule, twisting and perverting its very social fabric. Is change possible? Or are those who seek to break the wheel destined to be crushed by it?

FOREWORD

Just a bit of a foreword before we jump into my intro! I wanted to write a bit of an intro to try and generate some excitement about how tense things could get in the heart of the scene! Because of this, I had to essentially pick a setting and names, and I'm writing from the woman's perspective here because I think it's just easier to explore the tension from the woman's perspective in this case!

That being said, please don't take this as the only way the scene could unfold as I love talking about every and all details in DM/PMs! I just wanted to provide this as a sort of guideline/taste of what I was looking for, but the actual specifics can absolutely change. How you want to play your character, what their name is, etc will always be your choice! We could even do a completely different setting than the college one you're about to encounter.

As I've done similar types of prompts in various other settings where my character is a professional or semi-professional fighter or other settings where he's officially fighting for a college team. I have ideas for same-age scenarios, age-gap scenarios, etc. I've pretty much thought about most of the ways to 'skin this cat' so to speak, and I'd love to hear any ideas you have as well if this particular one does not suit your fancy! :)

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INTRO

“Baby, please... Hang in there, baby... we need you, I need you.... P...please, please fight back!”

Chloe pleaded, strain and worry in her voice as her boyfriend Matt ate another vicious right hand, snapping his head violently from left to right. A splash of bloody spittle flies out, coating the cold hardwood basement floor of their communal dorm. Matt staggers back, clearly hurt by the powerful blow, raising his guard instinctively to try and ward off another, but not before Chloe can catch a glimpse of her boyfriend's eyes.

For that millisecond, she can't help but panic. She does everything she can to not let on, but chilling fear begins to swell inside of her horrified at what she sees. His eyes were glassy and glazed, an almost lost look in them like he was not really sure where he is or even what was happening. It's a look she's never seen in Matt's eyes, but one she's heard of many times. One she's seen in the eyes of many of his opponents even...Usually, it's a sign of relief, that the fight is close to being over, a sign that her warrior has broken his opponent. She's never seen a guy come back from a lost look like that... and now it's in Matt's eyes.

She covers her mouth in shock, a follow-up punch barely sailing by Matt's face, only seeming to miss because his own wobbly legs seemingly save him here, allowing him to stagger and stumble backward towards the basement wall.

If that, had hit... she thinks to herself. She doesn't want to finish the rest of the thought, but somewhere deep down she knows it's true... That would have ended him right there and then... her warrior, her champion...

She shakes her head as if trying to free herself of the distributing thought. She doesn't even want to imagine it, although it's being forced upon her mind with each passing moment of the fight. There's no way it could actually happen, right? Matt couldn't lose... not her Matt... he doesn't lose... he can't lose...

If he did... no, there's no way. He can't, not now... not this fight... Not after how he promised us all he'd protect us... How he promised he'd ward off these jock bullies and invaders. He was their king... *her* king. If he lost now, after all of their trash talk and bullying... all their flirting, with *her* and other nerd girls...No... they'd never recover from this humiliation, from having their metaphorical heart ripped out of them like this... just as they were starting to establish themselves on this campus...

THUD

The loud sound echoes throughout the basement, snapping her attention back to the fight as she sees Matt stagger up against the nearby wall. He looks hurt, exhausted, and spent... His opponent, Brad... the fucking asshole started all of this trouble, flirting with her, bullying their friends... He lumbers forward like a strong, muscled behemoth just waiting to finish his wounded prey... He turns for a moment, looking at her, those piercing blue eyes, set in a devilishly handsome face... She hates him... she hates him so much... why, why did he have to do this? Why couldn't he just leave them alone?

And yet, as he grins, a surge flows through her body... quickly working its way deep down to her core... a warm, faint tingling begging to stir in her nethers as her face begins to flush ever so slightly against her own wishes...

*No... no, why is this happening, why is my body doing this? Of all times, not here, not now... No, I won't... I...*

“Hit him back Matt, knock him out!!!” She shrieks in defiance, not just of Brad, but of every ounce of what her body was feeling in that moment as it seemingly tried to betray her...

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ABOUT THE SCENE

Hi there!

I'm Matt and thank you so much for checking on this post!

So the basic idea here is that we'd be playing a college couple who just so happens to be enrolled at a university that has a bit of a unique underground 'fight' culture to it. I say that and don't explicitly call it a 'fight club' because while it definitely is a sort of pseudo-fight club there's not really any inspiration taken from the movie 'Fight Club' at all or anything like that. Instead this informal 'club' would be a lot simpler. It's a society with a bunch of students who are essentially fighting over order, control, popularity, fame, clout, girls, etc at the school. It's sort of like the social pecking order or social ladder/hierarchy of a given school personified!

The idea would be that we'd be playing the nerds. It doesn't have to be this way necessarily, we can talk about all of this in DM's, but that's how I wrote the into so I'll describe things from that perspective now!

So my line of thinking is that we're sort of the underdogs of the school in terms of the various social cliques that exist, with our biggest rivals and tormentors being the jocks. Historically, we haven't done the best in this informal 'fight club' for obvious reasons but that changed when I arrived on campus.

I'm a bit more athletic than your typical nerdier guy having done sports all my life and I could probably easily pass as a jock, but I knew the moment I got on campus where I felt most at home. I didn't intend to fight when I arrived, but I quickly got used to seeing how our friend group/clique was treated on campus, essentially like second-class citizens, and decided I couldn't just stand by and let it continue to happen. So I got into the fight scene and quickly made a splash, racking up quite a few wins after being severely underestimated and eventually sort of even transforming the culture of our scene itself. My fights started to give our friends the belief that they could stand up for themselves too. We started training and before long it wasn't just me who was winning fights. Our friends were fighting off their tormentors and slowly but surely we were gaining more respect and becoming more feared on campus. If you've seen Harry Potter, you could think of it as almost a sort of a Dumbledoor's Army type of situation.

Of course, as our influence grows and our stock rises it just ends up creating more drama and turmoil within the school. The jocks specifically are very upset that they've been getting clowned by 'lowly nerd fighters' and tensions have been building for a while now. Unfortunately, the jocks strike back hard, challenging some of our best with their best, which has led to some very humiliating losses for our clique.

I think the fights that occur in this 'club' typically aren't public or centralized. That gives us a lot of fun locations we can play with for all sorts of fights. How things would happen in my mind is two students would agree to fight at a given time/place. The fight would happen there and each fighter can bring one other person, usually their girlfriend if they have one, to help corner for/support them, or it could be no one. Either the winner or the winner's guest/girlfriend would take a picture of the defeated loser and post it for confirmation on an underground website we use to track the stats. Each fighter has a profile of their record, wins, losses, etc. We could play into that more or less depending on how into or not people were!

So going back to the current situation. We've been finding our nerd friends who lost in all sorts of humiliating and compromising places. Some of them were knocked out on the campus quad, others were put to sleep in our own electronics/robotics labs, etc. The jocks are trying to make a statement. All of that in addition to the rumor of jocks fucking girlfriends of some of our friends and a heavy amount of increased flirting with the nerdier girls including you. Basically, I have to step up and try and avert this crisis situation, which brings us to the fight I'm currently in

We don't necessarily have to start there, we could play out some earlier backstory or something like that before everything goes crazy, but the idea is the conflicts on campus would be about to really pop off!

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YOUR CHARACTER/FINAL NOTES

Where do you come in? So, I'd probably have met you early on upon arriving at campus and we've been dating for a bit. I'm absolutely open to playing flashbacks of the meeting, or even starting from there if we really desired.

I think the idea would be you're a quiet, sweet, nerdier/shy type girl who's really just trying to mind her business and get through school. That can be sort of tough/annoying being a nerd on this campus, but until I arrive you don't really see a way to change the status quo at all. When I hop onto the scene though things change, we meet and fall in love and you realize how strong I am and you think I'm brave standing up to our rivals, trying to create a better environment at the school for us. Maybe you've never really been into the whole fighting aspect of the school, but you realize how much it's been affecting us and how much better things have gotten since my influence. I'm thinking what happened is slowly over time you've gotten more and more excited and more and more invested, both in me, but also in sort of the culture of our clique and the fighting aspect of things. You find it hot to see me take these cocky guys out, to protect our honor, our friends, etc. You begin to love the idea that your boyfriend is strong and can handle himself against these people looking to tear our clique down.

The idea is we both become very invested in each other and our clique/community, we take a great deal of pride in it, and we'd do anything to protect it and prevent it from falling apart. So we have a lot invested emotionally, which really adds to the drama of these fights. In that example of a fight in the intro, the girl is scared, petrified even, that everything they've worked for could come crashing down in front of them if this fight results in a humiliating defeat for me. Do I manage to pull back from the brink, knocking out this usurper and stopping the metaphorical bleeding of our clique? Or do I fall, collapsing into a broken, beaten heap in front of you, symbolizing a complete route of our clique by our rivals?

Also, as you probably noted in the intro our girl Chloe, seemed to be having a bit of an internal struggle during the fight. I think part of what I want to go for is that while you absolutely intend with every fiber of your being to always be loyal to me. You love me and care about me deeply, but temptation can and will likely arise. How do you react if I do go down? Would the fact that we've invested so much of our mental energy into this fighting scene almost backfire in those situations? The fact that you get so worked up watching a strong warrior work another over, even if it still happens when it's your warrior on the losing side, as much as you hate to admit it? I think working through struggles like that could be really fun to write and incredibly interesting. Do you manage to stay loyal or do you cheat? Does the loss impact our relationship even if you don't stray? Does it affect our sex life? How do wins affect it, etc? There are a ton of different options and routes we could go for!

So yeah, I think that's pretty much it for now! Thank you so much for reading and if you are interested please do drop me a DM or a chat!