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Lady & the Tramp Meme

You know the story. It's a love story.
Our lovers are from different worlds — one wealthy, one not. The poor girl has fallen in love with the Gentleman Snarker, or the Unlucky Everydude secretly courts the daughter of the richest man in town. And she loves him too. Maybe it was Love at First Sight. Maybe she has a habit of slipping out to the seedier side of town for a night of fun. Maybe they've been friends their whole lives and the difference in status never really mattered. Will their love be enough to let them be happy together?

Note that the roles aren't locked by gender: a working-class girl who loves a rich boy also fits this trope, as do two lovers of the same gender.

How To Play
- Comment with your character, putting the standard information somewhere in it. You also may want to specify your preferences or where your character would fall on the spectrum.
- Tag others! Feel free to use the RNG.
- Have fun and be respectful to others.

Prompts

The poor guy and rich girl mutually fall in love, and neither one cares about their differences in wealth. People around them, however, do, and conspire to interfere with true love.
The poor guy falls for the rich girl, even though he knows that she's out of his league. Undaunted, our hero engages in some zany scheme to get her to notice him or be impressed by him. This usually ends with the girl revealing that she doesn't care if he's rich or poor, and that she loves him for who he is.
The poor guy and the rich girl fall for one another, but he doesn't know she's rich at first. When he finds out, he's either intimidated by her wealth once he finds out, or else doesn't think he's good enough for her. As before, she doesn't care about such things, and has to convince him that he's the one she wants.

( Adapted from here. )

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(hello it fantasy/historical AU

cafeultra because Bex kinda fits better here I think? happy to do this with Becca too tho, just ask. info on journal. she could do either role, but she's probably more likely to be the, uh... tramp, lol.)

(Could kinda be either? Claire does, technically, come from money. But she doesn't talk about it, or really live like it.)

[one very obvious tramp reporting for duty. Canon, crosscanon, AUs, assumed CR, anything goes. Slight preference for m/m but this boy is a disaster bisexual if ever there was one so open to any gender]

[ooc; let's discuss options.]

[One interastral superstar reporting in. Absolutely the rich girl.]

[a young mom, divorcée, and former idol. she's definitely the "lady" but she's not at all a rich girl]

[MJ comes from a lower middle-class, single-parent family who works hard to just barely makes ends meet. Considering she has strong opinions about capitalism and whatnot, I would love for her to fall for someone with a heftier bank account and not know about it until later, then have to grapple with her generalizations about rich people. Conversely, if she were the "lady" who fell for a "tramp," she'd have to literally check her privilege when she's usually the one reminding other people to do the same. All this to say, I could roll with either role, let's talk!]