Grab the box of tissues, it's time for

[toastysocks]

The Bold and the Bakerstreet
A Soap Opera/Telenovela Tropes Meme



Let's be honest, we play out some pretty crazy things on Bakerstreet, from budding romance to chilling betrayal, surprise twists and stunning plots worthy of any tv drama.

...but what if that drama was a soap opera?



Post your character, their backstory and what their role in this big soap opera is! Are they a high rolling Wall Street hedge fund manager? The charming and demure maid? Maybe your shonen hero is the new pool boy, or your superhero now finds himself a trophy husband to a hotshot lawyer wife who worships Satan! Give us a taste of what your character's soap opera life could be!

Any top-level left blank will be deleted.

1. "But Ramon...it's your baby!" Surprise pregnancies! Keep it, get rid of it, put it up for adoption, but definitely ask for a paternity test, she's also slept with the pool boy. Which brings us to...
2. "Rebecca, how could you?!" Someone caught their lover in flagrante delecto with another! /organ wail How awkward if it turns out-
3. "She's your sister!" Whoops. Incest a go-go.
4. "Your mother gave Caesar up in her grief" And thus, your long-lost sibling/aunt/cousin's brother's nephew's former roommate has come to crash the party.
5. "Speak now or forever hold your peace" Drama on the wedding day! You're a bride left at the altar, your former (and quite possibly long-lost) lover decides your trip down the aisle is a mistake. Maybe this whole marriage is an accident!
6. "I'm sorry, Jacqueline...it's terminal" Someone's going to die. You, your dog, your tenth secret love child, oh the drama. Just remember...
7. "Lupita, you're alive!" Death is only temporary in a soap opera. Maybe you even faked it!
8. "David...don't you remember me?" The amnesia option. You hit your head in a tragic hang-gliding accident what? and now you can't even recall your own name!
9. "It's a miracle!" Is your character in a coma? Not anymore! Bonus points if you pair it with #5
10. "I love you!" Three little anguished, desperate words, uttered at the worst moment possible.
11. "I have a terrible secret..." The catch-all! Anything else you want to add, go for it, just make it as cheesy and overwrought as you can.

Comments

[getmeoutofthedraft]

[[I'd love to do something with these two, but idk what. Any preference?]]

[holbydelboy]

[No preference here, other than I'm more comfortable keeping Fletch in his home timeperiod.]

[getmeoutofthedraft]

[[RNG says 4. Long-lost American brother?]]

[holbydelboy]

[Sure! That can work.]

[getmeoutofthedraft]

[Hawkeye doesn't like travelling. After the war, he was absolutely determined to spend the rest of his life in Crabapple Cove, Maine, and get old and feeble treating coughs and sprains]

[Except then, in the most plausible plotline ever, he found out that his mother hadn't died when he was a child, as he'd thought, but had had another son. Just when everything seemed like it had settled down, too]

[He feels weird walking through a hospital without a white coat on. Plus, English people everywhere. What's up with that? But apparently, that's where his brother works, so... He asks for Adrian Fletcher by name, and eventually finds him. Which is where this gets awkward. Because how do you even broach this subject?]

Even your scrubs are different in this country. What's up with that?

[who's awkward he's not awkward]

[holbydelboy]

[Nurse Adrian Fletcher, Fletch to just about everyone, Ward Manager on the Acute Assessment Unit in Holby City Hospital. Former mechanic, former Casualty nurse, he recieved a promotion to AAU last year.

At the moment, he's at the nurse's station, dealing with a major incident; two-car and a coach RTC. He's directing patients to triage areas, others into surgery and just generally managing things.

When the American shows up, he throws Fletch off his rhythm, and he stares for a second before blinking.]

Uh... Sorry. Can I help you?

[getmeoutofthedraft]

[Well, you could help by magically knowing all this stuff already so Hawkeye doesn't have to have a conversation with - shudder - emotions in it]

[He shrugs]

Looks nasty.

You're Fletcher, right?

[holbydelboy]

[Sorry, Hawkeye, but mind-reading isn't in Fletch's repetoire]

Uh, yeah. That's me. And we're kinda in the middle of something, so unless you're sick, I'm going to have to ask you to wait outside.

[This is said with authority, with firmness, because, yeah. A critical trauma triage scenario isn't the best time to take a social call.]

[getmeoutofthedraft]

No, yeah, I know. I get it. Trust me, I do. [Triage is not the best time for this, Hawk.] And normally I'd offer to help, only I guess there's red tape in the way, so...

...I'll be in the coffee shop when you get this lot sorted.