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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!

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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

Poe Dameron | That movie about the thing waking up | OTA

[squadless]

[War vet, pilot, served three total tours and just couldn't deal with another, but managed to get out on a 0% disability thanks to a good medic and a better therapist and maybe also a new boyfriend

He's also never seen without his corgi, enough so that people have begun to speculate that the dog is a service/companion animal to help with his PTSD and not just a pet.

Despite all of this, Poe is (or at least seems) generally content and is still the same open, giving person that his friends remember, if sometimes a little more distant than he was before.]

I'm wild carding the starter and we can roll with whatever option it creates

[mynameisfinn]

[Finn was a solider too, but he didn't talk much about his unit or where he'd been stationed. In fact when anyone asks him anything about it he clams up and gets nervous. Before he met Poe, Finn was a shy, closed off man who didn't always seem to get the hang of modern life all that well. After he loosened up a little, but he still had nights where he wouldn't sleep or had nightmares so bad he woke up screaming.

Poe was making him better and Poe's dog seemed to like Finn too, so that means it's about time for something to go wrong.]

Sounds like a plan!

[squadless]

Poe's nightmares weren't generally the wake-up-screaming kind, and especially not when Finn actually stayed over. But that night had been a bad night for the both of them, and BeBe, finally tired of pulling double-duty and knowing that no one was going to get any more sleep, had herded Poe out to the couch where Finn was so that he could keep an eye on them both. Namely by flopping down on the cushion between them.

Poe smiled, it was thin and it was tired, but it was genuine at least, "Morning." He said, settling on the other side of the couch, "Didn't mean to wake you." Because typical of Poe, to apologize for something like that, even if he hadn't done, giving Finn an out if he wanted it, and not touching him just yet in case he was still in fight mode.