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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.

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Earlier in the day, anyone might have answered the door of her multi-million dollar home. One of the cleaning crew, her wedding planner, her chef.

But Cordelia had told them to all go home earlier than they really needed to. Even her tailor, in the middle of her final dress fitting, had been told to leave and come back tomorrow.

When she opened the Cordelia still wore the gown that she had mostly bought because her future mother-in-law had deemed it "vulgar". Maybe it was, but what was holy or sacred about this upcoming wedding?

The infidelity? The unspoken agreements to look away? The drug money?

Her entire life was spinning out of control, and she couldn't stop it. She had needed to be alone and think. The wedding was a mistake, it would all end in divorce, but she couldn't help herself from longing for how things had been with Pierre, once. For the time she had met him on the roof of the museum, when he had told her he had never seen anything so beautiful as the nape of her neck, and then he had kissed her as the fireworks that signaled a new year had shot above them.

She's stayed by him through the messy divorce from his previous wife, as his identical twin brother had appeared from nowhere and assumed his identity, as he had been kidnapped and held ransom by some French politicians while they were vacationing in Paris. But now, after all the drama and romance, all that was left seemed to be held together by the thinnest of threads.

Cordelia loved the excitement, and the glamour, and the money. But she missed the smell of leather and cigarette smoke and the feeling of being hugged like her ribs might break. She wanted to be thrown into a wall and hear the shatter of frames hit the wall. She wanted laughter and tears and passion. All that was left with Pierre were polite displays of affection when they were together in public.

She missed--

"Bert," Cordelia breathed as she opened the door. The light shone out from behind her into the night, illuminating the white gauze of her dress. "I knew it would be you."