The basic information for those impatient folks out there…   
\* Dark Medieval, Eventual Romance, Vague (or Heavier) Supernatural Themes  
\* F4M   
\* Third Person, Past Tense  
\* Semi to Advanced Literacy  
\* Long-term   
\* OC x OC   
\* Discord

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Heyo!! My name is Faye, and I have been doing partnered writing for several years by now. In this post, I'm looking to pair my off-putting widow with someone! c: If you're not into weird characters, I'm not for you, lol

Important note: I make my roleplays the canon stories of our characters, and never use a character in another roleplay (unless as a side character).   
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The story is set in the year 1207, in a remote German town. There, my dear widow Ivana lives with her infant son and younger brother, whom she has cared for since the death of their parents. With her husband recently slain in the crusades, she has no other family to support her. To survive, she finds odd jobs here and there. Mostly making cloth and hemming clothes for those who are fortunate enough to care about such things. 

To put it lightly, Ivana is an odd woman. For as long as she’s lived, she’s taken a morbid interest in death and the way in which living things function. It’s not quite uncommon to find her collecting the carcasses of animals she finds within the surrounding woods. Their bones decorate the inside and outside of her little cottage. Some people have even claimed to have seen her with shriveled, disembodied fingers and human teeth. All of which, naturally, has earned her a poor reputation among the other townsfolk. 

The rumors among the villagers, while terribly exaggerated, are based in some truth. Ivana is, after all, an ill-in-the-mind woman. Having been surrounded by death from a young age, she has the firm belief that death is an entity, and he haunts her. Her father had similar notions. As well as his father, and the mother before.

This superstition has led her to all but isolate herself from the world. Never again does she want to lose a loved one. In order to avoid people, she mainly ever leaves her home between dusk to dawn. Even when there are times where she has no choice but to interact with the other townspeople, they find that she is curt, blunt, and vague with no attempts at pleasantries.   
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I could talk about Ivana for hours, but for the sake of not making a long-winded post, I will stop here. 

There are literally endless possibilities for who your character could be, and what his and Ivana’s dynamics could be! He could be a fellow villager, a rare traveler passing through, a soldier who knew her husband, a forest hermit, some type of wildman, etc. They could be sweet and healthy together, happy and then tragic, toxic lovers, etc.

These are the ideas that stick out to me the strongest, but we don't by any means have to follow any of them. They're just some ideas I had rattling in my brain! I’d honestly love to hear any other ones you may have in mind. 

\*Ivana happens to run into a forest hermit/wildman while looking for foragables and animal bones in ‘his’ woods. How they interact depends on his personality, but I'm always quite fond of weird little grubby characters. If he matches her odd nature, I think they'd be quite cute and even sweet together, in their own strange little way. 

\*An entity, possibly a soul in purgatory or something more demonic, somehow comes across Ivana. Seeing how unstable she already is, he torments her by playing into her belief that death follows her. The one thing I will say about this plot is that Ivana is not the sort of woman to cower and cry when she and her family are being threatened. If your creature is tangible, she will 100% try to kill ‘death’ herself. I think it goes without stating that this would be a more toxic route. My final note about this one is please, for the love of god, do not just make this entity a conventionally attractive dude with horns or something. Bring me the uncanny, ugly ass Eldritch horrors.

\*Similar to the previous dynamic, this would involve a non-human entity encountering Ivana. However, this time, it would be the actual form of death. This plot is a bit more complex, as I would like it to be representative of her gradual acceptance of the simple fact that everyone has to die someday. Rather than death tormenting her, I think it would be more tasteful for death to be represented as an unavoidable, natural thing. Why is death around Ivana? No idea, but we'll cross that bridge when we get there. 

\*A priest, having watched her long descent into madness, believes that there is something unholy about her and therefore seeks to rid the town of such demonry himself. Then it would be the usual story of a priest dealing with unbearable religious guilt for developing feelings for someone like Ivana. OR we could go the opposite route of this: a priest watches an unwell woman lose the people around her and tries to act as a form of support, gradually falling for each other in the process. 

\*Before Ivana’s husband passed, he had given his closest friend specific instructions to look after his family if he never made it home. Sure enough, that man remains true to his word and seeks out Ivana. In this one, I’d like to focus on their mutual grief of losing someone so dear to them, and the guilt of moving on. 

I'm honestly open to a myriad of dynamics, so please just let me know if you have an idea you'd like to try out! Again, weird characters have my heart. I would love to see her interact with some freak who lives in the woods. 

The one thing I can say in confidence is that Ivana will do everything she can to deter someone from pursuing her. Not only does she simply dislike attention, she’s afraid to open up her heart to a person, just to have them ripped from her life all over again. Once she does, however, she will never let them out of her sight. Like, ever.

Aside from that, Ivana is rather curious in nature. If someone is strange or different in some manner, she’ll want to learn about them. 

If you're interested, please feel free to contact me! Comment, send me a message, add me on Discord, whatever you'd like. Even if you just have questions, I'm more than happy to chitchat. 

A little side note: I’m an artist, so I'd be happy to draw your character once we start writing together. Yes, this is a bribe. It’s not by any means necessary for my partner to be an artist, but it does make things fun! 

OPEN: Strange Medieval Widow [F4M, Long-term, Discord]