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Dominariatrix

Help me fix my backstory!

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So I realized I don't want to role play a love story but it's too central in my backstory to scratch it.

A mafia like organization run by the same drow family for hundreds of years. The boss has 2 kids, one is the characters love interest and the other is his friend. As they all 3 are like 16 the character starts falling for the girl. The brother snitches to his father (the mafia boss) and he takes it personally. He threatens to execute my character but the snitch brother intervines and asks to have him "exiled" to one of the organizations most remote locations.

Now the character has been working in this remote location for like 50 years and everyone has an strict ban on telling him about the status/internal politics of the organization.

This 50 year gap is for my DM to make whatever he wants with the internal structure and changes needed for the world setting. A change of powers is possible within the organization and either kid could take the leadership. So I have so far 3 possible solutions at hand.

She died, rip. boring but practical for my story.

She is a bitch now and has a deep hatred for the character for "abandoning" her.

She married someone and won't leave him/her for the character.

What do you think is the best for the story without role playing the love story? Any suggestions, specially outside my 3 proposals, are welcome. Thanks.

Posted Jul 10, 2021, 6:12 PM UTC

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C0nv0luted•

Dude, it's been 50 years and they're not children anymore. The childhood crush is dead, they're just people who knew each other as children but are mostly strangers now, no love feelings on either side. She feels guilty because her family exiled him but love doesn't last that long with nothing to grow on. Your character is slightly resentful of her for not fighting for him but his feelings died years ago, too.

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immraeongears•

Second this.

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[deleted]•

Well it sounds like you still need to get revenge on the brother for ratting you out in the first place. So maybe he killed his sister and has taken over the family and your guy doesn't find out until assassin's arrive from home to tie up loose ends hence your adventuring starts. Why he killed his sister could be a simple case of getting her out of the way to take over or maybe she found out about him snitching in the first place and confronted him threatened to out his snitching which isn't a good look to a mafia family and would seriously cripple his reputation/advancement chances so she had to have a tragic accident. The whole thing leading to a showdown with your guy and giving your DM a ready made reoccurring background antagonist/criminal organization for the party to crush.

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SnailWogg•

You say you can't change the love story because it's too integral, but what if you just changed it to something else that got your character exiled? What if him and the boss's son grew up friends. The son was privileged growing up and started to become a prick as they got older, but your character sticks by him as a childhood friend. One day the son goes a too far, maybe he steals something or kills someone. He tells his father it was your character which sets up the same exile storyline. Perhaps he asks for the exile rather than execution because he has a moment of humanity for his old friend. This gives you a more nuanced backstory and a more multidimensional rival to have to confront at some point.

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DominariatrixOP•

That asshole, I trusted him! Love it, thanks

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