Totally, headspinningly, breathtakingly *normal*. She's the human NPC in every fantasy setting. No delusions of grandeur here; just a deep desire for the good and normal life, dragons and and monsters and ogres be damned.
️ Female MC key traits
The good: Down-to-earth, genuine, warm, hardworking, never gives up. Plays a lot of instruments?
The bad: Impatient, shuts down emotionally when she's uncomfortable. Gets obsessive / tunnel vision when she wants something. Stubborn. Hard to rile up but holds a looonnngggg grudge. Knows how to push his buttons and will.
The (not) ugly (in fact, she is a disproportionately fuckable shortstack): Human. Compact and curvy with some hard-earned muscle.
️ Themes
Slice-of-fantastical-life — Something small and everyday, with a totally not everyday environment and cast.
Contrast — Between the characters' size, kind, personality, background, values, dis/likes, etc. Anything that makes for interesting conversation and unexpected character dev.
Unexpected attraction / slow-burn — Related, big fan of connections that don't make sense on paper / take both characters by surprise.
Non-verbal affection — Female MC's love languages are touch and action. Sweet talk and pet names are [usually] a no-go.
Power and age gaps — Female MC is in her 20s, which puts her at the bottom of most ladders. (She doesn't see or care about these gaps nearly as much as I do. I am a true sucker for this trope.)
Exceptionalism — Pieces of each character that only show up around each other (e.g., bouts of shyness, possessiveness, cheek).
Monogamy — Open to multiple partners and/or adultery as themes, so long as monogamy is the end.
Story-driven — Not opposed to one-shot smut, but smut in service of story and character will usually be my preference.
Rough, imperfect, messy sex — Animalistic, fucked past speech, just absolutely gutted.
️ Partner preferences
Good grammar — In roleplay, good grammar is important to me. It's hard for me to enter and stay in a story when I get tripped up by its construction. IRL, I think as long as others are able to understand what you mean, grammar is whatever.
Knowing what you want — Own your preferences! I'd love to talk about them.