Plotting Time

[danibradshaw]

Here's a chance to plot with Dani. I hope to have quite a few plots with her, given her job, some negative and some positive--message me anytime you'd like to involve her in something or just comment here.

Info on Dani for possible plotting~: 
▸ Dani is from Siren Cove. She spent her youth traveling the world and helping those in need.
▸ Super dislikes wealthy people and how the world is handed to them.
▸ Her sister went missing 4 years ago. Aimee is currently a cold case.
▸ Editor-in-chief of The Cove, a juicy tabloid magazine that buys stories and pictures from citizens and the paps.
▸ No one knows she uses her income to fund investigative journalism around the world. Your character probably thinks she just likes making money off other people's gossip.
▸ She's ~around to hear gossip about anyone in this town if your character wants.
▸ Making a deal: Dani's powers are focused on making deals. A character can strike a deal with her to expose or stifle a story. Once a deal is made with Dani, both parties are bound to it and cannot break that deal unless Dani releases them from in. Which takes maybe a bit of blood and an incantation or two. 
▸ Dani can be a powerful friend or foe. But true friendship with Dani is rare and probably only a handful of individuals can claim that.

That's it for now I guess lol. Anyway, let's plot!

Comments

[starsfallen]

Dani is a very dangerous figure to Corry. She already has a long and tumultuous history with paparazzi and she's in an even more vulnerable position in Siren Cove for things to come out (like the truth of her rise to America's Sweetheart by way of siren powers).

I would love to plot about this, either having a precarious conflictual relationship OR a tentative alliance/friendship benefiting the both of them. Thoughts?

[danibradshaw]

I'm definitely game to plot this. Dani's ultimate motivator is money, so if an alliance benefits her monetarily, she'll be open to it. She's currently got an alliance of sorts with June that Alex and I plotted, June offering up her own stories to keep her brothers out of the press. Corry can have the same kind of thing.

Ultimately, it depends where you want to take Corry. Dani can expose things if that's what you want, maybe get everything out in the open, making Corry face that, or she can help keep those things under wraps and Corry can come clean on her own terms. I expect Dani has a power over the paps in Siren Cove since she's the one that'll publish their pics & tips, so if she says "back off" they'll listen for a bit (unless they figure out someone else they can sell to).

Also they're a few years apart, and since they grew up in Siren Cove, they probably knew each other a bit. I know Corry's past is mostly related to Les and Owen, but they definitely could've known each other back in the day. Dani would have become jaded since Corry last saw her, especially after her sister's disappearance. Buuuuttt she could be a bit more sympathetic to Corry and give her a helping hand. Maybe be a no-nonsense person she needs? I DUNNO I'M GAME SORRY I'VE RAMBLED.

[starsfallen]

I would very much like to have Corry under threat/blackmail. She has a lot of skeletons in her closet and while the tabloids know a lot, there's quite a bit they don't have the privilege of even understanding - like the extent of her siren powers' impact on her celebrity - or what really happened when she was kidnapped, etc. Not to mention the smaller pieces like her changing involvement with Will and her friendship with Les which could be read in all sorts of ways.

Maybe she and Corry establish a tentative relationship where Corry pays her to run stories only at her approval. She probably remembers her from growing up and thinks that connection would lend to a compromise. Maybe they even laugh over lattes creating stories. But it's a very tentative sort of alliance and once Dani realizes there's a lot more to exploit she starts blackmailing Corry more and more to stay quiet.

I guess I see them as frienemies of sort? With the hand swiftly changing in favor of one or another? Not many people call Corry on her secrets and maybe it does lead her to becoming somewhat of a no-nonsense confidante even if there are deals and blackmail involved.

[danibradshaw]

Lmfao that sounds good. You're right, there's more to expose in Siren Cove with the powers angle and they can definitely start out with a "feeding the press" relationship.

I have an idea of how The Cove will release but I need to work out specifics with Lisa and the other mods. When I get the kinks worked out, it'll be conducive to Corry's print-approved stories and then eventually we can work on the ~expose/blackmailing angle. You'll be completely in control of when and what gets printed. If Dani sees how much the true story is worth, she'll definitely fight to expose it or yield with the right dollar amount.

What a twisted relationship lmfao I love it~