two characters and their relationship loosely based off people watching
She: She loves music, and can switch effortlessly from Bump n Grind to Hotel California. Her thoughts and words are as eclectic as the city she hails from. She gives great advice and rarely takes it. She is verbose but thoughtful. She is a people pleaser, in a subtle nature that stems from her desire to make those happy around her. She is a diplomat, seen sometimes as a gossip because she wants to understand the unique way every single human views the world. She is unafraid and unapologetic, and also emotionally unavailable. She is self-deprecating but only in her humor — her presence is confident and self-affirming (this is a tool of deflection). Sarcasm is her coping mechanism.
He: He loves to drive. He likes the simply plain and youthful, but wants to play with a mind that twists and turns in a way that plainness would never allow. He is from a place that in some ways represents the antithesis of his being, but in others is the foundation of his personhood. His world is tinged 1970s orange, and ideally shown with a slight grain overlay. He wants you to like what he loves, and he will like what you love. Sometimes his vision is blurred. He can’t plan; lateness infuses his life like tea in hot water. He loves women, lifting them up to a pedal of idealist, aspirational womanhood. He knows what he thinks he likes — his attachment to women of a certain category is a self-inflicted cycle that somehow maintains stagnation in his life.
Them: Proximity makes it so their friendship bloomed in a succinct time frame, they fell hard into their friendship. He was her first new friend in a new place. When they are together, their connection is clear. She knows the slightest movement of his hand means he wants a cigarette. He knows just when to offer his hand to hold something for her. The candor of their conversations is unprecedented. They teach each other things. They are best friends. In love every way except traditionally. They experiment and experience together — uncharted waters constitute daily activities. Despite their honesty, their relationship exists is a universe of convolution, unclarity, and hidden messages. In daily conversations they always mean what they say. But in conversations that reflect their relationship, (she thinks) that they don’t always say what they mean. They say goodnight to each other every night.