I know my job is just to snark at everything, be meta and make our characters break the fourth wall, but I do have some ideas for the rest of the drama.
What kind of ideas, you ask?

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    I’m just saying that if one of our characters turned out to be an immortal being struggling with his man pain who needed skinship to keep living, I wouldn’t argue.

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      This description reminds me of…

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      Can i vote second lead for this? That’s why he’s so devoted to the ML and his dog

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      This is ridiculous. I love it.

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        I also kind of want the FL to be an NIS agent, but I couldn’t figure out how to make that work what with her being in the public eye as a chaebol.
        I thought maybe she wants to make friends with the ML but doesn’t know how to, so she becomes good at the things he says he’s good at so they can have shared interests. She’s a perfectionist, so she ends up being better at martial arts and marksmanship than most agents.
        I like Hot Cocoa’s idea because now we can say she used to be an army general in her past life.

        What if….the four of them set out to find a McGuffin that’ll undo the 2ML’s curse so he can be mortal and grow old with them, but in doing so they cross paths with some Very Dangerous People. They’ll need the ML’s tenacity, the FL’s resources and both 2L’s investigative skills to survive . And along the way they heal old wounds (because I’m sentimental like that.)

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      Hold on, does he need skinship from only his love interest to feel better, or can it be just anyone? Does he walk around holding his best friend’s hand, is what I’m asking.

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        Anybody but because Korea is a culture where people don’t usually touch each other, this will be a stressor for him. Being in a relationship would be the easiest way for him to “feed”. But I’m thinking he has a childhood friend who offers themselves up for regular feedings.

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          A skinship vampire. This is top tier kdrama material – it’s completely bonkers but I would 100% watch it.

          OK but @anothernicole @hotcocoagirl @ally-le I think we need a suitably tragic and trashy backstory for the ML. His best friend is an immortal vampire, but what is he?

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            i thought you were calling me to find you a suitable tragic and trashy location and my mind went to the beautiful alley in…was it temperature of love? where they are out jogging at the beginning…in the most cinematically-shot alleys ever???

            ok wait, so the ML’s best friend is the vampire, right? And the FL is NIS?

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            Ok, now this is going to sound crazy, but can we make the ML a normal guy with a normal past and a normal back story? There’s already so much cray-cray that we need to ground this thing. You lose the spark if everyone is paranormal, I think. I also think that the comedy can be this normal guy who is surrounded by supernatural beings and trying to act in that world, but still staying to hold on to his ordinary-ness.

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            oooh yes totally with @ally-le on this. regular guy regular life in the midst of his craaaay friends.

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          “Tragic and trashy location” made me giggle. That alley can be the designated Brooding Area.
          Yes, the 2ML is the vampire, the FL is NIS and the 2FL used to be a reporter. What if the ML’s tragic backstory is that he was saved from the brink of death as a child by black magic, and the price he has to pay is that he dies and comes back from the dead at random times? And when his best friend (who can never die – thematic juxtaposition) asks him what it’s like, he claims not to remember anything, but he gets a haunted look in his eyes.

          ChinguMode, you’re probably getting so many notifications. Mianhe. I hope this is trashy enough to make up for it.

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