How Did Your Character Propose? 💍💒😍

[DomiSotto]

It had been crickets from start to finish and for a year. I can safely say that it was a flop, tying only with my asexual space opera in terms of people not wanting to read it.

[J.L.O]

That’s something I’ve got to get my act together on. Before this past year, I’d read hundreds of books a year. I doubt I finished 5 this past year. No wonder I’ve about lost my mind this year. Lol

[DomiSotto]

Oh, gosh, I definitely didn’t mean you. Sorry if it came across that way. Just my usual bewilderment about traction.

[J.L.O]

I know you didn’t. It just reminded me to get off my butt. Lmao

[stella_vigo]

@DollyTH

So cute went to real quick​:joy:.

There’s a twist: both proposals involve the same woman oh, and the dead character plays a major role in the story even though he’s already dead. I can give more context, if you don’t mind spoilers XD

[DollyTH]

I am intrigued .

[stella_vigo]

Okay. Some parts are a bit tragic

So the girl and the boy first met at an academy. She was five, and he was nine. The two were really close friends. They first dated when she was eighteen, and he proposed to her a few years later. They were supposed to get married when she was twenty-one.

And then on their wedding day, while she was walking down the aisle, the villain of the story stormed the cathedral on the back of a dragon-like beast. Her fiancé pushed her before she could be devoured, sacrificing himself for her.

Then she lost everyone close to her that day she—and the villain—were the only survivors of the tragedy. She couldn’t get over the loss. She kept on wearing the engagement ring she gave him even long after his death.

Then she rescued the other guy. He’s an amnesiac who’s forgotten virtually everything before he met her, so she took him under her wing. They ended up growing close over the years. Oh, and a twist: the second man is the cousin of her late fiancé, which surprised both of them. His feelings for her developed ahead, but he didn’t want to reveal his love for her for a lot of reasons, one of them being the fact that she’s still wearing her late fiancé’s engagement ring, and another because he thought that she would never love a man like him.

So he kept it to himself and talked about his love for her in his diary. Well, a ton of things happened, and she ended up reading it, finding out that he loves her. She was conflicted because she was starting to grow feelings for him too, but it felt like she was betraying her first love.

And a lot of things happened after that, and then one night her late fiancé appeared to her in a dream. He told her to move on, since he’s been dead for years already, and to find her happiness with the other man.

And the rest is history XD

[DollyTH]

Wow xD. I mean, great story about selflessness .

[stella_vigo]

Thanks! That romance part actually came later to me in the plotting process, so I was a bit surprised at how it unfolded. You can actually read some of it right here on Wacky, the forum

[DollyTH]

You gotta put it up in the Wacky sure if you haven’t already .

[stella_vigo]

Oh, I will. The actual book’s on the Wacky writing site, but I’m stuck on the twelfth chapter. Meanwhile the aforementioned diary, which I’ve posted here on this forum, has more than thirty entries >.> XD

I really need to set my priorities

The proposal scenes are one of the scenes I’m looking forward to writing, but the flashback proposal’s about 100,000 words away, so

[DollyTH]

Omg, I hate that xD, when I want to write a scene but have to write lead-up stuff, haha.

[anon26424881]

In one of my stories, I made him get a boat, dress up as Flynn from Tangled, and propose as he sang horribly off key. There were the lanterns and of course she was dressed in Rapunzel’s dress. Only this time, they kissed and my MC didn’t get kidnapped.

[DollyTH]

What do you mean this time?! XD

[W.L.Ink]

Explanation

In one of my worlds, people don’t normally marry for love. It’s mainly for the mutation of their magic, which makes people’s families stronger (magically and politically). People also don’t really propose with rings, normally. It’s anything that can make someone’s magic stronger, which is one of the biggest compliments and play to someone’s ego lol.

For my MC, she gets proposed to twice by both her LI’s. The male LI gives her a choker with protective enchantments on it (damage that would otherwise hurt her horribly would be passed off to him), and the female LI gives her an arm cuff crafted from a rare, flexible metal, with a charm carved from the trees that she grows exclusively with her magic.

My MC accepts both proposals

[DollyTH]

Well then… “Lucy, you got some ‘splaining to do!”

[W.L.Ink]

Yeaaaaaah

Both LI’s have known that they were in love with the same woman, and expected her to pick one. Big conversations happened, but for the most part they were okay with it haha.

[DollyTH]

We love monopolizing love to its fullest potential .

[SVTSwrites]

So in my mystery novel, my MC’s adoptive parents are married. So her dad proposed in the simplest way possible. They were in sweats and on the middle of the lawn. The dad got down on one knee and said, “I hate super sappy proposals. I love you, marry me?” And then later on they got married!

In my chick lit novel, it’s super cute. So when Nicole (my FMC) and her new husband, (Ash) met, she mentioned that she loves mint chocolate chip ice cream and that if you propose to her with that, then she’ll say yes. Well, when he proposed, he got her a mint chocolate chip cone, and on top was the ring. When she noticed, he got down on one knee, reminded her about the “propose to me with that, I’m yours”, and said, “Will you marry me?”

[DollyTH]

Efficiency! XD