›
If you have an email ending in @hotmail.com, @live.com or @outlook.com (or any other Microsoft-related domain), please consider changing it to another email provider; Microsoft decided to instantly block the server's IP, so emails can't be sent to these addresses.
If you use an @yahoo.com email or any related Yahoo services, they have blocked us also due to "user complaints"
-UE

How implausable is this situation? (NSFW)

ChagenChagen
edited 2011-07-17 00:42:45 in General
[tɕagɛn]
Okay, I'm pretty sure this is fine to ask.... So, we have a girl. Her name is Mikane, and she's 18-years-old. Thanks to her nice grades, good test scores, and some family connections, she's managed to get a scholarship to a well-regarded art school in the Northern US. However, instead of immediately taking classes, she decides to move up to a nice little town right next to the college. Nearly everyone here is around her age--it's a college town. She takes the money her parents had in a college fund--around $100,000--and decides to rent a small house, and basically kick back for a year, practicing art and piano playing. She's unemployed the whole year, and just has a lot of fun with all the other college kids, getting drunk, engaging in gratuitous amounts of sex, and chilling until she decides to actually go to school--which is next year for her. I actually would love to relax for a year before entering college, but my dad said that wouldn't work and it would be a bad idea.
«13456

Comments

  • nohaynicklibrenohaynicklibre
    edited 2011-07-16 15:54:22
    Kichigai birthday!!
    Is very implausable. There are no people named Mikane.

    [/shitpost]
  • NyktosNyktos
    a little muffled
    And what do her parents think of her squandering their money this way?
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    She has a scholarship, they don't care.

    My parents are saving up money for me to pay for tuition, but they say that if I get a scholarship, they'll just give me it and let me do whatever the hell I want with it.
  • RaddRadd
    Very.
  • InsanityAddictInsanityAddict
    Diet NEET

    Meh, on this side of the pond the only acceptable method of taking a year off(provided you have a daddy's trust fund) is either a work-travel combo, suffering a burnout or doing a board or committee function.

    If it's a story scenario, make her do some stuff on the side(volunteer work, whatevs) in order to make it more plausible. There are enough slacker protagonists out there already, though too few that are female.

  • CrimsonCrimson
    Give us fire! Give us ruin! Give us our glory!
    Seems like a waste to me. Usually when people take years off it's after getting a bachelors degree but before going to grad school. And even when they do take a year off, they at least have a job or something.
  • NyktosNyktos
    a little muffled
    @Chagen: The scholarship covers the entire cost, including residence? Well, I suppose those do exist, but they're pretty uncommon as far as I'm aware.

    I guess if we assume that she is getting one like that, and her parents are fairly well-off, it's not too unreasonable for them to give her the money.
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    Remember that this is not the most serious of stories.
  • WaltzyWaltzy
    edited 2011-07-16 16:12:35
    I'm taking a year off after high school to find a job and work for a year myself.

    But I wouldn't blow money like that. I pretty much have to pay my own way through college.
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    I could give her a job--it's not out of the question.
  • WaltzyWaltzy
    Ahh, so is this an actual person in your area?
  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    "Meh, on this side of the pond the only acceptable method of taking a year off(provided you have a daddy's trust fund) is either a work-travel combo, suffering a burnout or doing a board or committee function."

    :<
  • CrimsonCrimson
    edited 2011-07-16 16:13:51
    Give us fire! Give us ruin! Give us our glory!
    ^^^Why did my mind go to the creepiest possible interpretation?
  • WaltzyWaltzy
    ^...Me too. I feel significantly less perverse now NOPE NOT WITH STRAIGHT FACE
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    I dunno.

    Waltzy: No, this is for a story.
  • WaltzyWaltzy
    Ohhhh

    Ohhhhhhh okay

    Jeez I should've realized. n////n
  • CrimsonCrimson
    Give us fire! Give us ruin! Give us our glory!
    Ohhhh...why didn't you say so in the first place?
  • LouieWLouieW
    edited 2011-07-16 16:24:41
    Loser
    Taking a year off between college and graduate school (or something similar) makes more sense to me than taking a year off between high school and college, since as far as I can tell there are lot more opportunities and things you can do as a college graduate than as a high school graduate.

    I might be approaching this from the wrong angle though since I would probably be thinking more about resume building if I were in that person's shoes than anything else when making a decision to take a year off.
  • VorpyVorpy
    ☭Unstoppable Sex Goddess☭
    Very implausible, very unlikely, and very inevitable.
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    Guys, this is a porn story.

    You're taking is a little too seriously.
  • BobBob
    Must everything be a porn story with you, Chagen?! After all we did to raise you, and all you do is sit around writing porn all day? That's it, you're not having a birthday this year! >:[
  • MisaAmaneMisaAmane
    A Sad Panda
    Yes, son. I am disappointed in you. I thought I was going to raise a man, not a mouse or a little girl. Sometimes I wonder if it's MY fault that you came out this way, writing porn stories instead of me catching you having sex with girls in the middle of the night.
  • BobBob
    edited 2011-07-16 16:49:43
    You're never going to accidentally knock some random teenage up like I want you to, are you, son? ;_;

    JUST KEEP BREAKING MY HEART, WHY DON'T YOU!
  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    You're taking is a little too seriously.

    ...Answering your question is taking it too seriously?
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    No, I meant that everyone is acting like it needs to be 100% plausible, instead of, say, 70% plausible, because this is a story about a 18-year-old female artist meeting a man who looks more like a chick than she does.
  • BobBob
    Honestly, I thought "Mikane" was supposed to be you when I first read this. >_>
  • ChagenChagen
    edited 2011-07-16 16:58:51
    [tɕagɛn]
    No, she's a fictional character entirely.


  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    I think it was particularly the last sentence of your OP that gave the impression that she was a stand-in for you, but female for some reason.
  • BobBob
    Oh, cool.

    ...The guy she hooks up with wouldn't happen to be a woman in disguise, would (s)he? :3
  • ChagenChagen
    edited 2011-07-16 17:07:34
    [tɕagɛn]
    INUH:No, I was just using an idea I wanted to do one day in the story. I do that quite a bit.

    Bob: No, just a super effeminate and shy guy.
Sign In or Register to comment.