No True Pair

Officially opening the 2010 No True Pair Round Four.

The prompt list will be posted on January 30, with four weeks before posting starts.  The theme this round is HARLEQUIN RELATIONSHIPS.

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Harlequin is a publisher for 'romance novels' and 'women's fiction', and is massively successful when measured in terms of sales...so successful, in fact, that Harlequin is practically a genre of its own.  The prompts for this round of No True Pair will use typical Harlequin relationship structures.  For example:

"[Character 1] drifts into dangerous territory, indulging in risky behaviour with questionable friends -- friends like the rebellious [Character 2]"
 
Gendered descriptions and anything setting-specific will be avoided to give the prompt the most flexibility.  The prompts might spark a single scene, a whole short story, or even just prompt you into writing a fully fleshed out back-of-book summary -- it's up to you.

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Comment here with your numbered list of eight characters for the May/June round of No True Pair. As per previous rounds:

- your list can contain characters from one fandom or different fandoms
- you may use your original characters
- you may have more than one list
- you can also use less than eight characters -- simply repeat the same characters until you have a name next to every number
- every character in your list will have a prompt with every other one.  

This is a low pressure challenge.  Signing up does not obligate you to complete any fic/art. 

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