Wynnara
Minstrel
I'm currently feeling my way around a scenario for a story. It's important to note that while the majority of the story is traditional fantasy, the scenario I'm talking about here is very much in our world.
I've got a 17 year old girl who has lived in a small town all her life. For a variety of reasons, she desperately wants to leave and has set her sights on the idea of getting a youth work visa and travelling by herself to London. She's been saving every cent for as long as she'd been able to hold an after school job and, just as soon as she finishes high school and turns 18, she's on a plane and out of there. Her family have other plans for her so she's been keeping this dream secret from them.
What I need is for the family to find out about the plan and then ruthlessly throw a wrench in the works. I'm imagining something like... at 17 she's still a minor and so the family threatens to go to the bank and seize all her hard earned savings... or maybe she has a small inheritance that she knows is coming when she turns 18 and the family says they'll do something to ensure that she never gets it... I'm looking for something simple, but plausible that would absolutely devastate this girl... make her feel like she's trapped and helpless by her circumstances.
Any thoughts?
I've got a 17 year old girl who has lived in a small town all her life. For a variety of reasons, she desperately wants to leave and has set her sights on the idea of getting a youth work visa and travelling by herself to London. She's been saving every cent for as long as she'd been able to hold an after school job and, just as soon as she finishes high school and turns 18, she's on a plane and out of there. Her family have other plans for her so she's been keeping this dream secret from them.
What I need is for the family to find out about the plan and then ruthlessly throw a wrench in the works. I'm imagining something like... at 17 she's still a minor and so the family threatens to go to the bank and seize all her hard earned savings... or maybe she has a small inheritance that she knows is coming when she turns 18 and the family says they'll do something to ensure that she never gets it... I'm looking for something simple, but plausible that would absolutely devastate this girl... make her feel like she's trapped and helpless by her circumstances.
Any thoughts?