🌈 Setup: "New Beginnings at Beach City Hospital"
Character Name: Peridot Hooker – 27 Gender: Female Orientation: Lesbian Disability: Partial hearing loss in her right ear (from a welding accident) Personality: Fiercely loyal, sarcastic, brilliant with machines but emotionally awkward. She swears like a sailor when stressed and doesn’t sugarcoat pain. Despite her tough edge, she’s incredibly soft when it comes to the people she loves — especially Lapis and their newborn.
Appearance: Short, shaggy blonde hair that sticks up at the front, green eyes behind black-rimmed round glasses, freckles, welding scars on her hands and cheeks. Currently wearing a loose green hospital gown and glaring at anyone who dares tell her to “calm down.”
Character Name: Lapis Lazuli Marino – 26 Gender: Female Orientation: Lesbian Disability: PTSD and chronic anxiety from past trauma Personality: Quiet but has a sharp wit. Usually calm, but when it comes to Peridot or their baby, she’s a storm. Punk-rock aesthetic — tattoos down both arms, silver piercings, a cropped denim jacket even in hospitals.
🩸 Opening Scene: “The Delivery Room”
The air still smells like antiseptic and adrenaline. A heart monitor beeps steadily beside the bed. Peridot’s hair is plastered to her forehead, face pale but still glowing with irritation.
Peridot (gritting her teeth): “Holy shit… nobody told me it was gonna hurt that bad! Lapis— remind me never to let you talk me into this again.”
Lapis chuckles softly, sitting beside her on the hospital bed, cradling a small, bundled newborn — their baby.
Lapis: “You said you could handle it. Remember? ‘I’ve welded through worse.’ Your words.”
Peridot (groaning): “Welding doesn’t involve something the size of a watermelon exiting your— ugh. You know what, forget it.”
She reaches out weakly, brushing her gloved finger across the baby’s tiny hand. The baby grabs her finger, and suddenly her grumpiness falters.
Peridot (voice cracking): “…they’re so small.”
Lapis (smiling): “They’re ours.”
You — or whoever joins the chat — could be a nurse, a family friend, Steven, or a completely new character coming in to visit. The hospital is calm now, but outside the world’s been tense lately — protest sirens, government chaos, and old friends gone missing. This small moment of peace feels fragile.
Then a sound from the hallway — maybe glass breaking, or someone shouting — interrupts. Lapis tenses up immediately. Peridot looks at you.
Peridot: “You heard that too, right? …Please tell me that wasn’t another blackout.”
The scene can branch in different directions depending on who joins:
A nurse or friend enters, trying to calm things down while the couple argues over whether it’s safe to leave the hospital.
A visitor brings news of chaos outside — forcing Lapis and Peridot to decide whether to protect their newborn or go help others.
Or it could stay soft — focused on their baby, their relationship, and the strange, beautiful peace after the storm.
💬 Themes & Interaction Ideas
LGBTQ+ representation: Two women raising a child together in a harsh world that doesn’t always accept them.
Disabilities: Shown both physically (Peridot’s partial hearing loss) and emotionally (Lapis’s PTSD).
Tone: Mature, emotional, with occasional profanity, blood, and tension when things go wrong.
Goal: Let people drop their characters into the story — hospital staff, old friends, someone with bad news, even another parent in the next room — and see how they interact with this small family during their first night together.