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also noooo not his shirt 

Jac, I just needed to let you know that you are amazing. 

Hear me out: what if you had the dystopian evil government and the main character goes off and joins a resistance group. 

And then it turns out that the resistance psychologically conditioned him/her and the government is either doing some not great things, but still keeping the world together or making mistakes while overall putting out good effort or genuinely just good and fighting the problems they supposedly cause, and the rebellion is actually what needs to be defeated, because they’re trying to bring down the actual social structure that keeps the world from anarchy. 

I mean, sometimes I worry about people joining terrorist groups of whatever country they live in because alllll the books do it and just...governments are flawed, okay, but if we overthrew them, in most cases things are gonna get way worse. The situation won’t improve. You just took down society and now you have to rebuild and deal with everything the gov. was. (Which can also be done well - hello, Mistborn - but only really if the ones in charge are evil or if the protagonists realize what they did was wrong.) 

Also, give me a character who, rather than being defiant in a situation that they shouldn’t be, does the sensible thing and caves. Let a starving character break and take the food offered by their captor. Let a character who’s been conditioned to expect pain at fighting back actually stop fighting back, and quickly. Let characters be human! 

Hm, maybe I should stop ranting about stuff before people start to think I hate all literature 

My dreams wrote a love story, but I’m forgetting most of it...there were dragons, someone could turn invisible? Other magic too I think. People were definitely turning into dragons. I was more awake when I came up with this last snippet, which is why I mostly remember it: 

“[something about his family/kingdom being gone or disbanded? Idk] I’m not a prince anymore.” (In answer to some question she asked him about...something? It was like, resolution-wrapping-stuff-up conversation topics) 

(She’s being tentative about saying this) “Well, instead of being a prince, you could be a [dream logic just insists that her country had some special royal titles - they lived by the sea, I’m not sure how that affected it but it did].” (Translation: if you had that title, you’d be part of our family) 

(Him giving her a surprised and mildly hopeful and half-amused look) “Isn’t it usual the man who proposes to the woman?” 

“It’s also usually the prince who saves the princess, but [jokingly references adventures during which she was the protagonist...I think...or one of them? My dream was telling this in the third person so I don’t know okay]” 

“Hey, I totally saved you once or twice.” 

“Once or twice can’t measure up to [more vague references, she saved him more times and from bigger dangers ]” 

(They’re both grinning now) “Are you offering, then, to give me more chances to save you?” 

“You’d need them to catch up, but my guess is I’d be saving you too.” 

“So let’s enter into a relationship [joking tone, referencing something that happened at the beginning? I lost that thread] to save each other. For years to come.” 

“Fine by me.” (End) 

So yeah, definitely needs refining and reworking and I’d need to figure out the entire rest of the plot lol, but I liked the potential of some of these ending lines of banter (I freaking love banter. Best type of humor), so I’m leaving it here.