Let Me Kidnap the Male Lead

🪻Vivian Schmidt (FL)

• frustrated with crazed eyes
• “I need to get the ML and FL together (by kidnapping ML) for the story to progress/so the world doesn’t end”
• has ‘reincarnation plot armour’ (stronger, faster but no endurance)
• mother died in fire. abused at home
• has younger (two-faced) half-sister

🍂 Ren / Kalix (love interest)

• FL’s first ‘victim’ and later, sidekick
• kind but menacing with others
• good cook
• shadow magic
• master of information guild
• past: mother was a mistress. kidnapped at birth by empress. Tortured since they wanted to take his shadow abilities

🩸⚔️ Dietrich Beelbedus

• magic swordsman. Was villain in novel
• childish, self-absorbed
• matter-of-fact oddball
• killed his parents
• younger sister is FL. Tormented her
• “tell me how handsome I am”

🍬Melphis

• silly, melodramatic,
• chasing after FL.
• Disguises himself to get kidnapped again
• secret identity + past

⚜️🩸 Ludovica Beelbedus (love interest)

• confident, confrontational
• FL of novel
• powerful swordsman
• passion of weapons
• thinks Vivian is cute as a puppy

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ASPECTS / TROPES

• Silly
• Low stakes
• commentary on common romance/fantasy tropes
• FL remembers past life
• FL reincarnated into friend’s novel
• “Getting kidnapped/pampered…helped them?”
• Accidentally kidnapped the villain
• Imperial princess tasked with capturing kidnapper
• Imperial prince is king of demons

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CONTENT WARNINGS

Kidnapping (depicted very lightly), death (mention), parental abuse (memory), child experimentation/torture (recalls. Implied), parental death (memory), suicide ideation (past)

looking forward to updates

as a start, this one looks good.