Who is the Female Virgin MC in a cliché romance?
This character essentially serves as a blank canvas for authors so that as many young women will be able to relate to her as possible and live vicariously through her. Readers can apply their own quirks into her unfinished characterization.
While we can distinguish her from the other characters in the story, we'd have a harder time distinguishing her from every other female MC that stars in cliché romance:
🍒A virgin to kisses and the D [in Billionaire, Dark Romance, Teen Fiction]
🍒A young woman who hasn't experienced a quality orgasm [romcom]
🍒Brunette
🍒Petite
🍒Shy
🍒Clumsy
🍒Unpopular and unsuccessful
🍒Has little to no ambition or life goals or anything of substance in her life.
🍒Not particularly talented at anything
🍒Has no hobbies
🍒Manages to complete semesters with passing grades despite being completely obsessed with the Bad Boy after the First Act. (must be a superpower)
🍒Has a cat
🍒Has parents who love her and friends who love her but she drops them after the first act.
The plight of the Virgin MC Other than your intent on deflowering the virgin as quickly as possible, you'd want to try throwing your virgin MC the naughtiest of bad boys. Just make sure the sex is really really hot otherwise she can't help him get over whatever childhood trauma he experienced.
For romantic comedies with triangles, or unlawful relationships between minors and their teachers, or the pseudo enemies/competitors to lovers plot, the plight of the Virgin MC is simple: miscommunicate unintentionally as often as possible, puzzling the bad boy until the climax when everything is clarified and the sex is to be had for the 2nd (possibly 3rd) time.
You can never fail with miscommunication in romance.
For the dark romance, the plight is far more demanding.
Let's use Gilly and Euron Greyjoy from Game of Thrones as our baseline examples here. For those of you who aren't familiar with this book series, Gilly is an innocent, very sheltered, and poorly educated young teen while Euron Greyjoy is the most evil character in the entire series (which is saying a lot considering the plethora of other villains). Anyway, in your story, sweet Gilly should meet Euron and rather than destroy him, like any hero would do, she must empathize with the [insert childhood trauma] that gave the bad boy the emotional depth of a gnat he's struggling with. In fact, she should become his unlicensed therapist.
Someone who you'll describe as completely innocent, who's never even been kissed, should have the wherewithal to treat a violent, possessive man who'll continuously create fresh traumatic experiences for the MC. No matter. Gilly's love and innocence should heal Euron. No professional therapy required because love heals all things.
The Virgin MC's Life
Make sure your female MC is a creative writer or works at a bookstore and is enrolled in a university. She should be middle class, not too too poor, and juggle school, work and this new relationship with ease. Friends and family are okay, since they'll act as sounding boards whenever she needs to gush about her guy and how incredible the sex is (unless this is dark romance or dark erotica because then she should never talk to anyone about anything she does with him).
Now, sure, she starts out as a virgin, but she always excites her man. No clumsiness in the bedroom, and he's never bored. He's just so turned on by that virgin peach.
It's important to note that your MC's life should take a backseat to the issues of the male lead's and the sex. In fact, she shouldn't mention school or work after the first act. And her friends and family can't be around more than once after that, not even when she marries the guy at the end of the book. Invitations go out to his family only.
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