Definitely not a complete idea yet, but something I felt needed noting down.
Working Title: Crime or Punishment
Genre: Sci-Fi/Suspense
Protagonist: Michelle, a 22-year-old tall woman with long, dirty blonde hair she keeps in a low ponytail. She's fierce but quiet and a very good shot. While she ha a certain fondness for long skirts, she's usually in her police uniform.
Other Main Character: Cayman, a 22-year-old mixed-heritage woman with short, dark hair kept braided. She smiles a lot and can be very talkative, especially when she's bragging, and she's very much an adrenaline junkie. She's excellent as disguise and avoiding detection. Technically her boyfriend is the leader of her new crime organisation, but she really holds the reins.
Antagonists: Various members of both organisations.
Setting: A futuristic American city and some of its suburbs. Population density is very high, and all non-foot traffic is kept underground. Cost of living is high due to energy shortages. An experimental new form of energy occurs in normal battery-size units; it can power an average house for a week or, alternatively, can be opened up and its contents used as a potent stimulant. Cayman's organisation deals in this product.
Plot: The local police are determined to stop Cayman's organisation while they still can. Michelle is one of those sent to fight this battle; however, she is addicted to the energy drug being dealt (it's not widespread enough yet for police drug testing to catch it). Struggling to keep with her assignment without losing her source of fuel, Michelle works with Cayman (an early childhood friend she knew well through middle school) to keep the crime organisation stable but stunted without raising suspicions from either side.
Point of View: Third-person, alternatively limited to Michelle or Cayman.
Ooh, sounds neat - I like how they're both working for the same thing despite being on different sides. The idea of the batteries is really cool - how do you come up with this stuff?
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DeleteI'm really not entirely sure. When I decided I wanted to try some sort of organised crime in a story, it immediately become centred round drugs, just because that seemed obvious to me. And because it seemed obvious to me, I decided to make it in something else, so I went with energy. Then I decided that seemed too weird and at some point combined the two.