u/Euphoric_Bedroom9547

1. Muskaan Kapoor: The daughter of an oft insulted househelp, Muskaan Kapoor has built herself from sheer grit, ruthless ambition and the sharpest cunning after her good for nothing husband was arrested on their son's fifth birthday celebration in the cramped chawl. Now as the CTO in a top Indian IT MNC, Muskaan has transcended her humble beginnings and has forged her own empire with silk of elegance and sharp sword of intelligence. (Age in her 40s)

2. Medha Gehlot: Would push her beloved into fire rather than watching him in love with someone else, jealous, envious, possessive, unhinged with a burning anger at the one she loved the most. The person she hates the most is the one whom she loves the most so she sends him into the jaws of death because her anger is too intense for a living man to tolerate. Has a sharp brain but to angry to use it correctly. (Age in her late 30s/40s)

3. Swasti Khare: Disturbed by the fraught married life of her parents and losing her friendships to study and career rivalry, JEE aspirant Swasti finds solace in crushing on an animated character, only to fall for someone whom she has never seen just after reading his poems. But nothing is what it seems. Things take a darker turn and ten years later, Swasti doesn't know what's real and what's her imagination. (Age= 15 and then in her 20s)

4. Mansi Mishra aka Mickey: The Queen Bee in her high school, Mansi Mishra has everything a teenage girl could dream of. Class topper, pretty looks, feisty attitude and...a crush on the bespectacled, timid, bullied guy with braces and a stammer. Mansi becomes his self proclaimed knight in shining armor, protecting him from every bully like a Supergirl. Then? Then, life happens, and 10 years later, the same Mansi Mishra is a grumpy, Behenji type IT MNC employee whose only solace are Teletubbies conspiracy theories and cough,cough Wattpad billionaire romances. Quick to throw punches at anyone who dared trouble her bhola bhaala crush, Mansi has been the target of life's punches back to back. (Age 15/16 then 29)

5. Aslesha: A college going girl in 1990s who loves dancing on Falguni Pathak songs, dreams of getting married to either a film star or a rockstar in her small Konkan town and mocks her Lallu neighbor. (Age= 19/20)

6. Parmita Tomar: Sensible and sensitive, introvert Parmita is reduced to a hollow shell of herself as she loses her love since high school turned fiance in an accident just a week before their wedding. Grappling with PTSD and Survivor guilt, Parmita enrols herself to get an AI version of her deceased fiance. (Age Mid 30s)

1. Aditya Deshmukh: Earns 15K INR per month as an instructor in a dilapidated computer training center and carries the responsibility of his disabled father, ambitious wife and overachieving 5 year old kid on his shoulders. Slouched shoulders with 5'10" height, old faded check shirts, lanky and has no sense of style/grooming. Taken for granted by everyone. Male Anupamaa (but without long speeches and victim complex) but has way worse fate in store for him. Intelligent in Computer Science but way stupid in everything else. Kind of guy who'd preach a raging bull or dog the policy of non violence when they attack him. Believes love, kindness and goodness can win over everyone and everything.

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2. Saarthak Sharma: Always overshadowed by a kind, overachieving perfect elder brother, bad at Mathematics, doesn't have aptitude for Engineering, unable to bear JEE preparation stress, physically weak. Gets bullied by anyone and everyone except his elder brother.

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3. Aniruddh Vaze: Middle class Konkani Mulaga who works in Pune and who has a crush on his neighbour's college going daughter in Sawantwadi, Goa. Too boring and old fashioned for a 23 year old guy in 1990s, who is always mocked at by his crush because he's not as dashing and charming. The only sane and sensible male lead I have maybe except Mahi who's not naively stupid or a crybaby.

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4. Nikhil Parihar: Timid, has thick spectacles and braces, has stammering issue leading to him being bullied by other boys in his high school, is an orphan and hence doesn't have good financial status, Termed as the 'ugliest boy' in his class, has a 'damsel in distress' syndrome and always expects to be rescued by his best friend, Mickey aka Mansi Mishra who's the high school Queen Bee. Has an eternal victim complex just because his parents were victims of a psycho serial killer and expects the whole world to sympathize with him and protect him.

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5. Mahaswin Goswami aka Mahi: Is a sunshine like teenager with an infectious golden retriever energy. Average student but excellent cricket batsman who dreams of getting selected in Indian Cricket team after he completes school, but his dream remains incomplete forever due to an unplanned teenage pregnancy and parenthood, after which he's evicted by his parents and has to leave school to provide for his girlfriend turned wife and baby at the age of 17. The only good looking/charming male lead I have written who loses his talent, opportunities, future, charm and looks due to a stupidity committed in the name of 'love'.

Let me know in the comments which of these male leads are you interested to read about and if you want a similar post for my female leads.

Has any woman here come from a very limiting or oppressive background (an impoverished region/being financially dependent over oppressive in-laws etc.), had endured bullying, being mocked and being made into a doormat, only to achieve financial independence after pursuing a career, moving to a big city and now after 10 to 15 years, has realized she cannot be more different than her previous version? What's your glow up story and when you realized you're no more the same woman.

There was a movie Shiddat, where FL enters common washroom for boys to watch them without towels and it was portrayed as a cute nok jhok moment between male and female lead. Just some hours ago, there was a screenshot of someone searching for a story where FL blackmails ML to marry using same blackmail. Even on Instagram, whenever news of men unalived/**ped etc. by women comes, most comments by women are "Are you afraid of this small thing?", " We don't want equality, we want revenge", "Blue drum supremacy" etc. And mind you I've seen such comments in 1000s on the news of a 5 year old boy **ped. So my question is, as a writer (even if it's on Wattpad), when did the race to prove oneself as the greatest self proclaimed feminist and progressive person became so cutthroat that people have started celebrating **pe of 5-yo kid just because he belongs to male gender, when did women ogling at male lead's body part become equivalent to "Why should boys have all the fun?"

1. Main bahut ameer hoon. I'm proud of myself. I began from nothing. I'm a self made success. I'm fit. My investments are worth millions. Now everyone treat me like Amarendra Bahubali was treated by Mahishmitians.

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2. Jawaani me 5 jagah muh maarne ke baad now I'm looking for the perfect sushil match and if I don't get it, I'll post about how AM setup is bogus (Spoiler alert: It is, but not more than turu lobb setup) and how being a 90s kid is the greatest calamity to befall on anyone.

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3. Mera Babu Shona is the best gf/bf in the world because he/she sent me a recording of him/her singing Doremon title track when I was feeling down.

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4. My parents are the best in the world. Rest uncles and aunties are the most regressive, hypocritical torturers in the world.

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5. I've moved to US or Europe. Let me tell you how India is cooked.

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6. My spouse has IBS and they're not talking to me since twenty seven minutes, five seconds and it's giving me PTSD. Is it normal?

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7. Maine apni ex ko uske bacche ko Alvin & the Chipmunks dikhaane ke liye theatre jaate hue dekha. Now tears are streaming as I'm repeatedly watching Alvin Chipmunk singing Banjaare ko ghar song in his chipmunky voice. Outside my kids are calling me to eat Chhole Bhature. Is it normal?

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8. As I crossed 30, I started eating clean, lifting weights, working out and started paying attention to fashion and styling and had the chhapri wala noodle haircut worth 1K INR. I've also started 'TRAVELLING' Now girls are ogling at me and strangely, I don't feel anything. Is it normal?

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9. I'm a Dog Dad. My kid Doggo has fallen in love with pados wali cat. My parents are not getting convinced for this interspecies wedding. How can I escape India?

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10. I was traveling from Mumbai to New York by air and suddenly plane wale pilot Bhaiyya started playing Kumar Sanu's songs. Now I'm crying and hiding my tears thinking about my crush from class 5th. When I reach New York, I'll start partying again in high end clubs, achieving again as a high net worth Wall Street Investment Banker. But there will always be a void in me created by Kumar Sanu's songs playing in the Mumbai to New York flight. I'll smile for the sake of my white and ABCD friends, hiding my tears.

1. Two rookie journalists (ML & FL) stumble upon a breaking story about a family keeping 10 innocent kids enslaved in their house basement and break it on Social media which goes viral. The whole media jumps upon the news and the family is termed monsters. By the time police arrives, no kids are there as kids have already escaped. Without any proof, only one family member is arrested and rest are released. The arrested one keeps pleading he hasn't done anything but no one listens. After some months, he unalives himself in the prison. And at exactly the same time, the whole family unalives themselves in their own home. The ML and FL realize that maybe things were not what they seemed and go into the home where mass suicide take place. The door closes automatically and they are trapped inside the home by resident spirits. The leads are forced to relive the past years of the family invisibly. It's revealed that the elderly grandfather in the family was an acclaimed scientist who had interest in occult. On studying forbidden books, he found out about a species of cryptids who take the form of human kids and torture their human victims. When the deaths in the city start showing the signs of the cryptids' presence, the grandfather tells his family about it and enlists the family members to capture cryptids before they could cause further harm. So throughout the years they capture the cryptids in children form and keep them imprisoned in the basement as even the grandfather doesn't know what to do with the cryptids. Then these rookie journalists stumble upon a tip that the family is keeping children enslaved and all went downhill and taking advantage of the mayhem, the cryptids escape. The resident spirits then kill the leads as spirits were of the people who were killed by the cryptids but their families were saved by the grandfather. Meanwhile, the cryptids out side are eyeing another victim to kill.

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2. A compassionate, efficient female IPS takes charge in a remote small town where a serial killer has terrorized the population. The FL gets nightmares about bullying in her high school. On investigating, the FL finds out the serial killer kills only bullies or those who torment the weak after torturing the bullies. The FL one day manages to catch the killer who then says I know what you did with your best friend. In flashback, a shy, timid girl takes admission in the high school. When other classmates start bullying her, teenage FL beats them up to save her. Then they both become best friends. FL then has an edgy, goth look with piercings and all. The new girl starts having crush on a handsome boy so other people start bullying her. When FL arrives, the new girl expects her to save but instead FL is revealed as the leader of the bully gang. FL is furious despite she beat up her own gang for bullying the new girl, how could the new girl like a boy instead of her? The FL starts bullying the new girl daily in hopes that the new girl either stops loving the boy or commits suicide. The new girl commits suicide. The school helps hiding the bullying and torture to protect their school image and FL decides to become a good human from then on. Now the FL starts fearing if her best friend is not really dead and has returned for revenge. But it's confirmed her best friend was dead indeed. Then FL confirms about her best friend's parents who are still grieving and in no position to take revenge. Then FL investigates the boy her best friend loved only to find out he has already moved on and is married and lives abroad. Finally the FL realizes the serial killer is also like her. He just wants to kill people. He only kills bullies to gain sympathy of people so that he's not caught and can continue his killing. When the serial killer kills FL's husband just to tease her, FL tortures serial killer's GF who was an accomplice and shows its live telecast to the killer. The cat and mouse begins with FL fully embracing her dark psychopath side and ultimately she manages to kill the serial killer.

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3. A woman starts talking to a boy 10 years younger than her through a wrong number phenomenon and they both fall in love with each other. After an year, they decide to meet at a place. They both arrive at the same place at the same time but can't meet each other. A quarrel breaks out between them where the boy insists he did arrive at the designated place at the time but mentions waiting in a building that was pulled down 30 years ago. The girl investigates and finds out the guy she was talking to was a college student in 1960s who died due to ragging. They both were talking due to a time glitch. But the girl doesn't tell the boy on the phone that he's going to die.

In present timeline, the woman encounters a casanova five years younger than her and feels a pull towards him. So now the woman is in a love triangle with the boy in 1960s who's going to die soon and his reincarnated version in present timeline (unbeknownst to anyone).

4. The vampire hunter ML is killed in a fire while fighting the vampires after his fellow vampire FL lets his hand go in anger. The ML before dying is fed upon by a vampire but instead of dying transforms into a vampire, losing his previous memories.

After a time leap of 5 years, the ML with a different identity meets the vampire hunting group and FL again. FL is first perplexed on seeing his face, but later decides he's some other person after seeing him hunting a criminal and drinking his blood. As memories start coming back to ML, ML has to grapple with working as an undercover agent to destroy the vampire community that killed his parents without letting FL know the truth.

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5. In late 1800s, FL makes a living as a fraud spirit medium claiming she can speak to spirits to install peace in the minds of suffering Indians whose family members were given death sentence by Britishers. But when she starts seeing the spirit of a freedom fighter who was hung by Britishers, she is confused if she had actually awakened the gift of talking to spirits. The handsome and intelligent spirit of dead freedom fighter guides the FL to free imprisoned freedom fighters, dismantle the plans of Britishers while simultaneously killing sadist Britishers who torture Indians. What FL doesn't know the spirit she's talking to is an alive human, who happens to be the twin brother of the dead freedom fighter and who was separated from his family in childhood during Kumbh Mela

1. Two rookie journalists (ML & FL) stumble upon a breaking story about a family keeping 10 innocent kids enslaved in their house basement and break it on Social media which goes viral. The whole media jumps upon the news and the family is termed monsters. By the time police arrives, no kids are there as kids have already escaped. Without any proof, only one family member is arrested and rest are released. The arrested one keeps pleading he hasn't done anything but no one listens. After some months, he unalives himself in the prison. And at exactly the same time, the whole family unalives themselves in their own home. The ML and FL realize that maybe things were not what they seemed and go into the home where mass suicide take place. The door closes automatically and they are trapped inside the home by resident spirits. The leads are forced to relive the past years of the family invisibly. It's revealed that the elderly grandfather in the family was an acclaimed scientist who had interest in occult. On studying forbidden books, he found out about a species of cryptids who take the form of human kids and torture their human victims. When the deaths in the city start showing the signs of the cryptids' presence, the grandfather tells his family about it and enlists the family members to capture cryptids before they could cause further harm. So throughout the years they capture the cryptids in children form and keep them imprisoned in the basement as even the grandfather doesn't know what to do with the cryptids. Then these rookie journalists stumble upon a tip that the family is keeping children enslaved and all went downhill and taking advantage of the mayhem, the cryptids escape. The resident spirits then kill the leads as spirits were of the people who were killed by the cryptids but their families were saved by the grandfather. Meanwhile, the cryptids out side are eyeing another victim to kill.

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2. A compassionate, efficient female IPS takes charge in a remote small town where a serial killer has terrorized the population. The FL gets nightmares about bullying in her high school. On investigating, the FL finds out the serial killer kills only bullies or those who torment the weak after torturing the bullies. The FL one day manages to catch the killer who then says I know what you did with your best friend. In flashback, a shy, timid girl takes admission in the high school. When other classmates start bullying her, teenage FL beats them up to save her. Then they both become best friends. FL then has an edgy, goth look with piercings and all. The new girl starts having crush on a handsome boy so other people start bullying her. When FL arrives, the new girl expects her to save but instead FL is revealed as the leader of the bully gang. FL is furious despite she beat up her own gang for bullying the new girl, how could the new girl like a boy instead of her? The FL starts bullying the new girl daily in hopes that the new girl either stops loving the boy or commits suicide. The new girl commits suicide. The school helps hiding the bullying and torture to protect their school image and FL decides to become a good human from then on. Now the FL starts fearing if her best friend is not really dead and has returned for revenge. But it's confirmed her best friend was dead indeed. Then FL confirms about her best friend's parents who are still grieving and in no position to take revenge. Then FL investigates the boy her best friend loved only to find out he has already moved on and is married and lives abroad. Finally the FL realizes the serial killer is also like her. He just wants to kill people. He only kills bullies to gain sympathy of people so that he's not caught and can continue his killing. When the serial killer kills FL's husband just to tease her, FL tortures serial killer's GF who was an accomplice and shows its live telecast to the killer. The cat and mouse begins with FL fully embracing her dark psychopath side and ultimately she manages to kill the serial killer.

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3. A woman starts talking to a boy 10 years younger than her through a wrong number phenomenon and they both fall in love with each other. After an year, they decide to meet at a place. They both arrive at the same place at the same time but can't meet each other. A quarrel breaks out between them where the boy insists he did arrive at the designated place at the time but mentions waiting in a building that was pulled down 30 years ago. The girl investigates and finds out the guy she was talking to was a college student in 1960s who died due to ragging. They both were talking due to a time glitch. But the girl doesn't tell the boy on the phone that he's going to die.

In present timeline, the woman encounters a casanova five years younger than her and feels a pull towards him. So now the woman is in a love triangle with the boy in 1960s who's going to die soon and his reincarnated version in present timeline (unbeknownst to anyone).

4. The vampire hunter ML is killed in a fire while fighting the vampires after his fellow vampire FL lets his hand go in anger. The ML before dying is fed upon by a vampire but instead of dying transforms into a vampire, losing his previous memories.

After a time leap of 5 years, the ML with a different identity meets the vampire hunting group and FL again. FL is first perplexed on seeing his face, but later decides he's some other person after seeing him hunting a criminal and drinking his blood. As memories start coming back to ML, ML has to grapple with working as an undercover agent to destroy the vampire community that killed his parents without letting FL know the truth.

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5. In late 1800s, FL makes a living as a fraud spirit medium claiming she can speak to spirits to install peace in the minds of suffering Indians whose family members were given death sentence by Britishers. But when she starts seeing the spirit of a freedom fighter who was hung by Britishers, she is confused if she had actually awakened the gift of talking to spirits. The handsome and intelligent spirit of dead freedom fighter guides the FL to free imprisoned freedom fighters, dismantle the plans of Britishers while simultaneously killing sadist Britishers who torture Indians. What FL doesn't know the spirit she's talking to is an alive human, who happens to be the twin brother of the dead freedom fighter and who was separated from his family in childhood during Kumbh Mela

1. Two rookie journalists (ML & FL) stumble upon a breaking story about a family keeping 10 innocent kids enslaved in their house basement and break it on Social media which goes viral. The whole media jumps upon the news and the family is termed monsters. By the time police arrives, no kids are there as kids have already escaped. Without any proof, only one family member is arrested and rest are released. The arrested one keeps pleading he hasn't done anything but no one listens. After some months, he unalives himself in the prison. And at exactly the same time, the whole family unalives themselves in their own home. The ML and FL realize that maybe things were not what they seemed and go into the home where mass suicide take place. The door closes automatically and they are trapped inside the home by resident spirits. The leads are forced to relive the past years of the family invisibly. It's revealed that the elderly grandfather in the family was an acclaimed scientist who had interest in occult. On studying forbidden books, he found out about a species of cryptids who take the form of human kids and torture their human victims. When the deaths in the city start showing the signs of the cryptids' presence, the grandfather tells his family about it and enlists the family members to capture cryptids before they could cause further harm. So throughout the years they capture the cryptids in children form and keep them imprisoned in the basement as even the grandfather doesn't know what to do with the cryptids. Then these rookie journalists stumble upon a tip that the family is keeping children enslaved and all went downhill and taking advantage of the mayhem, the cryptids escape. The resident spirits then kill the leads as spirits were of the people who were killed by the cryptids but their families were saved by the grandfather. Meanwhile, the cryptids out side are eyeing another victim to kill.

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2. A compassionate, efficient female IPS takes charge in a remote small town where a serial killer has terrorized the population. The FL gets nightmares about bullying in her high school. On investigating, the FL finds out the serial killer kills only bullies or those who torment the weak after torturing the bullies. The FL one day manages to catch the killer who then says I know what you did with your best friend. In flashback, a shy, timid girl takes admission in the high school. When other classmates start bullying her, teenage FL beats them up to save her. Then they both become best friends. FL then has an edgy, goth look with piercings and all. The new girl starts having crush on a handsome boy so other people start bullying her. When FL arrives, the new girl expects her to save but instead FL is revealed as the leader of the bully gang. FL is furious despite she beat up her own gang for bullying the new girl, how could the new girl like a boy instead of her? The FL starts bullying the new girl daily in hopes that the new girl either stops loving the boy or commits suicide. The new girl commits suicide. The school helps hiding the bullying and torture to protect their school image and FL decides to become a good human from then on. Now the FL starts fearing if her best friend is not really dead and has returned for revenge. But it's confirmed her best friend was dead indeed. Then FL confirms about her best friend's parents who are still grieving and in no position to take revenge. Then FL investigates the boy her best friend loved only to find out he has already moved on and is married and lives abroad. Finally the FL realizes the serial killer is also like her. He just wants to kill people. He only kills bullies to gain sympathy of people so that he's not caught and can continue his killing. When the serial killer kills FL's husband just to tease her, FL tortures serial killer's GF who was an accomplice and shows its live telecast to the killer. The cat and mouse begins with FL fully embracing her dark psychopath side and ultimately she manages to kill the serial killer.

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3. A woman starts talking to a boy 10 years younger than her through a wrong number phenomenon and they both fall in love with each other. After an year, they decide to meet at a place. They both arrive at the same place at the same time but can't meet each other. A quarrel breaks out between them where the boy insists he did arrive at the designated place at the time but mentions waiting in a building that was pulled down 30 years ago. The girl investigates and finds out the guy she was talking to was a college student in 1960s who died due to ragging. They both were talking due to a time glitch. But the girl doesn't tell the boy on the phone that he's going to die.

In present timeline, the woman encounters a casanova five years younger than her and feels a pull towards him. So now the woman is in a love triangle with the boy in 1960s who's going to die soon and his reincarnated version in present timeline (unbeknownst to anyone).

4. The vampire hunter ML is killed in a fire while fighting the vampires after his fellow vampire FL lets his hand go in anger. The ML before dying is fed upon by a vampire but instead of dying transforms into a vampire, losing his previous memories.

After a time leap of 5 years, the ML with a different identity meets the vampire hunting group and FL again. FL is first perplexed on seeing his face, but later decides he's some other person after seeing him hunting a criminal and drinking his blood. As memories start coming back to ML, ML has to grapple with working as an undercover agent to destroy the vampire community that killed his parents without letting FL know the truth.

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5. In late 1800s, FL makes a living as a fraud spirit medium claiming she can speak to spirits to install peace in the minds of suffering Indians whose family members were given death sentence by Britishers. But when she starts seeing the spirit of a freedom fighter who was hung by Britishers, she is confused if she had actually awakened the gift of talking to spirits. The handsome and intelligent spirit of dead freedom fighter guides the FL to free imprisoned freedom fighters, dismantle the plans of Britishers while simultaneously killing sadist Britishers who torture Indians. What FL doesn't know the spirit she's talking to is an alive human, who happens to be the twin brother of the dead freedom fighter and who was separated from his family in childhood during Kumbh Mela

Okay so the ML is sort of antihero and FL is sort of anti-villain in the story and the story is so dark that a happy ending for both of them isn't feeling natural while writing. So would it hurt the readers' emotions if leads die in the story?