Thread by @JenLRossman

OK so I have two ideas for this Christmas horror story.

The basic idea is that the main character is too busy for Christmas and love but she comes back to her hometown for Christmas and needs to save the Christmas pageant because all the kids are getting eaten

She discovers that her tendency to overwork is based on growing up believing in the Yule cat, a lorge boy who eats children who are lazy.

And I want it to be like a romance movie. Like all of the beats of a romance, but horror instead

Here is where I have options

OPTION ONE.

The Yule cat is the "Love interest". They have a meet cute but she doesn't realize he's the one (… eating all the children). She doesn't even recognize him from high school (… when she believed in him and no one else did)

And it's like "I didn't think the hunky high school quarterback man had a crush on me as well or I never would have left home!" But instead it's "I never realized the Yule cat was real all along!"

And hilarity ensues. And by hilarity, I mean disembowelment

Also, in this scenario, she is simultaneously rekindling an actual old flame from high school and she is gay and her crush has a child now and that child is in danger because the cat might eat him next

OPTION TWO

There is no old high school crush but there is a pretty Lady and the main character has no idea that she is Gryla the evil Christmas witch and also the owner of the Yule cat

I think I like option one because I can put a child in danger for drama