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Nostrum: I don't think Lisa (and likely Geoff) will ever be explored as I believe Seuzz has said before that he has next to no interest in her. So it'd be up to someone else. I've tried once or twice myself but never gotten far.

One type I'm going to say that hasn't really been explored is the idea of female camraderie and perhaps platonic cross-gender friendships. As a natural result, Will interacting with girls tends to have romantic overtones or the possibility of romance dangled over the story because Will is a teenager with hormones and a yearning for affection from a cute or pretty girl as most anyone his age would be. So a story where Will and girl, or a few girls, explore the book but without necessarily the romance carrot being dangled over them could be interesting. Likewise, the way a group of girls use it amongst themselves... which would be harder. But I think if you take something like a female version of the branch where Laurent and his buddies are using the book that could reconcile things: Will's being more an accessory to these girls and what they do, he doesn't have a chance with some, isn't interested in others, so no romance with im among them.

Catherine and her orbit of friends would probably make for a good choice for that.

One thing that's always stood out to me too is that there are a lot of stories of male camraderie and bonding with homoerotic undertones (this is most prevelant in a lot of stuff with Frank and Joe or anything involving Sean Mitchell) but the same stuff involving females is pretty much non-existant outside of anything with Jelena.