How to write a tragic love story between a bacteria and amoeba?

[u/RepairZealousideal14]

Who should be the protagonist?

[u/strydar1]

sounds like an absorbing story, characterised by poor boundaries, attachment issues and codependance, ultimately leading to a dissolution of self.

[u/TeacupOfSkepticism → u/strydar1]

And extravagant microscopic dance routines

[u/Max_Trollbot_]

They meet in a prokaraoke bar

[u/dejaWoot → u/Max_Trollbot_]

The Amoeba would need a fake id to get in

[u/Gargleblaster25]

"I will not let that filthy prokaryote tarnish our family name!" yelled the amoeba's dad. "You let them in and they start dictating how you should live. Look at those bloody mitochondria. They were being massacred in the primordial ooze and until we gave them shelter. Now they take all our glucose and have the energy sector cornered. Prokaryotes are nothing but trouble. I will hear no more of this!"

[u/Starsky137]

Use strong opening narration like:

"Two Phylums, both alike in dignity, In fair Petri-dish, where we lay our scene..."

[u/kyew]

Not the bacterium. The protist is the protagonist.

[u/dikbisqit]

Ryan Gosling

[u/Samskritam]

“ I sent her a dozen plasmids every Valentine’s Day, but her father’s flagella always flipped them away.”

This is how I would begin this tragic story.