we found love in a hopeless place

[paranomasias]

THE MURDERGAME SHIPPING MEME


This is probably too straight to accurately represent murdergame ships but like. We take what the stock image industry gives us.

So, you've been put into a murder mystery game where you're going to have to fight for your life! Every week another body or two, surrounded by strangers- Wait, you knew that? You actually kind of have your bearings? Well fine, here's a different problem - see that person over there? Yeah, that one. Wouldn't it be a really terrible idea if you fell in love with them right now?

This is a meme for that sometimes most fun of bad choices in murdergames: shipping. Leave a toplevel with info that might be in your character's profile (if you like), maybe a murdergame title (optional but encouraged), and any extra info you want to give along with whatever your shipping prefs are, then either pick from the prompts below or wing it and go tag around!


SETTINGS (note: absolutely not an exhaustive list)
1. Shopping Mall - Live your teen movie romance dreams! Sure, someone seems to get mcfucking murdered in the Starbucks every week, but that doesn't mean you can't go on a coffee date, right?
2. School - Live the... other party of your teen movie romance dreams! It's a little hard to be romantic when the only place for a dinner date is the cafeteria, but in fairness you are also constantly overcoming bigger problems than that here.
3. Generic Facility - Looking for romance? Try scenic Sealed-Off Building Full of Rooms! It's themed in some way - science, underwater - but the concept is the same. Surely there's some kind of bar or inexplicable amusement park in here you could use for a romantic evening, right?
4. Spooky Mansion - You know what they say about going on dates to scary movies, right? What if the scary movie was uh. The whole thing. The whole place. Where you live. And die, sometimes.
5. Romance Zone - I mean hey, maybe you're stuck somewhere literally built for both romance and murder! Pleasure and pain. Life and death. Smoochin' and stabbin'.
6. Other - If you can block off an area, you can put a murdergame there. Get creative!

PROMPTS (ship scenarios)
1. Confession (Fun) - Ah, the start of any good murdergame relationship. Maybe you've been dancing around each other for a week or two, maybe over the course of one thread and a lot of screaming your players decided you're gonna kiss. Time to figure out what these feelings mean while you're, you know. Here. Can be combined with some of the other prompts too, if you like.
2. Dating??? - Where do you even go to date in a murdergame? Is it even worth trying to hang onto this kind of normalcy when either of you could die any day now? It's probably fine.
2b. Dating+ - Can be combined with any other prompt, but somehow, some way, one of you is taking the lead in this date and getting a bunch of emotions in... because you're deathflagging. You're deathflagging hard.
3. Afterparty - Hey, that was a rough trial! Whatever it was! But you're both alive, so... better try to comfort each other, huh? Enjoy whatever kind of snacks you guys have available.
4. Confession (Unfun) - Oops, uh. One of you... seems to have confessed to murder. Better get whatever last moments in that you can before voting ends and one of you gets brutally executed!
5. The Couple That Kills Together - Okay, so maybe you did or didn't actually kill someone together. But at least one of you did a murder, and the body hasn't been properly discovered yet, so... time to talk this through? Make bad choices for love?
6. Deadland Romance - Maybe you've just reunited in the land of the dead, or maybe this is where you're trying to get your relationship off the ground. Either way, there's gotta be some weird emotions to "we're dead and trying to make it work."
7. Golden End Reunion - Great news! You beat up the mastermind (or befriended them, I don't know your style) and got all of the dead people back, including the other half of your ship! That's gotta feel good, seeing them again after however many weeks.
8. What now? - The game is over, it's time to go home. But... which home? If you split up, is there going to be a chance to visit each other again? Can you work that kind of long-distance?
9. Smut Option - Look. It's not generally onscreen, but hookups happen. Did you have to kick roommates out? Is this the fabled... you know, variant of option 5? Basically look, if you wanna use this meme for smut I'm not gonna say no, just tag appropriately.
10. Anything else! - Look, one of the fun things about murdergame ships is how many ways they can go in the emotional crucible inherent to them. I can't account for a lot of things ahead of the basics, so plot with your thread partner and have fun with it! Hell, maybe bring a good ol' murdergame polyblob into the mix, I'm not gonna stop you! Go with ur heart, assume other characters, live your truth!

Comments

Darling Charming | Ever After High

[shouldbedaring]

[ teenage daughter of king charming (xth of his name), really wants to uh. rescue damsels, if you catch the meaning. which her parents dont. approve of. because they want her to be a damsel and get rescued by a prince. ask her about the wildly fucked-up concept of what "a person's destiny" means in her world! uses uh. just some truly spectacular kids show slang. totally hexcellent. f/f only if the above didnt make it clear. ]

[in4apounding]

[Afterparty shenanigans, y/n?]

[shouldbedaring]

[ Absolutely! Go for it! ]

Hubert von Vestra | Fire Emblem 3 Houses |OTA

[pegasinister]

[18+ only but otherwise go ham, he's not an easy fellow to woo but very... intense if you do. Also probably should be down with at least a little murder]

Raihan | Pokemon | OTA

[draude_sandstorm]

[Is probably early 20s but what are pokemon ages.]

Eliza Owens | Pokemon OC

[telecosmetic]

[Available in pre-CRAU (13), MGRP CRAU (13), WtL CRAU (13-16), or 15S CRAU (15). No smut, obviously.]

Nira Tyr | Pokemon OC

[ladyporthos]

[Fresh out of saving the world, 18-19. For those of you who played with Unknown Seas Nira, this is her still unattached and way more impulsive and worse at comfort. No smut, she's ace.]

Franciscus Erkens | Pokemon OC

[silvertongueheir]

[18 and ready to flirt with anyone. Either this is a memloss game and he doesn't remember his canon bf or he's from before they hooked up. Open to smut!]

Surolam Arcel | Pokemon OC

[ordinarythings]

[Available in pre-CRAU (18) or WCB CRAU (18+around a century of time looping). Tentatively open to smut.]

Mira Delacroix | OC | OTA

[philoxenia]

[ she's nineteen, so 18+ here pls. i'm down for anything come at me ]

4-3

[coolbaby]

[ You know? Spooky mansions are hard to really settle into the idea of, even in times of relative comfort like "we've made it through another trial." And yet, here they are, occasionally haunted by ghosts and currently haunted by one hell of a cw: Case 5. At least there was enough left to tell who the victim was before the announcement? You know. Small comforts.

Speaking of comforts, Amanda and Mira have... a thing? It's some kind of thing. They've held hands a couple times? Mostly to get through horror movie trauma, but also kind of because she would like to hold Mira's hand in a non-security context. And Mira is, as a result, the very first person Amanda goes to following the events of a wild trial that ended in a rough execution.

She tries to keep up bravado, usually, despite... clearly being one of the least experienced people here with death, but the most Amanda can muster tonight is like 85% of a smile. ]

Hey.

[philoxenia]

[ Small comforts indeed. Like Amanda staying steady at her side, even when they both feel less than steady. She isn't sure what it is, why Amanda's so drawn to her of all people. As it turns out, growing up like Mira has hasn't exactly afforded her a lot of self-esteem. But, maybe, Amanda makes her feel like she's worth it.

It's new and a little scary, but scary... scary, Mira can handle that. ]

Hi. [ She's tired. Exhausted, even; she hasn't particularly been sleeping well, and when she does... well, those nightmares can be pretty nasty. All the same, though, Mira manages a smile. It's small and fragile, but it's sure a start. More importantly, it's completely genuine. ] Are you-- How are you doing?

Jane Crocker | Homestuck

[cyan_maid]

[Can be vanilla Homestuck experience or a CRAU version if you'd prefer, just let me know!

She's 16, so anywhere in the 15-18 range would probably be best? It's a murdergame setting we can live with a two year age gap]

4-10, this is terribly stupid, I'm only a little sorry

[nomansbosom]

[That motive announcement sure had been a thing. Finn wanted to see Jake again -doubly so once he realized that this whole haunted house murder mystery thing wasn't just another elaborate birthday prank- but in a threatening hostage photo wasn't what he'd had in mind.]

[Everyone was taking it pretty poorly. He probably couldn't do anything to rescue the hostages yet, but maybe he could at least help with that.]

[So he's seeking out Jane in whatever dusty corner of the mansion she's retreated to.]

Hey, uh. You okay? I made some spaghetti.

[He hesitantly offers a plate.]

...it's a couple packets of those old instant noodles they've got in the kitchen and some ketchup, but it's kind of like actual spaghetti. If you pretend real hard.

Yuri Leclerc | Fire Emblem: Three Houses

[abysslord]

[Can be DLC storyline or from any of the main four routes, pre or post timeskip - just let me know what you prefer! 18+ please!]

5-3

[philoxenia]

[ All things considered, this whole place kind of really sucks. She's not particularly used to either romance or murder, so she's way out of her element. Throw a significant lack of abilities into the mix, and while she's glad to not be feeling the others' emotions at any given moment, it's strange to get used to. Even four weeks later, she finds herself constantly bracing for an onslaught of emotions.

But sometimes, it's a little easier to just... be. To calm down, to find a moment of peace even amongst all the, you know. The murder. And speaking of, it's an afterparty, and this is one of the times when she's very, very thankful her empathy's been sealed off. Her own misery is enough to drown in; she doesn't know how well she'd fare if she felt the others'. At least she has methods for dealing.

So... Yuri. She approaches, a cup of tea in each hand, and she lightly clears her throat. It's unconscious, the way she gives a tentative, muted little smile, one that isn't exactly heartfelt. Maybe she's just trying to keep someone she cares about from worrying. ]

Is this spot taken?

Chitoge Kirisaki · Nisekoi

[gorira]

[ A feisty 18-year-old mafiosa, ready to rock and roll at the drop of a hat. Her short temper and coarse language belie her more tender traits; despite her brash front, she's as selfless as they come. Dedicated to anyone she calls a friend (or more).

She's just a bit sweeter on the girls than the boys, but ultimately likes both. ]

Sanae Kochiya · Touhou Project

[moriya]

[ A rookie deity who prides herself in her ability to quickly adjust to unfamiliar environments. Earnest to a fault, Sanae has a genuine commitment to helping those in need; in other words, she's a total sucker, with a target on her back. Kind of geeky, and kind of old-school.

She's about 20 years old, and she thinks girls are really something else-- ]

Anna of Arendelle · Frozen 2

[summersault]

[ Princess of a faux-Norwegian kingdom, with boundless enthusiasm and a heart with much too much to share. Has an immense love for people and places, and will gladly talk your ear off until Night Time about whatever comes to mind, if you let her. Always looking to do right by someone, even when things seem bleak.

She's 19 years old and has notoriously bad taste in men, please save her, someone, anyone ]

3-3 (maybe also 2) i tried so hard to figure out who to throw at you that i Galaxy Brained

[didntgetdadslooks]

[ It's been a few weeks now, and... the first case was rough. But there's something different about the second trial, the idea that this might be how things go now is starting to sink in.

But there's an afterparty, and people are together, and Angel finds herself drifting towards Anna for totally normal reasons, because Anna is so nice to her and she wants to make sure if there's anything she can do to help back that she does it, and not at all because she gets a weird flutter in her chest whenever Anna smiles. Murder and feeling powerless to change things? For better or for worse, that's Angel's emotional wheelhouse. ]

Hey, Anna. I, uh... brought you some stew? It looks pretty good.

thank god it's anna with the cute girls huh | 1-1

[philoxenia]

[ Probably the best thing about being in a murdermall is introducing the old-timey folks to new things. Like video games. (The arcade? She's absolutely dragged the people she's closer to there.) And the various overly-sugared coffees. Books on tablets? You betcha. But there's a place Mira finds herself gravitating to pretty often, if just because seeing Anna's face light up is worth everything.

So, hey, Anna, sup? Mira's got a little box in her hands and she's kind of lingering outside Anna's room, trying to decide if she should just knock already. She's there for some time, so, you know...

Indecisive? Her? Pfft. ]

Finn Mertens | Adventure Time

[nomansbosom]

[It's fine guys, this is all a prank, right?]

[His title is probably just "The Human" or something.]

lena manylastnames | ducktales 2k17

[undershadow]

[ This is all very strictly cute (or upsetting) tween shit, because despite having a listed age of 15 on the inevitable group of profiles everyone gets, Lena is physically 12 or 13 or something! Also she's an anthropomorphic duck and she's like two and a half feet tall.

Anyway, she's a sarcastic rebel who plays by her own rules but is also limited by the ethical confines of a Disney show, and she doesn't like to talk about her past, like, at all. And if you're into misery and know what her canonical deal is... 8) ]

3-6, just call me mr we could be because rng decided to KILL SOME KIDS

[scroogewiki]

[ So! Things went wrong. By any account, things went very, very wrong.

The details are blurry, but the facts are clear. Webbigail Vanderquack and Lena Hercurrentlastname are dead. And that's rough! Probably. Did they even get a chance to talk about their feelings before they got fucking ganked by an anime fighting game character or some kind of Magica shenanigans happened? Unclear. We can figure out case details as we go. But they're dead, and it's time for the old standby of "welcome to deadland, same as the liveland but a little weirder and sadder."

Annnd the revelation of death, whether they died together in the same room or not, is going to be interrupted byyyyyyyy: ]

Hello? Charon? Ammit the Devourer? ... Ereshkigal, Mesopotamian goddess of the underworld? I'm trying to cover my bases here, but if someone could speak up that'd be super!

Contessa "Tess" Rubikov | Serenity Rose

[yourfuture]

[ she's tall, she's angry, she's... surprisingly responsible and resourceful. just please know you're in for a wild time, vocabulary-wise. ota, she's i think 19 or something it's been a hot minute since ive reread ]