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aworldwithoutboxes2020-10-12 02:37 pm
paranomasias) wrote in aworldwithoutboxes2020-10-12 02:37 pm
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we found love in a hopeless place
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!
thank god it's anna with the cute girls huh | 1-1
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. ]
it's what she deserves
Er, most of the time.
But! To be fair! It's a bit easy to get caught up in the excitement of all of these wondrous gizmos and whatchamacallits. If it wasn't for some of the more...modern folks walking through it, Anna wouldn't really know which end is up, here. Mira, in particular, has been extremely patient with her, but...well, as guilty as she sometimes feels about taking up so much of her time to ask about how things work (she's still getting the hang of, uh, "eye pads"?), her company is so nice that she doesn't mind bugging her just a bit more than she needs to. It beats being cooped up in her room, after all, and the girl talks that come after are always nice, too...
As it happens, Anna's just about ready to walk off some jitters and get some steps in--or, at least, that's the idea on paper, and if she just coincidentally manages to bump into Mira, well, all the better. (Okay, so she's looking for her. Good luck suing a princess.) But it takes all of a second before she spots the girl, because lo and behold, Mira's right at her doorstep. ]
O-oh, Mira! What a surprise!
[ A good one, to be sure, but a surprise, all the same! ]
Is everything okay? I'm not in your way, am I? Wait, nevermind, scratch that--
no subject
Even if her cheeks feel a little warmer than usual. But it's fine; hopefully Anna won't, you know, notice. ]
Don't worry. You're definitely not in my way, [ she says, with a touch of a laugh. ] Um, actually, it's good we ran into each other, because I sort of... have something for you.
[ She fiddles with the box a moment longer, before she holds it out for Anna. She never thought she'd be giving chocolates to anyone, especially not a cute girl, but there's a first time for everything. Maybe it won't be the last, either, or so she's hoping. ]
It's not a lot, and I know you can find these yourself, but... I always think getting a gift can really lift your spirits.
[ And that's definitely what they all need here. ]
no subject
[ Anna already feels the smile pressing up against her dimples. This girl's got her number, that much is clear-- ]
You really didn't have to do th--oh my gosh, and it's chocolate!
[ She'd recognize that box in a heartbeat; she's eyed it more times than she can count, in the few weeks they've been here. Even been up close and personal with it on more than a couple of stressful nights. It's to die for. ...Not literally, but it's pretty darn good. ]
Oh, Mira, you're the best!
[ She doesn't even take it out of the other girl's hands. All too impulsively, Anna dives in to wrap her arms around her and pull her in for an enormous hug. Forget lifting her spirits; Anna's over the moon. ]