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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!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[ 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.

[ There's definitely something off as the remaining participants gather tonight, compared to last week; the quiet determination that lingered around the survivors seems to have vanished, snuffed out like the lives of the experiment's most recent victim (and culprit). There's no more deluding themselves into believing that last Friday was some kind of freak thing. No real whispers about banding together and picking themselves up again, either. Despite all efforts, the mood for the night seems to be resignation: this is going to be the new normal now.

A lot of them are in the dining area tonight, but their heads are still in that trial room, fighting for their lives, putting their finger on the vote button. Even Anna, in spite of all of her optimism, can't help but see it when she closes her eyes, and...well, it's scary. As strong as she wants to be right now, as brave of a face as she wants to put on, this is pretty far from the kind of thing she's equipped to handle.

But the best thing she can do right now is try. If that's not enough, she'll try a little bit harder. And there are people she's met here, friends that she's made, that make trying a heck of a lot easier.

For instance... ]

O-oh! Angel!

[ There's something kind of reassuring about the way Angel drifts over to her, even in the wake of all of this. In the three weeks since they've met, she's been nothing but sweet; it doesn't take a lot to find yourself in Anna's good graces, but Angel's head and shoulders above the bar.

It helps that she's dependable, too, but... ]

You really didn't have to do that! I mean, like, I'm happy that you did, but, y'know...I haven't had much of an appetite, but I really should, so...

[ Recently, she's got a little more jitters around her, for one reason or another. Maybe it's just post-trial nerves..? If that's a thing-- ]

[ Post-trial nerves! Yeah, let's call it that. At any rate, Angel smiles and sits down next to her, holding the bowl of stew out towards her. ]

I know. But yeah, we all probably should eat after... that.

R-right! No sense in letting it go to waste, right? Especially since it smells so good...

[ She'll force it down somehow, is her thought at first, but there's something about the warmth of the bowl in her hands that actually makes her feel a little more at ease. Not that it necessarily reminds her of home, but... ]

It was a good idea to make stew, if you ask me. I used to eat it all the time on cold days back in Arendelle, you know? We had pretty freezing winters, and the place got really drafty, since we're right by the water? And...ah, listen to me go on about nothing again, sometimes I just can't help myself! You're gonna have some too, right? I can't eat all of this on my own...

[ Angel nods. ]

Yeah.

[ And then she listens to all of that! Anna talks a lot, but honestly? She likes listening. She does a lot of listening, in her life. Though Anna does bring up a fair point she hadn't considered, in there. ]

Uh... yeah, I can. Sort of forgot to grab myself a bowl, so I guess that works out.

I'm all for us looking out for each other and all, don't get me wrong, but you need to take care of yourself too, don't you? Can't leave yourself out!

[ Speaking from experience here, of a sort. ]

Here, we can share! I don't mind, like, germs or anything, I promise!

[ Here, Angel, take a spoonful, it's in your face now-- ]

I guess that's the "each other" part of looking out for each other.

[ Problems with having lived inside for most of your life and having paper-white skin: when you blush even slightly, it shows. ]

Oh! Uh... okay, sure!

[ And she will go ahead and snatch up a mouthful from the spoon, trying to feel as normal as possible about this in the circumstances. ]

we found love in a hopeless place

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

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holy shit YEAH P MUCH

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