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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!

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[ Unfortunately, her name is, now, very much Lena De Spell. And the inhuman horror rocketing way past Webby is not any of those gods, but another being of Hadean power, darker and more cthonic, the reigning mistress of the shadows and no I'm fucking with you it's just a Shellby. It's a Shellby with Catherine Tate's voice, it goes screaming into a long hallway, because this is one of those facilities without automatic doors, and now it's gone from this thread.

That leaves just Webby and the unseen originator of this prestidigitating projectile. And also all the other victims and culprits of this absolute nutso bloodbath of a week, but they're conveniently not here. She's significantly further into the roller rink, conveniently hidden by the "rink" part, which is less a choice and more the natural consequence of being in a facility designed for people at least three feet taller than her. But Webby's smart! She can figure it out, especially after Lena came clean (about Magica, not her feelings!!) last Friday night. ]

Yeah, they're actually all out right now. How does a terrible friend sound?

[ Lena's voice, when it comes, seems pretty stationary. She's trying to sound sarcastic, but at the moment, even without Webby looking directly at her, she can't even manage "level." When she steps into the neon light, she puts all her energy into keeping her face set, and her bravado dwindles even further. ]

Hey, Pink.

[ Webby sort of. It's hard not to notice the screaming shell thing? But at the very least she doesn't try to chase it or anything. ]

Uh... goodbye to you too, strange technicolor trilobite!

[ It's fine! There are immediately more pressing concerns! Webby busts into the roller rink, and it does not, indeed, take long for her to find the source of Lena's voice! ... Lena will probably first see the brim of the big stupid human-sized cowboy hat Webby died in first, but Webby herself is definitely attached. ]

I mean, that would require there to be a terrible friend around here somewhere.

[ But there's... the cheery humor is a little strained, in the way it tends to get when Webby is Stressed And Trying To Ignore It, but the relief is real when she follows it up. ]

Hey, Lena.

we found love in a hopeless place

honestly let's just round robin to make the case dumber in some small way with each new comment

who's gonna stop us? god?