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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!
Linhardt von Hevring | Fire Emblem: Three Houses
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It can't go any worse than his last relationship, at least.]
H-how are you holding up? The bodies this week...
[They were particularly mangled, and Gershom knows Linhardt isn't particularly happy about seeing corpses in the best of conditions.]
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Even so, Linhardt...is honestly pretty uneasy after the trial, honestly; he's elected to wallflower a bit this time, content to try and get something in his system and try to get the images of the mangled bodies out of his head--
Ah. Linhardt looks up from where he's been staring into his tea, tipping his head a bit at Gershom; there's a seat across from him, feel free to take it.]
...I am holding up about as well as one can, after something so needlessly violent. I simply cannot fathom why they had to die, and in such a grotesque manner as well...
[Honestly, Linhardt's a lot more fucked up about it than he'd care to admit. But he sighs never the less--]
What of yourself, if I may?
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[After a second - the idea that someone wants his company is still new to him - he sits down across from Linhardt.]
I'm... well, I'll manage somehow. Don't worry about me.
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[Even if it does seem hopeless. But hey, Linhardt doesn't have any of his crest research here, the least he can do is research a way to get out of the place that won't even let him nap in the library. Which, rude? Though understandable. But still rude.
Still, Linhardt looks at Gershom when he says that much, hand coming up to his chin.]
Come now, don't say something like that. Trying to keep everything to yourself is only going to make things more difficult in the long run.
If there is something on your mind, I would like to hear it.
[He likes Gershom well enough, at least, even if it's kind of the most...backwards way of saying he's got an ear open for the skeleton man, but he's making an Attempt.]
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I - I'm not glad you're here, because this place is terrible and I wish no one were here, but I am glad that we're in the same place. If that makes any sense...?
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I do not disagree with such a statement. In truth, I find your companionship quite favorable as well; moreso than most. It is not often that one finds friendly company in a dismal place, is it not?
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[Biologically speaking, it should be impossible for Gershom to blush, as he has no blood. And yet there's still a pinkish tint to his cheekbones.
oh he's a useless homosexual.]
Facility, Wildcard: Midweek Party
Cid couldn't say he was optimistic about it working because he was kind of...a little jaded like that, but. He didn't want to necessarily shoot down the idea either, on account of the fact they had nothing else to do. And what was the harm if it was an attempt to lift spirits and spur on some bonding?
Needless to say, even if Cid never was enthusiastic about parties in general, he may have been searching for people of interest (even outside of the party, because surely not everyone will attend.) Though with a gaze to remain kind of inconspicuous. Either way, one of those he sought to talk with in particular would be a certain young man who he's become rather...accustomed to spending time with.
Yeah, that's the word for it. ]
Linhardt. [ A greeting of sorts even if it wasn't the most overt kind. ] What do you think of the party so far?
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At any rate, Linhardt is doing his very best to wallflower with the best of 'em, but ah--Cid. He finds himself smiling at the other man; he's found Cid's company preferable to most in this place. He's intelligent, certainly, and most importantly, he's interesting. Kind of like Hubert, in a way, without all of his annoying Hubert-isms.]
Ah, Cid. [Linhardt tips his head towards the rest of the party goers--other wallflowers and the many social butterflies going over and making it all the more lively.] I suppose I cannot say it is bad, at any rate. Perhaps the slightest bit tiring, but if what they say is true, that perhaps a little bit of bonding will prevent another murder...well, I suppose I'm not too opposed to it.
[He's not enjoying himself at all, you're imagining the smile on his face, shush--]
Ah, but what of yourself? Are you finding the festivities to your liking?
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Not even on the damnable Fal'Cie. Even if the idea they could be contained by such things would be too laughable of a prospect to properly maintain...
Cid will leave such silly thoughts behind to not think too hard about how the other smiled, and actually provide an answer, feeling a slight curl of his lips occur on its own. Such things were contagious, after all. ]
We seem to be of the same mind. [ He'll almost let out a chuckle at a thought. ] I can't say I was ever enthusiastic about parties; especially when I started in the military, where there were more celebrations than I had imagined. But, there's no loud fireworks and music, which means I can enjoy the festivities just fine.
...Spending the time in familiar company does help, though.