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

Edited 2020-10-14 03:41 (UTC)

[ 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.

[ 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?

[ Ah, the question of the hour for everyone left in their group. Amanda's smile drops to... 70%? But she's holding as much of it up as she can. ]

I'm... you know. Not great, but I'm hanging in there? How about you?

I'm... managing.

[ It's the most honest answer she can muster, because if she straight up just lies, then it's gonna be painfully obvious. Besides, it's kind of hard to lie to Amanda--not that she'd want to.

She shifts a tiny bit closer, their knees and shoulders almost touching. ]

... Everything's kind of awful, but I'm glad you're here.

Managing... yeah, that sounds about right.

[ Amanda sort of... reaches over to put a hand on Mira's knee. ]

Yeah, well. I'm not planning on going anywhere. And... I'm glad you're here with me, too.

[ She doesn't pull away, which is pretty telling of how much she trusts Amanda. But she stops herself before she can lean against her. It seems like a little too much, even though she'd very much like to be as close as possible to her. ]

Well... if I can help it, I won't be going anywhere, either. [ It's a bold proclamation, considering the situation. ] You're kind of keeping me sane, actually.

[ I mean hey even if they weren't dancing around feelings this would be a decent day for it. ]

Heh. Then I'll do my best to keep doing whatever it is I'm doing.

we found love in a hopeless place

Mira Delacroix | OC | OTA

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