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THE MURDERGAME SHIPPING MEME V1.2

This is probably too straight to accurately represent most 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 (recommended, so everyone knows what your character is About), 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! Profile code and some prefs options below. Remember - unexpected murdergame ships are the best kind! Don't be afraid to tag out and across canons!

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. Musical Theater - Sing a love song! Whether you're playing from a specific musical or not, live your romantic duet dreams!
7. 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!

PROFILE CODE (pilfered from the general murdergame meme):

PREFS CODE:

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Oh! Oh- hm.

[Okay, she can see the appeal of hiding in a small confined space right now. Secure on all sides from physical attack and also feelings.]

[Being trapped is probably less than ideal, though. On all levels metaphorical and literal.]

Hang on, I'll get you out.

[The smartest option here would probably be to find some tools, maybe contact the overseers and tell them there was a situation.]

[Ask for help from the people enforcing the rules that were keeping them all here.]

[Penny reaches into the cupboard, grabs at the pipes keeping Thumbelina trapped, and pulls. With a screech of straining metal, they bend enough to, hopefully, free her.]

Is that enough?

[If you're in a small confined place the feelings won't find you! It's the perfect coping mechanism.

Or it would be, if it weren't for the--Thumbelina blinks at her sudden freedom as she pulls herself out of the cupboard. Anyone else might have things to say about that sudden show of strength but, hey, Red Riding Hood would have done the same thing. She's just glad she's not soaking wet from burst pipes.]

--thanks.

[She's blushing. Penny was... nice.] I, uh, had a good reason for being in there. I promise.

Do you still need someplace to hide? We could probably find somewhere that won't actually trap you.

[She holds out a hand to help Thumbelina out from under the sink; that's got to be pretty awkward, even if she managed to get in there herself.]

If you want I can stick around just in case, too.

I wasn't hiding from anything...

[She mutters to herself. She should have been more careful. Thumbelina isn't mentioning that she hides in her closet, though, that'd be weird. Right?]

Sometimes small places seem better but I got stuck. [She clears her throat.] I was about to make something for the others before I got stuck. It'd be bothersome if it went to waste. Maybe I could use some help to clean it up at least...

Would a closet be small enough? You could stay in mine tonight, if you still want to- you know, be somewhere small but not be alone.

[And it's not like she's using the closet for anything.]

What were you making? We might still be able to finish it, I'm sure the others would appreciate it.

[The sleeves are being rolled up, this is serious.]

I-I guess that'd be fine. It's not like either of has roommates to worry about.

[She's focusing on the counter so Penny doesn't notice that her face is still the color of her hair. She's kind of glad they had single rooms.]

Cookies... I used to make them for Sleepy and Snow White all the time when we could find the ingredients.

[She was totally going to just. Make them and drop them in the party when everyone was distracted and leave.]

B-but don't tell anyone it was me, got it?!

Okay?

[Are there aprons available in this facility? There are now, Penny's putting one on because kitchen safety is important. Cookies mean flower and possibly cocoa powder, that shit gets everywhere.]

Cookies sound sensational! I can- follow directions well, at least. Why don't you want anyone to know they're from you, though?

[Thumby, at least, is following suit. She has the generic facility uniform on to make sure her Order of the Sun uniform stays clean but, hey, safety first.]

Right--it shouldn't be too hard. [Penny wasn't half as clumsy as Snow White, that would be helpful.] Now that we've got proper ingredients following a recipe is easy.

[She's just going over the ingredients she had set on the counters before her cupboard adventure. If it was anyone else in the group asking Thumbelina would refuse to answer. Penny, though? She's honest and an incredibly poor liar. For someone as guarded as Thumbelina that was comforting. More than she'd like to admit.]

Why? It's embarrassing. [That was true but also...] And there's lots of people here who'd probably do this, too, if they knew how. I'm loud and I always get in fights. I'm sure many people thought I was the killer before we figured it out. They'd--

[Probably think I poisoned it. She cuts the thought off. Thumbelina pauses as she picks up a mixing bowl.] Probably think I made it taste terrible on purpose or something.

Oh. Okay.

[That's a little sad? Doing something nice for everyone but being afraid to take credit for it.]

I will do my best to keep your baking a secret.

[it's gonna be so obvious if anyone actually asks her i'm so sorry]

And for whatever it's worth, I didn't think you'd done it. ...I didn't want to think anyone had, but. This didn't seem right for you, I suppose?

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