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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:

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Name: Lust | Champion Spear/Cutting
Age: A lady never tells. | Species: Homunculus | Occupation: Instigator
Likes: Plotting, acting, winning.
Dislikes: Smoking, persistent men, traitors.
Traits: Cool, calculating, ruthless.
Trivia: Lust's last breakup left her burned more badly than she'd like to admit!

[ What's On The Table: She's awful. She's the goddamn worst and any pretense otherwise is eventually going to get yeeted into the incinerator that'll inevitably show up on a new floor, but for at least two weeks there'll be an attempt to act otherwise! Even on her best behavior, she absolutely comes off as a shady femme fatale sort, but here's the thing: when you push past that mystery and poker face, there's nothing behind it. If she's concealing anything, it's just that she's amoral and actively sadistic, and kind of into death?? Hooray. Lust putting on an act is basically the same as vanilla Lust, she just will occasionally describe gruesome things as a real shame instead of ara araing at top volume. She's a big fan of saying things that sound flirty but are actually a way of covertly stating something else, or a secret death threat, or both.

When it comes to any formalized dating, she's actually pretty conservative? The social mores of 1914 Amestris may not track exactly to our own 1914, but they're still definitely more buttoned up than a modern day equivalent! And also she's used to using them as excuses to keep people at arm's length. Still, it's more likely that she'd just talk about murder over tea with somebody for like five hours and consider that a date. Her general focus on murder over nasty does not mean for a second that she won't just lie about having been with you last night to create an alibi, however! Just play along, this is all probably fine.

Looking for: It is, truly, just bastards. She's not capable of anything else! I'm not saying this in like a "lol you can TRY XD" way, I genuinely really enjoy playing the dynamic of two assholes secure in the knowledge that they'll each backstab the other the second it gets convenient, but it is definitely not for everyone. However, if you're actually into your sweet naive cinnamon roll getting suckered into a mean broad's clutches and then having a rude awakening, I can absolutely also provide that! Fake dating that ends in one person dead and the other mortally wounded is the only kind of dating Lust can canonically accomplish. ]

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