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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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[They've been here for two weeks. Two people have died already-- and even though she does a lot of enthusiastic nodding and awkward thumbs-uping at anyone who assures her that they're going to get through this, that it's not actually that bad, that it won't happen again-- Mattie doesn't believe any of them.

The situation during the trial didn't help. The motive that week had been secrets, and someone had less-than-helpfully suggested that they all share their secrets, to try and remove the motive. Mattie hadn't wanted to, but after a while, she didn't have much of a choice-- and her secret (Maddie Walker was sent to a Juvinile Detention Center for the murder of two of her teammates) had been revealed to the others. There were a lot of questions, and the fact that she didn't have any answers was suspicious. It had been fine, until Friday morning, when they found Kelsi Nielsen, dead from multiple stab wounds, hunched over the piano. As if that hadn't been bad enough-- Kelsi wasn't the only one who had been stabbed. Nessarose was also wounded-- and had spent 90% of the trial casting a finger in Mattie's direction, accusing her of being the one to have done it.

Turns out the girl could walk, after all. She'd taken the opportunity to cast blame on another, to keep that very secret from getting out. And Mattie?

Mattie doesn't know what she did to deserve this, twice in her life. At least this time, there was no juvie? On the other hand, she literally would have died if the others hadn't caught on.

She has to gain their trust. She doesn't know-how. But she has to. So though most of these people are the last people she wants to see right now (some of them are okay. Jeremy, amongst a few others, hadn't been quick to accuse. He has no idea what it means to her.) she stands in the kitchen, baking pies. It's like, if she crafts the crust just right, with dainty whirls and twists and bows, they'll all understand. That it won't turn out like last time. She doesn't hesitate until it's time for the filling, and-- she wonders out loud to herself.]

Maybe peaches, instead of strawberries. The canned strawberries look like they have red food die. That's a really common allergy.

Mattie?

[The trial was... rough. Kelsi was one of the people he was closest to and he feels like... is it bad representation of disabilities if the person is faking it, but like... not? That's, uh. That's really not for him to say and he can't really do anything about the people who were close to Nessarose. Personally? Jeremy thought she was kind of a bitch. Like a real mean girl type.

Mattie's not, though, and he's pretty sure that everyone else is gonna be avoiding her, whether that's out of guilt or something else. He stood up for her, though. Mainly because, uh. His own secret wasn't much better? Jeremy Heere attempted to brainwash an entire school to date a girl.

The wording is... well. It doesn't matter what he did after, does it? And it doesn't matter if Mattie was innocent or not, to some of them. But it matters to him, which is why he's here. In the kitchen. Looking for her.]

Oh, hey! Are you making a pie?

we don't choose who lives or dies

afterparty, with an escalation to fluff probably? like STUPID fluff but its still fluff

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