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aworldwithoutboxes2022-01-20 04:23 pm
paranomasias) wrote in aworldwithoutboxes2022-01-20 04:23 pm
somewhere beyond the sea
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, if you want a format to follow. 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!
PREFS CODE:
Miko Kubota | Glitch Techs | ota, f/f pref
Age: 16 | Species: Human? | Occupation: Glitch Tech
Likes: Video games, friendship, winning
Dislikes: Mitch Williams, losing, tutorials, animatronic animals
Traits: Competitive, athletic, resilient, energetic
Trivia: Miko was once so dedicated to beating a child at a rhythm game that her hometown was nearly destroyed.
[ What's On The Table: Energetic teenage gamer girl who secretly fights evil video game glitches and has an absolute nightmare of a vocabulary! It's just a mix of video game slang, video game references, and catchphrases from classic cartoons combined with the former. She might say poggers. I am so sorry. She only doesn't in the show because of trademarks and such. Will be A Lot in a relationship, but she's a good girl at heart as long as you can keep up with her and especially if you'll play co-op games with her!
Looking for: WHAT'S UP GAMERS- okay no Gamer is a plus but it's definitely not the only thing she's generally looking for. She likes nerds of all kinds, and if you aren't then by god she will make you one. Other gremlin types a plus, but also someone lower-speed is totally fine! She can slow it down and be weirdly mature sometimes when she wants to be. ]
Claudine Saijo | Revue Starlight | f/f preferred
Age: 18 | Species: human | Occupation: actress
Likes: ballet, singing, stage combat
Dislikes: horror movies, losing, giraffes
Traits: competitive, resilient, talented
Trivia: Claudine's so bad with horror movies that she'll pass them off to other people rather than watching them herself.
[ What's On The Table: Stage combat doesn't usually involve real weapons, but it sure does with Claudine. Expect gratuitous French, and also expect flirting via music.
Looking for: Singing duets. The dating with death flags, the 'oh shit you just killed someone, so what now' moment. absolutely open to smut, and second movie spoilers are a-okay! ]
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Nancy Drew | and The Palace of Wisdom | ota
Age: 17 | Species: Human | Occupation: Detective
Likes: Justice, her friends, solutions
Dislikes: Criminals, modern technology
Traits: Plucky, headstrong, smart
Trivia: Nancy Drew was recently arrested.
[ What's On The Table: Uh. It's Nancy Drew! Like a modern and slightly punk Nancy Drew, but still! Nancy Drew! In The Palace of Wisdom's continuity she's been away from Bayport for years and just came back to solve a case - she's very smart, good at intuiting things, but also hasn't been keeping up as much with the emotional intelligence side of things as she could.
Looking for: Anything...? Do you think your character is cool enough to date Nancy Drew? She'd go well with basically anyone, I think. ]
Envy Adams | Scott Pilgrim | ota
Age: 25 | Species: Plot-Relevant Backstory Canadian | Occupation: Rock Star
Likes: Music, being cooler than you, breaking hearts, anime (secretly)
Dislikes: Cheaters, lame stuff, you (probably not secretly)
Traits: Driven, serious, talented
Trivia: She used to be so nice!
[ What's On The Table: So if you've only seen the movie, Envy is... a little more complex than that. Tale as old as time: nerd girl sells all her anime merch for CDs and cool clothes, goes on to become a wildly successful musician, now is bandless and sort of looking for meaning. Definitely not easy mode for murdergame dating, her last two relationships ended Poorly, but especially if you can get through the outer layers of persona and find the like. Person at the core of them? She has no actual desire to go back to being a quiet, nerdy girl, but she might not kick your ass unless you, like, ask for it.
Looking for: Hoo boy so Envy definitely goes best with either like. Other cool artistic types or just like. Nice people? Be nice but not boring, and that'll go a long way. ]
isabella rojas flores | original | ota
Age: 19 | Species: Dragon | Occupation: Student
Likes: Jesus, school, cooking, her friends
Dislikes: Cults, getting kidnapped, Untitled Goose game
Traits: Friendly, practical, normcore, calm
Trivia: Isabella has seen all of Marble Hornets.
[What's On The Table: Isabella is a high schooler who recently escaped not one but two religious cults. She's been raised to believe her purpose in life is to fight the Antichrist, which she believes was on the verge of happening before she arrived here. Also she's a dragon, but she will deflect about that when asked.
Looking for: She's super friendly, so she'll get along with nearly anyone except, uh. People like her ex, who was a.... Fortnite streamer. Picture a teenage version of Ninja and that's who she was dating. Romantically, she believes she's straight but she's never really thought too hard about it.]
carmel sanchez rodriguez | original | ota
Age: 18 | Species: Human | Occupation: College Student
Likes: Salsa, crime, MCIF:LA, rabbits
Dislikes: Harrison Cook, being called a human, being told no
Traits: Sarcastic, Gen Z, irreverent, team player
Trivia: Carmel created the Sanchez Demon Array when she was 12 years old.
[What's On The Table: Carmel is a chosen one who simply said "no" and instead became mildly criminal. She is, strictly speaking, a human but was raised as a werewolf and will complain very loudly about that part of her profile. Her hair changes color at random, which is the only magic she's retained. More info here, if you want.
Looking for: Carmel's only into betas, which to her means people that are driven to provide for others rather than protect or caretake. In more human terms, she's "sort of a lesbian" in that most of her crushes and stuff have been on female-identifying people. It's kind of fluid, though, because her human grasp on gender is shaky at best.]
mai nakamura | original | ota
Age: 19 | Species: Human | Occupation: Professional Bowler
Likes: Kerurumin, Earth, bowling
Dislikes: Aliens, genocide, authority
Traits: Awkward, hard to read, dandere, dry humor
Trivia: After defeating the Galactic Council at bowling, Mai was crowned High Goddess of the Universe.
[What's On The Table: You can read her info post here, but basically Mai is the protagonist of a "sports anime" about bowling. It's more like a sport anime if the sports anime was the Hunger Games and it mostly takes place in space. Don't worry about it!
Looking for: Mai is demisexual, so basically she's romantically available to anyone she feels close to. She cares very little about gender and canonically ends up in a weird polycule. She likes nice people, which is an extremely wide category so like. Anything goes, really!]
Cassandra | Tangled: The Series | F/F
Age: 24 | Species: Human | Occupation: Knight Errant
Likes: Fighting, Rapunzel, finding her destiny
Dislikes: Being ignored, losing, opening up
Traits: Competitive, adventurous, honest, loyal
Trivia: Cassandra once beat up over twenty people for a pen.
[ What's On The Table: Cassandra is your not-so-typical lady-in-waiting with dreams of achieving recognition and validation. This leads to crimes. She's better now, but still a blunt, snarky sword lesbian whose searching for purpose after a particularly difficult time in her life. Still, you'll never find a more loyal person if you tried.
Looking for: People who'll burst into disney duets at a moment's notice, other hotheads who'll have homosexual rivalries and duals, princess/knight combos... whatever ya want. She's flexible like that. ]
Vi | Arcane: League of Legends | F/F
Age: 21 | Species: Human | Occupation: Inmate (former)
Likes: Powder, Zaun, a good fight, cupcakes
Dislikes: Jinx, Silco, Piltover snobs
Traits: Blunt, brutal, hard-edged, warm
Trivia: Vi's been imprisoned for the past six years.
[ What's On The Table: Vi's had it a little rough. Her upbringing in the underbelly of a glimmering utopia was nice while it lasted, but one bad day left her without friends, a sister, and imprisoned for six years. It's only at the kindness of someone looking into the criminal that started that atrocity that she's been let out to wage a one-woman war on evil. She's rough and tumble, eager to pick a fight and just as eager to try and talk things out. Her social skills leave... a little something to be required, but she's still a deeply caring person once you get past the scars... and an excellent lover if you get beyond that.
Looking for: Other mom friends? Opposites that still find common ground with her? Vi can very easily slide into a position as the mature, responsible one, if need be. ]
Tory Nichols | Cobra Kai | ota
Age: 17 | Species: Human | Occupation: Student/Mermaid/Martial Artist
Likes: Her family, karate, winning
Dislikes: Mercy, pity, unearned victories
Traits: Volatile, devoted, combative
Trivia: Her grandpa could, statistically, probably beat up your grandpa.
[ What's On The Table: Tory is... a complicated girl! She is absolutely outwardly two of those traits from day one, and is very against cooperation or bonding with others on the grounds of wanting to avoid weaknesses that someone else could take advantage of. Smarter than she seems, for being basically an anime delinquent, especially when it comes to Feelings. She's just not always inclined to, you know, do anything with those smarts that isn't survival. But if another character pushes past All Of That, she's a nice enough kid! And she will, in fact, Kill For You.
Looking for: I'm pretty open, honestly! People she can spar with? People she can "spar" with? Embarrassing conversations where she tries to be open about her emotions? All these things and more are possible! ]
Penny Polendina | RWBY | OTA, slight f/f preference
Age: Yes | Species: Human-passing | Occupation: Huntress
Likes: Friendship, fighting, helping others, exploring
Dislikes: Magnets, Grimm, hiding, duty, isolation
Traits: Extroverted, curious, loyal
Trivia: Penny made it to the Singles round of the Vytal Festival Tournament; the match ended divisively, going down to the wire.
[ What's On The Table: Actual ray of sunshine in teenaged robot form. The robot part of which may or may not be pretty obvious depending on how small/enclosed the setting is. Harder to miss that someone just doesn’t eat with one dining space and scheduled meals versus a 24/7 food court or open kitchen. But she’s here to make friends with and help everyone who isn’t really obviously evil. And even then they might have to actively tell her to piss off. Has a weird habit of picking up on tiny details during investigations and trials without realizing their potential significance.]
[Yeah, she’s going to have a very bad time here once the death starts.]
[But she’ll probably attack the host at least once, probably sooner rather than later.]
[...she might need to be told she’s in a relationship with someone.]
[Looking for: can i get uuuuuuuuuuuuuh boneless ship]
[But really, if you think they’d have chemistry or even just be kind of cute? Come at me. Down for anything from desperate fluff in the face of despair to deadland or golden end reunions, or murders or culprit reveals if you really wanna go hard into h/c.]