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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, 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!

PROFILE CODE (pilfered from the general murdergame meme):

PREFS CODE:

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Name: EIJIRO KIRISHIMA | THE BOULDER HERO
Age: 17 | Species: Human* | Occupation: Hero, Student
Likes: Meat, manliness, teamwork, friendship, self-improvement
Dislikes: Villains, bullies, regrets, homework
Traits: Red hair, red eyes, sharp teeth, bright smile, excruciatingly excitable
Trivia: Kirishima never misses an opportunity to take off his shirt, even in winter.

[ What's On The Table: Kirishima's version of humanity comes with 80% of the population possessing a personal supernatural power, called a Quirk. Kirishima's Quirk is called Hardening, allowing him to transform his skin into a rocky surface for both offense and defense. He used these things to enter a school for 'pro heroes' - a sort of cross between celebrities and cops in his world - in order to protect those around. So his sense of what is human, what is a villain, and what constitutes as his responsibility is a bit skewed. Despite his sharp appearance, he's basically a human labrador in terms of personality and it is hurting his heart to not be able to do anything to stop the murders that take place in the game, mostly because he doesn't know how not to try and be friends with everyone.

Looking for: Bisexual disaster here. Kirishima is his canon's Asshole Wrangler, so he would be good for anyone who needs someone to kick down their walls with positivity. He can ignore insults without also letting them get away with shitty behavior, especially involving other people. Other ships ideas I like are mutual jock crushes, Stupid + Also Stupid, morosexual nerd coming to terms with finding a himbo, and possibly someone who is just so sweet it's impossible not to crush on them. I mean I'm really open here, so feel free to come at me with other ideas! ]

I don't get how ya'll peeps just keep doing this every week.

[The trial had been rougher than usual. Finding out that one of them had betrayed the group again was never fun, but finding out that Steven had finally snapped under the weight no one had realized he was carrying had made it worse.]

[But as usual, Fern was here in the commissary as everyone tried regrouping in the aftermath somehow.]

[For some reason he'd been talked into taking a plate of spaghetti. It looked tauntingly delicious.]

Like, is it just me? This is all getting crazy pointless, right?

[ Kirishima is a little out of it. He used to consider himself a pretty decent judge of character, thought he had his finger on the pulse when it came to the general feelings of those in the group. It feels like a real blow to that perception know someone as good as Steven was suffering and he hadn't seen it. It wasn't like they didn't talk...

So Fern is catching him zoning out - or rather, he's reigning the redhead back in from self reflection. Kirishima's brow wrinkles. ]

What, eating?

[Fern stops. Blinks.]

[Readjusts mentally, just a little.]

Kind of?

[He stirs up the pile of noodles on his plate.]

I mean- every week here's kind of been the same in a real dirtballs way. We get some kind of weird incentive, every week we think maybe no one'll do anything, but then someone does, and then we gotta figure out who and basically croak 'em by voting, and then we all sit around and eat and talk like maybe the same thing's not just gonna start again in a couple days.

[Fern pushes the spaghetti away with a more forceful jab of his fork than it probably deserves.]

It bumps, man.

[ Kirishima has noticed that he somehow manages to understand everyone here despite being from some obviously different backgrounds, but Fern certainly has a special way of talking. Even now, with the grim topic, there's a twinkle of something warm in attempting to translate the gist. ]

Yeah... It does bump.

[ Eijiro himself is cued to pick up his own fork. His own plate is majority meatballs, with a hint of spaghetti beneath. He slices one of the aforementioned meatballs in half. ]

But I don't think anyone feels like it's not gonna happen again. Not anymore. It's just tough to figure out what we can actually do besides try to hold out, you know?

And even doing that is hard, man. So I think that's what these gatherings are about, and maybe why it looks like some people ain't reacting in a way that makes sense on the outside.

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