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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. CHRISTMAS!!!! - The holidays really can be murder! Welcome to some kind of cozy Christmas-themed residence, and remember: they're your present this year! Because the only other thing you're liable to get is fucking murdered.
8. 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: Mariko Shinobu | SHSL Sorority Initiate/Ultimate Feminist
Age: 16 | Species: Human | Occupation: Student
Likes: Quality time
Dislikes: Men
Traits: Devoted, obsessive, vain, callous, violent
Trivia: Although it's against school rules, she secretly she paints one nail red.

[ What's On The Table: Mariko is the daughter of an erotica author who abandoned her family for a model and she's got heavy abandonment issues and a chip on her shoulder about men, which she makes no secret. She's got the subtlety of a knife to the chest. Mariko is an intensely devoted friend who wants you all to herself! She'll defend you fiercely to the point of violence, and is known to turn this on herself if she doesn't get her way. If you have other friends... no you don't? She'll whisper in their ear about how you secretly hate them and have been saying cruel things behind their back. Eventually she simmers down and, when she's truly in love, she's very feminine and gentle. There's even a place in her heart for true friendship at a certain point. Though, given the murdergame circumstances, isn't likely.

Looking for: Someone to obsess over, a friend-of-a-friend to corner and threaten, a classmate who will patiently level with her about her behavior. A butch to have and to hold. Pairs well with pure types who are patient and considerate. Ultimately I'm looking to be strange and off-putting. Shipping wise, it's F/F only.]

Edited 2024-11-17 22:37 (UTC)

[Yakko and Mariko have been, surprisingly, getting along quite well! As high school students from before the heyday of the internet and the like, they've bonded quite well over the last few weeks. Yakko hasn't been seem to be taking all of this well, though. Becoming less bubbly as the weeks draw on. She doesn't hide but she's withdrawn, more gentle. A far cry from the girl who was ready to punch their overseer on day one.

But that means she's been relying on Mariko more. She's even been sleeping in the same room as her--on the nights she hasn't been roaming, which have become more and more frequent. Yakko... has not been getting a lot of sleep lately.

Something about the motive this week had set her off. The motive had been simple, a question that would be answered if you could get away with murder. Yakko had read her paper and then ripped it to shreds, throwing it in a garbage can before anyone--even Mariko--could read it. A show of her fiery temper that was supposed to have been extinguished.

She hadn't talked about it to Mariko, either. She always seemed... colder when she talked about Michiyo, after all. She didn't feel like poking that particular tiger. That's why she had left their room on a Thursday, wandering the halls trying to find something.]

[It's a good thing that Yakko had left early that morning, Mariko tells herself. She's only upset for a moment, clutching tight to the faded warmth of the sheets, willing away the anger that swells in her chest. Stupid Yakko. When the feeling is good and settled, only then can she appreciate this sliver of loneliness for what it is. This is when the real work begins, the dreadful work that can only take place on your own. Mariko sits up slow, as if she's remembered something important. She tucks a lock of hair behind her ear as she sits up, drawing herself closer to the nightstand. There beneath a few pilfered books from the library is a loosely-folded lavender handkerchief and, as she carefully opens it, reveals little white shreds like petals. That note Yakko had so desperately tried to keep away, keep from her.

I'll find out what you're keeping from me, Yakko. I'll find out what's so important about that girl.

Mariko spends her morning intently focused on solving her little puzzle. Drawing each piece together with her fingertips, the letters coming together little by little. Until it splinters like too much snow on a branch-- snap. Any peace is gone in an instant when that name comes back again-- Michiyo.

Hastily she gathers the pieces into the handkerchief and shoves it blindly to the back of the drawer. Mariko's heels click as she storms out of the room in search of Yakko, eyes bright. She'll act as if nothing's changed. As far as she's concerned it hasn't. This will only bring them closer.]

[The anger—no, the all-consuming rage—that had flared inside her was still there. It has become mere embers since the motive but the silence in the morning had fanned them. Yakko had taken off her ribbon, letting her long hair drop down. It wasn’t something she normally did—she usually kept her hair up but… it felt natural. Safe.

She didn’t feel right a lot of the time here—the small gesture helped steady her mind. She needed that answer. The mystery needed solved.

There was a machine shop in the school. Not just woodworking or machinery, either. There even was a section of automotive equipment, which Yakko now was looking through. It wasn’t a place she normally would be but the loud noises of her shifting through toolboxes and large motor parts would probably draw the attention of anyone, especially someone who was searching.

At the moment, though, Yakko doesn’t care. She weighs many of the pieces in her hands before throwing them away. Eventually she settles on just throwing a few heavy pieces into a toolbox. She could decide later.

She leaves the room only to meet Mariko in the doorway. Wearing her hair down during that was a mistake—grease already clings to her clothes and hair. Her grip tightens on the toolbox. Every fiber is screaming to slam it against Mariko’s pretty face.

But that’s shoved down. Hard.]

Shinobu—you’re up early.

[Yakko rarely used last names and never Mariko’s.]

[Oh, she knows. Anger twists at her chest like two fists wringing at a handkerchief.]

You've never-- [She stops herself, swallowing back some wet, tragic feeling.] Is this where you've been all morning? Avoiding me? Why?

[Mariko's voice tips up, then, like a child about to stomp her foot. She very well might.]

[She flinches. It’s an instinctual thing—as of expecting more. No. That wouldn’t do. She reins it in, breathing out her nose.]

Mariko—I’m sorry. I was really focused on what I’ve been doing—my mind is all messed up. I thought I’d be back in our room by now.

[Our, not your.] Honest.

[There’s a pause. She shouldn’t mention Michiyo now. Shouldn’t say what she was planning. She sets the toolbox down in favor of moving closer.]

Mariko, I need to kill someone. I just didn’t want you getting caught up in it.

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