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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: Lydia Deetz | Small Medium / Champion of Bad Influence
Age: 16 | Species: Human | Occupation: Teenager
Likes: The morose, the macabre, the strange and unusual
Dislikes: Her father, creepy old guys
Traits: Mourning person, not a morning person
Trivia: Lydia might be legally liable for the death of a girl scout?

[ What's On The Table: Teenage goth girl who loves to cause problems! And sing upbeat numbers about her dead mom. Sees dead people. Dances with dead people. Almost gets married to dead people? Has so little respect for authority.
Looking for: Man idk hit me up! Slight preference for girls but I definitely am open to her holding hands with a boy. Works well with other Gothic Types, but also open to her bullying someone or being unexpectedly soft. ]

[Calypso was dead, to begin with. The day had been bad even before the trial- after a week of hostages dangling over their heads, everyone had been at a boiling point. When Finn finally confessed, Echo had nearly torn his remaining arm off.]

[But they had voted. The execution had been brutal, as always. Now all that remained was the cruelly mundane task of trying to carry on.]

[Echo often kept at the edges of the large communal gatherings that had become a sort of grim tradition; today she was entirely absent.]

[But in the massive greenhouse, overgrown with poinsettias and holly and pine trees now far too large to be brought into any home and tiny flowered cacti and for some reason trees bearing tiny oranges, Echo was- also not obviously present.]

[Unless someone were able to spot the extra mass of purples and blacks among the shadowy upper branches of one of those aforementioned trees, perched precariously high.]

Edited 2024-11-19 19:49 (UTC)

[ Christmas. Why did it have to be Christmas?

It turns out, it isn't more fun to watch a teenager die when they're impaled by giant lollipops versus something normal like spears or knives or literally anything else. Lydia can handle those things. But this place? This is garbage.

Echo's not garbage, though. Echo's cool. And uh. Also very high up. Which is a bummer, because Lydia actually likes talking to her. ]

Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your... you know. All of it? Some of us can't climb trees.

[Christmas comes what, two or three times a year depending on which galactic calendar you're going by? Getting turned into a killing game was probably inevitable, really.]

[There's a short pause- whether it's hesitation or getting herself something approaching ready to speak to another human is unclear. But the branches shift, a few needles raining down, and Echo swings down. Dropping from branch to branch, crouching on the lowest branch. Her eyes are dry but red.]

Rapunzel. I sort of know that one. She's one of the Disneys, right.

[Better to talk about the commercialized hellscape of spacefuture fairytales than actually addressing anything currently going on.]

[Echo extends a hand downwards.]

You want up or should I come down?

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