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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: Fellow Honest | The Playful Puppeteer/Champion of Fun
Age: 26 28 30 Redacted | Species: Beastman | Occupation: Manager of Playful Land Amusement Park
Likes: Musicals, apples, math, rich people's money
Dislikes: Spending money, potatoes, reading/writing, rich people
Traits: Enterprising, affable, entertaining, duplicitous, uneducated
Trivia: Reads at a third grade level

[Being sealed in an amusement park should make someone like Fellow feel right at home, but a place like Playful Land was never really his to begin with, anyway. And, as it happens, so was being alive. It's just a handful of the dead here now in this dimly lit park, biding their time until another unlucky creature gets thrown into the pit with them.

Today, that unlucky creature is Kabru. God, he was supposed to be different.

What drew him to Kabru was that time-honored principle: like recognize like. They're both liars. They've both had to make a life of seeing through others in order to survive, to get ahead. It felt threatening at first, to meet someone who is both a mirror and a window, someone you can see through, who can see through you in turn. Every conversation made him feel like he'd been scooped out completely and shoved back together in the same approximate shape. But little by little this place wore away at him. Little by little that blue-eyed terror starting eeking (ugh) more and more truths out of him and it was starting to become a problem, like he as teetering at the edge of some horrible confession. To himself, to his fellow test subjects, to Kabru. Until he died. Then it was bliss because he didn't have to account for this pesky feeling nagging at him like a stray thread.

Didn't have to worry about it until now. Fellow has been avoiding him in ways that he's doing his utmost to make look like pure coincidence. But there's only so much luck one can be afforded. He's taken up residence at one of the bottle-toss tents, sitting on top of the booth table with his legs crossed at the ankles. In his hands is a rag that he's stitching back together, one that Kabru will recognize as Carmen Sandiego's red coat. After an appropriate moment to make it seem like Fellow's just noticed him, that he hasn't been keenly aware of Kabru's steady approach, Fellow turns his golden eyes up to look at the other man. Hands never straying from their work.]

Oh good evening, Kabru! Terribly sorry that ya [clears throat] you caught me at such a moment. Fascinating that you and I are in one piece but our clothing must suffer still. [Carmen's jacket still bears the scar of the swallowing sword that had run her through. For now, anyway.] I'd call it bad business on the part of our captors.

[Anything but to talk about the way he'd looked at Kabru that night before he'd left and never came back. Ironically, the finger of his own glove still has a hole in it.]

mistletoe meme but people die-

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