aworldwithoutboxes | mistletoe meme but people die-

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:

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[ It really is amazing, what you can make yourself get used to. It doesn't matter how miserable your circumstances are or how much worse they seem fit to get, so long as you can grit your teeth and swallow everything that threatens to overtake you, you can endure until the sun goes out.

That's what Ai's been doing, mostly. Enduring. It's been easier than she'd expected, mostly because at this point she knows she has nothing to lose. It's not as if she wants things to go wrong but when you get down to it, every moment she spends here is really just a bonus for someone like her. Even if she made it out to the other side in one piece, what would she even do with herself?

So she endures. She focuses mostly on staying bright and pretty for everyone else's sake, all these other people who have somewhere to go should they escape this place. When trials come to their gruesome conclusions, Ai stays smiling through it all and drinks in everyone else's aches and pains so she can carry them instead. It's what idols are supposed to do, right?

Lex has been coming to pour her sorrows into Ai's hands more and more as of late. That's good, Ai thinks, if it means she isn't having to carry them herself. But it's awkward when she tries to take some of Ai's off her hands. ]

I'm managing.

[ She says it with a worn-thin smile, the kind she's learned is right to wear at times like this. ]

I can't say I saw it coming, exactly, but... there's only so many people it could've been at this point.

Do you...

[ she holds the cigarette. looks at it. she's allowed vices. she can't help it. she has to play the part of the burnout, the waste of potential, the girl trying her best through minimum wage until she can skip town. it's all she can do to keep her sister from trying to follow in her example.

is there anything left now, outside of town? what could there be to find? ]

Nah, I barely want these fucking things. We need one of those - what the fuck are they called? Wreck rooms? Where they give you old tvs and microwaves and shit to beat with baseball bats? I bet you'd [ look hot- ] kick ass in one of those. [ same thing. ]

[ Ai laughs (politely, because it seems like the right thing to do) and shakes her head. ]

Mm, I don't know about that. The smell's a little too strong for me. And can you imagine how much trouble I'd get into? I bet Prez Saitou would show up out of nowhere just to scold me.

[ Honestly, the smell hanging on Lex's clothes is a bit much sometimes, but she'll put up with it. In a place like this, there's worse things to reek of. ]

Do they really have those nowadays? Or, um - I guess in the time you come from, anyway. Back in the Japan I'm from, I don't think they've made it to us yet.

[ not that Ai would be permitted to step foot in one even if they were. oh well. ]

Yeah, probably. Every time I smoke one these days, I feel my old auto shop teacher judging me. Fuckin' Mister Houston. Or... just Tom now, I guess.

[ She sighs, rolling the cigarette between her fingers. ]

And hey, if I had made it out to LA, I have it on good authority they let actors smoke there.

[ If she had made it... if everything hadn't gone to shit. Her sister's all she has. All she's ever going to have. And here, Lex can't do anything to protect her. ]

... Does it sound fun? I can probably make one happen here with the crap from the School Store. It's not like I'm going to use my tenth... well, anything that comes out of there.

[ It's not like they have one in Lex's middle-of-nowhere Midwest town, but Ai doesn't have to know that. Ai doesn't have to know a lot of things about Lex's life - she likes feeling a little more impressive than she actually is. Like she's more than some fuckup with a fuckup mom and a dead fuckup boyfriend from a nowhere town in a world that's gone now.

It doesn't matter anymore. There's only this, until the mastermind takes hostages, then she'll be gone. No one will miss her. She'll die protecting Hannah one last time. So until then, she can pretend she belongs in the same room as someone like Ai. ]

I know we're not supposed to "damage school property" or whatever, but if it's our property, that's probably fine, right?

mistletoe meme but people die-

kinda verges on that quasi-suicidal futurelessness from wcb r6 so. cw for that.

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