54th ♫ | I'm begging time to stop, just a little longer

[mytarget]

 (Slightly Adjusted) Shameless Shipping Meme
There's nothing wrong with wanting to play out some cute, fluffy interaction. So break out the butterflies in the stomach, the hand holding, the love confessions, the NOTICE ME SENPAIS, and all the adorableness you can stomach - no matter if if fits your character perfectly or not. It's all about characters getting comfortable with each other while being total goobers and showing love.

It's shameless, sure, but it's fun!

• Comment with your character, preferences, etc.
• Reply to others.
• Thread and doki until your heart can doki no more.

 

1. encouragement - You can't help crushing on this person because they boost your self-worth and make you feel like you're actually a decent person!!!


2. first date - It's a date! Or not. Maybe you're just at the skating rink, the intergalactic space station, or the five an dine at the same time.


3. badass with a crush - You're badass but you kind of want to just dote on that special person.


4. holding hands - Such a simple act that can make your heart pound.


5. acting like dorks and avoiding the questions - What it says on the tin.


6. impress - Hey, hey. Look at me, I'm awesome!


7. kiss - Happy kisses, cheek kisses, angry kisses, SHUTTING YOU UP kisses.


8. picnics - Get close to that special person while getting some good food.


9. hugs - You're so nice and soft.


10. denial - Feelings? No way. Let me repress those bad boys.


11. mean - Pull their pigtails because you like them.


12. unusually kind - You can't help but be really nice to the one you care for.


13. presents - Here, I brought you this necklace. Or - Here, I brought you the head of our enemies.


14. don't know how to act - I like this person?! WHAT DO I DO WHAT DO I DO OH GOD.


15. defending - Verbally or physically, you're standing up for your crush.


16. telling them - You're going to confess...if things don't keep going wrong.


17. proposal - You want to be with this person forever and you're going to make sure they know it!


18. loving smut - The smut option, full of cuteness.


19. family - The catchall prompt for bringing up a family together. Whether it's pregnancy, babies, adoption or four-footed and fluffy kids this is the prompt for gooey family interactions.


20. wildcard

Comments

[thecageysort]

Oh, really?

And how are you going to stop this force?

[He's just holding her in place. This is all very serious. We're very mature here.]

[lulunacy]

You are a fool to assume I am contained!

[still trying to get up on those shoulders tho]

[glasswing]

[ At first, Narmaya just watches all this... unfold, shall we say, with the exact expression of doe-eyed surprise you would expect of someone caught in a level of shenaniganry such as this. But then her expression softens and before she can stop herself, she finds herself giggling, with the look of a woman sharing a private joke with herself. ]

Your companions really are the boisterous sort, then. I see.

[ You haven't changed at all, have you, Aran? ]

[thecageysort]

A kind way of putting it. They're not the words I'd choose.

Ah, give me a moment. [He looks back at Lulu, about as impressed with her as he would be with an angry puppy.] This "fool" is just going to escort someone outside.

[Which he is, in fact, going to do! Right now! He's just straight up going outside, he's just going to dump her there.]

[lulunacy]

[For a moment, Lulu—I mean "stops" isn't right, she will never stop, but she slows down, staring at how gentle Narmaya's expression has gone, and she manages one awed,] I see, [before Aran starts to tote her off.

And, ah, here she goes again.]

DESTINY WILL NOT BE SO EASILY DODGED AS THIS WHEN ITS DIVINE ARBITER HOLDS WITH YOU A BOND OF SOUL; I AM NOT UNSEEING, ARAN, I UNDERSTAND FULL WELL THAT THIS IS A MATTER OF TWO INEXTRICABLY LINKED HEARTS BROUGHT TOGETHER ONCE AGAIN AS CELESTIAL FATE DECREED AND YOUR FURY WILL NOT BURN FIERCER THAN THE STARS NOW THAT THEY HAVE BEEN UNCROSSED, IN THE HOLY LUNAR NAME OF HER SACRED GRACE, I WILL NOT BE SO SIMPLY SILENCED—

[bye, guys]

[thecageysort]

[He unceremoniously drops her outside, turns around, and closes the door behind him. Then it's time to make his way back to the table.]

...I have to, once again, apologize for all of... that.

[This is his life, Narmaya. This is what he puts up with.]

[glasswing]

[ She's still tittering to herself. ]

There's no need to apologize. It's wonderful to know you're travelling in such lively company – and they must care for you very much.

[thecageysort]

They're menaces, is what they are. Her, especially.

[He loves them.]

Sometimes it's impossible to deal with.

[glasswing]

I don't know. You seem to be handling them easy enough. It's just like seeing you back at the orphanage.

[ Once a mom friend, always a mom friend. ]

I'm glad you're all looking after each other.

[thecageysort]

Ah, hm. I guess.

[Ha ha. Yeah. Just like back at the orphanage.]

...Someone has to look out for them. Might as well be me.

[glasswing]

Do you really think they're the only ones being looked after here?

[ She says it with a sweet and rather knowing little smile. ]

[thecageysort]

What, the other way around, too?

Really?

[no, sounds fake]

[glasswing]

Are you really telling me you haven't noticed?

[ She giggles, but there's nothing mean about it. ]

I think they were only curious about what I was doing here because they worry about you just as much as you worry about them.

[ ... maybe let's not go that far, Narmaya ]

[thecageysort]

...No, that definitely wasn't all it was. They're just nosy.

[glasswing]

... Ah.

You don't suppose they've gotten the wrong impression, do you?

[ you two WERE holding hands ]

[thecageysort]

Oh, they've probably got a whole story already written up in their heads. It doesn't take much.

[Aran she made you smile.]

[glasswing]

I–I see...

[ Just look at how pink she's gone at the suggestion. ]

I do hope they don't start troubling you with all sorts of awkward question. I um, did tell that very sparkly young girl in the cape that we'd grown up together.

[thecageysort]

Ah, well... That's fine.

They're all going to jump to conclusions, but it's fine... It's easily enough cleared up. [...This is embarrassing.] Well, you know how kids are.

[Aran, you're really not that much older than them.]

[glasswing]

Yes, I do...

[ "MISS KAMILLE, DO YOU LIKE THAT MAN?" "That's the mailman, little one." "BUT DO YOU?" ]

But– I suppose there's worse conclusions to jump to. And it's a fair enough price to pay for finding you again.

[thecageysort]

...You really wanted to find me, didn't you?

[He's honestly surprised.]

[glasswing]

Yes.

[ Her answer is sincere and unembarrassed. ]

If I'm truly honest with you, I've been wanting to come and find you for a very long time. But it never seemed like the right moment.

[thecageysort]

Can I ask... why?

[glasswing]

Well, it's...

[ And despite her breezy sincerity from earlier, this answer seems to take a little longer. Maybe it's because Narmaya herself doesn't immediately know what it is. ]

I always felt that way at first, whenever someone left and found a family. I'd always want to go running to see them and make sure they were happy and safe in their new homes. But usually, once we'd gotten a letter or two, I felt like... I didn't have to. That everything was fine.

But somehow... the longer it went, the more I felt like I had to find you and make sure you were okay. Once I took over from Mother Clarisse, I didn't really think about it as much, but then when I heard all about the Church and the heroes... and when I heard everyone saying you'd had a part to play in it, I knew I needed to come and... I suppose I wanted to see the man you'd grown up to be.

[thecageysort]

I... see.

[He'd tried not to think of it again. The orphanage. Not because he didn't care or because it didn't matter to him. But at a certain point, the thoughts of it were too much to bear.

Too many memories. Good ones, tainted by... everything else that happened.

He'd forced himself to put it out of his mind. Not once had he considered that, maybe, someone else still had him in theirs.]

I'm sorry. That I never contacted you or anyone else. I probably should have. Things were just... busy.

[Busy. It's perhaps the most blatant lie he's told so far. He'd never sent a single letter, not just because it didn't feel right. But because, even if he'd somehow worked up the nerve, there's absolutely no way that Dahlia would have allowed it.]

But you... you stayed... You know, that really seems about right. Even after growing up, you seem a lot like then, still. And suddenly chasing after someone you hadn't seen in so long? yeah.

That sounds about right, too.

[It just makes sense, somehow.]

I'm glad we're meeting again now, at least. Not... before.

[glasswing]

Yes. So am I.

[ And really... for all her worrying about finding words and her fumbling with what might be the right ones or the wrong ones, isn't this the most important part? They'll be time later, with any luck, to try and fill in the rest of the spaces and the rest of the silences. Right here and now, at the beginning of it all again, it really doesn't have to be any more complicated than this exchange of sentiment. ]

Do you have any idea of where you'll be going after here?