82nd ♫ | nodding off in a chocolate bathtub full of whipped cream bubbles

[mytarget]

The Personal Hygiene Shipping Meme


Personal hygiene is just that - personal. By the time we've come to a point in our lives where we notice that the concept exists and we should be prudent about it, we can take care of ourselves. There are also many practical reasons why we don't involve other people in this process. We're not too keen on showing off parts to be cleaned that are private in most contexts, and there's definitely an ingrained aversion to showing so much soft, fleshy skin. Hot water or a sharp razor could spell dangerous with a capital D should they come into the hands of someone with a vendetta against you. No need to be extra vulnerable.

So, if you're involving another person in your cleansing routines, it must be someone you trust. Not only that, but it's most likely someone you're comfortable with and likely at least somewhat open to being intimate with. You may not be dropping all your clothing in front of them, but it's still you opening yourself up to touching and closeness unparalleled in more "usual" moments.

Established and burgeoning couples (or not-so-couples) can bond through this showing of care and good faith. Will you like being pampered and find the attention endearing? Or will things go terribly, terribly wrong?

...you never should have let them near that shaving cream.

• Comment with your character and preferences.
• Smut is not required. Mention if you want/don't want it.
• Reply to others and use the RNG.

1. Comfort: You've decided to pitch in a helping hand to get your partner to unwind, and warm water or suds may do the trick.
2. Romantic: The sole purpose of this endeavor is to set a lovey-dovey mood. No shame here!
3. It Started Out Platonic...: What a good pal you are, volunteering to give your friend a good scrub. Of course, you didn't count on the cute way she squirms as you scrub her back or how he blushes when you shampoo his scalp.
4. No Choice: Currently, you're unable to clean yourself up. That means that you need assistance, and it might as well be the person you lov- tolerate the most.
5. Open: You have trust issues. Actually, you have backlogs of trust issues. Still, you want to show the person you love that you're willing and trying to change for them, and what better way than letting down your walls and having the assist in your grooming?
6. Shave: Whether it's your face, your legs, or...your other places you've decided to shave, there's a certain intimacy involved in letting your lover do it for you. Let's hope they won't leave you looking like you got into a battle with a book with the paper cuts to prove it.
7. Reluctant: They want to get you clean. You don't want to show off your body at all. It's injured, it looks weird, what if they don't like it...
8. Forced: You love them, you really do, but you won't kiss them if they continue to look like an unwashed hobo clown. You have to draw the line somewhere, and if they won't take action, you will.
9. Beat Up: You've been trampled in a fight. Your partner isn't about to let you wallow around in your own mud and blood.
10. Hair: Some find that there's nothing quite as soothing as getting their hair washed or brushed. Of course, those with more luxurious locks may find any hair care a burden, so the assistance is appreciated.
11. Make Up: They think you're beautiful already. See how they'll paint you up when they get the chance.
12. Unique: If you're not human, you probably have your own proceeders you have to do to keep all spiffied up. There are wings with stray feathers to pluck, horns on heads to polish, scales to shave down, all sorts of tasks! Introduce your ignorant (and most likely human) boyfriend or girlfriend to your world...and your pain.
13. Accommodations: Those with disabilities or prosthetics may also have their own routines, and anyone who wants to be with them should learn how to pitch in.
14. Sponge Bath: You don't have enough water to do this right or you just want to give them a nice rub and scrub with a gentle sponge or wash cloth.
15. Wound Care: In order for wounds to heal, proper care must be taken. Bandages have to be changed and cuts cleaned out. It's certainly easier when you don't have to do it all by yourself.
16. Together: You're both cleaning up, taking a bath, splish splash, in the same tub because there's no where else to go. This is the most likely smut option, even if, again, it starts off "platonic."
17. Clothing: Don't forget that clean clothes are an important part of personal hygiene. Always make sure your partner has a nice, fresh outfit, even if it's to your taste and not theirs.
18. I've Made a Terrible Mistake: Somehow, everything's now shit. This little experiment went haywire and you may be sporting anything from the worst hairdo of your life to a Columbian necktie.
19. FREE SPACE

Comments

Rin Asunaro | Shelter

[beautifulisolation]

[ she has SO MUCH HAIR ]

Bryn Pendragon | OC

[draconite]

Yuri | Doki Doki Literature Club

[impurifies]

[ heads up in advance that Yuri comes with a cw for self harm as (highlight to see) she has some very prominent self harm scars on her arm -- I don't imagine it'll be like the focus of a thread or anything BUT JUST IN CASE... ]

[photoshooter]

[I rolled a 17 and I have a cute idea, but what kind of universe we thinking here?]

[impurifies]

[ asher here to spoil me w the good content that is dressing up my gals!!

anyway I'm flexible! Slotting her into FFXV could be a pretty easy in for it, or I could come up with somethin else if that doesn't work ]

[photoshooter]

[Noctis has been missing for two months, now, and Prompto's had to pull himself from the Crystal's side to do what he can't: help refugees from every corner flee the darkness coming for them all. It's not midnight-dark all the time, not yet; the noon sky is a strange gold-rust-beer color, like swamp water at sunset. They have enough light by which to make camp, even if it still doesn't feel right to pitch tents so early.

Still, it gives Prompto some time, while the other Hunters help this week's rescues set up, to do something nice for the shy-seeming girl that keeps drawing his eye. Not like that--well, mostly not like that. But she reminds him of someone he used to be, someone who shrank in on himself any time attention came his way, even though it was all he wanted in the world. She doesn't fit in, he thinks. If he's right, then he totally gets it.

He finds her as soup's being served, piping hot and sub-par, and knocks on the Haven's stone floor to get her attention.]

Uhh, knock knock. Wow, that was lame...

[impurifies]

[ The end of the world has come and gone and yet, two months have dragged on by, pulling the rest of them along with it. It's been two months since Yuri's seen her family and just over a month and a half since the read receipts stopped showing up on the messages she was sending to the other girls in the Literature Club.

She wants to believe they're safe. She wants to believe they're just busy, or out of range or maybe their phones just died. She doesn't want to entertain the alternative as an idea in her head. She's just been quiet as she followed along with the other refugees. Not that she'd have much to add to any conversation they'd be having, anyway. So Yuri tucks into herself and tries to carry on dragging herself through the days as each one comes.

She's so used to being on her own that when Prompto approaches her, she jumps. Not badly enough to spill her soup, but it's a near miss and her face is crimson with a flush of embarrassment and anxiety. ]

Ah– I'm so sorry...! Is there something wrong? Am I...?

[ She's not sure where that last sentence was going, but clearly the problem here is her. ]

Honoka Kousaka | Love Live!

[korekara]

[ the lone short hair haver....... ]

Rei Hatada | Crystar

[phantasmagorial]

[ she's like 15, just in case you're thinking of goin shippy ]

Yuuri Wakasa | School-Live! (+ Otayori)

[serrata]

[ m/f only for shipping, tragically 😔 ]

Brynhildr | Fate/Grand Order

[sigrdrifumol]

[ you might get stabbed but it could be worth it?? ]

Sophie Summerhelm | OC

[summerbloom]

[ WAIT I FORGOT SOPHIE HAS SHORT HAIR TOO ]

Therion | Octopath Traveler

[bolderfell]

[Look at this man and tell me you wouldn't dump the entire Spirited Away bathhouse on him in one go.]

[diplous]

( the redhead has time - that's the one thing she has in excess and luxury of. she can play the staring game all day with him if he'd like. )

I've drawn the bath for you. ( because she's a saint! but not enough of one to not be afraid to corner him into the washroom with a careful and watchful eye. she knows he's a slippery one, and he doesn't get to escape that easy. ) Or did you want help peeling your clothes off?

( maybe he shouldn't tumble with the wilderness and wander within her reach if he wanted to avoid this. part of her might also just be enjoying toying with him but that's a different story. is he shy? is he hurt and doesn't want her to see? two can play the stubbornness game, either way. )

[bolderfell]

[The offer of assistance just raises his hackles further.]

No.

[If he were injured, Lenore would know, of course. No number of sneaky thief tricks can fool a vampire's senses. What he is is bone-deep tired and kicking himself for a robbery gone wrong. After two sleepless days gone to ground, shaking his pursuers off his scent by every means available to him--however unsavory--all Therion wants is a drink, a corner, and a pillow. Not a bath.

Noblewomen. Ugh. Most of the time, Therion appreciates Lenore, her vaguely unsettling kindness, her wit, and the challenge she poses to someone like him, but right now he just wants her to go so he can pass out in his stink, for now.

He exhales quietly.]

I can wash myself, thanks. Been managing it for years. So if you'd just turn around and leave me be...

[diplous]

( the outright defiance earns him a quirked brow, but she'd be lying if she didn't expect that sort of response. good thing she's prepared for that sort of lip from him. )

You'll feel better after. Sleep tends to be after a nice hot bath. ( her expression softens some. she doesn't know what happened, just that he looks worn. she doubts she's going to get much out of him in terms of what's got him down like that, so she doesn't press on that front at least. ) And if I leave you, you'll run off to curl up in a nook where you think I can't find you.

( besides, )

And I'm not saying you can't, you're a man capable of a great many feats. ( that's when she chooses to take a step closer, head tilting slightly as she regards his disheveled state. she's already deciding which scent soap to use so there's no use trying to run or dissuade her. ) And since you've been doing it for yourself for so long, why not let yourself get a little pampered?

( her brows knit into a furrow, worry seeping into her expression. )

You look exhausted, so.. let me? Just this once.

( 'just the once' is a slippery slope that'll probably lead to other instances of her trying again but, that's okay. shh.. )

Dimitri Mc Fireemblem | Three Houses

[crypddyd]

[Account is warphase, but open to Acadamy aged hijinks as well, just ask! Fine with shipping/smut of both m/f and m/m variety. Most interested in 1, 4, 6, 7, 10, 13 and 14 but fine with any combo of all numbers. CW: for PTSD, and healed eye trauma if going for war phase!

Wosh him he's smelly]

like some combination of 4, 7, 10

[swordofajerk]

[Felix understands that Dimitri is in a bad way. He was injured by that girl, he aggravated it by refusing to let anyone else take Rodrigue's body, and then the idiot boar actually tried to do a one-man suicide run to Enbarr before the professor stopped him. He understands all of this.

That doesn't mean he has much sympathy for him as he lies in the infirmary with a fever and an infection and in desperate need of a proper bath. Granted, if it weren't for the fact that the others all but forced Felix into being the one to get Dimtri into the bath he might have some more sympathy. Why not Dedue? "His arm was injured at Gronder and he can't lift." Sylvain? "Wrenched his knee." Literally any of the other taller and physically stronger men in the army? Busy, or otherwise suffering from minor injuries, unlike Felix who got off with nothing more than a sore arm and a dead father.

(At least he knew it was stupid to ask Hilda to do it. Not only would she whine, Dimitri'd probably be too embarrassed, because somehow he's still a damn prude.)

So here Felix stands, arms crossed as he stares at Dimitri while the nurses fill a tub with hot water.]

Up you come, boar.

[crypddyd]

[Felix isn't the only one that wishes literally anyone else came to aid him. Because the moment he looks at Felix the rush of fresh guilt hits him and is clear on his face.

But perhaps there's one bright side to it- there is none of that cow-eyed blankness that usually came with him mistaking Felix for Glenn. No, even caught in a fever he knows exactly who he's looking at. Progress? Maybe. Though perhaps it's more that right now the living brother can hurt him much more than his elder ghost]

I... can manage on my own.

[swordofajerk]

Like hell you can.

[He almost wishes Dimitri still looked at him with that blank stare that wasn't really seeing him. It's better than the damn guilt.

Felix stalks over and starts to pull Dimitri up, mindful of his injuries but still obviously annoyed.]

How the hell are you still this heavy?

some unholy fusion of 1, 3, 4, 9, 10, 15 and 16?? i do what i WANT

[impurifies]

[ Befitting of a mage family wanting to make itself look far more important than they truly were, the Murasaki estate is a whole lot vaster than it needs to be. It's extremely unnecessary most of the time, but with an enormous hulking Servant like Berserker on the prowl now, Yuri finds herself grateful for the isolation the space allows the two of them. It also means that, after a skirmish the sort Masters and Servants are prone to getting into, they're free to bathe, relatively undisturbed. And the size of the Murasaki's bathing facilities (they're practically an open-air onsen unto themselves) means they're able to bathe together.

And– she knows it's strange and maybe even improper for her to be so comfortable sharing the bath with him. She's not embarrassed, though she knows she should be embarrassed and it just turns into an oily feeling in her stomach that she simply decides to ignore. Before anything else, they're Master and Servant and Yuri knows better than to pretend there's any modesty left between them.

... they're sat a few inches apart, though, because Yuri isn't stupid enough to get entirely into a Berserker's personal bubble without express permission. ]

You're sure you're alright, Berserker? You're not injured...?

[crypddyd]

[In the baths all his scars are on display- including the mangled remains of his eye. It can't open fully, but it and his good eyes turn to her. When he was alive he might have been shamed to look at a woman so openly, but as her Servant, he's already seen the dark secrets of her mind in his dreams. Seeing her breasts were nothing compared to that closeness.]

Nothing that needs special care.

[impurifies]

[ When he turns his gaze to her, Yuri suddenly feels hyperaware of herself and she very quickly looks down and away fidgeting with her hands under the warm surface of the water. ]

I see... that's good.

[ And it... is good. She's relieved she has a reliable Servant like him. But she still feels rattled after every battle and she doesn't think that feeling will ever go away. ]

I'm... sorry I can't be more help to you in a battle. I know things would be easier if I could do more than give you mana.

Prompto Argentum | Final Fantasy XV

[photoshooter]

[Let's not forget Mr. Sunshine Bodyissues himself.]

[shedgrace]

[Let! The Oracle! Be pampered!]