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103rd ♫ | i need somebody to love me, to make me feel warm and fuzzy

touchstarved physical contact meme

an EXTREMELY self indulgent meme for touchstarved muses and the delicious vibes of them getting some affectionate physical contact in a dog's age. basically just drop your character below, indicate whether or not they're Touchstarved and Yearning and GO HOGWILD.

POTENTIALLY HANDY PROMPTS:

Shippy & Platonic Fluffy Scenarios Meme | Shameless Shipping Meme | Affectionate Physical Contact

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[ Your typical Shrinking Violet (HEH) bookwork girl, who loves literature and art, especially fantasy, horror and gothic stuff. Super withdrawn and self-deprecating and bad at making friends with new people. Can be super clingy and a bit intense if you manage to engage her and get her out of her shell, but she's really just a lonely girl in need of some good friends.

late teens/early 20s only for shippy stuff since Yuri is Allegedly 18. PLEASE god someone give this girl some physical affection. ]

[ Quiet, introverted grumpy teenage mech pilot preparing to fight against the kaiju invading her world through the use of a giant robot known as a Sentinel. A mission gone horribly wrong left her with brain trauma that contributes to frequent pain and memory loss. She doesn't trust easily and reacts to people being nice to her like she's being offered a dead rat on a stick. Has a warm, compassionate fluffy center under the hundreds of layers of protective spikes and depression grime.

Teens only for shipping, yet another candidate for the PLEASE GOD SOMEONE HUG HER side of this meme ]

[ A runaway princess who was locked into an arranged marriage as soon as she turned 21 and decided she was going to make a contract with a luck deity about it and run away to fulfil her dream of seeing the world and studying its inhabitants. Polite, friendly, observant, good-natured and clever, though a little bit naive, occasionally to quick to trust and even quicker at getting in over her head for the purposes of learning something new or better understanding something.

20+ & m/f only for shipping and for once, Annaliese is probably the one actually giving out physical affection on this meme for once?? ]

[terminally online depressed gamer egg from 2047 whose shell was forcibly cracked when she woke up as her foxgirl cleric character Deedee from critically acclaimed VRMMO Another World Online (featuring a free trial including the award winning King Under The Mountain expansion, etc. etc.).

Got a crash course in How Medieval Society Works to survive. Still can heal by touch.

Got good at massage and is probably offering backrubs and healing as a goodwill gesture, so people stop calling the Playerbase muderhobos.

OTA for affection and romance but fantasy characters and displaced contemporary folk make the most sense.]

[ A travelling adventurer and a user of a rare form of magic her world knows as Dusk magic, which causes her to involuntarily suppress and nullify the magical energy in her vicinity. Garnet takes up life as a nomadic adventurer, travelling from place to place to keep her magic from causing too much trouble. A kind, gentle, empathetic woman who actively makes the choice to be all those things and not always for the healthiest of reasons. She's conflict-averse and a lifetime of having it ingrained in her that her very presence causes trouble has left her with a deep-seated desire for approval and a bone deep terror of rejection and abandonment, so she handles that by repressing the shit out of it and Not handling it. Has some of the vibes of an Always Be Smiling Onee-san Type.

20+ & m/f only for shipping! Garnet grew up with a phobia of touch in her childhood that she has only (relatively) recently conquered so please dear god. somebody hug her. HOWEVER, she's inclined to be big sisterly towards kids and younger teens, so if you want more gen/found family stuff, Garnet can easily be the one initiating contact in that scenario! ]

[ Gee, touch-starved physical contact meme, why does your mom let you have TWO mech pilots with physical contact issues?

Olivia is the daughter of General Park, the man in charge of the Robo program, where young people are trained to bond with giant robots and defend Earth from the Sharg, an insectoid race of alien invaders. She was basically raised to be an ace robo pilot, which left her very proud and also... kind of empty, because she loves her dad very much and he is not very good at feeling the same way about her if she isn't useful! This makes it suck when she doesn't get matched with a Robo, despite being at the top of her class.

Instead, she pilots the first artificial Robo, Hero Force One, and is slowly learning things like "teamwork" and "friendship" and "any kind of expression of outward physical affection." She's quiet and focused and can absolutely be a loud jerk when needed, but her natural confidence is going to evaporate real quick in this kind of scenario so! Touch-starved teenager, getcha touch-starved teenager here! Girls around her age (15) or so for shipping, but more gen stuff is also possible! ]

[An incredibly shady but equally friendly-seeming young man whose love language is teasing, you might think Obi's a casually physical guy, but that's only half-right. He's always ready with a practical assist, like catching someone mid-fall or boosting you up a balcony, but the second you come at him with a gentle, affectionate touch, he's like "??? :o" Very bi, very cagey about himself. Has almost certainly committed crimes.

Early twenties works best but I reserve the right to make exceptions. AUs are super fine.]

Edited 2022-06-30 19:15 (UTC)

[Distant, traumatized half dragon blacksmith keeps people at arms’ reach to avoid feeling responsible for others. Their dad was a dragon who was kind of a helicopter parent that had a bad habit of glaring at anyone he felt was a danger of “taking liberties” with his child (a dragon doesn’t need to give the “shovel talk” because if you piss them off you won’t leave enough remains to NEED a shovel to bury), which left Alex with few friends and no dating experience growing up.

That was ordinary stress, though. The real problem was when the dragon got captured by a demon and corrupted until they joined the forces of evil, leaving the defense of the city on Alex’s shoulders. Alex wasn’t ready for it and as a result thousands of people died.

TL;DR Alex desperately needs a hug but good luck getting thrm to admit it.]

[ Perky, excitable, affectionate gamer! She can respect a boundary, but like. Why would she do that if someone needs a hug? Very handy with electronics and Adventure!

Liable to say poggers. I'm not sorry.

Anyway, fellow teens (since she's 16), come getcha hugs!! ]

[Feral teenaged sci-fi shonen action protagonist, academically familiar with the idea of affection but only vaguely. She's literally programmed with fighting instincts so assumed CR is a good idea here.]

[Physically and mentally around 16, so keep it in the nebulously teenaged age range for anything shippy.]

[You ever see a guy violently dissociate, argue with his reflection, punch himself out, and decide 'that's a fella that needs a hug'?

No? Too bad, they need hugs. Uh. Mostly Steven. Steven would love some good positive physical contact. This lad is starved for it. Please. Look at him. The saddest, fluffiest kitten.

Maybe do not pet Marc. Treat him like a skittish dog, offer your hand, let him sniff you out, and he'll come to you. He's slightly less touchstarved but like. Someone treat this man nice. Give him nice things and let him know he is allowed nice things. Stop self-destructing your entire existence my dude.

~~There is no third. We don't talk about Bruno, etc.~~

Ask for either one of them or I'll choose whichever's funnier. Not looking for ships, just, god, their life has been insane and shitty, please give hugs.]

[ Alison Clodfelter Barlow is a RAD TEEN from the NINETIES!!! She likes MOVIES and HANGING OUT and IS VERY GIFTED AT PETTY THEFT. Like she is stated to be weirdly very good at it, though she only uses it for plot reasons in the game. She's sarcastic and energetic and likes kicking streetlamps and playing games at the arcade.

She's not particularly touch-starved or affectionate, but like. She can be either in the sense of "haha wow I have never been in a relationship and don't know what to do with this" or "haha wow I am finally in a relationship and now I have an excuse to be GROSS" so! ]

[ An AI abandoned late into development and who decided to make it everyone else's problem. A high spirited, mischievous and flirty sort of girl who loves humans and has dedicated herself to making them happy. Unfortunately, her understanding of human morality, social norms and values is uh pretty limited and she has a possessive, vindictive sort of streak and attaches like superglue to anyone who shows her kindness. Her fool proof method of making any given human happy is to just give them whatever it is they say they want regardless of good for them it might actually be.

Quick ref/info here! Her being an A.I. can make it hard to handwave CR or scenarios so I am also fine with her being translated into a canon-appropriate substitute as suits the needs of a given thread!

She is clingy and casually touchy with anyone she gets a liking for so she can easily be the person fussing over her touchstarved fave but Lambda is ALSO touchstarved as hell so we can also uno reverse this easily ]

[ young adult from a post apocalypse techno hell disguised as a fantasy setting. From a society that has a very strict caste system based on assigned "purpose" or "duty" from the "gods" that literally changes their bodies to suit said jobs. These assigned roles and the connection with the gods are called "Names", and our titular hero is someone who destroyed their Name and is on a rampage of revenge.

Definately the one needing touch, between their cold upbringing and purposely cutting themselves off from said society. Details about appearance and name(s) for use in more mundane aus/settings in journal.

Potential cws: non consentual body modification, body horror, past self harm, slavery, abuse from authority and romantic partners, religious trauma]

Edited 2023-05-24 10:54 (UTC)

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Yuri | Doki Doki Literature Club | ota

Ryoko Shinonome | 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim | ota

Annaliese | Original | ota

Deedee Yeowoo | Original; Isekai Online | ota

Garnet Bellerose | OC | ota

Olivia Park | Mech Cadet Wu

Obi | Snow White with the Red Hair | OTA

Alexandr | original | ota

Miko Kubota | Glitch Techs

Echo Darkglass | OC | voicetesting

moon knight | mcu

Ali | The Big Con | f/f for shipping

Lambda | OC

-- | oc | ota