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115th ♫ | i'm done for, i'm done for – can't somebody love me?
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. 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!
PREFS CODE:
Annaliese | Original
Age: 23 | Species: Human | Occupation: Wandering Adventurer
Likes: Sea air, unusual flora and fauna, old books
Dislikes: Castles, humid weather, being alone
Traits: Curious, clever, carefree
Trivia: The number of poisonous plants and animals that Annaliese has picked up with her bare hands is, unfortunately, not zero.
[ What's On The Table: Impressions and permissions here! A travelling adventurer (and, secretly, a runaway princess) from the distant European Fantasy Past. Polite, friendly, observant, good-natured and clever but also just... deeply weird!!! Some of it is in a charmingly kooky sort of way, some of it is... you just know she would be one hair away from becoming a Resident Evil villain if she was born into a different genre. Her curiosity leads her to dig into everything she can get her nose into, so she's great for investigations and unsettlingly good at and okay with bodytouching and handling gory body discoveries. The type to stick her hand in compost if she thinks there's a good clue in there.
Looking for: annaliese is just a little freak of a guy so really i would like to have fun with that!! M/F is my pref for Annaliese but I will ship anything if the chemistry is good. She was initially pitched as the comparatively normie gf in a cute girl and weird demon monster bf kind of ship so that's the sort of energy I'm chasing. She works good as the lighter, cheerier contrast in a good cheery loves grumpy dynamic but with the fun oh you're a little bit fucked up actually undercurrent. In canon or. whatever counts as canon for an oc lmao she's romantically involved with her Patron so I'm just lightly AUing that as a non issue for shippy purposes. Don't worry about it. ]
Ai Hoshino ★ Oshi no Ko
Age: 20 | Species: Human | Occupation: Idol
Likes: Secret ❤
Dislikes: Secret ❤
Traits: Savvy, Scintillating, Shrewd
Trivia: The only food Ai doesn't like is white rice.
[ What's On The Table: Impressions and permissions here! The dazzling lead singer of the pop group B-Komachi!! Not that it's going to do her any good here... then again, maybe an impromptu live from an idol who made it all the way to the dome will do something for everyone's morale!! An always smiling people pleaser, Ai proves to be a friendly, magnetic presence who'll go out of her way to connect with everyone and make sure their spirits are high. Isn't that what idols are for? Of course, as the weeks go back and things get increasingly dire, a slightly more calculated side of Ai will emerge – while she frequently plays the ditz (and uh, sometimes just is a ditz) it becomes clear that she's much sharper and more observant than she likes to let on. And that ever-effervescent smile might start to look a little calculated – or maybe a little desperate. After all, how come she's so secretive? Why does she never let the facade crack? She's just an idol, so what does she have to hide?
Looking for: M/F, F/F, */F with an IC preference for the former and 18+ only! For those of you who have been around long enough on my TL to know the deep lore, this is the toplevel here that has the most Rii-san Vibes in terms of Ai doing a lot of caretaking and not letting people reciprocate!! Like Annaliese, she works best as the lighter half of a serious/silly, grumpy/cheery, etc sort of ship but with the understanding that she's actually fucked up!! Ai will be extremely cagey and dishonest about her circumstances and will be prioritizing surviving and getting back to her kids above everything else, but I like the angle of Oh No I Caught Feelings For This One Person Who Crowbarred Their Way Into My Defenses And Now My Priorities Are Out Of Wack. you know the stuff. ]
Nanase Nana | The Girl In Twilight
Age: 17 | Species: Human | Occupation: Student, occult researcher
Likes: Pink, boys, antique radios, agency
Dislikes: Expectations, being trapped, her stupid name, snow bunnies
Traits: Carefree, willful, rebellious, gullible
Trivia: Nana's natural hair colour is brown.
[ What's On The Table: Nana gets understandably upset when you all wake up here, but after the first day or two, starts to make herself at home and insist that murder land can't really be that bad. This doesn't last through the actual murders, and she starts stirring the pot and making herself a nuisance by prank-calling the overseer, making dirty jokes, and joining in on other people's plots. She flirts, gushes over male idols, and presents herself as an airhead, but maybe there's more to it...
Looking for: Nana is the Straight Larry of her canon, so sorry, only boys are gonna work for this one. Someone who can deal with her "shallow ditzy gal" persona and maybe relates to the person underneath, who hates feeling she has no control over her life and is afraid to show who she really is or even what really matters to her.]
Calypso Dynamite | OC | OTA
Age: 68 | Species: Engineered Human | Occupation: Hired Muscle
Likes: Open space, fighting, noodles, hot baths
Dislikes: Introspection, fighting, FTL flight, the smell of disinfectant
Traits: Loyal, enthusiastic, straightforward
Trivia: She chose her name from a pair of restaurant advertisements.
What's On The Table:
[Anyone order a McHugeLarge Amazonian space blonde? Too bad, she's here and she's giving amazing hugs to anyone that needs them. This is a threat.]
[Day one she assumes this is some sort of broadcast sport, and despite any objections she makes to people in authority she also seems just a little too at home with the idea. You might catch her actually crying over any real, fresh food supplies that are available. Possibly tries to fight whoever's in charge, probably entirely too cheerful about getting her ass kicked when she does.]
[As time wears on she's relentlessly cheerful and tries to keep everyone's spirits up, whether they want it or not. She's not immune to all the loss and pain, but she is almost disconcertingly in the moment. Cal will offer self-defense classes to anyone who wants them, or at least tries to be workout buddies with anyone else who's physically inclined. Or just assumes they're workout buddies despite evidence to the contrary.]
[Competent enough at investigation, usually pretty useless in trials. Possibly manages to annoy someone into confessing.]
[Very prone to casually dropping details about her home that are absolutely horrifying to anyone who isn't steeped in capitalist space hellscape.]
Looking for:
[Cal is practically made for Grouchy Loves Cheery ships, but also does really well with another chipper goofball who can enable the both of them into shenanigans. Anything is on the table as long as there's chemistry. Treat her like she's worth caring about and she's in.]
[Also, height differences? Height differences. ...They're almost inevitable, but.]
Mona Vanderwaal | Pretty Little Liars
Age: 18 | Species: Human | Occupation: Liar
Likes: Fashion, politics, playing games
Dislikes: Being played with, lack of control, losing
Traits: Driven, smart, layered
Trivia: Mona stole an entire tree once. By herself.
[ What's On The Table: Sometimes being a high schooler is about having a normal time, and sometimes being a high schooler is about being a genius with five mental disorders and a grudge. Mona is past her... literal supervillain phase, but I'm going to level with you she will be at least a little deranged the second the stakes of the murdergame are made clear. Playing fucked up games canonically makes her brain go brrrrr. But! That's not to say that in a relationship she'll be like that, she's genuinely very nice to people she likes even when they're being awful to her. Just note that she is behind a high school mean girl persona, albeit one who gets very very excited at trials, almost certainly until like you've gone out on a date.
Looking for: Mona likes soft boys who will love her and women who she can enter into a hellish self-destructive spiral about that makes both of them worse (until they accidentally both end up better somehow), and she prefers the latter! It's. Unless we are very late on in the relationship, she's really complicated. And I want to be very clear that's not the only dynamic I'm looking for, someone can genuinely try to fix her or be soft or w/e, girl is more than capable of being the "she ASKED for NO PICKLES" half of the relationship, it's just funnier if she and another girl accidentally fix each other. ]
Penny | Pokemon
Age: 15 | Species: Human | Occupation: Student
Likes: Computers, anime, Eevees
Dislikes: Bullies, school
Traits: Smart, reserved, thoughtful
Trivia: Penny will fall for literally any disguise, no matter how bad.
[ What's On The Table: She's cute, she's smart, she has a banger fight theme! Penny is a shut-in student and Pokemon trainer who like. Is the Pokemon universe version of Chronically Online, and you're a fool if you think I'm not going to play with that. She's perfectly capable of all kinds of soft moments and blushing and holding hands and whatever!
Looking for: Mainly looking for f/f, but f/m can be fine too I'm sure. All I know is this girl ain't straight. Gimme cute shit, whether that's a higher energy partner or just her and another quiet girl sitting quietly five feet apart from each other and it's the most romantic thing either of them has ever experienced. ]