oddsandends | 35th ♫ | If you're bored just call me up and we'll go out into the real world

35th ♫ | If you're bored just call me up and we'll go out into the real world

The All-Purpose JamJar Meme

For that authentic Jamjar experience without the pesky commitment. Roll or pick from a setting and a prompt below! Drum up some assumed CR with strangers! Jamjar settings are officially the best when you want to do a cross-canon tag-out but just can't be assed to think of a way to fit your character in another one's canon.

I - SETTING

1. Horror: Your characters are taken from their own worlds and thrown into a terrifying situation! Things are creepy, resources are scarce, and ensuring your own survival is paramount.
2. Sex Game: For whatever contrived and nonsensical reason, your characters are forced into a world where they gotta bone. Aside from smutstuff, you have the opportunity to play out how very awkward it is to navigate these agreements and encounters before and after. Lasting bonds can form from something you didn't expect! But so can eternal regret.
3. Slice of Life: Characters are forced to live together in familial units. They have an opportunity here -- in spite of being stuck -- to relax and slow down and do some fun, ordinary things. Picnics, dates, school, etc.
4. Fantasy: Characters are forced into guilds and roles, given weapons and are made to utilize their powers in coordinated units to complete missions.
5. Scifi: Characters are thrust on to the frontier of spacial colonization! Characters on a spaceship! Characters being drafted into an Imperial Earth Army to fight/conquer foreign entities! Characters being in a world where they are assessed, identified, tracked and policed by artificial intelligence! And so on!
6. Reincarnation/ New Identity: Your character has been reborn at this game, or given a new identity. Work out their karma or help them come to terms with having to live a new life.
7. Asylum/Prison/Institutionalized Identity: Characters are locked up and put under heavy surveillance. Slowly they are institutionalized and disintegrated from ordinary social rules of engagement. They could be told that they've been identified as mentally dysfunctional, or they could be in prison! Are they pleading their innocence, or do they know they're guilty as fuck back in their world?
8. Assignment-Based/Mercenary/Survival: Characters have to put their skills to good use as drafted mercenaries. Help your captors assassinate, spy, sabotage, infiltrate, steal, and terrorize for points that will lead up to your freedom or the freedom of others.
9. Your Choice!: Do whatever!

II - SITUATION

1. First Impressions: You never forget your first impression of someone. Unless it was entirely forgettable.
2. Oh Hey Again: I kind of know you!!!! Hi!!! I hate this place but love familiarity hi!!!
3. Event: SOMETHING IS HAPPENING and your characters have either run into each other or sought each other out to stick together during it!
4. Living Quarters: Surprise, your characters are in the same house! Or room! Or building! Either way you have to share space and facilities with this person. Enjoy!
5. Mystery: Who Did It? Why Are We Here? Characters are disappearing, people are dying, whatever is happening it is FISHY!
6. Canon Update/Respawn/"But we know each other, I swear!": One character comes (back) to a game and does not remember previous CR. A relationship or friend or even hateship is forgotten. How will this be dealt with?
7. Begrudgingly Working Together: You are so fucking annoying but I guess we have to fight Monster of the Day Together/Get Unstuck-UnLost Together/Find Our Way Back/Help Each Other Out.
8. Is This a Date: Gee, you guys sure are doing a lot of things that people on dates do and you're having a lot of fun [sweats]...
9. Violence: Characters beat the shit out of each other or help each other out of a gory situation with terrible traumatic injuries or something!
10. One-Sided(?) Crush: How do you get their attention? Or, alternatively, how do you ignore that this person obviously is crushing on you and it's totally awkward
11. Protecting/Saving: Your character's chance to be a hero or a damsel!
12. Network Post: Mandatory bs.
13. Inbox: Hey, can I talk to you for a second? In private?
14. Your Choice!: Do whatever!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[ no sex games prompt please! ]

[ no sex games prompt please! and honestly 90% of my excuse for posting this meme was making airlocked rii-san suffer. i'm a good person. ]

Yuuri-san, do you mind if I asked you something? Although that question I just asked isn't the question that I want to ask.

But in any case, it's rather peculiar that they have these profiles here... and I thought it was uncanny that both of us seem to have 'Likes: Junpei' on it.

Then again, the name "Junpei" is a rather common name, so it might just be a coincidence. What do you think?

Edited (my english sucks today) 2017-08-21 00:24 (UTC)

[ Ah.

Yuuri only knows Akane Kurashiki by name but that's enough that she knows this conversation can't possibly be anything other than awkward, whether she's honest or not. But really: when has Yuuri ever made a habit of being honest about herself with strangers?

Still, there's a bit of a conspicuous pause before her reply comes back. ]

I thought it was a little strange too! It's a common enough name but it's still a funny coincidence. And of all the things to list, too! I'm not sure why they'd put him on there like that when there's plenty of other things and people I like too.

Maybe it's just someone's idea of a joke. Filling out all those profiles must get so boring.

Right? There's a lot of things I like besides Junpei-kun. Like Santa Claus and rabbits.

[ Well, there's many, many things that she likes and doesn't like but she's keeping that rather close to her chest. ]

Although I won't say that I hate Junpei-kun, though. But if it's a joke, it isn't a very funny one... but I suppose there could be worse jokes out there.

[ Like being in a game of murder more than once, for instance. ]

But since I did share two things that I like, maybe you should too, Yuuri-san. It's only fair, don't you think?

Edited 2017-08-21 01:52 (UTC)

Maybe it's the kind of joke that's only really funny if you're the sort to kidnap people for an interdimensional prison. You'd have to have a pretty strange sense of humour for that.

As for things I like... picking two off the top of my head is a little hard but I'd probably go with Umaibo and gardening.

[ Bumped off the list for puffy corn snacks and flowers. Isn't it sad, Junpei. ]

But that's not really as good a conversation starter as the ones we have right now, is it? So maybe that's the idea.

[ It's so sad... nevertheless she can't help but laugh a little under her breath even as reads this. While the situation is definitely different from everything back at home, there are still some familiarities. And she appreciates the humor, to say the least. ]

"Start a conversation by finding someone you have something in common with!" sounds like something that they'd say at one of those matchmaker meetings rather than an interdimensional jail, I'd like to think.

[ And yet here they are. ]

But Umaibo, huh? Do you have a favorite flavor? I've heard there's some really weird ones -- like mentai, tonkatsu sauce, and even beef tongue. Of course, the classic is always the cheese flavored Umaibo. Although chicken curry and natto aren't too bad, either.

Gardening is a good hobby as well, too. Several of my favorite plants are the four-leafed clover and lotuses.

Who knows. Maybe there's more overlap than we'd like to think.

[ hollow laughter in the direction of IG7 ]

I'm not too picky about my snacks, though. I usually catch myself picking out the pizza flavour, though. Oh, and yakitori too. Maybe it's just the novelty of it but that makes me sound like a little kid...

[ Or like Yuki. ]

Lotuses are a good pick, though. Is it the meaning you like, or just the look of them?

Maybe.

[ But for now, it is a mystery. ]

I don't think that's a bad thing, though. I've been told similar things, since I still believe in Santa Claus, myself.

[ She has no fear actually admitting that, to be honest. ]

A little bit of both. The meaning of a lotus in hanakotoba is 'far from the one he loves'. Purity. Chastity. It's a beautiful flower with such a pure meaning behind it.

[ Akane would know about things like purity, wouldn't she? It's kind of ironic, really. ]

Although I like the meaning of the four leaf clover more. While in hanakotoba, it represents luck... there's another meaning behind each of the leaves. Faith, trust, love, and luck. It's interesting how there can be so much meaning behind a single plant, don't you think?

μ | The Caligula Effect

Maki Nishikino | Love Live!: School Idol Project

Karin Miyoshi | Yuki Yuna is a Hero

Yuuri Wakasa | School-Live! | Airlocked Round 2

prison setting + inbox; lmk if this isn't okay i'm here for suffering

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akane kurashiki | zero escape

Dia Kurosawa | Love Live! Sunshine!!

Honoka Kousaka | Love Live!: School Idol Project

bernkastel | umineko no naku koro ni

Hata no Kokoro | Touhou Project

hiyono yuizaki | spiral: the bonds of reasoning

Choromatsu Matsuno | Osomatsu-san

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Midorikawa Retasu | Tokyo Mew Mew

Kokoro Belmont | Otomedius

Kara Zor-El/Supergirl | DC Super Hero Girls

Yui Hirasawa | K-On

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