GENERAL RP MEME

[raptorbox]

Want to play something out with one of my characters? Well here's a place for that! Basically any kind of thread is welcome here, gen, action, AU, game setting, etc - preferably staying PG-13 at most.

Prose and brackets are both welcome; the prompts below are for kickstarting ideas if you want, but you definitely don't have to stick to them!

Let me know if you start a thread here, since I have it set not to email me.


ACTION.
① Zombies → It's the zombie apocalypse, lock and load!
② Bar brawl → You had one too many drinks, said something wrong, and now you're being asked to take it outside.
③ Chase → You're caught in a high speed chase.
④ Gun fight → You're caught in a big shoot-out.
⑤ Fight with a friend → You're fighting with a friend, all out.
⑥ Interrogation → You're being interrogated for some offense you've done.
⑦ Aliens → Aliens are attacking and you're not going to take your probe laying down!
⑧ Final battle → This is it. The battle that will end all the fighting for you. Will you win? Will you get that peace you want?
⑨ Training → You're not actually fighting, just training for the inevitable.
⑩ No hope → You know this fight has no hope. It's not going to end well for anyone involved, but you can't turn away.
⑪ Sneaking in → You're stealing a diamond or sneaking in to kick some bad guy butt, but whatever it is, you have to practice stealth.
⑫ Fight for honor → You've been disgraced or someone you care about has, so it's time to fight for honor.
⑬ Blue wire → You're faced with a bomb that needs to be disarmed.
⑭ Apocalypse → The apocalypse finally happened and now you're left to scavenge and fight for whatever is left.
⑮ Sabotage → It's time to sabotage someone's plan! How is entirely up to you. Do you set up a bomb in their toilet? Do you double cross them at the last minute?
⑯ Big damn hero → You know you have to handle this one alone, so that means disarming or knocking unconscious the person who wants to join you.
⑰ Fight club → You know the rules... you're in an underground fighting ring and you're fighting with all you've got.
⑱ Threaten → You've just been sent here to rough them up a little, threaten them into behaving.
⑲ Showdown → Time for a cowboy-style showdown. Whoever draws the fastest wins.
⑳ War → You're caught in the middle of a war here. Remember to keep your chin up and keeping fighting.

GEN.
① Nice meeting you → It's your first time meeting this person! You bumped into each other on the street, in a bar, at work... whatever!
② Drinks → You're out for drinks! Or just chilling at home with some beers. Wherever!
③ Lost → You're lost and you kind of need help finding your way to where you're going. A little help with directions?
④ Costume party → You're at a costume party, both of you are wearing masks. Do you keep the anonymity or take it off and see whose company you've been enjoying?
⑤ Wrong number → Oops, actually you didn't mean to call that person...
⑥ Drunk → You're already drunk! Drunk dialing, stumbling into someone, showing up unexpected... what type of drunk are you anyway? Aggressive, loving, happy? How does the other react?
⑦ Old friends → you haven't seen this person in a long time!
⑧ Rivals → you're suddenly rivals! Or maybe you have been all along...
⑨ Problems → you've got a problem with each other, just got in a huge fight, whatever. Try to work it out!
⑩ What are your intentions... → This person? They're dating a close friend, family member, etc. You need to find out if they're going to hurt them! Or you need to discuss your friend/family's dating choice.
⑪ I saw you → you saw the other person doing something bad and you need to confront them about it.
⑫ Sorry but no → the other person has feelings that you just don't share. They don't necessarily have to be romantic... maybe you just don't agree with their sudden desire to quit their job and start a business making tiny, fuzzy teddy bears.
⑬ My hero → you need to tell this person how much they mean to you. They've been your best friend or your role model your whole life and they need to know.
⑭ Enabler → you're enabling the other (or each other) to do something bad, really bad. Addiction, stealing, killing, or just any other self-destructive behavior.
⑮ Cooking → Time for an impromptu cooking lesson!
⑯ Oh, sure, I remember you... → It's that awkward moment when someone comes up and seems to know you, but you have no idea who they even are!
⑰ Rescue! → One of you was in trouble, but you came to the rescue!
⑱ Boss → One of you works under the other. Is your relationship good? Are you scheming things? Or do you hate each other?
⑲ Perfect crime → You and the other person have just pulled off the perfect crime... or you're planning to! What are you doing? The heist of the century, an assassination?
⑳ Movies → movie night! Maybe it's a sleepover. Whichever the case, it's time to eat a lot and have fun.

CRACK
① Sexswap → Uh-oh, you're suddenly the opposite sex!
② Forced confessions → No matter what it is and no matter how hard you resist, you're going to be compelled to spill some deep dark secret!
③ Mind-reading → You've suddenly got the ability to read minds!
④ Animal → You're suddenly part animal or transformed into an animal!
⑤ Awkward pick-up lines → You're compelled to use bad pickup lines on whoever is closest!
⑥ Back in School / Graduated → You're suddenly back in school! Or if you were already in it, you've aged and long since graduated!
⑦ Vampires, werewolves, and zombies, oh my! → You're suddenly a vampire, werewolf, or zombie! Maybe even a demon or a devil, whatever creepy crawly you can think of. What do you do now?
⑧ Ghost → You're suddenly a ghost or at least invisible. What are you going to do with this new ability?
⑨ Awkward conversations → So did you just fart or what? Any conversation goes, as long as it's embarrassing and awkward.
⑩ Crossdressing → For whatever reason, you're suddenly dressed in clothes of the opposite sex.
⑪ Suddenly naked → Oops! Your clothes are suddenly gone.
⑫ Suddenly a kid → You're a kid again! Have fun with that second childhood.
⑬ Fortune cookie → You've suddenly received a note with something that will happen in the future, either precise or vague.
⑭ Super power → And suddenly you're like Superman! Any power goes.
⑮ Bodyswap → Somehow you've changed bodies with the other person.
⑯ Back in time → Somehow, you wound up in the past again. Do you try to correct something or just sit and wait for time to jump? Maybe it jumps to various points in your life or maybe you actually think you're back in the day. Have fun, run wild with the idea!
⑰ To the future → Is it everything you've dreamed? Is it horrible? Whatever happens, you're here to witness what happens to you in the future. Either you take the place of your future self or you're just there to watch. Might cause some confusion if people start seeing double though...
⑱ Angels, mermaids, and fairies! → You're not necessary something dark or evil. You're just something different. How do you deal?
⑲ Locked in a closet → For some reason, you're locked up in a closet with someone else. Do you make nice and try to figure your way out or what?
⑳ Finger trap → You're caught in a Chinese finger trap... with somebody else! You can't figure out how to get loose either... have fun with that.

Comments

Gen 3, Ryslig because reasons

[fourthscribe]

It was a somewhat stupid chain of events that had led Tanyuu to be making her slow way down the streets of Bavan tonight, but she really had no one to blame but herself. After finding herself so very far from her country home, surrounded by so much strangeness that it made even her head spin, she'd managed to find a place to live in Bavan off the kindness of some locals. But even hobbled as she was, her curiosity couldn't be sated staying inside and watching the world go by, so the very next day it was out she went.

It's tiring to walk around on her own for so long, and Tanyuu can tell from the aches of her body that she would pay for pushing herself too much tomorrow, but this place is so fascinating! The technology here is astounding, if somewhat frightening (she flinches every time a car goes whizzing by, and she still isn't sure how she feels about TVs), and the people are so alien to her even watching them go about their mundane lives is fascinating. She had spent a long time in the park just watching the humans and scattered monsters pass by, paying the latter even more attention. This can't be caused by mushi, can it? Certainly she remembers several parasitic types that brought a physical change to the host, but nothing so drastic as this.

However, as the light wanes and the candleless lights flickered to life, Tanyuu realizes she is...maybe a bit lost. She must have taken a wrong turn somewhere going back, because this certainly wasn't the right neighborhood. Pausing near a bench, she sighs and lowers herself onto it with a grimace of pain. Her foot throbs and her hand feels nearly numb from her grip on the crutch. She leans back and closes her eyes, catching her breath and trying to remember just which streets she had taken to get to the park. If she can trace her way back to one from this morning, it'll be a start.

[onegreeneye]

Ginko is just heading out for the evening, making a mental list of everything he has to do tonight, planning and considering and prioritizing as always, when he happens to decide to head through the park. It's close to his usual route to get to the woods, anyway, and he's got relatively little work for once; might as well give up the extra few minutes.

He's not expecting it to make too much of a difference, beyond just being a nice change from his usual routine, and when he catches sight of a human sitting on a bench, he probably wouldn't look twice if he didn't catch sight of her crutch. At first, his glance back is just one of idle concern; this area is only going to get more dangerous for a human as the sun sets, especially one who may have trouble running away from a threat. But there isn't a whole lot he can do about that, not much he could reasonably say to a complete stranger--

He blinks, and then his eyes widen as he takes another look at the young woman and realizes just how wrong he was about part of that.

He's reluctant to move toward her too quickly - no doubt, she's heard of what happens to those who come here from other worlds, but... he doesn't know whether that will make his appearance seem less alarming or more.

In the end, worries aside, he ends up approaching her. Of course he does, he couldn't not. He stops just a couple feet away, his tails swishing around his legs, anxiety seeming to channel directly into motion.

"...Tanyuu Karibusa?"

[fourthscribe]

It's not quite right to say Tanyuu is startled to hear that voice, but it's more than a little unexpected. Her eyes open again and she looks over, sucking in a sharp breath when she actually sees the mushi master. That Ginko would fall into a mess like this isn't quite so surprising, but it doesn't make her any less upset to see him in this state.

"Ginko?" Her back straightens and she leans forward, taking in the fur, claws...are those stones? And a tail of all things! Her brows crease with worry, and a small frown tugs at the corners of her mouth. "I'm not sure if I'm glad to see you here or not."

[onegreeneye]

"I wish I could say the same..." He knows exactly how he feels about Tanyuu being here, and it's not good. She shouldn't be here - and, irrational though it might be, he finds himself thinking back to what happened to Adashino.

"You... just got here, didn't you?"

[fourthscribe]

She smiles with sympathy, knowing exactly how he must be feeling about this. It wouldn't be Ginko if he wasn't worrying. "Just a few days ago. It looks like you've been here a bit longer, though."

[onegreeneye]

"...Yeah. Just a bit." His frown deepens and he glances away for a moment. Come to think of it...

"Do you remember how long ago it was that we last saw each other?"

[fourthscribe]

"Hm? I'd...say four months or so. I had been considering sending you a letter, just to check up on how you were doing." Tanyuu casts Ginko an odd look, the gears already starting to turn in her head. "Has it been different for you?"

[onegreeneye]

That recent? He nods, slowly and a little reluctantly.

"The way time passes here... it seems largely disconnected from the worlds that people are taken from. It had only been a few months since we last saw each other when I was first brought here, but I've been trapped on this peninsula for over a year."

[fourthscribe]

"A year?" That is surprising on multiple levels, not the least of which is the fact that anything could get Ginko to stay anywhere for more than a few weeks at a time. Not that he could ever really help that, but...still! "Let's hope that time stays slower back home. I hate to think what Tama would do if I went missing for that long."

A pause, then Tanyuu sighs. "Well, it can't be worse than what she'll do already, I suppose."

She frowns and glances around, even though she can't see the mushi lingering in the first place. "There hasn't been any trouble from you staying here for so long? Where have you been staying, anyway?" He better not be coming to the park to go to sleep...

[onegreeneye]

"She might not even be aware of it... like I said, the flow of time is pretty odd here." And this is just one more reason to hope for that additional bit of oddness.

"Well... no. As unbelievable as it may sound, this place doesn't seem to have mushi. I haven't seen a single one the whole time I've been here."

He nods toward the city. "I've got an apartment in Bavan. Which I know must sound strange, coming from me, but... well, a few friends started getting mad at me for living in the woods. What about you, do you have somewhere to stay yet?"

[fourthscribe]

She nods with a faint smile. "Hm...it would be better if that is the case for us."

"None? But that's..." The word 'impossible' dies on her tongue; obviously it isn't at all, but the idea itself is so strange. "It's hard to believe."

A smile curls her lips, and a spark of amusement lights her eyes. So Ginko has found some friends here as well! That's definitely good to hear. "Some of the locals agreed to house me for a while, but it's not meant to be anything permanent. I'm...not sure which way to go to get back there, though." She laughs a little self-consciously. "I may have gotten a bit ambitious for my first outing like this."

[onegreeneye]

"I had trouble processing it, too. But it's hard to deny at this point." A year ago, he would hardly have been able to comprehend the idea.

He nods, one ear flicking thoughtfully. "Do you remember what street it was on? Or any notable buildings nearby. I've... actually learned my way around pretty well."

[fourthscribe]

Tanyuu can only imagine how much a lack of mushi must have thrown Ginko off--his whole life revolves around them, even more than her own does. "It must have been even more of a shock for you, not seeing them everywhere."

She nods and taps her chin as she thinks. "Yes, it was...Mayweather Road? No, Mayferry. I remember seeing a fueling station for those cars of theirs a few streets away; the sign had a spiraled seashell on it."

[onegreeneye]

"...Yeah. Like I said, it was hard to process." It had taken him a few weeks to accept the situation - hell, when people first started changing, he had wondered at first if it might be the result of some sort of mushi after all.

He nods, looking around. The gas station is more of a hint than the street name, though he does have a vague memory of the name. "Yeah, I think I know what you're talking about... the station should be that way. We could start from there." He points with one clawed finger.

[fourthscribe]

Smiling, Tanyuu takes her crutches in hand and carefully lifts herself back up to her feet. The design of them is different, but a little more supportive than the ones she had back home were. It's made it a little easier to get around on her own, but only by so much.

"Sounds like a good plan to me. Better than what I'd had before, at least." Which was to wander in what she hoped was the right direction and try to find something familiar. Getting herself balanced, Tanyuu makes her way over to Ginko. "Lead the way."

[onegreeneye]

Ginko nods, making sure she's ready to go before heading in the right direction. He makes sure to move slowly enough that she can keep up, his tail waving lazily back and forth behind him.

Now that they're walking, of course, he finds himself at a loss for what to say. He really doesn't want to think too much about Tanyuu's presence here - about what's going to happen to her.

[fourthscribe]

Tanyuu follows along at a decent pace for her, not pushing herself too hard considering the distance they will have to cover. It takes an effort of will to not look back at Ginko's tail flicking in and out of her peripheral vision--while it is oddly fascinating, she also doesn't want to make the poor man uncomfortable by staring.

Used to Ginko's long silences as she is, she doesn't press the conversation further for a little while. But once they're out of the trees and onto the streets she casts a glance up at him. "So, tell me about these friends of yours. Are they all people like us, from other worlds?"

[onegreeneye]

He looks down at her and nods, adjusting his grip on the bag slung over his shoulder. "Yeah. All sorts of worlds, too... some from different times, or totally separate realities, it seems."

[fourthscribe]

Tanyuu blinks and stares at Ginko for a few seconds in shock before a laugh bubbles out of her. This place just got stranger and stranger! "Goodness! What sorts of things are different in their homes?"

[onegreeneye]

Despite himself, Ginko finds a smile tugging at his mouth. He hates that he's here, he hates what's going to happen... but really, he can't deny that, after over a year, he's missed Tanyuu.

"Well for one thing, none of them have ever heard of mushi. Seems like they don't have them at all, actually... and they've got things like the cars and lights here everywhere. Apparently a lot of them actually see this technology as pretty old."

[fourthscribe]

"All this is old? I'm barely able to keep up with all these new technologies as it is!" Tanyuu shakes her head in amazement. "So many places without mushi, though...maybe they just hadn't encountered any before they came here."

She doesn't really like the idea that mushi are so very unique to their world; they're so closely tied to life and nature itself, to think that there are more places than this world that have none at all is rather depressing.

[onegreeneye]

"Apparently. I still haven't figured some of it out." He nods thoughtfully. "I've considered that possibility, certainly... but even taking that into account, there are some things that are still so different from what we're used to. Though I suppose some of that may be a matter of differences in time."

[fourthscribe]

"That might be the case. Especially if they are from other countries as well; Tama told me once about some foreign mushi masters she met years ago, and how different their terms and tools were. They argued for an hour before they realized they were insisting on the very same thing!"

[onegreeneye]

"Could be. But, on the other hand, I know one boy from Japan who talks about demons... from what he's said, they do sound like totally different creatures from mushi."

[fourthscribe]

"Hm." Tanyuu nods with a faint frown, then smiles again. "What about them themselves? I'm sure I'll meet your friends myself soon enough, but I'd like to hear about them."