It's For Your Own Good

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Blind Date Meme



Let's face it, sometimes it's difficult finding someone to share your time, and your heart (or maybe just your body), with. Luckily for you, you have well meaning friends. Unfortunately for you, you have well meaning friends who didn't tell you this was coming. That's right. They have taken it upon themselves (and no doubt friends of friends or family members or someone else who clearly doesn't know you) to arrange a date. Without telling you.

That's right. The dreaded blind date. Which means now you've got to get through at least a reasonable amount of time with a total stranger (or maybe not a stranger if you're particularly, well, we can't say if it's lucky or not) before you can reasonably escape. Maybe it will go well. Maybe this will be the start of the rest of your lives. Maybe you'll get laid. Maybe you'll have a horror story for the ages.

No matter what plays out, though, you're here. Might as well see just how your luck is going to play out.

How to Play

1. Post your character and canon below along with any preferences. Then go back and edit your comment with the next number in order (i.e. first TL is 1, second is 2, etc)

2. Tag other TLs. If a character isn't in normal preferences, ask if they might want a date that goes poorly instead!

3. Optionally, get yourself a truly blind experience by going here and randomly generating a number. Then find the matching TL (numbered back in step one) and enjoy your blind date.

4. For more fun, use the list in the first comment for randomized date locations!

Comments

[california_dreaming]

"Don't set a challenge. I don't back down," he laughs, getting them on a straight away and pouring on more speed. You'll have to say uncle, Nick.

[seed_pilot]

Yeah, that's true, but my base elements are water and wind and those are higher level magics in paramagic, just like earth is. The bases are fire, ice, electric, and healing.

[Nida's actually worked through his burger and a lot of the fries by now, and he's completely lost track of the other table. He's more caught up in the conversation, and in Waver of course.]

I encourage the research then, if there's a chance it will help.

apologies before hand because apparently brain wants to type 'Nida' today.

[hybrid_prince]

Hilariously, Nick wasn't the only one to get the description of 'strong and soft'. When he looked up and saw Nick he smiled. That was a fitting description there too. Rugby, Kate had said. Like football only more intense. Of course Teddy wasn't sure one way or another but it wasn't like his school offered rugby, so football had to do.

"Apparently I just have a sort of animal magnetism," he said with a smile. "And yeah. Teddy. You're Nick then."

[disarming_prince]

"A strenuous sport then," he observes. He's had enough formal dance and combat training to know that the two things she's suggested are melded together will be very strenuous. He's definitely more approving of it now.

"Did you do these competitions?"

[work_wife]

It should be. And-

[She goes quiet because there's a brief dimming, raising, and dimming of hte lights.]

Oh! It's going to start soon. That's the sign that people shoudl get in their seats.

[work_wife]

I would have to find a girl that I don't think would out me in horror to do that. And I'm better than alright. I'm amazing.

[atypical_echo]

Yeah, learning about people used to be something I liked too. It got to a point where trusting them was hard enough to not make it worthwhile for me.

[Trust had been so very, very hard to achieve lately.]

[insistent]

"It can be if the squad is more into the throws and gymnastics. We didn't really compete much though. It was more just an extracurricular for college. If I'd joined the college team, i might have, but I had other things to focus on by then."

[dead_tongue]

They're out there. It's not like lesbians are unicorns.

Unless you know something I don't.

[work_wife]

We should be. I deserve a magical forehead horn to stab people with.

[it would be useful.]

[dead_tongue]

Who would you stab first?

[work_wife]

[The answer was a large amount of people in the government, but that's hard to explain.]

I mean, I'm sure I could come up with someone.

[ask_whydunit]

So you’re dual… Hmm…

[ And the same elements as Lord El-Melloi, at that. Frankly, if it weren’t that mages wouldn’t work with the kind of magic Nida did generally… He’d probably be seen as someone with a decent amount of potential. ]

I think there’s definitely a chance. We just need to go about it the right way? I’ll see if there’s some other books on the subject at the clock tower library. There’s a ton of old stuff no one bothers with anymore. [ especially since most mages probably didn’t focus on the kind of magic Nida worked. ] I’ll make notes on the important-looking stuff and put some ideas together on paper for you next time.

[bornofwords]

Sometimes it’s too easy to trust the wrong people, I think… Masters of manipulation know how to make you let your guard down, and it’s not a fun lesson to learn from my experience.

[ He admitted with a sad little dip in his tone. ]

So, no hard feelings if you decide you don’t trust me for now. I actually would hope you wouldn’t given we only just met.

[ He added in a quieter voice, getting the slight feeling that Mark must have had some experiences himself to have said that. They could see how the night went and go from there.

Hell… It would probably take him a while to get there himself after the last mess. Coming here tonight was a rather… unexpected step. But he had found he liked taking the chance so far, to meet someone like Mark. ]

[ghostlyflame]

[ Gray looked up as the lights started to dim, a little startled but realizing that was normal as Robin continued. ]

Oh, I wondered why they were doing that. I worried for a moment something was wrong.

[ she admitted sheepishly, feeling kind of silly. ]

[work_wife]

Nope. If this was a musical then they'd start doing some music too. But are you excited and ready? Because I am.

[Does she sound excited? She should.]

[seed_pilot]

[He's not properly a mage though. It's just borrowed magic.]

I'd be impressed if there are. I mean, to our knowledge paramagic is very new. Though I guess it could be ancient too and we wouldn't know it. Thank you though. I'm glad we met.

[dead_tongue]

Nobody on the hit list? You're clearly too nice.

Or too overwhelmed with choice.

[work_wife]

[No one she is allowed to name.]

This sounds like something I should be looking around for cops for.

[dead_tongue]

[He laughs, cutting himself off with a drink.]

No, no. I promise I'm normal besides being you know.

[work_wife]

Are you sure? Because man, that was a whole thing you said. And you got brought into all of this.

[dead_tongue]

Well, I doubt you're really going to get a murderhorn and go on a rampage. Should I be concerned that you are in fact a unicorn?

[atypical_echo]

[None of the people he knew were truly masters of manipulation. Except by powers. But Damien had been another experience altogether.]

So far you're really making me comfortable, so don't worry about it, okay? I'm enjoying myself.

[work_wife]

No. Trust me. I'm not. You think I could be in a place like this?

[dead_tongue]

I guess not.

But weird shit happens sometimes.