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

[atypical_echo]

Yeah, that's the reasonable choice there.

[He smiles and heads out, making his way after the guy until he heads through the door. Once outside he heads down the sidewalk.]

Alright then, let's get moving.

[hybrid_prince]

"I'm not used to it either," he admits with a soft smile. "But I'm already glad it was you."

Because this guy is also kind, clearly.

[california_dreaming]

"Seems like you know how to read people then," Billy laughs as he heads for the school. "You familiar with basketball then?"

[work_wife]

"You're definitely a vixen," Robin agrees, mostly to herself. How else was she supposed to describe such a beautiful girl. She was also kind of shocked to learn she was here on a date with a cheerleader.

Most of those didn't even seem to realize she existed in her school.

"I'm in the school band, though I prefer orchestra. I speak four languages, English, French, Spanish, and Italian and I would like to learn more. I'm really big into movies, but more the sort that are trying to say something rather than just explosions. And I like learning about places overseas. Places I'd love to see someday."

[ask_whydunit]

[ Waver isn’t used to being thanked, or being regarded positively outside of Melvin when he’s trying to badger him into something. So it’s pretty obvious he’s hiding behind his drink again for a reason, a small awkward sound escaping. Yeah, he’s so bad at this. ]

Oh… I um, you don’t need to thank me or anything. Just saying it because it’s true, and some people are stupid. Or just just find other things interesting, I guess.

[bornofwords]

[ Sigma smiled lightly, taking a breath once outside and the noise from the bar was muted and slowly fades as they walked away from it. He never minds the noise and the bustle, but there is something nice about being outdoors under an evening sky that is nice in its own way. ]

Let’s, you have me curious about what the selection will be like. [ He added, catching up to fall into step next to Mark and watching which way he went. Eyes glancing skyward, he continued a moment later quietly. ] And lucky for us, it seems like a nice night for a walk.

[seed_pilot]

[Don't worry. They can be bad at it together.]

I guess it's their loss? I hope it's their loss.

[And not Waver's.]

[atypical_echo]

So they do the froyo in double batch makers. So one side might have pineapple coconut and the other could be mint chocolate and you can get them swirled together. It's super fun.

[It is a nice night for a walk. He smiles to himself because it's a better night than he could have expected actually. The guy was nice, he was polite, and he seemed to tolerate Mark. Those were all pluses.]

[blossomingginger]

she gives Genesis a genuine smile, in return, recognizing the respect. She's grown to see him differently in this short time, too. He's not long just some date her parents saddled with her.

"I'm eighteen," she assures him. "I graduate this year, and have been accepted to the college of my choice, High Smith College. Just furthering my plans, as I've been working toward this since I was fifteen. Even younger."

She is not going to wait until she's free of high school to get started on that, after all.

[blossomingginger]

"You're lovely yourself," Cheryl points out. Robin is pretty, but more than that, intriguing.

"A scholar," Cheryl comments with awe. She drinks from the other shake as she watches Robin over the top of it. She only pulls away to ask more questions.

"What places would you like to visit? Clearly Italy and France would be good places. You could speak the languages. I would like to see anything in Europe."

[biactually]

Nick definitely feels something flutter through his emotions to those words, and he stares at Teddy wide-eyed, then starts to smile.

"I'm glad, too." He clears his throat and drinks more of his tea.

He swallows, then points out, "You clearly like animals. How do you feel about dogs?"

[biactually]

"Sometimes," Nick admits, his eyes flicker away, then back to Billy as he adds, "when I'm paying attention." There are some things he missed with his school chums, after all.

"Yes. I'm familiar with a few sports. Rugby is just my favorite."

[hybrid_prince]

"They're really cute," Teddy offers with a smile. "We don't have a lot of room at our place so we never got to have pets, but I think if we did, I'd want one old tom cat and one feisty terrier. Just so there is even more energy there."

He looks fondly around at the different cats, like he can imagine it.

[silent_sacrifice]

Ah. Younger than him by a few years. But not so many that it would be odd. If she were more like fifteen or sixteen he pointedly would have taken her home. As it was, he can handle an evening of bitching with her about the problems presented by parents.

"I am glad to hear you have achieved your desired university. I find academia annoying myself at times. Had I not taken the route I did I believe my parents would have forced me into business school when I would have rathered to study literature or chemistry."

Two very different areas, but neither of which he had chosen. He was forging his own path.

[work_wife]

Oh. Robin's still blushing and she's trying not to. It's not normal for people to compliment her like this and Robin's just so flustered and so pleased.

"I guess I am then," she says with a smile. "Uh, a scholar. Guess I just want to learn the things I'm interested in."

Places she'd like to visit? Robin thinks of Operation Croissant and feels embarrassed for a moment. But she can accept that she's grown up and knows it'll never happen.

"I want to start in France, but I want a tour of the whole place. But anywhere I can speak the language is on the list. But the idea of seeing the world is wonderful."

[california_dreaming]

"Oh, are you going to be paying a lot of attention to me?" he asks, grinning to himself. He'd like that. Guy's got good eyes.

"It's a fun one to watch. I didn't do it because I like my pretty face."

[biactually]

"I ask," Nick admits, "because I have a dog. Cats are lovely, though. I can only handle Nellie, at least for now."

He laughs at Teddy's answer, though.

"Smaller animals are good for smaller spaces. Do you live in a flat?"

[biactually]

"Perhaps," Nick answers while outright unable to take his eyes off of Billy.

There's a light chuckle. "I've managed to keep my face unmarred."

[blossomingginger]

She's an adult, regardless, and been through enough she feels secure in her ability to carry conversation with someone a bit older. Cheryl thinks she's more mature than her classmates, anyway.

"I chose business," she assures him. "My parents want to control the future of Blossom Maple Farms, and refuse to see me as a suitable heir. I'll just have to take that future for myself."

She listens to Genesis, then, curious, has to ask, "Do you...plan to get away from them? Your parents? Can you?" She tried, and that failed, spectacularly.

[blossomingginger]

The blush is adorable, to Cheryl. There's this innocence to Robin that makes Cheryl want to take her under wing.

"That speaks to a great passion. That's always admirable," Cheryl points out.

"France would be lovely. Especially with you at my side." Cheryl moving too fast? What. Never.

[work_wife]

"That's really not something people normally note about me," she laughs. But she knows she's passionate about a lot of things. And having it recognized is nice.

"I wish I'd met you in my sophomore year then. It had been my goal for the summer, and I just wanted company. Someone to go with me. It's sorta how I came to realize I was... what I am."

[hybrid_prince]

"We live in an apartment, and not a big one," Teddy admits. Which would make a cat far more of an intelligent choice, given the whole space thing. Not to mention the needed degrees of 'independence' a pet would n eed.

"Tell me about Nellie?"

[silent_sacrifice]

"If it is publicly traded then your best bet may in fact just be setting up a holding company to allow you to buy shares until you have a suitable amount to stage a take over," Genesis offers with a shrug. She could even start with a contract with another person if she needs a front person to hide her interest until it's too late.

"I have no intention of involving myself with them when it does not cause a stir. Which I manage quite well most days."

rolled a 6?

[orangewayfinder]

Terra was looking through a magazine that Aqua had found. It was one on where to meet guys and the like. She had found it under his pillow and soon the two had a discussion, one that Terra never really wanted to have. But she had suggested a place where you could get drinks, and still play basic games like pinball, so that's what he did.

Going there, he didn't see anyone sitting at the designated table that he was to meet his date at, so he went to grab a game of pinball. Once the game was done, he happened to look over and someone was there at the table.

Taking a deep shaky breath, Terra went over to the table to introduce himself properly.

[blossomingginger]

"But it is passion, isn't it?"

Cheryl sighs as she settles back. "I wish I had met you sooner, as well. I've known for a while, since grade school." She stops at that, pretty sure telling someone about a childhood incident that resulted in a couple of traumatic experiences, are not first date material. Another time, though. Maybe.

"But...how did you figure it out? You want to take someone specific?"