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]

[That gets his attention. What?]

I think I need more words than that, man.

[burning_youth]

I, uh... Don't date much, if I'm honest. Not sure I have the patience for it some days.

[dead_tongue]

Do you. Prefer to top? Or to bottom? When fucking.

Or is that also too personal?

[dead_tongue]

[Iggy nods.] Cool. Great thing to tell your date.

So were you tricked into this?

[burning_youth]

[Warren laughs because yeah, he gets how it sounds.]

It's not what you're thinking. I'm a college student, and I work a lot of hours on top of it, in food service. So, you know, pretty easy some days to just not want to go out and try and meet someone.

And no, it wasn't a trick. Just some friends trying to, you know, 'help'.

[dead_tongue]

I'm a student, too. So I get that. It's hard to find time for dating.

Ahhh, yeah. Same. They think I should meet a 'nice' guy.

[burning_youth]

Being a student and having to deal with fussy customers who are being an ass for no reason, that can kill the energy to the point where looking for a love life is hard.

[Nice guy. Warren smirks at that and shakes his head.]

I'm probably not what was intended. Not a bad guy as it is, just, well, not someone people call 'nice' a lot.

[dead_tongue]

Are you a waiter, or back in the kitchen?

No? Why not?

[definecat]

Maybe someone skimped on the details.

[They wouldn't be surprised if Dylan forgot to mention the not human part of meeting his sibling.]

[burning_youth]

Perhaps. Do you know who you were meeting?

[He absolutely feels bad about this. Poor guy deserves some attention.

[burning_youth]

I started as a busboy. I'm a waiter now. Better pay, more stupidity.

[It's something he adjusted to, but it means dating was harder to go about.]

Resting bitch face.

[atypical_echo]

[Oh wow that's forward. Mark is blushing so hard now.]

I've, uh... I've dated guys but it's never gotten that far. So I don't know.

[dead_tongue]

[Both of Iggy's eyebrows go up.]

Oh. I mean, nothing wrong with that. Sorry if that was embarrassing.

Tifa Lockhart | FF7r | OTA, W/W loved

[sonicstriker]

[ Romantic, fail, and platonic all welcome! If you want to upset her quickly, focus on her boobs and whatever fantasies you have about her. If you want to win her over, have deep conversations and show what you care about in life. And probably don't mention her boobs.

She either agreed to this because Jessie and Biggs wanted her to meet someone nice, or someone put her up to it and she was too nice to back out last minute.

m/f or f/f. 18-23 is probably going to go best, but she will date or FWB older people if it's agreed upon this won't be a long term life partner situation. ]

For Steve - aging them up to 21/22 for drinking purposes.

[sonicstriker]

[ Tifa wasn't sure about this, and she was less sure when she pulled up to the address. A sports bar. Okay. This could still be alright if it was a chill place to hang and chat. She didn't mind athletes, and she liked local hang outs. But she'd been on more than one date where she was supposed to be the hot accessory while they threw back beer and roared along with some game they'd never played. If it was that, she decided, she was leaving.

Inside is thankfully quiet. Maybe even sleepy. There's only one guy remotely her age, so she walks up to the table, friendliest customer-service smile on, even though inside she's wondering if she should have just said no. Her heart's not in it today. But that's not this guy's fault. And who knows. Maybe they'll hit it off. She could use a new friend, too. ]

Hey, Steve? I'm Tifa.

[atypical_echo]

No, it's okay. I've thought of it. But I didn't really REALIZE I was that way until college, and my relationships weren't really long term then and I'm, well, I don't know what I'd call it. I like to have a connection before sex is what it is.

[dead_tongue]

Oh! Demisexual. That's awesome.

[Iggy smiles, reassuring. The instructor gets their attention once more to demonstrate how to use the pottery wheel if they would like to.

Iggy grins even more impishly after this announcement.]

Did you wanna try and recreate that scene from 'Ghost'?

[dead_tongue]

Oh, that's good. At least you can get tips!

That doesn't mean you're not nice, though. Unless you're gonna tell me that you're actually a total jerk?

[biactually]

"Well," Nick tilts his head a little, "mine and my mom's." He smiles, tightly after that, and just - as his father has left Nick so out of his own life - leaves his father out of it as well.

"I was a bit young. But we both liked Nellie."

A bit of a pause, but Nick didn't miss Teddy's words. "Is it only animals that you feel you can't have?"

[bornofwords]

That makes sense to me. You would want the flavours to go together well. [ He responded, tilting his head to Mark with a little smile. ] And while nice to look at, I suppose sprinkles don’t exactly have much… substance or add much flavour to something. I don’t think they’d be my go-to if I were to add anything, either.

[ask_whydunit]

Probably not. As far as I know, we don’t have anything like that around the Clock Tower. Unless you count the dead one under ground that formed the spiritual tombs.

[ Albion had passed and what was left behind below the surface was a trove of valuable magical materials and rare (but dangerous) phantasmal species that thrived in the environment and fed off the mana left behind. Only those contracted to work down there or were granted special permission were allowed to go there, though.

Waver raised a brow, though, tilting his head slightly as he focused more on Nida rather than the other two. ]

They actually teach you to fight dragons?

(ooc: I think we are at a point where I will need more information on Nida’s canon and what I should expect to mesh their canons together (which I like the idea of!) when you have time/feel up to it. ‘Cause dragons left Waver’s world with the Fae to the reverse side a long time ago, not that the fae don’t sometimes end up back on this side for reasons, so I can probably use that as a workaround. But I wanna like, not mess up what you’re thinking and I know I have already a couple times thanks to knowing nothing about his canon.)

[hybrid_prince]

There's a gap mentioned there, but not one Teddy would push at. Could be the dad hadn't been invested, or that he was gone, or that it was like Teddy's situation where his dad was just... never in the picture.

"Not the only thing, but, well, sometimes there were things that just weren't in reach. Nothing I would really miss."

[atypical_echo]

[Oh. Huh. Mark's heard the term before, knows what it means, but he's never applied it to himself? What? Okay, he'll unpack that later.

Especially as he brightens up in delight.]

Yes. Absolutely.

[atypical_echo]

Exactly. Like, it's just more sugar. Who cares about more sugar?

[And the he's chuckling. Because the guy gets it.]

But nuts? Nuts are great.

[burning_youth]

Yeah. Though plenty of people aren't big tippers.

[He shakes his head at the idea that he's a total jerk.]

No. I just don't suffer assholes.