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

[burning_youth]

[Well now that's a point. He laughs in delight to hear that. The guy really does have a good bit of wit.]

And you're ready to explore?

[silent_sacrifice]

I most definitely hope I was. Which I do believe I have.

[He rises to his feet and moves to pull out a chair for Noctis.]

Please, would you join me?

[wisecracking_shot]

[Angeal, huh? Clint smirks as he looks the guy over.]

Are you sure about that? Because I think arguments could be made.

[looking_sharp]

[Note to self, don't do background checks on the people you're going to have a blind date with. And never trust Yuffie when she gives you a name. HE sighs.]

Rudolfo. People call me Rude.

[disarming_prince]

[Hilariously enough, Ravus Nox Fleuret might be one of the few people alive unable to be flustered by Dion's title. Uncomfortable would not be possible from that alone. Once the other had sat Ravus returns to his feet.]

It would be inaccurate to say that you have not left me waiting. This is, however, not your doing. I am the one that arrived early.

[kree_soldieress]

Hello!

[Don't mind the strange, blue skinned woman, Tifa. Who is stupidly heavily muscled and smiling broadly at her. And has a bouquet of flowers. Because this is what she's been given to understand was culturally appropriate when meeting someone for a date here.

Not that she's ever been on a date before. But hey, she's adaptable.]

[dead_tongue]

[Iggy turns his head to look at him, genuinely puzzled.]

Why would I?

[dead_tongue]

Always. I come from a long line of explorers.

[bornofwords]

Ah, maybe. [ There is a very specific detective he knows that seemed to be some kind of authority on sweets, so it’s possible. But he’s not here, and Sigma is. ] But I won’t. I think I have a similar preference. Cookies are more interesting with different things added to them, without nuts or fruits or chocolates and the like… they’re kind of just like a blank canvas, right?

[ At least Sigma thought of it that way, of the ones he’d tried over time. His favourites definitely weren’t the boring, plain kind. ]

Oh, thank you.

[ He offered quietly with a smile as he passed through the door ahead, one of his genuine ones and rather than the mask of charm. This night deserved that. It had been going better than expected. ]

Now, I guess we get to see what our options are and what we can devise, huh?

[ask_whydunit]

Waver did not have any pointers for this, though not for lack of people to ask. He was the odd one out among his peers, practically a confirmed bachelor as the saying went (hence the recent intervention that landed him here). Any number of colleagues or acquaintances (friends, Waver), could probably have given him some pointers for tonight… But Waver Velvet found subjects like this too awkward to talk about in the first place, even when someone was right there and prime for asking.

But now he sat here, feeling very out of his depth but determined.

And had an instant realization of the mistake he’d made in using his name. He wasn’t used to hearing it from anyone aside from Melvin, so hearing it from a very nice man (handsome, if Waver was being honest) threw him off balance a little.

How does one tell? His ears turn slightly red with a blush that didn’t make it to his face.

“You too.” He started and absently realized he already said it was nice to meet the man. Ah, fantastic. Moving on… “Ah, well, have a seat. Did you want a drink?” He added, hiding the clumsy thoughts well enough behind a professional façade he wore around the Tower.

If it came up, it would be an interesting connection that they had both been to Greece. When Waver was younger and travelling, he’d been a tutor for the sons of a mage working as an archaeologist at a site there. It was one of his fonder memories, one that had inspired his current career.

[burning_youth]

Really?

[He chuckles as he shakes his head.]

I would think it's dangerous.

[atypical_echo]

I don't know.

[Mark's blushing in a way that says maybe he would be nervous about it.]

[atypical_echo]

We really do get to see it.

[He smiles and moves to the counter and then makes a happy noise.]

They have the tangy normal one. I'm really going to eat too much.

[dead_tongue]

[Iggy smiles brightly.]

Hey. Don't worry.

Now, c'mon! Let's get our clay on here. [Which he does before he starts the wheel going.]

[atypical_echo]

[Mark laughs and wraps his arms around Iggy like he's supposed to.]

You're probably going to be good at this without my help.

[dead_tongue]

Nah, I suck at 3D.

[Grinning, he does start touching the clay, though.]

Ahhhh, mushy!

[atypical_echo]

So the metaphor falls through. What girl wants to get mushy like this with a ghost?

[dead_tongue]

Really!

Do you think I'm dangerous?

[dead_tongue]

It's okay, I'm not a girl and you're not a ghost. Ahhh! Help me!

[Giggling silently as he tries to form the clay into a cup or a vase.]

[burning_youth]

[What? That has Warren frowning.]

Why would I think you're dangerous?

[atypical_echo]

[Mark laughs and wraps his arms around Iggy's body. Gets his hands onto the other guy's to try and stabilize it.]

We've got it.

[dead_tongue]

Do we?

[They do. It's not going to be a great vase-cup-thing, but it might just be functional. Iggy is just enjoying how fun it is.

Also: hot guy touching him. Bonus.]

[sonicstriker]

Tifa's eyes go wide. She's not usually prone to staring, but this woman is amazing. Tifa isn't sure she's seen someone so gorgeous and so strong. And, o-oh she's handing her flowers.

Tifa stands up a little too quickly, her own strength scooting the table with a loud scraping noise as it drags across the floor. "Ah-hi," she stammers before she catches herself. She takes a deep breath, mentally centering herself as she puts on her customer service smile, even if her face is fighting to turn red. "Lauri-Ell, right? I'm Tifa -- these are beautiful."

No one has ever gotten her flowers. Well, they've brought them to the bar, or weirdly thrust them at her on her way home, but no one has ever brought them properly for a date.

She didn't even think to bring a gift, and now she's not sure what to do with her hands. Shaking them seems weird for a date. But her customer service face is flawless, and she gestures back to the table. "Have a seat. Can I get your drink of choice?"

[kree_soldieress]

"It is my honor to meet you," Lauri-Ell says, offering the woman a smile. "I was to bring you chocolates as well, but I sampled one to see if these candies are worthy of serving as a gift. And they were delicious."

She blushes a little, and her cheeks go a darker blue because of it. She hadn't had chocolate before that moment. It had been a mistake to sample.

Then she sits and settles in.

"I enjoy milk."

[sonicstriker]

Tifa's friends had mentioned Lauri-Ell wasn't local. This wasn't what she'd expected, but it does give her an idea.

"Great. I've got you."

She comes back a few minutes later with two steaming mugs of hot chocolate. She even got whipped cream and caramel on the top.