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

[envious_shadow]

Really? Now else was he supposed to impress this man if it was not through purchasing their meal?

"I am certain."

[atypical_echo]

I am too. Sharing what I love is pretty important to me.

[silent_sacrifice]

How intriguing. And how disgusting. Because that is just really that depressing.

"Well, you need not worry. I shall work to accustom you to the praise you deserve, darling."

[unbreakable_king]

Rhy nods and summons a server. He gives careful instructions, slips the server an early tip, and then returns his attention to Joshua.

"There, all arranged. We should have something shortly."

[legacy_blade]

Wait. Zack frowns as he thinks about it.

"So you do it because it's handy and because it makes people smile. But does it make YOU smile?"

Because that should matter more.

[ask_whydunit]

[ That was true enough, and fighting without magic was considered beneath most mages. Which, ironically, often their own downfall. The mages that did learn more physical defence techniques, though, went much further and usually learned to reinforce it or enhance it with magecraft instead of relying fully on one or the other. ]

Really? I mean… I don’t know if I’d be good at it, so I wouldn’t want to waste your time. But maybe?

[ He knows he’s fairly small and unimpressive, but he made up for it in stubbornness. Plus… Well, if they did get worse, it might help. ]

[bornofwords]

Then I’m glad I have the opportunity to learn about the things you love, and I do enjoy learning about new things.

[ And figuring out what he did like himself, he hadn’t… really had a lot of opportunities for that since his creation. Little things here and there, but starting a life where he actually needed to find those things himself was kind of daunting, and he was a little worried about admitting that much. ]

[fatedsacrifice]

Darling? Well that was a new one. Only Ignis used that term, and it wasn't ever directed at him, which it shouldn't be.

So he smiled. "I'm not sure you should trouble yourself, but I'd still appreciate it."

[heavenlyhonour]

Angeal patiently waited but the staff seemed unhelpful. Or..

Looking at his companion, the former First shook his head. "Maybe they don't have something like that here."

[forsanbreque]

Dion smiled. Wars and fighting couldn't go on forever, and if this man had somehow been able to ponder something else. "And what have you come up with?"

[phoenixawakened]

That unfamiliar gesture garnered Joshua's curiousity. "I don't quite understand why you gave him coin before he served us. Is that something that is a custom in your world too?"

[heartofalion]

[There was a smirk.]

Kinda figured I was on the right track.

[faithfulsupport]

In a sense, Ignis had never been asked such a question. But here he smiles as he finishes getting everything on his plate.

"Yes, to see others enjoy my cooking makes me smile."

And Zack had already pretty much done so as well.

[orangewayfinder]

It took him a minute to relent, because Aqua had pounded paying for the meal into his head. So he tried to smile and play it off.

"Okay, you win."

[unbreakable_king]

"Ah, that."

Rhy chuckles.

"It encourages good service and allows my server to know that they need not worry that I shall be stingy."

Those who bribe for good service at the start are not as likely to stiff on tips later.

[legacy_blade]

"Oh, well then I guess you're gonna smile a lot today!"

Because Zack knows his own body needs, and the few bites he's taken so far are already amazing.

[atypical_echo]

Well I love teaching people about musicals. But I have to warn you, I talk about them a lot and pause to explain things.

[silent_sacrifice]

"You presume that it would be trouble to give you such things as you are properly due," Genesis notes, shaking his head.

"Perhaps we should start showing you the value you deserve by spoiling you with much delicious things to eat. Shall we?"

[wisecracking_shot]

Clint frowns. Yeah, he was coming to that conclusion too and he didn't like it.

"Guess we'll just have to actually consider the menu. Mind if we get a few more minutes?" he says to the server.

[looking_sharp]

[That smirk is actually quite interesting in his book, and he smiles back at it. This guy is a bit charming, isn't he?]

You've got to wow people with a look like that.

[disarming_prince]

"What do you know of the nation of Tenebrae?"

Because he could think of a lot of uses for such abilities as this man might possess in landscape like his homeland.

[envious_shadow]

"Yes, I am prone to such things," Jasper agrees with a smile and a nod.

[seed_pilot]

It's not about being good or bad at it. It's about teaching your body to act without your brain getting in the way, and sometimes you need that. Just to make sure that you get out of immediate danger. Let me try at least?

[And small doesn't stop Selphie. Why should it stop Waver?]

[bornofwords]

Warning noted, but unnecessary. I used to have to memorize a lot of boring information. Getting to hear someone talk about something that’s actually interesting will be a lot more enjoyable, I’m sure.

[ask_whydunit]

[ And since Waver’s brain often got in the way, that was probably an important lesson for him to learn. Even now, it was clear he was giving it some serious thought, probably more than necessary. Again, most ‘proper mages’ other than those from certain circles didn’t see much value in these things… But on the other side, that was often the problem with mages that he argued over. That things need not be the way they always had been. ]

Yeah, you are right about that. [ right about all of it, really. ] Okay, we’ll try and see what happens.

[ This still felt like he was setting himself up for embarrassment, but… Well, Nida didn’t seem like he was the kind to make fun of that, at least. ]