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

[disarming_prince]

"Whenever it could be spared. At this time I am relying upon those who owe me favors and they refuse to take payment."

Which is frustrating.

[unbreakable_king]

"I am glad you think so," he says with a touch of relief. "I have had people tell me that it is... presumptive to tell people these things. That it makes me seem as if I feel myself better than others."

handwaving is the most reasonable choice for us both

[seed_pilot]

Summoning faster or more efficiently would be a great help. The damage they take when they are being called forth is a strain on them and us both, so more control would be great.

[He waits for the list to be written and then is happy to start fetching books.]

Is summoning common in your magical forms?

[fatedsacrifice]

He wanted to ask the man if he fished at all, but figured that wasn't an appropriate question at the moment.

"Thanks." The king felt a little self conscious about someone openly wanting to treat him well in an intimate setting. It was nice though even if a little nerve wracking. Did this guy date a lot? He probably did considering his good looks. And why hadn't they worked out?

All of the questions went unasked because he wasn't about to pry. Still, it took Noctis a minute to formulate a question.

"You mention you'd be glad to treat me, but what are some gifts that you would like?" His stomach started doing butterflies and he reached a hand down to cover it.

[phoenixawakened]

That response had him wonder. "I didn't take it that way." He then thought a little more. "Although I do suppose if one is searching for a way to fit that narrative, it could perhaps be seen in that light."

[heavenlyhonour]

"I see." Angeal replied. A thousand memories ran through his mind with different people and experiences with Soldier. So he could totally relate to that statement.

"Glad to see you did your own thing."

[forsanbreque]

That had Dion's sympathy. "I'm sorry to hear those that owe you haven't yet paid their debts to you."

Hearing that was terrible and he wondered what type of people wouldn't repay what was owed.

[unbreakable_king]

Ah, what a good point. Something Rhy has seen many times in his noble circles.

"People sometimes desperately seek to be offended. It is maddening."

[wisecracking_shot]

"I did my best at it. Doesn't always work out, but I try," Clint says with a shrug. "Helps that Cap believes in me."

And when Steve Rogers believes in you, you try harder.

[disarming_prince]

"No, I fear I am misunderstood. They will not let me pay them. It feels... dishonorable."

Quite dishonorable. In a way that upset him. He did not require charity for his people in that manner.

[silent_sacrifice]

Oh dear, would Noctis not be disappointed to know that Genesis did not in fact fish and did not enjoy it. Perhaps that was what would make them incompatible, even if everything else went well.

Gifts that he would like? What a thing to consider.

"I am quite partial to well bound editions of literary classics. Especially Loveless."

Excellent my brain appreciates that

[ask_whydunit]

[ Waver makes note of that himself, both the need to do so faster and more efficiently. Especially if it was a strain on both the summon and the summoner. Which… wasn’t surprising, there were costs to calling forth any kind of spirit. Frowning lightly, he started making the list and mumbling to himself. He’d give Nida a list of books to grab, and a second list for him to go and grab given he knew where those would be, which would save time.

The question startled him out of his quiet planning, and he nodded. ]

There are a few different methods of summons, some with spirits either the dead or elementals and others are more like projections of their inner self. There’s actually someone in my class researching the second.

[ Except Amleth was kind of an ass, so Waver largely avoided him. ]

[bornofwords]

You know, I hadn’t really thought about that.

[heavenlyhonour]

"Cap?" Angeal asked, thinking at first that Clint was speaking about a hat. But a hat couldn't believe in someone, so he waited to hear an explanation.

[forsanbreque]

"Ah I see." Dion nodded as he got clarification. "Some people are like that. Doing the right thing can be its own reward and no require payment."

He'd been the one to refuse payment a time or three.

[phoenixawakened]

Joshua looked up at Rhy with a smile. "Perhaps they seek a quarrel outside of themselves to drown out the one within."

That was what he'd seen far more than once.

[fatedsacrifice]

Literary classics, that answer sounded familiar. However, the title had him curious as it conjured all sorts of different mental images and he couldn't figure out which one to settle on.

And while as a youth he wasn't the sharpest sword but now the title gave him pause for another reason.

"Loveless? What's that book about?"

[unbreakable_king]

Well now that is an interesting idea.

"I suppose that assumes a darkness in the hearts of men that I fear is all too real."

[atypical_echo]

I know, right? Some sayings make no sense when you think more about it.

[silent_sacrifice]

Oh dear. Genesis looks aghast at this revelation that Noctis should be so under educated.

"A great poem, of import, from the depths of history. Unfinished, of course."

[wisecracking_shot]

"Yeah. Captain America. Real hero type."

The sort of guy that made you better by association. By wanting to live up to his standards.

[disarming_prince]

Perhaps, but Ravus as a man new to doing the right thing.

"We are not so weak that we must rely on the charity of others."

[seed_pilot]

I think... I think that GFs are in one way elementals, but in another way reflections of ourselves. Is it possible for one to be both at the same time?

[They definitely had elemental natures, but with how heavily they took from their summoner... Well, it seemed a reasonable way to go.]

[ask_whydunit]

I guess based on how they work that would make sense, we might have pull from a few different kinds of magecraft to find something that works.

[ He jots down the titles of a few books and papers he thinks might help, on elemental summons as well as projection magecraft… It might take some out of the box thinking, but that was something of a specialty on his part given his other pursuits when it came to his studies. ]

You take this list of books, and I’ve got one myself, once we have everything we can meet back here.

[bornofwords]

Kind of makes me wonder where it came from, now that I stop to think about it.