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

[dead_tongue]

Would you? I'd love that. I like video essays and stuff, although usually they're much dumber. Like about YouTube knitting drama.

No? Too prickly?

[burning_youth]

Youtube knitting drama?

[No, he wants to know that. He's amused and pleased.]

Oh, your phone number. So I can send you some channels. And yes, I'm a bit prickly. A shorter fuse.

[dead_tongue]

Yeah! There's a surprising amount!

Oh, sure. [He rattles it off.]

A temper! Sexy.

[burning_youth]

Oh man, I need to know about them.

[Sexy? He laughs and shakes his head. Yeah, that works.]

You've got a way with words.

[dead_tongue]

The last one I saw was about this knitting convention gone wrong.

I do, don't I? Clever tongue.

[burning_youth]

[Somehow he's not shocked that there are knitting conventions. Just that they can go wrong.]

You've got to share where you found it. I need to know.

[The Clever Tongue bit does get a little smirk. Yes, he saw what you did there.]

[dead_tongue]

I'll send you the links, promise.

[burning_youth]

And I'll rec the online-

[Warren trails off when the server shows up, a middle aged chinese woman who he speaks to in rapid fire mandarin. Then she's off.]

She'll get the meal set up for us. In the mean time, tell me more about yourself?

[dead_tongue]

Oh! Thank you! [Said to the departing woman.]

Well. I'm from Nanaimo, on Vancouver Island. I was homeschooled until I was a teenager. I can't cook. I like vinyl records. Is that a good start?

[burning_youth]

That's a really good start. Is the can't cook a lack of experience, or a set things on fire sort of thing? I've known people in both categories.

[dead_tongue]

Both! I burn toast - my roommates have barred me from any hot appliances.

[burning_youth]

[Perhaps it is not appropriate for him to snicker, but damn if Warren wasn’t. There were jokes that could be made about him being a hot appliance.]

Well, that’s true of plenty of people. It’s okay if you can’t manage it.

[dead_tongue]

Thank you. I mostly depend on my roommates to feed me.

[burning_youth]

Depending on the kindness of others. I am more of a person who cooks than one that lets others cook.

[dead_tongue]

Yeah, I gathered that. But you've got skills.

[burning_youth]

[He chuckles and shakes his head. Yeah, he does, but he can't explain that.]

I try my best most days.

[dead_tongue]

Mmm. I'm intrigued.

[burning_youth]

[Warren chuckles. And after a moment the server returns, with coffees. Not usual ones, not like you'd get in some coffee shop. Instead this was something carefully seasoned and spiced and it made Warren smile happily.]

I love this stuff. You've got to try it.

[dead_tongue]

Baby, I'll try anything once.

What is it?

[burning_youth]

It's coffee, but there's some differences in how they prepare it. And here it's the best.

[He looks like he genuinely means it.]

They don't serve it properly to most customers of course. It's not got some special name or anything. It's just how they do it for themselves and the staff that are in the know.