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]

My company will be the second best treat of the night.

Depending on the quality of the cookies I guess.

[bornofwords]

Hmm, don’t sell your company short. They’d have to be pretty fancy cookies to beat it, I’d think.

[atypical_echo]

Oh man, you're a charmer. I like that.

[bornofwords]

I’m glad you think so, but I am serious, though.

[ And with Mark it felt easy and genuine compared to his dealings with people in the past. ]

So I’ll see you in a couple days, and if you think of anything, let me know before I head there?

[atypical_echo]

Oh I've thought of something, but I'm keeping it to myself.

[Because the guy just made him feel so... good. So powerful. So loved.

[bornofwords]

Oh? Keeping secrets, now you have me curious… I guess I’ll have to wait and find out what you meant when I get there.

[atypical_echo]

I'm sure I will keep it to myself really well. Yep. Totally can do that.

[bornofwords]

[ Normally secrets make him nervous, the risks of not routing them out or the consequences of finding them out with the special way he can... Not that the other knows that.

But regardless Mark has been nothing but genuine and nice to him, and it’s hard to be nervous about that. ]

Well, you only have to keep it for a couple days, and I suppose I can do my best to not try to deduce the answer before then.

[atypical_echo]

Thanks for letting me have my little air of mystery.

[bornofwords]

A little mystery keeps me wondering, after all.

[ He smiles a little, because he does wonder. ]

So I’ll look forward to seeing you in a couple of days.

[atypical_echo]

Mystery is usually scary for me. But with you, it's pretty exciting.

[bornofwords]

[ For him too, huh…? That’s a point of interest, if only because he knows from experience that there is usually a good reason for it. ]

Oh? Well… Likewise, but you make it less so too.

[atypical_echo]

I'm really glad. Feeling safe matters.

[bornofwords]

It really does. I’m glad we both feel that way.

[ Because sometimes it didn’t work out that way, and it’s been a long time since he wasn’t worried about someone ready to plant a knife in his back. ]

[atypical_echo]

If we didn't, I'd never have talked to you again, if I'm honest.

[bornofwords]

I would hope not. I’d hate to think you’d stick around with someone you didn’t feel safe with.

[ It’s too easy to make that mistake, it’s too easy to trust in the nice and ignore the bad feeling that some people give off. Of course, there are also people who hide it well… So sometimes it can’t be helped. ]

[atypical_echo]

I've learned better than to do that.

[bornofwords]

Me too, [ he thinks, or hopes. ] though it’s kind of not a great lesson to learn.

[atypical_echo]

Sounds about right.

Next Thursday maybe?

[bornofwords]

Yes, I’ll see you Thursday after work then!

[atypical_echo]

I'll look forward to it.