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]

No, he most definitely had not known. And Lunafreya absolutely would not have warned him. If she had, he would not have lingered here. Now he was stuck by rules of politeness of society.

"Please, it would please me if you were to join me for dinner," he said, because it was something he should do. Something he should say. If nothing else, he was hungry.

[insistent]

The problem is she knows it's not the truth, even if he phrases it prettily and she's still for a moment before she exhales a breath. "You don't have to entertain me if you don't want to. I get it and I'm not going to think less of you if you want to dip out." It wouldn't be the first or last timee, after all.

"No harm done."

[disarming_prince]

"Oh, please, do not worry," Ravus says with a soft smile. "I have a card that is in a shared account with my sister. I would be pleased if you joined me so that you might order the best things on the menu and we effectively have her pay for it."

Because it seems like the best repercussions to this.

"What is more, I am loathe to dine alone. I beg of you, stay."

[insistent]

"If you really want to, I'm not going to turn down a meal." Not that she has to eat but it makes things a little simpler in regards to her other dietary needs. Caroline does finally take the offered seat.

"Thank you."

[disarming_prince]

Ravus scoots the chair in for her before circling around to his own seat. He does gesture to the server to ask him to refill his wine glass.

"You are quite welcome. Now please, tell me of yourself."

[insistent]

"That really depends on what you want to know. I mean, I'm from a small town in Vir...Well there's a country called America in my world, I live in a small town there when I'm home." Which obviously isn't here.

"I'm 23. I haven't done much traveling due to family concerns. I was a cheerleader in high school. I was in college for a while but I dropped out for personal reasons."

[disarming_prince]

What by the names of the Astrals, was a 'cheerleader'? Ravus definitely looks a bit confused by that one.

"And what did you cheer for? I have no doubt that you were quite adept at it of course."

[insistent]

"Whatever sports were in season. Usually Football and basketball." Caroline pauses for a minute.

"You probably don't know what any of those things are, do you?"

[disarming_prince]

Ah yes, unified team sports. But Ravus was not as familiar with those. He raises his wine to sip at it.

"That is not in my realm of experience, no. I was given private tutors. It is not easy to educate one my station."

[insistent]

"Yeah, we just went to the local public school. I mean there were private schools in the larger cities, but my town was pretty small.

Cheerleading is kind of like a mix of dance and gymnastics with practiced cheers, but the complexity really depends on whether you're just there to cheer for the other teams or if your squad competes with ones from other schools in their own right."

[disarming_prince]

"A strenuous sport then," he observes. He's had enough formal dance and combat training to know that the two things she's suggested are melded together will be very strenuous. He's definitely more approving of it now.

"Did you do these competitions?"

[insistent]

"It can be if the squad is more into the throws and gymnastics. We didn't really compete much though. It was more just an extracurricular for college. If I'd joined the college team, i might have, but I had other things to focus on by then."

[disarming_prince]

How intriguing.

"And what were you studying at college? Or that you desired to?"

Because that was a possible thing he would know how to talk about.

[insistent]

The first two years are more of a general course of study, history, math, writing. We don't really start to specialize until the third year. I hadn't really decided yet by the time I dropped out."

[disarming_prince]

"Was there something you aspired toward?" he asks as he reviews the menu before him. "Not everyone aspires toward something so soon, but was there something that moved you then?"

[insistent]

That has her silent for a few moments before she sighs. "I did want to be on television before my life changed significantly, but I'd given up on that by graduation for a lot of reasons. I was just taking the classes and trying to decide what I wanted to do because it was the expected path at that age."

[disarming_prince]

"And now?"

He nods at his menu and puts it down, ecbause he has finally determined what he wishes and is ready to order.

[insistent]

"Kind of figuring it out as I go."

[disarming_prince]

Which of course was not much to say to learn more of her with. Ravus, who was never the most socially adept as others he knew could be.

"Have you decided upon a meal?"

[insistent]

"Ah, yes. I was just waiting for you to figure out what you wanted." Awkward isn't as much of a thing she's used to, but she's also not usually dating royalty.

"..Have you ever wanted to do anything than what you're doing?"

[disarming_prince]

Has he ever wanted something more? Something different. What a thing to consider.

"I do not think I have. It was never something which I had time to contemplate. What can be expected from a man like me? Elder child, but always the spare heir. I was meant for nothing but this."

[insistent]

"Never thought about going off and doing your own thing? I mean, I guess it would have been risky, but ...why weren't you the heir if you were the oldest?"

[disarming_prince]

"To do such a thing would be to abandon my duties to my sister, to my people, and to my nation," he points out. And he was not raised to do that.

"Our royalty is... matrilineal."

[insistent]

"I didn't realize that. I don't know every royal line from home, but the main one most people i'd know are familiar with didn't really think women could rule until they were left with no other option several hundred years back."

[disarming_prince]

Really? That seems like an unwise thing.

"There is a gift of magic within the women of the line. They are great healers. IT is only such women, known as the Oracle, that may properly inherit. If I had not possessed a sister in time, I would have been expected to serve as regent until my own daughter came of age."

So he was never meant to truly lead. Just to warm a seat.