[RP] [OPEN] The Relationship Meme

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The Relationship Meme
nabbed from memebells

Dramatic or cracky, there are options for everyone who has a sudden itching to play out some ships.

↘ Post your character below, listing their name and series in the subject.
↘ Others respond after going to random.org and entering 1-16 for a scene, reply back and have some fun!
↘ Roll as many times as you like! Play out as many scenarios as you want! Just enjoy the fluffy or angsty goodness.

● 01 I HAVE A CONFESSION | There's someone you really like and it's finally time to tell them! It can be spur of the moment or elaborately planned out.
● 02 START OF SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL | You've just got together and everything is great! You can't stop thinking about each other or keep your hands off your significant other. You want to spend all the time you can together, doing whatever!
● 03 CAN'T GET IT UP | It happens to everyone, honest! For whatever reason, you just haven't been able to perform or maybe you're just not interested in sex. Is it because things are dull? Is it because you're not attracted to your partner? Or have you just been too busy or stressed out?
● 04 SAW YOU LAST NIGHT | You think you saw your partner in the arms of another - was it an honest mistake or is something honestly going on here?
● 05 FIRST TIME | It's the first kiss or the first time making love with your partner and you're so nervous and awkward, you're sure you'll mess it up! Maybe you do, but that's okay... they like you, right?
● 06 ANNIVERSARY | Two week, two month, two year, or whatever number you decide, that's how long you've been together with your partner and you want to do something special to celebrate it!
● 07 WANT YOU BACK | You broke up, but it was a mistake. You need to correct it ASAP... will your lover take you back though?
● 08 JUST MARRIED | Just married! Is it the wedding night? The honeymoon? You decide!
● 09 BAD ROMANCE | You're no good for each other and you know it! Unfortunately, your relationship is so sizzling, you can't break it off and you don't even want to.
● 10 FIGHT | You're both in one of those moods where you just want to sit around fighting over every little thing... bills or money, friends, your partner staying out too late, or whatever you can think of!
● 11 LET'S MAKE UP | Of course making up is the best part though! Whatever it was is totally forgotten now.
● 12 HONEY, I'M... | You've been feeling a little funny for a bit, so you take a pregnancy test and... oh no! Or is it 'oh great!'? Time to tell your partner either way...
● 13 ABOUT LAST NIGHT | Time to face that one night stand...
● 14 CHEATER | You're not being cheated on! You're the other person meddling with someone's lover! But for whatever reason, you just can't say no even if you know you should...
● 15 OBJECTIONS | You're facing a lot of objections to your relationship and it's starting to put a strain on it. Why don't you sit down and discuss it, see if you can work it out?
● 16 HAVE TO LET YOU GO | You have to break up with your partner... not because you want to! But because you need to protect them... can you do it successfully? Will they find out? You decide!

Comments

[putthebunnyinthebox]

[John chuckles, because he has the feeling Karkat's actually right about that one. He's already planning on pitching the idea of Dave being the godfather, and that, well. He didn't think that needed to be explained.]

No offense, but Gamzee and Terezi are the weirdest of you guys. And yeah, I remember some stuff but...man, don't you guys have books for this?

[Something in John's heart makes it turn to a puddle of gush at the exchange. Never in his life did he think that he'd be hugging a boy who was holding their bucket child and finding the absolute maternal air so fucking fulfilling. Karkat's noises are always pleasantly weird, but these are different, completely so. The distinctly inhuman noises still get to him, and there may be tears later.]

...Can I hold him?

[He almost chokes on his words, and the concern over a name and symbol and what the fuck caves are blown out of his mind. He takes his arm off Karkat and bends his arms in a cradle form, ready to take the grub if Karkat so lets him.]

[romcom]

[Karkat sighs heavily through his nose. John is being culturally insensitive again, although, really, where Terezi and Gamzee were concerned, there seemed to be something way more than culture going on.]

Why the fuck would we have books? Trolls don't raise wrigglers, fucktard.

[But the instincts are definitely still there, because Karkat goes very tense at the idea of having to put his little grub down for any reason whatsoever. He hesitates, makes eye contact with his baby and bumps noses with it and purrs softly, a comforting noise used mostly by young moirails to assure their palemate that they would be protected in whatever came next. The grub makes a little cooing noise that sounds more human than troll, and Karkat begrudgingly hands him over to John.]

One of us has to keep a hold on him or he'll grow up into fucking Eridan. That troll has a serious case of cold feet.

[Which, in troll society, means that their lusus didn't carry them around when they were a grub. Yeah. CULTURAL MISUNDERSTANDINGS, GO.]

[putthebunnyinthebox]

[He chuckles nervously at the sigh that usually means Karkat-exasperation, but it gets less nervous and more silly, because oh right he forgot about all that. Trolls were really weird, and he seemed to learn something new (or re-learn, rather) every day!]

Oh...right. Lusi and stuff.

[John's heart does that jumping-for-joy thing again. God. He's going to need to start a video diary of Karkat and baby, this was too cute. He swallows when the weight of the grub is in his arms, and there's a moment of awkward arm moving and handling and oh god. He does what he did when playing with the human babies way back when in the ectobiology lab, and even then he saw that more on TV. He mimics that and Karkat's handling, supporting the baby's head and cradling his body. Okay...bright red infant insect alien with buck teeth acquired.]

Eridan doesn't seem too cold feet-getting to me...maybe a little wussy, but--oh my god Karkat he's looking at me.

[And John is again immediately distracted from the things at hand, because the creature in his arms is staring at him. John smiles in a way he's probably never smiled before, because this is his child and he's never really...had one of those before. He jokingly considered Casey his daughter, but this grub was legitimately his and Karkat's. Without really thinking about it, he rocks on his feet, swaying slightly and shifting his baby hold to accommodate the curves better.]

Man...you're cute, little guy.

[romcom]

[Karkat rolls his eyes, rather dramatically, at John's continuous forgetting of the fact that he was raised by a giant crab monster. Seriously, you'd think that would be the kind of thing he'd remember. It's not like Karkat ever forgets that John was raised by his ancestor, for fuck's sake. It's the kind of cultural detail even Strider remembers.]

I don't know what he's going to fucking do without having to clean up after a big angry animal his whole fucking wriggler-hood.

[Oh, hush, Karkat, we all know you miss your lusus. Your feelings jams with Gamzee happen to be loud enough to be heard through the wall.]

John, are you fucking blind, he's so goddamn needy every fucking second-- oh fuck he knows you're his other genetic donor doesn't he.

[Okay, so, Karkat is officially crying. Like, dripping pink all down his face like a child. He covers his mouth with his hand and just stares at the little cross-species infant wiggling its legs at John and smiling. When John talks directly to him, the grub gurgles softly and turns its head to chew on the fabric of John's shirt, never breaking eye contact with his human father.]

[putthebunnyinthebox]

[John rolls his eyes right back, though with less seriousness and more "oh you". He shrugs at Karkat's concern, deciding he's probably better off not poking at troll stuff again.]

We could give him toys, duh. I think he'd like blocks to pick up and scatter and build with.

[He's about to make some comment about Eridan, but honestly baby is more important and John turns his attention completely to his little grub in his arm, laughing and a little breathless.]

Oh--yeah he...I guess he does, yeah.

[He shifts the grub to be supported with one arm, gently reaching with the other to pet his baby's cheek with the back of his finger. Fuck his shirt, this little guy is looking at him and making adorable sounds and John is so, so taken with his grubbaby.]

He's totally gonna put a hole through my shirt.

[He says with an exact tenderness and loving amount of a proud, endeared parent. He's heard the tone so much from his dad, but it's been years now and it's not like he's actively aware of his father-mimicking. When he looks up, his heart clenches, as it does when Karkat cries, only this time John knows it's not from anger or sadness. He feels a prickling at the inner corners of his eyes and he steps forward, returning his arm to cradle their baby and bending just enough to press a kiss to Karkat's forehead over strands of bangs. He leaves another kiss, and another, and then returns upright. He reaches out to rub at Karkat's tears with his thumb.]

Hey, we're gonna be in this together, maybe we should think of a name?