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Rain Meme
the rain meme
Ah, rain—the precipitation that the whole world has a love/hate affair with. It waters the garden for free and ruins baseball games. It cools you off in the summer and it causes more ice and sleet to appear in the winter. Sometimes it is lovely and falls at a decent pace for a few hours, other times, it blasts the whole eastern seaboard away.
Poems and songs have been written about it, people have danced in it, others have cursed its entire existence, and still more refuse to go out and drive in it.
Now it’s time to roll some dice and see what the weather will have in store for you today.
Poems and songs have been written about it, people have danced in it, others have cursed its entire existence, and still more refuse to go out and drive in it.
Now it’s time to roll some dice and see what the weather will have in store for you today.
directions
1. Comment with your character, series, preferences, etc in the subject.
2. Roll a number between 1-5 with the RGN for an intensity, or choose one you like best
3. Roll 1-15 with the RGN for a situation, or choose one you like best
4. Reply to other comments and play the scenario out!
5. Don’t catch a cold!
intensity
1. DRIZZLE ☂ It’s not too heavy or too light of a downpour, just enough to wash away stuff in the air, water the ground, and clean up the streets.
2. MONSOON ☂ It’s horrible and awful! Rain is coming down in buckets, no one can get anywhere, the wind is whipping everything about, and now the cable is out.
3. SHOWER ☂ Reminds you of early spring, doesn’t it? A nice shower to make everything all green and smell fresh again. Lovely.
4. FLOOD ☂ While rain is good, it can sometimes be bad. Grab a boat!
5. CATS & DOGS ☂ You’re lucky with this one. It’s not the worst storm in the world, but it’s still pretty heavy. Be careful when driving!
prompts
1. A DARK, STORMY NIGHT ☂ You know all those stories that start off with a stormy night before something goes wrong: a murder, an attack by ninjas, a crime. It is one of the best known clichés in the world, and you’re stuck in the middle of it.
2. HUMIDITY ☂ It’s that time of the year again when the humidity rises and the rain has two options: make it worse or make it go away. Good luck getting the latter.
3. GRAY RAIN OF DEPRESSION ☂ We all know this one. Stuck in the middle of no where, or right after an argument, or something that leads to angst, the rain decides to express someone’s feelings in a physical form, serious or over the top.
4. QUIET MORNING ☂ Nothing to do, nowhere to be… sometimes the rain is a welcomed addition to a quiet day. Gives you an excuse to stay in, curl up in a warm blanket and a book, maybe a loved one or a cup of hot chocolate. With sprinkles.
5. PUDDLES ☂ After it rains, what is the number one thing you have to do? Go put on some rubber boots and splash around of course!
6. SUDDEN STORM ☂ It might have been predicted, but sometimes storms just sweep in and do their thing with little to no warning. Hope you’re not outside.
7. THUNDER & LIGHTNING ☂ Loud, surprising, scary, ominous, comforting, fantastic to watch or listen to… some like thunder and lightning, others not so much. Of course, if this happens before a big confrontation, the universe is telling you something.
8. CAN’T GET WORSE ☂ You did not say that. You did not just say that. How many times does this need to be seen in movies and books before anyone learns?
9. STUCK ☂ No, no, no, no. This cannot be happening. What happened to the ten percent chance of rain? You forgot your umbrella and now you’re stuck in it!
10. RUINED PLANS ☂ You had all these wonderful plans to go outside, have some fun in the sunshine, do some errands, maybe a date… and the weather goes against them.
11. DANCING ☂ Sometimes rain is a cause for celebration, or you just feel like doing something spontaneous. Grab someone to join you and get wet!
12. RAIN BATTLE ☂ The most intense, important battles happen in the rain. Verbal spars, punching someone in the guts; it’s all dramatic and climatic. And no one slips.
13. DATE ☂ Aww, don’t let the weather ruin your date! It can be really romantic, being out in the rain, and it’s always fun to go with the flow.
14. A DAY INSIDE ☂ Sometimes, it’s just better to stay inside and enjoy something simple and easy like board games or catching up on TV shows, or maybe the bills.
15. WILD CARD ☂ Was there something I missed? Did you want to roll again or choose your own adventure? Go for it!
2. MONSOON ☂ It’s horrible and awful! Rain is coming down in buckets, no one can get anywhere, the wind is whipping everything about, and now the cable is out.
3. SHOWER ☂ Reminds you of early spring, doesn’t it? A nice shower to make everything all green and smell fresh again. Lovely.
4. FLOOD ☂ While rain is good, it can sometimes be bad. Grab a boat!
5. CATS & DOGS ☂ You’re lucky with this one. It’s not the worst storm in the world, but it’s still pretty heavy. Be careful when driving!
prompts
1. A DARK, STORMY NIGHT ☂ You know all those stories that start off with a stormy night before something goes wrong: a murder, an attack by ninjas, a crime. It is one of the best known clichés in the world, and you’re stuck in the middle of it.
2. HUMIDITY ☂ It’s that time of the year again when the humidity rises and the rain has two options: make it worse or make it go away. Good luck getting the latter.
3. GRAY RAIN OF DEPRESSION ☂ We all know this one. Stuck in the middle of no where, or right after an argument, or something that leads to angst, the rain decides to express someone’s feelings in a physical form, serious or over the top.
4. QUIET MORNING ☂ Nothing to do, nowhere to be… sometimes the rain is a welcomed addition to a quiet day. Gives you an excuse to stay in, curl up in a warm blanket and a book, maybe a loved one or a cup of hot chocolate. With sprinkles.
5. PUDDLES ☂ After it rains, what is the number one thing you have to do? Go put on some rubber boots and splash around of course!
6. SUDDEN STORM ☂ It might have been predicted, but sometimes storms just sweep in and do their thing with little to no warning. Hope you’re not outside.
7. THUNDER & LIGHTNING ☂ Loud, surprising, scary, ominous, comforting, fantastic to watch or listen to… some like thunder and lightning, others not so much. Of course, if this happens before a big confrontation, the universe is telling you something.
8. CAN’T GET WORSE ☂ You did not say that. You did not just say that. How many times does this need to be seen in movies and books before anyone learns?
9. STUCK ☂ No, no, no, no. This cannot be happening. What happened to the ten percent chance of rain? You forgot your umbrella and now you’re stuck in it!
10. RUINED PLANS ☂ You had all these wonderful plans to go outside, have some fun in the sunshine, do some errands, maybe a date… and the weather goes against them.
11. DANCING ☂ Sometimes rain is a cause for celebration, or you just feel like doing something spontaneous. Grab someone to join you and get wet!
12. RAIN BATTLE ☂ The most intense, important battles happen in the rain. Verbal spars, punching someone in the guts; it’s all dramatic and climatic. And no one slips.
13. DATE ☂ Aww, don’t let the weather ruin your date! It can be really romantic, being out in the rain, and it’s always fun to go with the flow.
14. A DAY INSIDE ☂ Sometimes, it’s just better to stay inside and enjoy something simple and easy like board games or catching up on TV shows, or maybe the bills.
15. WILD CARD ☂ Was there something I missed? Did you want to roll again or choose your own adventure? Go for it!
Re: Karen Page | Daredevil
He didn't need her to shoulder any of the blame to have felt a sincere need to go to her. He'd done that all with the way his heart currently felt, still weighed down with the mistakes he'd made. Honestly, he wasn't sure if it could lighten, but he wanted to be in her life, and part of him was hopeful that the guilt could fade with time merely from her presence. Not from her taking any of the blame, but just her being in his life once more. Fully, rather than them both being on the sidelines of one another's business and time.
Then she kept wanting to talk about Foggy. Hell, he shouldn't be surprised. She had a huge heart. Hearing the edge to her smile, he almost smiled back at the literal wage of enchiladas Foggy may end up taking. "Yeah," he said simply, not at all convinced that it could work. "He...probably needs time. Away from me. I haven't exactly been...the best best friend." A beat, another sigh. "I'm not wanting to change how I feel about him, Karen. But, I just don't know if he'd want to do that right now. An intervention." All very defeatist, yes, but he honestly wondered if Foggy shouldn't continue to be off, flying free and soaring in life, without the weight of being the best friend of Daredevil.
He smiled down at their hands when she took hold of his, listening, gears working in his mind as she explained. The pieces clicked together quicker than she may have assumed they would. At first, he didn't want to believe it, lips parted as he started over at her. Hand staying tight with hers, he was glad when the hold didn't falter, sensing the increase of tension, of actual salt in the air with perspiration and tears that threatened to spill from her eyes.
A couple of seconds passed, yet his reply was quick. "You could have told me," he said simply, quietly, not wanting to hurt her, but desperately wishing to have her know exactly what was in his heart. Leaning in closer to her, holding even tighter onto her hand, he added, "You...Karen. You know I would never fault you for self-defense, don't you?" The words could have sounded selfish, his brain bouncing to his perception of her struggle. Yet, it was a reality that she'd waited to tell him, and he was confident that he knew why. Because Daredevil wouldn't kill, and he and Karen had had conversations about this. Killing. Whether or not it should be done out of necessity at times or not. Like the way that Castle killed.
Chair scraping along the floor, he edged in even closer to her, knee bumping against and settling there by her leg. "I'm so sorry, Karen. That you went through that. I --" no, then wasn't the time to state how much he wished he had been there to protect her. "You're...so strong." Which, yes, honestly took him by surprise. Not that she was mentally, physically, strong, but that she possessed the power of will to have done what she did, to be recounting those details there. To a man she knew was so against murder. Except, it wasn't that. Self-defense was, always would be, different.
Re: Karen Page | Daredevil
But she could keep her mouth closed about the possibility of guilt on her part. Because it only made Matt want to further pull the guilt onto his own shoulders. Maybe if they let it go, for the time, then he might not think about his guilt and what he had done. Well, what he thought he had done.
She sighed softly at that comment about giving Foggy time, and she wasn't sure she agreed. She wasn't sure Foggy wanted the time, but maybe she would have to go see him and see what she might be able to find out from him, see what it was he might want in his life. If he wanted them back in his life.
But instead there was so much more they needed to talk about, and that confession, so far, wasn't lifting the weight in her chest and on her heart.
"Matt, I couldn't," she said, hating to say that to him, and knowing it might hurt him to hear that. "You are Matt Murdock, and you talked about the killings and how Daredevil didn't and..." And how could she tell him, not knowing he was Daredevil or not, that she had killed Fisk's dearest minion?
"No, you wouldn't fault me but... I thought you might want me to turn myself in," she admitted in a small, low voice. "And I don't know if I could have told you know." And now, she knew, he might still suggest she do just that. "I can't though, Matt. You have to know that. Fisk would know who did it then, and once he knows..."
She let the words hang there. She faced her death every night when she laid down to sleep, praying she wouldn't have nightmares of being hunted down and killed.
When he moved closer, she reached out to take his hand, holding one of his tight between both of hers. "Matt, I don't regret what I did. I had to. For you and Foggy and and everyone he was going to kill. But I got Ben killed. He went with me to see Fisk's mom and I know that's why he died," she whispered, biting back tears once more. "And I regret that every day, but I can't turn myself in. You have to know that."
Re: Karen Page | Daredevil
He was stubborn as hell, taking after his old man in that area. Of course he wanted Foggy back in his life, yet he didn't think he deserved that, not unless his oldest friend wanted to be back in the same way as before. Maybe they could never go back, and only time would tell. Admitting defeat there, when it came to Foggy, hurt; yet, both lawyers had said that it was time to close up their shop together, and that they'd see one another around. Maybe, probably. Who knew. It was depressing, but reality often was.
"You never should have had to go through that alone," he offered up at first, peering down for a second when he felt her hands go tight around his.
Swallowing, keeping the sound from being as hard as it otherwise would've been, he took in all that she said, trying to keep his expression as even as possible. It wasn't easy, especially since it was Karen saying all of what fell from her lips.
Talk about having a bit of double standard for one of his best friends, for the woman he'd honestly wanted to take a path of deeper affections toward. He may not go around saying it, but he'd loved her as a friend for so long, and he'd wanted more. He knew, right away, how biased he'd be. Even so, there were facts about the whole of the circumstance. Ones that allowed for biases.
Swallowing again when she brought up Ben, when he smelled and heard those tears at her eyes, Matt scooted his chair in as close to hers as he could get, knowing how potentially obtrusive the closeness was, but needing to be there as any semblance of a rock for her, if he could be.
"Karen," he started, "I don't want you turning yourself in, not for anything like this. Fisk's a...if there were a category of people that don't deserve being around to cause chaos, he'd fit in that group, and so did Wesley. You didn't get anyone killed, Karen," which the hyprocrisy of the statement wouldn't be unknown to him if he thought of it for even a few moments. Matt was, indeed, the sort of person to take full responsibility for the death of another, even if it hadn't been his fault.
"He," Ben, "knew," a swallow, "what the risks were in his field. I know he did. Every good journalist does, when they're going around like he did."
After a few seconds of silence, his focus drawn entirely on her, he managed to ask, "Why would you think I want you to turn yourself in? What good could that even do?" What a loaded question. Asking it risked her being deeply upset, and he should have known better, should've pondered why she thought that. If he had, he could've come up with reasons, yet he was clinging to getting an answer directly from her.
After just a beat, and a roaring epiphany of what she'd just recently mentioned, lips parting and jaw holding open for a moment, he asked with a troubled expression, "It's not because of what I've said, about how there's always a way that doesn't include killing? That doesn't apply to this, Karen. You didn't have a choice, and I know that if you had, you would've taken it." His tone rose with heat, his words utterly firm.
Bringing his other hand up to hold over hers folded against his, he squeezed them, leaning in closer to her and adding, "If there were no other way to protect you, Foggy, anyone else I've loved before...Karen..." he shook his head, needing to admit to this to her, even if it seemed to defy all he ever stood for, "I wouldn't let anyone hurt or kill either of you, anyone I hold dear. Push came to shove, if I could have been in those exact shoes you were in, I would've done the same." Meaning that if he weren't capable of having injured Wesley and getting him into police custody, etc, and she hoped she knew that was what he meant. She knew what Daredevil was capable of, after all.
As for Wesley being allowed to live even after making threats against them all? Well, yeah, he would've let him, if it had been possible. He wasn't coming out and saying that, nor was he lying to Karen in anything he said.
The whole of the situation was so entirely different since it happened to Karen, and she must know that.
"I'll always be on your side," he added simply, meaning it completely. "I promise."
Re: Karen Page | Daredevil
"But you still put him in prison, and we know he's working from there. You still didn't..." She shook her head. He hadn't killed, and she had. It terrified her how much that could change things just when she had hope she could have back what she missed so dearly.
"I found her, Matt. I asked him to go with me. He was the one that Fisk was able to indentify and he sent someone to Ben." Not even in her wildest dreams and nightmares did it occur to her Fisk had done it himself, or that he would be the one to come for her if he ever found out. Ellison... he gave me Ben's office. He was showing faith in me, and what happens when I get him killed as well?" Or was used as bait to get him killed. Frank had already used her as bait. Who else would in the war their borrough seemed to be disintegrating into?
"Because you're the kind of man that believes in integrity and honor and doing the right thing. I don't want to die though, or I would. I would have turned myself in but we both know what will happen." It would be ugly and gruesome and she doubted it would be quick.
Her fingers clung to his, tight, white knuckled. She couldn't lose him. She couldn't. Not now. She'd let him go once and the idea of doing it again was terrifying.
He was an amazing man, one who had done so much without killing and has saved lives in the process. Karen couldn't say the same, not either with what she had done, as well as what she had been part of since Frank Castle came into her life. "What if there was another choice though? What if I just couldn't see it?" And she couldn't. Didn't even. She hadn't then and she didn't now.
Her lower lip trembled, glad he couldn't see it. "I just... I've been so scared to tell you. I didn't think I ever would but..." But she needed him to hear it. Now. From her. If he had ever found out somehow from someone else, she wasn't sure how she would have handled it.
Re: Karen Page | Daredevil
"We don't get other people killed, sometimes...it happens, much as we do everything we can to stop it." Plus? He'd damn well be doing even better of a job at protecting her after he learned about all of that. He wasn't going to tell her so, figured she'd come to that conclusion on her own but wouldn't take no for answer as to how much higher his protection over her safety and security had risen on his priority list. Killing changed a person, certainly, and even if she was stronger then after having done so? Strong in her own way, a way that was indescribable, Matt wouldn't let her worry throughout her life that she was being targeted or watched by malicious forces.
Jaw going tight, hard swallow feeling as though it encircled his entire throat, he tried holding onto her hand all the tighter. "Karen...you...should never have to go through the really difficult stuff alone," hello there hypocritical Matt, "but you don't have to feel like...as if I was owed you telling me anything, anything that's ever happened to, with, you.
"Nothing you ever say is going to make me stop caring about you, okay? And sometimes," his eyes fell down, scanning near where their hands held, and while she couldn't hear it, he felt his heart almost skip a beat as he plowed into sudden words, "sometimes there is no other choice. Karen, I..." jaw tight, his lips remained parted as his head turned, tongue running out over his bottom lip, "Wesley could've had a different end, but he wasn't a good man. Sometimes there are people who end up dying who come a hell of a lot closer to deserving it than others.
"I...thought that I killed someone, once." His lips pressed together, another hard swallow. "And he was scum on this Earth. Karen," he lifted one hand, running fingers against strands of hair above her ear, slipping them back into the fall of her hair, speaking only after his hand had returned to rest over theirs held together, "I didn't feel bad." His teeth gritted hard, because, yeah, he meant that. About Nobu. "I'm not proud of that, and it's once in a blue moon you meet someone who...could fall harder without you blinking. But Wesley? He was one of those guys, Karen.
"You were forced into this. You're the victim. Not him." His voice was firm, convicted and hot, aim to convince her fully of how deeply he believed that to be the case.
Re: Karen Page | Daredevil
"I didn't do anything to stop it," she murmured softly. "I should have, and I shouldn't have taken him with me. "I protected you and Foggy and everyone else, but I did nothing to help Ben," she said softly, showing him honestly how it was she felt.
"I wasn't going to tell you and Foggy. I didn't want you having to think about me going through that, and I didn't want either of you... Either of you doing anything about it," she said, meaning it. Upset, hurt, not sure what else to say, and knowing that she sounded lame at the same time.
Karen fell quiet for a long time, looking down and then back up at Matt. "I worried... I did worry you would want me to turn myself in," she admitted in a soft voice. "That you would want me to do the right thing. So I didn't tell you. I just kept it to myself, trying to make things okay but you deserve to know the truth, Matt. To make your choices based on the truth."
He'd told her about who he was. He had come back looking for her. He deserved the same in return, to know her truths as well.
"I don't... I don't regret killing him. I regret that it could lose me my friends," she whispered softly, not sure if that made sense, or what would be the right way to say this to him. "But then I lost you both anyway," she added, voice lowering a bit more.
Re: Karen Page | Daredevil
He shook his head ever so softly when she kept trying to take responsibility that he felt was completely unnecessary. Tongue almost darting out to lick over his bottom lip, his head shook once more before he pressed with, "Ben knew the dangers of what he was doing. All the time, Karen. He knew. You can't...it's not your fault. It never will be."
With a hard swallow he tried to push down, his forehead creased when she admitted that she didn't want to tell either of them what she'd done. Bringing a hand down into his own lap, he squeezed fingers into his palm.
"Karen," came a whisper, disbelief etched into his face when she pointed out that she was worried he'd have wanted her to turn herself in. To do the right thing. Shit. She had him there, that that's what she would've believed he'd want, even if then and there, knowing what she'd told him, he'd turned full circle. Making a special circumstance in his change of thought. For her. Yet, he couldn't help it. "I'd never want you to do that, not when it happened like it did." And he completely believed all the details she'd shared.
She wasn't hateful. Hostile. No murderous thoughts in her head, other than passing distress over seeing how some may hurt others. What was done to Wesley was in self-defense. Necessary. Simple.
His breath held, distress writing on his features in that moment, with how she finished off her thoughts. "I...god, Karen. I'm...I shoul-" a labored sigh, face tilting down, hand going up to grab around his beer bottle, easing fingers gently around it. "I'm sorry. That it happened that way. That you felt like you lost us." Well, so had he, but. Details. It was harder, hearing her having gone through it.
Reaching out to her again, sliding fingers atop hers, he whispered out, "You don't? Regret it? Why?" Bold a question as any, but he had to ask. "To protect us?" Which was his job, thank you very much, but alas. Looked there was a good deal Matt wasn't privy to.
Re: Karen Page | Daredevil
"You're a good man, Matt. Better than I'll be. Better than probably anyone we know will ever be. You do the right thing." And with that she imagined he would do what he had to and if he hadn't? She wouldn't have tried to play the friend card, to try and get him to go against his morals. For her.
"I'm not that strong though, Matt. I'm not. I can admit that. I will do what I have to so I can survive," she said, determined, and yet her expression showed just how nervous and worried she was, staring at him.
"Live just kept falling apart. Fisk, Castle, all that we went through and then, then you guys were gone," she muttered softly. "But it happened and he kidnapped me, and I would not let him kill you and Foggy. You're my life, and I wouldn't let that happen." He had shot her, fine. Them? She would do anything for.
She took a deep breath, sighing it out. "He was going to kill you, Foggy, everyone I knew and cared about. I wouldn't let that happen. I... When he demanded I retract everything I'd said, I told him he'd have to kill me. That was when he made it clear it wasn't me he was going to kill," she admitted, giving another sigh as she tried to keep the knot in her throat to a minimum.
Re: Karen Page | Daredevil
"Survival is the right thing," and he didn't let his focus drift away from her again. Not when it meant trying to keep her attention as fully as he yearned to, to try to say any word or phrase that might bring her around to thinking like he did, at all.
It wasn't entirely right. Trying to change someone's opinion. But. She shouldn't have been torn apart by guilt. It was all an accident, and she couldn't have done anything more than what she did. That that didn't assuage her guilt, though, Matt didn't completely get, not when he was trying to guide her toward letting some of that guilt fall away.
Licking out over his lips, sighing though softly, when she confirmed why she didn't regret it. Or, she said so in so many words, didn't she? Head shaking minutely, he couldn't stop taking in the way she physically felt about telling him all of this. The tension, the nerves. All that she was trying to keep as reserved as possible -- she didn't have to, but he knew why she would. No one wanted to break down.
"When he said that to you, you didn't have another choice, Karen." Repeating himself, certainly. Suddenly then, he was breathing out harder, another thought cropping up in his mind before he muttered out in a deeper voice, serious and edging toward that of the Devil of Hell's Kitchen, "Karen, Fisk'll never know. I'll make sure of it. I promise. You'll be safe, and you never have to talk about this to anyone you don't want to."
Well. Maybe none of it was right to add but it was what came to him, and Matt had to say it.