Meeting for the First Time

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 Meeting for the First Time (again?) Meme

 

The first time you meet someone is always special, always unique. A moment you can never capture again. A moment that colors all that comes after. But what if you could relive it? Maybe you've been friends, partners, enemies for ages. Maybe you've never met because you're from different times, worlds, realities. Or maybe your canon just never said a word about how you met and it's time to find out how it could have happened.

Standard rules apply:

• Comment with name, canon preferences
• Use the list below for prompts if you need assistance
• Reply, have fun, explore

Type:

1. Magic: Some mystical power (arcane, technological, etc) has zapped any memories you had of each other. When you look at each other, does something feel familiar, or are you total strangers?
2. Rewind: By some means, time had a bit of a hiccup and now you're back to the day you met. Is anything different?
3. By Request: One of you demanded a do-over, or maybe someone you know wanted you to fix it and used mysterious means to make it happen.
4. From A Dream: You just know in your heart you've seen them somewhere before, but maybe it wasn't while you were awake.
5. Another World: Dragged across dimensional barriers or across the vastness of space, just to bump into someone special.
6. We Never Knew: (for those with no canon story) Looking back on how it COULD have happened
7. We've Never Met: True first encounters, you've never met before. At least not in THIS reality.
8. Wildcard: Dealer's choice

Mood: 

1. Love at first sight: Sometimes you just look at someone and you feel that zing in your heart
2. Lust at first sight: And sometimes that zing is a tad bit lower
3. Hate at first sight: No zing, only irritation and seething animosity
4. Friends at first sight: You just know, without a doubt, that you want to do everything with this person, less of a zing more of a click
5. Suspicion at first sight: Who are they? What do they want? Can they be trusted? The only zing happening is closer to paranoia than anything.
6. Nothing at first sight: No spark, no zing, nothing. What could it mean?
7. Wildcard: Make your own zing

Soulmate Fuckup Meme

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The Soulmate Fuckup Meme

There's a name on your wrist. Maybe you were born with it; maybe it arrived around the time you reached adolescence. It's spelled out, in clear script - the script you learned to read first, your native language. It's the name of your soulmate.

What would a world like this be like?

Fucked-up, that's what.

(Based on this tumblr post.)

PROMPTS:
Choose just one, choose a couple, mix and match. Do what you want.

RELATIONSHIP
1: ORIENTATION CONFUSION. The name on your arm is the wrong gender. Maybe you thought you were straight, but the name is the same gender as yours. Maybe you knew you were gay, but the name is opposite-sex. Maybe you just didn't want anyone to know, and you hide your arm, pretend to be something you aren't. But there it is - the evidence glares at you every time you brush aside your sleeve. The name has to be right. Doesn't it?
2: JUST PLAYING AROUND. You're not soulmates with the person you're with. You're just playing around. Or maybe you're really in love - and no one will believe you. How do you face the complete inability of society to accept you? How do you face the inevitable, fated end of your relationship? How can anything be important, when you know it won't last?
3: ONESOMES, THREESOMES AND MORESOMES. You're soulmates with person A who's soulmates with person B who's soulmates with you. What now? - Or maybe you're meant to be in a polyamorous relationship. Or you're asexual, and the thought of that name fills you with dread.
4: ALONE. Your soulmate died. Your soulmate never showed up. Your soulmate never existed. Or your soulmate refused you.
5: FIRST TIME. You've never dated anyone else before. What would have been the point? And now you're moving in, you're getting married - why wait? You're soulmates, aren't you? What could go wrong?
6: TOGETHER. Yep. Here we are. Here you are, and here I am, and here are our names on each other's arms.
7: OTHER.

STAGE
1: INVESTIGATION. So there's this name, and you've plugged it into Google, and the only match you can find is some asshole's Facebook account. He looks like a real jerk. Or maybe you got nothing, and you hired a private investigation firm that specializes in this kind of thing. Now you have an email address, or phone number, or a home address, and what's next is to pick up the phone, write that letter, knock on that door.
2: REVEAL. A superstar's name is on the wrist of a teenager. The President's name is on the wrist of her opponent. Your name is on the wrist of someone in jail. Turns out that name on your best friend's wrist was yours - only you never knew, not until you found out who your parents were. You've just discovered your soulmate, or just revealed yourself to them. What next?
3: GETTING TOGETHER. You're in the early stages. Dating, maybe. Getting to know each other. Moving in, under the watchful eyes of other friends, happy and soulmated and eager to have their view of the world confirmed in you. But do you even really know this person? What makes you so suited, anyway?
4: TOGETHER FOREVER. Maybe you've been together thirty years, and you still have that same fucking argument about who washes the pans after you cook a steak. Maybe you sit in silence because there's nothing to say, and it's incredibly boring. Maybe you work in harmony, but you wonder: is it because you were supposed to be together all along, or just because you never had another choice?
5: TECHNICALITIES. Society won't let you get married. So what if you just change your name to the name on her wrist, and she changes her name to the name on yours… Or maybe you can't get insurance, because you're not married with a soulmate. Don't have the right to vote. Can't get promoted in your job.
6: A BROKEN SYSTEM. Soulmates might be perfect, but people aren't perfect. The world isn't perfect. And this world has screwed you over, time and time again. But - maybe you still found a way to be happy.
7: OTHER.

 

Originally posted by cornichaun