reversesock ([personal profile] reversesock) wrote in [community profile] bakerstreet2015-07-05 02:57 pm

The TOOK  YOU  IN Shipping Meme


The TOOK  YOU  IN Shipping Meme


They were on your front door, in your yard, or on the street, confused and clearly in no position to fend for themselves; in a worst case scenario, they were bruised and battered, possibly close to death. Bleeding heart or not, you can't just be so cruel as to let them suffer. They need a place to stay, and you'll open your home to them...long enough to get back on their feet, anyway.

Speaking of feet, the shoe could be on the other one. You're worse for the wear - in a new place, possibly injured, certainly not in the best state of mind. You could not even remember how you got here or who you are to get here, for that matter. You may not want to remember. Whether willing or not so willing, you're in no position to turn down help, especially if said helper won't take no for an answer. No matter how dedicated you are to looking after yourself, there's only so much you can do in your position.

The two of you are staying together, at any rate. Only for a while, the plan is. But after said while, even though strength and confidence is returning to the injured, there's something a little different between you two. It could be the close quarters, the kindness shown, or a number of things, but quietly, softly, feelings have grown. Could more confusion and hurt spring from this? What about when it's time to go? Can the temporary resident leave as easily as they intended? You're so close now, perhaps a little while longer can't do any harm...

...until whatever it was that put them in such a perilous position in the first place comes back, and there could be "justice" for anyone who's dared to help.

RULES
  • Comment with your character and preferences. Say if you'd rather play the taken in or the person taking them in.
  • Reply to others.
  • There's no smut option because I'm making a companion smut meme to this for TLH in the next few days, but you can play smut if you really want to!



PROMPTS


  1. ғɪɴᴅɪɴɢ — Who's that? They're no ordinary passersby! Were they in an accident? Are they foreign? ...should you approach them?

  2. ʀᴀɪɴ, ʀᴀɪɴ, ɢᴏ ᴀᴡᴀʏ — The elements make this night no time to sleep out of doors.

  3. ʙᴀᴄᴋ ᴛᴏ ʜᴇᴀʟᴛʜ — Cuts, broken bones, injuries all of sorts...you have to stitch them back up, then make sure they don't get any

  4. ɢᴏᴏᴅ ɢᴜᴇsᴛ — It's all you can do to show gratitude to the person who took you in. Fix them a meal, care for their house, whatever you can do once you're able.

  5. ʙᴀᴅ ɢᴜᴇsᴛ — FUCK THIS PERSON AND FUCK THEIR COUCH. You didn't ask to be brought here. Let them clean up after you, you don't even care.

  6. ᴡʜᴏ ᴀᴍ ɪ? — How you got into this situation is a mystery. Even more of a mystery is your identity, and why the person you were would be so displaced.

  7. sᴇʟғʟᴇssɴᴇss —

  8. ʟᴇᴀʀɴɪɴɢ — If you've been injured badly enough or can't remember all too well, you might have to relearn a good deal. Luckily, you have a helping hand.

  9. sᴄᴀʀs — Scars from the encounter that lead you here or scars from prior, you don't want them to see either. You still have your secrets to keep.

  10. sᴛᴜʙʙᴏʀɴ — Ugh, your house guest is so stubborn! They always get up when they should be resting, have the worst habits, and completely disrespect your home! You'll get to them, one way or another. Or you'll throw them out. You don't want to, but you will.

  11. ᴄᴏᴍғᴏʀᴛ — Bad memories or nightmares wreck you; your host and nurse comes to your side unexpectedly.

  12. ᴄᴜʟᴛᴜʀᴇ ᴄʟᴀsʜ — The person who's taken you in is from a different culture or lifestyle than you, and adapting is harder than you thought.

  13. ᴄʀᴇᴀᴛᴜʀᴇ ғᴇᴀᴛᴜʀᴇ — Think learning about a new culture is hard? Try being a different species. Can you keep your little eccentricities at bay for the good of your station?

  14. ᴊᴇᴀʟᴏᴜsʏ — Now that your emotions towards your caretaker/host/jailer are softening, you're finding yourself unusually jealous of those in their life who were close to them before.

  15. ɴᴇᴡ ᴀᴄᴛɪᴠɪᴛɪᴇs — You never thought you'd have fun after all that's happened, yet such simple gestures as a picnic or a movie make all the difference.

  16. ʀᴇᴀʟɪᴢᴀᴛɪᴏɴ — You love them, this person who's taken you in or this person you've found. It's not a pity or a thankfulness, it's love, and you know that now. What you choose to do with this information is

  17. ʜɪsᴛᴏʀʏ — Suddenly, the person who's been so nice to you finds out that the two of you have a history. You killed their loved ones or caused something terrible. How can they forgive you?

  18. ᴘʀᴏᴛᴇᴄᴛ — So much has been done for you. The least you can do in return for the one who helped you at your lowest is make sure they never have such a low point.

  19. ᴅᴀɴɢᴇʀ ᴄᴏᴍᴇs ᴋɴᴏᴄᴋɪɴɢ — Anyone in the way of getting to you will be destroyed, and that includes the person you're staying with.

  20. ʟɪᴠᴇ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴛʜᴇᴍ — You've been given a home, maybe which you've never had before. You don't want to leave.

  21. ʀᴏᴍᴀɴᴄᴇ — Not only are you living with them, but you're starting a proper life with them.

  22. ʀᴇᴠᴇᴀʟ — All secrets are laid out on the table. You've decided to tell about your past and what lead you here.

  23. ʀᴇᴠᴜʟsɪᴏɴ — What you've done and who you are is so heinous, they want nothing more to do. You're to leave their home and leave them alone.

  24. ᴀᴄᴄᴇᴘᴛᴀɴᴄᴇ — It doesn't matter what they've done. You've opened your home and your heart to them, and nothing's changed.

  25. ᴘᴀʀᴛɪɴɢ — All things must come to an end. No matter what you feel for each other, it's time to leave. Hopefully, you'll see each other again.

  26. ʜᴀᴘᴘɪʟʏ ᴇᴠᴇʀ ᴀғᴛᴇʀ — Come what may, you've decided to stay at your new home with the person you love. Now, it's safe enough to do so.

  27. ᴡɪʟᴅᴄᴀʀᴅ

verdad_y_justicia: ((civs) clinging tight)

Hernan Guerra | Justice League: Gods and Monsters | OTA

[personal profile] verdad_y_justicia 2015-07-05 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[he could definitely use some taking in...]
spareisms: (Default)

anna | frozen | m/f

[personal profile] spareisms 2015-07-05 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[either or! something involving her leaving the castle for whatever reason and being in need of shelter, or her opening up her castle to someone else. i'm also down for any sort of au, crosscanon, and crossmedium!]
partofthecrowd: (Why is everything falling apart?)

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[personal profile] partofthecrowd 2015-07-05 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
It was a dark and stormy night. Rui was running through puddles, water splashing up his bare legs. It was awful to get caught out in some of the outfits he tended to wear. His yellow sundress was sticking rather well to the outlines of his body and his blond hair was limp and terrible looking. It was a terrible time to run into someone new.

He barely avoided running into Anna, but skidded and fell solidly on the pavement with a grunt. That was just embarrassing. "Sorry." He offered at the girl he probably startled. "I was trying to get home. I'm still a block away and soaked through!"
sable_cloak: (Girasol)

The Shadow | The Shadow | ota

[personal profile] sable_cloak 2015-07-05 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Taking in or taken in.
beyourrock: (Oh my!)

Pearl | Steven Universe | OTA

[personal profile] beyourrock 2015-07-05 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
{{Open to either role.}}
someplacetobeflying: (Default)

Saskia Oriana | World of Darkness | OTA

[personal profile] someplacetobeflying 2015-07-05 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[As the one being taken in.]
artistwithasickness: (Wrapped up)

Devi D | JTHM/IFS - AU | OTA

[personal profile] artistwithasickness 2015-07-06 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
[Open to doing either!]
justevolved: (aside)

27 cuz I do what I want.

[personal profile] justevolved 2015-07-08 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
At some point, everything Erich had been doing and building up in his life decided to go sideways. Not just a little sideways either; not just the sort of sideways that could be shaken off, laughed off, and pushed aside as a 'learning experience'. It was much more the sort of sideways that involved cops suddenly showing up at his office, all but accusing him of murder.

So he left.

It was a 'vacation', for all intents and purposes. The company was in supposedly capable hands, though it pained him to disappear like that. His life was perfect, or as near to as he could make it, given the circumstances. Things were going well. Too well, apparently; whoever decided it was high time for the universe to shit all over him needed to get hit in the worst way.

He was living out of a hotel right now. It was humiliating on one level, but oddly freeing to not have to worry about anything or anyone. Particularly when it meant he could have all the company he wanted up there with him, for as long as he wanted.

Fuck the police.

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yetahero: (pic#3546388)

zack fair | ffvii | ota

[personal profile] yetahero 2015-07-06 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
[ open to either! ]
wunsch: (Default)

[personal profile] wunsch 2015-07-06 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Hope this is ok! ]

Nill's breath didn't seem to want to come fast enough to catch up with her racing heart. She was trying to move her feet as fast as she could, trying and trying to get away from that wretched place. The rain poured from the sky, pattering quickly on the pavement of the narrow alleyway and soaking her completely. It felt as if the rain would even soak through her pale skin. Her lips were parted as she panted for air, hands clutching at the white sheet she had stolen in an attempt to shield herself. Her wings were hidden under the sheet and she did her best to keep them folded a bit so they were smaller looking. Of course, it was all wet now, along with the white lace dress she wore. White... as if it had some correlation to her innocence. Had the rain tinted that brown as well as her clothes?

Suddenly, she burst out of the alleyway into an apartment lined neighbourhood. It was dark now, and the cold water stung her skin. Nill hoped that the temperature wouldn't drop so low as to freeze the streets... then she really wouldn't be able to run. For now, she ducked under an overhang. It wasn't lit, so she hoped the shadows would allow her to wring out the sheet draped over her shoulders. Thin hands pulled the wet fabric away from her body, folding it and twisting and watching as the water that dripped from her wetted the only dry area under the overhang. Her wings fluttered, shaking the water that clung to the white feathers.

She froze. There was a noise. The sound of a door being opened behind the one she was standing at. Blue eyes widened in fear as her mouth opened in a silent gasp. She thought that no one was there. None of the windows had shown any trace of light! There wasn't enough time for her to turn and run. Before she had even managed to wrap the sheet half around herself again, the door was opening.

"...!"

oh no this is so cute

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dreadpiratekurt: (well then)

Kurt Wagner | Marvel-616 | OTA

[personal profile] dreadpiratekurt 2015-07-06 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
Either or!
Edited 2015-07-06 02:11 (UTC)
bestowsmercy: (❦A Pleasing Rebuttal)

Ser Charibert || Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward || OTA

[personal profile] bestowsmercy 2015-07-06 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
Either roles would be fine with me! Just be careful though, Cherry-butt here is a tad difficult to handle sometimes.
estinien: credit: shslivalice (Default)

wildcard, spoilers for heavensward msq

[personal profile] estinien 2015-07-06 01:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[In his lifetime Estinien has done a lot of things he hasn't enjoyed overly much. There was the hardcore training from a young age, the fighting of dragons, the trying to understand dragons all the while handling the Eye of Nidhogg and carrying that baggage around. Yet as he stands in the open doorway to his sparse lodgings the dragoon wonders if any of that will compare to what's about to come; Estinien is pretty sure none of it will even come close to.

Once the knights had been defeated and the monstrous Thordan vanquished, he had been all for picking up the second eye to take the pair and hide them far away from anything living. It had been a great idea and right there and then it had been almost all consuming a thought. Nothing shit would ever happen again if he did so, someone had to do it and Estinien knew he had trained all his life for it. He'd even reached to pick it up, pausing when the warrior of light stopped him in his tracks upon hearing a noise. A knight had survived and now here he was, stood in the doorway and frowning at the sight before him.

Charibert the Stern was coming to stay. Estinien hadn't paid too much attention to what had gone on back in the reactor, too shocked by idea of what he had almost done. The second eye was locked away again and good riddance to it too. Now he had this problem to deal with. Rumor had it that Charibert was now branded a heretic, yet Aymeric saw usefulness in the thaumaturge somehow. They needed the guy alive for his information yet there were those in Ishgard who would have the ex-knight killed. And where was one place they would never look? Well, all eyes had fallen on Estinien then and no matter how much he had grumbled and outright complained it had still ended with them agreeing; Charibert would be staying with Estinien.]


I still don't agree with this. [The dragoon eyeballs the people at his door, standing to one side to let Charibert walk in. The lodgings are small with only the necessities in terms of furniture. Estinien was rarely at home, there was no point in decorating.] There's nothing to say I won't murder him....

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offwithyourlimbs: (Default)

Lucy/Nyu | Elfen Lied

[personal profile] offwithyourlimbs 2015-07-06 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
[ How can i resist when she's the example pic?? Taken only, open for any prompt. ]
potionsmasters: (pensive)

severus snape (harry potter)

[personal profile] potionsmasters 2015-07-06 08:09 am (UTC)(link)
[Snape would likely be the taken-in party, but it really just depends on the timeline. We could discuss that.]
consocius: Any icons that are by me are safe to take, except for this one please! (moment.)

Sora | Kingdom Hearts | ota

[personal profile] consocius 2015-07-06 08:49 am (UTC)(link)
[Open to being either the taken in or the taker in.]
12minutesolder: (Default)

Pietro Maximoff | mcu

[personal profile] 12minutesolder 2015-07-06 09:26 am (UTC)(link)
probably the one being taken in and it's a two-for-one deal.

Wanda Maximoff aka 'Scarlet Witch' | Avengers | OTA

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vulcanblazer: (Default)

Adell | Disgaea 2 | M/F for shipping, OTA for platonic

[personal profile] vulcanblazer 2015-07-06 12:43 pm (UTC)(link)
(Probably the rescuer, but open to either!)
imxperfectlife: (012 - In the corner of the pretty street)

In honor to the movie we watched I rolled 5 times and got: 6,17,1,21,13 /cracks knuckles

[personal profile] imxperfectlife 2015-07-06 08:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[The air is cold. It bits in her skin with each breeze. Puffs of steam cloud her eyes with each breath. It's cold, cold enough to be winter. The ground if cold as well, cold and hard. Pieces of gravel pierce against her left foot.

She's missing a shoe. Is she missing a shoe? Didn't she go out like that?

Her eyes can't focus on anything, her mind can't focus either and all she gets are fragmented thoughts. She doesn't know where she is. She doesn't know anything, not even that she doesn't remember. All she knows is about the fragmented thoughts that come to her.

The air is cold. The ground is hard. Her head aches. Her hand is wet, no, her whole arm is wet and something drips from her shoulder. It hurts. It shouldn't hurt. What does one do when something hurts? They go somewhere. Where do they go? They go by walking, maybe if she walks she will go there. Where things don't hurt.

The pink haired girl stumbles as she walks, legs trembling, barely able to support her weight. He feet almost drag over the street, she doesn't have the strength to walk, but she keeps doing so. She walks aimlessly, even if she was able to realize where she was the streets and houses would all be unfamilar. Yet she keeps walking, ignoring everything and everyone, though at this time in the night there are hardly people in the streets.

She stops when she trips against a trash can, falling together with it, crashing against another trash can. The quiet of the night is interrumpted by the loud noise of the metal trash cans falling and rolling around, spreading the trash of whoever lives in the house in which they were set. And among all that trash, should the owner of the house come out to check or fix the mess, is a young girl, unconscious and hurt.]

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Dorian Pavus | Dragon Age Inquisition

[personal profile] rebelarchivist 2015-07-06 01:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[Open to taking in (the Inquisition does have a habit of picking up strays) or being taken in (something pre-canon maybe) cross-canon, parallel universe, or dropped in a new universe shenanigans. Will only be in a relationship with males, but will happily be platonic friends with women if that's what you're looking for.]
goesabove: (Default)

[personal profile] goesabove 2015-07-06 08:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[We all know how Dorian feels about swords, but what about Gunblades...or this asshole in particular?]
elvenking: (South away and south away)

The Elvenking/Thranduil | The Hobbit [book]

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westboundwounded: (Soft Smile)

[personal profile] westboundwounded 2015-07-06 04:47 pm (UTC)(link)
The Third Age, like its predecessors, was born from the blood and fires of war. In the dying embers of the Last Alliance, the Woodland Realms had both taken new kings as the prior ones had fallen on the plains. Transitions were nearly always unsteady at first, and diplomacy necessary to smooth things. Celeborn had returned to the shores of Belfalas, weary of war. Amroth was yet settling into his new role, as was Thranduil. With so many hands already full, it was Celebrían who made the long journey north to the Greenwood to smooth relations between north and south. Upon being presented to the new king, she smiled and bowed graciously.

"I thank you for receiving me, my lord. I do hope our time together will be pleasant."

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letmelive: (Default)

Claire Redfield | Resident Evil | OTA

[personal profile] letmelive 2015-07-06 03:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[Can take someone in, or be the one taken in.]
dualstriking: (oh funny!)

Warden-Commander Cousland // Dragon Age // OTA

[personal profile] dualstriking 2015-07-06 05:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[will basically adopt everyone but can also be the one being taken in.]
jondrette: (Default)

Éponine Thénardier | Les Misérables | OTA

[personal profile] jondrette 2015-07-06 07:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[Taken-in. Modern AU available]
anniesgonemad: (Default)

Annie Cresta | The Hunger Games | OTA

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ivegotmypride: (Default)

Nancy | Oliver Twist | OTA

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hunterinred: (in a blackened room)

Devil Hunter Dante || Devil May Cry

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dooms_bride: (Default)

Katherine McBride ✧ Catherine ✧ ota

[personal profile] dooms_bride 2015-07-07 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
[ Either role. ]
dislocked: (Default)

bucky barnes | mcu

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