+1 proposal meme!

[broski]

We've see it everywhere. Rings inside pokeballs, in cakes, in drinks, during baseball games and more. This meme pinpoints on some of the more interesting (and really adorable!) ways to tell someone you want to spend the rest of your life with them!

Rules:

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Comment with your character.

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Someone responds, picking a number from 1 to 8 (or using the Random Number Generator), and plays out the specific propsal situation. (Note that the second person should be the one propsing, but it doesn't matter!)

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Thread!

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PROFIT.
So how are YOU going to propose to your darling dearest, after being together for so long? Well...

Scenarios:

1. Down on One Knee

Traditionally. Either in public or privately, one of you has taken the daring risk of becoming completely vulnerable in the midst of the other. You've got the perfect ring tucked into your coat jacket, and now all that's left is to see how the other reacts.

2. Cake

After a long, very expensive dinner, all that's left is dessert. In one bite in particular, you feel a hard... something hit your teeth. Upon investigating this strange object, you find a beautiful ring covered in cake in your hand. Look up, and you'll find your significant other looking at you with those adorable goo goo eyes you just love.

3. Fortune Cookie

It's your average night at the local Chinese resturant, nothing too special. And of course, every American knows that a good Chinese meal is never over until you eat the fortune cookie. But on this night, you crack open your cookie, surprised to find there's a lovely little ring looking back at you. The slip of paper that goes with all fortune cookies reads a simple: "Will you marry me?"(in bed???)

4. During the Game

In the midst of the tired players taking their much earned break at half time, and the seemingly hundreds of birthday wishes flying past on the large screen, one message in particular will stand out to you. " ____ will you marry me?" And when you turn to your lover, heart thumping loudly, you'll see a huge ring presented before you.

5. In a Book

Just a quiet night together, playing some games, reading a few books. Upon locating a particular book, you crack it open, only to find that the pages have been hollowed out, leaving only a beautiful ring,and a delicate note saying "Will you marry me?"in its place.

6. During the Movies

A.k.a MysteryGuitarMan on Youtube's most adorable proposal. You've prepared a little scene at the begining of the movies, and had the people in charge play in between movie previews. The lights go up, buddy, and now it's your time to shine!

7.One Balloon

Better known as "the most adorable scene in Super Junior's No One music video." You've got tons of balloons, and together you and your honey let them go fly into the sky. But why didn't you let the last one go? I'll say that ring attatched to the end has something to do with it!

8. Anything!

There is no doubt in my mind that I have missed out on some really cute proposals, so make your own up!

Comments

Jade Harley | Homestuck | aged up lalala

[greenshift]

2 (oh man this is going to be wonderful and awful)

[turntechgodkid]

[Dave Strider is smooth. Dave Strider is suave. Dave Strider is a lot of things--he's a man who can just walk into the best restaurant in the city without a reservation and get the best table in the house, for one, secluded but with a great view, and all the murmurs and clinks of fine silverware lilting up to them like a lullaby.

But one thing Dave Strider is not is straightforward. The plans he's got in motion tonight are probably so curly-twisted roundabout they're looking up their own nostrils like Cubist contortionists.

He swirls the wine in his glass idly. Their dinner plates are gone. The cake--the cake--should be here in a moment.]

What do you think, should I have stuck to the all-you-can-eat Burger King plan?

oh god don't let her eat it lmfao

[greenshift]

[ She's grinning, but she rolls her eyes too, letting a fork clatter onto her plate without much regard for manners or politeness. ]

Okaaaay, Mister Show-Off, I get it. Hehe, your fancy schmancy place is really nice.

[ She doesn't have to be graceful about being wrong after all, even as she props her chin on her hands and takes another look at the view out the window, something she's been doing periodically during the meal. ]

I don't think she's going to want to when she sees what he did.

[turntechgodkid]

But imagine how many Big Kids meals we could have gotten for our cash. We could have been literally swimming in chicken fries. I think we missed out.

[He puts the wineglass down and slips one arm over the back of his chair. His legs are stretched out under the table, his spine's relaxed. He's a sunglasses study in nonchalance.

Obviously, he's nervous.

He leans forward a little and tries to follow her gaze outside.]

Something out there cooler than me?

klsdfjl waits for it

[greenshift]

I don't think I'd want to swim in chicken fries even if we could, Dave.

[ She pulls a face for a second at the thought, because seriously that's sort of gross. And then glance back at him when he asks, pleased and sort of thoughtful. ]

I was looking at the stars! You can't see them too much in the city, but it's a little easier to here.

[ Because she's still used to literally no light pollution at all, just a million stars glimmering down at her every night. ]

1/2

[turntechgodkid]

[He might have replied, but a waiter materializes behind her to discreetly catch Dave's attention, and instead he places his napkin on the table and swings almost lazily to his feet.]

BRB, space girl. Don't fall asleep while I take care of this brozilla. Though if you do, make sure you land face-up. I brought a sharpie just in case and your face'll make a great canvas for my next installation piece: The Coma Lisa.

[He rests his hand on her shoulder briefly before he goes, though. He exchanges a few murmured words with the waiter, then stalks around the corner.]

2/2

[turntechgodkid]

[He returns immediately (there was another waiter just around the corner) with a cake. Or...maybe it's a cake. It could look like one if you've got enough imagination. It's caving in and lopsided and not quite the right texture, though it's got plenty of frosting glooped onto it so it's impossible to tell. On the subsiding top, someone had drawn Sweet Bro in red buttercream.

It's reasonably clear who that someone was.

Another thing Dave Strider is not is kitchen-safe.

He places the cake in front of her.]

Check it. There's a note.

[It reads: this fine conkfection secretly holds a mystery.....SHHHHHHHHHH

Dave sits across from her again and hands her a fork, poker-faced.]

oh my god i'm dyingioawendsfkl 1/3

[greenshift]

[ She sticks her tongue out at him for a second at the Coma Lisa comment - come on, she has not done the narcoleptic schtick for a while now, geeeeez - but she smiles warmly and waits patiently for the like minute it takes him to leave and come back. She's expecting it to take longer - she's more than once joked about having to be in a queue just to spend time with her boyfriend - so she doesn't quite notice him until he puts the cake in front of her. She blinks, really looks at it, and...

...what is she looking at. Actually, she's been around Dave long enough that she knows exactly what she's looking at, but there's no way he actually got her an ironic cake. Right?












Oh god he got her an ironic cake. ]

[greenshift]

[ Stares at it for a very long moment!!! ]

[greenshift]

[ And just as she realizes he's holding out a fork and reaches to take it...she basically bursts out laughing. Not meanly, of course, but very Dave what did you do this time. ]

Dave!

Please for the love of god don't let her eat that monstrosity.

[turntechgodkid]

Jade Harley, are you mocking this beautiful work of art right here, this gorgeous fucking dessert I slaved over all afternoon up to my elbows in Bisquick and baking powder for? I baked my heart and soul into this cake and I'm not gonna take this gross goddamn indecency sitting down.

[He leans back in his seat and crosses his arms over his chest. The waiter may or may not have taken it upon himself to get poison control on the line, just in case.]

But his heart and soul!!!

[greenshift]

[ She on the other hand leans forward, elbows on the table and a few locks of hair threatening to fall into the icing at any moment. ]

Did it really take all afternoon?

Would YOU eat Dave Strider's vital organs?

[turntechgodkid]

[He shrugs.] Nah. Not the baking part, anyway. It kept falling apart so I had to mix up some stronger icing shit to glue it all back together.

[As if to prove his point, Sweet Bro's mouth just sort of...schlorps down into the recesses of the cake. Dave nods at it.] So are you going to eat it or what? It's got like, a mystery inside it or something.

That narration is horrifying this whole thing is horrifying

[greenshift]

[ Okay she doesn't know that much about baking per se but are you really supposed to glue a cake together...She just kind of pokes at it with her fork to test out that texture and all, and also because it seems a little inhumane to just dig into Sweet Bro when he's just lost his mouth. ]

Aren't you going to give me a hint about what it is?

Derp. Wrong account, fixing things.

[turntechgodkid]

Did your dog forget to feed you the page of the dictionary with "mystery" on it when he was teaching you how to speak? Because I think you missed an important part of the definition there where mysteries are fucking mysterious.

[To help, though, he reaches across and takes his knife (he'd cut all his food with the side of his fork like a normal civilized person) and starts shaving off thin strips of cake from his end. He's kind of nervous that the prize had fallen out. Or maybe the batter, uh, dissolved what he'd hidden inside it.

She's bound to find it before he does, though. It ended up in Jade's side of the I-guess-you-could-pretend-it's-recognizable-as-a-cake. But cake...really shouldn't behave this way.]

Damn, I should open a bakery chain. How many cakes do you know bounce like that? The world's obviously been missing out on my delirious culinary talent.

[greenshift]

[ WOW EYEROLL AT THE BEC COMMENT.

She...okay, apparently he's really determined she find this mystery, so she lets her fork hover over the sorta-kinda-cake for a moment. On the one hand, he clearly put a lot of effort into making this thing and it's really sweet and she's Jade Harley and doesn't afraid of anything. On the other hand, holy shit it bounces, she's not even a cake expert and that seems like something that isn't supposed to happen. She'll just mimic his movement and start cutting off pieces too, looking for this mysterious mystery of his, starting from a corner. ]

Hehe, but then John would probably stop talking to you or something for giving in to the batterwitch!

[turntechgodkid]

John should get on his knees and thank me. I'll run Crocker Corp so far into the ground they'll have to start a new chain selling noodle mix where they come up in Indonesia.

[He sits back in his chair when she starts excavating the cake herself, and instead he starts tapping the fork on his knuckles and flipping it around his fingers. His face is as impassive as usual, but could it be--is Dave Strider anxious about something?

Could it be about the thing that goes clink against her fork?]

[greenshift]

[ She's far from put her entire attention in the cake, so she definitely notices his fidgeting and is even maybe about to say something about it when her fork hits something hard. For a second, she wonders if this isn't some weirdly solid lump of batter or icing, but what she ends up extracting from the cake - that part of which collapses like a mini batter iceberg into the sea - is a roundish lump. ]

Did you put a rock in my cake?

[ Teasingly, as she sets the lump down and starts poking at it with her fork. ]

[turntechgodkid]

[Dave stills when she finds it and slowly puts his fork down. Both hands rest, loosely curled, on the table. His attention's all in one place, for once.

Clearly, this is the mystery he wanted her to find.]

Yup. Adds flavor.

[He's not holding his breath, but it's almost like time is.]

[greenshift]

[ The first thing she discovers is that there's a hole at the center of this mysterious rock, and after some more prodding of it she decides to just use her hands to pull off bits and clumps of batter and icing until she finally unearths something kind of small and hard and...











...oh.

She looks from it to him for confirmation. ]

[turntechgodkid]

[He watches her strip nasty not-cake from the diamond ring and realizes, at this moment, 'Holy fuck, this is stupid.' His cake is stupid. He's stupid. He could have done this in any number of less stupid ways but he did it like this anyway, and even if it was cool and ironic it was also very, very stupid.

And he's asking Jade to put up with his stupidity for--well. The rest of their conceivable lives, pretty much. The enormity of what he's asking makes him feel like a teenager again, awkward and bird-boned.

Shit. Let's be grown-ups.

He reaches up, and when Jade looks up at him from the ring she catches him mid-motion, his fingertips on the sides of his aviators. He hesitates under her regard.

And then he slides his shades off his face, folds the arms carefully, and glances up to meet her eyes.]

Hey.

[greenshift]

[ There are a lot of ways she could react to this. It's not a shock, exactly, and she can't say she didn't at all see this coming. They'd been together long enough, known each other even longer, and you're supposed to marry people you love, so - it's not an out of the blue surprise, no, even if it's unexpected. The answer is, of course, easy. The how to say it, though, is less easy, and for a second she thinks of Rose with her books and analyses and what she'd have to say about hiding a ring in a cake.

She loves Rose a lot, but that doesn't actually help.

(Picturing John's inevitable haha I knew it! doesn't help either.)

The thing is, the table's pretty small, even for two people, and she's privately wondered all night if it wasn't a one person table that just got misplaced. What this really means is that when she all but jumps to her feet, it's surprisingly easy to just lean across it and put her hands on either side of his face to pull him into a kiss.

She's almost sure she's getting freaky mutant cake on her dress, and she's completely certain that she doesn't care. ]

[turntechgodkid]

Whuhgmph--

[Dave experiences a brief moment of total uncool--this is what Jade does to him, and always has--but then he closes his eyes and breathes and laughs, relieved, into the kiss. He leans towards her over the table and his hands slide up her arms, and he pulls her in at first before breaking away.]

Dammit, Jade, you're supposed to let me ask before you say yes so loud. The old ladies' flag-knitting club in Tennessee probably thought there was an earthquake.

[greenshift]

[ She laughs, and her eyebrows go up in a kind of did you really expect anything else kind of way, teasing and knowing all at once. ]

You asked already with the ring! Or maybe you should've asked faster, because it's too late now.

[turntechgodkid]

[His smirk isn't anything unusual, but he never learned how to keep emotion out of his eyes, and the expression looks different without his shades: the way his eyes crinkle at the corners, the actual steadiness of his gaze.]

Oh no, you did not just call me slow. Those are throw-down WWF kung fu fighting words. [He brushes her hair back to keep it from the horribleterrible cake.] I bet I could still ask now and it wouldn't be too late.