The Slave Auction Meme

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❧ Leave a comment with the character's name, fandom, and whether your character will be playing the part of 'slave' or 'master', plus preferences for scenarios if you have any or set up the scene yourself in the comment.
❧ Respond to others with one of the scenarios below or feel free to make up your own.
❧ Please remember to be respectful of others while you play

Warning:  Be aware that this meme deals with dark subjects like slavery and may also contain non-consensual/dubiously consensual sex, violence, and kink.

SLAVES

1.  The Newbie - This is your very first auction and you don't quite know what to expect.  Hopefully you remember your training and don't disgrace yourself in front of your new master.  Hopefully someone thinks you're worth buying at all.

2.  The Oldtimer - You've been bought and sold and bought again so many times.  You've seen it all before and don't think this time is going to be much different.  In fact, the only real anxiety you've got is whether or not someone's going to pay for a more than slightly used slave.

3.  The Pet - You're a pleasure slave.  A bed warmer.  A decorative piece of artwork.  You're meant to look pretty and be pleasing and not much else.

4.  The Guard - Your master hired you because of your ability to swing a sword or shoot a gun, not your looks.

5.  The Escape Artist - Somehow you always manage to squirm out of your master's chains.  Too bad you seem to get caught after a while.  Maybe your next daring escape will be permanent.  Then again, maybe your next master has special ways of keeping you locked up.

6.  The Undercover - You aren't a slave at all, you're just pretending to be one.  Why?  Well that's up to you.  Either way, your cover is blown if you don't act the part.

7.  The Specialist - You have a skill that no one else has.  Something rare and valuable.  Something your master needs more than anything else.

MASTERS

1.  The Customer - You've owned slaves before and this trip to the market is nothing new to you.  Still, you're hoping to find something worth your while.

2.  The Gift - Someone bought a pet for you, isn't that nice of them?  Or maybe it isn't so nice.  Did you even want a slave in the first place?  Well you're stuck with one now.

3.  The Giver - You're selecting a slave for someone else, and they need to be perfect.  Perhaps you'd better test them out first to make sure you're getting your money's worth.

4.  The Trainer - You specialize in taming unruly slaves and making them over into perfect, obedient, well-trained pets.

5.  The Rebel - You hate the idea of slavery, but the system isn't going to go away any time soon, so the next best thing is to buy up any slave you can get your hands on and free them, right?

6.  The Companion - You want someone to be with you always, someone you can talk to and depend on, someone who will never leave your side.  It's a good thing that money can buy that these days.

7.  The Undercover - You're not actually a Master.  You're at the auction for an entirely different reason.  Maybe it's special policework, maybe you're trying to hunt down a certain someone.  Either way, your cover is blown unless you act the part.

As always, feel free to use a combination of scenarios or make up your own if you have other ideas.
 

Comments

[jotunblooded]

There is. And if you're expecting me to call down lightning from the skies when they're gone, I'm afraid you'll be left disappointed. [Or relieved, as the case may be.] It isn't that sort of magic. [It's the sort of magic that will just make it very, very easy for him to get away, and hard for him to be followed.

The reminder about supplies sobers him, adds a piece of rationality to his rampaging emotions. Even if he could get away, he wouldn't leave Nabooru stranded. He's done a lot of morally wrong things, that's part of how he wound up in this mess, but he's not a murderer.]

What country is this? [But while they were riding, he could at least try to learn something about the land he would hopefully soon be setting out into alone.]

[diedthesage]

The land's called Hyrule. Where we live is called Gerudo Valley. Named for us, the Gerudo. We're outsiders. [Which was a fun little place to be in. Thieves and warriors by necessity. But she said this with such a tone of pride that it almost clashed with the meaning.]

If you run back the way we came, it's more than likely the dogs will pick you back up for resale. The land past the desert is wasteland, which I can show you through in good time. [Past that was opportunity, maybe. Nobody ever traveled that far out.] I want to help you. So believe me when I say that me letting you out of those chains and you going off is not the best bet to make.

[jotunblooded]

[Hyrule. Gerudo Valley. Gerudo. All around them, desert. Past the desert, wasteland. Loki listens intently, filing the information away for later.

He is struck then with how far he's come, without ever even really noticing. It feels like he's come all the way to the end of the world. And past that, more unknown.

But really, there's nothing from him back the way he's come, besides recapture. Maybe it's time to move on...especially if Nabooru is offering to guide him through that wasteland.]

...I believe you.

[It's an effort for him to admit it, but finally, even his habitual wariness and suspicion can't get around the fact that she really seems to want to help him.]

[diedthesage]

Those men that got you. The woman said they were some kind of traveling traders. Sounds like the woman paid them pretty good, but they're a greedy bunch. [Around the bend they start heading into a much more dry and heated environment. The shift comes out of nowhere. She leads her horse up a small plank of wood over a small creak of water. A waterfall off to the side is just up ahead, along with a much larger bridge to cross and a guard standing nearby.]

I hope the place suits you. Not everyone enjoys it. [She nods to the woman, who looks up at Loki giving him quite the questioning look before standing aside to let them through.]

[jotunblooded]

[Loki looks away when he feels the guard's gaze on him. Despite everything, he feels almost self-conscious, and finds himself trying to hide his hands out of sight. He knows now that he isn't a prisoner or a slave, but he certainly looks like one. And so he lets out a breath of relief as they're let through. Yet more proof to Nabooru's words that she carries more than a bit of weight here.]

It's...warmer, than I'm used to. [Already, the heat feels oppressive.] But it certainly seems an interesting land so far. Nothing quite like I've seen before.

[Loki smiles to himself, and adds:] I might enjoy myself just because of that. [He's always been curious by nature, sometimes to his cost but often to his benefit.]