The Slave Auction Meme

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The Slave Auction Meme


* 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.
* 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

[terrorisms]

I never wondered in the first place, Barton.

( He retorts, settling back down on the bed, lifting his book up again to prop it open on his chest — but he's too busy shooting a look over Clint's way to read the words on the page just yet. He's gotta get in a last shot or two before they call it a night. )

I just figured it had something to do with murdering your owners. This? No, this is way worse. Just take me out in my sleep and call it a day, huh?

( Woe and pity unto him for having to deal with an unruly and incorrigible son of a bitch with a sideways grin and a playful attitude. Particularly one that thinks they can get away with anything, which Clint only happens to think because it's for the most part entirely correct and true. Maybe he needs to go rough up a few more vans just to keep his dignity around here.

Those final dramatic remarks tossed out, he turns his eyes back to Nurse Ratched's passive-aggressive feud with McMurphy. )

[brandingproblem]

[It's not that Clint's never had a back and forth joking bickering kind of camaraderie before. But it's different when it's an owner. Different when it's someone like Frank. Full of anger and guilt and grief and violence. Going from talking about the awful shit, from being a raw open wound of a person, to laughing about dildo fights, that's something different and it's also something necessary.

Because he's wondering if Frank would be alive right now otherwise. If there wasn't something even slightly more positive in his life. Is that putting too much on himself, to think he might be at least part of the reason Frank's still alive? Maybe that's a little much. But drawing the person out of Frank makes them both feel so much better. He's just a guy. He's just a guy when the horrors of circumstance get stripped away. Fury's not just a guy; Fisk's not just a guy; Loki would be furious enough to rival the sun's intensity if anyone suggested he was just a guy.

But Frank's just a guy who never asked for any of this. Certainly not for a mouthy, difficult collar and some asshole's dog. A dog that gives a very stubborn harrumph at being nudged so that there's space for, y'know, a human person on the bed. Frank's a guy who was a husband and father who served his country and decided he wanted to spend more time with his family, get a normal person job, did his duty, loved, cared, had friends, had brothers in his squad. He's a man. He's not some crazy tech genius or superpowered ghost in the wind or rage monster in a literal sense. He's a guy who had the worst possible shit happen to him.

And has to find reasons to keep going.

If that means killing bad guys, then fuck it, they can kill bad guys all day long. Clint figures he needs someone by his side for it, and it's not going to be Karen who otherwise has a stable life and can get herself in enough trouble all on her own. Here, on the ground, in the shit, Frank needs someone. And Clint's done his time being the guy on the ground in the shit as it is. Canada will wait another day. And another and another. Until Frank doesn't need him anymore.

One day at a time.]