fake dating (or not)

[trashtalker]

FAKE DATING (AND REVERSE) MEME On the one hand: You're not dating but you're pretending to. Whether it's for a job, to smooth over some kind of family holiday you never wanted to go to in the first place, or just to get out of someone else hitting on you at a bar, pretending to be a couple will usually do the trick. If you get a little too close or fall a little too deep, that's future you's problem. On the other: You ARE dating but you're pretending not to. This isn't some kind of hidden relationship thing, though. Everyone you normally associate with knows exactly what the score is. You don't hide it. But maybe a job, or a diplomatic crisis, or some kind of situation entirely fueled by spite, whatever, comes up, and suddenly, temporarily, you're pretending to be on completely platonic terms, whatever that means for you. There's a certain kind of tension in watching your partner hit on someone else as part of your mission while you're trying to pretend to be completely unbothered by it. Bonus option: you're not trying to hide it at all but people just don't believe you. Bonus, BONUS option: this is your chance for a fake breakup.

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hiiragi kashima | given | m/m

[goldpaper]

[ more likely a version of option 2 where no one BUT hiiragi and the other person (and maybe his closest friends) knows and they absolutely are ACTIVELY hiding it. ]

james t kirk. star trek aos.

[negativechill]

[ prefs here for this guy, m/m or la'an for moderatechill or pseudochill, f/f or talk to me for stillnotchill.

open to either type of scenario for all of the above, but definitely leaning toward "pretending not to be dating for job reasons" this go round. ]

🥺🥺🥺Jim pls help

[greenwithingenuity]

They're here to get information and Gaila is a shockingly good asset to have for this kind of thing. She can tell when someone takes a bait better than others. Is enough of an Exotic to attract attention when they need a distraction. Unfortunately, this includes the wrong kind of attention as much as it does what they want. She's been trained on how to handle herself, but this time it's not proving easy to talk her way out of what might end up being an altercation they really can't afford.

If it were as simple as knocking the man out cold, she'd have done so already, or stunned his ass into the floor.

She can't see any of the others from this angle to request a hand, so she's just been inching them away from the corner she's been working with a louder than normal false laugh for his comments.

Karkat Vantas | Homestuck

[trollsmith]

[ Up for anything, give me your Session AUs. Or just a random scenario. But KK will totally take it way too seriously.

I'm pretty much stuck around Cascade for characterization so please keep this in mind. ]

⊹ Nice ⊹ To Be Hero X ⊹ OTA, M/F preferred ⊹

[cruciatusetbeata]

[/GESTURES TO ENTIRE BUSINESS WITH MOON]

ren amamiya } persona 5 royal

[phantomshow]

[no prefs! fake dating is actual canon behavior for this guy, come @ me]

Weiss Schnee | RWBY | f/f or gen

[coldhandscoldheart]

roy mustang | fma:b | ota

[flashpointed]

[ he uses serial dating as a cover for meeting with informants. (usually women but w/e, throw a dude in there. call the cops.) easy to spin either way but i will admit to a soft spot for standard fake dating. let him take you to a nice dinner and make you talk about work the whole time ]

Ren Kaji | wind breaker

[suckercache]

Garrus Vakarian | Mass Effect | OTA

[thearchangel]

( open to either option! Whichever is funnier! )

Imai Nobume | Gintama

[donutdemolisher]

[ She's an assassin, crooked cop, and occasional bodyguard, she has plenty of reasons to be fake dating as cover...

Though really. Why her? What's wrong with you? There will almost certainly be violence, the only question is whether it's slapstick pratfalls or she's drenching your date location in blood. ]

Peter Parker | TASM/MCU

[spideyguy]

[ he's either the best actor or the worst actor in any given situation, no in between ]

aerith ✿ ff7

[cetrary]

[ open to either option! ]

Agnes Claudel | Kuro no Kiseki | M/F

[octogenesis]

[ Agnes wasn't really sure WHY she was here, sitting at a table a little nervously watching the door. Well no, she knew why, she just didn't know why she agreed to it. Her friends meant well, but setting up a blind date felt a little... unnecessary. AND said blind date might not even show up - which she was actually quite okay with. On the one hand, she could meet someone new and make a friend, and see where things went from there, on the other.. ]

Leonard 'Bones' McCoy | Alt SNW | OTA

[giatros]

[Here to be jealous of his partner having to flirt with someone else for A Reason, but if by some reason BONES has to be the one pretending to be into someone else while his far more important/hot (to his mind) partner has to pretend they're not together I will laugh myself silly.]

@complex_trajectories

[giatros]

Bones hates networking. Is the thing. Like, he gets it. They're not going to win this war by going it alone, and Jim's proven with this risky gambit of his that working with more than Just the UEF is making a lot more headway than anything else they've tried so far.

So they've been given a bit of leeway to do influence ops. Fancy way of saying 'making friends' if you ask Bones.

Which is why the CMO is standing off to his captain's side and a step or so back with a drink in his hand neatly pressed into a dress uniform trying desperately not to look as bored or uncomfortable as he feels. He's here to make Jim look as important as possible, and on the off chance some of this food and drink doesn't agree with the Captain's many allergies. Jim Kirk knows how to turn on the charm. He's the kind of guy that can get most anyone to turn their head and pay attention.

Most. Anyone.

It's been rather. Forced. Stiff. With these xenos. Andorians, Bones reminds himself from the briefing. It's been enough to keep him on edge all evening. But at one particularly awkward joke being rebutted Bones can't help himself. He snorts into his glass before he can wrestle himself into professionalism again. It's going to earn him a Look from Jim, but the Andorian grins. Sidesteps captain Kirk and approaches the doctor instead.

"Ah." Shit. Did Bones just cock this up for all of them??? He's sweating when he meets the other's gaze. "Beggin' your pardon."

"No. It is. Refreshing to see an honest assessment." And Bones is too shocked to notice the up and down look he's just gotten for the first time. He glances at Jim for help here but he's getting an even more intense Look to go with it.

Hell.

James T. Kirk | Star Trek AOS | OTA

[smartass_captain]

[Am down for AUs too just LMK. Prefs are also listed there.

The man cleans up real well and is unfortunately Very Good at being a distraction. Even when his SOs or crushes would rather he didn't....]

[the_other_dellamorte]

Illario knows how these sorts of operations go. Infiltrate a party, kill your mark, slip out again. Ideally, without causing a scene, which can be tricky, but a good assassin can manage it if they pick the right spot and time for the kill. Of course, this isn't quite the same. They aren't here to kill any of the Venatori, but to get information. Neve speaks Tevene and looks the part, so of course, she's mixing with the blood mages. Illario also speaks Tevene, and technically does blood magic, but since Zara Renata's death, he's not exactly popular. Lucanis' face is too well-known, even with the beard. And because Jim is Rook, and Rook is not exactly a leader but is, it's Jim who decides Jim is going in with Neve.

Illario keeps silent as he sits up on the beams high above the party going on below. Hundreds of blood mages just below- if any one of them looked up at the wrong moment, they'd be in trouble. Lucanis and Illario are well used to sitting tight for hours at a time, crouched in a way that makes use of the shadows, but Bellara and Davrin are used to moving far too often. Davrin is, even for an elf, almost too big to settle on the wide beams comfortably.

And while Illario should be worried about their comfort, despite the uneasy glances (or in Davrin's case, downright suspicious glares), he finds that the only thing he actually cares about is twenty feet below, dancing and charming the Vint mage on his arm. There's an uneasy twisting inside him, not just nerves, but something nasty and green-eyed, coiling around like a snake and pumping its venom into his veins.

He has no reason to be jealous. None at all. But they look so good together, so natural and acceptable, more so than he can ever be with Jim. He should check in with the other team, use the speaking stones that the Inquisitor sent north for them, but he can't tear his eyes away from Jim and Neve, watching them lean close to each other, imagining what they might be saying.

Gorou 🐾 Genshin Impact

[pawprintings]

yuri himemiya, prince of stride

[menkoi]

[ i'd love an escorting scenario wherein Yuri is a high class escort either to someone who is genuinely lonely and in need of a date, and/or someone on a mission and they need a fake date as cover... either way he's quite a menace ]

Yelena Belova | mcu | ota

[white_widow]

[for either laughs/platonic bonding/the traditional trope vibes
seen Thunderbolts*, mark spoilers for others.]

ann takamaki , p5 / p5r ♡

[lovesque]

( ota to castmates, f/m for everyone else ! please forgive me, i'm rusty. )

[lasthungrywolf]

[Want a thing with a loyal street punk who Fake Dates Ann in order to discourage someone's unwanted attention? Could be childhood friends or have a more recent connection, but the most obvious scenario to me is he's been nursing a massive crush but hiding out and he drops everything to help her without question, but during the course of the Fake Dating the big dumb crush becomes obvious enough she puts 2 and 2 together. Always up for discussing other ideas, though!]

Kindaichi Yuutarou | HQ

[onionshoots]

Ben Solo | Star Wars | OTA

[neverreallygone]

Elia Broch | Star Wars OC | OTA

[beautiful_paths]

Isa Trevyal | Star Wars OC | OTA

[like_ashadow]

dennis whitaker | the pitt

[newbraska]

Hawks | My Hero Academia

[velocityraptor]