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The Rescue Me Meme

'Cause, sometimes, you just can't save yourself.

→ Post with your character's name, canon, and any preferences in the subject line
→ Those tagging, go to RNG and roll for a number between one and ten.
→ Alternatively, just pick the choice you're interested in most.

1. A Bad Date - You get a text, a phone call, or maybe you can just see the other person floundering on what clearly must be the worst date of their life. Time to step in and save the day.

2. Prison - Maybe they've been wrongly convicted, or maybe you're an accomplice. Either way, it's jailbreak. Maybe the guards will fall for the old 'wounded prisoner' technique.

3. Taken Hostage - They're being held at gunpoint, either for money or for fun. Maybe you can talk down their captors, or maybe you are a captor, secretly working to help them.

4. Abuse/Neglect - Your body is damaged, your suffering taken it's toll. You can't save yourself anymore. You're wounded, you're starving, maybe even dying. Someone, help.

5. Addiction - Just one more. Nothing bad will happen if you just get one more. Either way, you can't save yourself from this downward spiral. Someone else is going to have to help.

6. Yourself - One bad choice after another, your self-destructive tendencies are going to get the best of you unless someone steps in, quick, to save the day.

7. Climactic Situation - You're hovering over an active volcano, a pit of sharks, about to fall off a cliff. Whatever it is, you've only got precious seconds of life left.

8. Loneliness - You've been secluded, locked away, and the emptiness is overwhelming. You need company, or you might just drown.

9. Unwanted Social Function - A family reunion, your three o'clock board meeting, whatever it is, you desperately don't want to go. Hopefully your good buddy can come up with a distraction.

10. A Bad Romance - You're trapped in a relationship that's headed south, and you can't seem to get away from the other person. Looks like you need a helping hand, maybe a prince charming.

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[ 3/4/5(addicted to....overworking?!)/6/8/9/wildcard? open to assumed cr, etc! canon & crosscanon cool! age can be anywhere from 16-26 if you have a pref! a bit more info on journal! ]

Edited 2025-11-13 16:50 (UTC)

[All of the prompts could apply to her, but I'm happy to play her as the savior as well.]

(Going to pass on 1. A Bad Date. Otherwise I'm open to all, 21+ for shipping purposes)

[Can be either the rescuer and the rescuee! Interested in 4/6/7/8 the most but I'm good with any of the prompts.]

Edited 2025-11-13 17:14 (UTC)

( m/m the rescued. discovered as a xenogenic and or suspected and prison AND also torture is canon but can be adjusted into other situations (mutant adjacent). )

info in journal, either role.

either role lol

( honestly, just as likely to be the rescuer as the one being rescued, so either role! faves are 1, 3, and 9.

open to 6 and 7 with some discussion. )

[ he may need the rescue, but he probably also unintentionally caused the situation in the first place. ]

[No 1, 5, or 10 but open to anything else, and being on either side of the equation.]

( ...if he's got you, who's got him? )

[ More likely the rescuer! ]

[ Any scenario works for him as the rescuerer. As the one being rescued, most likely scenarios would be...

6: He often tries to keep himself busy, even when he's sick. So. It will take some insistance and; assertiveness to get him to rest.

8: His immediate family are missing, with his younger brother and mother likely deceased. ]

[ He 100% thinks he's the hero, lol ]

[Could be either side to this. He likes to rescue a damsel in distress, or whatever the male equivalent to that would be. But he does have the potential to get himself in trouble, either by being outed, or family stuff, or hey, bad dates. I'm open to either end on this.]

Bio-. A man from a world where, once a month, the moon opens an eye and wherever it gazes, reality changes. As a child, he gained shapeshifting powers, and he has recently joined the organisation that combats the aftereffects of this, be it supernatural events or paranormal criminals.

He's a professional rescuer, but also a reckless disaster, so either/or!