[new meme] - The Historical Romance (AU) Meme

[youngandbeautiful]

The Historical Romance (AU) Meme

(also including high fantasy, steampunk, and sci-fi because why not)

There's nothing quite like a good historical setting to take a tale of sordid romance to the next level. Perhaps it's the setting that seems so separate from our own time, thus making the whole thing feel more exotic or epic. Besides, the codes of attitude! The costumes! The traditions! The disease and early death!

Uhhh, did I mention the costumes?

HOW TO PLAY

• This is a meme for shipping in historical (and also fantastical by historically based) settings. Pretty self-explanatory.
• Post with your character, information, and preferences.
• There are TWO things you can RNG here, because everybody loves some RNG. First is time period, second is prompt. Two for the price of one.
• Comment to other people.
• Be kind to others, play nice, etc.

Time Periods:

1. Prehistory
2. Egypt
3. Greece & Rome
4. Mythic & Legendary
5. Viking
6. Ancient Asia
7. Scottish Highlands
8. Celts
9. Medieval & Middle Ages
10. High Fantasy
11. Camelot/Arthurian
12. French Revolution
13. Tudors
14. Regency
15. Victorian/Industrial Revolution
16. Steampunk
17. Wild West
18. Civil War
19. Roaring Twenties
20. 1940s
21. 1950s
22. 1960s
23. The Space Age Future

Prompts:

1. Spoils of War: You've been taken of your home and made either an unwilling companion or, even worse, a slave. Yet something is beginning
2. Nefarious Intentions: Whether it be from jealousy or a desire to ruin someone, you want to make this person - perhaps with an equal or higher station - desire you, then you will destroy them.
3. Inherited You: Often times, in the past, positions came along with the spouse of the deceased or disposed.
4. Must Be Married: In order to get your inheritance, secure your title, produce an heir, or please a parent, you have to marry someone. Anyone will do, won't they?
5. Arranged: This marriage is one you didn't even get to pick. Hopefully, you'll at least like the person.
6. Servitude: You live to serve, but you also love the one you serve, perhaps from afar.
7. Love at First Sight: Okay, admittedly, you have't seen many people because this is before easy travel, but you know this person is the one. What can you do about it?
8. Learn to Love: The two of you are thrust together. The most you can do is hope to love each other in time.
9. Promised to Another: You two are head over heels, and things couldn't be better...except for the fact that one of you is supposed to belong to somebody else.
10. Seduction for Gain: In a time where women and the underclass were treated very poorly, there's no shame in trying to advance your station. Use whatever means necessary.
11. Courtly Love: Between a knight and a noble, a bard and a noble, a king and his lady, etc etc etc. The kind of love spoken of in ballads.
12. The One Above All Else: The one who got away...or the one who was never yours. Maybe they are a beloved friend, a special person you must protect, or that flickering green light far from you, but you love them all the same.
13. For the Man Who Has Everything: You are powerful, strong, well-connected; you have everything except for someone to share it with. Perhaps that will change.
14. Rescue the Maiden Fair: Or the "man" fair. Surely they will show gratitude.
15. To Honor You: Maybe if you win a great victory, slay a dragon, or invent a combustion engine, senpai your beloved will notice you.
16. Cultural Differences: When uniting two cultures through a marriage or union, culture clashes are bound to occur.
17. Class Difference: The poor street urchin who loves the child of the bourgeois or the serf who longs after the lord's only daughter. Is there anything more heartbreaking?
18. Healing the Broken: Life is hard, and perhaps one of you has bore the brunt of it. It falls on the other to bring life back into their life.
19. Met Before: You knew this person long ago. Have your feelings for them changed?
20. Courtship: You will do this the proper way, with meek handholding and chaperoned dances. Or you may have no other choice.
21. Secrets and Magic: Your romance is further muddled by the existence of strange creatures and the magical forces. Maybe one of you is even a magician, but you can't let anyone know, even the person you adore.
22. Torn Apart by War: On the same side or Romeo and Juliet-ing it, the constant fighting is ruining your war.
23. Forbidden: You took an oath, a vow, or some other kind of promise not to love. Before your eyes, that's all shattering.
24. Rule by My Side: You want power and you want this person to be your consort, and will do anything to get both.
25. I've Grown Accustomed to Your Face: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, or: I hated you but now I've grown to want you like no other.
26. I'll Wait for You: You will wait for the person you love. Back in the day, this was pretty serious, considering the death rate from the plague. And dysentery.
27. A Promise Made: You told them you would make them yours and nothing would stand between you. You intend to make good on that promise, no matter what goddesses you have to face, monsters you have to kill, or political situations you must maneuver.
28. First Contact: You are the first envoy of your kingdom or race. Making a good impression and not breaking any hearts are both good calls.
29. 1.21 Gigawatts: "But I'm not even from this time period!" Instead, you're the modern guy or gal who fell through time. You must fit in...and not break everything by falling in love with the knight or samurai.
30. WILDCARD

Comments

Chang Wufei | Gundam Wing | M/M for ships, otherwise OTA

[chang_wufei]

[ooc: Happy to AU or have him in the wrong time period.]

Ancient Asia 1

[creamyice]

[The world must really hate him. First he died just to wake up 800 years in the past on the day he got turned into a monster in order to protect his country. Who would even want this overgrown sandbox? But the king or his father as it was were a greedy man. He wanted power over anything else. Power that Ankh intended to not give him. It would lead to him and four others being turned into monsters that never would be able to feel complete and then his father would stab him in the back and he would end up sealed for 800 years and be freed from the seal in the form of an arm.

That wasn't a path he intended to go down again, so he stole the medals that would turn him from man to monster and threw them into the desert. The sand would hide them soon enough. But it looked like this kingdom was fated to be destroyed one way or another. Since the king's greed didn't made it fall this time it got invaded instead and the king died in the fight. It was ironical enough to make him laugh if it didn't sealed his fate as well.

As the only royal left he got enslaved and taken from his home in the desert. The trip was long, but eventually they arrived at what could only be a royal palace with how grand it was. Just lovely, they wanted him to be the pet to some spoiled royal brat. And how in hell name was he to communicate here? He didn't got a word they said and he had the feeling that no one here talked English, Japanese or his home tongue. Just splendid.

[chang_wufei]

[For a captured slave, being given to one of the royal family should have been an honor, particularly given to the fiance's of the dowager empress's granddaughter.

As for said man, Wufei wasn't quite sure why his future in-law had decided to give him the conquered royal. But he could hardly refuse a gift from his liege and waited patiently in his study for the delivery. Who knew, maybe he'd be able to put his skill in languages to use for something other than spy work and trade agreements.]

[creamyice]

[Indeed it was an honour, but Ankh had the tendency to be grumpy most of his time. Sure his life could have taken a much worse turn, but it felt like as if was fated to be under someone's control no matter what.

Ankh got escorted into the study, chained up and with his usual grumpy face. He didn't bowed or anything to the man he got presented to and the guards had to make him show his owner respect.]

Arthur Kirkland (England) | Hetalia | M/M (mostly)

[english_dignity]

[ooc: Happy to AU him, play him from an earlier time (which isn't always AU for him, he's a country, or have him in the wrong time period. Pairing exception is for genderbent Canada, America, or Francis.]

Because tragedy.

[voulezvouscoucheravecmoi]

[ooc: Dude, I would LOVE to play something between them out of history with you. Your pick <3!]

Re: Because tragedy.

[english_dignity]

[Oooh, hard choice. Well, they did talk pirates earlier. And conquering is always fun too. >D]

[voulezvouscoucheravecmoi]

[He'd be damned if he was losing this time.

Their ships were docked in Port Royal, a place swarming with pirates. While the crewmen were left to guard the ship, Francis had tailed Arthur into town, and this night was creeping toward the room he'd gotten in the inn. Sword drawn, he approached the door, and slowly, quietly, eased it open. It was underhanded of him, perhaps, and he knew he wouldn't kill the nation, but stabbing him in the throat would be fun.]

Tsuzuki Asato | Yami no Matsuei | Slash

[tsuzuki_asato]

[ooc: Happy to AU (into human or a death god/spirit of another time/land) or have him in the wrong time period.]

Treize Khushrenada | Gundam Wing | M/M

[rose_and_sword]

[ooc: Happy to AU or have him in the wrong time period.]

Usagi Tsukino | Sailor Moon | Open to All

[tiare]

Molly Hooper || Sherlock | Open

[wealldosillythings]

[FYI: I'm the type who may be slow to tag back slowly because I'll be researching the time period to be as accurate-ish as possible. BECAUSE AUS ARE LOVE.]

Ariel | The Little Mermaid | Open to All

[seacups]

Chuck Hansen || Pacific Rim || OTA

[simplepuzzle]

STEAMPUNK, and a bunch of numbers (hope this is ok)

[derpmcnerd]

The Cygnet is without a doubt one of the fastest airships in the entire world, which is unfortunate considering the fact that she is also a pirate vessel.

She is the pride and joy of every member of her crew, including the timid young woman in charge of keeping her engine running. Filly isn't a very good pirate, in all honesty, but she's a damn fine mechanic so Captain Daniels is willing to overlook that.

Since they ended up keeping a young officer from the royal airforce prisoner for reasons not entirely clear to Filly (but she's guessing he has information that the captain wants), it has also been her job to look after him once the medic had done what he could. The young man was pretty badly injured when he was dragged on board, and she's been tending his wounds for days now while he's been mostly unconscious and battling a raging fever.

She's been sleeping on the floor by his bunk, and that's where she is now as well, a thin blanket covering her skinny frame and no pillow but her own arm.

[simplepuzzle]

The pirate vessel had hit hard and fast, hardly enough time for the ship to react. React they did, obviously, or there wouldn't have been any survivors. Chuck was no slack with a sword or a blunderbuss, but there's not a lot one can do when the ship is exploding around one and one gets hit in the head by flying debris.

When he regains consciousness, however many days or weeks later, it's with a start and a confused mini-flail. He realizes fairly quickly that he is not in the medical quarters of his ship, nor anywhere else on his ship. The first cue is the poor quality of the the quarters. The second is the deck hand asleep on the floor by the bunk, which again is certainly not of military issue.

...he aches, but not as much as he should. These pirates, for whatever reason he'd not like to explore, have been tending to him, keeping him alive and comfortable. He pulls up the blanket and holds it out to press the deckhand down when he slides off of the bed, kneeling over him, and pressing one hand to his mouth.

Er. Her. No matter! "Tell me what I want to know and you may yet live," he growls.

Jessica Hamby-Compton~ True Blood F/M--OTA all else.

[averydangerouswoman]

Snake Eyes | GI Joe movieverse | M/F

[movewiththewind]

[any time period, AU, ftb for smut, no non or dubcon]

Sherlock Holmes (university era) || Sherlock BBC || all options (m/m, m/f)

[long_legged_buccaneer]

Loki Odinson | Ultimate Marvel | OTA

[sagnasviptir]

Raven | Teen Titans | OTA

[titansno]

David Lalonde | Homestuck AU | OTA

[tortileghostwriter]

[thorny]

Yoko Ritona | TTGL

[fatalitykisser]

Stiles Stilinski | Teen Wolf | OTA

[totallynotrobin]