Stockholm Syndrome Meme

[cornichaun]

 THE STOCKHOLM MEME

WARNING: Meme will contain TRIGGERS, including kidnapping, dubious consent, and general uncomfortable content. Please do not click if you don't want to see, and please respect your fellow role-players.

Stockholm Syndrome is a psychological phenomenon in which hostages express empathy and have positive feelings for their captors, sometimes to the point of defending them. These feelings are generally considered irrational in light of the danger or risk endured by the victims, who essentially mistake a lack of abuse from their captors for an act of kindness. 

Stockholm syndrome can be seen as a form of traumatic bonding, which does not necessarily require a hostage scenario, but which describes "strong emotional ties that develop between two persons where one person intermittently harasses, beats, threatens, abuses, or intimidates the other."

HOW TO PLAY:
1) Comment with your character and their series in the subject line of the comment. Include any preferences you might have on type of scene/squicks/etc. 
2) Comment around to start scenes! Use random.org if you get stuck for ideas. 

PROMPTS:
1. KIDNAPPED. You've been taken, either for ransom money or just because you've pissed the wrong people off. Or maybe your kidnapper just wants company. Maybe they need someone to be their companion, to be their confidante, and they chose you. 

2. CAPTURED. Maybe you were a soldier, fighting in a battle. Maybe a spy, or a political dissident. Either way, the military has caught up with you. 

3. IN CUSTODY. It's a law enforcement agent that has you locked up. Maybe you're a criminal and you're in prison, or on house arrest so that agent can keep an eye on you. Maybe the agent doesn't have enough evidence, so they took matters into their own hands. 

4. ASYLUM. This person isn't keeping you here against your will. It's for safety. Maybe you're in the Witness Protection Program. Maybe you sought asylum from your own country. Maybe your criminal life got a little too heated and you had to go underground somewhere. 

5. HOSTAGE EXCHANGE. A war, between countries or gangs or even planets, and the two sides have decided to exchange important hostages as a gesture of trust. You're one of them. It might even involve arranged marriage -- a way to unite your two peoples. Hope you enjoy staying with your enemy. 

6. HIRED. Someone's being paid to keep you. Maybe a new parent or guardian keeping you at home, or perhaps an evil uncle has had you tossed into a discreet asylum in order to claim your inheritance. 

7. SLAVERY. Through birth or misfortune, you've become the property of another. But they're not such a bad master. You might even grow to love them, if enough time passes. If they treat you with the right combination of cruelty and kindness. 

8. WILD CARD. For anything not covered by the other options!

Comments

[therealmccoy_1701]

Well, if Jim's not going to stare at him anymore, that gives him the chance to close his eyes and actually relax. He assumes Jim's just going to shower and then leave. Doesn't expect anything weird to happen.

[captainawesome1701]

Oh, he can close his eyes all he likes, but in a couple minutes, there's going to be sounds coming from that shower that definitely aren't general shower noises.

[therealmccoy_1701]

...

Maybe he'll just barely crack open one eye to see what's going on..

[captainawesome1701]

Jim is quite unashamedly jerking himself off in that shower, and even managed to turn himself so that his friend could get an eyefull. You know, if he wanted to.

[therealmccoy_1701]

No, he'll close his eyes and not look, but he can still hear him and it won't be long before there are no bubbles left to hide that he kinda likes it.

[captainawesome1701]

Yeah, he keeps sneaking glances over at that bathtub and the lack of bubbles and.... well, it's only encouraging him to get louder.

[therealmccoy_1701]

That's about when McCoy decides that the water is getting too cold. He stands up to get out of the tub, and reaches for a towel that doesn't hide anything at all.

He's going to bed. Again, there's no invite.

[captainawesome1701]

There might not be an invitation, but ten minutes later when Jim has finished everything in the shower, he's sliding into bed with him. That's what friends do, right?

[therealmccoy_1701]

"You're late."

[captainawesome1701]

"I'm sorry, I didn't realize we had a date."

[therealmccoy_1701]

"Y'know, I can't remember if I fucked you that first night."

[captainawesome1701]

"You were way too drunk and cranky to even consider it."

[therealmccoy_1701]

"If you're waiting for me to not be drunk and cranky, you'll be old and impotent before the day comes."

[captainawesome1701]

"Are you kidding? You make drunk and cranky work. Still, there was threat of puking, didn't seem right for the mood."

[therealmccoy_1701]

"Well there's no threat of me being sick now..."