( the "take care" meme )

[wrongs]

The "Take Care" Meme
a shipping meme

Life is hard. You can go through rough patches and over bumps, and sometimes it feels as though you're definitely worse for the wear, both physically and mentally. It's nice to have someone - someone more than a friend - there for you in those times...even if you don't think you want them or deserve them. But they're here, and they'll take care of you.

How to Play:
* This is a shipping meme for more tender, soft moments, but a little more serious than your usual "fluff." It's for people who've been broken down by their experience and those who wish to heal them.
* Comment with your character/your preferences. You may also want to specify whether your character will be the one "cared for" or the one doing the "caring" + pertinent information, but for most effectiveness, it's best to be open to both.
* Comment around.


Prompts
1. Know You've Been Hurt By Someone Else: There are scars left on their heart from a past relationship or fling, and you have to let them know you're not the same way.
2. Can Tell By the Way You Carry Yourself: The person you have feelings for is one of those "cold stone wall" types who pushes people away. Can you get past that?
3. I've Asked About You: You've only heard bad things about this person, but you don't believe it.
4. What's a Life with No Fun: Lighten up a bit! You'd do anything to bring a smile to their face.
5. Please Don't Be So Ashamed: You have a big, BIG secret you don't want the other person to find out about, because surely they wouldn't want to even be near you if they did.
6. I've Had Mine, You've Had Yours: You've both had problems, and it could help to compare wounds so they can begin to heal.
7. Those Lies Heal: Protecting your loved one is more important that the truth, isn't it? It's a lie, but there are good intentions here.
8. You Can't Sleep: Because of past trauma, you're having a sleepless night. Luckily, this time you have somebody to help you and give you some comfort.
9. You Cry Still: The obligatory "seeing your significant other/love cry over something and wanting to make them stop at any cost" option.
10. All Get a Little Taste: Your loved one is sick or injured - literally this time - and you're looking out for them and trying to get them better.
11. You Just Don't Know: Either through magic, torture, or blunt trauma to the head, your special person can't remember you! It's up to you to get them to remember what was between you two by showing all the ways you cared for each other.
12. I Give Her Space: Part of being a careful lover is knowing when you need to leave them alone.
13. Tryna Run from That: Uh-oh, you don't want to fall in love, because you've been there, done that! Maybe there's still time to escape from this...or maybe it's too late.
14. I Will Care for You: After a particularly rough day, you're need a little TLC. Your loved one is going to do everything for you - a bath, food, the works.
15. All the Baggage Just Ain't as Heavy: You know it will take a while for this person to mend psychologically and spiritually, and you're willing to wait.
16. Change the Pace: And the smut option. Show you care through sex.
17. We'll Just Go Slow: You're going to take things one step at a time. No need to rush and define things. Just enjoy each other's company and the healing it brings.
18. We All Have Our Nights: Your lover, because of their past experience, is having a complete breakdown. You have to bring them back from the edge.
19. You Don't Say You Love Me: You both know how you feel, but one of you is having problems saying the four letter word. That's okay, though. Your lover understands.
20. To Save You: After months or years, you've both worked on the problems and old scars and you might just be ready to start something resembling a normal love.
21. CHOOSE SOMETHING ELSE

Comments

Hermione Granger | Harry Potter | ota

[braincandyheartstrings]

Loki l MCU l OTA

[frostedprince]

Re: Loki l MCU l OTA

[lady_bols]

[ooc: Yes please? Would prefer to be the one being cared for, but caring is mutual.]

Re: Loki l MCU l OTA

[frostedprince]

[ooc: I would like that very much it's perfect for Loki!]

Re: Loki l MCU l OTA

[lady_bols]

[ooc: Your choice of settings, wherever he would prefer. It's another sleepless night. She's had her heartbroken by someone wearing your face, Loki. Convince her you're not the same man?]

Re: Loki l MCU l OTA

[frostedprince]

[ooc: Hope this works for you it's what popped into my head!}

Loki had gained everything he wanted, Thor was again on Earth, he was King of Asgard....though in the form of his father and the Dark Elves had been banished to hell where they belonged. So why was his heart still heavy with grief. It could not be the death of his mother that still weighted down his heart..she had meant nothing to him. He was wandering the Earth because he wished to explore the realm he would one day rule.

As he walked by one of those coffee places Thor seemed to enjoy dressed in his sharp suit and trench coat he spotted a women who seemed to be alone. He felt drawn to her and walked over. He cleared his throat not trusting himself to speak just yet. "Excuse me but you look like you could use a friend."

Re: Loki l MCU l OTA

[lady_bols]

It was late, but in Rome, it didn't matter. Two o'clock in the morning and she still knew where to find a good espresso. Which was fine, because she wasn't sleeping anyway. So she'd picked a small table on the café patio, where she had a good view of the late night crowd. By this hour, it was mostly university students and artists, poets and drunks. Except for the man in the suit and trench coat. She'd know that face anywhere. He was the reason she wasn't home, asleep in her bed. He was the reason she was here in Rome, instead of home in London where she belonged.

"Come to have more fun at my expense?" Her tone is bitter, but there's a deep undercurrent of hurt as well.

Re: Loki l MCU l OTA

[frostedprince]

Loki blinks in surprise amazed that mortals can startle him after all this time. "I believe you have me confused with someone else," he says recovering smoothly. "I don't think we have ever met before. I am....Lawrence."

Erik Lehnsherr l xmfc l OTA

[brotherhoodeirk]

Otacon | Metal Gear | OTA

[otakon_geek]

John Watson | BBC Sherlock

[captainwatson]

rydia | final fantasy iv | ota!

[sylvan]

[ OOC: She is more likely to be the one doing the taking care of, but I'm flexible to any idea. If you'd rather avoid any sort of shipping or ship-hinting, I'd also be fine with that. ]

Estellise | Tales of Vesperia | ota

[starry_eyes]

Armand | The Vampire Chronicles

[eternallylost]

Mai | A:TLA | OTA

[maipokerface]

Eska | Legend of Korra | OTA

[eskalated]

Apollo | The Authority | m/m

[solar_absorber]

Nicol "Mac" Macintyre | Rewrite Clone OC | ota

[sogreataname]

ooc;

[ofscots]

help help help my brain has too many ideas 1 or 6 or 12 or something or what even /o\

ooc;

[sogreataname]

The only one I'm not feeling is 12. :|a

Re: ooc;

[ofscots]

tHAT IS NOT VERY HELPFUL. okay fine question how woobie do you want to woobie before we work our way back to happy again :|a

ooc;

[sogreataname]

I AM NOT HELPFUL, I JUST LOVE THEM. /o\ Go woobie, grl.

1/6/i don't even just them having a conversation early on in being frands again

[ofscots]

They're working their way back to something like knowing one another. It's been hard, and it's hurt, and there are so many questions that she wants to ask that are never quite completely formed. Have never seemed well-timed.

But it's been a good day, today. There's something more like that settled sensation they used to share in the air. Which is why as they sit comfortably on a picnic blanket in the fading light of the sunset, she sets the book down tentatively, stares at her hands before quite abruptly speaking.

"--I went to France, for a school thing, the summer after my sophomore year."

It's obviously leading up to something, but for now, the sentence hangs in the air, a question: She's about to launch into the missteps that she'd made in their time apart. Where they whole enough, now, that he'd not judge her for them?

THEY JUST NEED MORE SNUGGLES OKAY /o\

[sogreataname]

It's taken real effort, getting back toward themselves. It's taken a lot of setting things aside and breathing deeply. It's taken false starts and minor hurts.

But it's growing them together again. That's got to count for something.

It means he actually looks up when she speaks, even if he can't find where she's going just yet. It means he focuses on her features, actually studies her face, before settling back into his nonchalant slouch. Pulling out his pack of cigarettes is a weird sort of concession--she can lay out her fumblings if he can smoke without commentary.

Joan Watson | Elementary

[formersurgeon]