Fish Out of Water Shipping Meme

[cutenonny]

the fish out of water shipping meme ( aka "the thor shipping meme" / cross-canon encouraged )

The main conceit of shipping memes, it seems, is that both characters exist in the same universe. But what about something that tosses that out the window for a minute, and lets you play with the implications of "crossover?" Here, you can play with someone from a different canon (or AU or radically different canonpoint) and enjoy shipping that's truly out of this world. It can be hard enough being ejected from your own home - imagine being plucked away from your home world! This could be because of your own doing (say, you were banished for being too cocky), you were too evil or too ambitious to stay, or even due to an accident. Those temporal shifts can be a little much. Whether by design or by chaos, however, you end up in the same place...or, rather, a different place. Theoretically, this world could be very much like your own, with only a few minor changes, like a purple sky instead of a blue one or lion-demons instead of tiger-vampires. On the other hand, it could be completely different, anywhere from more technologically advanced or less so or even filled to the brim with bizarre creatures. They still use cars? What are those infernal beeping devices? Why does no one have feathers or gills? Needless to say, this could be overwhelming if you are possibly powerless and definitely alone. But you're not alone. Someone, a native of this world, has ended up tangled into this whole affair with you, whether they want it or not. You can't turn that down. They're your only ally, your only anchor in this brand new world. Maybe, just maybe, they can show you a thing or two to help you back up on your feet. Or, best case scenario, back to your home! When you're out of the frying pan and into the fire, though, nothing is cut and dry. Everything about this world may not be so horrible - it may be fun, even - and this person you've ended up with, oh, they could be worse. In fact, you may be beginning to feel at home with them. Remember. This is not your real home. You want to go back, don't you? And what about the other party? Of course, you may be less than thrilled that you now are playing tour guide to what seems like a crazy person. Perhaps this was out of the kindness of your heart or you may be forced to play babysitter, but it all leads to you keeping an eye out on them. They have to be lying about all this! Sure, they may talk strange, unconsciously insult you, and act like the simplest things confuse them; that has to be an act! ...still, act or not, you're starting to see that there's more to them than their goofy ways and there's more to your feelings toward them than you thought. how to play This meme is inspired heavily by the first Thor movie and also a great deal by those romantic comedies where someone from the past goes into the future or vice versa. Comment with your character and preferences. Don't leave your comment blank! Mention something about your character's world in the comment for the canon blind (ie, "ancient Greece" or "dystopia with kids killing kids - the Japanese version"). It doesn't have to be long, it can even be a few words! If you have any other ideas, include them. Reply to others. Use the RNG - or not. Whichever you prefer. prompts arrival → You've just arrived...and someone has seen it. What's your impression? Good? Bad? Get the hell away from them? It may depend on why you're here in the first place. not so different → Huh, this could be your own home in the universe, except for a few subtle changes. But those changes stand out. different time → The place you've ended up is either much more advanced or much more primitive than you're used to. different world → They breathe oxygen? Where is their night vision? magical moment → See the gif. Essentially, it's that moment of interest before everything goes absolutely wrong. disbelief → So, they says they're an ancient Roman or a magic sky god. Did they hit their head? argument → No, no, no. You're not going anywhere until we get you some clothes and some help. forced to take them in → You have no other choice but to take this person in. You were either charged with the task or feel guilty. offer of shelter → You actually want to take them in out of the kindness of your heart. depowered → Were you a powerhouse before? Well, now you're an average joe. That'll teach you. misunderstanding → Here, we don't walk around in loin cloths, draw swords, or barely bathe or eat toothpaste. We also don't ride dogs, either. friendly fun → Being around here isn't always bad. You get to see new sights, taste new foods, and make new friends. Your milage may vary on the last one. introduced traditions → Time for the newcomer to show their host something from the old country, so to speak, or the reverse. romantic moment → Dancing or sitting under the stars or your own preference. Go wild and be creative! showing you care → They have helped you out a lot since you've arrived. Perhaps you can return the favor by lending a hand or solving a problem? the romantic shift → The typical turn of events where the two of you begin to see each other in a different light. not my type → Your usual type is more glamorous or more...possessing of gills, but the bond between you two endears them to you. jealousy → The newcomer misunderstands the dynamic that's already set in place. someone back home → You find yourself growing closer to your new friend, but you're already taken back home. confession → You both admit it's more than mere interdimensional alliances. smut → You've reached that point in the relationship, or you're about to leave, or you're just curious about the people in this world (remember that scene in Howard the Duck where - nevermind, actually). epic fight → Two worlds collide and big bads from the past are coming to threaten your temporary home and new love. reformed → You've learned your lesson and turned over a new leaf. As much as you can, anyway. You're more open, less cocky, whatever the case may be. sacrifice → Unfortunately, you won't get to go home. You selflessly put yourself in harm's way for your lover. going home → Time for a heartfelt goodbye. Will you see each other again or is this it? new home → You've learned and gained so much, you've decided to stay in this word. WILDCARD

Comments

Red | ouat | f/m

[redasrubies]

[She's a werewolf and a fairy tale character.]

Re: Red | ouat | f/m

[notarambler]

[The fairy tale nerd in me wants to mix Supernatural and Once together where Sam is a Oncer but the numerous memory spells screwed with his head. Maybe he is Peter or an Oz character like the Tin Man. You game?]

[redasrubies]

[Sure! I'm only vaguely familiar with Supernatural though. Having him be the Tin Man would probably work better, but that's up to you.]

Mia | Project .hack | OTA

[beautifulmemory]

[Formerly, a cat-faced AI! Or, alternatively, you are now comatose in real life and your consciousness is trapped in a video game called The World.]

San | Princess Mononoke | OTA

[princessofbeasts]

["...my poor, ugly, beautiful daughter is neither human, nor wolf. How can you help her??" --Moro]

Peter Quill || Guardians of the Galaxy ||

[volumeone]

[In 1988, he got abducted when he was nine by space pirates. Been rocking across the galaxy being less than legal ever since.

Am slowposting]

16/17 ( if you don't mind a Darcy?)

[taser_warrior]

If it had been up to Darcy her ‘Discover the Species of The Galaxy’ tour would’ve started and ended with Thor.

But life is a weird, weird piece of crap sometimes and instead of a quiet Sunday on your own planet, you get thrown into a trans dimensional rift and end up on a backwater planet with nothing but an overcharged Taser and the fear of the unknown.

Well that and some dude from Earth and his weird group of friends that includes a foul mouthed raccoon and an Ent taking you on as extra cargo.

“So apparently, thanks to Rocket so kindly, and drunkenly telling me that big green dude back on that bar pit planet was trying to buy me before you dragged me away... I wanted to y'know thank you for saving me from being Jolly Greens space slave wife, and then ask how exactly you got me out of that?”

Darcy had gotten comfortable as a piece of ‘cargo’ ever since finagling passage onto Quill’s ship and the way she lounges comfortably on the wall; and completely bypasses that bed with a distrustful eye, is evidence of the fact when compared to her original, less than stellar first night aboard on planet Knowhere(who the fuck named these places honestly).

not at all

[volumeone]

Peter isn't sure why he likes Darcy as much as he does. It's probably a bad idea to classify cargo as "possible buddy" but she's the first Terran he's run into out here and she's sharp. Quick on her feet. He likes that. Sure, he likes all the girls out here, even the ones who tried to shank him (and some of them with good reason)...but there had never been that common link between them. He can say "Star Wars" and she knows what he's talking about. Won't take it like it's all historical, ask how many people died or what the war was about or why only a single Terran knew about it.

He just wishes Darcy didn't get herself into trouble every time they made planet-side. Girl's worse than he was. He thinks he gets what Yondu must've felt when he was raising him.

"First, no problem. Part of the package." Peter glances up at Darcy, his boots kicked up on the edge of the table, his element gun dismantled as he cleans the pieces. He runs a clean rag over a panel and inspects it, then puts it down and picks up another one. He's done so often that it's practically muscle memory now. "Promised him we'd scrounge up the cost for, uh...you. And pick up his bar tab."

He flashes his teeth in that grin that put a lot of girls in his bed. Sure, some of them tried to run off with his money or his ship the morning after but he doesn't take it personally. It is what it is. He wised up the first couple of times his units went missing.

"You're lucky he was too plastered to realize we left." Peter motions for Darcy to sit down. "So what can I do you for?"

1

[intheclutch]

Hyuuga's not the type of guy to get himself into trouble. He may be seventeen, but he's sensible, responsible, a good student, captain of one of the best high school basketball teams in the country. He doesn't stay out late for the sake of getting his nose dirty.

Tonight he's stayed out for shooting practice. Well after the rest of the team has gone home for the night, he's stayed in the gym, toes just behind the three-point line, and thrown shot after shot, his self-imposed stiff penalty for missing putting on the pressure which has helped make him such a pillar for his team.

He's just cleaned up and put all the basketballs away, locked the gym door behind him, and headed out across the Seirin high school campus to walk home with his school bag slung over his shoulder and at least three hours of homework packed inside. It's late autumn, the air is bitingly crisp, and it's already dark at 7:00. You would think, therefore, that something falling to earth would light up like a beacon as it sped through the sky alerting everyone far and wide, and making itself more than obvious to a person walking along a quiet footpath on a mostly-deserted high school campus at night.

For some completely inexplicable reason, however, Hyuuga is totally unaware of the thing that's hurtling towards the copse of trees by the science building until it speeds past his head going at least 80 mph, takes out a sapling and two shrubs, and finally grinds to a halt leaving a long skid of dirt in its wake.

This could be a scene out of some sci-fi action adventure movie, or maybe the start of a horror film. In fact Hyuuga's not in the least convinced that he didn't just hallucinate the whole thing because things like this don't really just happen, right?

...

... RIGHT?

Only no matter how much he blinks to try and clear his head the Thing That Fell To Earth is still there.

Eyes wide with shocked disbelief, he approaches the--not a ship. It looks like some kind of a pod. The air is thick with settling dirt and debris, swirls of leaves are caught on the wind, there's an eerie quiet, but the pod is unmistakable.

If wisdom really was the better part of valor, Hyuuga thinks that he'd be wisely legging it in the other direction. Hasn't he seen enough anime and movies to know that he's probably about to have some horrific encounter with an otherworldy alien force? He's seen hentai. But for some reason he's still walking forward, neck craning to see if he can't get a better look while keeping safely out of danger.

[[OOC: Hope cross-medium is cool for you. I'd be happy playing this as gen and just seeing how it goes. Hopefully the culture shock of returning to earth in Tokyo in the present day will offset too much slice of life.]]

Re: 1

[volumeone]

Peter Quill knew he picked the wrong escape pod.

Funny thing about nearly getting your head shot off - you tend to improvise and sometimes, a little bit more often than he'll admit on public record, you improvise wrong. Peter goes left instead of right, picks the escape pod that looks like it's not about to fall apart on him and as he's hurtling through the atmosphere, he has to think man, should've gone right. Maybe the right pod would have working controls, oxygen that wasn't fizzling out on him as he rocketed to some kind of island surrounded by water. It gets closer and closer. No idea yet if he'll get killed by the impact or the oxygen leak in the hull.

Somehow he survives the crash. Peter lies there slumped against his restraints, stunned, head spinning and it takes a few seconds to remember how to blink, much less remember how to get out of the chair. It's not built for his Terran proportions but the pod cushioned most of him and he'll be grateful for that. Peter slithers out of the chair, untangling his legs and arms from the safety nets, and palms the pod-release.

The hatch pops open in front of Hyuuga. Air doesn't hiss out, steam doesn't billow out like the movies to blast his hair back. What happens is something that looks like a bowl of clear hand sanitizer spills out and somewhere in there is a human man, drooling out the liquid and trying to look cool while doing it.

"...I come in peace?" Peter says, dribbling out more of the pod's liquid.

Star Ship | Marvel 616 | Stuck in human shape

[star_lady]

ooc: No 21 unless Peter Quill.

legolas | tolkien legendarium | m/f

[greenleafs]

[no underage, please. #21 with prior discussion only.]

Castiel l Supernatural l ota

[kingofheaven]

[21 is fine with consent.]

whoops, sorry about the misplaced comment there...! >_>

[discipuluschaos]

[but since i've got your attention now, would you be at all interested in throwing Castiel into a mundane, or Potterverse universe? xD <3 or... maybe the one who's misplaced could be Matty-boy here...? xD <333]

Re: whoops, sorry about the misplaced comment there...! &gt;_&gt;

[kingofheaven]

[It would be funny to throw Cas into just regular life since Potterverse would be a little too close to home for him I think.]

Selwyn | Harry Potter | ota (no smut please!)

[discipuluschaos]

[alright,so i think everyone on the internets is at least vaguely familiar with the Potterverse canon, so no explanation needed there, right? xD <3

[also available in a completely Mundane original fiction flavour, where the likes of the Superheroes of Marvel and and DC are fantasy characters on the screen and the comic book page, and of course, there are no such things as Angels or Daemons wandering the earth...! no such thing as magic, either-- but thankfully, no such thing as witch trials, either, given that they are a little more advanced in their thinking than That...! xD <3]

RNG gave us 12~

[onewiththewindandsky]

[I hope you're ready to wine and dine the queen, Selwyn! Mwaha!]

oooh! xD ❤

[discipuluschaos]

[lol~ i don't know about "wining and dining" but -- well, there is some good food to be had at a local gastropub, Elsa? xD <333 anyway, do you prefer prose or [action bracket] tags? xD <3 i can start us off, unless you'd rather do so...! :D <3]

steve rogers ( mcu )

[americanatus]

Kurt | Glee | OTA or m/m for smut

[rumchocolatesouffle]

Open to all canons!

Bumblebee | Humanized!Transformers

[pieceofcrapcamero]

[A humanized teenaged Cybertonian.]

nemissa | soul hackers | f/m

[programmatic]

( A demon / computer program that's stuck possessing the body of a Japanese college student. )

Belle | Once Upon a Time

[dustycovers]

[Belle's a fairy tale character, available either in Enchanted Forest or transported to small town Maine by a powerful curse form.]

findlay maclaren ( original character )

[wisper]

wildcurd

[selfemployed]

There's no telling how it happened. Glen has no explanation that makes sense, no way to reconcile finding herself in what seems to be another country and, perhaps, another time. She'd heard they were a bit less advanced on the continent, but this place she's found herself in...

She sticks out like a sore thumb in her nice, clean, upper middle class dress, a problem that is only compounded when she realizes she doesn't actually understand most of what the people in this city are saying. It sounds vaguely like T'embran, but even her hellos and good days are met with curious, mostly blank stares. It's disconcerting, and Glen has to do her best to keep her head cool.

Thankfully, people here are just as easy to pickpocket as they are anywhere else. It's growing dark by the time she finds the inn. She's not really sure if this will work, considering her unfamiliarity with the currency and the language and the... everything, but it's worth a try. If not here, then maybe some kind family will consider taking her in for a few coins. Worst case scenario, she could offer to sleep with someone -- that is how she'd gotten her foot in the door back in Vermallia, after all.

Glen approaches the innkeeper and awkwardly tries in T'embran, "Good evening... room?" and then, because she has no idea if that was at all intelligible, "A room. I'd like a room, if you have one. If you can understand me. Please."