A Taste of What You Could Never Have

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A Taste of What You Could Never Have The grass is always greener on the other side, it seems, not matter who you are. Still, there are some who've never even dreamed of seeing that lively shade because it's not even in the realm of possibility. Maybe you've not once considered what it would be like to live what most would consider a normal, peaceful life. You're too plagued by danger or ostracized, and if you did think about how things could be different, you'll only bring pain over what can't be. Except it can be. You've woken up where. If you live in constant violence, you now have peace. If you're an outcast, you're now accepted by others. And more than that, you also have a happy home with a lover - something you may have thought you'd never have - and a perhaps even a family. You may or may not have desired that. Everyone else here thinks it's always been like this, but you know the truth. ...don't you? Or are you the confused one, and this the reality? At any rate, how do you take this new "life?" Are you suspicious? It's understandable to be; you know who you are and where you stand, and you don't remember any of this. Could it be a trap all along? Is this a world where you wish you could stay or might actually try to do so? If that's the case, you may want to pull away and remind yourself that there must be an illusion here. Do you find the whole affair bittersweet? There's also the possibility that you'll learn from this. All things considered, what made your life so hard may also be what made you. How to Play Comment with your character, preferences, and any information you'd like to include. If you'd like to tell others what your character's idea of a normal or idealized like would be, do so. Blank comments are fine, too. Remember, all characters will have different concepts about what normal, peaceful, or ideal are. Those who reply to you will be part of your character's "new" life - very close parts. The picture that inspired this meme is shippy, but you don't have to use the meme in that way. Just indicate if you're open to shipping, gen, or both! Thread! Feel free to take interaction and the setting itself in any direction you'd like.

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Lavi | D.Gray-Man

[historyrabbit]

[[ooc; For Lavi, I imagine it would be living the rest of his life as a true Exorcist - because they need the heart that Bookman don't. That and I think he'd be a cute dad. Or if someone wants to be the dad, I have a female Lavi I can tag with that can be the mom.]]

[burntomorrow]

[It's a sudden breeze that stirs her from sleep. The quality of sunlight is too bright as if the clock turned back to the morning instead of a dusty afternoon traveling to her next mission. Instead of a heavy duty Exorcist coat, cotton sheets are twisted around her waist, making the light slip press against her skin. Her arms are wrapped around someone else, her breath fanning against the shell of their ear.

Her mind snaps into full awareness as she opens her eyes. Red hair, wild and uneven clouds her side. Allison sits up slowly, reeling internally and reaching for the well of power within her. It isn't there. There's nothing. As she reaches up to feel the left side of her face the scar that she has traced a thousand times is missing. Even the hair in her eyes is too dark, brown instead of the ice white she'd gotten used to.

"What..." It feels like her breath is caught in her throat and stuck there. She slowly taking in the bed with it's rumpled sheets and clothes tossed on the floor. The light coming from the bay windows behind her over looking a wide expanse of sunlit sand. As the details fill in it seems more and more impossible.

She finally notices her left hand is normal looking, none of the blood red color or thrum of power resonating in the air in answer to her growing distress. A gold band on her hand catches the light. Allison lays back down, a scream building deep inside and only childhood training on keeping silent keeps it from tearing free.

Her hands are shaking. Everything around her feels like it was made out of brush strokes. If she smears the paint will she take back the world she knows is hers and the only one she can have? The only one she's ever thought about where the end of the road might mean her death one more time?

Is that even possible? What about Lavi? Does...Her hand goes to his shoulder as she manages to hide all the panic deep down inside her.] Lavi. Lavi, it's morning.

Jun Kurosu | Persona 2: Innocent Sin

[onlythankyou]

((OOC: Somebody give this boy a happy family. As far as lovers go, he's got one, but I could work with any m/m if you wanna go that route.))

Re: Jun Kurosu | Persona 2: Innocent Sin

[rubbernecking]

He didn't care what it was Jun lost. He didn't care how much of a hand in the destruction of his world he had. He had only cared that Jun was his friend, and when it came down to home and what to do with the hard-won future they wrested from the cold, dead hands of a king who had no right stealing people from their worlds and throwing them into his own...

The choice was simple.

"Shut the hell up!" shouted the pirate, throwing his arms into the air, a straw-hatted silhouette against the shimmering backdrop of the portal that led back to a blue sea. "Come with me!!"

But was that really possible?

"I don't wanna hear it!" he had protested bullishly; Luffy would brook no argument. "I wanna hear you say you'll join my crew..!!"

Russia | Nyotalia | ota

[rossiya_matushka]

[ Anya just wants a big, happy family and someone who will love her unconditionally--considering that she terrifies most people. This person could be a close friend or a lover; male or female. ]

[not_a_jutsu]

(ooc: If you're up for playing these two Naruto isn't a judgmental person in the slightest. She's too used to being judged in her own canon to do it to other people. So I can see the two of them being lovers if you're interested. You'll just have to let me know how much you're comfortable with.)

Zeheart Galette | Gundam AGE

[endofeden]

[This meme is perfect for Zeheart. He explicitly says in canon that he only ever wanted to get married and start his own family, which he was never able to do due to the war and his homeland's living conditions. Good luck getting him to accept it, though, since he's wracked with guilt over the things he's done.

I welcome all gen thread types. M/F for shipping.]

Kurt Wager (Nightcrawler) | X-Men movies | OTA

[quiteafew]

[ooc: in my headcanon for Kurt, he was in a long-term relationship with Amanda that ended a couple of years before the events of the movie. So he's had a taste of that life and misses what could have been.]

Hook > once

[villainously]

he could very easily get lost in a happy ending. :(

Lockon Stratos/Lyle Dylandy | Gundam 00

[becomingthesniper]

[He had a girlfriend, but he lost her. I'd very much like to get him in a relationship with someone else (though he'll be resistant to the idea). Also just a world of peace and calm.

OTA for gen, M/F for shipping. And no women younger than mid-20s for shipping.]

Athrun Zala | Gundam SEED

[infinitejustice]

[He has lived through two wars. He needs some peace, a steady job, and someone to help him out. He's been through the wringer, so someone who'd help him cope with the aftereffects would be best.

OTA for gen, M/F for shipping.]

Ushahin Dreamspinner | The Sundering

[ushahin]

[An idealized life for him would be one where everyone he knows isn't dead and he's not completely crazy.]

amber ❝ sucker punch

[empathizer]

( happily ever after plz. )

[mishandled]

[Ros has a soft spot for other girls like her, other girls with the sorts of pasts you don't discuss in polite company who've managed to make a life for themselves apart from that. She has a good sense for it, a good sense for who to look out for the most, and as such she's got her eye on the new girl who walks into the ballroom.

"Ballroom" is a bit grand for it; it's a dance floor in a fairly modestly-sized room, chairs lining the walls, a DJ in the corner. It's blues dance tonight, informal but just a little more intimate, and while most of the people here are respectful, there's more often than not at least one creeper who doesn't want to take no. Go figure that the creeper is currently setting his sights on the new girl.

So Ros approaches, all smiles.] Hey, you! Been a while. [She nods toward the corner of the room to suggest a way out tied up in the ruse of their knowing each other.]

Tadashi Hamada | Big Hero 6 | OTA for general, M/F if shipping

[notgivinguponyou]

((Would probably be part of the "new" life, in a world where he didn't die))

Sherlock Holmes || BBC Sherlock

[desecrated]

[[ooc: he wouldn't know how to deal with being accepted the way he is by others,
or a lover and a family, but he'd probably be happy with even just - the companionship, really.]]

Ky Kiske | Guilty Gear

[ridethelightning]

[Peace and a happy people are the two things Ky wants above all else. I'd also love to play him in this sort of an environment with a love interest.

OTA for gen, M/F for shipping.]

Terra Branford | Final Fantasy VI

[chained_esper]

[Terra has always wanted a family.]

Isaac Dian and Miria Harvent | Baccano!

[originaloddcouple]

expanding upon the steau

[gunhearted]

[Jacuzzi's life was founded upon misfortune. As much as he wished it was any other way, as much as he wished to have had a father who had mentored him and a mother who had loved him and a family that had accepted him unconditionally, Jacuzzi knew that that wasn't what his life was. He was raised on misfortune, taught by fear, and formed by rejection.

So when he left the bedroom, the one that he had only pretty recently vacated, he was confused. The room was no longer as barren as it had been when he had lived here--there were decorations. Things he liked. He could never play sports because of his athsma, but there was a school pennant for a school that was far out of his league. Not like LCCCC, where he knew he'd gone when he lived in Locke City. It was for the university. A framed letter stating an acceptance to the education program. A picture on his desk of him as a very small person, maybe eight or nine, and Isaac and Miria (not very much older, really) standing behind him like with hands on his shoulders. They all looked happy. And while that looked right on Isaac and Miria, it certainly didn't look right on Jacuzzi's face. There wasn't a picture from after he turned five or six that he really looked happy in.

There were pictures in the rest of the apartment, too. The confusion in Jacuzzi's eyes is impossible to miss. He feels the first skipped heartbeat of panic and tries to take deep breaths. He doesn't understand what's going on, but if Isaac and Miria are around, then at least he knows it's safe. It's not just a cruel joke. Maybe a misguided one, but not a cruel one. He finally tears his eyes away from the photos, tears his mind away from wondering "Is this another echo?" and turns to knock on the room he hopes is Isaac and Miria's.]

M-Miria? Isaac? What... what's goin' on? Something's weird...

Sam Winchester | SPN

[hellunbounded]

[ Option 1: Mary never died, and he grows up having a normal life a-la 'what is and what never should be'

Option 2: Jessica never died, and he's happily married and living a normal life as a lawyer ]

Bruce Banner | MCU

[likea_nerve]

[ There's no accident, and no Hulk. ]

rachel (animorphs)

[likexena]

[ Take your pick: The Yeerks never invaded. Rachel, her cousin, and friends never took that shortcut through the abandoned construction site. She never agreed to that one last mission...f/m for shipping. ]

Akinari Kamiki | Persona 3

[dyingsun]

[Just being healthy.]

Smeagol/LotR/Very, very gen

[lastest_ringbearer]

*Never finding the Ring, perhaps. Or getting brought back to the Shire by Frodo. Hell, just having a warm blanket and someone to talk to that isn't himself would be a huge step up for the poor thing.*