bakerstreet | Blind Date meme

The Blind Date meme. Pretty self-explanatory. No matter how awkward and unexpected they might be, there is always something exciting about them. Who is your company for the evening going to be? Will it be a person of your innermost dreams or someone you absolutely can't stand? And most importantly...

How are you going to handle it?

What do:
1. Post with your character! They're now in the middle of a blind date.
2. Comment to each other! When you do that...
3. Go to Random.org and roll a single die!

1.
First date
-- You've never been out on a date before, so someone's decided to give you a helping hand.
2.
On the rebound
-- You're recovering from a painful breakup, but your friends/family think they found a great person for you anyway.
3.
Not strangers at all
-- Someone thought you didn't know your date. Turns out you know them from somewhere.
4.
Hideously awkward
-- Hey wait, that's your ex/boss/doctor/distant family member! Or, even worse, it's that person you absolutely despise. This will go well!
5.
Existing partner
-- You two are just acting like strangers to spice up your love life.
6.
Future spouse
-- Unfortunately, you have to have an arranged marriage. Fortunately, you get to meet that special someone for a date beforehand. How will the night go?
7. ...or, instead of rolling, come up with your own scenario!

4. Play out the date. This meme can be completely fluffy, smutty, or hilarious. If you don't want smut, you can put that in your subject. It doesn't even have to be romantic.

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Though the insinuation definitely sent Florina's nerves into overdrive, at least she wasn't immediately scared off by it. "Perhaps something a bit more low-key than this for our next date, then." That all but solidified plans for a second date, as far as she was concerned-Caitlyn extremely pleased that her coworkers had been right, in this instance.

"I-I'd be happy to... do that." This was a nice start, but it was a bit stuffy despite how nice their conversation was going. Still, a date, just going out to a park, or for ice cream or... to a zoo? ...just spending time together at one of their homes? That might get a little dicey if they weren't careful though.

Maybe she wanted it to get dicey. Not this soon, though. Caitlyn might have experience too... "Um, I'm... glad we're going on another though."

"So am I. And that I let them convince me to come out to meet you." That had certainly been touch and go, and though she couldn't have possibly known to regret it if she hadn't, Caitlyn was quite pleased with the company so far.

And, as though the restaurant knew that her mind was drifting too far from it, the food. The waiter returned once more with their dish, pasta divied out onto two plates. It smelled amazing, and she immediately took a bite. "Good choice, with the pasta."

Florina couldn't really help digging in. For such a small girl, she had a disproportionate appetite, and got a few bites in fairly quickly, before nodding slightly and swallowing. "Y-yeah. I like... food like this, usually." Heavier food reminded her of the simple, filling meals of home - and she burned off enough calories for a carb-heavy diet to boot.

Though she likewise could easily burn off the calories, Caitlyn wasn't quite as quick an eater. Still, the sheriff consumed her own food with relative speed, stopping about halfway through to take a gulp of water and resume the conversation. "Do you normally have food prepared for you? I expect a mercenary camp has many mouths to feed."

"I'm not... much of a cook myself, so I usually get my main meal with my comrades. The food isn't great, but it's... I mean, I don't want to badmouth our cooks, they work hard." And Florina wasn't terribly picky, anyways, although she could appreciate the quality of this meal, and recognized that she should probably slow down and enjoy it. She wasn't likely to eat anything this good very often.

"Even everyone that works hard can't be a master. I'm sure you've seen plenty in your line of work that are extremely dedicated but not quite talented enough." While Caitlyn was a proponent of hard work, she knew that raw talent was also important, even if not entirely necessary. To be the top of your craft it was all but certainly required, though.

"...true. Very true." Some of them were injured. Some of them died. Florina had come out of most jobs unscathed, and had a sparkling record for sustaining only minor injuries, but her position was precarious - riding a living being through the sky, wearing only light armor, and making a nuisance of herself.

"They... do good work though. Enough."

"Of course. The talent is needed to be the best, but not to be good." Caitlyn didn't mean to disregard anyone, but the difference between the best and the better was definitely raw talent, learning and practice only able to go so far-at least in her mind.

"...it's an important starting point. Talent, hard work, long hours... it's all essential." Lacking talent was something you could make up for, but even with her lacking self-esteem, at times, Florina had to acknowledge that she was good at what she did, even if she didn't always feel like it, and that she had the killer instinct to follow through.

Sometimes she wondered about how easily it came to her. Caitlyn didn't mind, though. Florina finished off her beer, now about room temperature, and dug into her pasta a little more, pausing to look up at Caitlyn - eyes, lips, hair, chest - here and there.

The glances from Florina didn't go unnoticed, mostly because Caitlyn's own gaze didn't really stray from her date as she ate unless required. Florina was cute, and beautiful-and attractive, as well, really the whole package appearance-wise. Her personality didn't hurt at all either, making for a very enjoyable dinner.

Finishing her plate in relative silence, considering conversation on the previous topic had dwindled, the sheriff pushed it aside and took another drink from her water before speaking up once more. "So, I think it's safe to say we'll be going on a second date?"

Florina had finished her own food off just a little ahead of Caitlyn, and then got a water instead of moving onto a second beer. Caitlyn had been grabbing her attention so easily this whole time, and she didn't want to seem like she was staring at her too intently, but it was very hard to tear her eyes away...

She nodded quickly at the question, laughing softly. "O-oh absolutely. I'd love to... to spend more time with you Caitlyn."

"I'm glad to hear it." Plans would need to be made, of course, but those could wait until they were actually leaving. For now, Caitlyn actually took a moment to look around the restaurant again. There were a few other tables with customers-mostly couples, it seemed-speaking to the popularity of the location. "You'll have to thank your sister for me, if she was the one at fault."

"I'll have to... to interrogate her on that," she replied. "And then thank her." Florina hadn't felt this positive about the possibility of a relationship... ever? She was pretty sure this was a totally new and exciting frontier for her, whereas Caitlyn had already been dating, but that didn't seem like it would be a problem.

She really hoped it wouldn't. "I'm sure I can make her talk."

"If you tell her that you're happy with how things went, that should make it easier." Or she could always ask Caitlyn for help, with the whole interrogation thing. It was something that the sheriff had plenty of experience with, of course.

"I... I should tease her about it. She's picked on me enough..." Florina shook her head, but she was still grinning. "S-so even though this was great... I might still try to get back at her, a little."

"Far be it from me to tell you not to take revenge, then. As long as it doesn't mean not seeing me again, feel free to tell her that you had a terrible time." Caitlyn's own smile wasn't about to fade, either, enjoying the conversation as the evening wound down.

"I'll be honest after I've made her sweat a little..." Although now it was time to finish up, and pay, and get out of here, sadly. "Either way, we'll see each other again, though."

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