honour me with the privilege...

[bottecellie]

 

The Courting Meme

There's someone you've had your eye on for a long while. And now you've taken all you can take and you can't takes no more. It's time to muster up your courage and ask them out on that first date!

 

Step One: Post with your character | series | romantic preferences.

Step Two: Tag/date other people's threads with one of the scenarios - deliberately chosen, selected at random, or deliberately chosen and CLAIMED to be selected at random. You know who you are.

Step Three: FALL IN LOVE! (optional)

 

 

Scenarios!

1. Chivalry Isn't Dead - You do it the old-fashioned way, with flowers and poetry. Maybe TOO old-fashioned by asking a parent or sibling for permission.

2. Me Tarzan, You Jane - Asking schmasking. Just sling your true love over your shoulder and carry them off to dinner and a movie. They'll love you eventually!

3. Blackmail - You tried the route of the nice guy, but you're tired of being rejected, or maybe you just want to ensure 'no' isn't an answer. So you've got knowledge of a dirty secret, or maybe you're holding their puppy hostage. Either way, they're going to say yes OR ELSE!

4. Creative Surprise - You want to make that first date memorable, so you ask in an unusual or creative way. Spell it out with coins in a fountain! Pose the question in an elaborate and framed cross-stitch! Write it on a cake!

5. You're Too Shy Shy - Today's the day you show your courage! NO WAIT! Spine... crumbling... too cowardly! Better ask someone else to do it for you, or ask for something safe like a study session that just HAPPENS to be around dinner time.

6. There Can Be Only One! - This person has a lot of suitors. How will you stand out? By beating them all up, of course!

7. Serendipity - It didn't start out as a date. You just both happened to be caught in the rain at the same time and ducked into a restaurant to get dry. Then, little by little, you start to realize that HOLY CRAP THIS IS ACTUALLY A DATE! WHAT DO?!

8. Quasi-Reluctance - Truth be told, you didn't want to ask this person out. But you were forced to do it anyway, either as a favor to someone else, to pay off a debt, or even just to get that irritating matchmaker off your back.

9. Jedi Mind Trick - "This is the date you're looking for." "You're the date I'm looking for." "You will wear a nice dress." "I will wear a nice dress." When all else fails, mind-screw them into going out with you.

10. Choose Your Own Adventure!

Comments

Orihime Inoue | Bleach | Het

[leekspins]

[Yes. Do want.]

Klan Klang | Macross Frontier

[macronized]

Crowley | Good Omens | OTA

[tendencytohiss]

7?

[azirafail]

What do you think? Anathema said it makes me look dashing. [He is wearing a tuxedo. A... baby blue tuxedo, with ruffles. It looked as though it had spent its life in the dark reaches of a closet after a brief fling at an American prom dance in the disco era.]

Dick Grayson | Batman | OTA

[justlikeacircus]

7... the date part can come after the fighty time.

[nobodysweapon]

This is what she got for going into the city. Cities have lots of people, but they also have lots of crime. Which X-23 wouldn't give a crap about, in fact it was so much easier to make money in the city. You beat up a gang, take their money, and skip town.

These hirelings were trying to kidnap a little girl. She... couldn't let that go. Not so easily as most other bad things that happen to innocent people. Two of the goons were dead, unintended events, but she didn't feel bad for them.

Which left her dealing with three others while she had a little girl hugging her neck. She was strong, but it was a bit hard to fight off men with guns while carrying such dead weight. Pretty much she was down to getting shot a bunch or jumping out the nearest window.

The city sucks, she should have headed to Kansas.

Fenrir | Norse Mythology | OTA

[ragnarokwolf]

Gaius Maecenas | Rome | OTA

[smirkinbackground]

Loki Laufeyjarson | Norse Mythology | OTA

[theliesmith]

Colleen Murphy | OC | Het

[lace_and_secrets]

Elizabeth Bennet | Pride and Prejudice | OTA

[a_sharp_wit]

Shurei Kou | Saiunkoku Monogatari | Het

[imperialbloom]

Lethe || Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance || OTA, het only

[burningpassion]

Wally West | Young Justice | OTA

[sciencewhizard]

7, kinda, I DO WHAT I WANT :|

[burningpassion]

[Don't ask how a cat girl dressed in a pair of short-shorts ended up sitting at this bench in the middle of nowhere, waiting for a bus that still hadn't come. It's been hours! She's got things to do, little twin sisters to obsessively look after!

Lethe glances over at the only other occupant of the old, green bench, before looking away with a scowl. And then her stomach growls. Damn. She didn't have enough money for a bus ride and food...]

Toni Stark (63'd Tony) || Marvel Movies || Het

[iamironwoman]

Edgar Roni Figaro | Final Fantasy VI

[edgar_roni]

#2. Why.

[leekspins]

[Figaro Castle is just too big. She's been searching for the king for quite some time now, but she swears she's been in this same stretch of hallway five times already now. She knows where she WANTS to go, to the left wing where she suspects he's lingering, but the doors never seem to go where she wants to go. Time is growing short, and if she doesn't find him and leave soon, they might miss the opera. Well, that's what she gets for being too shy to ask him out directly, thinking he might like it better if she surprised him.]

[Finally, she gives up. She's on the second floor, and she can glimpse him near the western tower outside with the sun on his hair, looking kind of glorious against all that pale sand. Orihime climbs out the window, clutching a column, and slides straight down in order to meet him. Problem solved!]

Snow White } Snow White and the Huntsman

[incited]

Britta Perry | Community

[britta_ftw]

Homura Naoya | Cross Fight B-Daman

[controlversial]

7~

[commandaman]

[Whoa, speak of timing. Stupid rain, stupid street, stupid, stupid. What was the sky trying to do, drown the entire world?
Natsumi stared outside the window, tapping her fingers on the table.
So okay, she and Naoya had just had a bit of the same way home. As the rain started she had... pretty much grabbed him and shoved him inside the small restaurant.
Rethinking it though... ; wow, this was awkward.]

... if it goes on like this we won't be home for lunch anyway, right? We can as well eat in here...

[Just assuming you're with her on this, okay?!]

fitzwilliam darcy | pride & prejudice [modern au]

[ex_querulous960]

Faith Lehane | Angel And Faith

[kinksorvanilla]

Bobby Drake | Wolverine and the X-men | Het

[coolestguyaround]

[Yes?]

#4

[leekspins]

[Creativity isn't Orihime's problem. She's daydreamed plenty of spontaneous and fun ways to finally ask Bobby out to go get a pizza or watch a movie. Her problem is a lack of self-confidence. No matter how her best friend advises and urges, she always freezes up before she can ask what she really wants to ask.]

[Today will be different, though. Knowing his fondness for ice, she's written out a series of invitations to different date spots in the form of a coupon book, sealed it in a waterproof tin, and then submerged the tin into a bucket of water to sit in her freezer until she had a nice block of ice. This block of ice is now sitting on his front door step, quietly melting in the afternoon sun after Orihime rang the bell and dived into the hedges to watch his reactions from afar.]

peggy carter {mcu}

[ex_queenvictoria804]

Natasha Romanoff | MCU | OTA

[agent_romanoff]

Aaron Livesy | Emmerdale | Only M/M for romance

[teenagebadboy]

masamune date • sengoku basara

[ex_cuts951]

CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE

[bamfsecretary]

{So Kojuro finally decided that young master Masamune needed some female influence in his life who wasn't Yukimura, and found this young widowed noble from the Hojo clan.}

It is a pleasure to make your acquaintance, Masamune-dono.

Kanaya Maryam | Homestuck | F/F, OTA trolls

[notavampire]