The Historical Romance (AU) Meme

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The Historical Romance (AU) Meme

(also including high fantasy, steampunk, and sci-fi because why not)

There's nothing quite like a good historical setting to take a tale of sordid romance to the next level. Perhaps it's the setting that seems so separate from our own time, thus making the whole thing feel more exotic or epic. Besides, the codes of attitude! The costumes! The traditions! The disease and early death!

Uhhh, did I mention the costumes?

HOW TO PLAY

• This is a meme for shipping in historical (and also fantastical by historically based) settings. Pretty self-explanatory.
• Post with your character, information, and preferences.
• There are TWO things you can RNG here, because everybody loves some RNG. First is time period, second is prompt. Two for the price of one.
• Comment to other people.
• Be kind to others, play nice, etc.

Time Periods:

1. Prehistory
2. Egypt
3. Greece & Rome
4. Mythic & Legendary
5. Viking
6. Ancient Asia
7. Scottish Highlands
8. Celts
9. Medieval & Middle Ages
10. High Fantasy
11. Camelot/Arthurian
12. French Revolution
13. Tudors
14. Regency
15. Victorian/Industrial Revolution
16. Steampunk
17. Wild West
18. Civil War
19. Roaring Twenties
20. 1940s
21. 1950s
22. 1960s
23. The Space Age Future

Prompts:

1. Spoils of War: You've been taken of your home and made either an unwilling companion or, even worse, a slave. Yet something is beginning
2. Nefarious Intentions: Whether it be from jealousy or a desire to ruin someone, you want to make this person - perhaps with an equal or higher station - desire you, then you will destroy them.
3. Inherited You: Often times, in the past, positions came along with the spouse of the deceased or disposed.
4. Must Be Married: In order to get your inheritance, secure your title, produce an heir, or please a parent, you have to marry someone. Anyone will do, won't they?
5. Arranged: This marriage is one you didn't even get to pick. Hopefully, you'll at least like the person.
6. Servitude: You live to serve, but you also love the one you serve, perhaps from afar.
7. Love at First Sight: Okay, admittedly, you have't seen many people because this is before easy travel, but you know this person is the one. What can you do about it?
8. Learn to Love: The two of you are thrust together. The most you can do is hope to love each other in time.
9. Promised to Another: You two are head over heels, and things couldn't be better...except for the fact that one of you is supposed to belong to somebody else.
10. Seduction for Gain: In a time where women and the underclass were treated very poorly, there's no shame in trying to advance your station. Use whatever means necessary.
11. Courtly Love: Between a knight and a noble, a bard and a noble, a king and his lady, etc etc etc. The kind of love spoken of in ballads.
12. The One Above All Else: The one who got away...or the one who was never yours. Maybe they are a beloved friend, a special person you must protect, or that flickering green light far from you, but you love them all the same.
13. For the Man Who Has Everything: You are powerful, strong, well-connected; you have everything except for someone to share it with. Perhaps that will change.
14. Rescue the Maiden Fair: Or the "man" fair. Surely they will show gratitude.
15. To Honor You: Maybe if you win a great victory, slay a dragon, or invent a combustion engine, senpai your beloved will notice you.
16. Cultural Differences: When uniting two cultures through a marriage or union, culture clashes are bound to occur.
17. Class Difference: The poor street urchin who loves the child of the bourgeois or the serf who longs after the lord's only daughter. Is there anything more heartbreaking?
18. Healing the Broken: Life is hard, and perhaps one of you has bore the brunt of it. It falls on the other to bring life back into their life.
19. Met Before: You knew this person long ago. Have your feelings for them changed?
20. Courtship: You will do this the proper way, with meek handholding and chaperoned dances. Or you may have no other choice.
21. Secrets and Magic: Your romance is further muddled by the existence of strange creatures and the magical forces. Maybe one of you is even a magician, but you can't let anyone know, even the person you adore.
22. Torn Apart by War: On the same side or Romeo and Juliet-ing it, the constant fighting is ruining your war.
23. Forbidden: You took an oath, a vow, or some other kind of promise not to love. Before your eyes, that's all shattering.
24. Rule by My Side: You want power and you want this person to be your consort, and will do anything to get both.
25. I've Grown Accustomed to Your Face: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, or: I hated you but now I've grown to want you like no other.
26. I'll Wait for You: You will wait for the person you love. Back in the day, this was pretty serious, considering the death rate from the plague. And dysentery.
27. A Promise Made: You told them you would make them yours and nothing would stand between you. You intend to make good on that promise, no matter what goddesses you have to face, monsters you have to kill, or political situations you must maneuver.
28. First Contact: You are the first envoy of your kingdom or race. Making a good impression and not breaking any hearts are both good calls.
29. 1.21 Gigawatts: "But I'm not even from this time period!" Instead, you're the modern guy or gal who fell through time. You must fit in...and not break everything by falling in love with the knight or samurai.
30. WILDCARD

Comments

Arslan | Heroic Legend of Arslan | M/M

[parsianprince]

[Already from an older time period, but be can be pulled out of time or AUed. Also can be aged up, where he'd be king if working in his timeline. Short history in journal. Suggest prompts, but usually open to all]

Derek Hale | Teen Wolf | OTA

[haletotheking]