the courtship meme

[demisms]

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! → And have fun!

Comments

Edgar Roni Figaro | Final Fantasy VI

[edgar_roni]

Rolled a 4! Hope This Is Okay!

[eclipse_of_time]

[There were worlds upon worlds upon worlds that stretched out through the universe and onto infinity. Ming often wonders if even a being such as she, seemingly un-aging and unable to die, will ever see them all. But traveling them occupies her time, Numara itself left in the capable hands of one her descendants. After over a thousand years of remaining in one small place and with the universe now at her fingertips...

Currently, Ming is beneath her palatial traveling tent, sipping a cool drink and watching the activity of her camp. It's as though a small cloth and gilt village has sprung up in the Figaro desert outside the walls of the castle town, blue and white and silver shimmering in the hot sun. With the aide of magic engines it's a simple thing to recreate splendor and comfort wherever she so chooses - assuming it's feasible.

She's done her research on this country. A handsome young king, charming and above all clever by all reports. The idea of him has captured the thousand year queen's interest. Never being to embrace subtly or conventionality, rather than sending a courier or approaching the capital proper, Ming opted for a more...creative display. Bursts of color like liquid fireworks radiated above her tent, blue and violet and silver. Dozens of small white birds, like long tailed tiny doves, darted and danced in the air amidst the colored cloud bursts. A path lined by exotic flowers, the likes which had no right blooming in the desert, sprang up from Ming's tent leading to Figaro Castle....

An invitation she hopes is too obvious to be missed.]

Arthur Pendragon | BBC's Merlin

[king]

8 [hope this is okay.]

[behind_thefan]

[Fanfan has no desire to be courted or to do courting or to have any form of the word attached to herself. She's been through this before with her arraigned childhood marriage. She was one of the lucky ones whose marriage ended in tragedy. Now she's being peddled off to the next one in line.

She is not pleased.]

vivan ♔ bbc merlin

[besotted]

Apollo | Olimpos

[hover]

I can't... even roll for this

[chthonics]

[have a handful of musty dead flowers shoved at your chest, Apollo]

Here.

Kurt Hummel | Glee

[hummel]

katniss everdeen → hunger games

[istheseus]

7 / scorched au?

[king]

Good shot!

[ He shouldn't be so loud when there's other game nearby; especially not if he wants any chance at matching her today. But he can't help but give a joyful ha-ha at the skill that flows through Katniss Everdeen when she draws and shoots. It had attracted him at the fair, and it compels him now, to jog up beside her and lean against the ruined wall she had been shooting from. ]

lucrezia borgia ✟ cantarella

[angelicsister]

astrid ✖ how to train your dragon

[foreverythingelse]

Matt Delaney // OC // Het

[asyoufindme]

I figure their first date is bound to be cute

[theirsavior]

[7, 4 or even 1? Got a preference?]

kaoru kamiya | rurouni kenshin

[shihandai]

[ i will kill everything you love if you lift me like a saltwife. ]

ygritte ♔ a song of ice and fire

[kissedby]

jeyne westerling | a song of ice and fire

[winterswife]

Molly Hooper || BBC Sherlock | OTA males

[wealldosillythings]

1

[usually_subtext]

[John is ridiculously nervous. Normally a date would be cause for some nerves, but he and Molly have been friends of a sort for some time. That means his nerves are quite a bit worse than usual. He shows up with flowers--daisies of some sort--clearing his throat as he steps into the lab.]

I hope I'm not interrupting anything...

brienne | a song of ice and fire

[upheld]

asha greyjoy ♔ a song of ice and fire

[krakeness]

Irene Adler || BBC Sherlock

[womanwhobeatyou]

((I don't even know))

frodo baggins | lord of the rings

[ringbearer]

5

[pencilpremonition]

[A random person presses a scrap of paper into Frodo's hand and then disappears. It's a very detailed sketch of a girl, sitting under a tree. It's well done enough that you can recognise the location--it's not far from here. And you'd be able to recognise her face if you saw her. Beneath are the simple cryptic words 'I'm here.' Do you go?]

renge houshakouji ♥ ohshc

[ohohoho]

c.c. | code geass

[waterdrop]

Nariko Lunae | OC | M/F

[gunslingerqueen]

Colleen Murphy | OC | Het

[lace_and_secrets]

lady alanna of pirate's swoop and olau | song of the lioness

[ladychampion]

[GOOD. LUCK. ]

Abbie 'AJ' Jansen // OC // OTA

[thislastrequest]

Schuyler Van Alen | Blue Bloods | Het

[theirsavior]

Will Vaughn / OC / OTA

[nvrbelieveagain]