I'll walk through hell with you

[pippilongsockings]

the mutual captivity dependency (romance) meme

No matter how hard you fought, how subtly or overtly you rebelled, or how many times you tried to escape, you ended up at this point all the same: you're a prisoner. Perhaps you're just a regular, run of the mill captive, perhaps a hostage, a science experience, a weapon to be used, yet, no matter what, you're not free.

But you're also not alone.

There's someone else confined along with you, who you met through your mutual imprisonment. The only thing you two may have in common is that you're both trapped here - and that's enough. The two of you grow close (it seems you're closer to them than you've ever been to anyone, but that could just be the situation); soon, something begins to start between you, tiny and delicate. You can't speak to what that something is, not in a place like this, but you know you want it to last. They are another reason to keep going.

Captivity, of course, has a way of stripping everything from you, including reasons to live. Surely, it is only a matter of time before this small - and still somehow world encompassing - comfort is taken from you...

...no. Not this time. They've taken all you have, right down to your freedom, and it stops now. You won't let the person who's become most precious to you in this hell be stolen away.

No matter what.

HOW TO PLAY

• Comment with your character and preferences. Are you open to AUs and assumed CR? What are your limits? Given the subject of the meme, there's likely to be triggering material here. Do you prefer very dark fare or a light at the end of the tunnel scenario?
• There's one prompt that could be smut, but feel free to play it in others if you're open to it. However, I'm going to be posting this as a smut meme on TLH later this week.
• Reply to others. RNG.

PROMPTS

1. Prisoner of War: Who's side were you on? Or were you just an innocent civilian caught in the mire?


2. Hostage: Take heart. You're worth more alive than dead.


3. Scientific Experiment: What an interesting specimen you are. You will have to be tested.


4. False Charges: One or both of you are here because of lies told against you; eventually, though, you may begin to believe that your worth is truly that low.


5. Do the Dirty Work: Your powers are useful, maybe even enough to use you as an unwilling assassin.


6. For Different Reasons: You're imprisoned for different reasons, and you still draw close. After all, does it matter when you're both stuck?


7. Most Unforgivable Sin: One of you is a prisoner in the most basic of senses: hostage, slave, what have you. The other? Well, it's much more complicated. The other is a person forced against their will to be a lover, spouse, or sex slave of those in charge. What if that other does find someone they actually love? It could cost you both your heads.


8. Equalized: Maybe you were in different social strata before, but now, you're both common dirt.


9. Should Be in Charge: One of you has a higher ranking in the system. Will you use your power to manipulate them or to skew things in their favor.


10. Beneficial: You both have something the other wants. It's a mutually beneficial set-up, and that's all it needs to be. At least, that's how it starts.


11. Love at First Sight: You never thought you'd see someone like them here, and maybe it's because you've been cut off for some long, but you're feeling so smitten, even if that's usually not you.


12. Needy: You're not cut out for this. Almost immediately, you reach out for anyone who can offer to take you under their wing.


13. Won't Fall: To you, it's all to keep yourself sane. You won't actually fall in love, not in a million years.


14. Traumatized: It's hard to care for someone so broken, someone who's seen such terrible things, but you do it anyway.


15. Brainwashed: Before you met them, you never doubted your masters. But now...


16. Flower of Hell: Such a beautiful ray of light should not belong here in this darkness. Cruelty will snuff if out. You don't want that to happen.


17. Kindness: They showed you an unprecedented act of charity and selflessness. You feel drawn to them.


18. Tend to Wounds: It's easy to get hurt while captive. At least you don't have to wait for your wardens to fix you up. You have someone kind or dedicated enough to tend to you and you alone.


19. Anything to Protect You: They can't protect themselves, so you'll do it for them in any way you can.


20. Using Them: Really, you don't care for them. You just want their protection and their help. At least, that's what you keep thinking.


21. Burned Before: You had another prisoner before that you loved, and they were sent away or killed. You want let down your guard again.


22. Human Contact: You've been deprived for so long, you crave any attention.


23. Can't Touch: You're in cells, kept apart. You can never touch.


24. Barely See You: There kept away from you and everyone else for most of the day, but you still have feelings for them.


25. Separate: They're to be taken away, perhaps even to another outpost. What will you do?


26. Frustration: How long has it been since you've been with someone? You may take any opportunity to get some privacy.


27. Have Hope: You don't want your partner to lose faith, so despite your own beliefs, you'll stay positive.


28. Promises: You keep telling them things, swearing that you'll follow through and you'll both be okay. Inside, a part of you may fear it's all hollow words.


29. Escape: You're going to leave, but not without them.


30. Punishment: For your crimes, both of you will be punished. How much will your affections mean then?


31. Forced to Torture: Not only does your closest person have to be tortured, but you're the one who has to do it.


32. All a Sham: The truth is out. They were only playing you. In fact, they may


33. Turncoats: Your captors have pitted you against each other.


34. Fight: You may argue or even come to blows, yet soon enough, you'll be wanting to forgive and forget because there's no one else to look out for you.


35. Jealousy: They're all you have here, so you're not inclined to share.


36. Taken by Another: Someone else captured here with you all saw what you had and decided they would steal away your significant other.


37. Know How to Break You: Your tormenters know they can't hurt you with torture, but if they hurt the one you care for? That's another story.


38. Death: There's no need for prisoners who won't keep on the straight and narrow. You've pushed the envelope too many times, and now, execution is the easiest option for your captors.


39. Finally Free: The two of you have finally made it out alive. Suddenly, in the light of day, things seem different. Was all of this, all of these feelings...were they true or out of some desperate need?


40. WILDCARD

Comments

mikaela hyakuya | owari no seraph

[infatyuated]

Princess Leia | Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back |

[ouronlyhope]

mikaela banes | transformers

[warriorgoddess]

Kilgrave | MCU

[mauveine]

(Permissions)

[msadler]

[This could go in all sorts of twisted ways for these two.]

[mauveine]

[ anything in particular? I was thinking 2, 3, 10, 13 or something else? ]

[msadler]

[Any of those would work with me, tbh]

[mauveine]

Kilgrave was exhausted. More than exhausted, really. Everything hurt, his head and limbs felt heavy and everything moved in a haze. He'd gotten rather used to the sensation of being drugged lately, but by no means did that mean he was enjoying it at all. What a disgrace, being locked in this government facility with so many other common criminals, blackmailers, thieves... He was better than that.

He was dropped heavily on the floor of his cell and the heavy door locked behind him. The guards were not half as stupid as they looked, however, and at least made sure to drug him after his tests so he couldn't control them. For the next few hours, he'd be normal, just like anyone else. Normal, tired, and sore.

But at least he wasn't alone. There was at least someone he could talk to, and even if he wouldn't say it, he could really use the affirmation that she was at least still there right now.

[msadler]

Irene tends to him when he's dropped back in the cell; even with the drugs still in his system. She's not an interesting subject, they had just been found together and brought together.

"I'm right here." Her voice is quiet and soothing, she knows he finds at least some comfort in her presence. "Are you worse than normal?"

[blindstrike]

[Did you want to bounce off their previous do a full au thing?]

[mauveine]

[ bouncing off previous might give some good motivation at least! ]

[blindstrike]

[Maybe do some kind of au off of the cell part or maybe SHIELD or Hydra steps in to nab Kilgrave at the finale instead of other stuff? Matt gets swept up too and gets trapped with him? :|a]

[mauveine]

[ SHIELD might be the better call but hydra might be more willing to experiment. Either way, I'm not sure Kilgrave will be saying much at first. I'm leaning... Hydra, maybe?]

[blindstrike]

[Gotcha! I'll throw up a starter when I can - thinking maybe he'd know to kind of guide Matt to obey him but doing it sneakily so Hydra might not catch on off the bat?]

Liling 'Lily' Yang | World of Darkness OC | OTA, m/f for shipping/smut

[splendidphoenix]

Barry Allen ϟ The Flash ϟ OTA

[speedygoldenboy]

rin okumura | ao no exorcist | m/m

[bedeviled]

Mike Traceur | Knight Rider '08 | OTA

[secondtry]

Grillby | Undertale | OTA

[gribbley]

[panfandom and assumed cr are allowed.]

Brienne of Tarth | ASOIAF | OTA

[ursas]

2 - hope this is okay? pp me if not and I can change it

[shieldofrohan]

Éowyn staggers as she's pushed into the cell, almost tripping on the hem of her dirty gown. She wheels like a wolf at bay, lunging for her captors with her teeth bared in a snarl, but the door is already closing on her, and although she slams into it with all her weight, it goes on closing. Slamming both palms flat against the door, she yells something that has no words, just rage and frustration.

If I had my sword! she thinks, and slams her hand into the door again. If I only had a sword, or a spear, you would rue this day, every last one of you! But she had no such weapon when they came for her, only a small eating knife at her belt.

She'd still managed to take one of them down, striking the knife under his gorget into his windpipe. His blood was smeared on her arm and encrusting her white dress, and she wouldn't have minded that if it had only been enough.

Turning, trying to force down the panic that's already threatening to overtake her, she's surprised to find she's not alone. Her surprise is a blessing; it drowns out her fear for a moment, and lets her take a deep breath that barely shakes at all. Raising one hand (which is shaking, a little), she wipes the blood from her split lip and looks the other woman up and down, her chest heaving.

[ursas]

Brienne's not sure how long she's been down here, but it's long enough for the scar above her eye to scab over and the large purplish bruise beneath it to have turned a dull brown. These are the signs of her own struggle with the ones who trapped them in here, and she's still frustrated with herself for not being to overpower them, for having to endure their gloating taunts about how she was just a weak girl under all her armor, which was even worse than the thrashing she'd received.

When the door slams and locks behind Éowyn, Brienne jumps to her feet, her own self-pity vanishing to the back of her mind with her surprise and outrage at them having captured another woman, one smaller and lither than her - though just as fierce, it seems. She doesn't want to think about how they'd overpowered her; the thought makes her sick.

"My lady, you're bleeding. I have somewhere--" She trails off as she rummages around for the clean end of the linen she'd torn off the clothes she'd been left with to tend to her own wounds, holding it out to Éowyn.

[shieldofrohan]

Éowyn shakes her head, looking down at the blood on her fingers. "I've taken worse hurt being kicked by horses," she says, with some disgust. That isn't to say she's not hurt. They wouldn't have taken her in otherwise. There's a mat of blood under her blonde hair on one temple, where she was knocked out, and she feels as though half her ribs are broken.

She isn't exactly lying, though. Rohan's horses kick pretty damned hard.

"I'd worry less about my bleeding," she says after a moment, raking her hair back with one hand, "and more about how we make them bleed. There must be a way out of this place. Perhaps between the two of us, we can break down the door..." They're neither of them small. It's not an entirely stupid idea, even if it is a rather desperate one. But judging by the way she stumbles as she takes a step towards Brienne, and the slight unfocusing of her eyes, she's in no state to try.

...She may have underestimated how hard they hit her head.

[ursas]

Brienne steps forward faster than her hulking frame would suggest she's easily able to do, placing one arm around Éowyn's back so she can lean into her, and the other on her shoulder to prevent her from keeling over. "I've got you. Can you walk? You're in no fit state to try to escape just yet."

femme merlin ( KINGSMAN )

[laphroaig]