The (Platonic) Love of my Life Meme

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The (Platonic) Love of my Life Meme

They're your partner, your soulmate, your other half... but you don't think of them *that* way. This is a meme for playing out intimate platonic relationships.

Post with your character, canon, preferences, etc. Tag around. Despite the wording of the meme, Golden Trios (or more) are fine too. Here's some prompts to get you started:



1. Love at First Sight: Your eyes met, and you knew with the tugging at your heart that this person would be your best friend for the rest of your life.

2. Better as Friends: You have mistaken your platonic bond for a romantic one, and are trying to make it work as lovers (and failing). The love and trust is there, but there's no attraction, no spark. When are you going to realize the truth?

3. Wedding Bells: The two of you want all the legal benefits of marriage -- or maybe you're being pressured to marry someone, so you pick your best friend. Just don't let anyone know you don't plan on consummating.

4. Confession: You've been friends for a while, and it's time to let them know the truth -- that your feelings for them go beyond friendship and into platonic partnership. Here's hoping they understand.

5. Under One Roof: You live together. Sharing a bed, arguing over furniture, going for groceries... can your relationship withstand being around each other nearly 24/7?

6. New Life: The two of you are going to raise a child together. Maybe you're adopting, or using artificial insemination. Maybe one of you conceived a child with someone else and the other one will serve as another parent figure for the child.

7. Not my Lover: The two of you are constantly mistaken for lovers -- how could you be so affectionate and intimate with each other without something romantic or sexual going on, after all? You might even get in trouble for this perceived relationship.

8. Three's a Crowd: One or more of you also has a romantic partner in addition to your platonic partner, and they're getting jealous of all the time you spend with your platonic partner. They may even accuse you of cheating, and you may have to choose between the two relationships.

9. Friends Never Say Goodbye: It's been a good run, but it's time for you to part ways. Perhaps you're simply breaking up, or someone has to go far away. Whatever the cause, your memories of this person and what you had together will never fade.

10. I Love You (Intensely and Platonically): Wildcard. Combine prompts, or make up your own scenarios.

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Loki | Marvel

[story_and_teller]

[Pls to deposit all Verities right here ty. <3]

You rang?

[personalpolygraph]

[Where/when do you fancy this time? :D]

Hello hello.

[story_and_teller]

[Something shamelessly squishy like IDK dinner and Loki's Storytime for epic adventures that don't hurt Verity's head? I mean, who needs fiction when your BFF is the God of Stories?]

[personalpolygraph]

[OOC: OMG yes. Yay. ^_^ Old school? How's this? Happy to switch/follow your lead if you'd rather go forward/post comics.]

Verity can't decide if having an actual god cook her dinner every now and again is the best thing about being his friend, or just the oddest. It's far stranger than the outfits and the adventures. Those she kind of expects go hand in hand with keeping the company of gods and heroes. But dinner? Home made? And tasting this good? (Not that she'll tell him that last one, of course. He has enough ego as it is.)

Just weird.

She sits back with her plate and enjoys the first mouthful for a moment longer, then waves her fork at him and says, "Go on. You were in deadly peril. Again."

She takes another mouthful and raises her eyebrow at him.

[story_and_teller]

"I was in the deadliest peril," he corrects, gesturing with his fork. "I was still just a wee godling, it was the first time I had ever been on an actual adventure with Thor and his friends. Of course, they went off after the rock wyverns on their own, leaving poor little Loki at the camp, tending the fire..."

Dinner tonight is a seafood soup with a light salad on the side. If some of the leaves and bits of ocean-life look unfamiliar, well... That would be because Loki got them far off worlds and exotic markets. Why limit yourself if you don't have to?

[personalpolygraph]

She chuckles at the idea of him young and innocent, and pokes her way through the strange salad before she takes up some bread and tries the soup.

"I feel sorry for poor little Loki already," she tells him wryly, and pauses to chew a lump from the soup. "Not bad," she adds.

[story_and_teller]

"Thank you. Anyway, the thing is, even at that age I already knew more about such things - the habits of creatures and beings - than they did, and so I knew that leaving me alone with the fire was the worst of all possible ideas. Of course," he says wryly, lips twisting up. "I wasn't scared at all."

(I used to like bedtime! Now I shake my fist at it in fury)

[personalpolygraph]

The look she gives him at that says it all.

"I know we talked about creative licence," she adds to it, with a pointed gesture despite the chunk of bread she's holding, "but that's going a little far, don't you think? You promised me a true story."

She takes a bite of the bread and snorts, "At all," around it, the blanket, absolute statement still itching at her.

(WOE)

[story_and_teller]

"Oh come on, I was being sarcastic. All right, I was scared stiff, because I knew that rock wyverns always go after the smallest member of the group, and I was very skinny as a child."

[personalpolygraph]

"Better," she says with a smirk, because there's nothing quite as pleasing as the pout he puts on when she makes him admit, in exactly so many words, he's not perfect.

Aaeren | Lord of the Rings | LOTRO OC

[displacedchild]

[espigeonage]

Aaeren! Hey!

[Julien's back from spring break with a tan, holding a yellow rosebud in one hand and hiding the other suspiciously behind his back. His glasses steam up as he comes in the door, so he stops walking and strikes a pose.]

Celebrate, for I have returned!

[displacedchild]

_{[Aaeren had been buried in her studies, a big book open to one side and a pile of rocks to the other. She was classifying (and playing with) the rocks when Julien walked in. It took her just a moment before it hit her that he'd just called out, and then she was spinning in her chair with a bright smile on her face.]}

Julien! Welcome back! How was break?

[espigeonage]

It was great! [He shifts something into his jacket pocket and takes off his glasses with a wink to wipe the condensation off them.] The beach was kinda chilly, but my friends there knew a fantastic gym. You get all caught up here? I hope you had enough to eat.

[displacedchild]

I'm glad.

_{[She moves over to him and presses a kiss to his forehead.]}

Of course I did. I may have eaten everything in the apartment, even! But I'm almost done with my project, so there is that. Honestly, who assigns such a big project that close to spring break?

_{[...even though it wasn't due for another two weeks.]}

[espigeonage]

[He submits to the kiss and leans up to peck her on the chin in turn. As usual the smell of hair dye comes with him.]

Idiots, that's who. Your less fanatical classmates have more time to do it in a more mediocre manner, I'm sure.

I brought you something! [Julien puts the rose stem in his mouth - he loves roses - and pulls rock out of his coat pocket.] Uncut petoskey. Honestly it gives me the willies, but I thought you'd like it.

[displacedchild]

_{[She laughs a bit and shrugs.]}

Ah, well, I still think it's silly. Homework over breaks.

_{[She takes the rock and brings it up to observe closer, squealing and turning to put it on her desk when she realizes just what it is. Ecstatic is a good word for her right now.]}

Oh, it's lovely! Thanks, Julien! It is a little creepy, isn't it? I don't have one of these!

[espigeonage]

It's tyranny, is what it is. [Still holding the rose in his teeth and talking around it, he shrugs out of his coat and hooks it up, then removes his shoes and sits on the edge of her bed.]

They're fossil coral and look so much creepier when they're polished, but also cool, and that's all I know. You don't want to know what I had to do to get it. [Another wink.]

[displacedchild]

Ah well, no rest for the weary and all that! I'll probably not polish it. They seem to lose their charm when they're polished.

_{[She has a feeling that the acquisition of said rock was a little on the difficult side, but knowing Julien, it probably wasn't too terrible.]}

Well, all the same, you're the best! Imagine the look on the professor's face when I bring this in! Not only is it a rock, it's a fossil!

[espigeonage]

You're very welcome! [Now he tucks the rose behind his ear and props his hands behind him, leaning back.] I gotta try and keep an eye out for my best rockhound, right?

Has it been quiet here?

Anakin Skywalker | Star Wars | OTA

[morally_cryptic]

[I mean Obi-Wan or Ahsoka can be obvious here. But I'm willing to try out other things or go cross-canon, too. :)]

Remilia Scarlet (can be aged up) | Touhou Project

[scarlet_devil]

[STE/RTE AU available.]

Lafayette | Hamilton: An American Musical

[asmartman]

Alexander Hamilton | Hamilton: An American Musical

[runningoutoftime]

ooc: Take a break pick...

Fiona Gallagher | Shameless (US) | OTA

[chaosfollowsme]

[2, 5 or 7 preferred]