Walk through hell with you

[seethers]

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

Germany | Axis Powers Hetalia | OTA

[kuckucksuhr]

[Please no 3, 11, or 15.]

crashes into

[miarrendo]

[are we doing AU or canon?]

[kuckucksuhr]

[I am good with either, so hit me with your best shot!]

1, 12, 30???

[miarrendo]

[you asked for it...!

i mean. i'll be gentle.......]

[normally, simple handcuffs cannot hold nations. normally. but Italy's never been one to exercise brute strength, even when he is in danger. besides, why should he bother trying to escape? he is handcuffed to his best pal, Germany, and there isn't anyone else he'd rather be handcuffed to more...!

...unless it was a pretty girl. pretty girl trumps Germany.

but they are prisoners of war together. having Germany this close means Italy can be protected at all times! if he needs to hide beside something, there is Germany. if someone is picking on him, there is Germany. if there is an earthquake, there is Germany! everything about this situation is perfect!

...okay. not really. they still are being locked up against their will. that isn't good. Italy sighs, staring out the barred window, trying to get just a little bit of sunlight on his face]

I'm so hungry... [he's always hungry. or sleepy]

18, 27

[morethanpasta]

Don't be sad, Germany! [Feliciano's voice is a soft sad coo as he paws at his arm and shoulder in a feeble attempt to comfort him. Normally he is good at giving comfort, hugging and making even the grouchiest people laugh are his strengths, but Ludwig has gotten roughed up protecting Feli, and now he's not even sure where to touch him without hurting him more.

It's terribly upsetting, and there are tears stinging in Feli's eyes, but someone's got to be cheerful. Even now.

He sways back and forth on the balls of his heels, and gives him a wavering smile.] Don't you be sad, Ludwig, I will make you all better and then we will get out of here!

[kuckucksuhr]

[Everything hurts, but at least Italy is safe. Sure, his friend is weak and cries a lot, but he's supportive and kind. Plus he has some decent food and wine. He always eats everything that Ludwig makes and hardly complains.

In the grand scheme of things, while he might be annoying, he is still a good friend. And so Germany couldn't let him be hurt by their captors. When they were free, he'd make them pay. No one messed with him and his friends and got away with it.

Not even that poncy little France.]

I'm not sad. I'm furious. There is a great difference in that, Italy.

[morethanpasta]

Ve~ [That's another sad little coo right there, and his brows knit in the closest to a frown he can get. But it's not an angry frown, more of a pensive one.

His hands flutter forward again, this time his fingertips run over Ludwig's shoulder, his arm.]

Would you like me to check on you? I'm sorry Big Brother France hurt you. He... [There's on his lips the promise that France didn't mean it, that he hadn't done it on purpose. He always forgives Big Brother everything. But saying he didn't mean to hurt Ludwig would be a lie, and he doesn't like to lie.]

But you're not angry with me, are you? [He tilts his head to the side.] I tried really hard not to get us captured. But Big Brother tricked me. [And he trusts those he loves far too easily.]

Emma Swan|OUAT|OTA

[savedbylove]

[Open to canon, cross canon, Au's. No torture or Death please ]

Yami no Bakura | Yu-Gi-Oh! | OTA

[darkgames]

[Pass on 11 and 15.]

Ise Nanao | Bleach | OTA

[eighthlibrarian]

Liquid Snake | Metal Gear | ota

[saveyourserpent]

[Liq's been a POW & brainwashed before so this is nothing new to him. Could be set around his POW days, or something that happens later, like if he's back from the dead/faked his death/whatever.]

[subcommander_kaz]

[ooc: maybe these two could meet as prisoners somehow? An AU? Because Miller would be older than this when he meets Liquid.]

[saveyourserpent]

[Sure! Liquid might be a little less likely to impersonate him someday. Or he'll go for the sunglasses anyway, who knows. You want a straight-up AU, or just to finagle canon a bit to fit it in?]

Matt Murdock || Daredevil

[blindstrike]

[Somehow brainwashed (basically Matt turned captor/handler after knowing his cellmate for awhile). Medium-long prose preferred]

Peter Quill || Guardians of the Galaxy

[volumeone]

[Interested in scientific experiment, medium-prose preferred. Shipping preferred]

as discussed C: let me know if any changes need to be made

[commandshumor]

Wraith liked experimenting, though usually stuck with experiments that would-in the end-benefit them in some way. This wasn't an exception but it was more to satisfy Todd's curiosity first rather than his need for a bed partner.

Capturing humans was what wraith did best and Quill had been one of the unfortunate ones to end up in a cell. Fortunately those not getting picked weren't to be eaten, this hive had been given the gene therapy-successfully-so humans were off the menu. Which begged the question, why were they there at all?

One by one the humans were taken from the cell. Most were to be sent back to the planet thanks to being too old or ill or had a myriad of other problems that disqualified them, the handful left would be subjects.

And Quill was one. Stunned, he was taken from the cell and brought to a small room. Stripped of everything but attire, he was strapped spread-eagle to a low squishy platform in the center of the chamber.

Todd sat down next to him and waited for the human to wake.

[volumeone]

Peter had the brilliant idea of trying to rush the door when they opened it. All he got was getting the fight shocked out of him, his vision graying in and out as they dragged him down hallway after hallway. He remembers at one point things blurring into focus - a view of the floor as he's dragged by his arms, his knees bent, boots dragging - and then he's reviving on the platform with a little cough that turns into a groan.

His eyes drift open. View of the ceiling. Movement to the side signals that he isn't alone. Peter's head lolls to see another one of the aliens that captured him, as ugly as the others, pale as death.

"So I guess it's my turn, huh?" Peter rasps out. He wets his lips, trying to keep a brave front up so the alien doesn't know he's shitting himself going oh Christ, I'm so screwed.

Freyjadour Falenas | Suikoden V | OTA

[sunruined]

[He's a prince, so that's one reason for captivity. In canon, he leads an army which helps take back his queendom, so he's public enemy number one. Also open for AUs or post canon.]

Hugo | Suikoden III | OTA

[grasslander]

[There's a war in his canon, so that'd be an easy go to, but open to anything.]

Loki | MCU | ota

[reliablelies]

Koujaku | Dramatical Murder | OTA

[questionablybi]

Liling 'Lily' Yang | World of Darkness OC | M/F

[splendidphoenix]

[ No 38. ]

Giovanni Rammsteiner | DOGS: Bullets & Carnage | OTA

[ofobedience]

Rey | Star Wars | m/f

[scrounged]

Prince Hans ♔ Frozen ♔ OTA

[13thinline]