bakerstreet | (no subject)

{ the gift giving meme }

{ how to play }

1. Post your characters along with any preferences in the subject
2. RNG yourself or choose a number between 1-15 and tag others.
3. Feel free to include pics/links or write the notes that go with their gifts!
4. Please set scenes for your RP partner - don't just comment with a link of a gift and RNG'd number in the header.

{ tie it up in a pretty little bow }

1. 'Tis The Season!
→ It's some holiday or another, and you don't want to be the one who breaks tradition by not giving a gift.

2. Happy Birthday!
→ Another year older! Is it their sweet sixteenth? The no-holds-barred-finally-legal 21? Or that stately eighty candles that might set the cake on fire...

3. Sweet Valentine
→ Not that you need a commercialized excuse to butter up your sweetheart, but if the heart-decorated chocolate truffle fits...

4. Anniversary
→ You didn't forget ~~this year~~! But seeing as how it only comes once a year, you'd better make it fantastic ~~or you'll be sleeping on the couch... again :(~~

5. Wedding Bells
→ It's the bride and groom's happiest day and you want to give them something to commemorate this momentous occasion!

6. Housewarming
→ Those new neighbors of yours are still getting settled. Why not give them something to welcome them to the neighborhood?

7. What Bribery?
→ It never hurts to get on someone's good side, right? Especially if they could make your life miserable if they don't like you...

8. Get Well Soon!
→ Someone's stuck in the hospital and you just know that a gift will put a smile back on their face.

9. Going Away
→ They have to leave and you can't go with them, but you'll wait until they return. Give them something to remind them of you while they're far away.

10. I Miss You!
→ Has it been a week? A year? However long they've been away, you want them to know you're still thinking of them.

11. I'm So Sorry
→ You've screwed up big time and apologies just don't feel good enough, but you'll give them a token of your sincerity.

12. You're Appreciated!
→ There's just no one else like that person! You know everything they've done for you and others and you to show your appreciation.

13. Glorious Victory!
→ Hail the conquering hero! It doesn't matter if they've run a marathon or usurped a kingdom, this calls for mighty spoils!

14. Secret Admirer~
→ You haven't quite worked up the courage to give them something in person, and hopefully they don't recognize your handwriting...

15. Wildcard
→ Anything else, go crazy with it.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[ closes his eyes. . .

not today, satan. ]

Hm, I suppose it's as good a time as any for a nap.

You won't mind if I put your book down as a pillow, will you?

It'll be uncomfortable.

For the book, perhaps. I've been told that I do have a remarkably hard skull.

[ books don't have feelings. . . you fool. ]

I take it you want me to leave, then.

[ if he doesn't have a book to read, he essentially has no reason to stay here. ]

All right, all right, it was only a hypothetical question! Look: I'm cradling your old war book. Gently. Even a cat couldn't ask for better treatment.

[ the only cat here is you. ]

Would reading it not be more effective?

But that'd be depriving you, wouldn't it?

From a book? Yes.

From a book you don't dislike.

[ high praise from a man who just spent a significant chunk of time trying to weasel out of giving an innocent vessalius any book recommendations. ]

[ somehow, it feels like he's being tested; like jack is pitting himself against the book and making oswald choose one over the other. jack's company? the not-so-bad book? how silly. as if he didn't deliberately come to this tree, which already had jack napping under it, to read. the answer should be obvious. ]

Take your nap, but not over this book.

[ alternately: oswald just linefaces so much that jack is this close to starting a system where he gives himself a point for every reaction evoked. ]

I wasn't serious about the nap! But I might be about reading. Did you plan to have this finished by the end of the day?

[ omfg? stop playing with him. ]

If you want to borrow it, go ahead.

[ VESSALIUS MOTTO: CAN'T STOP WON'T STOP NOT SURE HOW TO STOP ]

You truly won't mind? Then I'll take it with me when I go. But I meant that I could read the rest to you here, if you'd like.

Read. . . to me?

You haven't finished it yet, have you?

Reading it to me is unnecessary.