In these volatile times, we stick close.

[newsockfeeling]

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

Rey | SW:TFA | OTA

[thesefirststeps]

Jemma Simmons | Marvel's Agents of SHIELD | OTA

[technicallysmarter]

Re: Jemma Simmons | Marvel's Agents of SHIELD | OTA

[jrey]

What was Jessie doing here? She honestly was starting to question her own sanity, as she looked through binoculars at an office building. From the subway entrance across the street no less. She'd already been told the others were handling this. This was not her job. Her job was paperwork. So why was she doing this again?

Oh yeah, because Jemma wasn't just her boss. She wasn't just another agent. She wasn't her coworker. Jemma was her friend. And if they expected her to sit on her ass and wait, they had another think coming. Jessie did three things fairly well. Hack, shoot, and fight. And she had every intention of doing all three. Maybe they wanted to wait and negotiate, but it was Jemma's ass on the line. She pulled out a small, old notebook computer, and began typing. If she'd done her job right, ah, there it was. The fire alarm. She watched three guards come out to check, and waited for them to clear before walking in, a fire department baseball cap and T-shirt on. After a quick, what Jessie thought was convincing - conversation, the remaining guard let her upstairs to check it out. She climbed the ten flights of stairs, out of breath, but gun in hand. She opened the door to find six more guns pointed at her.

"Any way we can talk about this?" Jessie said, chuckling as she usually did when she was nervous, before she heard a gunshot, and fell to the ground unconscious.

"What do you wanna do, boss?" One of the men asked, kicking her head.

"Toss her with the other one." A voice from the shadow said.

Johnathan Hale | Teen Wolf OC | OTA

[causesearcher]

Peter Parker | Amazing Spiderman | OTA

[spideyguy]

[Civil War compliant]

kakashi hatake | naruto

[copypasta]

Jessie Reynolds/OC/OTA pref F/F

[jrey]

((open to almost any prompt, except 38))

29

[onewithwater]

(OoC: Let me know if this works!)

Prisons weren't going to hold back Marie, she was certain of that. She wasn't one to just sit around and be pushed around. Of course, she wasn't going to do this alone. Oh, no, not without her cellmate.

Things were quite quiet as night fell, seemingly no guards around their cell. Tired of faking her sleep, she nudged Jessie slightly. "Hey. You awake?" she whispered.

Steve Rogers | Werewolf AU | OTA

[capwolf]

3

[cosmetological]

This is honestly just his luck. Really.

He's finally somewhat settled with the supernatural community and of course, that's when some scientist gets it into his head to start kidnapping and experimenting on supernatural creatures. Of course, when someone high up gets wind of this sort of thing (or, you know, his brother who isn't so much high up as Very Very Good at blowing shit up), there's going to be hell to pay, but until then-

Well, until then, he's stuck in a cage after a nice session of electroshock testing that used up at least some of his reserves. Though considering he's just been put in with someone else, he's not sure if the experiment was the shock or what he's going to do now. Possibly both.

He really hates scientists. Like, why did someone look at the fourth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and say 'that, that's what I'm going to do with my life'. Why?

"Hey, buddy?" and yes, he sounds as woozy as he feels after the drugging and the shocks, "I don't suppose you're as straight as an arrow, are you?"

3 and who knows

[bayou_born]

Being caged left her restless, pacing the small room, her temper flaring as she fought to keep it in check. Like the witches hadn't been bad enough, now she was stuck in someone's idea of a goddamn science experiment.

Because she was the only living female of her kind, given the whole dying and coming back as a hybrid thing. Hayley crossed her arms over her middle, her expression twisting at the memory.

She'd only gotten to see her daughter for a few moments before things had gone south. Klaus had tried to save them, he really had but for all she knew, they were dead now.

Still, she played along for the moment, reining it in as they led her from the cell, the last guard she'd killed having cost her.

And this time, she caught a new scent, her senses zeroing in on it.

....Not a familiar scent, though, that would have been too easy, wouldn't it.

"...Assholes." She's out in the sunlight though, lifting a hand to block the light for a moment while her eyes adjust. The compound itself is protected by magic, spells in place to keep her in and not to mention the the fact the whole place is seeded with wolfsbane and vervain.

Someone had done their research and she was going to enjoy ripping his or her throat out if the chance presented itself.

[therightpartner]

((ooc: Do you mind a very rusty Peggy?))

'mush all the numbers together and make it up as we go' choice

[notplayinggames]

She's lost track of the time. For Maria that's disturbing in a way the blank walls and small room will never be. But she finally has to admit it, she's lost track of how long she's been here. They run the lights at odd times, sporadic intervules for disjointed periods of time and she knows they do it just to mess with her sense of time. It doesn't mean that waking up in the dark, cheek against the concrete floor, and realizing she doesn't know whether its day or night in her natural time zone doesn't alarm and then piss her off. She doesn't have control of very much at all in this place, losing her control of time has her locking her jaw down in frustration.

She's been here long enough for her arm to mostly heal and the burns and gouges she got when the base was stormed, when things went to hell, they're gone. She wasn't exactly surprised when the attack came. What was left of what had once been SHIELD had been striped down to bare bones and no one had seen an Avenger for over a year. What had surprised her was waking up alive after it - and the fact she'd been kept alive since then. The interrogation was too route to be the real reason and for the past - two? weeks they hadn't even bothered with that. She'd guess she was a hostage, except she didn't have enough value for that, or bait, but there was no one left to come to the rescue and again, she didn't have enough value for that. So they were waiting for something and she was annoyed that she couldn't figure out what it was. It was easier to stay annoyed then to give in to the other emotions that muted in the back of her head and chest.

And then she heard the scrape of metal and went very very still where she was laying in the corner of the room. The trap door. Her room was metal walls. She'd gone over every inch of it. Metals walls, the door her food passed through the slot of and they sometimes took her out by - and the trap door. Inset in the wall. She'd tested it, broken the skin on her fingers on it in fact and surmised that it didn't open from her side at least and that it didn't lead to a room beyond if the tapping she'd done had been sound. It was the ending of some kind of small passage, something she would have had to crawl to get through and that - that had frightened her before she'd gotten angry at herself for being scared of monsters in closets. Because anything that had to crawl to get in was automatically the stuff of nightmares and her mind was happy, in the dark, to provide all kinds of ridiculous, and truly terrifying, imagines of what might one day crawl through that door if it ever opened. Except it hadn't and Maria had convinced herself that it wouldn't.

But here, in the cold dark, it finally had. She swallowed against a dry throat and locked her teeth together tight. Her eyes were useless in the utter pitch of the room but there was nothing wrong with her ears and this close to the floor, the echoes from the metal floor would bounce less. There was no way she'd get over to the door fast enough or quietly enough to catch whatever was coming through off guard. Her arm wasn't very strong yet but the other worked just fine and she told herself that would be enough. She hadn't broken yet. She wasn't going to let whatever they let through that door win. Very still, breathing shallow in the dark, she stayed, tense and waiting.

2 (for a start)

[pomme_de_sang]

Jason really, really couldn't describe just HOW MUCH he hated politics. Especially vampire politics. Pack politics was bad enough but the vampires were old and bored and it did his head in.

To be honest, taking another vampire's pomme de sang was considered incredibly rude, but that hardly stopped some of them from doing it. Which was how Jason found himself marched though...what was basically like a prison in somebody's basement. He got thrown into a cell with somebody else, just able to keep his balance as the door clanged shut behind him. "Okay, seriously. Who does this in this day and age?"

Erskine Ravel | Skulduggery Pleasant | OTA

[golden_eyes]

.

[splendidphoenix]

[ ooc: A Skulduggery Pleasant muse! It's been a while, and I haven't read the last two books yet, but it's cool to see one about. I always wanted to try my hand at China Sorrows. I have here a Mage whose talent lie mostly in healing and spirits. Interested? And were there any prompts that caught your eye? ]

Bucky Barnes || MCU

[missionreport]

[ if winter soldier, gen only; if civil war, okay with some shipping ]

[chernaya]

[ hey, care for a natasha? 23 into 39? ]

wanda maximoff | mcu | ota

[permutatedpower]

[gen only for certain castmates

civil war compliant.]

CW spoilers and totally going the gen route if this works.

[remembers_budapest]

Well shit.

Clint knew that they all weren't going to escape the airfield, that it was about buying Cap and Barnes enough time to get clear. But that didn't mean that he wasn't going to go down swinging. Watching them handcuff Wanda, watching them put that collar on her like she was some kind of animal? Clint may have kinda snapped. She was a good kid, she was trying to do the right thing, which is all that any of them could do in the end.

But ending up in a supermax prison at the bottom of the friggin ocean? He pretty much didn't see that one coming.

At least they were together, they could see one another, hear one another. It wasn't much but Barton would take it.

"Wanda? Hey, you with us?"

sansa stark | game of thrones

[direly]

Liling 'Lily' Yang | Mage: The Ascension | OTA

[splendidphoenix]

Venom Snake (Big Boss) | Metal Gear Solid V | OTA

[anothermission]

u choose bb au - cannon - whatever; you tell me.

[alternate123]

How could this happen? As if asking himself this over and over again would eventually result in some acceptable answer. But there's not to be an epiphany--no, not in this dark secluded hellhole of a place! Booker had a few mistakes he liked to keep up his sleeve but not one ever brought him to a place he couldn't get out of, or a situation he didn't have control over.

Of course it was all about perspective. He was the type that liked to think he had all sorts of control - even over the universe.

After the things he's seen and done, there wasn't a coin large enough to convince him that he wasn't directly involved in his circumstances. Save for now.

Now, hell, he wasn't sure if his name was Booker anymore because he sure as shit didn't think he was the same man that was hauled in here in chains!

tony stark | marvel

[voicelog]

[616 or mcu. just let me know which you prefer.]

34 | bucky barnes (mcu)

[redwinters]

[The captivity is one thing. Bucky knows all about captivity. No, what's unforgivable at this exact moment? The noise.]

Stark, you got three seconds to knock that off or I'm gonna knock you off.

Bucky Barnes - mcu - open

[readytocomply]

[Civil War compliant.]

Wanda Maximoff | mcu

[avengingwitch]

[civil war compliant. voicetesting]

[dragonring]

[They keep him drugged most of the time. The straitjacket is always there too, but that would be easier to deal with - it's the drugs that get him, mess with his nervous system, his magic. At least they don't know they full extent of his powers. They think he's an inhuman with some extra ability... like her.

She's nice. She talks to him and, when the drugs aren't messing with him too hard, he talks back. It's that little bit of chitchat that keeps him sane, hopefully it helps her, too. Are they friends? He'd like to think so. He hasn't told her much about his powers, because you never know when someone around here will finally give in and go to the scientists' side in exchange of freedom, but time passes and it's becoming clear she isn't one to give up so easily.

Can he trust her then? Well, it's not like he has anything to lose by now.]

Have you ever... tried getting out of here?

Harry Dresden | Dresdenverse Books | M/f

[dresdensluck]

(ooc: Maybe magic cancelling handcuffs, a case gone wrong, and trouble on the way?)