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THE CAPTIVITY MEME

You've been captured -- or maybe you've been held captive for a while now. Whatever the case, you've lost your freedom, and there's a specific person responsible for that. You might be a prisoner, a mental patient, a kidnap victim, or someone's pet. Maybe you're there willingly, or maybe the choice has been taken away from you completely.

Both smut and non-smut scenarios are possible. If you don't want to play smut, please indicate so in the title line of your tag.

1. Leave a tag with your character. Be sure to include any limits on what you are willing to play, as this meme has the potential to be triggering.

2. Someone else tags in and uses RNG to generate a number between 1 and 9. The second character is holding the first character captive now.

3. ???

4. Profit!

Scenarios

1. For their own good. Does this person really think they could make it on their own? It's a big, scary world out there, and you need to protect them from it, whether they like it or not.

2. For the good of society. Forget protecting this person -- it's your duty to protect the world from them! Maybe they committed a terrible crime, or maybe they were falsely condemned, but it's your job to keep them locked up where they can't do any more harm.

3. Because they're not well. How's your bedside manner? Whether you're Florence Nightingale or Mildred Ratched, you're in the position of ministering to the mentally ill. Maybe this person genuinely needs your help, or maybe you're just turning a blind eye to their true sanity.

4. For the money. Higher aims? What higher aims? This person is your meal ticket, and they're staying put until their loved ones pay up.

5. For their love. It might be a case of yandere, or it might be a consenting BDSM relationship. Whether it's by mutual agreement or by force, you're keeping them simply because you love them.

6. Because they're cute and fluffy. Who's a cutesy wutesy? They are! Yes, they are! This person is your pet now. Maybe they're a different species from you, or maybe you just don't care that you're both people. Maybe you're even an alien zookeeper looking after a new acquisition.

7. Because they're your property. Slave? Livestock? Who cares what they think - they're your property, and you decide their fate.

8. For the lulz. Hey, what's a little bondage between friends? You'll let them go, once you're done laughing and snapping photos... maybe.

9. Choose a scenario, or combine several.

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[The silence only makes him chuckle. At least he won't be bored. Now to probe until he gets something out of her.]

You must take some small joy in this.

[He gets up and walks carefully toward her. He flashes a small smirk.]

You finally have my brother's ear. I wonder, how much longer until you have his bed as well. Mere steps from being the next Queen of Asgard.

[What joy is there to be found in this? In death, he tore his family apart. In life, he has found new shreds to claw at. More ways to punish those that love him.

No, there is no joy here. She already holds her glaive at attention. Now, she levels it out, until the tip of the blade is level with his neck. Despite the distance between them, she is certain that she could reach him in an instant. She has always been nearly as quick as Loki, and now he is without power.]

You will not approach your guards.

[He doesn't stop despite her words, he merely slows down. He still inches forward but now he has his hands raised.]

Is that what you are now? What led you to that honor? Did you ask for this?

[When he finally halts, it's where he's well within striking distance. He tilts his head back to expose his neck, practically inviting a strike. ]

Go on.

[Theatrics. He is still fond of them.

Sif is capable of her own sort of cruelty: she laughs at him. Like one would at a child on a tantrum.]

[Well, not quite the reaction he hoped for but it is something. He drops his hands. Aside from giving her a mild glare he takes the laughter fairly well. Externally anyway.]

Oh, yes. It is so nice to have things back as they were. I, for one, sorely missed your mockery.

[He stays where he is and doesn't give up the ground he's taken. His expression changes into something more real, more like how he was before. Real, being a relative term.]

Do you know how long I am to remain here?

[And it is that comment, of all things, that comes closest to getting under Sif's skin. The skin of her fingers tingles and wants, very vividly, to hit him.

She stays standing.]

Nothing is as it once was. You are to remain here for as long as the All Father decrees.

[If Loki noticed it got to her he doesn't outright show it. Instead he lets out a sigh and steps away.]

Until he might have use of me, you mean.

You declared war on an unarmed planet. Murdered thousands. There is more to consider than your issues with your father.

[Well, now. There's progress, she's speaking to him. Kind of.]

Oh, I know. I was there. But what is there to consider?

[He wanders back to his chair. He places a hand on it but doesn't sit.]

...that you declared war on an unarmed planet and murdered thousands.

[This is bordering on a conversation, maddening as it is. She shakes her head. She will not ask for an explanation for his behavior -- if there is one, it is surely poor.]

[He lets out a short laugh. There's a moment there where's he's tempted to explain how meaningless it was in retrospect.]

What punishment, I wonder, will the All Father decree? Aside from this -- [He gestures to his limited accommodation.]

This may very well be the punishment.

[There is anger, there. Sif is poor at hiding it. Were he not a prince, Loki would surely die for his crimes. The same family that he scorns seeks now to protect him.]

[He inclines his head, this could be his punishment. If it is they are all fools. This is hardly enough to stop him. And her anger has not gone unnoticed. He could almost say she is more angry at him than Thor has ever been.]

It angers you, does it not?

I have no place to comment on the Allfather's judgement.

[Practiced, schooled. A soldier's answer.]

No? You were the first to speak against me when I was King and before that upon Thor's banishment.

So speak freely, Sif.

At those times, I thought I was speaking to a friend. Or something close to one.

You have drawn lines most different than that.

[He laughs at that and pushes himself back up out of his seat.]

Have I? All I have done is what was necessary. [he grows more animated in his speaking] They would have been better off under my rule. I would have ended their petty disagreements. They would have peace.

[She wishes that Loki were like the other Aesir in temperament. Apt to show anger through violence, not words. If he charged her, she would have every right in the kingdom to strike him down.

The look she gives him is halfway to pity, though she feels none of that.]

Peace? You cannot gift the mortals something you do not have.

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