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the woman with no name ([personal profile] bottecellie) wrote in [community profile] bakerstreet2012-07-23 05:27 pm
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the captivity meme

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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pulling_rank: (pic#4358744)

[personal profile] pulling_rank 2012-07-31 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
That's nice. [He clenches his jaw, refusing to let it show outside of that, how much her saying it like that hurts. His eyes narrow, and the corner of his mouth quirks up in a not at all nice grin.]

You're not him.
Edited 2012-07-31 05:12 (UTC)
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[personal profile] womanwhobeatyou 2012-07-31 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
[She crosses her arms, and raises an eyebrow at his grin.]

I wasn't aware I was trying to be.
pulling_rank: ({there's a hole in my soul I can't fill)

[personal profile] pulling_rank 2012-07-31 05:40 am (UTC)(link)
Never said you were. [He nods towards the stairs that lead down and out of the flat.]

Now get out.
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[personal profile] womanwhobeatyou 2012-07-31 03:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[She considers him carefully. Considers whether to push or to relent. She has already gotten what she'd come for, and to agree to leave would ensure she left with it undiscovered. But to push, to insist on the cameraphone would perpetuate the fiction that it was what she had come for, and not some other thing in the flat.

She takes an obliging step towards the door, then stops, turning to ask him over her shoulder]

What are you keeping everything here for, Dr. Watson?
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[personal profile] pulling_rank 2012-07-31 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
That's-that's none of your business.

[The truth of it is, though, not that he hopes (though he still does), but it's that he can't let go. If he boxes it up, and sends it away, then he's really not going to come back and complain about having to replace it all.

If he puts it away to collect dust, or give away to some school children, then he's really dead. John has said it before, he said it out loud to his therapist, and then he refused to say it again.

Saying it out loud didn't change anything, it just made it hurt worse. His voice catches as he speaks again, and he hates himself for it.]

Please leave.
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[personal profile] womanwhobeatyou 2012-07-31 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[She could tell him, of course. Tell John Watson that Sherlock Holmes is still alive and well, or as well as he manages for himself. The Woman is no John Watson, after all. She could tell him that, could tell him why his best friend is playing at dead.

But she doesn't, as she nods and walks out the door. She doesn't tell him because he will know for himself soon enough. The return of Sherlock Holmes to Baker Street is guaranteed, and when he does she will remain dead to the world. And she is selfish and self-serving enough to enjoy her little respite as Irene Adler again, knowing that the holiday would end if the fiction between the two men were broken.

And so she doesn't tell John Watson that Sherlock Holmes is still alive. And she will not tell Sherlock Holmes that John Watson keeps 221B Baker Street exact as it had been.

She is Irene Adler, after everything, and she deals in secrets still.

As she sets foot on the stairs, on her way out of 221B Baker Street, she sends a text to a ghost as she answers him.] Goodbye, Dr. Watson.

Meet me in Dublin. Let's have dinner.
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