Tiny Person meme

[forsocksake]

THE TINY PERSON (probably AU) MEME



For all the scenarios in which one person can fit in the palm of another.

HOW TO PLAY:
1: Post with your characters. Indicate preferred scenarios, if you like, or things you'd rather not play out.
2: Tag around. TAG AROUND.
3: Be tiny!

WHY ARE YOU SO TINY?
1: Lilliputians: You come from a land far away where things aren't the weird sizes they are here. Whether you're a strange tiny person that's been captured after washing up on shore or you're a large person shipwrecked in the land of the little people, there's some serious foreign disorientation here.
2: Borrowers: What do you mean? We've always been here. Tiny, and living just below your nose. In your walls. Taking your food. Yes, congratulations, you've finally solved the mystery of where your spare socks go in the laundry.
3: Honey I got unexpectedly shrunk: That shrink-ray was going to be totally awesome until you accidentally pointed at yourself/someone you care about. Alternatively, this is just generally a science experiment gone terribly wrong.
4: Fee fi fo fum: You live in a fantasy-style world where there happen to be giants and normal-sized people. Or normal-sized people and these weird tiny things that are so easy to step on. Your pick. (Fairies and wee free men are valid options.)
5: Other: For anything else you'd like to play out.

WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE? (optional scenarios)
1: Discovery! You've been found out! Captured! Either the little people have you elaborately restrained or the big people have you in a box. Hopefully your captors would rather make money off of you than do science experiments...
2: War! Okay, so we might be a little outmatched, but for whatever reason, there's war. The little people and the giants are trying to fight it out, and you're caught in the middle.
3: An Unlikely Friendship! Just because one of you is very small doesn't mean that you can't be bros. Maybe you can make awesome dollhouses together.
4: …Romance? Okay, no, we can make this work! …maybe.
5: And They Fight Crime! Congratulations, you're in a sitcom. What hijinks can you roommates get up to, when one can literally step on the other?
6: Culture Clash! In this modern world, you have to respect everyone, no matter how small. And you have to respect the boundaries of their culture. So what happens when a treaty needs to be negotiated? Or a murder solved, between the small and the large people? Well, just be sure you've brushed up on sensitivity training and you know not to refer to them by any offensive terms. And remember that the workplace must be accessible to people of all sizes!
7: Just Visiting. Tourism can be fun, as long as you can fit into the buildings you'd like to see.
8: Subjugation. One group is enslaved by the other group, for whatever reason. (Giants make good transportation? Tiny people make good spies/messengers?) Maybe you want to escape, or lead a rebellion, or form a friendship across the lines of small and large.
9: Other. Any scenario you can think up!

Comments

Frisk | Undertale | OTA

[dustless]

//'Why' would probably be best with 2 and 4--any 'what' is fine!

Kal-El | Superman and then some.

[supersapien]

[ Come on. Who doesn't want a Pocket-Superman? Probably due to option 3. ]

Re: Kal-El | Superman and then some.

[soundsmith]

[OOC: Would you be interested in doing 3/5? I could see a villain shrinking one of them, and them teaming up to catch the guy who did it and bring whoever was shrunk back to normal size. They have actually met in the comics, albeit briefly when Piper helped Superman and Flash save Jimmy Olsen, so they'd probably recognize each other.]

[supersapien]

[ ooc: That's a great idea! I'm game!]

[soundsmith]

[OOC: Did you have a preference on which of them is shrunk?]

[supersapien]

[ ooc: I was originally thinking a SuperTiny would be hilarious, but if you want to be the shrunken one I am totally game for that. XD ]

[soundsmith]

[OOC: Thinking about it, SuperTiny would be hilarious. I can go ahead and write up a starter.]

[supersapien]

[Sorry about the delay. An unexpected work weekend jumped out of the tall grass]

[soundsmith]

[That's okay, I've had a busy last couple of days myself.]

[soundsmith]

Superman might recognize Piper, if seeing him from such a tiny perspective didn't distort things too much for him. He might not, however, recognize the rats that Piper had added to his gimmick since they'd worked together. Some people might say he was starting to take the whole 'Pied Piper' thing a bit too far, but Hartley was happy with the swarm of rats cheerily following him around. What he was less happy about, however, was the fact that judging from the destruction and...was that an extremely tiny dumpster? Judging from the destruction and...other things, clearly a superhero fight had gone down here.

Noticing one of the rats heading over and paying undue attention to something small, blue and red, the Pied Piper headed over to have a look, and saw...

"Oh, you've got to be kidding me." He grinned. It shouldn't be funny. It probably wouldn't stay funny. But right now? It was hilarious. "Superman?"

[supersapien]

Being invulnerable to most things has its drawbacks. Like the fact that you develop a tendency to forget that you do actually have some gaps in the armour.

For Superman, magic is the worst gap of all. Worse than any kryptonite because he can't detect it; Can't hear it or smell it, or scan for it. He can't build any form of immunity to it no matter how much he is exposed to it. It's something that can so easily blindside him when he is blasting down into an alley to respond to what had at the time seemed to be the hysterical screams of someone being kidnapped.

Before he can even read the situation, the world seems to go white as a sphere engulfs him and anything around him. Pressure crushes down on him from every angle. He tries to fight it, trashing most of his surroundings in the process, but he doesn't stand a chance. The sphere implodes and everything with it seems to vanish.

. . .

Bruce is right. Sometimes I need to stop and make a plan.

That's his first thought, and an indication that he probably hit his head really bad somehow. The second thing he realizes is that the world is very... very different- Okay, that's definitely an Earth dumpster, but what about the rest?

Things are a little blurry, but as he keeps blinking to focus his eyes, all noise is drowned out by an infernal squeaking. He places his hands over his ears and tries to drown it out like he normally does when the noise becomes too much, but he is distracted by something tugging on his cape.

He turns around and- ROUS! ROUS! That is definitely a rodent of unusual size if he ever saw one.

"Hey! Stop that," he squeaks says and tugs his cape free before the stampede of the rat's friends reach him to examine him as well. Which is when the rumble of a deep, man's voice vibrates the air. At least the figure is familiar, even if it seems Piper has grown a bit since they last crossed paths.
Along with... everything else.

He flutters up face-level and gives the other man a sheepish smile. Despite standing about two, maybe three, inches tall, he still places his hands on his hips as he hovers in front of Piper.

"I think I've gotten myself into a tiny bit of trouble."

[soundsmith]

"I can see that," he agrees, still grinning because while this may be a potentially serious problem, it's still funny to see. "I hope my friends didn't give you too much trouble," he said, indicating the rats. "But how did you end up so small?"

Whatever it was had clearly not been targeted too well, judging by the dumpster, unless the goal was to cause endless frustration for whoever worked there whenever they came out to throw something away. Whatever it was, he was hoping it would be tech. Hartley understood tech, and worked with it extensively himself. Magic...well, he'd just have to wing it, since his own understanding of magic was nonexistent.

"And more importantly, do you know who's behind this?"

Knowing who it was would tell him what to expect, after all, assuming it was a villain Hartley had some experience with.

ℳagnus Bane (The Mortal Instruments/Shadowhunters)

[sonofademon]

[Someone got cursed? Spell gone wrong? Welcome to Saint Magnus's Home for Wayward Shadowhunters, et al.]

Gotham || closed to 5centurysleep

[lupusarctosego]

[OOC: One unexpectedly tiny wolf to harass? I'm making you start us off. P:]

[5centurysleep]

[This is exactly why no one ever lets Ruggeiro play with technology. It's one thing for him to not know how to run a television with all those remotes and buttons and another to trust him anywhere near a shrink ray. A single push of a button and now Gotham was gone. Disappeared right in front of his eyes. Well, that's not entirely true. He was able to see the figure of the other still in the same spot he'd been in - Gotham was just... tiny.

He moves towards Gotham, a sheepish look that isn't really that sheepish or apologetic in nature.]

Whoops, my bad.

[lupusarctosego]

[The sound that leaves him should be indignant. Instead it's just short of pathetic. What the hell? Why is everything suddenly so big? Then Ruggeiro, big ass monster that he is, is moving toward him and holy shit things aren't bigger, he's just... tiny? What the hell!]

What the hell, Ruggeiro?!

[Thank god Rugg's a vampire or he might not be able to hear Gotham that well, let alone see him. He feels like he's about the size of a thimble. Great, he's freaking Thumbelina. Gothalina? No.]

[5centurysleep]

[Little Gotham is so cuuuute! It's really just Gotham shrunk down but now his wolf is pocket-sized! Ruggeiro could carry him around everywhere he goes, pull him out to show everyone. Though having a wolf who's so small does kind of defeat the purpose of having a wolf in the first place. Gotham would have a hard time protecting anyone when he was this small. He's sure the wolf could figure a way to do so but he's definitely more effective at his regular size.

Just going to scoop his wolf up in his hand carefully and stand up straight.]

I didn't mean to. [Honest, he didn't. Ruggeiro moves them over to the device, looking at it but not touching.]

Should I try to put you back to normal size? [DOES HE TRUST RUGGEIRO TO DO IT?]

[lupusarctosego]

[Don't just scoop him up like that! Hello, vertigo! Gotham clings as best he can, whining out a complaint. A moment after Ruggeiro is standing, though, he peeks over the edge of his fingers. That's a long way down. He wouldn't die from falling but it would undoubtedly hurt like hell and take several days to heal all the broken bones and fractures. With that in mind, he inches back to the center of Ruggeiro's palm as he moves to the device.]

I don't know...

[Could he end up even smaller? He doesn't want to be smaller.]

Is anything labeled? Bigger, smaller? You're not allowed to touch unfamiliar electronics anymore by the way.

[5centurysleep]

[Hey, he might not be good with technology but he would never do anything that would hurt Gotham on purpose. If the wolf does fall, he's quick enough to grab him before he hits the ground. At the table, Ruggeiro moves his hand so that Gotham can step off of it if he wants. Though the vampire would be perfectly content to keep holding the other.

After the questions come he looks the device over (something he should have done before touching it but details...]

There are no labels at all. [The second part prompts a grin.] I thought I already wasn't allowed to touch any electronics except my phone. At least that's Clover's last words on the matter.

[lupusarctosego]

[Of course he knows Ruggeiro would never intentionally harm him. He also knows the vampire is more than fast enough to catch him if he fell or even if he decided to randomly jump off... which he's absolutely not going to do because that would be stupid. Unless he finds some way to make a ramp. Tiny wolf sledding? That could be fun.

Hopping off Ruggeiro's palm and onto the table the device is sitting on, Gotham circles it once, looking for anything that might help them. Unfortunately Ruggeiro is right; there's absolutely no markings or labels. Why wouldn't someone label a shrink ray?!]

Great. So it's push buttons and hope I don't get smaller?

[He really, really doesn't want to be smaller. He can't be very intimidating so small.]

Why'd you touch this then?! I'm telling Clover you broke her rule.

[5centurysleep]

[Ruggeiro would definitely get behind the idea of making tiny objects and watching his wolf use them. Something like a table could become a huge playground. They could get creative with the items that were hanging around.

He makes sure to not touch it during his inspection. The last thing they need is for Ruggeiro to accidentally break it so Gotham is tiny forever.]

We could try it out on various objects lying about before using it on you.

[Now he laughs.]

She wasn't around to tell me not to. [It's funny that a vampire he made bosses him around. Ruggeiro does pout at the second part.] Don't do that. I promise to not make anything else tiny on accident.

Peter Bishop | Fringe | OTA

[consultingbishop]

[Probably the big guy, but open to discuss him being the tiny.]

Sharak Sanzo | Saiyuki Reload Blast

[bussounoshima]

Son Goku | Saiyuki

[rockthemonkey]

[Because getting even shorter is just what he needs. Or maybe he gets to be the tall one for a change?]

Ronon Dex | Stargate:Atlantis | OTA

[gaterunner]

[Ancient Tech gone wrong? or Planet of Giants.]

Hank Pym | Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes

[science_is_fun]

[This is pretty much normal for him, though a malfunction could keep him stuck at that size for a while. Alternatively, a lab accident could lead to someone else being shrunk.]

Flint | MOTHER 3

[planking]

[Pocket cowboy.]