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Should be chaste

should be chaste
a shipping meme

You've dedicated yourself to something loftier than pleasures of the flesh, whether it be something religious or metaphysical or even just for the good of those around you. That's something you should be commended for. Not many would be able to show such resolve. In addition to keeping away from sexual contact, though, you must also shy away from emotional intimacy - so, romance. That may seem easy at first, as all you really need in life is your determination, but what happens when you find the one after you've already swore you'd never pursue them?

Will love find a way or is conviction too strong?

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This isn't a smut meme, but smut is welcome.

PROMPTS

Solemn Vow: Whether you're joining a religious faction or a knightly order, you have to make an official promise to stay away from love.

Self-Induced: Affection? Romance? No, you don't need it. You'll abstain, thank you.

Temporary: Just for now, you have to focus on what's important, and that means no relationship.

Cultural: Your people are celibate by tradition. Do you want to be the one to break said tradition?

Moral: Just falling in love willy nilly is against your code of ethics. You're saving yourself and not seeing the forest for the trees.

Cause to Serve: There can only be one thing you're dedicated to.

Distraction: Love is nothing but a detour, and you'll have none of it.

Indifference: You've never noticed someone in a romantic light. In fact, you've been disdainful of all that...until now.

Hung Up: The person you want is who you can't have, so you'll never look for anyone else, even if that means you miss what's right in front of you.

Logical: You're a Elsa or a Bruce Banner kind of person. Conceal, don't feel. You can't have a romance because you would hurt whoever you would be with.

Mutually Celibate: Both of you are forbidden to be in love. Well, see how well that went?

Opposites: For all you discipline, they have absolutely none. It should be infuriating, yet it draws you to them.

Teasing: They know you're not supposed to approach them in that way, so they'll act the part of the forbidden fruit.

In Charge: You're not only supposed to be celibate, you're also their superior in some fashion. Perhaps you're even in charge of their mortal soul!

Pining: Exchanged glances, longing thoughts, subtle touches, the whole nine yards.

One Sided: They want you, and you're not sure how to let them down without hurting them.

Tragedy: A forbidden love almost always is rife with this. Go for the melodrama.

Sexual: What's between you two is purely sexual - isn't it?

First Time: Every

Give It Up: You've decided to give up on your chastity to be with the person you care for.

Ships Pass in the Night: Right people, wrong time. You let it go. Still, you can't help but wonder how things could have been.

Make Them Worldly: Your beloved wants to teach you all that you've missed out on by being pious, be that just experiences or something sexual.

Happy Endings: What it says on the tin.

Bad Ending: Again, what it says on the tin.

WILDCARD

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It was years ago when the Hale Family originally vowed to protect King Stilinski and his family. However, the vow of celibacy Derek took of his own free will to reassure the King that Derek would never be distracted from his job, unlike his older sister Laura, was seeming difficult to uphold. It wasn't just the hunting master's sister that bothered him during his beginning years as a guard to the king but the prince himself was becoming an issue.

It wasn't anything he couldn't handle though... at least he thought. He nearly spent every waking moment with the young prince and his friends, keeping the prince safe from outside forces. Well... making sure the prince would be safe from himself too. The prince had a tendency of being clumsy. And he and his friends liked to make dumb decisions.

It wasn't just the physical attraction that Derek was fighting off but it was the emotional attachment he was trying to keep at bay. The prince was smart, funny, snarky, kind... and unbelievably handsome. Today he was watching the young prince complete his schooling for the day in the prince's private chambers.

modern? reincarnation? shenanigans?

...........yes

sorry i am bad at picking things this go around just. rng and hit me with your best shot or double/triple/quadruple/all the tags \o/

rng first said medieval but i wanted to check if that's your jam or if instead just something post-tinder hijinks works better for you :|a

...........yes good post-tinder hijinks is perf :|a

sorry last one i swear is it safe to assume they go on An Actual Date

I mean Galahad would be the most down if he is?

It took delicacy to finesse. It took pushing and prodding and more than a few panicked phone calls at the last moment. It took nervously changing through almost every shirt he owned, frantically texting every few seconds, downing mints like his last meal.

And, amazingly, it had been going pretty well in spite of that.

They're starting light. They're starting with things that feel normal. They go to a restaurant they've been to before. They wander absently in the park as if it's any other evening, as if they might well break away abruptly to live their own lives or head down to join the rest of their friends. They watch a dumb movie they've watched a hundred times before in Merdraut's little apartment.

But maybe they flirt a little at dinner. Maybe their fingers brush together absently in the park. And certainly they sit together as casually as they know how on Merdraut's bed to watch the movie.

Maybe he's letting one hand spider casually over to hold Galahad's.

They're starting light. It's a good thing, with Merdraut so hesitant and Galahad so tentative. It's nice to do things normally.

It's even nicer to flirt, just a little. To let their fingers bump together carefully in the park.

And, when they're sitting together on Merdraut's bed, it's especially nice to let his own hand settle carefully in the other young man's grip.

He'll do his best to keep on as though nothing's changed, but he does shoot a smile his way eventually. He can't help it.

"--so."

It isn't as if the movie is so gripping. It isn't as if they can pretend, holding hands delicately like this, that they aren't in theory doing something more than hanging out with a friend.

"This-- is proper dating?"

They've done all the things he usually doesn't do. They've skipped, thus far, all the things he usually does do.

Still, oddly not unpleasant.

He grins properly, at that. He can't help it.

"Yeah, it-- seems like, t'me."

Not that he's very well-versed, either.

"You're happy?"

That's the big part of trying 'dating,' after all. True, it's probably better for both of them that things are slow for the moment, but that hasn't stopped him from deciding that this is really more about Galahad's inexperience than his own nerves.

It helps the nerves to pretend, after all.

"Mmhm."

And it'd honestly be impossible to pretend it, really. This bright smile is clearly something honest.

"Are you?"

He takes a beat. Surely that's better than blurting.

"...yeah. I-- am."

He sounds more surprised than anything else, but there's honesty in that.

It's nice to hear. It's absolutely got warmth flushing his cheeks.

"That's-- awesome, M."

Maybe it really will be okay. Maybe they really can handle this.

It's a pleasant thought as he shifts to pull back his hand and instead sling his arm over the other young man's shoulder.

"Whatever."

A soft laugh.

"Rude."

But he'll settle back into his hold with a quiet smile.

"You knew that going in."

Really, that was the sort of thing apparent even before becoming friends with Merdraut, most likely. Surely it had been clear long before this hesitant attempt at a date.

Stiles was nearly done with his work when he started to feel it, he was getting antsy and once it started he had trouble stopping it. His leg started bouncing as he read the same sentence for the third time, watching Derek out of the corner of his eye. Derek Hale...his loyal watchdog. He never much enjoyed having a constant watcher...they tended to be bossy and yell at him a lot. Derek though, it helped the man was closer in age but he felt different that the others. Less like a keeper and more like a safety net. Anytime he stumbled, anytime he suddenly found the world closing in on him and suddenly it was difficult to breathe, the other man was there. He never seemed to judge Stiles and didn't resent him for being royalty like he felt a few of the servants did. Also....the man was ridiculously handsome.

Stiles grinned, shoving is book away suddenly. "I think I could use a break..."

Derek gave the Prince a little nod, smiling softly. "Only a short one. You know your father wants you to keep on your studies," he reminds the young prince, looking over from his station at the by the open balcony.

The protector wasn't one to judge the prince. He knew the young heir to the throne needed breaks from time to time. And he wasn't going to stop him from taking them, unlike his actual teacher. He knew the boy liked to have his fun. And Derek would allow fun. Fun within reason though.

"My father wants me to do a lot of things I have no intention of doing," he pointed out, happily pushing himself away from his desk and slamming his book shut. It was so much easier when Derek let him do as he liked, it meant he had to whine a lot less and nobody liked a whiner.

Studies instantly forgotten he slowly moved to stand beside Derek, mimicking his serious stance before looking over the balcony. "Anything interesting?"

Derek looked the Prince over, smiling softly at him. "Besides a new trade ship coming in from the Southern country, no," Derek informed the Prince, giving him another glance before looking back out over the city and harbor. He should probably stop thinking about the prince and how good he looked at the moment, the honey colored trim to his clothes making his eyes shine bright.

"So in other words no, nothing interesting," he sighed dramatically, walking over and leaning against the other man as if he were a pillar. "I'm bored, Derek...can't we find something fun to do?"

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Should be chaste

Stiles Stilinski | Teen Wolf | OTA

Galahad | Arthuriana | M/M

I'M BRINGING IN THE ROYALTY AUS!!! and also a crazy combo of whatever numbers i want

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