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The Slave Auction Meme

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Warning: Be aware that this meme deals with dark subjects like slavery and may also contain non-consensual/dubiously consensual sex, violence, and kink.

SLAVES

1. The Newbie - This is your very first auction and you don't quite know what to expect. Hopefully you remember your training and don't disgrace yourself in front of your new master. Hopefully someone thinks you're worth buying at all.

2. The Oldtimer - You've been bought and sold and bought again so many times. You've seen it all before and don't think this time is going to be much different. In fact, the only real anxiety you've got is whether or not someone's going to pay for a more than slightly used slave.

3. The Pet - You're a pleasure slave. A bed warmer. A decorative piece of artwork. You're meant to look pretty and be pleasing and not much else.

4. The Guard - Your master hired you because of your ability to swing a sword or shoot a gun, not your looks.

5. The Escape Artist - Somehow you always manage to squirm out of your master's chains. Too bad you seem to get caught after a while. Maybe your next daring escape will be permanent. Then again, maybe your next master has special ways of keeping you locked up.

6. The Undercover - You aren't a slave at all, you're just pretending to be one. Why? Well that's up to you. Either way, your cover is blown if you don't act the part.

7. The Specialist - You have a skill that no one else has. Something rare and valuable. Something your master needs more than anything else.

MASTERS

1. The Customer - You've owned slaves before and this trip to the market is nothing new to you. Still, you're hoping to find something worth your while.

2. The Gift - Someone bought a pet for you, isn't that nice of them? Or maybe it isn't so nice. Did you even want a slave in the first place? Well you're stuck with one now.

3. The Giver - You're selecting a slave for someone else, and they need to be perfect. Perhaps you'd better test them out first to make sure you're getting your money's worth.

4. The Trainer - You specialize in taming unruly slaves and making them over into perfect, obedient, well-trained pets.

5. The Rebel - You hate the idea of slavery, but the system isn't going to go away any time soon, so the next best thing is to buy up any slave you can get your hands on and free them, right?

6. The Companion - You want someone to be with you always, someone you can talk to and depend on, someone who will never leave your side. It's a good thing that money can buy that these days.

7. The Undercover - You're not actually a Master. You're at the auction for an entirely different reason. Maybe it's special policework, maybe you're trying to hunt down a certain someone. Either way, your cover is blown unless you act the part.

As always, feel free to use a combination of scenarios or make up your own if you have other ideas.

Snagged from here.

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Tony stops. What was difficult about the question? Well, slaves don't have a lot of downtime he supposes. "Can you read?" Tony asks. Some slaves can't. If not, that will be where they start. Because Tony needs a slave that can read.

Oh well. Cross that bridge in a minute.

"Because we have a huge library you are more than welcome to use." Tony continues, scuffing his feet against the ground. "And you can help me in the lab, if you want." He rubs the back of his neck. Crap, what's he supposed to do with this guy now that he has him?

"Yes, I can read." He'd be a lot less valuable if he couldn't, after all. And the prospect of a library sounded appealing at the very least. He'd never had the opportunity to read for pleasure before, only to read things that were useful. That was why he'd been permitted to learn English. Because it was useful.

"What would I help you with in the lab? I don't have that sort of skillset," he admits, somewhat grudgingly.

Tony shrugs easily. "I mostly need someone to remind me to eat and sleep." He needs a damned keeper. Welcome to your new job, Gene.

"But company in the lab would be nice too." He gets lonely. To have someone else there would be nice. At least at first.

"And if you can read, you're welcome to read while I work." Tony says. He's not your typical master.

Gene stares at him a little bit. "...that's it?"

Surely he can't be serious. He's used to harder work and worse labor and unsavory business. Not...minding some pampered rich boy.

This is madness.

Edited 2016-09-30 19:43 (UTC)

Tony looks at his new slave - Gene. "Sure." He shrugs again. "What were you expecting? There might be some bodyguard work but that's pretty much it." He's trying not to sound defensive and failing at it. Surely that's not too much? He's never owned a personal slave before but that isn't a lot of work. Then again keeping him fed and forcing him to bed is a full time job.

"Come on. We'll grab a cab home." He flags down a cab and gets in motioning Gene after him.

"There's usually a lot more involved, in my experience," Gene says, because he doesn't know when to shut up.

It's clear Stark's a newbie at this. He gets into the cab first, leaving Gene in a prime position to make a break for it. And Gene almost does. But it's too public, and too hasty. When he leaves, he's going to lie in wait for the perfect moment. Not dash away on impulse.

So he gets into the cab.

It doesn't occur to Tony that Gene would want to run. Living with the Starks is a really cushy gig. Honestly, Tony forgets that most of the people working in the mansion all started out as slaves and earned their freedom. Some had left, but most stayed.

He gives the address to Stark Industries to the cabbie, and settles back against the seat. "We're going to have to get you proper clothes, of course. Dad will insist anyway. Then, we'll have to get you some education for working with us." He shrugs like it's no big thing. For him, it isn't.

Gene frowns a little as the cab pulls away. Proper clothes and more than the piecemeal education he'd had.

There's got to be a catch, aside from his continued enslavement.

"You're really serious, aren't you."

Tony frowns, and then instructs the cabbie to head to a nearby clothing store. No reason to go all the way home just to have to come back out.

"Of course." Tony says, sitting back again as the cab pulls through the midafternoon traffic. "You'll have a chance to earn your freedom, of course, but Dad can explain that." Because Tony isn't good at it, and made one girl cry.

Gene takes a look at him. "Now you must be pulling my leg. Nobody lets slaves go free." Nobody he's ever known ever let their slaves go free. His stepfather certainly never would.

Tony leans back against the door and studies Gene. "We do." He says simply. "Most of them still work for us." He concedes. "But they get paid a fair wage, and are free to come and go as they please." They even have days off once in a while.

"You're here, Mr. Stark." The cabbie says.

Tony slips out of the cab, and offers Gene a hand. "Come on. Proper clothes and then we'll get food."

Gene follows Tony out of the cab in a daze, taking the offered hand. He hadn't realized how hungry he'd been until Tony had mentioned food.

Today was just one surprise after another, it seemed.

"They keep working for you." His tone was flat. "They don't take the opportunity to leave?" Because Gene would see it as an opportunity.

Tony frowns, trying to think. How many had left? "Some of them do." He finally says, unable to think of anyone. "But, some come back." He shrugs and leads the way into the store, immediately getting someone to come over and help them.

"Get what you want." Tony says. "It'll just go on my account."

Aaand this keeps being weird.

"There's not some kind of...protocol...you want me to stick to? No uniform?" Some people wanted that kind of thing, especially rich important people. It easily showed who was master and who was slave.

Tony frowns, texting his butler. Jarvis knows everything. "Nothing red or gold." But that's personal. "Other than that, Dad prefers something muted, but nope. No uniform." There are ways to denote slaves without a uniform.

"There are bracelets you have to wear, but there are several styles, if you want to change it up." Tony is still texting Jarvis.

"Dad will be waiting for us." Uh oh. Howard isn't pleased that Tony impulse bought a person.

No red, no gold. Gene picks out darker colors; it's easier that way. And easier for him to go unseen, when he eventually needs to.

"Right. The bracelets." Crap.

Tony just leans against a wall, texting on his phone. He's not sure he's more in trouble for the impulse buy, or for not consulting his Dad first. OR... maybe something else.

If his Dad found the lab, and the suits, well, there's going to be trouble there. Lots of trouble. Being Iron Man is still new to Tony, but he's got to keep it secret from his Dad. At least for a little while yet.

"Don't worry, they're in good taste." He's more distracted by the news on his phone.

Well, he has no idea how a bracelet denoting you as property could be in good taste, but today's just been full of surprises, hasn't it.

Stark's texting, so Gene takes the opportunity to go purchase his new wardrobe. May as well look spiffy on the Starks' dime, right? Or at least not like crap.

"Is something wrong?" he asks, returning to Tony with his purchases.

"Hmm." Tony isn't sure. "It's probably nothing." He puts the phone away and looks at the bags. "Get everything?" He's not worried about the money, really.

"We're going home." Tony sighs. His father wants to talk to him.

"C'mon." He leads the way to another cab, his mind turning over several things at once.

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The Slave Auction Meme

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Enjoy this tag from the SKY TUBE

Pre work tag!

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yeah that's not a normal impulse buy tony

Look, he has a Plan, okay? A Plan.

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