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toastysocks) wrote in bakerstreet2016-09-27 06:18 pm
The Slave Auction Meme
>The Slave Auction MemeThe Slave Auction Meme
⧠Leave a comment with the character's name, fandom, and whether your character will be playing the part of 'slave' or 'master', plus preferences for scenarios if you have any.
⧠Respond to others with one of the scenarios below or feel free to make up your own.
⧠Please remember to be respectful of others while you play
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.
⧠Leave a comment with the character's name, fandom, and whether your character will be playing the part of 'slave' or 'master', plus preferences for scenarios if you have any.
⧠Respond to others with one of the scenarios below or feel free to make up your own.
⧠Please remember to be respectful of others while you play
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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Gene lets Tony have his time. Fine. God only knows he needed to think, too. But he's always been a light sleeper, so when he hears Tony come back at dick-o'-clock the next day, he edges out of his rooms and into the main area.
"Tony?"
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Whatever the reason: busted.
Tony freezes when Gene says his name, and then turns around, looking hunted. "Gene." He tries to play it cool. "Didn't expect to see you up this late."
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But Tony's sometimes a little harder to read.
"Do you need anything?" Again, no banter. He doesn't think Tony's really in the mood for it.
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"Nope. I'm good. Just crashing for a few hours. Everything alright with you?"
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There sure is an elephant in the room, huh?
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Well, this confirms something - Tony's been avoiding him, which is something he's never experienced before. And Tony's being awkward around him, like they're equals, or something.
He shakes his head as he pads back to bed. He'll deal with that in the morning.
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Tony goes to bed. He tosses and turns for a while, fixating on this stupid situation he's gotten himself into. He kind of wants to give up on sleep and sneak back down to the lab, but Gene might catch him again on the way out, and that would just make things worse.
Finally, he groans, rolls over, and reaches for his phone.
"sorry," he texts. And then a minute later, "about the other night. it was out of line."
He gives an annoyed grunt and stuffs his phone under his pillow. Maybe that will assuage his conscience enough to let him sleep. Maybe Gene won't say anything about it in the morning. Maybe he'll stop looking at Tony like an anthropologist whose subject has done something odd and who's waiting for more data points.
He does eventually sleep, and actually shows up for breakfast the next morning. He still looks a little twitchy, though.
gene, internally: [now playing "gonna make you sweat" by c+c music factory]
Hm.
Well, he should say something.
Don't worry about it. Get some sleep.
A little terse, but he's usually brief via text.
When Tony comes out the next morning, Gene's already nearly done with breakfast. "Morning. Sleep okay?"
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Gene's return text last night (which he hadn't seen till he'd gotten up, on account of shoving his phone under his pillow so he couldn't obsess over it) had soothed his nerves somewhat, but he's still feeling pretty awkward.
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"Good. I thought you were going to stay out for a solid week. Not that I minded the time off." Banter is at 1%.
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Tony has a sinking feeling that this is gonna be one of those 'definitely knows what's up but is going to keep politely stepping around it until you spit it out yourself' conversations, like he sometimes has with his dad.
Maybe it's best to head it off and get it over with.
"The other night - that isn't what... I wasn't thinking straight." He shakes his head. "I should listen to Pepper and Rhodey," he says, with a hint of bitterness. "They keep telling me I act like a tool when I'm drunk."
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Well you sure weren't thinking straight, dahoihoi."I told you, don't worry about it," Gene says as firmly as he dares - which, with Tony, is reasonably so. "You didn't offend me. I'm a difficult man to offend. And that is far from the worst thing anyone's ever done around or to me, drunk or sober. So you're in the clear."
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"Great," Tony says sourly. "So I'm not the worst. Real high bar, huh?"
He's gone from 'guy who doesn't do that sort of thing' to 'guy who does that sort of thing, but not the really bad stuff,' which is really not an accomplishment to be proud of, no matter how you slice it.
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"No," he says, "you're not the worst. As a matter of fact, you're better than all of them. Do you know why?
"Because you stopped."
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"You didn't think I would?" He barks out a humorless laugh. "Why would I, right? I'm just some rich asshole who always gets what he wants."
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"So I'm going to rise above my station for a moment and ask you frankly: what the hell's crawled up your ass about this? Because it feels like you're taking this personally. And you're doing a pretty poor job of hiding the fact that you're sulking."
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But who would Tony Stark be without at least a little bit of self-loathing?"And I didn't buy you to be my personal shrink," Tony snaps, finally looking up to turn his glare on Gene. It's the closest he's yet gotten to telling Gene to remember his place.
"You know what, forget it." Tony goes back to angrily eating his omelette. "It's not important."
It was a stupid thing to do and a stupid thing to get worked up about, and now this conversation is rubbing it in.
"Just do me a favor - next time you don't want to do something, just say so."
That's what's really bothering him, he thinks. How stoic Gene had been. It would have been one thing if he'd been upset or even reluctant, but the way he'd just shut down - it made Tony feel like a total creep, and it also made him wonder how much of Gene's friendly demeanor is even real. Maybe it's all an act - a tedious chore that he endures to keep his master happy.
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"You know that's going to have to overcome twenty years of learned behavior, right?" Gene says, his tone light. Because even if Stark is a humane master, saying 'no' to anything asked of him hasn't been an option for most of Gene's life.
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Gene's reaction the other night may have bruised Tony's feelings, but it was obviously a survival mechanism, and some of Tony's anger fizzles out at that reminder.
"Then you'd better get started practicing," he says says gruffly. "I have too many groveling ass-kissers already, I don't need another one."
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He picks up his tablet. "Looks like you're out for lunch. Back for dinner, unless that's changed."
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He's really not feeling better about any of this, but Gene has called him out on his sulking, so it would be juvenile to continue his 'hide in the lab forever' campaign (he does give it some serious consideration, though. it's very tempting). So when Gene asks him if he's back for dinner, Tony, resigned, just says, "Yeah."
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