bakerstreet | From afar

SECRET ADMIRER meme

You're in love with them, but they don't know it and you have no real intention of changing this. Whether it's because you don't want to admit anything to yourself, can't handle rejection, don't think you're good enough, or have no real experience with this kind of thing, your lips are sealed...for now. And maybe forever, if you're contented to love them from afar.

That is, if the object of your affection doesn't figure you out first.

HOW TO PLAY

Comment with your character, preferences, and whether they'd be the admirer or the admired.
Reply to others.
RNG it or not.

PROMPTS

Meeting: How do you meet? Is it love at first sight?
Falling: You learn to love them, even if you never have before.
From Afar: You're not too close to them - they may not know you at all - but you still admire them. Whether "afar" means something like a different school, a different team, or a different world or walk of life is up to you.
Notice Me: You actually do want to be noticed. Please, senpai!~
Right in Front of You: The two of you are friends or allies, yet you're hiding your emotions in plain sight.
Denial: You? Love? No! Especially not with them...no, you weren't looking at them!
Jealousy: They don't know you're attracted to them, so you shouldn't feel mad when they're getting attention from others.
Too Shy Shy: The words just won't come out. Besides, you're too flustered by their presence in general.
Don't Deserve Them: You wouldn't want to subject them to you, anyway. They're too good.
Favors: Your love may not be known; still, you can do things for them or get them gifts, and they'll wonder who's doing all this. Their happiness is all you want, not their recognition.
Bad at This: So, about all those gifts or favors? You're not the sort to know about kindness and because of this, your shows of affection tend to be you offing their rivals or giving them stolen items.
Adorkable: You're awkward but it's endearing!
Never Expect the Quiet Ones: You barely speak, much less show how you feel. How could they know what you really think?
Lash Out: It's frustrating to have a crush you can't act on, so you've decided to act out...towards the one you love, perhaps to push them away.
Admission: Finally, you've decided to admit what you've felt all along.
Outed: Someone else has told your secret.
Caught: Maybe you were caught looking at them too much, speaking about your love out loud, or leaving them a gift. No matter what, the jig is up.
Content with Secrecy: You can admire them without saying a word. You're not conflicted in the least with living this life!
Requited: No more harboring secrets, as your feelings are returned.
Unrequited: ....ouch. Just ouch.
WILD CARD

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[Either role works]

[ Either role is fine! ]

[Estelle does literally nothing subtlely, and she can be dense as a brick. SO what I'm saying is she's probably the 'admired']

[m/m unless you want to roll with unrequited.]

[Can do either role.]

Robin had been worried something like this might happen. Tharja has always been a rather... enthusiastic friend, but her methods could often be seen as rather extreme. Baking bizarre concoctions, watching her sleep, and possibly cursing people she got into arguments with. Now after Lucina's rather public concern about her father's overly close friendship with a woman besides her mother, the poor girl had come down with a case of incurable sneezes. She didn't want to assume Tharja would do something like that, but she couldn't completely rule it out.

No matter its cause, Lucina was one of the most valuable assets to their cause, and having her sneeze every other sentence was going to be a problem for all of them. She needed this fixed, and since neither Maribelle nor Lissa had any leads, Robin used her own unique dark magic talents to determine it was a curse. When fighting so many Grima worshippers it was easy to point fingers, but what she needed was a cure. Henry was the specialist when it came to dispelling curses, but Tharja was the expert at crafting new creative ones. Henry told her of curses she'd craft that only she could dispel that were of this slightly harmless variant. If any other dark mage had learned this trick, Tharja was the best chance of dispelling it.

So here she was, at Tharja's very own tent, looking to ask a favor of her... she just wasn't sure what it might cost her. She knocked on the wood portion of the tent before peeking inside. "Err... Tharja? Can I speak with you a moment?"

"Whatever it is-" Fuck off. Wait, that's Robin's voice! "I'd love to hear about it!"

Tharja quickly dropped a towel on top of her workstation. No sense in subjecting her dear Robin to the sight of a disemboweled squirrel.

"Please, sit!" She scrambles to find some surface not covered in reagents to offer to her soulmate, eventually finding a stool. "What can I do for you?"

What can she do to you?

So far so good... she'd almost expected Tharja to not be in her tent, and actually stalking behind her a few feet away. Clearly she was just being paranoid and Tharja wasn't always creeping up on her. Robin took a seat as instructed, doing her best to stay on Tharja's good side.

"I need to ask you a bit of a favor, and it might take some difficulty accomplishing." Though whether that was because someone else cast the curse, or because Tharja might not want to remove it, was another question. "What do you know of the curse currently afflicting Lucina?"

Of course not! Today's date with Robin (what some might call stalking) wasn't for a few more hours! Today was Tuesday, so that normally sword practice with Chrom, except after that thing with Lucina, her Robin would probably be avoiding Chrom for a little bit. Maybe Robin would be doing magic practice? Oh, that sounded so lovely~

"Her? Ew, why do you want to know about her?"

The curse wasn't even all that big a deal. It's not like she'd turned her toes gangrenous or froze her blood, it was just some sniffles!

"It just seems like her sins have come to roost, don't you think?"

Robin stiffened at Tharja's choice of words, all but confirming for her that she was the one responsible, or at the very least held no pity for her. Robin didn't usually get angry at her friends to this level, but Tharja's callousness provoked her.

Her tone was utterly icy as she spoke. "Tharja? Let me make one thing perfectly clear, I love Lucina. She's like a little sister to me, and while we may argue, I do not want her to fall under any harm."

"Oh please. If I meant her any harm, there wouldn't be enough of her left to fill a flagon." This is really irritating. She expected better from Robin, honestly.

She found herself snickering, though. "Oh, is that what it is? An argument? Are you sure you shouldn't be checking yourself for curses? Because I'd swear you were under the effects of a Feebleminded hex."

From afar

Adam Parrish / The Raven Cycle

Grace Ford | OC | m/f

Nora Bryce || Ascension

Estelle Bright || Trails in the Sky || OTA

Rey | SW: TFA | OTA

Eugene Sledge | The Pacific

Jamal Lyon | Empire

Kenny Al-Bahir | War At Home | m/m

Kei Tsukishima - Haikyuu!! - ota

Tharja | Fire Emblem: Awakening | OTA

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Kae Serinuma | Kiss Him, Not Me | OTA