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The Historical Romance (AU) Meme

(also including high fantasy, steampunk, and sci-fi because why not)

There's nothing quite like a good historical setting to take a tale of sordid romance to the next level. Perhaps it's the setting that seems so separate from our own time, thus making the whole thing feel more exotic or epic. Besides, the codes of attitude! The costumes! The traditions! The disease and early death!

Uhhh, did I mention the costumes?

HOW TO PLAY

This is a meme for shipping in historical (and also fantastical by historically based) settings. Pretty self-explanatory.
Post with your character, information, and preferences.
There are TWO things you can RNG here, because everybody loves some RNG. First is time period, second is prompt. Two for the price of one.
Comment to other people.
Be kind to others, play nice, etc.

Time Periods:

Prehistory
Egypt
Greece & Rome
Mythic & Legendary
Viking
Ancient Asia
Scottish Highlands
Celts
Medieval & Middle Ages
High Fantasy
Camelot/Arthurian
French Revolution
Tudors
Regency
Victorian/Industrial Revolution
Steampunk
Wild West
Civil War
Roaring Twenties
1940s
1950s
1960s
The Space Age Future

Prompts:

Spoils of War: You've been taken of your home and made either an unwilling companion or, even worse, a slave. Yet something is beginning
Nefarious Intentions: Whether it be from jealousy or a desire to ruin someone, you want to make this person - perhaps with an equal or higher station - desire you, then you will destroy them.
Inherited You: Often times, in the past, positions came along with the spouse of the deceased or disposed.
Must Be Married: In order to get your inheritance, secure your title, produce an heir, or please a parent, you have to marry someone. Anyone will do, won't they?
Arranged: This marriage is one you didn't even get to pick. Hopefully, you'll at least like the person.
Servitude: You live to serve, but you also love the one you serve, perhaps from afar.
Love at First Sight: Okay, admittedly, you have't seen many people because this is before easy travel, but you know this person is the one. What can you do about it?
Learn to Love: The two of you are thrust together. The most you can do is hope to love each other in time.
Promised to Another: You two are head over heels, and things couldn't be better...except for the fact that one of you is supposed to belong to somebody else.
Seduction for Gain: In a time where women and the underclass were treated very poorly, there's no shame in trying to advance your station. Use whatever means necessary.
Courtly Love: Between a knight and a noble, a bard and a noble, a king and his lady, etc etc etc. The kind of love spoken of in ballads.
The One Above All Else: The one who got away...or the one who was never yours. Maybe they are a beloved friend, a special person you must protect, or that flickering green light far from you, but you love them all the same.
For the Man Who Has Everything: You are powerful, strong, well-connected; you have everything except for someone to share it with. Perhaps that will change.
Rescue the Maiden Fair: Or the "man" fair. Surely they will show gratitude.
To Honor You: Maybe if you win a great victory, slay a dragon, or invent a combustion engine, ~~senpai~~ your beloved will notice you.
Cultural Differences: When uniting two cultures through a marriage or union, culture clashes are bound to occur.
Class Difference: The poor street urchin who loves the child of the bourgeois or the serf who longs after the lord's only daughter. Is there anything more heartbreaking?
Healing the Broken: Life is hard, and perhaps one of you has bore the brunt of it. It falls on the other to bring life back into their life.
Met Before: You knew this person long ago. Have your feelings for them changed?
Courtship: You will do this the proper way, with meek handholding and chaperoned dances. Or you may have no other choice.
Secrets and Magic: Your romance is further muddled by the existence of strange creatures and the magical forces. Maybe one of you is even a magician, but you can't let anyone know, even the person you adore.
Torn Apart by War: On the same side or Romeo and Juliet-ing it, the constant fighting is ruining your war.
Forbidden: You took an oath, a vow, or some other kind of promise not to love. Before your eyes, that's all shattering.
Rule by My Side: You want power and you want this person to be your consort, and will do anything to get both.
I've Grown Accustomed to Your Face: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, or: I hated you but now I've grown to want you like no other.
I'll Wait for You: You will wait for the person you love. Back in the day, this was pretty serious, considering the death rate from the plague. And dysentery.
A Promise Made: You told them you would make them yours and nothing would stand between you. You intend to make good on that promise, no matter what goddesses you have to face, monsters you have to kill, or political situations you must maneuver.
First Contact: You are the first envoy of your kingdom or race. Making a good impression and not breaking any hearts are both good calls.
1.21 Gigawatts: "But I'm not even from this time period!" Instead, you're the modern guy or gal who fell through time. You must fit in...and not break everything by falling in love with the knight or samurai.
WILDCARD

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[Sweet on the outside with a troublemaker streak that lays hidden beneath, Aerith is open to all who don't mind her flare for stubbornness and sass.

Expect a lot of teasing.]

[ obvious preference for 17! ]

[ Her default world state is a fantasy-enhanced France of the 1700s, but I love playing her in Dark Ages/Renaissance/Baroque periods or even Victorian or Wild West.

I love assumed CR, crossovers (♥ ♥ ♥), convoluted scenarios, combustive attraction, bickering, first time, culture differences, ingenue/gruff, worldly man, inhuman characters, cute nerds nerding out together, Beauty and the Beast dynamics because duh, arranged marriage AU, fairy tale/fantasy settings, magic, passionate reunions, redoing first times that didn't go so well. sneaky trysts, risk of discovery, emotions spilling out in private, and much, much more.

Ridiculously into Tolkienverse (dwarves yes pls), ASOIAF/GOT, HP (my kingdom for a Newt Scamander or Lupin), and MCU right now and equally into AUing Belle to fit in any of them, but check out my slightly embarrassing dream list of shit I'd like to play. ]

[high fantasy or medieval most likely. m/f for shipping.]

( Zange is literally a goddess from early Japan era if anybody wants to play that out, or she can be from a different time period altogether. Also included is Hakua if you'd like that as well, given that they pretty much share a body for most of the canon. Of course, that road is 100% optional! )

[ Tudor-era is the setting for his story, so that's always fitting - but medieval and high fantasy I can work with as well! ]

Edited 2017-07-26 12:59 (UTC)

[high fantasy by default, but could easily slide into options 3-11]

[kind of an unlikely pairing, but perhaps an au in which smaug was one of dany's dragons that went rogue? or daenerys as an elven queen who came to fight the dragon, with or without dragons of her own?]

[ 9, 10 & 13 are ♥ ]

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Edited 2017-07-26 23:58 (UTC)

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[AU your character to her time (WWI/1920s) or I can AU her to another time.]

[ couple of things: dragons are unequivocally evil in tolkien's world, which probably nixes the first idea. and, sadly, dany is too short for an elf. otherwise, it's entirely plausible she's royalty from somewhere east, beyond mordor. ]

[Victorian and Steampunk only, please.]

[nothing before the middle ages, please!]

[most interested in ancient asia, high fantasy, steampunk, or space-age future!]

Edited 2017-07-29 03:13 (UTC)

[The great war had ended and Japan was more prosperous than she had ever known! Weaternization was in full swing as the country continued to desperately climb towards the status of a country of distinction, of a power like those in the West! Of course in this time, of the great booming years of the Taisho era various prestigious schools were forming. Though many military, proud and true to nurture young men to serve the Emperor, plenty were not! Instead focusing on the knowledge needed to help strive further and raise the intellectual product of the great nation of the rising sun.

Of course one such facility existed, though it's unique methods rather scoffed from all sides. To nurture true ability it dared mix the two. Soldiers should not simply be mindless tools it claimed, and saught to see the results of mixing those of the civilian academic facilities and those of the military. A brave and questionable endeavor! Of course if it all failed... well, hopefully it would work out!

What could happen when the study ts of such different circumstances meet?

[M/F for shipping except for castmates or if we've threaded together before.]

[Maybe a combination of the worlds of the Hobbit and Dragon Age somehow? Or perhaps Bard could fall in with the Inquisition somehow? Or given that Iona's an elf she could easily be slotted into being a Tolkien elf or some such.]

Those who do not learn from history

Aerith Gainsborough | Final Fantasy VII

lysa tully | asoiaf (rr era)

Courier Six | Fallout: New Vegas

belle. beauty and the beast (2017). f/m

Jean Otus | ACCA 13-ku Kansatsu-ka

bard | the hobbit

zange | kannagi

Gabriel Starling | OC

Daenerys Targaryen | GoT | f/m

no subject

Christian ▬ OC ▬ m/m

Wolfgang Mozart | Amadeus | OTA

Eren Jaeger | Shingeki no Kyojin | M/M | OTA

Mary Crawley | Downton Abbey | M/F

no subject

Dorian Gray | The Picture of Dorian Gray

Prussia | APH: Nyotalia | ota!

Hajime Hinata | Danganronpa | ota!

Hisrory!

Inquisitor Iona Lavellan | Dragon Age Inquisition

no subject