THE ABOMINABLY AWKWARD ACQUAINTANCES MEME

[monkeytailed]

THE ABOMINABLY AWKWARD ACQUAINTANCES MEME

You're now stuck dealing with someone who you don't know very well, in a vaguely negative way at best, for the foreseeable future. Awkward. How do you handle it?

...you should know the drill by now! (And it will pierce the heavens.) You post, other people reply to you, you reply to other people, good times.

And if you're stumped on how to start, fire up the usual RNG and...

1) They're your ex's brand new significant other! And you're trapped in an elevator, you're stuck doing the drinks run for a party together, you're waiting in line and have a choice: deal with them, or go all the way back to the rear. (In the event that you're single, replace 'ex's brand new significant other' with something along similar lines: fellow competitor who won a competition you lost, fellow interviewee who got the job you didn't...)

2) They're your co-worker at your new job! You may define job liberally: you're mercenaries aboard a ship, bounty hunters, random warriors that the king of some nation pretty much smashed together and ordered to go forth and slay the big bad.

3) You don't know each other at all, but you're suddenly in very...very...very close quarters with them. The bus is packed and now you're practically grinding each other, soldiers were coming and you hid in a closet together, whatever. Added bonus if UST doesn't immediately spark up because someone (not saying who) could use a breath mint or whatever.

4) Aside from one embarrassing moment from the not-so-distant past, you don't know them at all and figured that the two of you would never meet again. You were wrong, and it looks like the two of you will be working together for the greater good...so quitting isn't an option. (Replace good with evil if you're a morally ambiguous sort.) And you'll be doing so for a very long time.

Comments

Zidane Tribal | Final Fantasy IX

[monkeytailed]

2

[codenaming]

So we're...co-workers now, huh?

Tony Stark | MCU

[ex_ironhearted402]

 

[lowkeyinaminor]

...how long do you think it will be before someone finds this escape pod? [This very small escape pod.

Space...the final frontier. It's really big and empty. Also, it's starting to smell like booze. God, Tony, go take a sho- oh, wait. Uh.]

raven | x-men first class

[codenaming]

1

[the_new_sexy]

[OOC: I'm...not really sure what to do with this roll. I suppose that would make her Irene Adler's new girlfriend----oh god, comic canon ogog. Or possibly John Watson's new girlfriend. What would you prefer?]

Loki | Thor (2011 Film)

[trickstering]

Sherlock Holmes | BBC Sherlock

[punchmyface]

Tate Langdon | American Horror Story

[isthedarkness]

Sousuke Sagara || Full Metal Panic!

[drywall]

[ his whole life is one big awkward moment already ]

Britta Perry | Community

[britta_ftw]

Jonathan Morris | Castlevania

[okei]

2

[midget]

[ How do you feel about being partnered with a vampire who's pretty much more badass - and feared - than Dracula?

Shut up nobody cares if she looks like a little girl.

IS IT AWKWARD ENOUGH FOR YOU? ]

Jim Moriarty | BBC Sherlock

[moriarty_hi]

Bart Allen | DC Comics

[impulsive]

Elena Fisher | Uncharted

[clickandshoot]

1 is too perfect for me to roll

[mostlyprofessional]

[Chloe quite likes Elena, despite her worrying idealism. She can tell that Nate loves her, and even pushed him to go get her.

[But that doesn't mean she knows what to do with her when they're both in line at the Pottery Barn grocery and of all the slow-moving queues, this one is still the shortest.]

Well. Fancy meeting you here.

Katherine || Catherine || Open to all

[dooms_bride]

Garma Zabi | Gundam 0079 | ota

[zabi_prince]

OOC

[zetapunched]

SO HEY ARE YOU CHAR'S NEW SO?

William T. Spears | Kuroshitsuji/Black Butler

[death_files]

Eleventh Doctor | Doctor Who

[aintno_grave]

3

[web_head]

... Didn't you say it was going to be bigger on the inside?

loki | marvel movieverse

[delusionaldreams]

Molly Hooper | | Sherlock

[wealldosillythings]

Gaignun Kukai Jr. | Xenosaga

[red_dwarf]

4

[ex_unmotivated18]

My, oh my. We meet again. [Doesn't really do the being embarrassed by thing, for the record. Embarrassing for him would be being caught hard at work.]

Kaylee Frye || Firefly

[shiniest]

03

[the_devil_king_is_bored]

[And now Kaylee is somehow in a closet with the devil king.

He's a pretty huge guy, so there's not much room.]

You can touch my chest but not my abs.

[Why those rules?

Because he's bored.]

Bennett Halverson || Dollhouse

[neuroscienced]

rolled a 3.

[confused]

[Brittany's on a school trip to Washington D.C., and (after getting separated from her tour group) probably wandered into the wrong building. She winds up walking into the same elevator as Bennett, but doesn't say anything to the petite neuroscientist - at least, not until the elevator grinds to a dead halt between floors.]

Is this where President Oprah lives?

Joan Holloway Harris || Mad Men

[managerial]

Koki Kariya | The World Ends With You

[ex_unmotivated18]

[Why the fuck not.]

4 (have fun with your new partner, Kariya)

[lovescompany]

[Oh, great. It was that guy again. Misery could barely contain her excitement after what would no doubt cause anyone to feel only the most gravest of discomfort imaginable. Now, for somebody like Misery, such feelings come pretty often and generally don't cause her much concern... but those few moments that stand out in her mind only goes to show just how really, really, really... alot of really bad... that thing that happened was.]

[So, without further to do. Misery decided that the best thing to do was to stand there and wait for him to make the first move and try to not make a mess of things. Which was actually pretty easy, since all they were doing right now seemed to be standing around and doing nothing. While she would have normally liked this, it made the silence just become more and more awkward.]

[Seriously!! You could fill an Hagishizawa's Noise Form in the size of this awkwardness!]

Second Doctor | | Doctor Who

[robots_beware]

4

[the_new_sexy]

[DUN DUN DUN. And here, Sherlock Holmes thought he'd seen the last of him. Since that incident when he was skiing as a child, since he'd dreamed that the Yeti almost killed Mycroft, he was certain that whatever high-grade fever caused hallucination about the Doctor would never be repeated.

He wasn't high, he wasn't injured, but there he was. The Doctor. Impossible not to recognize him. Sherlock, no longer interested in his present case, stood up from where he sat at a cafe and headed down the sidewalk, following the strange little man.]

Asmodeath Lucifer De Versebute ♆ The Devil King is Bored ♆

[the_devil_king_is_bored]