Personal Hygiene Shipping Meme.

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The Personal Hygiene Shipping Meme


Personal hygiene is just that - personal. By the time we've come to a point in our lives where we notice that the concept exists and we should be prudent about it, we can take care of ourselves. There are also many practical reasons why we don't involve other people in this process. We're not too keen on showing off parts to be cleaned that are private in most contexts, and there's definitely an ingrained aversion to showing so much soft, fleshy skin. Hot water or a sharp razor could spell dangerous with a capital D should they come into the hands of someone with a vendetta against you. No need to be extra vulnerable.

So, if you're involving another person in your cleansing routines, it must be someone you trust. Not only that, but it's most likely someone you're comfortable with and likely at least somewhat open to being intimate with. You may not be dropping all your clothing in front of them, but it's still you opening yourself up to touching and closeness unparalleled in more "usual" moments.

Established and burgeoning couples (or not-so-couples) can bond through this showing of care and good faith. Will you like being pampered and find the attention endearing? Or will things go terribly, terribly wrong?

...you never should have let them near that shaving cream.

• Comment with your character and preferences.
• Smut is not required. Mention if you want/don't want it.
• Reply to others and use the RNG.

1. Comfort: You've decided to pitch in a helping hand to get your partner to unwind, and warm water or suds may do the trick.
2. Romantic: The sole purpose of this endeavor is to set a lovey-dovey mood. No shame here!
3. It Started Out Platonic...: What a good pal you are, volunteering to give your friend a good scrub. Of course, you didn't count on the cute way she squirms as you scrub her back or how he blushes when you shampoo his scalp.
4. No Choice: Currently, you're unable to clean yourself up. That means that you need assistance, and it might as well be the person you lov- tolerate the most.
5. Open: You have trust issues. Actually, you have backlogs of trust issues. Still, you want to show the person you love that you're willing and trying to change for them, and what better way than letting down your walls and having the assist in your grooming?
6. Shave: Whether it's your face, your legs, or...your other places you've decided to shave, there's a certain intimacy involved in letting your lover do it for you. Let's hope they won't leave you looking like you got into a battle with a book with the paper cuts to prove it.
7. Reluctant: They want to get you clean. You don't want to show off your body at all. It's injured, it looks weird, what if they don't like it...
8. Forced: You love them, you really do, but you won't kiss them if they continue to look like an unwashed hobo clown. You have to draw the line somewhere, and if they won't take action, you will.
9. Beat Up: You've been trampled in a fight. Your partner isn't about to let you wallow around in your own mud and blood.
10. Hair: Some find that there's nothing quite as soothing as getting their hair washed or brushed. Of course, those with more luxurious locks may find any hair care a burden, so the assistance is appreciated.
11. Make Up: They think you're beautiful already. See how they'll paint you up when they get the chance.
12. Unique: If you're not human, you probably have your own proceeders you have to do to keep all spiffied up. There are wings with stray feathers to pluck, horns on heads to polish, scales to shave down, all sorts of tasks! Introduce your ignorant (and most likely human) boyfriend or girlfriend to your world...and your pain.
13. Accommodations: Those with disabilities or prosthetics may also have their own routines, and anyone who wants to be with them should learn how to pitch in.
14. Sponge Bath: You don't have enough water to do this right or you just want to give them a nice rub and scrub with a gentle sponge or wash cloth.
15. Wound Care: In order for wounds to heal, proper care must be taken. Bandages have to be changed and cuts cleaned out. It's certainly easier when you don't have to do it all by yourself.
16. Together: You're both cleaning up, taking a bath, splish splash, in the same tub because there's no where else to go. This is the most likely smut option, even if, again, it starts off "platonic."
17. Clothing: Don't forget that clean clothes are an important part of personal hygiene. Always make sure your partner has a nice, fresh outfit, even if it's to your taste and not theirs.
18. I've Made a Terrible Mistake: Somehow, everything's now shit. This little experiment went haywire and you may be sporting anything from the worst hairdo of your life to a Columbian necktie.
19. FREE SPACE

Comments

Bucky Barnes | MCU | ota

[icycold]

i only have 5 icons

[powerwalk]

Come on, I'm getting my mutant... certificate.

[ Peter cocks his head to the side, making a face. That doesn't sound right. It probably isn't right.

Whatever. He's in Bucky's room anyway, because Bucky's been pretty cool since the Professor saved him from whatever programming his brain was in, save for the horrendously traumatic PTSD. But hey, that's, like, their whole schtick anyway, isn't it? ]

You can't attend my mutant certificate day in your hobo clothes. [ He sniffs big and loud, obnoxious on purpose. ] Dude, come on. Buy a suit.

Or let me steal one for you. [ Because that's easy. ] You know I got your back.

Loki | MCU | ota

[reliablelies]

BOTH, OK

[powerwalk]

[ Loki's standing there with a sponge.

Peter is mortified where he sits in the nice porcelain tub. As if he wasn't already mortified enough having another -- uh, not really human being, but close enough, so unbelievably close to his naked delicates.

Okay, so Peter smells like an explosion. In his defence, he just saved an entire building's worth of people from one, so cut him some slack. ]

...you wouldn't.

[ But Loki's got this determined look on his face which, while hot, is horrifically terrifying in this context. ]

My skin wasn't built for this. Don't make me run away. I'm totally gonna run away, don't test me.

steve rogers | mcu | ota

[gotup]

Cindy Aurum | Final Fantasy XV | OTA

[mechanicalwondergal]

.

Hyuuga Masamune | Touken Ranbu | M/M

[umeboshitantou]

Arthur Kirkland (England) | Hetalia | OTA

[english_kirkland]

9, 15

[amant]

England! Open up! [France's voice sounds mildly alarmed. After all it is night and since this is England, it's raining. And cold. None of those are normal reasons for concern in France's book though. What concerns him is that he has no recollection of getting there. He is also bleeding from more than one place on his person, and while he also has absolutely no recollection of how, he knows it's been awhile since he's gotten more than a paper cut.

In his very elaborate imagination (since his memory is currently AWOL), France cannot think of any good explanation as to why the hand raised to beat on the door has several gashes against the knuckles. His free hand experimentally canvases the back of his skull and he winces at the pain that blossoms when his fingers find a wound there, too. He feels like he's been hit by a bus.]

I'm serious. Open the door! I know you are awake! [Raising his voice did nothing for the ache inside of his skull and he's left muttering darkly under his breath, starting to think that perhaps he could find a nice window to crawl in through. France would go home if he was certain he'd actually make it there. Better safe than sorry.]

[[ooc: convenient injuries to annoy England late at night. Not that France is all too fond of the idea, but ta da. One Frenchman, delivered to your door.]]

belle ❀ beauty and the beast (2017) → ota

[uglydress]

[ Bonus points for anything involving hair, hair braiding, or beards. ]

nate / red, white & blue

[scalp]

[ partial to 6, 10 (haircut, etc.), and 9/15. ]

Savitar | The Flash

[vivifier]

Some mix of 4,5,7 - your call on whether Sav went with him or is lurking about

[havingprecision]

Six months ago Savitar had come to Central City to kill Iris West.

Now he was living in Star City and occasionally working with Oliver and his team. They had offered him a place, a chance to determine who he could be once the whole temporal issue had been dealt with.

Another long night, another weapons smuggling ring broken up. Oliver limps back to the base with the intent of a long, hot shower to rinse off the sweat, grime from an unexpected swim in the river and a drink to forget about what are likely cracked ribs.

Anders | Dragon Age | OTA

[rebelhealer]

15 + prob a bunch of other numbers

[hapostate]

It's not as bad as it looks. Hawke had tried, however futilely, to discourage Anders' fussing after he'd come stumbling in through the estate's front door, his hand clutching a bloody gap in the heavy leather hide of his armor, just over his side. Little good that it'd done. By that point, he'd been leaning a little more heavily than he'd have liked to admit on Varric, who'd so graciously elected to drag him all the way back to the manor, before unceremoniously pawning him off on Anders.

Anders, who still won't take his word for it that he's fine. It doesn't even hurt that much anymore, really. It's positively bearable, in fact - although the look he gets when he presses the issue on the long, staggering way up the stairs suggests Anders somehow still isn't taking his word for it.

He complains all the way to the bath, in spite of the fact that he's begun bleeding sluggishly again by the time they get there, and the choppy burst of mana that seals that nasty gash back up only just manages to do that much. Hawke can heal well enough to stave off death, but he's always been a bit of a butcher, even at his best. (And this is not that, though he'll never admit to that, either.)

He still winces when he works his way out of his armor, but manages to stifle a hiss with it, so that's something. And his wound actually does feel a little better without all those heavy layers bearing down on top of it. Enough so that he's passing convincing as he gestures carelessly to his injured side. "See? Nothing but a scratch."

Or maybe it looks more like he's been sideswiped by a sword large enough a qunari must've been wielding it. Minor difference, honestly.

"You worry entirely too much."

Scarecrow | Batman Arkham Knight | ota

[doctor_terror]

[Preference for M/M, but open to M/F if we've had previous CR]

Michael Corvin | Underworld | M/M

[lycanhybrid]

wanda maximoff | mcu ( f/m )

[bruixa]

Thor | MCU | ota

[onlyawarrior]

Eren Jaeger | Shingeki no Kyojin | M/M

[preciousbrat]

Yoon Bum ▻ Killing Stalking ▻ M/M

[fragilesoul]

Marinette Dupain-Cheng | MLB

[doodlebuginette]

[Marinette is more likely to be the one lending a hand, but she's also partial to having her hair brushed/washed/whatever.

The most likely ones are 1, 3, 10, 11 or 17, but we could probably work something out for one of the others.]

NONA1 | OC | OTA

[projectsilvergaze]

[Happens to be very good at these sorts of things, Android hands you know. Also isn't familiar with human issues of closeness.]

Oscar | Lupin The 3rd | OTA

[riveres]

[4, 5, and 7 are definite possibilities here because he's... Oscar. But also open to others!]

Aramat Drawdes | Alabaster | OTA

[scalpedsociety]

[Is all for helping her loved ones with hygiene but is open to being helped too.]

John Constantine - Constantine - OTA

[trenchcoat_brigade]

15

[goodviberations]

Going after the demon had been a bad idea. Well, actually, no. They had to go after the demon. It was killing people. Using the combined skills of Constantine's magic and Cisco's powers, they'd gotten a location and breached in.

That was the part that was the bad idea. Because the demon didn't take kindly to the multi-dimensional breach appearing in his lair. (Yes, it's a lair. Demon or no, bad guys have lairs. Don't question him.) Cisco had barely touched the ground before he was thrown off his feet. The landing is rough, and he can tell from the stinging in his side that he'd landed on something with a sharp edge.

But, hey. At least John has an opening now that the demon is distracted.

sam wilson | mcu | ota

[wingedman]

cassian andor || rogue one || m/f

[rebellionbuilt]

[ooc: tentatively ota to sw canonmates.]

jyn erso || rogue one || ota

[made_of_stars]

Kylo Ren ♰ Star Wars ♰ OTA

[obumbravit]

[invariances]

She responds to his call through the bond, and comes to where he asks her — there's no way she couldn't. As hurt as she was by his decision on the Supremacy, as devastated as she was to find out he refused to return to the Resistance with her, she's not going to abandon him when he needs her, when he's reaching out.

Whatever skirmish he's had with General Hux, it likely started with poisoning of some sort; the med droid that treats him at the smuggler's base she's stolen him off to runs a full toxicology scan, and finds traces of three different narcotics in his system. A little longer without the proper treatment, and he might not have made it.

He's weak and shaky on his legs as she helps him into the moderately-sized medbay bathroom, boasting not only a standing shower but a large tub for bathing, and she starts to run water to fill it up.

"Take off your clothes," she orders brusquely, nodding at his loose shirt and sleep pants he's worn during recovery. Her words are sharply delivered but not ungentle — her only effort to show this is part of his care, not just a chore. "You'll feel much better after you get clean."

She even turns her back graciously to allow him the courtesy of undressing, but if he turns back to look he'll see something he likely doesn't expect — Rey, carefully starting to shuck off the wide leather belt at her waist, lifting the hem of her tunic and sliding it over her head to leave her in an undershirt and leggings.