bakerstreet | Opposites Attract

Sure, complimenting personalities bring people together. It's always good to get along with your significant other or friends, so "birds of a feather flock together," as they say. But let's be honest. That doesn't make for good entertainment. Readers and viewers love a good odd couple, where the two are diametrically different. This can be in personality (good girls and bad boys), appearance (Beauty & the Beast, anyone?), species (ALIEN AND HUMAN LOVE IS REAL!!!1), and so on.

This meme is inspired by this concept and a certain song that probably shows your age if you recognize it. According to Wikipedia, "the lyrics are about a couple who love each other despite being different in just about every way possible." And...that pretty much summarizes the meme, too! (Though, it doesn't have to be love. Hate can be an option.)

HOW TO PLAY
- Comment with your character. In the subject, put info & preferences.
- In the comment, describe your character in a few key words. This is so that people who don't know your canon can see if your character would be a good opposite to theirs.

EX: Outspoken, strong-willed, funloving

- Reply to characters who are opposite (interpret that as you will) to yours.
- Enjoy the shippy antics!

PROMPTS
1. Our Friends Are Saying We Ain't Gonna Last: How did you guys get together? Where did you meet? Was their attraction

2. You Like the Movies / And I Like TV: So, you guys' ideas of fun aren't exactly compatible, huh. Well, one of you is a happy magical girl and the other is a murderous psychopath.

3. Who'd a Thought That We Could Be Lovers: I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT, MARK. HOW'S YOUR SEX LIFE?

...but really. How do you guys get on in bed? Surely, your kinks are different, too.

4. Baby, Seems Like We Never, Ever Agree: Oh, the fights. Naturally, with differences come disagreements. Are they passive agressive snarkfests or knock-down-drag-outs?

5. We Come Together: The one good thing about fighting is how you get to make up after. Better remember what gets you on your sweetie's good side.

6. Don't Think We'll Ever Get Our Differences Patched: That's it. You're done. This dance is over. You should both just leave before you lose it. But will either of you let that happen?

7. Don't Really Matter Cuz We're Perfectly Matched: Okay, so you're nothing alike. But you're going to make this work, damn it!

8. How We Lasted This Long: You've defied all odds. Despite your differences, you're still together. Maybe it's not the best (or maybe it is), but it's still something.

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[ He is Han “You think a princess and a guy like me ...” Solo. ]

[M/F and set pre S3 for now.]

[ Mothering, manipulative, coy. ]

[Want a rough-around-the-edges street punk with a soft spot for maternal types?]

[ xD Sure! I can like... AU her so that she’s human and not several centuries older than him. Guess they would have met in highschool or something? I can have her be an exchange student. ]

[...really, he's weirdly open-minded enough that he wouldn't be all that fazed if she were a centuries-old incarnation of a country, but I do see your point. XD And yeah, they could be school friends... usually I play him as having dropped out and run away a few years ago already, so they also could have been childhood friends and bump into each other again by chance.]

[ I mean... I can leave her as a nation. That would be pretty interesting. She really loves children and can’t exactly have any of her own. We could do the childhood friends thing or if I leave her as she is, maybe she could have been in Japan for a World Conference and ran into him. Maybe gave him a hand if something bad was going on? Give him the whole “Take care of yourself! Running with the wrong crowd will get you killed!” lecture. Then run in to him again years later?

She’s going to scold him either way. xD ]

[...I'm starting to like the idea of her as a nation, actually. Either she was in Japan and met him as a kid, or his parents brought him to Russia on a trip and they met there, and then years later she bumps into the sweet little boy having become a street punk biker. XD For the present-time meeting, she could be in Japan for Reasons, ends up in a bad neighborhood maybe, and he rides in to help? Or he could be doing a courier job and delivers something sent to her, and she drags him away for some ~~shippy~~ mothering?]

[ x3 Alright! Nation it is. I like the idea of her ending up in a bad part of town. That might work better. ~~Probably nothing too shippy if he’s a minor because reasons.~~ She’ll be super surprised to see him again and on her end, she wouldn’t have aged at all since when he first met her. So that will be fun. xD ]

[ Following another quarterly World Conference, Anya had made the decision to spend a little bit more time in Japan. A little vacation would do her some good, right? Get away from the chaos, paperwork and sour looks from her current president. Everyone needed a little bit of time away, after all.

After her outing with Sakura, the nation of Japan, for some late afternoon gossip in a cute little cat cafe, she decided to turn in early. However, despite her many trips to Japan, the larger cities were still difficult for her to navigate. Her Japanese was decent; reading it was another story. Even then, she wasn't typically the type who constantly got lost, but this time was definitely an exception. Having taken some directions from Sakura, she figured that surely she should have arrived at the hotel she was staying at by now...

But...

...nothing about this part of town was familiar. It looked old, the street wasn't nearly as well lit and the evening was very quickly turning to night. Not only that, but for the past couple of blocks, she was fairly certain that she was either being followed, or the two punks a good block behind her were just drunk.

She wasn't so sure about the latter.

Brow furrowing, she walks along the sidewalk, keeping her wits about her and her surroundings. A glance over her shoulder every now and again revealed that the two men were getting closer. There was no local free wifi to speak of, so she couldn't exactly look up her location or call anyone. The most she could really do was keep walking and maybe try to lose them around a corner. ]

Opposites Attract

Han Solo || Star Wars

Rogue | xmcu | m/f

Gwen Stacy | tasm | m/f

Tulip O'Hare (AMC Preacher)

Russia | Nyotalia | ota

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I'll go ahead and start. :3