The Stockholm Meme

[motai]

THE STOCKHOLM MEME

WARNING: Meme will contain TRIGGERS, including kidnapping, dubious consent, and general uncomfortable content. Please do not click if you don't want to see, and please respect your fellow role-players.

Stockholm Syndrome is a psychological phenomenon in which hostages express empathy and have positive feelings for their captors, sometimes to the point of defending them. These feelings are generally considered irrational in light of the danger or risk endured by the victims, who essentially mistake a lack of abuse from their captors for an act of kindness.

Stockholm syndrome can be seen as a form of traumatic bonding, which does not necessarily require a hostage scenario, but which describes "strong emotional ties that develop between two persons where one person intermittently harasses, beats, threatens, abuses, or intimidates the other."

HOW TO PLAY:
1) Comment with your character and their series in the subject line of the comment. Include any preferences you might have on type of scene/squicks/etc.
2) Comment around to start scenes! Use random.org if you get stuck for ideas.

PROMPTS:
1. KIDNAPPED. You've been taken, either for ransom money or just because you've pissed the wrong people off. Or maybe your kidnapper just wants company. Maybe they need someone to be their companion, to be their confidante, and they chose you.

2. CAPTURED. Maybe you were a soldier, fighting in a battle. Maybe a spy, or a political dissident. Either way, the military has caught up with you.

3. IN CUSTODY. It's a law enforcement agent that has you locked up. Maybe you're a criminal and you're in prison, or on house arrest so that agent can keep an eye on you. Maybe the agent doesn't have enough evidence, so they took matters into their own hands.

4. ASYLUM. This person isn't keeping you here against your will. It's for safety. Maybe you're in the Witness Protection Program. Maybe you sought asylum from your own country. Maybe your criminal life got a little too heated and you had to go underground somewhere.

5. HOSTAGE EXCHANGE. A war, between countries or gangs or even planets, and the two sides have decided to exchange important hostages as a gesture of trust. You're one of them. It might even involve arranged marriage -- a way to unite your two peoples. Hope you enjoy staying with your enemy.

6. HIRED. Someone's being paid to keep you. Maybe a new parent or guardian keeping you at home, or perhaps an evil uncle has had you tossed into a discreet asylum in order to claim your inheritance.

7. SLAVERY. Through birth or misfortune, you've become the property of another. But they're not such a bad master. You might even grow to love them, if enough time passes. If they treat you with the right combination of cruelty and kindness.

8. WILD CARD. For anything not covered by the other options!

Comments

⊱ ℳ ⊰ james bond (craig continuity)

[comptroller]

( this m is still early on in her career, before she became head of mi6 )

Loki / MCU

[sorcerous]

[ Captor or captive; OTA; castmates especially love. ]

[aggravated]

(ooc: I'd love to have captive!Bruce under Loki's hand if you're interested.)

Sif | MCU

[brosif]

[OTA, castmates and cross canon welcome.]

[aesirprince]

(( Mind if I join you? ))

Miranda Tate | TDKR

[withoutrope]

[Open to castmates and cross canon, captor or captive. TDKR spoilers almost certain in comments.]

peggy carter / mcu

[ssr]

John Watson | Sherlock BBC

[consultingblogger]

The TARDIS (Idris) | Doctor Who

[kissingchamp]

[ All seem rather interesting in respect to her. OTA ]

Crowley | Supernatural

[pocketfulofsouls]

[ Most likely to go after supernaturals, if captor. Be sure to leave me a brief note for what he's keeping them for. Plz no 'sex slaves' - we like funky powers and people who are close to those with funky powers.

If captive, he can be reverted to King of Crossroads, unless your char can trump King of Hell for power. ]

[ofthursday]

[Hello! Can offer either way, depending on regular Cas or Godstiel~ Any preference?]

Rupert Giles | Buffy the Vampire Slayer | OTA

[consultmybooks]

[Probably the captive, but could be the captor in an "in your own good" kind of way. He'd mean well.]

idk what option this is hi

[sorcerous]

[ He's kept Giles long enough that the mortal would have difficulty knowing how much time has passed. Days blending into endless streams, and he has been very persistent. He needs a sorcerer to be his hand on Midgard, a man no one would expect, and so he has tempted Giles with greater and greater magics each time.

He keeps them in cold stone halls in a land of ice, featureless to the horizon. No word on whether this is Midgard, or Asgard, or someplace else. ]

Come, now.

[ He holds the solidified crux of a spell in his palm. One that will write itself all over Giles' mind, burst open pathways in his mind and let magic flow through. A spell for power. ]

Won't you take it? Won't you even touch?

Tara Maclay | Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Captive

[moontothetide]

Ryoji Mochizuki | Persona 3 Portable | Captive

[novemberlover]

Minako Arisato | Persona 3 Portable | OTA

[romancingfool]

Joan Watson | Elementary | OTA

[formersurgeon]

Ba'al | Stargate: Continuum | OTA

[notbocceball]

(captor or captive)

Thor Odinson | mcu, comics, norse mythology | m/m

[willreturntoyou]

{ will only be the one held captive. The only exception being magic that has him under control maybe. }

1

[forgottenshadow]

[His strength was what had caught Shadows interest in the beginning. That raw power unlike anything else. He wanted it. To use for his own benefit. He had just to break down Thor's will to resist him first.

It had really been lovely how easy the god had fallen into his trap. He had lured him into a realm of shadows, that no matter how much Thor struggled couldn't get out from. Better yet was that he himself was safe in that realm. As a shadow the other shadows provided him with the safety he needed when facing the god's wrath. And it was from those shadows he spoke from.]

You can't last forever in here.

Hannibal Lecter | Hannibal Trilogy | OTA

[politesse]

(( #3/4 is canon; come be his new overseer he bit the face off the last nurse.

If he's in charge here, you've likely offended him or else he needs you as a hostage to keep on running from those pesky police. Or surprise me. W/E really. ))

Try a 3?

[formersurgeon]

[ooc: Let me know if this works for you! The lines of who is controlling who can potentially be very twisted :)]

Joan had read about this man in the papers when he first was caught and tried. There was really no way around it. Every newspaper, from the National Enquirer right up to the New York Times seemed nearly pathologically compelled to recount every gruesome detail with a sort of breathless fascination.

Still, it wasn't until he crossed Sherlock's radar that Joan discovered that as horrendous as those news reports were, they only scratched the surface of the true depths of depravity he was responsible for.

And now here she was. Sherlock had requested that she be allowed to interview him (not interrogate, she wasn't NYPD) because she was female, and according to Sherlock, he might be more open to speaking with a woman, particularly one that was not law enforcement. He's hoping that he'll be able to shed some light on a current case.

She enters the room where he's being held, in shackles and a straight jacket and a mask. She casts a glance up at the camera in the corner, reassuring herself that she's being closely watched if anything goes wrong.

Like if he tries to eat her face.

"Doctor Lecter," she says, sitting down across the table from him. "My name is Joan Watson. I'd like to ask you some questions."

Loki | MCU

[delusionaldreams]

(( men preferred for sex ))

I-No | Guilty Gear | OTA

[gstringwitch]

[Captor or captive]

Ky Kiske | Guilty Gear | OTA

[closedcircuit]

[Captive works for him, captor pretty much doesn't.]

John Blake | TDKR

[newboyontheblock]

(( m/m preference if there's sex, otherwise ota ))

Michael | Nikita | OTA

[servedhiscountry]

[He can be either captive or captor. He's an assassin spy type person.]

River Tam (The Doctor) | Firefly/Doctor Who AU | Captive

[theywerewaiting]

James T. Kirk ★ Star Trek XI

[thetisfortenacious]

[OOC: Captive role preferred.]

Saturday | OC | OTA

[nobodyknowstheway]

Fatima • Magi: Labyrinth of Magic • OTA

[fromscratch]