bakerstreet | In Search of the Ship

In Search of the Ship

Shippy "In Search Of"

Everyone has that one character - a canon pair partner, the other part of a rarepair, someone from another canon you think would make a dream crossover, the ultimate crackship companion - that they'd love to play something a little shippy with. Be they a commonly played character or a unicorn you think you'd only see in your dreams, this meme is for finding people who play them and getting your ship on!

No judgement here. You can ask for anyone. Anyone. Seriously.

HOW to PLAY

Leave a comment containing the name/info of the character(s) you'd like to ship with and, optionally, ideas, all that jazz.
They'll hit you up, meaning you can thread here or take it to a musebox.
You just might be able to fulfill someone else's ship wishes, too!
Don't be a dick.

Feel free to use this form, if it's to your liking.

Character you're playing:
Character(s) you're looking for:
Ideas: List a few or delete this section idc.
Preferred means of contact: PM? Comment here?
Preferred means of play: Thread here, take it to a musebox, etc.

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Character you're playing:

snerdronningen ► elsa
vaderstan ► ben solo / kylo ren

Character(s) you're looking for:

elsa ► I am the first to admit i am trash and I'd love a hans. I'd also be cool with most any of the cast from either movie. As a note, any ship with hans or anna would be problematic and unhealthy. Especially anna. Elsanna may be a v v popular ship, but it's still incest with an unhealthy power dynamic and based upon years of abandonment issues and trauma. I'm not super into 'lets just ignore that they're sisters and this is weird'. I also have zero desire to au elsa and anna into not being sisters because... bruh idk. not my jam.

ben ► again. see my trash note from earlier. Reylo is my shit. Can never get enough. I'd be open to other ships, but-- Ben is fairly rey-sexual, any other pairing would have to have a gargantuan amount of build-up and context. Or we both gotta go into it with the knowledge that it will be very unhealthy and probably one-sided with either character being used emotionally/physically/spiritually

Ideas:

elsa ► still have a hankering for post frozen 2 shenanigans. I'm weak for "Hans has to serve his prison sentence in arendelle and somehow queen elsa ends up baby sitting his dumb ass because no one else wants to deal with him". also i mean. Arranged marriages and all that shit.

ben ► i have things listed here & here. But it all boils down to "lmao lets rewrite TRoS" and "Aight but redemption arcs are the super hot shit" and "Ben has to learn that he cannot be a dick because that is actually not attractive whoops". But, given the nature of the character, I understand that a number of people are interested in the unhealthier and more problematic aspects so. you know. still feel free to hmu.

Preferred means of contact:

(from most preferred to least)
discord ► nainai#8088
PM ► either one of the journals
plurk ► billnaisciguy (very sporadically active)

~~Also just comment here ig?~~

Preferred means of play:

psls, memes, one offs, specific storylines which span several different memes, crack that blossoms into actual serious rp, all of it tbh. I'm more into bracket text vs prose. I don't mind going to locked entries in journals if that makes you more comfortable

Character you're playing:

helloplayer → Carmen Sandiego, from Netflix's Carmen Sandiego series.

Character(s) you're looking for:

I realize that castmates are probably few and far between, so barring that I'd love to do some crosscanon with characters that would fit well with Carmen's Robin Hood brand of thievery. That could be things like fellow thieves, characters who do good from the wrong side of the law, detective- or hero-types who might be trying to pursue her...anything along those lines!

Canonically she's in the ballpark of twenty years old, so ideally characters in that age range would be best, but I'm also happy to consider AUs or do timeline shenanigans to better facilitate the CR!

Ideas:

School Reunion: One aspect of Netflix canon is that Carmen attended a training school for thieves run by V.I.L.E, the Villain's International League of Evil. Maybe your character is an old classmate of hers, or did a stint at the academy for a while?

After the Same Score: Carmen's gig in the Netflix show is figuring out things that V.I.L.E. plans to steal, and then busting in and stealing them first, so that she can return them to their rightful places later. It stands to reason that sooner or later she'd cross paths with another thief while on the job.

Dating Catwoman: I'm a big sucker for this one. Give me heaps of will-they-won't-they UST punctuated by rooftop meetings in the moonlight, goodbyes in the form of getaways, and a whole lot of "see you next crime" flirting.

Double Vision: A twist on the whole "I lead a normal life but my alter-ego is a cool Action Girl" trope — Carmen's "normal" life is the one where she's a master thief on the day to day, and her secret hidden life is the one where she pretends to be a completely normal person for a little while. Note that she has never been normal in her entire existence and is probably very bad at seeming average.

Wildcard: I'm definitely open to other ideas! These are just a few off the top of my head, but I'm happy to discuss pretty much anything!

Preferred means of contact:

Comment or PM to this journal works best!

Preferred means of play:

Pretty much anything! PSLs, meme-hopping, etc. I do prefer bracket text over prose and I tend to boomerang when I've got a chunk of time that I can sit down and just tag. I don't mind lag time between tagbacks (we've all got lives), but I tend to do better with more rapid, consistent play — when threads stretch out over weeks, I start to lose momentum and it gets harder for me to stay in the groove of the thread, as it were.

Character you're playing:

lanhuan → lan xichen from the untamed/mdzs
Character(s) you're looking for: nie mingjue
Ideas: i have nmj related prompts here but open to anything with them.
Preferred means of contact: comment here or pm please. i have plurk and discord but will share those in pm :)
Preferred means of play: would prefer to set something up on my open post or yours.

Character you're playing: Rey ->

desertscavenger aka The Feral Desert Gremlin.

Character(s) you're looking for: Yes, I am also that trash that loves Reylo for romance. A healthy re-write or an unhealthy canon, they're all fun.

Ideas: I love an AU. My two favorites at the moment are a clone!Ben post TRoS based upon an image I can't find that goes like this. Ben dies on Exegol, but there is a clone of him that wakes up aboard one of the First Order ships. (Yes, the clone thing in TRoS aggravated me, but I will totally use it to have fun with.) Dark AU's, Sith!Rey, I love it all. Mobster AU (historical or modern), yep, I'm down for it. The only thing I'm not a fan of is SoL. Have an idea for something else? Feel free to message me.

Preferred means of contact: Discord is easiest for me (drop a note for my tag), but you can hit me up in PM or the OOC post on this journal if you want to contact me.

Preferred means of play: PSLs are amazing, prose is my happy place, and memes are fun. Brackets are great for rapid fire and muse play. I'm here to have fun y'all.

Edited 2020-10-04 03:49 (UTC)

Character you're playing: Fang
Character(s) you're looking for: Vanille
Ideas: Missing scenes (pre-game in Oerba, pre-LR in Luxurion, post-LR resolution), AUs, or just hitting up memes
Preferred means of contact: PM, comment, discord can be given through PM
Preferred means of play: Memes here, musebox, I've got Fang in a game or might be convinced to take her somewhere else, longform PSLs, oneshots... I'm not picky

Character you're playing: Larry Johnson (Available on

larryface or with a proper PB at

sanitysfall)
Character(s) you're looking for: Canonmates would be wonderful but I know they're kind of spread to the winds, so really anyone that would fit in in a canon where cults, ghosts, old gods and demons exist and actively terrorize communities. If not, someone to indulge in a more domestic sort of AU so that Larry can maybe actually live.
Preferred means of contact: PM is generally est. I have a plurk, but I don't actually use it.
Preferred means of play: Anything tbh, be it meme threads or on a private journal or a musebox. I do prefer prose-style tags but it's not a deal breaker to use brackets.

it's a long shot, but okay:

Character you're playing:

jokingoff - akira kurusu / ren amamiya, persona 5's protagonist

Character(s) you're looking for:

honestly, while i'm into any/every ship, cross-canon, etc. i really want to meet more ryujis, and to a lesser extent the so-called Royal Trio (kasumi, akechi, or... both? at the same time!? who can say)

it's probably too ambitious (with the cast size/amount of people involved) but any kind of polycute arrangement with all the phantom thieves would be amazing. like some sort of group setting or psl? maybe it's a bit much, though.

Ideas:

i love canon divergences (what if y happened instead of x), general aus, and i'd really like to dig into some of royal's spoiler territory... you know the ones i'm talking about. i'm also interested in post-canon content, with or without scramble involved where they've got to adjust to long-distance arrangements and akira heading back to his hometown. aged up/college aus would be good too, and i've had a sci-fi/outer space au with the phantom thieves turning to intergalactic piracy for a long, long time, if you're interested in hearing me rant and rave about that, or just general plotting.

i think about a lot of random stuff, or we can just work within the confines or whatever kind of thread or meme you like. i'm not actually very meticulous as far as storylines go as long as the characters are having a good time, really.

Preferred means of contact:

you can comment here if you want, hit up my journal, pm me, or if you want to trade discords/plurks that's cool too.

Preferred means of play:

i try to poke around at whatever meme catches my eye lately, but i also have an open post where you can throw anything you want at me to your heart's content.

if you want a more structured experience i can try to set up something in my musebox or visit yours, though. as long as it's somewhere on dreamwidth i don't really have any hard ~~(hehe haha)~~ preferences.

thanks for reading♥

... okay, this looks really bad, but hear me out: i genuinely saw your open post first, dropped a tag there, and then found this as i was trawling back on bakerstreet looking for people to sandbag (as i do). really wish i could've gone back in time and changed the order of operations there because i also play akechi and could've slipped that quietly into your post!

but instead, kaito's there, and don't get me wrong - god willing (if you're willing) i will kaito the heck out of your joker, since i've seen your joker around and he seems extra neat! but if you're also open to an akechi, quite frankly you had me at sci-fi/outer space au with the phantom thieves turning to intergalactic piracy, i mean are those not holy words or what.

anyway, we don't know each other, but this is me, putting those feelers out there to see if you wanna chat! thanks for playing a very entertaining joker btw, the few threads i've happened across have been aces.

hey thanks, that actually means a lot - between my lack of engagement/interest with my main game (RIP in pepperonis, prismatica) and how touch and go i get with tagging in general i get worried that i'm doing something wrong or that i'm just not all that i'm cracked up to be.

you can still bring him whenever you feel like it! i'm constantly in the middle of threads and a few more won't bother me any, it's just a matter of not being bogged down by work or whatever else is going on. i'm actually... not a huge akeshu stan, not even back in 2017 so it's actually all the more reason why i want to connect with folks and explore more content to see what i'm missing out on. i'm really not that picky so come at me whenever and however and we can hash out something.

but yeah it stemmed originally from a jamjar sort of psl my oldest of old partners and i wanted to try and have take off, but with life and different fandoms getting in the way it never got off the drawing board. you're welcome to visit me on [venue of choice] and i can tell you anything you wanna hear about Space Thievery.

when i've got the chance to sit down and bang out something good (lmao) i do wanna get back you for sure, i'm hella canonblind but it's never stopped me before, we can see where it takes us.

tl;dr you're aces let's get together soon babey

all this is fair! in the interest of full disclosure, i'm actually a huge shuake stan, but i'm cool with the whole exploration process, and hey, i respect you taking a peek into the (harder core) stanning world over here. it's very toasty in hell. i'd only wish it upon my worst enemies.

but yep, this all sounds excellent to me. i'll shoot you a pm and see if we can get some kind of talk started.

i hear you and i'm calling you maybe ♡

Character you're playing: Garrett Hawke
Character(s) you're looking for: Fenris
Ideas: reunion after closing the breach, Hawke being left in the Fade but not dying and coming back to Fenris.
Preferred means of contact: PM? Comment here?
Preferred means of play: Thread here

Character you're playing: Sanji
Character(s) you're looking for: Zoro
Ideas: I'm down for anything
Preferred means of contact: PM? Comment here?
Preferred means of play: Thread here

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