baitings ([personal profile] baitings) wrote in [community profile] bakerstreet2021-02-24 07:16 am
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My ghost, where did you go?

sleeping with ghosts —

You can't help who you fall in love with. But what if the person you fall for is no longer a person? Perhaps they were, once; those days have gone. All that's left is a memory. Is that something you can put to rest, or will you keep them with you and away from their final resting place?

  • Comment with your character and preferences. Mention if you'd prefer to play the living, the dead, or either.
  • Reply to others. You can use the RNG or not, if you'd wish. Make up your own additional prompts, scenes, scenarios, and such.


  • Dead Lover — No wonder they have unfinished business with you. You were theirs in life, and they're not about to let you go.
  • Tethered to You — In life, you didn't know each other, but now their ghost is connected to you, and you to them.
  • The Sight — You're the only one who can see them, the only one in the world to them, now.
  • Haunted Home — There's something wrong with your house. Can you reclaim it? Do you want to get rid of your companion?
  • Peace to the Vengeful — All you wanted to do was do a kind deed and help them achieve peace, not become eternally grateful.
  • Remember — Both of you are bound and determined to find out who you were as a living mortal. The knowledge might tear you apart.
  • Different Time, Different Place — This ghost is of a person who's a bit...antiquated compared to you. Careful, they may want to court you. It certainly makes things awkward when they see how you dress.
  • Jealousy — Lights burst, glass cracks, and the whole place goes cold when someone with a pulse smiles at you.
  • Protection — You'll risk your afterlife for the one you love.
  • Confession — If you can communicate vocally, confessions are easy. If you can't talk, that's a whole other kettle of fish.
  • The Challenge of Intimacy — Ghost makes it look so easy. You want to reach out and touch them, but you can't always do that.
  • Manifestation — Your emotions have temporarily given you a physical form.
  • Keeping You Here — The living's affection keeps the dead in the mortal coil.
  • Decay — The longer they stay with you, the more of a violent wraith, disconnected from their past, they become.
  • Passing — You have to let them go, even if they don't want to.
  • Just Like Heaven — You'll work together to find a way to bring you back to life.
  • ANYTHING ELSE?
scarletchaos: (Thoughtful)

Wanda Maximoff | MCU | OTA

[personal profile] scarletchaos 2021-02-24 01:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[Would love to play this out more gen/platonic than anything else Pietro but open to shipping options too. Particularly fond of Tethered to You, Peace to the Vengeful, and The Sight prompts, but open to all of them. OTA, canon, cross canon, assumed CR, etc. I am caught up on WandaVision and there are potential for spoilers with Wanda here, but I'm also happy to avoid/work around them. Let me know.]
made_of_stars: (Default)

jyn erso || rogue one || ota

[personal profile] made_of_stars 2021-02-24 02:23 pm (UTC)(link)
monstermanual: By hollow-art (Green)

Gerard Keay | The Magnus Archives | M/M

[personal profile] monstermanual 2021-02-24 02:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[W E L P how do you feel about haunted books?]
veryfond: (021)

elia martell | asoiaf | ota

[personal profile] veryfond 2021-02-24 02:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[ the ghost ]
rebellionbuilt: (Default)

cassian andor || rogue one || ota

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see_the_stars: by recadreuse (Default)

rey || star wars || ota

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in_the_grey: (Default)

ben solo || star wars || ota

[personal profile] in_the_grey 2021-02-24 02:30 pm (UTC)(link)
bravenough: (Default)

bodhi rook || rogue one || ota

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versigny: 𝕔𝕦𝕡𝕟𝕠𝕠𝕕𝕝𝕖𝕤 || 𝔻ℕ𝕋 (Default)

margaery tyrell | game of thrones

[personal profile] versigny 2021-02-24 02:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[ super interested in playing the dead, but willing to play both. open to both shipping and gen. ]
cultivatingsin: (But I hope that I'll be given)

Xue Yang | The Untamed | OTA

[personal profile] cultivatingsin 2021-02-24 03:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[Could be either!]
goazon: (gerrenthum)

rey (star wars, ota)

[personal profile] goazon 2021-02-24 04:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[ either role. not interested in tros based scenarios. ]
umbraeternam: (♫ but i won't keep quiet anymore)

let's call this post-TLJ but Kylo died in the throne room somehow? idk

[personal profile] umbraeternam 2021-02-25 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
"That plan's not going to work." The ethereal voice came from behind Rey as the young woman sat in during a strategy meeting among some of the Resistance, the words somewhat blending in with the breeze that passed through the trees.

Brianna Solo sat perched on a low branch of one of said trees, one foot propped on the branch as she leaned against the trunk and the other leg hanging freely, still a bit above the ground. She had died as Kylo Ren and yet the familiar cloak and armor were absent. Still dark colors but the jacket and pants were casual, similar to something she'd worn in the interim before she called herself Kylo, or that she might have worn if she'd gotten to take the life path she had truly desired to.

Brianna tilted her head, strands of blonde falling across her face before getting tucked away, as she eyed Rey, trying to decide if her soulmate the younger woman was choosing to ignore her or simply hadn't heard. Her gaze lifted to the ranking member currently outlining their idea for the next strike against the First Order and shortly was prompted to roll her eyes and shake her head.

"It won't work." she declared louder, pointedly staring at Rey. Though she was briefly distracted by a slight movement from her mother and a glance not quite in her direction. Brianna hadn't been able to sort out if her mother could hear her or was aware of her presence — and truthfully she hadn't tried to make contact with Leia just in case she couldn't, as she wasn't sure if she could handle that particular sorrow just yet (or ever) — but very quickly after dying she had confirmed that she could still communicate with Rey, and vice versa. Something to do with their bond, she assumed. That or simply with her. Just because her physical body was gone didn't mean her spirit had lost any of its power necessarily.

A bond she was still trying to get to the bottom of. After all, it seemed to her that death was less an end and more simply a different state; what she could do with that information Brianna wasn't entirely sure but she intended to find out.

shaking off so many cobwebs

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fushiguro, megumi | jujutsu kaisen

[personal profile] unequally 2021-02-24 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[ open to the ship angle or platonic/gen. pm to lay it out a bit first if you want, though w some forgiveness i can generally wavelength off of most things. he could be the living or the dead, and if the latter it's probably a case of Keeping You Here, but open to discuss. ]
round_tones: (Default)

Ianto Jones | Torchwood | OTA

[personal profile] round_tones 2021-02-24 04:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[ghost]
therizein: (Default)

Tessa | Supernatural | ota

[personal profile] therizein 2021-02-24 04:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[Could be from her reaper days or as a ghost herself. Happy to interact with living and spirits alike!]
sefirot: (213)

Sephiroth | FFVII

[personal profile] sefirot 2021-02-24 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[Technically he's a ghost]
lancifolium: (Default)

lily evans (hp, ota)

[personal profile] lancifolium 2021-02-24 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[ either role ]
bitterasphodels: (pic#14579766)

[personal profile] bitterasphodels 2021-02-24 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[ His curiosity and need to be right had ultimately been his undoing. At the time, the need to prove his knowledge and point it out was a sense of pride he couldn't ignore. Taking the bait from Sirius Black, someone who had been at odds with him since before they were even sorted was also a bad decision overlooked by his own pride and loathing of the quad who always seemed to skirt the edge of trouble without the repercussions. The disruptive Gryffindors who scraped by with little more than a detention amongst them. Dumbledore favored them Merlyn knew why...

He realized all of that post-humously.

Walt Whitman had said: And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

What utter bollocks. Death hadn't been something glorious or beautiful. It had been burning, sluggish, and terrifying. Had he been able to die from the shock of the truth in front of him, he may have been spared the pain of bleeding out. That was not his luck. He may have survived the slash of claws that ripped through cloth and skin like a hot knife through butter, but it hadn't been what killed him. Petrified at the thought of being felled by a werewolf and given the chance to escape, Severus hadn't really known where to run. The forest hadn't been his brightest idea, but better to hide amongst other things than being run down trying to flee back to the castle.

Being eaten wasn't any less terrifying.

He never anticipated anything after. It was a bit like waking up after a long sleep, awareness coming at the periphery before everything came into stunning focus. Severus had watched, invisible and with a strange sort of detachment, everything that had come after. All from the sidelines, unable to bear being asked questions or facing the inevitable ridicule that played like a broken record in his own head. Imagined interactions and smug, sneering faces. Snivellus died doing what he did best. Instead of facing it or confronting things because he was apparently a ghost, he hid himself away. Refused to be seen. Kept to himself, reading in the library or roaming the halls which had no boundaries for him, now.

Time didn't really pass as it had before. The only way to truly tell was the coming and going of students. Fresh, new faces each year that passed. When he'd become bored, his favorite haunt became the dungeons. The potions classroom had always been where he felt in his element. Depending on the mood that struck him, Severus was either mischievous or benevolent. Those who showed promise might occasionally find notes scrawled off to the margins to perfect their technique, or a spoon stirring their cauldron on its own. Anyone who he deemed annoying may find an ingredient or two missing. Perhaps even a surplus dumped into their potion.

Word travels fast when strange things start happening unexplained. Severus quite fancied the reputation he was gaining as the unknown ghost who lurked in the dungeons. The rumors circling about as to where the specter had come from and what it wanted. Very seldom did he let himself be seen. Sometimes, it was entirely on accident as he became involved in what he was doing. Students would catch a glimpse of him before being gone in a flash. How much did it really matter when anyone who knew of him had long-since graduated? ]
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germione: (pic#14522565)

hermione granger (hp, ota)

[personal profile] germione 2021-02-24 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[ either role ]
hauntedcalamari: (Default)

Ben Hargreeves | Umbrella Academy | OTA

[personal profile] hauntedcalamari 2021-02-24 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[Be nice to the dead boy. He deserves a break.]
namedroppings: (Default)

tahani al-jamil | the good place | ota

[personal profile] namedroppings 2021-02-24 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[ either role ]
borrowyourcoat: (Default)

Rose Marshall | Ghost Roads/InCryptid | OTA

[personal profile] borrowyourcoat 2021-02-24 09:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[Hitchhiking ghost who can spend a little time pretending to be alive. No smut, open to gen options. Xcanon/medium/ocs all good.]
breezeamongthefrost: (Default)

Xiao Xingchen | The Untamed | OTA

[personal profile] breezeamongthefrost 2021-02-24 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[OOC: The ghost]
unshakencowboah: (Default)

Arthur Morgan - Red Dead Redemption II - OTA20+

[personal profile] unshakencowboah 2021-02-25 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
[Ghost.]
luke_crain: (Fear)

Luke Crain | Haunting of Hill House

[personal profile] luke_crain 2021-02-25 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
[m/m for ship, ota for gen]
decayings: (☠ and life was everything you said)

laura moon | american gods

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[personal profile] godking 2021-02-26 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
(she is sitting in the exact spot he fell when the spear went through his belly. dangerously close to the blood that leaked from the wound. he might have been able to be saved, if he had more believers, if he wasn't left to bleed out.

he doesn't know how he's able to see her. maybe it's the long lost part of him that made him a god.

Sweeney clears his throat. He looks like he did the day he met her.)


Ya mopin' over my stupid ass?

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hauntedly: (Default)

Henry Townshend 👻 Silent Hill 4: The Room (ota)

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[ ooc — Preference for him being alive / haunted! Open to general / platonic things, too. ]
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