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➔ Post a blank comment with your character. Name, and fandom in the subject line!
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➔ If you only want regular prompts, go from 1-10. If you do not mind the R rated prompts, go from 1-15. If you only want R rated prompts, go for 11-15!
➔ Now match that number to the theme and have your character act accordingly!
➔ Have fun!
➔ Please note somewhere if you are okay with R prompts, and be respectful of those who aren't! (IE; if you only want the PG promts, put REGULAR ONLY in the subject. If all of them are okay, put REGULAR & R! And if you only are really interested in R, just put R)
➔ And yes, this is a combination of several love memes, and grab bag memes!

THE THEMES

ONE ➔ CONFESSION: You've been admiring this person from afar, or you've been friends with them for a while. Whatever you want! Either way, you've finally worked up the courage to admit how you feel!

TWO ➔ YANDERE STYLE: I think we all know how this goes. You're sweet on your crush when they're focused on you, making them lunch with rice balls with smiles... aw... wait, are they looking at another cute person?! THEY'RE ONLY ALLOWED TO LOOK AT ME.

THREE ➔ LOVE NOTES: Send your crush personalized little love notes for them to find! Flick them at your crush, or hide them in their shoes! Draw pictures of you two kissing! Heck, even an old fashioned YES/NO checkbox note will do. But you've gotta get their attention with your written prowess! Get creative! Maybe they'll come up to you and you'll find true love!

FOUR ➔ SEVEN MINUTES IN HEAVEN: You're locked in a closet with someone else! It can be a crush, a friend, a boyfriend, whatever! But whoever it is, you're locked in a closet with them with the intent to kiss. Will you go through with it? Will it end up in romance? Or will it end up as a B-B-B-BAD ROMANCE?

FIVE ➔ KISSING BOOTH: You're working a kissing booth, for whatever reason. Charity, for your school, or just because you got conned into it. But will something special bloom from a chance encounter with a booth guest? Or will you just be embarrassed for life, and punch your friends for getting you into this later?

SIX ➔ IT'S A DARE: You've been dared by someone to romance this specific person! You're not allowed to tell that it's a dare, and you must seem earnest. Will you be able to make them swoon from your charms? Or will you fall into love's trap, and fall head over heels for real?

SEVEN ➔ LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT: You've been completely dazzled by this specific person! Your heart races, you have a cold sweat... why is this?! You simply must get to know them! Maybe it was meant to be!

EIGHT ➔ TSUNDERE STYLE: Sure, you like them, but you can't show that by being cute or cooking them lunch! No, you have to punch their shoulder and tug on their hair, of course! W-what? They're complimenting you? Try not to blush too hard, or shove them too much.

NINE ➔ IT CAN NEVER BE: You're both already taken, or you simply can't be together for some reason! Your families hate each other, your friends hate each other, or you only see each other once a year! But you don't care, you have tonight, and romance is in the air. Maybe you can break away from what can't be, just for one night of fun and love.

TEN ➔ NEVER SAY NO: You're super intent on making this person yours! You're willing to go to the extreme to garner their affections! How can they say no to extreme outbursts of love and other hard-to-ignore signs of affection? Though, it might be easier to just ask... but that's not big enough for your love!

RATED R

ELEVEN ➔ THE KISSING DISEASE: You simply must kiss this person. You have to get your lips on them somehow, anywhere, everywhere. Even if you have to push them into an empty closet and lock the door to do so!

TWELVE ➔ DRUNKEN ENCOUNTER: You both met up, drunk, and you're both feeling a little bit adventurous thanks to the booze. Are you ready to get down and dirty on a beach, or do you want to vandalize something a bit before barging into a hotel room? The choice is, drunkenly, yours!

THIRTEEN ➔ OBSESSION: You're so obsessed with this person, you want them so badly -- you're willing to do just about anything to get them. Manipulate, pretend, tie them up, make them yours! You're driven by your desire!

FOURTEEN ➔ IN PUBLIC?!: There's something about messing around in a public place, where anyone can walk in on you anytime. Try to keep quiet, the woman over in the bathroom stall next to you might hear you and your partner heating up and fooling around.

FIFTEEN ➔ HANDS: Hey, woah! Your hands just happen to keep drifting to "inappropriate places"! You might not realize it, or it might be fully intentional! Whatever it is, it's happening! Maybe your partner will simply brush you off, or maybe they'll suggest you two scadattle off to a room!

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Aha, that's one way of looking at it...

[Good thing she can't see that gaze otherwise she'd be feeling pretty uncomfortable. Actually, she's already starting to get a little jittery again as she shifts on his lap once more, hoping that she can get away with a very straight-forward yet vague answer. As open of a person as she is, there's one thing she rarely ever wishes to talk about and that's her family life. Especially her previous family life. Those years seem so long ago, and yet she remembers them so clearly. Just her and her husband, then a job, then a child. It all felt so perfect... and then it changed.]

Nope. I always wanted to be a hero, ever since I was a little girl. Doing anything else just wasn't gonna cut it. ...even when I got married and had my daughter, that's all I really wanted.

Ahh, I see.

[Interesting enough. He would have never guessed, but that explained a bit why she was more interested in the actual heroics of the job than the other aspects. Well, whatever.]

Alright. Your turn.

[All she did was nod, which of course was useless in the dark but Tetsuko was slightly on-edge suddenly, her fidgeting continuing.]

Hm. ...--oh, right! My turn. Um... question, question...

[At this point Tetsuko was starting be at a loss on what to ask, and what little questions she could come up with didn't seem worth asking at all. Jeez, how long had they been in that closet now? It's like they were supposed to do something in order to get let out. Do something in a closet... locked in a closet... a game.... and just like that, a single experience from her high school days came back. A game she'd been more than okay with declining on just at the mention of what it was you were supposed to do.

Oh no. So it was that game.]

B-Bunny?

[All this wiggling and fidgeting is starting to make him a little uncomfortable again. But he just focuses on trying to not care as much and just wait for her question...

What was she stuttering for?]

Barnaby, and what is it?

[When she was out of this closet, Nathan would be so dead. That is of course if she was able to manage living through this moment. They had to kiss, that was how the game was, right? Something about minutes and heaven but she knew they had to kiss. How the hell was she going to get that to happen? She'd ask but that was just one big recipe for disaster. She'd have to just be quick about it, but without being able to see him Tetsuko wasn't even sure how easy that would be.

Slowly she extended one of her hands in order to try and figure out where Barnaby was, moving it to the side until she managed to bump against something. His chest? Shoulder? From the feel of it this must be a shoulder. Maybe she should use her other hand for this too.]

Ah, uh, give me a sec.

What...?

[She's moving around again. Enough that she's bumped into him and all of this wiggling is definitely creating an unwanted reaction. Think of dead parents think of dead parents -- oh no that worked too well think TETSUKO IS STILL MOVING.

He grabs for her shoulders.]

Don't wriggle around so much!

[Tetsuko lets out a short surprised yelp as he grabs onto her. Damn it, now this'll make it even harder for her to figure out where his face is. Stop making this awkward moment even more awkward.]

I'm not! Or, you stop moving! And let me go! Don't be so loud either! I can't do it if you're talking and moving so just-- don't do anything!

[Sorry, he's freaking out about potential man reactions here. But with a sigh, he lets her go.]

Alright. I let go. What are you doing?

[Are they face to face? He can't tell.]

Nothing--! Just, stop talking already, you're makin' this too hard!

[Deciding that it's too much of an effort to continue sitting in his lap like this, Tetsuko slowly slides her way off and gets on her knees, hands reaching out to figure out where his frontside is. Once her hands make their way back to his shoulders, she tries to face him as best as she can with the lack of light to help.

Then, her hands begin to creep up further to his neck, fingers feeling out the features she passes by in order to reach his face. Her thumbs brush against his jawline and eventually make it up to the line of his lips as the palms of her hands cup his cheeks. Okay, his face is here. She's right in front of him and his face is here so all she needs to do is lean in and kiss him. It's as simple as that. Just lean in and kiss him and then they're done.

...shit she can't do it. Tetsuko swallows audibly, shutting her eyes tightly (which of course doesn't really do anything) and taking in a deep breath before finally moving in.]

[Making what too hard? He just wants to ask what she's doing, but he's not sure he wants to know. He can feel her touching his shoulders, then moving up his neck, then... his face?

So they are face to face... But what is she doing?

It's not until he feels lips against his that everything starts finally making sense. Or some sort of thoughts, in this weird, muddled brain laced with all the alcohol. The 'game', Nathan's meddling, the fact that they were in pure darkness... Unfortunately, he's far too stunned to fight back.]

[Thankfully Tetsuko knows better than to make this any more than just simple lips on lips. Going further was completely out of the question and if he so much as kissed back or even touched her she was going to kick the shit out of him.

But that didn't mean she was going to half-ass this though, especially when she realized this would be Barnaby's first kiss. Oh jeez, she'd have to apologize for that afterward. And a big sorry to all his fangirls. ...or maybe not. Somehow when she thought about it, it was a little bit of a smug feeling, knowing that she'd taken such a simple thing away from a lot of those empty-headed girls. Always so eager to shout out his name or send him senseless presents or try to get their hands on him the first second they could get. No manners, honestly. They'd rip him to pieces if they could. This idiot partner of hers couldn't ever figure out how to avoid being pounced on, she was sure of it. +1 conquest for her then. Stupid girls.

--okay, these thoughts are getting a little too weird and possessive for her liking. She should probably tone it down and stop already. Time to pull away from his overly soft lips. ...no seriously, his lips are really soft. Actually his whole face felt soft. She could barely notice any remnants of stubble too. Tetsuko always kind of joked about it to herself but Barnaby really was almost like a sculpture. One of those ridiculous ones without clothes on. Okay, maybe not. But it was amusing to think about. The comparison stood though. He was just utterly flawless and handsome. Kind of ticked her off really. Damn youth. Why the hell did he have to be so good-looking and have such soft lips that were really nice to kiss and that she didn't want to pull away from now?

Oh yeah, pulling away. She was going to do that. Slowly doing so and not saying a single word, keeping her hands on his face to make sure he doesn't try anything sneaky.]

[Barnaby, on the other hand, has absolutely no thoughts running through his mind except "WHY?" He hadn't ever thought of Tetsuko as anything other than a partner, an annoying and meddlesome one at that, but with the questions about his lack of past relationships and kisses, did... did that mean she liked him?

No. You're not supposed to date coworkers. And for as physically attractive as she is, Barnaby knows this can only lead to disaster. Obviously, this isn't anything normal. She's got to be drunk. Completely, ridiculously plastered. That's the only way to explain any of this.

Barnaby, too stunned to move, doesn't. He just sits there and waits through that moment of eternity of her lips against his, and then continues waiting while she pulls away. There's nothing but a strangled attempt at a sound after a few long seconds. As much as he wants to ask why that just happened, he's a little too bewildered. She can probably feel the burning heat from his cheeks with how embarrassed he is.]

[Thoughts of "like" and such hadn't ever popped up into her mind. To her, this was just a very inopportune time and an unfortunate situation that required she act because she'd rather not wait forever for Barnaby to figure out what needed to be done. Heck, she knew that if she asked this wouldn't have gone nearly as smoothly. Though, it wasn't fair to knock this whole thing down. Kissing him hadn't really been... bad, no. But it was just a kiss. As annoying and cocky as he could be, he was a kid. Kind of cute whenever he shut his mouth for a while or actually treated her nicely for once, but that was the only real appeal she knew of. This didn't mean anything. And of course, it never could.

Ah, she'd gone and made herself upset. Her fingers itched to touch the ring on her finger to calm herself down but just as she'd been about to move her hands away she felt an odd swell of heat under her palms. And that only meant one thing. Tetsuko grinned. If he couldn't see her then he'd never be able to tell that she was as embarrassed as he was right now but there was no way she wasn't going to use that to her complete advantage. Soon enough, she pinched at his cheeks and finally spoke in an overly pleased, teasing tone.]

Bunny, I can tell your face is red. How cuuute~. Sorry about that! Now hurry up and stand up so we can get out of here. I remembered I've got my phone with me so I'm gonna call Nathan to tell him we're done.

[He can almost grumble at the cheekpinching. By her reaction, he's starting to doubt the entire 'like' thing now, wondering if she was just making fun of him. What kind of game is this...?

With a sigh, he tries to swat her hands away.]

Stop that! I wasn't expecting for you to suddenly kiss me like that!

[...oh, a phone. Why hadn't either of them thought of that? He had his phone too, actually. But right now, he's trying to get a good balance and stand up. Unfortunately, being as flustered and bothered as he is, he doesn't actually make it out-- in fact, he lands himself back on the floor, except this time with a broom dropping on his head.]

[Guh okay, letting him go and trying to reach into the small side pocket of her skirt.]

Well I didn't think I was gonna do it either so just calm down. I remembered what the game was. You're probably too young to know what it is but it's called seven minutes in heaven. Basically you're stuck with someone, usually a closet or a room, until you kiss. --so don't go thinkin' I did that because I wanted to.

[As soon as she hears movement Tetsuko decides to try standing herself, but she doesn't get very far as suddenly there's a loud thump when Barnaby falls and it catches her by surprise so much that she ends up reaching out blindly into the dark to try and help him back up. But of course, all she ends up doing is falling right on top of him.]

Ow ow... this damn closet. Bunny, you okay?

That's a ridiculous game.

[Of course she'd fall on him. That is just fate, isn't it? Whatever he's done to piss you off, he's sorry! Blindly shoving the cleaning supplies away, he reaches out to gently nudge her back.]

Just sit still for a second. I'm going to try and get the door open.

[This is pretty much the best night ever for them. Except not. She'd been about to try and just get off of him as quickly as possible since she had a feeling he'd still be jittery after that whole kiss thing but instead she does as told and stays completely still.]

Yeah, I guess. But you're mostly saying that since you don't care about those kinds of things. Now hurry up, I need some fresh air since five minutes ago.

[He had actually meant 'sit still on the floor', but he could work with this. As long as she wasn't moving about and tripping over things, and without random objects falling, he could still manage stretching his hand upward.

Reaching over towards the very slim sliver of light to the side, he lifted his hand and blindly touched around until his fingers could feel the cold metal of a steel handle. He could manage this. It takes him a few seconds, but once he manages a small grip on the handle, he pushes down and the door swings open...

And no one is there...]

[Too bad for him, he should have been more specific. Thankfully as soon as she hears the door open and the light floods the room Tetsuko immediately tries to stand back up.

But she pauses halfway when the suspected snickering or questions of pestering co-workers don't catch her ears. Once she stands up fully and tries to make her way carefully to the doorway, she also notices that no one was there. Which means... they could have left at any time. Tetsuko stands there for a while silently while holding her phone in her hand before slowly turning to face Barnaby with an overly forced smile.]

Oops! I guess we weren't stuck afterall! How about that! Ahaha, ha--! Haa...

[He's probably got the most frustrated disapproving face that he's ever had on right now. As he pulls himself to his feet and brushes off his coat, he just gives her a look and then begins to walk away.]

We shall never speak of what happened in there.

[Stealing his first kiss for nothing. Sheesh. He just starts walking away now.]

[HEARTBREAKER.]

...

[But of course before he can get too far Tetsuko shouts out before heading off in the opposite direction to get one final drink.]

Fix your hair, it's all messed up!

Wha--

[He spins around just in time to watch her scamper off and then grumbles and hurries over to the nearest reflective surface to fix his hair.]

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