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+1 proposal meme!

We've see it everywhere. Rings inside pokeballs, in cakes, in drinks, during baseball games and more. This meme pinpoints on some of the more interesting (and really adorable!) ways to tell someone you want to spend the rest of your life with them!

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Someone responds, picking a number from 1 to 8 (or using the Random Number Generator), and plays out the specific propsal situation. (Note that the second person should be the one propsing, but it doesn't matter!)
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PROFIT.
So how are YOU going to propose to your darling dearest, after being together for so long? Well...

Scenarios:

1. Down on One Knee

Traditionally. Either in public or privately, one of you has taken the daring risk of becoming completely vulnerable in the midst of the other. You've got the perfect ring tucked into your coat jacket, and now all that's left is to see how the other reacts.

2. Cake

After a long, very expensive dinner, all that's left is dessert. In one bite in particular, you feel a hard... something hit your teeth. Upon investigating this strange object, you find a beautiful ring covered in cake in your hand. Look up, and you'll find your significant other looking at you with those adorable goo goo eyes you just love.

3. Fortune Cookie

It's your average night at the local Chinese resturant, nothing too special. And of course, every American knows that a good Chinese meal is never over until you eat the fortune cookie. But on this night, you crack open your cookie, surprised to find there's a lovely little ring looking back at you. The slip of paper that goes with all fortune cookies reads a simple: "Will you marry me?"(in bed???)

4. During the Game

In the midst of the tired players taking their much earned break at half time, and the seemingly hundreds of birthday wishes flying past on the large screen, one message in particular will stand out to you. " ____ will you marry me?" And when you turn to your lover, heart thumping loudly, you'll see a huge ring presented before you.

5. In a Book

Just a quiet night together, playing some games, reading a few books. Upon locating a particular book, you crack it open, only to find that the pages have been hollowed out, leaving only a beautiful ring,and a delicate note saying "Will you marry me?"in its place.

6. During the Movies

A.k.a MysteryGuitarMan on Youtube's most adorable proposal. You've prepared a little scene at the begining of the movies, and had the people in charge play in between movie previews. The lights go up, buddy, and now it's your time to shine!

7.One Balloon

Better known as "the most adorable scene in Super Junior's No One music video." You've got tons of balloons, and together you and your honey let them go fly into the sky. But why didn't you let the last one go? I'll say that ring attatched to the end has something to do with it!

8. Anything!

There is no doubt in my mind that I have missed out on some really cute proposals, so make your own up!

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[ And just as she realizes he's holding out a fork and reaches to take it...she basically bursts out laughing. Not meanly, of course, but very Dave what did you do this time. ]

Dave!

Jade Harley, are you mocking this beautiful work of art right here, this gorgeous fucking dessert I slaved over all afternoon up to my elbows in Bisquick and baking powder for? I baked my heart and soul into this cake and I'm not gonna take this gross goddamn indecency sitting down.

[He leans back in his seat and crosses his arms over his chest. The waiter may or may not have taken it upon himself to get poison control on the line, just in case.]

[ She on the other hand leans forward, elbows on the table and a few locks of hair threatening to fall into the icing at any moment. ]

Did it really take all afternoon?

[He shrugs.] Nah. Not the baking part, anyway. It kept falling apart so I had to mix up some stronger icing shit to glue it all back together.

[As if to prove his point, Sweet Bro's mouth just sort of...schlorps down into the recesses of the cake. Dave nods at it.] So are you going to eat it or what? It's got like, a mystery inside it or something.

[ Okay she doesn't know that much about baking per se but are you really supposed to glue a cake together...She just kind of pokes at it with her fork to test out that texture and all, and also because it seems a little inhumane to just dig into Sweet Bro when he's just lost his mouth. ]

Aren't you going to give me a hint about what it is?

Did your dog forget to feed you the page of the dictionary with "mystery" on it when he was teaching you how to speak? Because I think you missed an important part of the definition there where mysteries are fucking mysterious.

[To help, though, he reaches across and takes his knife (he'd cut all his food with the side of his fork like a normal civilized person) and starts shaving off thin strips of cake from his end. He's kind of nervous that the prize had fallen out. Or maybe the batter, uh, dissolved what he'd hidden inside it.

She's bound to find it before he does, though. It ended up in Jade's side of the I-guess-you-could-pretend-it's-recognizable-as-a-cake. But cake...really shouldn't behave this way.]

Damn, I should open a bakery chain. How many cakes do you know bounce like that? The world's obviously been missing out on my delirious culinary talent.

[ WOW EYEROLL AT THE BEC COMMENT.

She...okay, apparently he's really determined she find this mystery, so she lets her fork hover over the sorta-kinda-cake for a moment. On the one hand, he clearly put a lot of effort into making this thing and it's really sweet and she's Jade Harley and doesn't afraid of anything. On the other hand, holy shit it bounces, she's not even a cake expert and that seems like something that isn't supposed to happen. She'll just mimic his movement and start cutting off pieces too, looking for this mysterious mystery of his, starting from a corner. ]

Hehe, but then John would probably stop talking to you or something for giving in to the batterwitch!

John should get on his knees and thank me. I'll run Crocker Corp so far into the ground they'll have to start a new chain selling noodle mix where they come up in Indonesia.

[He sits back in his chair when she starts excavating the cake herself, and instead he starts tapping the fork on his knuckles and flipping it around his fingers. His face is as impassive as usual, but could it be--is Dave Strider anxious about something?

Could it be about the thing that goes clink against her fork?]

[ She's far from put her entire attention in the cake, so she definitely notices his fidgeting and is even maybe about to say something about it when her fork hits something hard. For a second, she wonders if this isn't some weirdly solid lump of batter or icing, but what she ends up extracting from the cake - that part of which collapses like a mini batter iceberg into the sea - is a roundish lump. ]

Did you put a rock in my cake?

[ Teasingly, as she sets the lump down and starts poking at it with her fork. ]

[Dave stills when she finds it and slowly puts his fork down. Both hands rest, loosely curled, on the table. His attention's all in one place, for once.

Clearly, this is the mystery he wanted her to find.]

Yup. Adds flavor.

[He's not holding his breath, but it's almost like time is.]

[ The first thing she discovers is that there's a hole at the center of this mysterious rock, and after some more prodding of it she decides to just use her hands to pull off bits and clumps of batter and icing until she finally unearths something kind of small and hard and...

...oh.

She looks from it to him for confirmation. ]

[He watches her strip nasty not-cake from the diamond ring and realizes, at this moment, 'Holy fuck, this is stupid.' His cake is stupid. He's stupid. He could have done this in any number of less stupid ways but he did it like this anyway, and even if it was cool and ironic it was also very, very stupid.

And he's asking Jade to put up with his stupidity for--well. The rest of their conceivable lives, pretty much. The enormity of what he's asking makes him feel like a teenager again, awkward and bird-boned.

Shit. Let's be grown-ups.

He reaches up, and when Jade looks up at him from the ring she catches him mid-motion, his fingertips on the sides of his aviators. He hesitates under her regard.

And then he slides his shades off his face, folds the arms carefully, and glances up to meet her eyes.]

Hey.

[ There are a lot of ways she could react to this. It's not a shock, exactly, and she can't say she didn't at all see this coming. They'd been together long enough, known each other even longer, and you're supposed to marry people you love, so - it's not an out of the blue surprise, no, even if it's unexpected. The answer is, of course, easy. The how to say it, though, is less easy, and for a second she thinks of Rose with her books and analyses and what she'd have to say about hiding a ring in a cake.

She loves Rose a lot, but that doesn't actually help.

(Picturing John's inevitable haha I knew it! doesn't help either.)

The thing is, the table's pretty small, even for two people, and she's privately wondered all night if it wasn't a one person table that just got misplaced. What this really means is that when she all but jumps to her feet, it's surprisingly easy to just lean across it and put her hands on either side of his face to pull him into a kiss.

She's almost sure she's getting freaky mutant cake on her dress, and she's completely certain that she doesn't care. ]

Whuhgmph--

[Dave experiences a brief moment of total uncool--this is what Jade does to him, and always has--but then he closes his eyes and breathes and laughs, relieved, into the kiss. He leans towards her over the table and his hands slide up her arms, and he pulls her in at first before breaking away.]

Dammit, Jade, you're supposed to let me ask before you say yes so loud. The old ladies' flag-knitting club in Tennessee probably thought there was an earthquake.

[ She laughs, and her eyebrows go up in a kind of did you really expect anything else kind of way, teasing and knowing all at once. ]

You asked already with the ring! Or maybe you should've asked faster, because it's too late now.

[His smirk isn't anything unusual, but he never learned how to keep emotion out of his eyes, and the expression looks different without his shades: the way his eyes crinkle at the corners, the actual steadiness of his gaze.]

Oh no, you did not just call me slow. Those are throw-down WWF kung fu fighting words. [He brushes her hair back to keep it from the horribleterrible cake.] I bet I could still ask now and it wouldn't be too late.

I don't know about that!

[ She pulls it out into kind of a sing-song, so so pleased ]

It's pretty late, you know.

We'll see about that.

[He takes the ring from her and rubs the last of the cake schmutz off it with his thumb. He then pushes the cake to one side and leans towards her over the table, gaze level and serious.]

Jade.

[Without looking away from her, he considers his words, turning the ring over in his fingers. Finally, he settles on just this:]

Will you marry me?

Hmmmm.

[ She makes a show of thinking about it now, scrunching up her nose, even though their faces are only about an inch apart and she's already really given an answer.

Hmmmmmmmm

........

.........

.......... ]

Okay.

..."Okay."

[He's already reached across to lift her hand, ring ready, but he stops to give her the most unimpressed look in the history of dudes with pretensions to grandeur whose girlfriends refuse to play along.

It's not entirely a serious expression, but come on, Jade, he wubs you. You make his heart go doki doki.]

[ Oh but she loves that expression, which is she does it, and she gently shoves his shoulder teasingly. ]

[All seriousness, he lets go of her hand, reaches across the table, scoops a dollop of cake icing onto his fingertip, and--without so much as a twitch of a smile to break his poker face--dabs it onto her nose.

Dave is not above starting a food fight to get what he wants.]

Hey!

[ She swats at his hands, but it's totally too late then, and her hands rise to her face before she pauses and - normally, she'd just cake right back, but this is Dave Strider, and she knows he is not so easily caught. ]

I said okay.

No that is not how you romance your beautiful blushing bride.

[He sucks the icing off his finger. It's probably safe for him to do so. Who knows what he grew up eating, his stomach's an invincible juggernaut. He has no taste buds. Kids, do not try this at home.]

[ Dave please don't die. She picks up her napkin to try to get rid of that frosting - how successfully she manages that without a mirror, though, is questionable - and after she's done with that, tugs at his hands so she can hold one in each of hers, lacing their fingers. There's a space of a breath before she actually answers, light and maybe the tiniest bit shy, for once. ]

Then how am I supposed to romance my blushing bride?

[ - or maybe not. ]

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Please for the love of god don't let her eat that monstrosity.

But his heart and soul!!!

Would YOU eat Dave Strider's vital organs?

That narration is horrifying this whole thing is horrifying

Derp. Wrong account, fixing things.

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