baitings ([personal profile] baitings) wrote in [community profile] bakerstreet2023-05-28 05:12 pm

Our bodies are haunted houses

ghost love score —

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?
graveling: (backache)

Angel | OC

[personal profile] graveling 2023-05-28 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[Perhaps you were in love with Gabriel Mora, the corpse that became Angel after he died. It's not him now, and he doesn't really know how to deal with people who knew the body in the past.]
closely: <user name="closely"> (pic#16475673)

elan ceres ( 4 ) • mobile suit gundam: witch from mercury

[personal profile] closely 2023-05-28 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
(  ghost — m/m for shipping angles. open to gen.

detailed prefs / info . please note there are spoilers for him specifically. )
neverbedded: (042)

margaery tyrell | asoiaf/got | ota

[personal profile] neverbedded 2023-05-28 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
trouvaille: (059)

gwen wynne-york — original

[personal profile] trouvaille 2023-05-28 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
( stubborn pain in the ass told to fuck off and die does only one of those things. )
spectreless: (“tapping at my chamber door—)

Lenore | Nevermore (Webtoon)

[personal profile] spectreless 2023-05-29 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
[ Voice testing. ]
sibylservice: (Default)

Re: Lenore | Nevermore (Webtoon)

[personal profile] sibylservice 2023-05-29 07:05 am (UTC)(link)
[...well, I've got a new Webtoon to read, thanks. But in the meantime, a small vampire with psychic powers moves into a haunted home where there's a lost Lenore lingering?]
spectreless: (weak and weary)

[personal profile] spectreless 2023-05-29 03:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It's a fun read! I definitely recommend it but I am biased.
and that most certainly works for me. I can slap up a starter soon for exactly that unless you'd like to start us off before I get to it. Either works! ]
sibylservice: (can you see the coming flood?)

[personal profile] sibylservice 2023-05-29 03:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[Feel free to start. I'm cooking breakfast--I'll bring you some if you want. :P ]
spectreless: (Over many a quaint and curious)

[personal profile] spectreless 2023-05-29 05:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Lenore, both dead and alive, has been told a not so inconsequential amount of times that she tends to make for a not so polite introduction. This time, it seems, is no exception. There's no time spared for observing the interloper. On the contrary, quicker than one can say "oh this place is haunted haunted" she appears right at the top-middle of stairs with her arms crossed. Likely to block the way from progressing further into this godforsaken manor, or at least in spirit. ]

Look, I get having an adventurous spirit and all, I really do—but you shouldn't stay here for long.
sibylservice: (a child of no tricks)

[personal profile] sibylservice 2023-05-29 05:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[Pallid and dressed like she's about to go do tarot readings at the local Renaissance Faire instead of whatever this is, Phaedra blinks a couple times and then smiles at the sight of Lenore.]

What a shame, I'd been planning to settle, actually. My last haven burnt down, it was a whole thing, and I'd heard this place was unoccupied.

[That smile happens to display too-sharp canine teeth.]
spectreless: (weak and weary)

[personal profile] spectreless 2023-05-29 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
You're here for the real estate?

[ Incredulous. Her gaze pointedly moves from the cobweb adorned rafters to the broken banisters before finally giving the uncanny looking women a up-down once-over. She smirks. ]

Well first of all you do have my sympathies. Also terribly sorry to be the first person to tell you this place is not exactly unoccupied in the way you were thinking it was.
sibylservice: (soothsayer can you see the way?)

[personal profile] sibylservice 2023-05-29 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Surely you can spare one room. Or maybe a root cellar or something? I don’t need much space, just a dark corner to hide from the day.

[The fact that there’s a haunting going on hardly seems to concern Phaedra at all.]
spectreless: (distinctly I remember)

[personal profile] spectreless 2023-05-29 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Respectfully, I suppose I could. It's not as if I have much use for most of this space. At least, not anymore.

[ You know what? She appreciates that distinctly unbothered energy. Her hips cock to one side. ]

Tell me one thing first.
sibylservice: (the warring in your name)

[personal profile] sibylservice 2023-05-29 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
What do you want to know?

[Phaedra carefully steps closer. She's actually rather short, up close, but between the jingling of bells on her skirt and her bold personality, she seems larger than life.]
spectreless: (weak and weary)

[personal profile] spectreless 2023-05-30 02:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Simply put most people don't lock themselves away willingly. I'd like to know what your deal is.

[ Curiosity piqued! By now it's evident the slightly transparent Lenore is no longer standing vigil to block the way through. It's more like standing in place to carry on with the conversation. She's taken to gesticulating calmly with one hand as she speaks. ]
sibylservice: (Default)

[personal profile] sibylservice 2023-05-30 03:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh! That's easy, I'm a vampire. So during the day, I need to avoid the sun to avoid sunburning to death. Comfort isn't a huge deal with where I stay because I don't sleep so much as turn into a corpse while the sun's up.

[She offers a playful, perhaps mocking, curtsy.]

That's my deal. What's up with you?
spectreless: (As of some one gently rapping)

[personal profile] spectreless 2023-05-30 05:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I can see why you wouldn't be overly fond of the sun.

[ A shrug. Had Lenore been human still she might've paled some but she's of the supernatural variety herself. The image of her flickers for a moment. ]

Do you... feed? If you do it shouldn't be a problem for me since I am irreparably deceased. For a while now, I believe, although I'm not entirely sure the passage of time matters here.
sibylservice: (soothsayer can you change this?)

[personal profile] sibylservice 2023-05-30 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I can't feed on things without bodies. There's rumors some vampires can, on ghosts and spirits, but that's not the kind I am.

[There's a pause, and then a wicked little grin.]

Besides, you don't shit where you eat. I'm not about to feed on a roommate without permission. That's rude as fuck.
spectreless: (volume of forgotten lore—)

[personal profile] spectreless 2023-05-31 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
Sensational. I'll be sure not to run into that sort in the future.

[ Such a dry delivery on that one. The crude way of speaking has her smiling in a way that scrunchies up her nose in unexpected delight however. Instead of phasing out of the way Lenore shuffles so her new "roommate" can get past. A very human thing to do for someone who isn't. ]

Oh, go on then, make yourself at home.
sibylservice: (now go behold of what became)

[personal profile] sibylservice 2023-05-31 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
I will, I will. Do you want to show me around or let me know if any places are off limits? I don't want to, like. Feel like an invader to you or nothing. This place is still your haunt.

[Phaedra comes up the stairs partway, but stops a few steps below Lenore, gazing up at her with bright eyes.]
dreamflowers: (thinking 'oh no she's hot')

[personal profile] dreamflowers 2023-05-29 09:36 am (UTC)(link)
[HELLO oh my god Nevermore characters would be like my dream cross-canon CR for Jade. I go into her deal a little bit in my comment below and I'm curious if that's a concept you'd like to bounce off of with Lenore? She could be a lost soul that Jade collected and wanted to help or we could go with something different instead if you're interested.]
spectreless: (distinctly I remember)

[personal profile] spectreless 2023-05-29 03:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh HELLO I'd be happy to! She'll be a headstrong soul to try to wrangle but that's at least half of the fun I think. Jade's methodology wins her points for sure.
You can hit me up here or I can hit you up on your comment below! Do you have a preference? ]
dreamflowers: (out here living my best life)

[personal profile] dreamflowers 2023-05-29 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[I didn't have a preference, but I was asleep and I see that you just sent me a starter anyway! Thanks for that. <3 I'm excited.]
dreamflowers: (dead inside but enjoying the ride)

Jade "the Prophetess" | Enderal: Forgotten Stories | OTA.

[personal profile] dreamflowers 2023-05-29 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
[So Jade's whole thing is that she's a Phasmalist who collects lost souls and wants to try to "rehabilitate" them by helping them retain their humanity from when they were alive. She usually does this by keeping her ghosts summoned and treating them like normal, living people.

[More info if necessary, and her Phasmalism is elaborated a little more in the Abilities section. Obviously I think this would be fitting with her being the living person and the other being a soul that she's collected and trying to help.]
spectreless: (volume of forgotten lore—)

[personal profile] spectreless 2023-05-29 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[ The thought of being collected doesn't appeal too much to her... But the intention behind it didn't seem outright malicious enough for her to say no just yet. So for now the tall spectre follows along behind her makeshift guide.

It doesn't mean that she won't hold onto her skepticism for the time being however. Speaking of, she's drilling holes in the side of Jade's face with her gaze. ]


Would you say that this is strictly necessary?
dreamflowers: (im not really fine)

[personal profile] dreamflowers 2023-05-29 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
You know, I've asked myself the same thing since I--

[Pause. Her head snaps towards the new spectre she's summoned who seems more... alive than the others. Not staring at her blankly in silence, but giving her an actual look with emotion behind it and everything.]

Wait, you can talk?

[Jade is more used to just "hearing" their responses in her head.]
spectreless: (While I nodded)

[personal profile] spectreless 2023-05-30 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
Of course I can. Why ever would I not?

[ Such a peculiar statement. One that has her leaning away in response to that sudden double take. She blinks owlishly through her confusion as the other women looks at her like... well, like she's seen a ghost. It's rather too bad Lenore has yet to realize that's exactly what she is. ]

You can't possibly tell me that genuinely surprises you.
dreamflowers: (im not really fine)

[personal profile] dreamflowers 2023-05-30 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
S... Sorry. It's just that, well, I'm used to your kind only staring blankly into space whenever I... you know.

[Summon them. Most Phasmalists she's heard of use specters for some violent purpose or another, such as in battle or to protect someplace important to them. They were helpful that way, sure, but Jade often liked bringing them out whenever she felt lonely and wanted someone to talk to.

[It's the first time any one of them has ever talked back.]


That's, uhm, interesting. Very interesting.
spectreless: (nearly napping)

[personal profile] spectreless 2023-05-30 02:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I do not know. Do you care to explain?

[ Jade's got a particularly vivacious one on her hands then because Lenore plants herself in front of her with a sullen look. Tap-tap-tap-tap goes her foot against the dirt ground. ]
dreamflowers: No need for viol- and they're all killing each other. Okay. (hey now let's talk about this)

[personal profile] dreamflowers 2023-05-30 03:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[Vivacious would certainly be a welcome change of pace if it weren't for the fact that this is all still new to her. It wasn't that long ago that she even gained the ability to cradle spirits into semi-corporeal defenders. And while Jade always wished she could actually get their verbal consent before doing so, she's never thought about what she'd say if one of them was looking her in the face the way Lenore is right now.]

Well, I... I guess there's no subtle way of saying this, but -- I summoned you? Your spirit's kind of bound to this talisman I made and that's how you're able to talk to me right now.

[She laughs nervously, perhaps inappropriately.]

Please don't get mad. I get that people are afraid of Phasmalism for a reason, but I swear I'm not l-like that. I don't... enslave the souls I find.
spectreless: (“’Tis some visitor)

[personal profile] spectreless 2023-05-30 05:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm-... What?

[ Well that would account for how she got here tethered to another. A hand lifts to grab at her head. After hearing such a thing it makes instinctual sense. Frantically her gazes searches for the talisman mentioned as if seeing it merely exist will confirm or disperse what's been said. Despite Lenore's best efforts her hold on reality does shudder for a moment. Her gaze stares unseeing upon things that aren't there.

It's because she eventually catches sight of the nervousness playing at this summoner's expression. She uses that to calm herself. ]


I take it from your words that you are full able to if you wanted.
dreamflowers: No need for viol- and they're all killing each other. Okay. (hey now let's talk about this)

[personal profile] dreamflowers 2023-05-30 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[The mere suggestion that Jade is even remotely capable of making a slave out of Lenore's spirit is enough to make her sputter even more.]

Wh- No no no no no. I mean, maybe? At least, I've never bound a soul that was able to retain their consciousness -- at least, not yet. Because I'd been trying, because I've communicated with echoes that could remember who they were. Granted, one of them was a pig...

[And another was a wrathful spirit that was able to make the living subject of her ire explode into meaty chunks before Jade's eyes. But she isn't sure she wants to test that knowledge out with Lenore right now, just in case she's feeling vengeful at the moment.]

Point is, I wouldn't try to turn you into a mindless slave. I couldn't. Morally, anyway.

[A "Phasmalist with principals" could also be seen as a contradiction in itself, given the very nature of the discipline. Then again, there are a lot of things contradictory about Jade, so she's kind of embraced the insanity of it all.]
Edited (wording sghdhd) 2023-05-30 23:15 (UTC)
spectreless: (While I nodded)

[personal profile] spectreless 2023-06-25 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, while I'm sure you're very quite capable—

[The woman standing before her certainly LOOKS capable. In the... spirit summoning way? She supposes. Jade will have to forgive her for her initial reluctance. It's hard to suspend her immediate distrust for the circumstances.]

If it's all the same to you I'd rather not be your first crack at it. Thank you very much!

[She clears her throat without needing to. Collecting herself again.]

...Do you do this often?
Edited 2023-06-25 02:52 (UTC)
needsnoexcuses: (we are invincible; we are who we are)

Caleb Hall | original | ota

[personal profile] needsnoexcuses 2023-05-29 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
[[Info + preferences. He's a medium who spends a lot of time talking to the ghosts around him, this is bound to happen at least once, right?]]
climbingwalls: (Default)

Abigail Hobbs | Hannibal | ota

[personal profile] climbingwalls 2023-05-29 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
[[Probably the ghost, but I'm up for the other way around if you've got an idea.]]
whoknowsyou: (you say forget but I remind you)

Gabriel Brown | Feeling Electric

[personal profile] whoknowsyou 2023-05-29 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
[[Who would like an obsessive teenage ghost attaching to them? None of the options relating to his life work, but anything else is fair game.]]
90secondsafter: (✧ I need to take my time)

eleanor vance | hill house

[personal profile] 90secondsafter 2023-05-29 06:14 am (UTC)(link)
[Well. She can do the dead part. But why are you in Hill House?]
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Robert Muldoon | Jurassic Park | OTA

[personal profile] allbedestroyed 2023-05-29 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
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Polly Geist | Monster Prom | OTA

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judgmental: (some say in ice)

Yuri Petrov | Tiger & Bunny

[personal profile] judgmental 2023-06-01 09:15 am (UTC)(link)
[the ghost. m/m and 21+ for shipping; ota gen.]