sarafina ([personal profile] sarafina) wrote in [community profile] bakerstreet2023-06-25 06:00 am

insomnia

the i n s o m n i a meme

It happens to everyone - sometimes, you have nights where you just can't fall asleep, no matter what you do. It could be for a number of reasons, or no reason at all. And this is what's happened now: you've been laying in bed for what feels like hours, just tossing and turning, and nothing seems to help. So what's left to do? Get out of bed and go wake someone else up, of course. If you're not getting any sleep, then why should they?


i n s t r u c t i o n s
• Post with your character (note the name and fandom in the subject).
• Other people reply to you by generating a number from 1 to 10.
• Have fun!


o p t i o n s

01 • FEAR.
Maybe you're hearing strange, indeterminable noises; maybe there's a severe storm happening outside; maybe you watched a scary movie before bed? Whatever the reason, you're terrified and it's keeping you awake. You just want to wake someone else up so they can protect you from the monster in your closet.

02 • HUNGER.
Your stomach is growling and it just won't stop. Or perhaps your throat is so dry you could cough up a tumbleweed? Well, you've gone to the kitchen to remedy this and hey, that was a pan that just dropped on the floor. It was loud enough to wake the dead! Oops.

03 • PAIN.
Your body is completely worn out, be it from exercise, battle, sickness, or what have you. Either way you're in enough pain to keep you from sleeping, so maybe someone else has a home remedy or something, or can at least help you take your mind off of it.

04 • SOLITUDE.
For some reason, your bed just feels so empty at the moment. You're feeling terribly lonely and really just want someone to keep you company for a while. Maybe it'd be easier to fall asleep if you're with them...

05 • DISCOMFORT.
Your room is an oven. Either that or a freezer. Or maybe this bed is just really uncomfortable? Who knows why you can't get to sleep, it feels like it could be anything. Why even bother trying? Maybe someone else can preoccupy you until you feel tired enough to ignore your discomfort.

06 • PENSIVE.
Something's on your mind, and no matter how hard you try to focus elsewhere, it's just not going to work. Your body may be tired, but your mind is incredibly busy and it's virtually impossible to get to sleep. Surely, talking it out with someone else will help?

07 • SADNESS.
Something terrible has happened that day, perhaps; or you could just be severely depressed. Either way you're trying your hardest not to cry yourself to sleep, and it's not working at all. Better find a way to get it out of your system somehow; you need a shoulder to cry on.

08 • ANGER.
You are just... fuming. Who knows why - that annoying dog is barking again, or maybe the people next door are getting busy and keeping you awake. Whatever the reason for your ire is, you'd better put an end to it so you can get some damn rest already! Go wake up a friend so you can complain to them.

09 • RESTLESS.
You're far too energetic to sleep right now. Maybe you're just trying to do so out of necessity - you have to be up early tomorrow! But you just don't think you'll be able to fall asleep for a while now, so why waste the time trying to sleep when you could be doing something else? Namely bothering someone else - you're totally jealous because they're getting more sleep than you.

10 • WILDCARD.
Choose one of the options above, or make up your own scenario.
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elan ceres ( 4 ) • mobile suit gundam: witch from mercury

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(  3/5/9/10. m/m for shipping. (though open to crush/curiosity (?) status with suletta mercury before [redacted]) detailed prefs / info . please note there are spoilers. )
forayer: (09. but this is enlightenment)

9?

[personal profile] forayer 2023-06-25 12:14 pm (UTC)(link)
( I'm a little intrigued by this bit in your preferences for him but am blanking on how to set up a situation where these two would even talk with each other: interested in cr that will push him until he breaks whether it's in a "for your own good" mindset of wanting to help him or just to get answers out of him given how vague and withheld he is. What's the "break" you're looking for?

In any case, I think an interesting tension could develop between these two on the general theme of identity that could eventually push El4n's buttons. If you're interested and also blanking on circumstances where they'd interact, we could just have the thread take place in ~a void~ (like a dream, or through texts with a stranger).

No worries if this isn't your cup of tea! Feel free to ignore this comment if that's the case. o/ )

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it's been a pleasure

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towa | slow damage

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Toki Wartooth | Metalocalypse | ota

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[18+ for anything shippy. if he didn't have enough to not sleep about, he's probably gonna have a lot more soon.]
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sarica — fantasy oc — ota

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[ info. quick rundown: legislator/adviser to the Sacred Council and the Senate of his country, inspired by Ancient Greece/Rome. manipulative and controlling at his worst, charming and charismatic at his best. talks a lot of bullshit, but makes it sound good. infamous for his orgies. chaotic neutral. assumed cr, canon mashing and multiversal shit is go. m/m for shipping, wide ota for the rest. ]
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yukari takeba 💘 persona 3/4AU.

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( she's usually up way past bedtime... pass on 8. )
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sarafa | nier re[in]carnation

[personal profile] unabelle 2023-06-25 11:27 am (UTC)(link)
[Well, she's always up late at night anyway cosplaying as a fortune teller. I'm open to other reasons for her to run into your character though, fire at will!]
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Sarafa!!! 💕

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(OOC: I love Yudil and Sarafa and Reincarnation, and I thought about making a Yudil account a few weeks ago but figured there probably wouldn’t be many canonmates, but…! Hi!!!)

[Midnight sky, emptying streets. A thief can never rest, not truly. Nights are productive for Yudil, anyway: people are tired. Drunk on alcohol and any manner of extravagance the night alone might provide.

And pockets, oh-so loose. Brimming with coin, ripe for the plucking.

Yudil doesn’t mean to pass by the fortune teller’s stall — the same who had tried to warn him away from the princess. And yet his feet don’t seem to agree, not tonight. “Death awaits if you continue to see the princess,” the fortune teller had said. Yudil had laughed. Dare he ask for a reading? Might she have changed her mind about his future, as silly as it all might be?]


What fortune do you have for me today, then? [Yudil glances down at the fortune teller’s glittering crystal ball before looking up at her face. Half-masked, mysterious.] Another warning?

YUDIL HOLY SHIT (⊙o⊙)

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[personal profile] bit_awkward 2023-06-25 12:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[It was really late at night, or was it early in the morning? It was hard to tell. He wasn't paying attention to the time admittedly when he finally got sick of tossing and turning and decided he was just going to take a walk.

The night air was much better than his stuffy room admittedly but as he wandered around the city he just felt... Strange. He felt lonely, admittedly, and while he was better off now than when he had been trapped in his room he couldn't help but want to reach out to someone and only one person kept popping back into his mind. So finally after several blocks of thinking it over he stopped to shoot off a quick text;]


Hey are you up?

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jean grey ★ marvel

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grace hollingsworth | detective oc

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[[tl,dr: detective whose significant other/co-worker was a dirty cop and now she's out for revenge -- bringing her back after a super-long rp break, so appreciate literally anyone who wants to hang out with her. 04, 06, 07 are most likely for her, but open to other options.]
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Yelena Belova | mcu | ota

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Cal Kestis | Star Wars | OTA

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Kaz Brekker | Grishaverse | OTA

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Harvey Dent / DC

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Hibiki Fujiwara | Original | OTA

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[ Character info in journal. Not really interested in 2, otherwise go wild. Assumed CR and AUs are both great. OTA for gen and ship. ]
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Hua Cheng • Heaven Official's Blessing • OTA

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Faust | Limbus Company | ota

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[ I mean she usually only sleeps three hours anyway. ]
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[ hi prefs? i think anything could probably work outside of 1 and 8. lmk if there's anything in particular on your mind and i can pull together a starter o7 ]

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Lan Wangji • The Untamed • OTA

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Cloud Strife • Final Fantasy VII • OTA

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Bucky Barnes • MCU • OTA

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Doctor BJ Hunnicutt | M*A*S*H | ota

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[castmates would be awesome, also open to you appearing in his canon or vice versa, assumed cr, etc]
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Porsche Kittisawat • KinnPorsche • OTA

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Wei Wuxian • The Untamed • OTA

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Steve Rogers • MCU • OTA

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[He jolts up from the floor into a sitting position gasping for air like he's been slowly asphyxiating, drowned alive in a cryo chamber, the last wisps of a rat-a-tat-tat half-remembered nightmare ringing high-pitched relentlessly in his ears. His scratchy-thin blanket pools in his lap and a band of light from the perpetually lit hallway slithering in the gap under the front door casts a dull glint where sweat and skin ends and where vibranium begins.

Of course he sees Steve - or he can make out a charcoal rubbing of a grayscale silhouette of him in the dark - but panicked eyes aren't able to take stock of the familiarity of Steve or the umpteenth time he's read last year's global headlines taped to the window. He searches frantically instead for a clock, a calendar, a chair, a red book, a mud ceiling - anything to tell him what time and what year and where he is and what he's supposed to be doing.

Not telling Steve where he lived was a mistake. Letting Steve find him passed out on the floor exhausted and twitching like an old hound freshly adopted out of the local shelter was-- more of an oversight than a mistake. Pretending he's been doing just fine all this time, forced jokes and smiling until his cheeks hurt while keeping the shambles of a semblance of a life under achingly tight wraps? Definitely not a mistake.]

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Gu Wei • Oath of Love • OTA

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