The Handcuffed Meme

[on_your_nerves]

THE HANDCUFF MEME



It's time for sexy funtimes!

...Or at least it would be if you didn't have way more important things to worry about right now, because you're handcuffed together with someone and you've lost the key. It's gone, kaput, and boy, these things seem really sturdy. A hacksaw just might not cut it. In fact, if you so choose, they might dampen powers or maybe powers are intact but the cuffs are still magically unbreakable. To make things even worse, you and the person you're handcuffed to have been thrown into a situation that's made highly inconvenient by the fact that you're attached to someone else at the wrist.

It's up to you decide how you got handcuffed (heck, the cuffs might have magically appeared out of nowhere), but what your characters have to deal with next can be decided using a handy RNG. Your options are:



1. Fight Night

Boy this handcuff thing came at a bad time. For whatever reason, you have to fight thugs, mooks, supervillains, space aliens, jetpack Nazis, talking gorillas, or some other threat. Maybe you're doing it to save innocent lives, just to save your own skin, or to stop someone from setting all your stuff on fire. Whatever the reason, hope you two are good at teamwork!

2. Jailbirds

The reason for those handcuffs? You just got arrested, and now you're in the back of a patrol car, the paddywagon, or the space patrol hover-car being taken to the police station. What you did to wind up that way is up to you. It could be something as innocent as a prank gone wrong or something as dire as the both of you having been accused of murder--or perhaps even framed. But now you have a nice little drive and an even nicer booking to look forward to. You might as well get to know you you're handcuffed to or have that nice little heart-to-heart you've been planning on having--you're going to be stuck together for a while.

3. A Very Important Date

One of you has a meeting or appointment to get to and it can't be postponed NO MATTER WHAT. That date with that wonderful guy you met the other night? That job interview? Meeting the parents of your significant other? Your little sister's violin recital? One of you has to go right this moment and hope you can explain away the predicament or hide that you're attached to each other. For a bonus challenge, both parties can have somewhere important to go and have to duke it out over who has to miss their big, important thing.

4. Party Crashed

That was some party! ...who has the key to these? You had a wild night last night, so wild that the other people around you are wearing lampshades on their heads and have wangs that were drawn in Sharpie on their faces while they slept. You've woken up handcuffed to either someone you know or a total stranger, and you have no idea how you got that way. Let's hope you can find the key among all the discarded beer cans and stale pizza.

5. On the Run

The most dangerous game of all...is man! Or something. You're handcuffed together racing through an island wilderness, hunted by evil people, aliens, or dangerous wildlife, trying to work together to save your own lives. Or perhaps you're on the run from the police, accused of a crime you didn't commit. Maybe you're trying to escape from the clutches of an evil dystopian government that plans to brainwash you, or you made a break for it and escaped from a chain gang. Maybe you're being forced to run a deadly obstacle course together on live television, or being chased through a haunted town by monsters. Whatever the case, you're stuck together, you're on the run, and you have to make sure both of you get through it or neither of you will.

6. Escape

Not only are you handcuffed, you're dangling over a deathtrap together. Or locked in a room, waiting for a murderer to come back and kill you both. You're in some sort of situation where you're trapped, and escape is all the more complicated because of how you're handcuffed together. Hope you can pull a Houdini before that serial killer comes back!

7. Interrogation

You're cuffed somewhere so you can't get away, because the other character has some very, very important questions. Remember: Ve haff vays of makink you talk.

8. Wildcard

Go nuts and make a situation up! The only requirement? Handcuffs.

[Warning: while this is a very gen meme, you never know where it's going to go where handcuffs are concerned, so there could be triggers in the threads.]

Comments

Irene Adler | BBC Sherlock

[whatyoulike]

2

[justamobster]

Ladon is tense. He's had a few rides in the wagon before, but this is the first time the fuzz has handcuffed him to a dame. Why the idiots only had one set of cuffs on them, he doesn't know. But this is the most inept arrest he's ever had and it's given him some stress. The least these bulls could do is be professional about it.

Anyway, he grumbles to himself and curses the plastic in the way of aiming a kick at the head of one of the [insert city here]'s finest. Damn fancy future paddy wagons.

"Ain't this just ducky."

gale hawthorne | the hunger games

[wildlife]

5 | dat pb

[provides]

( They knew they could survive, but with the obligations they had running seemed like an impossibility. Somehow, in all of the chaos, they decided to run. In the process they were captured for a short while ( managing to get handcuffed together ), but they managed to escaped into the woods that they knew so well.

Who knew they would be come the hunted when they were so used to behing the hunter. They were at a disadvantage with their hands cuffed together. It made them clumsy because they had to accommodate for the other whereas if they were free they would be able to trail behind the other or find a nearby path to follow.

They were also defenseless without their hands; it was clear, they needed to get out of these cuffs soon. )

Mordin Solus | Mass Effect

[modelscientist]

Molly Hooper || Sherlock

[wealldosillythings]

Sirius Black | Harry Potter

[grimbiker]

5?

[womanwhobeatyou]

[Don't ask how they got onto an island of jungle wilderness. There were probably very sophisticated drugs involved. Or magic. All Irene knows right now is that stiletto heels and handcuffs do not work well in muddy loam. The handcuff on her wrist rattles as she pulls off the aforementioned heels and pitches them up a tree.]

This is dreadfully inconvenient.

Derek Hale || Teen Wolf

[alphabeta]

2

[stiles]

[ Stiles has been in the back of police cruisers before. At one point in his childhood it had been fun, a really cool part of his dads job that Stiles totally dug, because his dad was like supercop and had a jail in the back of his car.

He hadn't been handcuffed to Derek Hale back then, though, and it's pretty obvious a lot of the fun is lost when you're both a) actually under arrest and b) attached to a very dangerous individual. ] Okay.

No, listen. [ He starts to wave his hands, all the better to emphasize his words, but then settles for only using the non-cuffed one for gesturing. ] I would like to start off by reminding you that this is not my fault. I do believe I spent the whole hour it took us to dive here pointing out what a bad freaking idea it is to trespass.

Castiel | Supernatural

[ofthursday]

fuck the random number generator

[integrity]

I told you that obtaining the fucking tomes from the fucking remnants of the fucking library of Alexandria was a fucking bad idea, you fucking idiot.

[Guess who is attempting to get these cursed iron handcuffs off and guess who is not helping.

YOU.]

Nicholas Rush - Stargate Universe

[destinytobehere]

6 - Start off in some cell?

[colunderfire]

Well, this is just perfect

[Young growls as he tries the strength of the alien handcuffs again.

Not only was he trapped in here, cuffed, but he was also cuffed to Rush. This was not a good day.]

War | Darksiders | Any roll

[dysarmed]

[The handcuffs must be custom - the average person barely reaches above War's waist.]

2!

[leading3men]

[ This has to be planned. Has to be. The bastards deliberately made custom cuffs for her and this . . . monster guy. He's so huge she barely went past his knee in terms of height, and the arm that has been cuff to? She can't even lower it unless the guy decides to be considerate of Zoey's poor shoulder muscles and walk around on his knees.

Judging by the look of this guy, she should be grateful that she's still ticking.

Her life is so messed up. ]

Mary Campbell/Winchester | Supernatural

[minifridge]

[Comes in young or adult flavor, just specify! You creep.]

OF the Winchester variety

[failedparenting]

[Fucking shifters. They were some of the worst things to track down, in John's oh-so humble opinion. Taking other people's faces, leaving puddles of disgusting shit all over the damn place, and they could think. That's what makes it even worse, they're essentially people. Sick, homicidal people that change faces as easy as changing pants.

Anyway, the bastard was dead now. John slit his throat mid-shift with a silver pocket knife. The shifter obviously wasn't expecting it, but it put up one hell of a fight. He wouldn't be surprised if he's got a few bruised ribs now.

John practically runs up the steps to the old house he and Mary were squatting in during in the hunt. His blood is still humming with adrenaline from the fight; he's not sure what he's going to do about it now. Maybe just sit it out like usual, but he hates going that route.]

Mary? I got it. Halfway through a shift, so I think it wa-

[John stops dead in his tracks as he rounds the corner to the musty, old bedroom. There, in the corner, Mary's got herself cuffed to the radiator.

Huh.]

Annie Edison | Community | OTA

[adderalls]

4... for now at least.

[britta_ftw]

[Waking up, handcuffed to Annie and a piece of pizza (MEAT LOVER'S AT THAT) stuck to your face, is not a nice way to start the day.]

Uh... got a bobby pin?

Erik Lehnsherr | X-Men: First Class | Open to all

[xdaddy]

Wichita | ZOMBIELAND

[cons]

Charles Xavier | X-Men: First Class | Open to all

[notthehelmet]

chuck shurley | supernatural

[paterelohim]

[You know you want to handcuff God.]

4

[magnetic_magpie]

I can't remember. Was this party my idea or yours?

Spades Slick |♠| Homestuck

[theslickofspades]

Yamamoto Takeshi | Reborn! | OTA

[crookedsmiles]

5, On The Run

[dysarmed]

[How bad are things when you're handcuffed to a Horseman of the Apocalypse? War scans the skies for a few long moments, then steps out from the crumbling building. The village seems abandoned - it's spacious, quiet, and the only light comes from the moon and War's giant mechanical hand.]

Where's the key?

[He refers to the handcuffs. War could easily (and is quite tempted to) break Yamamoto's wrist and be done with it, but apparently these handcuffs are cursed or warded - he's unable to break them. And dangling handcuffs would get bothersome. So Yamamoto's wrist is safe.]

Donna Noble | Doctor Who

[chernoble]

2

[bountywithrage]

[Have a drunken New Yorker, Donna. He's just sitting, his uncuffed hand cradling his head, and groaning.]

Why'd I do that...?

[Yeah, punching that cop was a bad idea...]

Britta Perry | Community

[britta_ftw]

Ryohei Sasagawa | Katekyo Hitman Reborn

[lawnhead]

Eleventh Doctor | Doctor Who

[aintno_grave]

5

[best_served_hot]

[The Master winced at the wrenching of his arm from where his wrist was attached to the Doctor's. They'd stopped so they could both catch their breath in the once thriving metropolis of a planet whose name he's actually already forgotten.

He doesn't deem a planet worthy of remembering, outside of destroying later, after its denizens find out that they are from an all but extinct race of holier-than-thou aliens. And they also happen to enjoy hunting said aliens, any aliens, for sport.

At least they seemed to have diminished mental capacities since the fall of their society a thousand or years so earlier. Hopefully none of them find something shiny that happened to be a "Do Not Press" button that would end life on this miserable little rock.

But considering the company he is currently attached to, he's just as liable to be blown up by him pressing the button because it is pretty.]

I hate you.

Jam Kuradoberi | Guilty Gear

[gekirin]

Yun | Street Fighter

[geneijin]

Toshizo Hijikata | Hakuoki

[thedemonhimself]

6 - Clearly this will be the best escape plan ever concocted.

[stalksforfun]

[The area is barely lit enough to be able to make out the outer edges of the room. One might ask how they even managed to get into this kind of predicament, their wrists bound to each others in a very locked room, but that's less important than the fact that they need to find a way out.]

Well, at least if we're too slow, we both know who will be the first to die.

[Hint: not him.]

Rei Kurosawa | Fatal Frame III

[cursemarked]

5

[thedemonhimself]

[No idea what they're running from, he just trusted Rei when she said "run". Because if Rei's freaking out, then it must be major. Nothing shakes this woman.]