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The Date Meme

THE DATE MEME

Here's how it works!

1. Comment to this post with your character. List the character's name, series, and any preferences you might have in the subject.
2. Using the RNG, pick from one of each of the two categories below. (Or if you'd rather pick them yourself, feel free to do that instead!)
3. The two of you are now on a date! The first list is where you took your date. The second list is your current relationship.
4. Have fun!

Locations

1. Restaurant. What better way to spend some romantic time than over food? Maybe you're at the fancy restaurant in town, or maybe you just couldn't afford anything nice, so you're at the nearest diner. Or maybe somewhere in between?

2. Games. The two of you are playing a game somewhere! You could be at a bowling alley, an arcade, a miniature golf course...the possibilities here are countless.

3. The Park. Of course, Mother Nature can provide an excellent atmosphere for romantic bonding! Perhaps you're taking a leisurely stroll through the lush grounds, or maybe you've laid out a blanket somewhere so the two of you could have a picnic.

4. Movie Theater. Or maybe the two of you are sitting next to each other in a dark room, sharing a bucket of popcorn while you're watching the latest film. Did you opt for a horror flick to keep your significant other latched to your arm -- or for you to latch to theirs -- or perhaps something they enjoy, like a sappy romance film or a cheesy action flick? Or maybe you compromised and went to see a sweet romantic comedy.

5. Skating. It's always nice to go skating, right? Are you at a roller skating rink, or did you find a frozen lake and decide to go ice skating? Which one of you needs help (you know at least one of you does)?

6. Beach. Ahh, the beach! Go ahead and set up camp wherever you like! Or if you don't watn to lay down and catch a tan, you can go swimming, or take a walk along the shore! Or if you don't want getting sand on your feet or in your shoes, go hit up the boardwalk!

7. Sunday Drive. Sometimes you don't really have a destination in mind. Sometimes you just want to drive and enjoy the scenery. Well, here's your chance to do that!

8. Amusement Park. There's plenty to do here! Take your date on the Ferris wheel, or the tunnel of love...or something more thrilling, like a roller coaster! Walk around with cotton candy!

9. Dance/Ball. School dance? Prom? Business gala? Whatever it is, you're there, and you've got a date.

10. Wild Card. Your choice! Feel free to pick something that's not here.

Relationships

1. Blind Date. You had no idea who you were going out with until you arrived! Was it a complete stranger, or did it turn out to be someone you knew?

2. First Date. You finally worked up the courage to ask this person out, and they agreed! How awkward is this going to end up?

3. Steady. You guys have been going out for a while. This is just another one of many dates.

4. Proposing. This isn't just any date for you. You've brought your significant other out somewhere to propose to them! Make sure to warm them up for the main event!

5. Married. You're not just dating, you're a married couple! Whether this is a special occasion or you just decided to break from your everyday life, the two of you are using this as an opportunity to remind each other just how much you love one another.

6. Wild Card. Your choice! Feel free to pick something that's not here.

[Taken from an earlier meme]

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[ Apparently they are. ]

... I have just now?

[ Not exactly. He's just curious to now how much Kirk is aware of regarding the process.]

Then let's keep it that way. This is the first and last time you've heard the terms. Their usage is unimportant.

[Well, until they become relevant to whatever situation arises.]

What?!

[ Again, no sense of volume control. ]

Come on, Spock! Don't bring that shit out and then... infoblock me!

[He waves a hand dismissively.]

I recalling saying I would answer one question. Not several.

[Oh hey baby. I missed you, loopholes.]

[ Jim just stared at his first officer, nearly glaring when he brought both hands up to rub at his face, leaning back in his chair. His sound of frustration was muffled behind his hands before he dropped them. ]

Fuck your loopholes in the ass!

[ The waitress came back around to their table at the end of that, eyes widening slightly and then a little more when Jim turned to her, gesturing to Spock. ]

Can you believe this guy? And after I give him chocolate and alcohol! In one sitting!

[ She looks like she's trying not to laugh. He gives her his empty bottle, ]

I need something a little stronger. Whiskey with coke. Half coke, even more whiskey.

[ She nods with a small laugh, nodding to Spock's glasses, asking if he wants another drink. ]

Edited 2013-05-24 06:32 (UTC)

[ The Captain reaction is more than amusing. Spock isn't particularly against explaining further but how can he pass up an opportunity to antagonize Jim in such subtle ways?

He asks her for a bloody mary instead, letting the waitress clear what glasses they had before responding;]

Plak tow is literally translated to be 'blood fever'. This is the last stage of pon farr and it is particularly the most violent. The reason I mentioned that it is much more than, [He nearly rolls his eyes.] being in heat, has to do with the fact that the longer it takes to find another Vulcan mate, the more everyone else is suffering from the violent side of the blood fever.

Now, most Vulcans have an arranged union for this, and should that person ever change their minds, it initiates kal-if-fee. Genetics will make whichever two males fight to death for the right to have that female. Thus, giving the event it's name meaning 'passionate fight'.

Honestly, the sex by any means is the least of anyone's worries should one become stuck with a Vulcan during that seven year cycle.

[ Jim listened, though, almost transfixed. Despite the complacent attitude he could give off, he did enjoy absorbing new information. By the end, his brow was creased in confusion, back to leaning forward on the table, arms folded in front of him. ]

But... doesn't that go against your whole zen thing? Being calm and collected and not letting illogical emotions and impulses get the better of you?

[ Because the whole thing sounded... scary, actually. Along with a whole wallop of emotionally compromising all over the place. How the hell did Spock's mom put up with it. Oh god, no, stop. Erase that mental image N O W. ]

Edited 2013-05-24 09:47 (UTC)

Yes and no. Meditation can be used to prevent certain aspects of what occurs. This takes practice, Jim. When encountering an adult Vulcan you are predisposed to someone who has already let illogical emotions and impulses get the best of them.

I believe Spock Prime, the other me as you call him, connected with you using the Vulcan mind meld after. . .[He's quick to dismiss that subject of his home planet, immediately moving onto the point he is intending to make.] Do you remember what you felt?

[ Jim nodded, bowing his head and smiling sadly, fondly, at the memory of the Vulcan he referred to as "Old Spock". ]

I don't think I'll ever be able to forget.

[ Not just because he had felt that Spock's loss at being to late to warn the Federation, he felt the loss for his planet, the loss of his people, and - what he had never told anyone - the loss of his "old friend", the other Jim Kirk. The bits of other emotions and memories he had felt and seen were also still with him. Another life, another time. One they will never know but he will feel the joy and loss of. All without having ever experienced it first hand.

His voice is much more quiet. ]

I can still feel him. Sometimes.

[He's keen to watch Jim's reaction. Spock Prime has never disclosed exactly what he shared with this version of Jim, only that it may have had a profound affect on him in terms of what happened a few years back.]

What he showed you, what you felt, that's what Vulcan practices to surpress. It is useful and detrimental. The feeling is not the same but that is basically what happens except it's expressed on the outer facade. Anyway, the violence can't be controlled as most other aspects can. [Basically, pon farr sucks for all male parties involved.]

As with anything, there are limits that even we cannot handle. [His mother may have survived it, but that's mostly due to patience and a strong will.]

[ Jim shakes his head slowly, lifting it again to look at Spock. ]

I remember being so surprised. Up until that point, I didn't think Vulcans could feel anything. Except maybe hatred. And then I meet him and he...

[ He gives a small, dry laugh, ]

I nearly fell back on my ass from all the... emotion.

[ Jim doesn't mean to allow his voice to crack or for tears to start blurring his vision but it happens all the same. Damn Vulcan. ]

All the pain and joy from memories, the love he felt, the loss. I never realized how wrong I was.

[ And he rubs at his eyelids, rolling his shoulders and trying to push all of those things back before their drinks are set down in front of them. ]

[Spock cracks a small smile.]

You were not wrong, just not open-minded to the many different ways that life can be experienced by others.

[ Leaning back in his chair again, he runs a hand through his hair, making it stick up every which way. ]

Yeah, well. Wouldn't be the first time.

Still learning at any rate. Iowa isn't exactly known for encouraging "open minds".

[ ~~That's funny and cute~~]

And you think that Vulcan is any better?

Probably not but then you guys are touch telepaths. We humans are clearly not.

Hm, there is something you should be aware of.

[Before he continues, Spock takes a sip at that Bloody Mary, clearing his throat a bit. It's strong as hell.]

The mind meld isn't commonly use. Usually it is reserved for lovers and very trusted friends if that. Not many want someone else, for lack of better phrasing, poking around in their heads.

[ Jim is silent as he takes more than a few sips of his own drink, giving his own hiss and shake at the strength behind the whiskey mixed with the soda.

He nodded, though, not really surprised. ]

Well, he did keep calling me "old friend". And even told me stuff about myself that I never really tell people.

[ He shrugs, preferring not to dwell on how it had felt like Old Spock had been grieving for more than just the loss of his planet when they met. ]

At the time, I was more concerned about him knocking my ass out and storing me for food when he came at me with that hand.

[Old friend? It's fascinating how interfering with an alternate timeline still allowed them to be friends, now something a little more than that. The Vulcan is curious, but he doesn't pry. ]

Jim, that's absurd. [ Spock shakes his head.] I wonder what their lives were like; the other us. Spock Prime frequently leaves out details in our brief exchanges, claiming that he doesn't want to influence the decision I make in this timeline.

[ Jim makes a rude noise with his mouth, giving Spock a look. After being knocked out by that nerve-pinch-thing and then waking up on a goddamn ice cube of a planet (that was inhabited by things he had only ever imagined in nightmares), it's not like he had any reason to expect better from a Vulcan that also happened to be Spock.

But that was in the past.

Although speculating about another life probably wasn't any better. ]

That's more than what he told me. He also told me if I told anyone about him and who he was that the whole fucking universe would collapse.

[ Technically he had implied it but that really only annoyed Jim more. Apparently Spock was a crafty shit in any universe. ]

Although my other self had been born on earth on a farm in Iowa. And George Kirk hadn't died in space. But that's pretty much all I know.

[ What does Jim expect? They both have to keep up with you, there's got to be some sort of mischief up their sleeves.

Spock is smiling genuinely this time.]

Technicalities, Jim.

Maybe it's best we do not know the specifics. [ Even if his curiosity says otherwise.] Care to take a walk? I could use a some fresh air after that drink.[Seriously he barely finished it. Maybe the waitress thought they needed the extra alcohol after Jim's complaining.]

[ Jim can't wait for the day when he can toss out the T-word at Spock. Until then, he swallows down more of his own drink, not wanting to waste it.

By the time Jim sets his glass back down, it's mostly gone. He licks his lips, nodding and waving the waitress over to settle their tab. ]

I was gonna to ask you the same thing.

[ Mostly because he had been wanting to show Spock something and now was the perfect occasion to. ]

[ Spock pulls out his wallet, not phased by the cost of the few drinks and treats. After all, the date was his idea and he didn't honestly expect Jim to pay.

Standing up, slipping his hand into his pockets.]

I assume you have a place in mind . . .?

[ Jim had wanted to protest, in the process of pulling out his own wallet when Spock beat him to it. What he ended up doing was leaving the tip at the very least.

As he's tucking it back into his jeans pocket, he nods, heading for the door and holding it open for Spock. ]

Yep.

[ Nope, he's not telling you where. ]

[Spock just gives Jim a look and steps out the door. He's curious and he wants to know. That's going to eat away at him until he figures out what they're doing.

But, in the meantime, he's going to enjoy that summer breeze. For a brief moment his eyes are wandering toward the night sky out of habit.]

Lead the way since you are going to be cryptic.

[ Jim grins and grabs both of Spock's shoulders from behind, giving them a little squeeze. ]

Only way to be if I'm going to keep it a surprise.

[ He then gave one of the shoulders a light smack before moving past him and down one end of the sidewalk. He was looking this way and that for a street sign, forgetting just where they were exactly. Once he found it, he pointed down another direction. ]

This way.

[ Top notch navigational skills right there.

(Probably helps he actually knows where he's going because he's been there before.) ]

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