Elevators, escalators

[sausagefests]

STUCK IN AN ELEVATOR MEME

You enter the elevator with only one other person on it. Twenty seconds into the ride and it stops. The power is stuck. The doors won't open, you're between floors, and no one is answering your calls. Who knows how long you could be stuck here with this person?

Taken from memebells.

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Kazue and Natasha | oc | f/m/f

[schoolgirls]

[ ota for gen, f/m/f if you want shippy elevator fun.

Kazue remains cool while Natasha starts panicking loudly, eventually asking the third person to "do something already." ]

kyon || haruhi suzumiya series || ota

[monologues]

Marlowe -Chandler- OtA, semi 40s setting but with a fuck it we ball mindset

[halfsmart]

The elevator's operator brushed passed Marlowe, grumbling about the hardboiled eggs waiting for him in his lunch, and got ash on the detective's shoes. The accordioning lattice gate of the elevator is wide open, the shape of another person inside, and the control to move the box stands with its handle pointed into the darkness of the box. Marlowe looks after the operator.

"So you just aren't working today?"

The operator brushes his hand backwards through the air, waving away Marlowe's comment.

Marlowe gets in, eyes the stranger in the box, then pulls the gate closed. He can't tell at once if the metallic creaking sound is the lattice unfolding or his bony hands straining to pull it. The gate's lock slides home, the elevator is tarnished brass and lacquered wood with yellowing strip lights along the ceiling.

Marlowe stands at the controls, takes the lever in hand and cranks it upward. The box shudders and then rattles and begins to climb. They lift fifteen feel through darkness, to the space between the second and third floors, and then the box goes inert. The noise of the engine dies, the lever is still and dead in his hand, and Marlowe closes his eyes and pretends not to be there so the thing will turn on again.

It doesn't.

Seth 🐐 Radiant

[hornedkid]

An odd but kind young man on a quest to stop the appearance of monsters called Nemesis that fall from the sky. Due to the prejudice against those who can use magic like him, he's been raised mostly away from society but has set out on his own and can't help causing chaos.

---

“Okay, so…” Seth casually kicks the door, without any real effort. Bong! The elevator is as it is. “I can get us out of here but… we might die.”

Maedhros | the silmarillion | ota

[holdshisown]

Polly Geist | Monster Prom | ota

[partytodeath]

Essek Thelyss | Critical Role | OTA

[zauberdecke]

[raeltuff]

[Normally I'd fling Mikka at you again, but I have this socially feral loser and his claustrophobia on offer if you'd like?]

[zauberdecke]

[ooc: sure I am down! Go ahead and post a starter! ]

Linhardt von Hevring | Fire Emblem: 3 Houses | OTA

[sleepfan]

[Odds of what happens are split 3 ways:

- Linhardt wanting to do absolutely nothing and sleeping on the floor of the elevator
- Successfully getting out of the elevator in a McGuyveresque fashion
- Unsuccessfully getting out of the elevator/causing the elevator to plunge/setting the elevator on fire]

Susumu Yamazaki | Peacemaker Kurogane | ota

[sneaksnark]

[ He could probably get them out. If he feels like it. ]

Ranma Saotome | Ranma 1/2 | OTA

[catsgothistongue]

[... So maybe pressing the button panel was a really bad idea. This must be how Ryoga feels.]

Goro Akechi | Persona 5 franchise | ota

[detectiveprinceakechi]

[emotional_business]

♪ LOVE IN AN ELEVATORRRRR ♪

[Might as well try to lighten the mood.]

[onetofive]

[Taking off his headphones, thinking she was talking to him--]

What? Did you say something?

[emotional_business]

Oh. Uh. You know… the Aerosmith song?

Badou Nails | DOGS: Bullets and Carnage

[brokeassgoing]

 

Kazuki Miyamoto | Original | OTA

[meteorlogical]

Navia . Genshin Impact . OTA

[radiantrose]

Lily Hargrove🌻oc 🌻ota

[wormchick]

[headhooligan]

[Elevators aren’t Aubrey’s favorite place in the world. Small, cold, awkward; hostile to human life, really. And they are definitely not supposed to shudder and stop, complete with the ominous drone of generators dying, plus the lights flickering off seconds later.]

Don’t freak out. [Said immediately, half to herself. More than half? Whatever, someone else is here. Turning to them:] Got a phone?

Saya Takagi | Highschool of the Dead | OTA

[academicalphabitch]

Fushiguro Megumi | Jujutsu Kaisen | voice testing

[silentgame]

jesse pinkman | breaking bad | ota

[yeahmagnets]

[ ooc; feel free to ask if you want anything tweaked or if you want to wildcard your own starter. i'm happy to toss jesse into your character's universe or put them both into a jamjar setting. don't worry about matching length or brackets--i'll adjust according to your reply. cross-canon, castmates, and ocs are all welcome. i'm okay with some assumed cr (just not an established romantic relationship because i like that to develop naturally unless it's canon). ]

[ Jesse makes a sprint for the elevator, managing to stick his hand in between the doors just before they close. It's good that it's fitted with a sensor, so the doors open back up instead of mangling his hand. He steps inside, panting for air from the run, the scent of stale cigarettes and cheap cologne following him into the elevator. He gives a quick nod of greeting to whomever he's inconvenienced, shrugging a half-assed apology as he shuffles inside.

He punches the button for his customer's floor and reaches up to pull the beanie off his head, light brown hair sticking up as sweat gathers at his temples. He leans against the back wall with a sigh, fidgeting with his hat, skinny frame swallowed whole by his impossibly large clothes. He can't stand still, even tempted to bounce on his heels gently as the elevator begins its ascent. ]

Come on, yo...

[ Jesse speaks under his breath, a quiet bid for the elevator to hurry the hell up. He's running late as it is. His bright blue eyes are glued to the indicator that begins flashing what floor they're on in illuminated red numbers. ]

I swear these elevators know when you're in a rush and go slower just to screw with you.

[ He pipes up again, directing the words to whoever else is in the elevator. He blows out a breath between pursed lips, drumming his fingers against the cheap, faux-wood panel of the elevator wall. He's noticeably fidgety like he has too much energy that he doesn't know what to do with. The elevator shudders, the car jerking a bit, and Jesse looks at the lit-up floor number, his eyes narrowing with a slight squint as it sinks in that the number is no longer changing. ]

Are uh...are we still moving?

Louie Duck | Ducktales 2017

[lyingthroughyourbeak]