The Power Games Meme

[ex_victimized943]

the power games meme

This meme is about gaining, using and abusing power over others. Now with more options! Warning: contains possible triggers.

How to play

- Post your character with their name and canon in the subject line. You can also give your preferences if you do/don't want to thread anything R-rated or above.
- When replying, go to RNG and roll numbers 1-2 to get a scenario type, then 1-16 to select a scenario.
- Play out that scenario! Please respect others' wishes if they don't want to play out a particular scene.

i. manipulation

01. Mind games. You're messing with this person's head, using whatever you know about them to your advantage. Words are barbs, and everyone has a weakness.
02. Stay close to me. You're not letting this person out of your sight. And you don't care what extreme measures you have to go to in order to do it.
03. Blackmail. You know something and you're not afraid to use it against them. Now they have to do what you want.
04. Love makes you do things. It's because you love them that you're making them do this. If they truly loved you, wouldn't they do as you say?
05. For your own good. It doesn't matter what the other person wants. You know what's best, and you're going to force it on them whether they like it or not.
06. Break you down. You're going to make the other person think they're worthless. Crush their self-esteem, break them until they're entirely helpless.
07. Betrayal. You made a promise, and you broke it. Or perhaps you betrayed this person's trust. It's all part of gaining the upper hand.
08. Lies, lies, lies. Fool the other person with words and you'll have them wrapped around your finger in no time.
09. Sob story. A little bit of emotional manipulation never hurt anyone, right? You're going to use this person's feelings for you against them. Make them feel sorry!
10. In your debt. Look, you saved them. The other person wouldn't be here without you. They should show some gratitude.
11. I need you. You're depending on the other person to do as you say. They're the only one who can help.
12. Turn up the charm. There's nothing like a bit of good old-fashioned flirting to get someone eating out of your hand.
13. Negotiating. There's a bargain to be struck, if only you can find the right words – and the right leverage.
14. For my sake. Why should they do as you say? Because you're the one asking.
15. The truth. It's the thing that hurts most of all.
16. Your choice. Combine any of the above scenarios or choose your own! It's up to you.

ii. mastery

01. Pretty little puppet. You can command this person at will. They're a plaything, to do with as you please.
02. You're mine. You own this person, and you're going to make sure they know it.
03. No escape. Maybe you've locked the other person up somewhere, maybe you've got them in chains. Either way, they're not going anywhere.
04. Put in your place. That's it. The other person made one too many caustic comments, got in your way one last time. Now you're going to show them who's boss.
05. Force of strength. Nothing like a good old fashioned brawl to really prove who's stronger.
06. Cornered. Finally, you've got them alone. This is the moment you've been waiting for – and perhaps the moment they've been dreading.
07. Turning the tables. They thought they'd won, but here's your chance! Maybe it's time to give them a taste of their own medicine, or maybe you have a new trick up your sleeve.
08. Punishment. The other person has done something wrong, or maybe just something you don't like. Now you're going to punish them.
09. Back and forth. I have a laser gun! Well, I have a lightsaber! Whatever it is, you're closely matched and trying to outdo each other.
10. Make them beg. You hold all the power and whatever it is they want or need, you're going to make them beg for it.
11. Call my bluff. You're making claims you can't back up. Can you bluff your way out of this, or will the other person catch on?
12. Time to pay. The other person owes you, and it's time for them to pay up.
13. Show of dominance. You're not actually going to hurt this person. You're just going to show them that you could.
14. The most precious thing. Whatever is most important to the other person, you're going to take it away. Because you can.
15. Consequences. You warned them. They failed, and now they're going to pay the price.
16. Your choice. Combine any of the above scenarios or choose your own! It's up to you.

Comments

Sebastian Shaw | Marvel Comics | OTA

[kingofhellfire]

[Sebastian would be the one exerting power. Most of them would work, really. M/F for anything smutty/shippy.]

II-8.

[spiritus_scooby]

[She knew she shouldn't be this afraid. Willow was a witch, and a powerful one. For all the power he commanded within the Hellfire Club, Willow was pretty sure that, if it came down to a straight fight, she could win. She could escape.

But it would never come down to a straight fight, with him. "Pretty sure" wasn't sure enough. And she had messed up. Really...he had a right to be upset with her.

Trying not to panic, Willow paced Sebastian's office and waited for him to arrive.]

Tywin Lannister | Game of Thrones | OTA

[daddylion]

[The dominant party. No smut, but most other situations should work.]

Mina Harker | Dracula | OTA

[wilhelminaharker]

[Probably the one being controlled. Sexually charged scenarios or implications are cool, explicit smut less so.]

Isaac Lahey | Teen Wolf

[acidity]

Daenerys Targaryen | ASOIAF

[butwearenotmen]

Meera Reed | A Song of Ice and Fire

[greywater]

Abigail Hobbs | Hannibal

[relatable]

padmè amidala | star wars

[uncondoned]

Kate Bishop | Young Avengers

[unparented]

kali | teen wolf

[barefooting]

Will Graham | NBC Hannibal

[herpestidae]

Rufure (Robin) | Fire Emblem Awakening | M/M for smut

[bubbles_tactician]

dr. frederick chilton | hannibal

[suggest]

dot matrix • reboot • ota

[militance]

Ｄａｉｓｙ Ｂｕｃｈａｎａｎ ｜ Ｔｈｅ Ｇｒｅａｔ Ｇａｔｓｂｙ

[daisily]

[No smut, and she would be the victim.]

Albert Wesker - Resident Evil - OTA

[tobeagod]

[Wesker would most likely be the one in control. Smut is unlikely with him.]

2-3

[abeltorun]

[Some people, when faced with the unimaginable, find themselves frozen in terror. Others raise their fists and struggle against the inevitable until their last breaths. Some give in and wait for the end to come. And some run.]

[That's what Runner Five chooses to do. His helicopter was shot down, and so he chose to run from the wreckage with more than a few Majini on his tail. It was supposed to be a simple mission. Get in, grab some supplies, and be safely airlifted out. It was supposed to be simple. But it hasn't turned out that way.]

[He's trapped in a narrow alleyway deep in the quarantine zone. No weapon. No backup. No way to signal to his allies that he's alive and well. He's about to have even bigger problems.]

Crap. Crap, crap, crap. The Major's never going to forgive me for this one...

Will Graham - Red Dragon/Lecter series - m/m for smut, OTA otherwise

[eidetikerwill]

[Good with him being the one in control or not.]

Ise Nanao | Bleach | OTA, F/M preferred if sexual

[eighthlibrarian]

[Could be controller or controllee.]

Lindsey McDonald (Pimped!AU) | Angel | OTA

[golden_boytoy]

1-10 + 2-3, with a likely side of 1-4, because... Cain.

[goldendawn]

He had thought this was going to be an ordinary night. The scent of blood was in the air, the feel of the hunt. He still had to be more careful than he would have liked about it, not out of any kind of compassion, certainly, but because he didn't want Shido finding out he was still alive a moment before he was ready, and suspicious vampire deaths would draw him.

Someone no one would miss, then, someone who could be quietly disposed of and forgotten about. Maybe, in fact, someone who the police would simply assume was the victim of some different kind of foul play. Eventually, it all boiled down to watching, and waiting, until the right crime syndicate soldier with the right proclivities decided to indulge in them in a back alley.

He was not expecting, when he materialized at the entrance to the deadend alley, to find out that his prey was also a hunter of an entirely more mundane sort. From the knife in the man's hand, and the terrified look on the boy's face, it seemed like he wasn't the only one out for blood this evening, and looking to have a body to dispose of at the end of it. He could have listened in on whatever he was saying to the boy in low tones, but then, he would have to care for that.

"So many terrible things in the dark, waiting to devour you, and yet you humans insist on preying on each other," he shook his head, amused, advancing slow and confident.

After all, no one was leaving this alley alive, now.

Rufus ShinRa | FFVII Compilation | OTA

[fearmongering]

Re: Rufus ShinRa | FFVII Compilation | OTA

[shinra_dog]

[:D Would love a harsh boss! Will RNG if you want, but I am good with anything.]

Sir Integra Fairbook Wingates Hellsing | Hellsing | No smut

[amissionfromgod]

/smuts her anyway only not and late DX

[thenolifeking]

(( ooc: put her kinda sorta in Abraham's place?))

[He is not kind. Dracula - as he's called now - has never in his unlife or mortal life pretended to be anything other than what he is. The only difference now is that world can see the truth of that monstrous nature. No one else knows as best as the woman in front of him, watching him with such steady blue eyes.

The Count chuckles. ]

You're braver than most.

Sansa Stark | A Song of Ice and Fire

[songsandstories]

Jessica Hamby | True Blood

[notevenagirl]

The Elvenking (Thranduil) | The Hobbit

[elvenking]

[Either party. If he's going to be the master/manipulator, please limit the "mastery" choices to 7, 9, 11, or 15. He's neither a sadist nor particularly preoccupied with rubbing it in.]

i-1 which entails just about everything in ii...

[lordof]

[as he had in the beginning, mairon visits often. 'visits' being the key word. he comes by once a day, once every few days, whenever he manges to clear out enough tasks for the day, and stands outside the cell. watching. minutes go by, or more, in silence. sometimes he spends hours standing and watching, until an orc messenger or a nazgul comes to fetch him away.

sometimes he lets (orders) the nazgul stay in his stead.

today begins about the same. except he comes in less armored than usual, wearing only a metal gauntlet on one hand and showcasing the ring with the other. and he approaches the cell with a metal cup, half filled with tepid water, held out through the bars with his ring hand. the only water he has allowed to reach the elf since his capture.]

hannibal lecter | nbc hannibal | ota

[intemerato]