Captivity Meme, anyone?

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THE CAPTIVITY MEME

You've been captured -- or maybe you've been held captive for a while now. Whatever the case, you've lost your freedom, and there's a specific person responsible for that. You might be a prisoner, a mental patient, a kidnap victim, or someone's pet. Maybe you're there willingly, or maybe the choice has been taken away from you completely.

Both smut and non-smut scenarios are possible. If you don't want to play smut, please indicate so in the title line of your tag.

1. Leave a tag with your character. Be sure to include any limits on what you are willing to play, as this meme has the potential to be triggering.
2. Someone else tags in and uses RNG to generate a number between 1 and 9 (or pick your favorite). The second character is holding the first character captive now.
3. ???
4. Profit!



1. For their own good. Does this person really think they could make it on their own? It's a big, scary world out there, and you need to protect them from it, whether they like it or not.

2. For the good of society. Forget protecting this person -- it's your duty to protect the world from them! Maybe they committed a terrible crime, or maybe they were falsely condemned, but it's your job to keep them locked up where they can't do any more harm.

3. Because they're not well. How's your bedside manner? Whether you're Florence Nightingale or Mildred Ratched, you're in the position of ministering to the mentally ill. Maybe this person genuinely needs your help, or maybe you're just turning a blind eye to their true sanity.

4. For the money. Higher aims? What higher aims? This person is your meal ticket, and they're staying put until their loved ones pay up.

5. For their love. It might be a case of yandere, or it might be a consenting BDSM relationship. Whether it's by mutual agreement or by force, you're keeping them simply because you love them.

6. Because they're cute and fluffy. Who's a cutesy wutesy? They are! Yes, they are! This person is your pet now. Maybe they're a different species from you, or maybe you just don't care that you're both people. Maybe you're even an alien zookeeper looking after a new acquisition.

7. Because they're your property. Slave? Livestock? Who cares what they think - they're your property, and you decide their fate.

8. For the lulz. Hey, what's a little bondage between friends? You'll let them go, once you're done laughing and snapping photos... maybe.

9. Choose a scenario, or combine several.

Comments

Enter | Tokumei Sentai Gobusters | OTA

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2, 2, 2, and nothing but 2

[red_pleather]

Arms folded, I look at him where he's tied to a chair, and I wait for him to wake up.

Never again.

Never, never again.

Oh, but of course! C'est bon~

[interpolate]

I wake up slowly, which is a problem in and of itself. When is the last time I bothered sleeping? A waste of time, usually, and often used precisely as that, a way to pass time.

Once I've managed to fully awaken, however, I am fully aware almost immediately. And thus fully aware of my limited capacity to move.

I lift my head and focus on... Ah.

"Mon rouge. Fancy seeing you here."

:P

[red_pleather]

"Enter."

Not Emeric. Not any more. I know, now.

"I understand we're fighting a war. I've made excuses for you before. 'Yes, he needs to be stopped and we can defend ourselves but then he can be rehabilitated'. Or 'he's been hurt, and he's doing what he's told'. But you. You were vicious."

I pause, thinking about Etienne lying there on the ground like that, when I got there a fraction too late because I was trying to help Ryuuji.

:D

[interpolate]

There's something wrong with him, that's for sure. I wonder what it is I did this time.

Of course, he shortly tells me, and I tilt my head as he continues. To be sure, I don't remember any such particular viciousness. Nothing unforgivable, surely. Maybe where my darling brother is concerned, but mon rouge? No. I attacked a hospital, I used small children as bait and shield both, and still it was always I know you are in there, Emeric.

Not now, apparently. Which concerns me.

I struggle ineffectually against the bonds holding me to the chair, then cast around. My goggles are missing, so too is my computer. And without those...

Hm. I might actually be at his mercy.

"I have long been, as you say, vicious, mon rouge. What changed?"

How did you catch me, that's what I want to know.

tell me if this is too much XD

[red_pleather]

The steel guards around his wrists should take care of his cables. His computer's gone, so are his goggles.

I raise my eyebrows. "Ryuuji. And Morishita. Neither one's coming back from this mission." I have to pause for a moment to allow myself to react to that, but my grief's pushed down to a tiny tight ball deep inside me. I don't think I could cry if I wanted to.

"You're mine," I say calmly. "Don't bother looking for assistance. No one even knows you're here."

Not too much, but off. :(

[interpolate]

I struggle ineffectually again, beginning to grow quite frustrated with the restrains on my arms holding my cables in check, the restraints holding me to the chair, the lack of any of my personal affects, and most of all the chunk of time missing from my memory. I do not make mistakes. I do not forget things.

Something has happened. Something quite awful indeed. And for once, I believe my hand in it was simply that, my hand and nothing more. Not my directive.

I can't help the slight snarl that pulls at my upper lip. He's probably right, even Messiah's usual presence at the back of my mind is missing. Severed? Permanently? How would they even know how to do such a thing? Is it even possible.

I track back on his words and tilt my head with a slow frown. "Elaborate, mon rouge."

Did I kill them? Did I kill them?

<3333 I'm fine with unreliable narrator, btw, Hiromu had a head injury / whatever you like

[red_pleather]

My voice is level. "Blue Buster and one of our data managers. Both dead. Etienne's gravely injured."

I lean forward, and grab a fistful of hair at the back of his head. Not out of rage, purely to impress on him how serious I am. "What did you do? I need to know how to help Etienne, even though you obviously don't give a flying fuck about his welfare."

I was going more along the lines of Messiah was controlling Enter >:3

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His voice is fairly calm for a moment, but then he moves forward, he grabs me and pulls and his voice drops and his words impress upon me heavily.

Gravely injured, and that, that is enough to send me flying into a rage of my own, though I can't do anything about it. I struggle against the bonds and my strength is not particularly reduced even if my cables have been taken from me. The bindings creak in their struggle to hold me as I snap my teeth in his face.

"You do not tell me what I do or do not feel for my brother, rouge. What I did? What did you do? Where is he?"

that works! :D

[red_pleather]

I scowl at him as he struggles, but I tied him up damn carefully, with the strongest material we have. It holds. For now, at least.

"Lying upstairs on the verge of death. His vital functions are depleted but no one knows why. He's injured but not badly enough for this. His organs just don't. Want. To function." I bite the last parts out between clenched teeth. Can't lose him too.

"Yesterday I would've thought you cared for him no matter what," I say tightly. "I was wrong. I was stupidly, stupidly wrong, and he's suffered for it, and so have Ryuuji and Morishita, because I should've moved harder against you weeks ago."

I thought you'd like that XD

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I still as he speaks, listening to his words and mentally dissecting them for any hint of duplicity, any slight stammer that would give him away as lying.

Because he must be lying. He must be trying to... break me, somehow, using a truly perverse method to try and draw Emeric out of me, rescue me.

But he's not lying. He's too angry to be lying effectively. Too upset. Lost and confused and blaming me.

"You were right." I growl softly. "You were right that I care for him, no matter what. What I... What I did..." What did I do, he wants to know.

And I am presented with a very frightening prospect. I don't know.

"You're not about to believe me when I tell you that I would never hurt him. Not him. Not on purpose. Not like that."

I dooooooo. Hiromu's still falling apart though.

[red_pleather]

I go to punch him for that, for that bullshit, but I wrench my fist aside at the last instant. I will not fall to that.

Not yet.

"You're right," I say hoarsely. "I don't believe a word of it. I used to trust you, to a certain extent. That's gone now. Tell me what you did, because I will make myself hurt you if I have to."

But of course! He doesn't know. :(

[interpolate]

I don't even bother flinching when he moves to hit me, because I know instinctively that he's not yet at the point of following through with it. And of course he doesn't, his fist grazes my ear and I tilt my head slowly, keeping my eyes on his the whole while.

"Believe what you want." I hum, distracted and distressed at the thought of something happening, something being my fault, that I don't remember.

Etienne was supposed to make it out of this entire situation unscathed. I pleased Messiah to earn good favor in the passing hope that, when the time came, my brother would be spared as I had been.

"I don't know." I finally answer him. Might as well tell him, keeping information from him is hardly useful to either of us at this point. "I don't remember what happened. For the first time in thirteen years there is a glitch in my memory."

:(

[red_pleather]

I push the rage down deep again, for now. I know it's not healthy. I don't care. I need to save Etienne, and if emotions aren't useful then I won't have any.

I fold my arms, watching him, but he seems to be genuine in not knowing what's happened.

...then again, I've trusted him before. "Have you used a weapon like that on anyone before?" I ask evenly.

:D/

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I contemplate my bonds again, frustrated as I am I wish to be able to pace.

I won't admit it aloud, but I am scared. Just a little. Just enough to make me angry.

"What weapon?" I snap at him. "You said nothing about a weapon. Am I not the weapon?"

*g*

[red_pleather]

I raise an eyebrow, just a little. "I have no idea how it was done. All I know is the effects. I'll rephrase. Have you ever done anything that's had that kind of effect on anyone before?"

It's just us. Just me and him, and Etienne waiting upstairs for any goddamn information Enter can give me.

[interpolate]

Smug little bastard. I almost feel bad, because he has lost people. I'm not sure about the stranger, but there is definitely a note of regret at the back of my mind for Ryuuji. This is not something I would have done on my own, I know that, whether he does or not.

"Non," I answer finally. "I am not aware of having any such power. Temporary mind control, personal teleportation, inordinate strength in my cables. But to... to cause someone to shut down like that. No."

My brother. What has happened to my brother?

[red_pleather]

I don't have Ryuu-san's strength, but I can punch the wall next to my head with enough power to leave my knuckles bleeding.

"Anything in your medical history? Does Messiah have any other agents operating out here with abilities different from yours? Anything?"

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I wrinkle my nose when he hits the wall, but at least he's not hitting me.

Medical history? Do I even have one? The idea of other agents is frankly laughable, for if that were the case I imagine Messiah would be free by now.

Anything.

"I don't remember the space of time you are referring too. I also don't remember how I ended up in your custody." I hesitate. I'll probably get hit for this question, but I have to ask. "I can I see him?"

[red_pleather]

I frown at that, because he should remember. "You were vocal. You seemed coherent."

...and I probably shouldn't even trust that he doesn't remember, but it's hard not to. Not with that expression on his face. He's near stopped us already, what purpose would it serve for him to lie?

I press the heels of my hands into my eyes for a moment. I don't want to do this, but maybe it'll spur something in him. If he's lying, or truly has forgotten something, maybe the desperation of seeing his brother -- and yeah, I'm beginning to believe he still loves his brother -- will give him something that'll let us save Etienne. I'm far past the point of desperation right now.

"Yes."

[interpolate]

I squint at him, tilting my head far to one side, wondering how I could seem coherent and not remember a single thing afterwards.

"Did I sound like me? Hiromu," I use his name so he understands the gravity, because I'm beginning to realize something and it's making me distinctly uncomfortable.

He says yes, which impresses me enough. I wet my lips, then nod. "Take me to him, please. I will do what I can."

[red_pleather]

Did he sound like him-

That seems ridiculous. A completely ridiculous question. But I don't know the answer, and he's actually using my name. "...maybe not," I say tightly. "What are you implying?"

A few calls later, and enough use of dire comments, and I have a pathway cleared for us. "Guards will be watching us move. They'll flood the corridors with anaesthetic gas if you try anything."

Enough to make me seriously sick for weeks, but that doesn't matter. He won't try anything.

He'd better not.

[interpolate]

"For example, did I use any Français?" Might as well make it quite clear for him.

"I am implying that..." Well, I haven't felt any particular connection upon waking, and so I assume it is safe to be relatively irreverent for the moment. Particularly if my brother's life is at stake. He is my perpetual desire and goal. "That perhaps I was not in charge of my own actions during this... altercation."

I clear my throat, watching him warily and listening to his warnings. "Of course, Hiromu, of course. Just get me to him, please."

Once we're on the move I continue my line of questioning. "Tell me, Hiromu, how were you able to subdue me, in the end? I have evaded capture or confrontation for this long. What changed?"

I probably should've thought of this

[red_pleather]

I think back. I was a little preoccupied, but... "I don't think you did," I say quietly. "Messiah?"

We begin moving. I stay behind him and to the side, hand never far from a weapon just in case. The guards on his wrists seem secure enough, though.

I know I'll have some explaining to do with Kuroki once this is over. I didn't tell him what I was doing with Enter. But I don't care.

Near growling, I tell him. "Seems that Ryuu-san wasn't the only one with abilities that intensify when in extreme situations."

Grief and rage appear to unlock mine.

[interpolate]

Merde. "Oui, that is... probable. It is not a thing I was aware Majesté could do, and I am admittedly concerned about the reasoning behind it."

I hum softly. What was Messiah after? Complete destruction of the Go-Busters? Most likely. That would explain a lot, actually, I have never been particularly secretive in regards to my goal of keeping my brother alive.

"I fear this is my own fault." I admit. Hiromu might actually understand. For being so straightforward, so blunt, he also tends to see things more clearly than anyone else. "Majesté... I'm sure its intent was to kill Etienne."