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

[interpolate]

I'm not sure what's going on. I don't remember... anything clearly. Hiromu's at the side of the bed, and I reach for him in a daze.

And someone else is in the room. Someone...

Enter?

No. I try to get out of bed and retreat to the opposite corner, but none of my limbs are responding properly.

[red_pleather]

I take his hand, trying not to clutch him too hard. He's weak. I don't want to hurt him.

He's awake.

He's awake.

"No, no, take it easy," I urge. "Emeric helped."

[interpolate]

"Emeric?" I spit. "You're still," My voice sounds weak. What happened to me? "You're still convinced about that?" I remember fighting. I remember fighting him, my brother. Like fighting with my own reflection. "He tried to kill me, Hiromu! Why is he in here!?"

[red_pleather]

"It wasn't him," I say, accepting it at last. "He was being controlled." Dammit, I knew it was him, and it *hurt* that he'd go *that* far... Except now, I know it wasn't.

I have to adapt to that.

I wipe my cheeks absently. Huh. I'm crying. I take Etienne's hand. He's going blurry. "I- I thought I was- we wete going to lose you, too."

[interpolate]

So, Hiromu's lost it. Great. I feel awful, I'm barely standing, my head hurts, my whole body hurts. The shell of my twin brother is huddled across the room, inexplicably terrified of being near me, and Hiromu is crying.

Well. I put my shaking arm around Hiromu's shoulders.

Then his words catch up with me.

"What do you mean, too?"

[red_pleather]

I lean into him for a moment, only, then realise what I'm doing. "You should lie down," I urge him, voice hoarse.

...

I inhale sharply.

[interpolate]

Enter isn't moving, but I still find it hard to believe that he is in any way helpful. I almost... Almost feel bad, feel guilty, feel like comforting him, when I see how he's huddled in the corner with his arms over his head, like he's hiding from something. Maybe from me. It's not like him. And he was holding my hand when I woke up.

"Hiromu." I say softly. I don't want to lie down. I don't want to get closer to Enter, and I don't want to show how weak I feel. "What happened?"

[red_pleather]

We've trained for this.

There are courses. Guidelines. Helpful pictures. Things to say and not to say when advising someone about their loved one's injury, or death.

First time I had to do it for real, I realised all of that was bullshit, and now I'm facing telling Etienne? Doubly so. Because none of that pat-though-well-meant wording will help, none of the eye contact, none of the judgement of how much a person needs to be helped versus how much they need to be alone. None of it will help.

I sigh. "We lost two people," I say quietly.

[interpolate]

Lost. He says it so simply like that. Quiet, obviously hurting. Lost.

Dead.

Gone.

Because of him.

"Who?" I need to know, but I'm not looking at Hiromu. I'm looking across the room. I'm looking at him, and knowing he's responsible.

[red_pleather]

"Morishita," I say softly, then I have to take a deep, shuddery breath before this one. "Ryuu-san."

[interpolate]

No.

I think I'm probably closer to Morishita than any of the others, by virtue of Takosawa insisting that I stay up to date on all the duties required of the Controllers, in case my Weak Point should ever degenerate to the point where I have to be stricken from Active Field Duty.

Was closer, I realize. I shake my head and turn away, but his next words bring me around, and tears spring to my eyes immediately.

"No." It comes out as a whimper, but grief is very suddenly overtaken by rage, and I peel away from Hiromu and throw myself across the room at Enter. "You bastard!"

up to you how successful his attempt is

[red_pleather]

He goes tense all over, and I have to close my eyes against the pain in his voice even as I'm moving to try to hug him.

Except he's not within reach any more.

*Shit*.

I hurl myself at Etienne. "No, get off him, it's not his fault!"

surprise character swap again, lololol why am I doing this to myself.

[interpolate]

I'd nearly managed to check out completely. While Etienne's deteriorating state was enough to distract Hiromu from me, I'd nearly managed to find all of the little locks and checks in place to keep me bound here. If I succeeded, it would have been as painless as sleep, but without me they might not be able to reverse it.

But instead, my brother is suddenly flying at me, his fist connecting with the side of my head, a strike that never would have landed had I been paying any kind of attention. Or maybe it would have. Maybe I would have let him. I'd let him kill me, if it wouldn't hurt him.

"Eti." I wince and look up at him as Hiromu tries to pull him back. "I'm sorry."

masochist <3333333

[red_pleather]

I manage to get my arms around Etienne's shoulders eventually, but it's a struggle to yank him back even though he's barely recovered from the point of death.

"It wasn't him," I say hoarsely, indistinctly, into Etienne's ear. "Please. Etienne. Listen."

WHO ME??

[interpolate]

I struggle against Hiromu's grip, but in the end, physical exhaustion and devastation wins out and I collapse to the floor away from Enter cowering pathetically in the corner.

I'm not much better, on the pathetic front. I curl up with my face in both hands, and sob. I don't know what else to do.

YES YOU *adores*

[red_pleather]

Etienne collapses, and now I have two of them on the floor and I'm not in much better shape.

I rub my forehead, and sink down next to Etienne. I wrap an arm around him, lean my chin on his shoulder, and just hold him for a little.

Then I look up, and gesture with my free hand to Emeric. Etienne would probably freak out. But I can't leave him alone over there, when he's hurting as well.

[interpolate]

I can't help but look around when my brother collapses. I'm worried about him, certainly, though I know full well I have no right to be.

What I don't expect is Hiromu's hand, beckoning. I follow his arm up and lock eyes with him for a moment before I turn away again, shaking my head. I can't. I don't deserve it, and more than that, I'm scared of what I might do. What I might be made to do. I'm scared of hurting them even more.

[red_pleather]

I raise my eyebrows at Emeric, pushing wordlessly, but it's not going to happen.

I'll respect his wishes for the moment and stay with Etienne.