the roommates meme

[loregasm]

who left the dishes in the sink?


This is a thinly-veiled device for gratuitous crossovers, I'm not even going to play.

What's an even more contrived and even more convenient way to get two characters into the same space than a coffeeshop AU? Making them live together. Want a more intellectual blurb on this meme? Living together lays bare your habits and idiosyncrasies, blah blah, sometimes you accidentally see each other naked.

Have fun ok

HOW TO PLAY:
- Comment with character. State your preferences/shipping permissions and any information you want other players to know.
- Comment to others. Play whatever first comes to mind, or RNG .
- This meme was written with crosscanon interactions in mind, specifically the kind that jamjar game settings generate. All the prompts work whether the characters come from different worlds or the same one, but if you have strong feelings about the kinds of source canons you will thread with, it'd be wise to mention that as a preference. Otherwise, gratuitous crossovers have the mememaker's blessing.
- Have fun and play nice!

PROMPTS:

1. First impressions. Well, it's been arranged. Whether you went for it because it was a good price, or you've been assigned to live together by an Authority, or the stars aligned somehow and now you're living in your dead rich uncle's mansion with the cousin you never met, it looks like you're going to be sharing your living space with someone for the foreseeable future. Time to shake some hands and make some friends.

2. Second impressions. You'd already met this person and gotten to know them, well before deciding to room together. Being friends with someone and living with them are different beasts, though. What are you learning about their habits at home? Does it change the way you see them?

3. Building friction. There's all kinds of little details that add up to a comfortable living space - cleanliness, noise level, expectations of privacy... If one of you isn't living up to the other's standards, is it going to start a fight or can you work it out like adults?

4. Furry friends. Where did you find that kitten? No, we're not keeping it!...okay, I guess we're keeping it. Make sure to schedule a vet appointment. And get it some toys. Wait, are pets even allowed here?

5. Social circle. Bringing friends over can always be hit or miss. Sometimes they get along great with your roommate. Sometimes they break a lamp and try to hide the evidence and if you ever invite them over again you're pretty sure you'll be flayed alive.

6. Sick day. Don't be a jerk, make them some soup or something. They'd do the same if it was you, right?

7. Snow day. The weather outside is frightful, and it's a good thing you remembered to buy bread and milk, because you might be indoors for a while. Cross your fingers that the power doesnt go out.

8. TMI. YOU DIDN'T NEED TO SEE WHATEVER IT WAS YOU JUST SAW. YOU DID NOT NEED TO KNOW THAT ABOUT THE PERSON YOU CANNOT AVOID CONTACT WITH. OH, WOE IS YOU

9. Property damage. The instructions very clearly said to secure the strap around your wrist before using the Wiimote. This is all on you, pal. Hopefully you didn't break something that was important to your roommate...or setting that'll get you in trouble with your landlord.

10. Movie night. Hey, wanna watch Sharknado with me? (Googling "random movie generator" gives you some helpful sites, if you don't have a movie in mind.)

11. Dinner is served. What do the food arrangements look like here? If meals are a group activity, does one person cook more often than the other? Who leaves what in the fridge? Do either of you have any food-based traditions that get shared? Or maybe you just want to break out the booze and have a fun night in.

12. Vent your spleen. Life is hard and sometimes you just have to complain to someone about it. "Someone" is the person you live with, naturally. They know you, but they're not involved in the drama - a perfect combination!

Comments

[crownless]

[after jumping A FOOT IN THE AIR and screaming like a 12-year-old girl--]

What the fuck is your problem?! I was watchin' that shit!

[flank]

[alright, so they agree that the first movie is okay and, amazingly, they had watched it together with little argument. the second movie he skipped out on. and the third, and the fourth--]

I'm burning these fucking movies when you're done.

[jack casually mentions, as he's walking past the living room into the kitchen. presumably to drink himself to death so he doesn't have to hear another second of this.]

[hmfic]

[mr. death just stares down at his unfortunate roommate like the line-faced creeper he is.]

Catching you masturbating on the couch once was enough. Next time, it'll be your dick.

[crownless]

[travis thinks sylvia christel is the peak of a kind and sensitive woman. the real unfortunate roommate here is mr. how-did-you-sign-a-lease-without-disclosing-your-legal-name.

also, rude. unfazed, but still clearly bitter (fuck craigslist) he throws one arm over the couch so he's got space to glower up at hunk.]

I wasn't masturbating on the couch. I was preparing to masturbate in my room, while I happened to be on the couch, on a day you weren't supposed to be here.

[hmfic]

[that's not unfortunate, that's talent. AND JOHN DOE IS HIS LEGAL NAME!! hunk slips the gun into the waistband of his pants, ejecting the bullet in the chamber and the clip like the ultra pro he is.]

I'm always here.

[said cryptically, as always. he doesn't trust you as far as he can throw you travis, there's no way he's leaving this apartment unattended, even while he's at work. one of the perks working as security for a company like umbrella is unlimited access to surveillance cameras.]

[fantasmaniac]

Over my dead body.

[ just as casually, somehow managing to slip the neck of the bottle past his mask with minimal movement and tipping his head back to drink during a scene that's not as interesting. ]

And don't touch my beer.

[flank]

[aren't you already dead, reyes??? but instead of making some stupid quip back, jack just opens the fridge. two different cases of beer sit at the bottom, because they couldn't even find a brand they both liked anymore.

after about two seconds of thought, he takes a bottle out of gabriel's case and even leans out of the kitchen to show him.]

Shit taste in movies tax. Thanks, Reaper.

alex benedetto » gangsta. » ota

[ex_usignolo141]

[fantasmaniac]

[ that quip would've gotten him a deadpan stare because that's fucking hilarious jack you're such a comedian. telling jack not to take his shit is practically asking him to take it, though, and he knew it was going to happen but...

at least this way, he can claim he properly warned him. ]

Put it back.

[ he issues a curt warning, feeling magnanimous today while in this relaxed state. "before i shoot your arm off" is left unsaid, but it's probably pretty obvious that it's hanging in the air over their heads, knowing him. ]

[crownless]

[their rent is probably expensive enough that their landlord dgaf abt how sketchy these new tenants are, honestly??? and shoot your dick off why dontcha hunk, travis would appreciate that.

he shoots roomie the most skeptical expression before he rolls his eyes and turns back to their utterly ruined television set, which is now spewing smoke and little sparks. gj asshole. now how is he gonna watch lucha underground.]

Anybody ever tell you you're creepy as hell? [hunk dont check the nighttime cameras just dont] By the way, you're buying a new TV.

[flank]

[deadpan glare meet old man glare. 76 stares right at reaper, the scream of some girl on tv sounding off between them. he grasps the cap of the bottle, getting ready to twist it off.

yep. challenge accepted.]

ma-ri baek | orange marmalade.

[blent]

[hmfic]

No. [creepy??? hunk???? never meet any of his coworkers. and it's too late. the purity of his eyes have been destroyed]

Fine. But you're not allowed to watch anymore porn on it. [not that hunk ever watches tv, but never again will he see those horribly drawn penises and dangerous-looking, pube bushes.]

frank castle | daredevil (mcu) | ota

[brutalize]

Inigo (Laslow) | Fire Emblem: Awakening & Fates

[manhandled]

[Worst roommate ever.]

Roxy Morton/Lancelot | Kingsman | ota

[redcrossknight]

Gendry | A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones | ota

[bullamongstags]

[[modern also available]]

Merida | Brave/Once Upon a Time | ota

[amhaighdeanbhanuasal]

Sapphire Birch | Pokemon Special

[gymconquering]

[14-year-olds living independently is not weird at all in Pokemon land! Hope you like large animals and have a certain tolerance for dirt.]

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[knewbest]

[The elderly lady Sapphire is currently lodging with does not have any great objection to large, animal-looking monsters, no. And honestly, her protests about the dirt are token at best. It's good for a go-getting young person to experience as much of the world as they can, in whatever way they can - too easy to take it for granted until you're shut away from it by something other than choice.

But she does enough of the cleaning to recognise what is the usual kind of dirt, soil or Blaziken down or trampled bits of leaves, and what... isn't. It isn't her fur, either. It's the wrong colour, just for a start.

Switching the vacuum cleaner off, she pads over to the next room and pokes her goat nose around the side of the doorframe.]

Sapphire, what is this?

[Not judging you yet, dear, but... seriously, what?]

Haruhi Suzumiya | Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-chan

[uncommonsense]

[ unassorted collection of manga and b-movies strung about the place? maybe some maps of the town that might be considered prime spots for aliens to land? GOOD LUCK. ]

Karamatsu Matsuno | Osomatsu-san

[noplan]

[gymconquering]

[SO, LIKE

LIVING WITH TALKING POKEMON GRANDMA?

AWESOME

Convenient, too. Toriel can be a tad bit...oh...how would she put it. Needy, sometimes? Not severely so, just more than Sapphire's used to weathering from adults, but while Sapphire doesn't benefit from adult fussiness, sweet Kiruru absolutely does. She feels they've made leaps and bounds forward with his training since they stopped here, and that's all the reason she needs to hang around.

(The food is good too)

(As long as snails aren't involved)

But while she's here, it seems like a good idea to also get some surveying done. So it's not all Pokemon sparring in the backyard - she takes day trips, and comes back a little muddy with a notebook in hand, full of chicken-scrawl notes about plants and "animals" and weather and occasionally the results of a chat with the odd monster.

So.

The dirt isn't unusual, no. The fur that's the wrong shade of white is, and so is the Sapphire sprawled on the floor of her room, knees under her and head low to the ground, nose wrinkled up as she peers back into the dark corner under the bed.]

C'mon, git outta there...

[Sapphire, what is this?

She shoots to her knees and turns around, eyes big for a moment. Then a big sigh leaves her, and she points to the space under the bed.]

It musta just came in after me! But it grabbed my Pokedex, so I don't wanna startle it...

[(Dogsong plays slowly and faintly, on the periphery of hearing.)]

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[pussymagnet]

[ when your brother is sick you need to care for them. ichimatsu is a good brother. a good burasaaa. so when he clatters a bowl of something purple and bubbling in front of karamatsu, he should be so touched. ]

Here. Eat it.

[noplan]

[ Now come on. Karamatsu was just about getting ready to cry when Ichimatsu left to go make something for him. He'd been sick all this time, and to be noticed now and be taken care of... he thought about what a good little brother he had.

Then, this shit. ]

Won't that just kill me faster?! [ ICHIMATSU PLEASE. Though, he's actually kind of sniffing at it-- wow, that's worse than he imagined. ]