virtualmemespace | the roommates meme

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!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[ She does noticed how careful he's being when he sits back down though. The way he speaks to her is very different than what she's used to, but it's hard not to notice how careful he's being with his own body. ]

If it were more than that is there some reason you wouldn't tell me? I wasn't expecting to get the cold shoulder until after we caught up.

[ his hands twitch at his sides, resisting the urge to palm his injury. ]

There's nothing else. [ liar. worse, he doesn't have a good reason for not telling her other than wanting to avoid being coddled. he didn't regret this injury, and he didn't want anyone telling them they were "sorry," when the worst thing about that failed agni kai was how far gone azula was. her mind was so twisted. so broken. ] I just want to sleep.

[ carefully, he lays down, stretching out across the sofa and turning his back to her. he doesn't pull the blanket over him, and with the way his shirt rides up, the edge of bandages can be seen peeking out from beneath the fabric. ]

[ Weiss watches him in silence for a couple of seconds, able to see the bandages peeking out now. Her voice just sounds exhausted when she says something. She knows he's probably just trying to make sure she doesn't worry, but she has so many trust issues at this point that it's hard to deal with Zuko of all people keeping her in the dark.

Weiss didn't say anything else before she slammed the door after leaving the room. She needed a few moments to calm herself down before she came back. She was only outside the door, holding it shut in case he decided to do something stupid like come after her despite his injury. When she finally came back in, her heels were audibly thunking against the floor from her stomping. She didn't bother to wait for him to turn around, or hold back even the slightest bit. If he wanted to sleep, he could do so after she said her piece. ]

Pyrrha died. Penny died. Ruby was comatose. Blake was stabbed and ran as soon as she was able. Yang lost her arm. Vale fell completely at the hands of people we trusted, who we thought were our friends but were really just liars. Here I became City Guardian. I got stronger. I pushed away half of the people from my world trying to protect this place and even if they forgave me, it's obvious they don't think I was right. I tried to move on from you as best as I could because you weren't going to come back and even if you did, chances were it wasn't going to be with your memories. I dated someone who eventually tortured my friends in front of me, tortured and killed me after I dumped him to have an open sexual relationship with Flynt when I realized I couldn't commit even if I felt alone. I didn't want to experience loving someone and losing them over and over again because I knew it'd end up the same way as it did with you, and I lost everything because of it.

[ Weiss reaches down and pulls his shirt up without hesitation or care for his personal space. ]

Whatever reason you're trying very poorly to hide the bandages under your shirt, I don't care. Don't lie to me.

[ he doesn't comment on that, mostly because he's too busy crying out in pain as the front of his shirt pulls taught over his injury, curling inward while reaching back to bat her hand away. ]

Don't—

[ Weiss cringes a little herself when she sees how badly he reacts to that, drawing her hand back as if she'd been burned. Even if it's nowhere near the worst thing she's seen, it still makes her panic a little. She did that, she hurt him. Weiss takes a deep but shaky breath, holding the hand that touched him with her other hand. ]

..Are you okay?

[ once he's caught his breath and can see past the red hot blaze of pain, he sits up and carefully lifts shirt. there's blood on the bandages where they cover the burn mark. ]

You've been through things, and I'm sorry you had to go through them. I get it, why you did the things you did. But I've been through things, too.

[ he drops the hem, sagging back against the couch. ]

I'm Fire Lord. I fought Azula in an Agni Kai for the crown. She tried to attack Katara in the middle of the battle. I wasn't fast enough, I didn't get there in time to bend her lightning back at her. I almost died. Or maybe I didn't. Katara brought Aang back from death, maybe she did the same for me. I don't know.

[ Weiss feels bad about what she did. That much is obvious. She listens to him quietly, nodding, then moves to sit down on the edge of the couch next to him. ]

I'm glad you're alive.

[ She knows he was worried about that, even back then- that he didn't think he was going to make it through that war. She knows she just spilled her guts in probably the most detailed way she had about what happened, period. ]

May I try something? I can't promise it'll actually work and I've never tried it before, but in theory it might help. And if it doesn't I've got triple-antibiotic ointment cream with something that numbs in it.

[ Hey, injured people happen outside of their world. Sometimes you need a first aid kit for visitors. ]

[ death has always been on his mind, a very real possibility and something he was willing to face if he had to. his life was ultimately not worth damning the world further. and when azula's lightning struck, he thought that was it. that was death, finally coming for him. he watched through hazy, heavy-lidden eyes as katara bore the brunt of his sister's onslaught, losing consciousness at some point during their scuffle.

that was supposed to be it, but like aang before him, katara had made certain that death would not claim him. she brought him back from it, and he was eternally indebted to her for not only saving his life, but stopping azula. what would the fire nation think if they knew that a waterbender had secured the throne for their new fire lord?

he turns his head to glance at her. ] ...I guess?

[ eventually, he was going to have to try something. redressing his own bandages was only going to get him so far. otherwise healing would take months, and zuko knew exactly how long it would take a person to recover from injuries involving burns. he spent the better part of a year in recovery, and that was without the assistance of a waterbending healer.

he thought about asking if katara was still here, but somehow, that seemed out of place in this moment. ]

[ He guesses. Weiss almost snaps at him for a response like that, but manages to hold herself back and just gives him a slightly irate glance. ]

We can use our auras to activate someone else's using our own energy, doing that with mine might work to at least fix some of the damage.

[ Weiss carefully sits down next to him, slowly lying her hands on him near his shoulders, hoping to just let her aura's energy flow instead of needing to touch the injury directly. She's channeled it into a swordfish before, in theory it should work at least somewhat. At the very least, as she closes her eyes, a soft, pale blue light seems to emanate from her. ~~And it does in the video game but shh.~~ Weiss keeps trying, hoping it's working until she feels exhausted enough that her hands are doing more leaning against Zuko than channeling. She stops, letting out a breath she'd been holding and looking at him. ]

Does that feel any better or did I just channel half of my aura into your shirt?

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