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Off-The-Cuff/Unlikely Shipping Meme!

One of the great things about writing shipping is the set up - characters meeting, getting to know each other, building history, feeling out compatibility.

But screw that.

In this meme you throw anyone at anyone. Don't ponder if they even make sense. Don't plot out how they met. Just chuck a starter and go. NOW YOU ARE IN A RELATIONSHIP.

Post up ONLY THE MOST BAREBONES of your preferences (age limits, gender prefs if you have them. Anything that is a HARD NO only) and then go chuck your murderers, your nerds, your talking cats, all your usually unshippable characters at each other. Or maybe the character you have in ships normally just to see how they handle dating an alien that also wants to eat them.

The only hard rule is NO 'CANONMATES ONLY' PREFERENCES- not that you CAN'T tag or be tagged by canonmates, that just means you get to be suddenly dating your best friend without the 20 threads of worrying about ruining your friendship.

Some possible prompts

1. It's your first date! Time to figure out where super villians like to get coffee and what movies they like.

2. Things are going well, time to introduce the president to your friends... how will they handle it?!

3. First fights are a little more intense when your girlfriend can shoot energy beams

4. You're married to a pony now, congrats on your monstrous centaur children

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[That awkward moment when you find out your date is a bitch.

But no in actuality she only has the ears and some doggy mannerisms, she's still organically human.]

Haha, okay! I guess that's your code for "I have no idea what the fuck I'm looking at!" [She seems pretty easygoing about that as she next tugs at his arm to pull him along with her.] But enough about the doggy stylings, let's get this date started, shall we?

[Wow no, even he wouldn't have said that. He doesn't have much time to think about it any longer, though, because suddenly Jade has his arm and is suddenly dragging him forward, causing him to stagger a little before righting himself.]

Where are we going?

[Cause he sure as heck don't know.]

I found a reeeeeeally pretty rose garden here and I wanted to show you! [That's straightforward enough, totally detracts from being towed around by a girl a head taller than him.] I haven't fully explored and identified all the types and colors there yet, I figured we could walk through it and have a look!

[Jade's a little enthusiastic about gardening.]

...alright.

[A rose garden...pink and red flowers seem to have been a sort of recurring theme with the girls he's gotten involved with, which there have been only...two, but still. He's just glad nobody that would recognize him seems to be around right now to see him being tugged along by his much taller company.]

We might see Roselia and Roserade there.

Oh, yes, you're right! Those Pokemon are very interesting to me, since one of their hands is a blue rose--and I love blue as a color, but in actuality a blue rose does not occur in nature! Roses simply don't have the gene to produce a blue color. Even attempts to create a hybrid garden rose that is blue naturally only makes a purple color, so Roselia and Roserade are rather odd when you think about it.

[She just said all of that as easy as breathing, good golly.]

You know also that the thorns on Roselia's head contain venom? Yet it turns into a white rose when it evolves, and I suppose the thorns move down to an exterior limb. [SHE TOLD HIM SHE'D SPECIALIZE IN GRASS TYPES.] Don't worry, I will try not to talk your ear off about plants all day. [Too late??]

[...good lord, um.]

...you really do have a lot of knowledge about grass types. It's impressive.