thingsthatshine | Open Post 2016 2017 Edition

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Open Post 2016 2017 Edition

☻Pick one of my characters or drop any of your characters in and get a random choice.
☻Pick a scenario or use RNG (or make one up if you don't see what you want here).
☻Have fun!

I. Roadtrip

1. BREAK DOWN. Oh snap. Your car decided to break down out in the middle of nowhere. WHAT DO? Is that Leather-face? Will this be "Children of the Corn"?
2. HITCHHIKERS? Is this even a good idea? Threads may also have a third participant. Go wild.
3. WHAT THE FUCK DID I JUST HIT? Dude, I hear deer mess up cars... Or I think that was a deer...
4. DON'T MAKE ME TURN THIS CAR AROUND. Alas. You're the parent or disgruntled friend who has had it up to here with all the fighting in the back. This thread may also have a third or even fourth participant, if you can wing it.
5. OMG, I WANT TO TAKE A PICTURE OF THIS LANDMARK! No, no, and no. You tell that person that they're going to be driven around and they're going to like it.
6. THE GREAT ESCAPE. Either dinosaurs or the moth-man is chasing you. Don't stop now.
7. MAKE OUT. For whatever reason, the person you're traveling with in the car. You would love to make out with them and then some.

II. Cuddles

1. SWEET DREAMS. It's been a long day and all you want to do is sleep or just rest your eyes for a bit. Hopefully whoever is close by doesn't mind if you use them as a blanket.
2. STORMY WEATHER. The heavy rain, thunder, and lightning won't be letting up anytime soon. Luckily, it's the perfect weather to stay indoors and snuggle up close and keep warm.
3. SLOW DANCE. It's the end of a party, or maybe it's only the two of you, but the tempo is slow and the lights are low. Let your dance partner take the weight and just sway.
4. SURPRISE ATTACK. Time to invade someone's personal space. Are they working too much and need a distraction? Maybe you just wanted to brighten their day. Either way, they won't see it coming.
5. MOVIE NIGHT. It can be on the sofa or in a darkened theater, but you've got your popcorn and someone to settle against during your favorite movie.
6. I LOVE YOU, MAN. It's totally platonic, really. You're just very good friends, no matter what people like to think. But you just love your friend so much you want to hug them, whether they like it or not.
7. JEEPERS CREEPERS. Welp. You were just frightened. Was it a spider in the washroom, a ghost in the attic, a bad dream? Either way, you're looking for someone to cling to right now, and who better than that person right there?
8. HURT AND COMFORT. Whether you're sick in bed, just been dumped, or suffered a traumatic event, you need someone to wrap their arms around you and make everything go away.
9. SUNDAY MORNING. Maybe you just had a wild night. Maybe there's just not enough space at your place and you need to share your bed. Or maybe you just got really tired and someone else happened to be there. Doesn't matter because now the person with you looks way more comfortable than any blanket or pillow. Drape to your heart's content.
10. MOMENT AFTER. You just had incredible, vigorous sex and if you weren't a cuddler before, you are now. You're probably too exhausted to do anything else anyway. Just enjoy the moment.
11. PLAYER'S CHOICE. Pick one or make up your own!

III. Hurt/Comfort

1. INJURY. You've been injured. Broken bones or bleeding out or maybe just a tiny little paper-cut. The choice is yours.
2. SICKNESS. You're sick and laid up in bed, at home or in a hospital. The severity is up to you.
3. FEAR/ANXIETY. Something is happening and you're scared beyond belief.
4. LOSS OF SENSES. Sight, touch, taste, hearing, smell, etc. You've lost some important sense or ability and now you're left to deal with it.
5. DESPAIR. Nothing is good or right anymore and you can't shake the depression. Maybe that friend of yours can help though.
6. MAKE UP. Fight or break up, it's time to make up.
7. RESCUED. You've just been held captive and/or tortured for however long and finally, someone has come to the rescue.
8. BAD ROMANCE. Fight, cheat on, abuse, whatever the case is, someone else can clearly see you need comfort from someone who isn't your terrible lover tonight.
9. LOSS. You've experienced a loss of some kind and need help getting through it.

IV. Texts from Last Night

1.Go here
2. Make Magic happen

V. Intimacy

1. PHYSICAL INTIMACY. It might just be innocent touches or it might be foreplay.
2. LONG CONVERSATIONS. Honest words can be more intimate than touch.
3. DRUNK. You're over-sharing or simply maudlin.
4. FORCED INTIMACY. Magic. A truth serum, whatever - you didn't mean to bare your soul, but that is precisely what you're doing right now.
5. SLOW-DANCING. There is something inherently intimate about trusting someone else to lead you, and someone trust you to lead them.
6. OTHER. Intimacy can come in many forms. Pick your poison.

VI. SENTINEL GUIDE
Prompts
oo1. The Meeting:
How did you meet? Was it at an event organized specifically for finding your other half? By accident? Did you follow a mystical calling to them? Some other way?

oo2. Rejection:
Sometimes Sentinels or Guides propose a match but it's just not perfect. You don't feel the pull or maybe you think there is someone better or maybe you're already claimed. Maybe you were claimed and someone better came along?

oo3. Protection:
Sentinels are meant to protect Guides, any Guides, but it's even worse when they feel their Guide is in danger. They go feral; blind to anything but stopping and killing whoever threatened their Guide or the bond. Maybe someone attacked your Guide or you haven't bonded yet and you feel threatened or maybe you're the one doing the threatening. Whatever the reason, Sentinels in a feral state are dangerous and only their Guides can stop them.

oo4. Lost:
Sentinels often lose themselves in their senses. Either you're a Sentinel who has lost themselves or a Guide that has stumbled on one or a friend trying to draw them out. Unbonded Sentinels will find it hard to escape without a Guide. Or maybe you're bonded already which means you just need yours to come home.

005. Persecution:
Sometimes normal people or the government fear the power of Guides and Sentinels. Guides are empaths, feeling the emotions and sometimes passing thoughts of others and it can make people feel violated. Sentinels often have enhanced strength, which can make them dangerous. So they scorn them, hurt them or in the case of governments, regulate them.

oo6. Old-School:
Guides used to be treated on the same level as slaves. Unable to work unless their Sentinel said. Not allowed out on their own. They used to wear collars and couldn't own land or inherit money. Maybe the old ways haven't completely fallen out of style.

oo7. Unbonded:
Nothing sucks more than being an unbonded Guide or Sentinel. Always looking for your other half to fill that empty feeling but you probably have friends that aren't your match or who are trying to set you up with someone. Maybe you're skeptical about the whole love at first sight thing and haven't been looking.

oo8. Wildcard: Some mish-mash of the above or anything else you can come up with!

Other Options
Don't like any of the above? Here are some other options:
1. Picture Prompt: go here or any of your other favorite picture sites. Leave me a few pictures and I'll set something up.
2. Pick a prompt from this prompt tumblr or try googling OTP prompts
3. Insomnia! One or both of you can't sleep. Be awake together.
4. Leave me a scenario, lyrics, a word or a quote

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Thank you. [He ducks his head a little, just to hide how bright his expression is. Even though he's centuries-old, sometimes, she makes him feel seventeen again.] I don't know about the truth being better, but... yeah.

What kind? Crispy or chewy or some amazing hybrid of both?

[The way he ducks his head gives her butterflies. If she makes Stefan feel like he's seventeen --and that's the best reaction she can possibly think of-- then he makes her feel like she's a glass of champagne bubbling over. Stefan makes her so glad that she survived the car accident that killed her parents, that he saved her. She moves in closer to him, her hand coming to rest on his forearm.] It is better. It makes you seem...real. Sometimes, it's easy to believe I'm dating a fairy tale. [ her voice is teasing, but she's actually incredibly serious about that]

That amazing hybrid. I haven't been able to recreate it since she died. Mine always end up one or the other.

[It feels like they're a fairy tale. She's the princess, he's the prince, and Damon's the fire-breathing dragon that threatens to keep them apart from each other.

Or so Stefan would think, were he an expert in these things. His smile only grows wider as he leans on her.]

Hm, I don't wanna get between you and your mother's memory, but I saw a recipe that could give you the best of both worlds. [beat] We'll save it for our next date?

[ And she's afraid she's being too sappy about all of this, but she can't argue with him. Particularly the fire-breathing dragon part. Well, if he's going to lean on her then she's just going to wind her arms around his waist and lean back. His suggestion makes her eyes go wide and she smiles, an almost laugh bubbling out. ]

How can I say no to that? I think my mother's memory will survive. [ She pushes up on her tiptoes to press a chaste kiss against his lips. ] I think she'd like you.

[ Okay, she probably wouldn't like the part where he's a vampire, but Stefan, she thinks her mother would like that part of him. ]

[He melts into that kiss a little more than he should. Every single day has been a dream, and well - he doesn't take any of it for granted.]

Really? I hope she would've. [As much as he loves Elena - and let's face it, he loves her so much - he would've liked to be a bumbling teenage boy again, trying and trying to impress his girl's parents.] Though speaking of parental figures, where do I stand with Jenna?

I'm trying to get a good read, but all I hear is static.

[ There is no such thing as too much melting into a kiss. She adores the way he reacts to her kisses, the way he continually seems truly awed by their relationship every day.

If she could give that to him, she would. She'll have to settle for making him feel that way. When he asks about Jenna, Elena tilts her head a bit, breath held as she considers it. ]

I think Jenna worries. There's the whole older guy thing. She's afraid you're going to break my heart. I also think that she thinks she's not supposed to like you as the sole parental figure in my life. I think you're winning her over though.

Okay, setting the vampire thing aside, I'm technically your age.

[Eternal teenagerdom is the worst, and Stefan's more than aware of it as he presses his lips together. There's very little he can do on that end. He can't turn the clock back, no matter how much he wants to.]

It's okay if she doesn't. I don't exactly make things easy on her, but if there's anything I can do... [He kisses her again.] You just say the word.

[ Elena laughs a little at that, tilting her head up to nuzzle his nose with hers. ] Try telling Jenna that.

[ She's teasing though.] Besides, if you weren't a vampire, the only way I'd know you is to read about your ancestors in history. I'd be missing out.

[ She nods at his offer, arching up into the kiss.] Letting me take home leftovers might be a start. [She says the words still so close that her lips almost brush his. Her tone of voice is teasing again, but really, Stefan: leftovers. ]

You sure would be.

[He's teasing right back and he knows it. As much as he hates that eternal teenagerdom, he gets to be with Elena rather than a footnote in her history book. This is clearly the better deal.]

Honestly? You're getting more than leftovers. I might've gone overboard in that whole hour, and it's not like Damon and I need this.

[ His teasing makes her giggle. She loves it when Stefan is just Stefan, the boy he might be if he really were just a seventeen year old boy. She slides one hand up Stefan's chest to wrap her arm around his neck and pull him down for a kiss. ]

See, racking up points already.

With Jenna or with you?

[Like he has to ask, but his inner brat wants to know. For love! Or science!! Or some BS'ed answer he'll give when he's not focusing on every little movement, on how easily he wraps his arms around her waist, or even on how her heartbeat grounds him in the moment.

It's usually a call for food, but with her? It reminds him that right now, he feels whole.]

[ She swats at him playfully and half-heartedly. She grins at him flirtatiously, eyes sparking playfully.] That depends on whether we're talking about the point worthy kissing or leftovers.

[ If he's going to be a brat, she can be a brat right back. ]

Ooh, so I could be losing one of these categories?

[He returns that flirtatious grin, half-tempted to just pin her to the wall and forget about dinner altogether.

(Hey, it wasn't like Damon would actually use this room anytime soon.)]

You're killing me here.

Possibly.

[ She says it in that mischievous sort of way she has. She has no doubt that Stefan's dinner will be amazing, as will the leftovers. Should he decide to give into that temptation, she won't argue.

His comment really just spurs her on. She runs her index finger down Stefan's chest, stopping just above his belly button, looking at him from under her eyelashes. ]

I wouldn't want to do that. I can always go stand on the other side of the room if you like.

[He sucks in a breath - out of habit, and also completely out of awe. A lesser man would've just cleared the kitchen counter, and a lesser one would've just gone for the gold.

Stefan's had over a century of restraint, and he's not changing that just because his girlfriend's a little too good. His cheeks, though, are definitely redder than usual.]

Nuh-uh. I'm gonna be good. [He's ducking his head a little as he grins,] Wouldn't want all of this to get cold.

[ He has no idea what seeing all of these little reactions to her does to her. It makes her giddy. She's just as much in awe of him, this impossible man that loves her, that she loves, as he is of her.

The restraint is a little disappointing, but also nice. She appreciates that he wants to do this date right. She giggles a little and steps back just a little, her hand going to his wrist, giving him a little bit of a break. ]

No. You worked hard on it and I am starving.

Good, because I made way more than enough.

[He steps back too, if only to offer her a plate.]

There's lasagna in the oven, I've got the insalata right here, and there might even be some tiramisu in the fridge.

[ She takes the plate, eyes going a little wide as he lists off everything. ]

I could get used to this Chef Stefan thing.

[ She knows that he's cooking just for her and it's sweet and thoughtful, romantic. She likes that he takes care of her.]

You and me both.

[Also, selfishly: he likes cooking because for a couple of hours, he can pretend that he's human and that he needs the nourishment as much as she does.]

But I'm also in the market for a sous-chef. [He's teasing as he grabs oven mitts - out of habit! - and pulls the lasagna out of the oven.] You wouldn't happen to know where I could find one, would you?

[ Oh Stefan. Things like that break Elena's heart. She encourages anything that makes him feel human and normal. She smiles, leaning a hip against the island. ]

Oooooh I think maybe I could be talked into plying my skills as a sous-chef.

Is that so?

[He sets the dish on the counter, using the oven mitt as an impromptu coaster.]

What would I have to do to make that a "yes?"

[ She pretends to give this some thought, finger tapping at her chin. The lasagna smells amazing. ]

I warn you. I don't come cheap.

[ The look in her eyes is mischievous. ]

It's going to take at least a kiss. At least.

[ She's ridiculously easy when it comes to Stefan. She is so crazy in love with him. ]

Hm, I think I can manage that.

[He'll even steal one, right now, just because he can.]

Maybe even a little something extra? Just to seal the deal?

[ Yes, he can steal a kiss anytime he likes. Kissing Stefan makes her whole body buzz with warmth. She might let out a little whimper of absolute contentment when he steals that kiss. ]

Mmmm a little extra. [ She hums it, lips pressed together, barely concealing the smile that wants to break across her face. ] I can already tell you're going to be a very giving boss. I guess I've got a job then. As soon as you follow through on this extra.

[Victory!! Stefan's entire body shakes with the laughter he refuses to let out - how she manages to make him feel so human again, he doesn't know.]

After dinner, I promise. [His eyes briefly flicker in the direction of his bedroom.] I don't think we'll be interrupted anytime soon, so...

[He reaches for a plate, finally, and holds it out to her.] Bon Appétit.

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