thingsthatshine | 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

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She usually isn't happy to see either of them. They rarely bring good things into her life, but if Foggy needs her, Matt would accept her scorn and irritation with him. He makes a 'whew' sort of sigh. "Thank God," he says with a bit of a chuckle.

He is moving a little stiffly; he's more than a little sore, but it's nothing a good drink and some rest won't cure. He takes a sip of his own drink, visbly relaxing.

That makes Matt swallow hard, choking down the emotion Foggy's words bring up. He nods, unable to respond verbally and Foggy is in far too much pain right now for a hug.

"I'll never stop being grateful you came back," Matt finally confesses. Foggy is really the only family he has left. "I'd do anything to keep you safe, Foggy. I just don't know how. I never did."

He watches Matt nod, his heart breaking a little at Matt's confession. He was always going to come back. He'd been sure that Matt had been as sure of that as he had been. Had even hated the fact that he was pretty sure that Matt had known that all along, but maybe he hadn't.

"You can't keep everyone safe. Doing what you do... it comes with a price. We know that." He sighs. This isn't coming out right. "It's not just your secret. It's our secret. And it's important to me too. You're important to me. So if this comes with the territory, I'm ready for it. If it means that you're safe at the end of the day."

For a lawyer, you'd think he'd be more succinct. "I just mean, ditto. We're not always going to be able to keep each other safe, but that doesn't mean that we won't be there trying when we can."

Maybe if Matt hadn't lost Elektra, Foggy and Karen all in one fell swoop, he would have been more sure of it. Maybe if Matt weren't a martyr, he would have been certain of Foggy's return. All of that is unimportant because Foggy is here and despite what he's been through, Matt has more hope than he did twenty-four hours ago.

"I know. I hate it, but I know." He could stop doing what he's doing, at least in theory. However, even if he could make himself quit being a vigilante, he would still hear the cries for help, the plans for destruction. Other people without his hearing, his sense of smell, get to ignore the pain the city is in. He doesn't, not ever and because of that he has to do what he does. Matt clears his throat. "I'm sorry." He's sorry that he has to do this, that Foggy has to pay part of that price. "I can't--" he stops, pressing his lips together. "I hear them, you know? People crying for help, people crying, resigned to their fate, people in pain, people planning destruction. I hear it all and I can't ignore it, Foggy. I can't. You couldn't either, not if you heard them." He's never told anyone this; he didn't think anyone would understand. Maybe they won't, but he figures it's worth explaining to Foggy regardless. At least it's possible he'll understand why Matt has to do it.

"I'll do my best. Don't hesitate to scream bloody murder if you need me." Given what he's told Foggy, it seems like good advice.

He turns to look over at Matt, searching out his face in the darkness, a frown settling on his mouth. He wonders if Matt can hear it in his voice when he shakes his head.

"How? How can you live with that every day?" He would go mad. Hearing every cry for help, every injustice that played out in the city. It explained why Matt couldn't ignore it, but the thought of just how much suffering he had to hear was overwhelming. It made Foggy's stomach clench in sympathy. He swallows, closing his eyes and listening to the sounds from the street. He hears the buzz of the light shining in through Matt's window next door. Horns and cars moving, but there are no cries for help. No voices in the distance.

"I'm sorry, Matt. I didn't know."

He can't hear it in his voice, but he can hear the disruption of the air when Foggy shakes his head.

Matt shrugs a little. "I don't have much choice. I can filter some of it out, and I do. Every day. A lot of it is just too loud, too urgent for that though and those are the things I can't ignore, the people I have to save if I can."

"I know." He hesitates a moment. "It's hard to explain to someone and since you're one of the few who know, I hadn't thought to try and explain it."

There's a silence that settles between them. Foggy isn't sure what he can say, let alone what he should. It's taken him a long time to accept Matt for who he is, even if there's a part of him who knows this is who he's always been.

"You can tell me anything you need to," he says, finally. "I know I haven't reacted the best way possible, but... I'm here." He swallows, shifting slightly on the couch. "You might do this on your own, but you're not... on your own, you know."

He doesn't have to say anything. Being here is more than enough to let Matt feel that acceptance and be grateful for it.

There's a hesitation and when Matt speaks, his voice is rough with emotion and quiet. "Thank you. I was trying to protect you from...from all of this. It wasn't that I didn't need to tell you or that I didn't want to."

"I know." Foggy sighs heavily. The adrenaline is beginning to fade and despite the fact that he's still sore and probably bleeding a little, he's also completely exhausted. He swallows and groans slightly as he puts an arm across his eyes.

"I'm just going to lie here for a second." He'd tell Matt to turn out the lights, but of course they were never turned on. "Rest my eyes."

There's a long moment of silence.

"Stop feeling guilty. I can practically hear it."

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