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THE QUADRANT MEME.

Quadrants are the Alternian method of romance. Now though, whether you're a troll, human, robot, jello alien or other: you're suddenly experiencing some... feelings for someone else. Feelings that may be alien to you, may be comfortable, or may be utterly outrageous. The point here is: what are you going to do about it?

● post with your characters.
● go here and roll a number between 1 and 6.
● your character is suddenly overcome with one of the emotions outlined below for the person you're tagging.
● obviously since a lot of characters don't understand, recognize or even know of the existence of the quadrants they probably aren't going to call them that. the focus here are the feelings your character will be experiencing, and how they react to and interpret them is up to you!
● have fun!

one. ♥ matespritship.
flushed romance! this one is pretty straightforward! straight up parallel to human romance. they make your kokoro go doki doki, etc. you are suddenly as deep in the scarlet throes as one can be. you are basically in love with them. qurl, you be crushin' up a storm.

two. ♠ kismesissitude.

caliginous romance! is a romantic hatred that functions similarly to an arch nemesis dynamic. whoever this person is, you hate them so, so much. you loathe everything to do with them. you're compelled to oppose and compete with and undermine them at every opportunity. you want them to hate you just as much as you do them. this isn't just your run of the mill loathing. it's a rivalry. it's romantic. you want to punch them in the mouth and then you want to kiss it.

three. ♦ moirallegiance.
pale romance! being a conciliatory quadrant, this one doesn't entail physical attraction like the first two. the closest human concept to that of moirallegiance is a "soul mate". however there is more to it than that, a very specific relationship dynamic. moirallegiance involves the pacification of a dangerous partner, whether that danger is posed to everyone else or to themselves. for whatever reason, you either feel as though the other person tempers your more destructive or self destructive tendencies in a way no one else can -- or you feel the need to do just that for them.

four. ♣ auspisticism.
ashen romance! another conciliatory quadrant. this one involves three people, where one party mediates between two others in order to prevent their relationship from boiling over into caliginous territory (see above) and/or help stabilize particularly turbulent or unhealthy relationships. either your character thinks this person needs a middleman, they want a middleman, or they themselves want to be the middleman. either way, someone is doing some meddling here. optionally you can bring in a third player for this one!

five. ♥♠♦♣ vacillation.

feelings are tricky things and rarely are you able to fit them into clear cut little boxes. whether you're flip flopping between flushed and caliginous or flushed and ashen or caliginous and pale, your feelings don't appear to know what they're doing here! which quadrants you're vacillating in are entirely up to you. you can either roll for them or choose. the main thing here is you can't seem to decide on how you feel about this person.

six. ? wildcard.

choose your own! do whatever you like. this option is a blank check.

if my own summarized explanations of the relationship dynamics were not enough, there is a teal deer explanation here and a slightly less teal deer explanation on the mspa wiki.

Comments

[aggressiveapathy]

God. Even liking people is complicated for you guys.

UNO

[waiting]

[ Bradbury's never been a subtle guy, so the signs are probably pretty obvious. The way his head tips like he's actually listening to what April's saying, the way he flusters more easily, the awkward stiffness with which he cuts off her alcohol supply.

It feels like being back in high school and it's annoying because he can't seem to do anything to stop it, either. ]

[aggressiveapathy]

[April isn't sure when functional alcoholism became a part of her life, but somehow Bardbury always seems to be around when she's about half way through a wine bottle. To be fair, it's a lot easier for him to do so when she's still at work.

But, really, having to work until 10pm on a Friday should be a hate crime. No one could blame her for killing time while waiting for the next batch of paper work to arrive by taking a nice swig right from the bottle.]

[waiting]

[ And yet again, Bradbury's there to ease it out of her hands, exasperated. ]

Where do you keep getting these?

[ It's like, what, the third time he's had to do this today? He gives a passing raccoon a suspicious look. ]

[aggressiveapathy]

Out of Mitch's butt.

[Who wouldn't love this pouting face. Seriously. So sorry for making this meme even harder. But she falls back into her office chair with a dramatic heave of a sigh, followed by her sliding down enough in the chair she's actually sitting mostly on the ground, her elbows propped on the seat cushion.]

So now the great mystery of what's shoved up there is solved. Yaaay.