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The Bathing Meme

Scrub-a-dub-dub, this meme is ridiculous. No, really. This is a meme about taking a bath. Silly.

- Post your character with name, series, and preferences as the subject header.
- Reply to other characters, using the RNG (1-7) to choose a bath type from the list below, or don't!
- Characters bathe. Or other things involving a bath. Whatever, dudes. Anything goes!
- Sexy times and/or triggery material may pop up in threads. Please be conscientious toward your fellow roleplaying buddies!
- Original meme found here

1. Bubble Bath: Here, the characters are sharing a humongous bubble bath with all the froth they can handle. The scent is delicious, the water is warm—go on, enjoy yourselves!
2. Shower: Perhaps not as fun as a bubble bath, but hey, at least it's built to accommodate two. Don’t slip!
3. Hot Tub: A whirlpool of warmth and—mm. Don't mind me. I'll just be sinking in.
4. Hot Springs: An outdoors bath is good, too, right? Or maybe this is part of a hotel. Either way, it sure is steamy.
5. Decadent Bath: There could be bubbles here, or maybe just those wonderful smelling oils and salts. Awwww, yeah. This bath probably cost a small fortune, so you should enjoy it while it lasts.
6. Lake: In case the hot springs weren't rugged enough for you, here's an actual lake, complete with waterfall for all your rinsing pleasures.
7. Other: Bathe in a shoebox for all I care!

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( in so many aspects of his life, steve is repressed. he withholds from going after anything but justice because diving into a fight without any idea of where he'll land when it's the right thing to do is the one constant he has. everything else? he feels it out as he goes, to a fault, failingly more often than not.

bucky is a large example of that.

they're in an unusual circumstance in a safe house, filthy as all get-out on account of a building essentially falling down around them (oops, so much for recon) and they've taken all measures to ensure they made it back without a tail. they're in various degrees of decompressing, recalibrating, whatever it is they call it (for each of them) and steve does the thing he always does; he volunteers to keep watch. the hot take here isn't that it's because of some noble sense of self, it's because of cowardice actually. when it comes to personal intimacy, to broaching conversations that are tough ( and not tough in the sense of we might not make it) in the other way, in being vulnerable emotionally, well. steve isn't the brave man everyone thinks he is, in that regard.

he does the rounds: checks the windows in the dark, circles the perimeter when he's sure he's cleared any possible vantage points, then he does it again, does it backwards, sideways, as many ways as he can until he's locking the front door and securing it by pushing furniture against it (just in case) and then he's slumping against the wall outside of the bathroom. be it shower or bath that bucky's winding down in. whether the door's open or shut, he can hear the trickle of water or the way it sloshes when bucky moves in the warm water. steve stares at a fixed point on the low wall of the upstairs overhang, playing at his thumb nail with his front teeth.

he doesn't say anything because he doesn't have to. they both have those annoyingly fine-tuned senses.

the floorboards don't creak on the landing because he isn't moving, not exactly, but there is the sound of outer body armor coming off. )

We're clear, ( he announces into the quiet. ) You can take as long as you want.

Edited 2025-02-20 04:32 (UTC)