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toastysocks ([personal profile] toastysocks) wrote in [community profile] bakerstreet2025-03-28 01:08 am

The Slave Auction Meme

The Slave Auction Meme



• Leave a comment with the character's name, fandom, and whether your character will be playing the part of 'slave' or 'master', plus preferences for scenarios if you have any.
• Respond to others with one of the scenarios below or feel free to make up your own.
• Please remember to be respectful of others while you play

Warning: Be aware that this meme deals with dark subjects like slavery and may also contain non-consensual/dubiously consensual sex, violence, and kink.

SLAVES

1. The Newbie - This is your very first auction and you don't quite know what to expect. Hopefully you remember your training and don't disgrace yourself in front of your new master. Hopefully someone thinks you're worth buying at all.

2. The Oldtimer - You've been bought and sold and bought again so many times. You've seen it all before and don't think this time is going to be much different. In fact, the only real anxiety you've got is whether or not someone's going to pay for a more than slightly used slave.

3. The Pet - You're a pleasure slave. A bed warmer. A decorative piece of artwork. You're meant to look pretty and be pleasing and not much else.

4. The Guard - Your master hired you because of your ability to swing a sword or shoot a gun, not your looks.

5. The Escape Artist - Somehow you always manage to squirm out of your master's chains. Too bad you seem to get caught after a while. Maybe your next daring escape will be permanent. Then again, maybe your next master has special ways of keeping you locked up.

6. The Undercover - You aren't a slave at all, you're just pretending to be one. Why? Well that's up to you. Either way, your cover is blown if you don't act the part.

7. The Specialist - You have a skill that no one else has. Something rare and valuable. Something your master needs more than anything else.

MASTERS

1. The Customer - You've owned slaves before and this trip to the market is nothing new to you. Still, you're hoping to find something worth your while.

2. The Gift - Someone bought a pet for you, isn't that nice of them? Or maybe it isn't so nice. Did you even want a slave in the first place? Well you're stuck with one now.

3. The Giver - You're selecting a slave for someone else, and they need to be perfect. Perhaps you'd better test them out first to make sure you're getting your money's worth.

4. The Trainer - You specialize in taming unruly slaves and making them over into perfect, obedient, well-trained pets.

5. The Rebel - You hate the idea of slavery, but the system isn't going to go away any time soon, so the next best thing is to buy up any slave you can get your hands on and free them, right?

6. The Companion - You want someone to be with you always, someone you can talk to and depend on, someone who will never leave your side. It's a good thing that money can buy that these days.

7. The Undercover - You're not actually a Master. You're at the auction for an entirely different reason. Maybe it's special policework, maybe you're trying to hunt down a certain someone. Either way, your cover is blown unless you act the part.

As always, feel free to use a combination of scenarios or make up your own if you have other ideas.


Snagged from here.
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[personal profile] holdshisown 2025-06-03 10:10 am (UTC)(link)
He is incredibly fond of anything that has to do with finances. [His poor brother appreciated anyone paying some attention to him. Having been a bit lost in the crowd as the middle child. No matter how grumpy he may act Maedhros knew he always liked it when someone came to see him.]

He's always been good at setting his own emotion aside when he thinks he needs to... and he's never been especially kind with his words when he's feeling slighted. And he's always been a bit jealous of you.
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[personal profile] thedayhascome 2025-06-03 10:23 am (UTC)(link)
I used to go visit him when I rode out to you when I was still just a prince. A little flattery and some gold and appreciation got my weapons mended many times. I do wish we could be better friends, I think he may even like me a little.

I often wondered about that. He could be very catty with me sometimes and then go right back to sitting me next to him to play the next visit. I think it was only that father did not mind what I did or if I was excellent at it so long as I was happy, but you know how your father felt about any favoured skill that didn't involve the forge. And music? For his second oldest son? Mmmn he didn't seem fond of it, even though listening to Kano could be like listening to the Valar themselves.
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[personal profile] holdshisown 2025-06-03 11:08 am (UTC)(link)
He's really not as complicated as some might think. A little appreciation goes a long way with him, couple that with a gift and he'll be perfectly civil with you. Friendly, even, in his own way. I honestly don't know what caused him to take such great offense at our Arafinwëan cousins that he can't stand to be in the same room as one of them. I've never gotten the full story about that out of any of them.

That's certainly part of it. But he also resents the fact that you so often stole away with his favorite brother and the fact that you took his place as my closest confidante. Can't really blame him too much for that, though, considering father was rather picky about who was an appropriate companion we did not exactly have all that many outside of the family we could call friends and the rest of our brothers were often a bit too rambunctious for his tastes.
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[personal profile] thedayhascome 2025-06-03 02:19 pm (UTC)(link)
He is a little terrifying if you aren't used to him. I think therein lies the complication that most people find. [Even Fingon who knew him his whole life hesitated sometimes around him. But mostly he was no worse than his brothers and usually better, aside from Maedhros, obviously, who was by far the best of them.] I admit that he can find it in himself to hate sweet Finrod is by itself alarming.

True. If I am guilty of any theft it is of your time. I have always been greedy for the spot by your side. I wish he understood I didn't mean it to cost him, though, and that I have ever been his friend too. [Or that he understood it all the time and not just when his mood was light.]
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[personal profile] holdshisown 2025-06-03 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I suppose you might be right about that. I'll always see him as my adorable little grump of a baby brother. [But then Caranthir was more fond of him than he was of most other people, so that made things easier for him.] It's not so much Finrod. He's not fond of him but he doesn't exactly hate him. Mention Angrod in his vicinity though and he'll start to hiss like an angry cat. Put them next to eachother and he'll throw a chair across the table. I have no idea why.

It's more my fault than anyone elses. I spoiled him terribly as a child and he was not happy when my attention became divided. [It's not like he stopped spending time with his brother, he just started to have a life outside of home as well.] It still irks him at times even now, I guess.
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[personal profile] thedayhascome 2025-06-05 12:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I cannot admit to finding your brothers adorable, if they overhear us they'll hang me by my ears. [He teases. Though it is not entirely a thing said in jest, they would certainly at least backhand him. Not that he found most of them adorable at any point past their adolescence.] I cannot say I know why either. I have never seen them argue with reason, I suppose he was just upset that Amrod was our envoy to Thingol? [There was really no accounting for Fëanoreans, present company sometimes included.]

I think if your father had been more tolerant of the fact he loved music above all else there might have been less of a need to cling solely to you.

The bath seems to be ready. [He says as Haldamir comes in one last time, mixing in some sweet smelling petals and oils into the water before departing.] I can lift you into it if you wish.
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[personal profile] holdshisown 2025-06-05 12:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Few other than me or mother would, I suspect. [He does not deny most of his brothers would react with both indignation and violence should Fingon, or anyone other than Maedhros really, call them adorable.] That's certainly part of it but it started far earlier than that. Doubt I'll ever get a clear awnser to why, though. [It may just be that Caranthir did not take well to their Arafinwëan cousins brighter dispositions or their more overt displays of affection. He had always been quite ttouchy about such things.]

Likely so. Kano has always been a sensitive soul, he wanted fathers approval so badly... [They all had, but he thinks Maglor had needed it more than most and when he did not get what he needed from their father he had turned to his older brother who was more consistent in both support and approval of his talents.]

Would you? [He asks with some relief.] It seems now that the need to move is not so great my ordeal has caught up with me. [He feels sore and tired and weak.]
Edited 2025-06-05 12:30 (UTC)
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[personal profile] thedayhascome 2025-06-08 11:30 am (UTC)(link)
She was immune to their bad tempers. Alas, my poor ears are not. [And really it was a numbers game. If they ever meant Fingon true harm and he didn't have his men with him then he was probably more than a little fucked. Thankfully they were more bark than bite, at least with him.] I do not pretend to understand him, but my own brothers are not always rays of sunshine. I know how to handle the quieter, sullen sorts. [Turu wasn't so bad but Argon could be a terror sometimes. He made Fingon look downright sensible about the things he took on, and Fingon was far from that.]

Considering now and then your father convinced me I wanted his approval when I certainly did not, it is no surprise Kano did. He could convince most of us of anything if he put some effort into it. [Though blond hair did seem to make one more immune to him, he thought, only half joking.]

Of course my love. [Easier than he should be able to, Fingon picks Maedhros up while they are still on the bed and carries him like he is his bride over to the gently steaming water after removing any remaining clothes. He lowers him slowly into the warmth, kneeling beside the tub to keep a hold of him in case he is just that tired.] Soak a little and I will wash you too. You need not worry any more.
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[personal profile] holdshisown 2025-06-10 09:05 am (UTC)(link)
It probably helped that my brothers would gentle their ways a bit for her sake. A curtesy they do not afford many others, I'm afraid. [There was that, too. For all that hiss brothers could quarrel among one another quite fiercly they always tended to band together against any outsider, no matter if they were in the right or not.] True. Though I'd say Turgon is more serious than truly sullen or brooding. [Argon, though... he could be a fierce one when he was of a mind to be.]

He knew how to kindle that in people. [In him as well, though he'd more or less come to terms with his fathers mercurial nature after a while.]

Thank you. [Maedhros holds on to Fingon as he carries him off to the bath, leaning his head against his shoulder as he sighs. Once the warm water envelops him he almost sobs in relief. It feels like an eternity since he last had the simple luxury of a bath, of getting to scrub the filth from himself and pretend he could shed the memories of his ordeal just as easily.] You are so kind to me, love. Though I fear you'll need a bath of your own after washing me. I'm filthy. [He sighs.] It'll be good to be clean again. To be rid of the smell of that place.
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[personal profile] thedayhascome 2025-06-13 04:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I think that had more to do with her piercing stares than it had to do with them being gentler by nature with her alone. [Or the possibility she would drag them by the ear.] Oh, he was very serious and proper as a baby. Not at all like his roguish big brother. [He grins. Though the youngest two were more prone to trouble, no doubt Tyelko's influence.] He used to tut at me when he was still a babe at the breast, I swear.

Kindness to you is kindness to myself, so it's selfish in a way. Do not worry about me. There is plenty of water nearby and some more than willing guards and Haldamir to help us get it, for either of us. [He takes a wash cloth Haldamir had left for them (one of many, thankfully) and gently begins with washing off Maedhros's face as that seems like the gentler place to start that will not cause much upset.] Tell me any time you want me to stop. If we take so long the water cools I will just ask for more.
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[personal profile] holdshisown 2025-06-13 06:33 pm (UTC)(link)
You might be correct about that. Mother was many things but meek and mild she was not. If my brothers had acted out too much for her liking they'd not have liked the consequenses. [He'd witnessed them be draged by their ears by their fuming mother more than once in his life.] He certainly looked it even at that tender age. [It had honestly been kind of cute to see such a serious look on such a tiny babe.] That I have no trouble believing! He kind of looked like he was silently judging the lot of us as a child. [Which, in all honesty, was fair enough.]

Perhaps, yet it is still kindness and I am grateful for it. [It is. He can pretend they are just bathing as they normaly would like this, that he's just had a long period of melancholy as he sometimes is prone to and that is why Fingon is caring so for him.] I will, my love, I promise you that. I do not want to... cause either of us the sort of pain keeping a thing like that silent no doubt would.