meme; countdown
Nov. 21st, 2025 01:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
metropolising Time at hand
Everyone has a timer imprinted on their wrist from the day they're born. It maybe a quirk of genetic engineering, it may be a technological implant, it might just be the way things have always been, that's up to you.
For the purposes of this meme there are two types of timers, Life and Love.
You can have one, you can have both, that's up to you too, you can have a different one in every thread, I'm not the boss of you! You can use the coin flip or you can just pick, or mix and match, be creative!
Life Timers
Time, quite literally, is money. You have a year on your timer, and on your 21st birthday, it starts counting down. Now, even if you can't spend the time before your clock starts (as it's locked until then) you can still earn it, save it up for when you need it.
Time can be traded from person to person directly, or by way of banks. But if that timer hits zero, that's it, lights out.
Of course, you can also be killed before it reaches zero, accidents happen, but that would just be a terrible waste of time, wouldn't it?
Some suggestions:
Old Time - Your family has always had time, there's no way you'll run out even if you live fifty lifetimes. What do you spend it on? Frivolities? Or do you help the less fortunate? Are you happy with your lot? Or do you long for something less predictable? Do you wear a century on your arm at a time as a status symbol? Or do you keep a per diem?
Running Out of Time - You have less than 24 hours left on your timer. What do you do with your last day? Do you try to get more time? Are you resigned to knowing you're going to die? Is this a tragedy or an accident? Or is it just how you're used to living?
Daylight Savings - You've suddenly come into a small fortune. Was it bequeathed to you by a dowager aunt? Did you win the lottery? Rob a bank? Most importantly: what are you going to do with your new-found riches?
Stopped Clock - Your timer has stopped, but you aren't dead. Do you try to find out what's going on? Do you make as much as you can, hoping that it doesn't start up again and go faster to make up for the delay?
Love Timers
Love timers are a little trickier, because they count down to the moment you meet your One True Love. Time on these cannot be passed from one person to another, they're locked that way.
Love timers are a little more flexible, though, because people change, circumstances change, and where you might have a year one morning, you could have hours by the end of the day.
Or, perhaps, your timer stops, and you realize that the person you were meant to be with has died. Maybe, sometime, it will re-set, maybe it won't. Maybe you meet someone and the two of you hit it off, you know they must be the one... except only one of your timers is approaching zero. Or neither is, which would be worse?
Some suggestions:
True Believer - you haven't bothered looking for love, because you know that when your timer hits zero, they'll just be there, that's how true love works. It's fate.
Nonbeliever - you never look at your timer, because you hate the thought that it dictates when you'll fall in love. That's up to you and nothing else!
Stopped Clock - One day your timer just stops without reaching zero. How do you cope knowing that the person who would have been your soulmate is no more?
Wrong Time - Your timers have both reached zero at the same time, you're obviously meant to be together. Only one problem: You're mortal enemies, or at the very least can't stand each other. Will you try to make it work anyway?
Everyone has a timer imprinted on their wrist from the day they're born. It maybe a quirk of genetic engineering, it may be a technological implant, it might just be the way things have always been, that's up to you.
For the purposes of this meme there are two types of timers, Life and Love.
You can have one, you can have both, that's up to you too, you can have a different one in every thread, I'm not the boss of you! You can use the coin flip or you can just pick, or mix and match, be creative!
Life Timers
Time, quite literally, is money. You have a year on your timer, and on your 21st birthday, it starts counting down. Now, even if you can't spend the time before your clock starts (as it's locked until then) you can still earn it, save it up for when you need it.
Time can be traded from person to person directly, or by way of banks. But if that timer hits zero, that's it, lights out.
Of course, you can also be killed before it reaches zero, accidents happen, but that would just be a terrible waste of time, wouldn't it?
Some suggestions:
Old Time - Your family has always had time, there's no way you'll run out even if you live fifty lifetimes. What do you spend it on? Frivolities? Or do you help the less fortunate? Are you happy with your lot? Or do you long for something less predictable? Do you wear a century on your arm at a time as a status symbol? Or do you keep a per diem?
Running Out of Time - You have less than 24 hours left on your timer. What do you do with your last day? Do you try to get more time? Are you resigned to knowing you're going to die? Is this a tragedy or an accident? Or is it just how you're used to living?
Daylight Savings - You've suddenly come into a small fortune. Was it bequeathed to you by a dowager aunt? Did you win the lottery? Rob a bank? Most importantly: what are you going to do with your new-found riches?
Stopped Clock - Your timer has stopped, but you aren't dead. Do you try to find out what's going on? Do you make as much as you can, hoping that it doesn't start up again and go faster to make up for the delay?
Love Timers
Love timers are a little trickier, because they count down to the moment you meet your One True Love. Time on these cannot be passed from one person to another, they're locked that way.
Love timers are a little more flexible, though, because people change, circumstances change, and where you might have a year one morning, you could have hours by the end of the day.
Or, perhaps, your timer stops, and you realize that the person you were meant to be with has died. Maybe, sometime, it will re-set, maybe it won't. Maybe you meet someone and the two of you hit it off, you know they must be the one... except only one of your timers is approaching zero. Or neither is, which would be worse?
Some suggestions:
True Believer - you haven't bothered looking for love, because you know that when your timer hits zero, they'll just be there, that's how true love works. It's fate.
Nonbeliever - you never look at your timer, because you hate the thought that it dictates when you'll fall in love. That's up to you and nothing else!
Stopped Clock - One day your timer just stops without reaching zero. How do you cope knowing that the person who would have been your soulmate is no more?
Wrong Time - Your timers have both reached zero at the same time, you're obviously meant to be together. Only one problem: You're mortal enemies, or at the very least can't stand each other. Will you try to make it work anyway?
