meme; love is blind

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  love is blind

a shipping meme

 

Can you marry someone without ever seeing them?! Well, now's your chance to find out! Based on Netflix's hit reality show Love is Blind, this meme centers around characters dating, chatting, and falling in love without ever laying eyes on one another!

Characters are sequestered in small, cozy 'pods' separated by a large pane of stained glass. Beyond this glass, they'll find their date! It's through this wall that characters are meant to get to know one another. Ask questions, find common interests, etc, with the ultimate goal being a marriage proposal before day ten!

Wild, right?

HOW TO PLAY

• Comment with your character and some preferences.
• Since the show has several 'phases,' this meme is set up similarly! Feel free to skip the dating portion and dive right into the honeymoon, or vice versa!
• Additionally, though everyone on the show is a willing participant, you're more than welcome to have your character whisked here by✨ magic ✨against their will with no hope of escape without a marriage proposal. 
• Meet others, fall in love, get engaged!
• And, if you really want things to be blind, try this on Anon!

PHASE 1 - THE DATES


How it all starts off! Dates take place in pods where you're unable to see your partner. Have fun, daters!

1. Getting Settled: So, this is your life now. Living in a building, hoping to meet the love of your life...


2. First Date: It's awkward, it's strange, but most first dates are! Giant wall of opaque glass, or no giant wall of opaque glass!


3. Good Date: Is this love?? Are sparks flying?! Yay!


4. Bad/Awkward Date: Since these dates are randomly assigned by the muns producers, there's a good chance you'll be paired up with someone you really don't like. Is it a personality clash? Conflicting values?


5. Second/Third/Fourth Date: So, the first date went well... or, well enough to constitute a another one. [Or the muns producers are being mean and forcing two incompatible people together again.] That's great! Hopefully, by now you two are pros at this.


6. Heavy Topics: Since the truth is bound to come out anyway, why not just put it all out there up front. Deep, dark secrets, shameful pasts. It might be easier to admit some of this since you don't have to look someone in the eye as you do it?


7. Incompatible: Some people aren't meant to be together, and that's okay. Finding that out, though, can be a little rough. 


8. Marriage Proposal: What we've all been waiting for! Kneel before that giant, blue screen and pop that pretty question right now, baby!

PHASE 2 - THE VACATION

After a successful marriage proposal, the newly engaged strangers are whisked away on an island vacation to spend time with one another face-to-face.

1. First Meeting: Finally, finally, you get to see the face of the person you've fallen in love with! Is it all you hoped for and more?! Or, on the more unfortunate side of things, are you not attracted to them at all??


2. Co-Habitation: Part of the reason why you're on this vacation together is to see how well the two of you work in 'real-life'. Who cooks? Who cleans? Who snores?


3. First Time: If you don't believe in sex before marriage, this is clearly off the table. But, for those of you who want to sample the goods before your big day...


4. Fight(s): It's inevitable, really. What did you think would happen when you propose to someone after only ten days?? Clearly, there's going to be some kinks to smooth over.


5. Relaxation: You're on an all expenses paid island vacation! You have to indulge while you can! Swimming, sailing, massages, partying, drinking... come on, let loose!


6. Disaster: For the angst lovers out there. A tropical storm, a near-death experience, something horrid that ends up bringing the two of you closer together.


7. Date Night: Imagine having a real date, in the real world, where you can really see each other. No need to imagine! You can actually, really do it!


8. Secrets, But In Real Life: Well, now that you're really, actually seeing each other, maybe it's time to get that deep, dark thing off your chest. Y'know, before you get married and are bonded together forever. 

PHASE 3 - A LIFE TOGETHER

The last stop on our tour: domestic life! Welcome to the life of marriage, newly weds! Is it everything you hoped for and more?

1. The Wedding: The big day! All of your family and friends are here! And... they might think you're a little crazy for going through with all this, but who cares what they think? This is about you!


2. Meeting the Family: Right, what does your family think of the person you brought home after just ten days? 


3. Married Life: Just in general. What changes now that you're married? Do you still feel the same spark you felt before?


4. Divorce: The worst possible option — the two of you weren't compatible after all, and it turns out this was a terrible idea!


5. Happily Ever After: On the flip side, maybe you two truly are perfect for one another? In that case, congratulations! Let's hear all about your love story!


6. Horror: The person you met, and dated, and fell in love with was all an act, and you don't even recognize the person before you. A nightmare!


7. Timeskip: Years in the future, long after this whole blind dating fiasco, let's check in on how the two of you are doing.


8. Creating a Family: What is it that some married couples do? That thing? That involves having kids? You know, the thing??