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THE RESCUE ME MEME

WELCOME TO THE RESCUE ME MEME

Mugged, kidnapping, held hostage, imprisoned, arranged marriage – one way or another, your character needs a rescue pronto! This meme is about exploring all the different ways of rescuing, so mix and match your favorite tropes! Drop your character, your preferences, and whether you’d like them to be rescued, the rescuer, or both! This also doesn’t have to be shippy – save a friend, a family member, an enemy, or a complete stranger, because everyone could use a hero!

Original Flavor
Your standard save! Burst onto the scene! Take down the bad guys! Save the victim! It doesn’t have to be needlessly complicated to be fun!

Disguise The Limit
Work smarter, not harder. Instead of a big fancy entrance, disguise yourself as one of the guards or the big baddy themselves to sneak past and save the day. Hope you’re good at acting!

Teamwork = Dreamwork
This is about partnering up to save the day! Two heads, or more, are better than one – are you reluctant enemies working for the same cause, or do you all care about each other just that much?

Making Mistakes
You thought they were in danger, but… oops. A light misunderstanding, “it’s not what it looks like”, or your victim was the enemy all along! Better have a back-up plan, in case you make more trouble than you planned to solve!

Last Second Switch
You’re one of the baddies who was in on this from the start, but now you’re having second thoughts. Is the plan going too far, or did you wind up caring for the victim? It’s up to you to stop this at the last possible moment – or take advantage of your power and help the victim escape in a sneakier way.

Saving Screw-Up
You were trying to be the big hero… and instead you wound up in the same trouble as the victim. Now you’re sharing a jail cell, or tied up next to them, maybe they’ll even switch victims since you’re a better target! A for effort, at least?

Accidentally Awesome
You were just going about your business and suddenly stumbled into a crime! Sure, you could just walk on, but you’re not that type of person! Even though you don’t know anything about the situation, step in and show them your stuff! Your ordinary day just got a whole lot weirder!

It’s Up To Me
This is taking way too long – save yourself! Kick some ass, take some names, and then… run into the person or people who were trying to save you. Maybe you’ll be the one saving them instead!

Rescue Sex
Don’t you worry, dirty birdies, I got you. Nothing quite says “hot” like watching someone get extremely feral in trying to save you. Hey, if you don’t even make it home before the clothes come off, we don’t blame you.

Here are a few other small tropes to work with, and there’s even more here if you want more spice!

Seduce the guard/baddy into letting you go or grabbing the keys!
Minions saving baddy from heroes!
You’re saving a beloved pet, or a precious artifact!

Say it with me now… I NEED A HERO!

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[Ah yes I think I remember that one. Yes that can be fun! He has to make sure his hero moment is just right!

But yeah, I have no preferences as to the villain. Any threat will do!]

[ The nights of St. Canard are typically filled with the sounds of any big city - people arguing, cars honking, lights buzzing, the occasional evil laugh of a super-villain... But tonight has an extra mix of the squeaks of two very upset bats! Their mistress is in trouble, and when that happens, there's only one duck to call!

They flap all throughout the city, trying to find him, but it's proving to be very difficult! Purple blends into the shadows too well! Eventually they decide he'll have to come to them, and he'll only appear when there's danger afoot. How much harm can two little bats do?

The answer, according to a very confused police officer on dispatch - "Be on the lookout for... um... b-bats biting through the wires of traffic lights?! All the lights are mixed up! Oh, I should just do what my mother said and move to Duckburg, it's gotta be saner than this place!" ]

[It's another night on the prowl, in the search of more evil to banish! ...And another quiet night without much sign of evil. Mayor Owlson's programs can be a little too effective sometimes! Drake almost wishes he had tried to arrange something with Morgana instead.

But speak of the very beautiful devil...! Darkwing hears about some sort of danger and races to the scene! Time to deploy a smoke bomb.]

I am the terror that flaps in the night!
I am the cereal that gets too soggy for-

[But he blinks as he realizes what he's facing.]

Wait a second. Eek? Squeek? Why are you misbehaving?

[ There he is, Dadwing - er, Darkwing! They instantly fly down to him, squeaking and flailing! They try to latch onto his arms, ineffectively tugging to try and get him moving!

This way, this way! Hurry, hurry! Move, move! ]

Whoa! Easy there! Where- where's the fire?

[He's completely baffled about what's going on! But whatever it is, it seems like it could be urgent? Maybe Morgana needs something, and she's too cool to use a phone. So he does go along and follows them!]

[ They take him right back to the theater, which seems as normal as ever... except for the stage! Instruments have been smashed, curtains ripped, there's been a fight!

There's also an extra door there that definitely wasn't there before. After a few more distressed squeaks, the bats pull away from Darkwing and decide to try communicating another way.

Ladies and Gentlemen, we give you the Bat Players in "What Happened Here" - starring Eek as Morgana, and Squeak as The Bad Guy.

Eek pantomiming, "La la la, here I am playing my guitar, la la la!"

Squeak also pantomiming, "Mwahaha! I am here now! Argue argue!"

Arguing back and forth! Fighting back and forth! Then, oh no! Bad Guy has bonked Morgana on the head! Now she falls over! Now Bad Guy drags her away, still doing the Evil Laugh!

We thank you for joining tonight's production of "What Happened Here". The bats bow. ]

[Alarm bells start going off the moment he sees what condition the theater is in! Then, he kneels down as he watches the little performance with his attention undivided. He's left looking concerned - and confused.]

Morgana! [A beat.] ...Wait, was Morgana the one being kidnapped? N-no offense, but I think you could have done a bit better to capture her character. Just - a little more oomph, some more allure, you know?

[ Um, excuse you??? Eek, insulted, raises a wing to smack Darkwing, but Squeak manages to pull them back. Not now, dude... but sheesh, everyone's a critic.

They fly off to different parts of the stage to indicate the most important parts! One is Morgana's guitar, left behind, which she never does!

The second is the door that Definitely Wasn't There Before. It's got magic symbols and a glow from underneath and everything. Very sus. ]

[It's just some simple acting notes, that's all!

In any case, Darkwing is aghast as his attention is pointed towards the guitar. He cradles it dramatically for a moment and steels himself. This is serious!

Then after gently setting it down, he slowly approaches the door.]

Now this... This definitely wasn't here before...

[He remarks slowly while carefully trying to see if he can crack it open.]

[ Like in a classic black and white horror film, the door crrrrrrrreaks open, and on the other side?

Lightning strikes! A shrieking wind! Wolves howling in the distance! A full moon! Dead grass, trees that look like they have faces... It's Movie Stereotype Transylvania! The kind of place where dramatic piano pieces play with every step you take!

Far off into the distance is a lone building on a hill. From the looks of things, it appears to be a (definitely haunted) old-school church, with two guards at the entrance - one zombie, one skeleton - grumbling about missing the wedding buffet.

Eek and Squeak hover around Darkwing's shoulders, ready to help in whatever way they can! ]

[He takes a moment to just... stare in disbelief at the bone-chilling environment.]

Boy, this neighborhood sure has gone downhill in the last... five minutes...

[He states that bleakly before he sets foor into the area and begins exploring. Horrifying or not, Morgana's counting on him! The church seems like the only place to go here, so he skulks his way over - and hides when he notices the guards, in hopes of overhearing more of their conversation!]

[ It is the best way to get exposition! The zombie groans, rubbing his stomach.

"Man, I can't believe we got stuck on guard duty. I hear the catering's gunna be made by Gorgon Ramsay!"

"Hey, you heard the man. That Darkwing Doof could show up any time to take back the bride! Lord Vlad had a hard enough time getting her into that cage in the first place!"

"But do we really have to wait out here all night? That cage will drain her magic, Vlad slips on the ring, they get hitched, done deal! What could one measly little mortal do to stop it?"

"All I know is, Vlad's gunna have our heads if anything disrupts this wedding. It's his last chance to seize the McCawber line! So just keep your eyes open! ... Uh, the one that isn't rotting, at least." ]

[There's a lot to take in from that. They got Gorgon Ramsay?!

...Oh wait, the rest of that is horrible! Not only has Morgana been kidnapped, but she's being forced into marriage?! Darkwing scowls... It's time to get dangerous!

He just throws a smoke bomb at the guards and rushes forward to take them down like a man possessed!]

Oh right. Um, I'm the terror that flaps in the night, yadda yadda yadda, I'm the expanded monster movieverse that never took off, Darkwing Duck, et cetera et cetera! [He just recites that as an afterthought while trying to take them both down!]

[ Later on, Morgana will have been incredibly flattered to know he rushed through his mantra just for her! Awww.

The guards are certainly surprised! After all, they were expecting someone taller! The skeleton is hit so hard, he literally falls to pieces! The zombie picks up a spare femur from his fallen friend and tries to use it as a club.

"Oh, no you don't! If you crash this wedding, Lord Vlad's gunna crash us!" ]

[Maybe it's a sign that it's true love when showmanship comes second...!]

Well you're about to get crashed either way! Because now I have a bone to pick with you!

[Darkwing dodges the swings, gets closet to the fallen skeleton, and plucks out the other femur with just a little bit of struggle, making it into a sword duel of bones!]

[ The skeleton himself is rather annoyed by all this, his skull muttering into the grass. "This is very unhygienic..."

Parry! Thrust! Lunge! Guard! Obscure Fencing Term!

"Even if you get past me, there's no way you can beat Lord Vlad! He's the strongest vampire around! What makes you think you stand a ghost of a chance against him?!" ]

[Sorry skeleton, but this is the one way he can get a leg up on his foe...!]

Because I'm the guy monsters are afraid of! [In theory.] He might be the strongest vampire, but I'm the strongest Darkwing Duck there is! And the most important factor... is that I'm fighting for love! [He tries to make a decisive strike!]

[ He lands a killer blow, knocking off the zombie's head! Which lands right next to his buddy's skull. His headless body scrambles, walking around and trying to find his missing piece.

"Oof... hey, body! This way! No, no, to the left! MY left! Come on, this gag has been done to death!"

Inside, haunting organ music begins to play! ]

[Organ music? That's even more ominous than usual! Particularly when it means... it might be starting!]

Easythereyoudon'twanttoloseyourheadaboutit!

[He says that very quickly as he races inside the church! ...And stops, and quickly hides in the shadows as he tries to observe what's going on. So he can figure out how to stop this!]

[ Inside, the pews are packed with packed with every kind of monster, from Arachnids to Zashiki-warashi! ... That's Japanese. Look not a lot of monsters begin with Z -

Up towards the center on a raised platform stands the bride and groom. The groom, no doubt Lord Vlad the Bad, is tall, dark, and extremely annoyed at the constant CLANG! happening at his side every couple of seconds. Even the organ player is starting to trail off for the constant interruption.

That interruption would be the would-be bride - Morgana herself, now decked to the nines in an (admittedly amazing) wedding dress... while trapped in a less admittedly amazing gigantic golden bird cage! The constant CLANGing noises would be her loudly kicking at it, in a desperate attempt to break free. It's clearly to no avail, and she already looks exhausted.

Vlad waves to his throat, signaling the organ player to cut the music, as he storms over to the cage - looks like the key-ring to the thing is on his belt!. "My dear, would it kill you to be civil? You're making as much noise as that blasted rock-and-roll you used to harp on about." ]

I'D KILL YOU IF YOU WEREN'T ALREADY DEAD! LET ME OUT OF HERE! Oooh, just you wait until Darkwing Duck shows up! You'll be something black and blue all over!

[ Vlad scoffs, taking out a small ring box. "You'll forget about him soon enough, my dear... I'll make sure of that." Ominous! "Besides, you're from two different worlds! It never would have worked out! You're a born and bred villain - you always have been, and you always will be. This is where you belong!" ]

I belong with HIM! And nothing you do will ever change that! He believes in me... and I believe he'll come for me!

[Wow, those are a lot of monsters! Enough for a lifetime of nightmares! But Darkwing Duck doesn't focus on them. His eyes immediately narrow in on Morgana! And his expression veers between two extremes every few moments: righteous anger at her being trapped in a cage, and a dazed smile at seeing her in that dress!

In any case, he can't stay still for long. Not when he hears that argument. And Morgana's words that fuel his heart! This is it. It's time... for the rescue of the century! He needs to put on a spectacle even bigger than this wedding...

So he goes full stealth and works his way towards the organ. And thr moment the player is looking elsewhere, he swaps out the sheet music! Luckily he carries sheet music for some of his favorite songs on him at all times in case he ends up in situations like this! Now to go back to hiding and wait... The next part is up to Morgana!]

[ Vlad grumbles at her childish outburst, taking the ring out of the box - instead of a shiny diamond on a gold band, it's a blood-red ruby on black steel! Definitely ominous! "Let's try this again... just ignore her, she'll wear herself out. My little songbird's cage was specifically designed to drain all her magic! And this beauty will make her a real SAHM... Stay At Home Monster!" He waves his hand, giving permission for the bored organ player to resume the music.

After a yawn, the music begins again... though many attendees begin tilting their heads. This didn't quite sound like the traditional wedding march, now did it?

Morgana, for her part, is just as surprised - but doubts this is a coincidence! Her magic may be drained, but her voice is as powerful as ever! She clears her throat. ]

Where have all the good men gone,
And where are all the gods?
Where's the streetwise Storkules,
To fight the rising odds?
Isn't there a white knight upon a fiery steed?
Late at night, I toss and I turn...
And I dream of what I need!

[ Vlad whips his head around, startled! "What the - knock that off! Don't you dare!" ]

I NEED A HERO!

[That's the worst ring he's ever seen! Even a Darkwing Duck decoder ring would look better!

But then, the music starts. The stage is set! And with her singing that jam, Darkwing Duck feels like he can take on an army of monsters! ...But he'd really rather avoid that.

Timed to go off just as she says "I NEED A HERO!", Darkwing unleashes smoke bomb on the stage! In the cloud of smoke, he tries to dropkick Vlad, then bounce off of him to the cage, where he'll try to work on freeing her!]

[ Fortunately, the audience in attendance don't feel like getting up to fight - some of them are wondering if this show is somehow part of the ceremony. It's certainly a plus from what was a pretty dull wedding!

Vlad doesn't even get out a menacing "WHO DARES-" before he gets kicked and falls off the platform. Oof. He grows, trying to get up, and grabbing a weapon from the nearest monster around - the mummy hmphs, that khopesh was supposed to be a gift! - before climbing back on stage. "You dare try to steal my wife AND my show?!"

Morgana gleefully clings to the bars, trying not to swoon too hard from that amazing entrance. ]

I'm holding out for a hero 'til the end of the night!

[ But she glances up, seeing Vlad coming in swinging, and hopes Darkwing can guess what trouble's brewing from the lyrics! ]

He's gotta be strong, and he's gotta be fast,
And he's gotta be fresh from the fight!

[This already feels like one of the best moments of his life! While he triea fiddling with the lock, he does glance through the bars and briefly locks eyes with Morgana, his heart swelling in that moment!

But no, he has to stay focused in the moment. Especially with her lyrics acting as a warning! He narrowly leaps from the cage just in time to dodge Vlad's attack, hoping the blade does some damage to the bars, before he stomps down on Vlad's head like a video game character. He bounces from that to a landing on the stage, facing Vlad while assuming a fighting stance.]

She's not your wife! And... To be honest? [He takes a moment to look Vlad over and shakes his head while wavering a hand in the air.] Vlad, honey, you never really had much of a show either!

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if she's still a villain or on the hero's side, up to you! no preference!

Maybe the latter, following up on the past thread! But I can roll with whatever!

you got it!

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