Weird pairing meme!
Make a list of all the characters in your icons. (Although you may have more than one icon of a single character, they only go on the list once.) Alphabetize it. Take the first two people on the list; that's your first pairing. Second two people; second pairing, etc.
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"Work harder, girl! If you want to sleep on this ship, you'll earn your keep." Ana-Marie hawked, then spat over the side of the boat. Dani shivered, and kept scrubbing at the deck, the knuckles of both her hands red and raw. At least she knew her share of the plunder would be enough to buy her family a house once they got back to berth.
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Elizabeth's eyes widened as she gazed rapturously up at the stage. Never had she heard such beautiful music! Her old dream of being a pirate faded -- she had a better fate in mind now.
She would become a GROUPIE.
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"You're not Xena."
"Um. Yeah. I know."
"...Do you know where she is?"
"TV screen. Where you just came from."
"What's a TV?"
"...Can I get a photo of us before I explain it? Nobody's going to believe this."
"What's a photo?"
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"There." George clasped both delicate hands together and nodded with satisfaction, "Now you look like a true president."
Dubya plucked at the purple silk toga-like outfit nervously, "Ah hardly think--" He began to protest, only to have the slender young man who created the costume shake his head in disapproval and correct, "Don't think. It's not one of your talents."
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The young girl gazed solemnly at the equally young boy, fingers pressed against the golden Torque that lay around her neck, "You're going to grow up and kill your family," She pronounces, shivering from the horror of the visions that play across her mind.
The boy merely smiles and asks, "All of them?"
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"Young man, do you have any interest in politics?" Kerry asked the boy at the beach, hoping that he would answer in the affirmative and refresh Kerry's flagging faith in today's youth.
"Yeah. I hate crooked politicians." A grin, sharp and vicious, true-blue eyes squinting slightly against the sun, "You're not one of them."
The boy walked on, and Kerry decided that informal polling could wait for later.
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"Hon, what do you think of my new t-shirt?" Mai called out as she proudly modelled the 'Keep Your Laws Off My Body' slogan tee she'd bought earlier in the day. Kat made a noise that could have meant anything, really, and didn't even look up from his typing.
Mai sighed, leaned forwards and pulled the laptop screen down to kill her competition. Keeping laws off her body was difficult enough, but getting Kat's hands on her was impossible.
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"No, you hold it like this!" Mulan corrected Mokuba's hold on the bamboo stick and he grinned sheepishly.
"Thanks, Mulan-san!" He chirped, shifting into a fight-ready stance again. He didn't know where Seto had got his new self-defense instructor from, but he liked her!
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"A Muggle." Her lip curled with disdain, "How... quaint."
Neko glared at the older woman, struggling fruitlessly against the chains she'd woken up in after suddenly being attacked in an alleyway, "Listen woman, I don't care how quaint you find me. I want my laptop back and out of this loony bin."
Narcissa laughed, and with the fireplace tongs, carefully lifted a strand of Neko's dark hair away from Neko's face, "Don't be absurd. With the House Elf strike, Muggle labor is the new black."
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There weren't many things in the VR world that Noa couldn't replicate as perfectly as they had appeared in the real world. And some things, he could remake even better than before. Petting Piglet on his head as Noa fed him haycorns, Noa decided this living, friendly Piglet definitely beat his stuffed Piglet toy from the real world.
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"Pooh, that's carrot jam, not honey!" Rabbit insisted desperately, trying to pull the jar away from Pooh who had managed to get his head stuck in the rather large opening. From inside, Pooh made some rather muffled noises, then licked the bottom again.
He didn't care what it was, because all he knew was that it was tasty!
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"Interesting costume, Sakuma-sama." Ryuuji comments, looking at the oversized bunny outfit with an arched eyebrow. There's something worryingly cute about how Ryuichi hasn't even made an effort to look sexy.
"Kumagoro-chan chose it for me, na-no-da!" Ryuichi laughed, tossing back another glass of the drink that the tiger-painted boy (dressed only in black leather pants and black body paint) had given him. Eyes already a little hazy from the alcohol, he looked up at the taller teenager, asking curiously, "Have you met Kumagoro-chan?"
"Yes, you introduced him to me when we signed that contract for your new song to be used in the commercials for my latest game." Ryuuji responded, putting an arm around Ryuichi's shoulder and smiling.
Even if the lion couldn't lie down with the lamb, the tiger could lie with the rabbit.
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Sasuke wasn't afraid of anyone. Except maybe his older brother Itachi. And sometimes his tou-san. And kaa-san, because she could snipe at him. But nobody else! Because he was an Uchiha and their clan was brave.
So when the strange cat-lady smiled at him with her pink eyeglasses, Sasuke simply smiled back.
He didn't care that the people who'd been going to drag him off were now lying on the ground in various stages of unconsciousness; she was pretty and she had saved him. He saw no reason to be scared if he could learn from her instead.
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"I wouldn't play that card if I were you." Sian remarked conversationally as Seto lay down his card.
Seto narrowed his eyes at her, unable to believe that she as giving advice to him. Sian grinned in return, then slapped another card down on top of Seto's.
"UNO! I win!"
Clearly, this game was more difficult than Seto had originally thought.
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"Stop right there!" Robin loudly declared, jumping down in front of the miscreant.
Thief King Bakura laughed and looked her over, smoke-purple eyes taking in her brightly colored outfit, "A child from the Pharaoh, are you? Here. Take this for your troubles."
He threw her a shiny golden coin from his loot and escaped into the shadows; her batarang hit the wall where he had been and Steph cursed. Third time this night she'd failed to catch him! Batman was not going to be happy.
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Heavyarms had been too much of a friend to Trowa for the mercenary to send the Gundam into the sun to burn on its own. A Tigger stuffed toy was left at the console to make sure Heavyarms wouldn't be lonely.
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Utena's always wanted to be a prince. Princes have knights in shining armor to do their fighting for them. Utena doesn't care about that part. She can fight for herself. She doesn't need a prince.
And she's so focused on that, she leaves herself wide open for a thief to come along and steal her heart.
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"Stop grinning!"
"But Pharaoh, I-"
"NO. Desist! I will banish you to the Shadow Realm!"
"Phaaaroah! Don't you want to see my-"
"SHADOW BORN, I am not interested!"
"ERECTION!"
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"No. Not like that." Xena corrected Yukari's stance for what felt like the thousandth time to the aching ex-model, and Yukari did her best to keep up. She'd changed her path in life twice before and as the saying went, third time lucky.
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"Work harder, girl! If you want to sleep on this ship, you'll earn your keep." Ana-Marie hawked, then spat over the side of the boat. Dani shivered, and kept scrubbing at the deck, the knuckles of both her hands red and raw. At least she knew her share of the plunder would be enough to buy her family a house once they got back to berth.
+
Elizabeth's eyes widened as she gazed rapturously up at the stage. Never had she heard such beautiful music! Her old dream of being a pirate faded -- she had a better fate in mind now.
She would become a GROUPIE.
+
"You're not Xena."
"Um. Yeah. I know."
"...Do you know where she is?"
"TV screen. Where you just came from."
"What's a TV?"
"...Can I get a photo of us before I explain it? Nobody's going to believe this."
"What's a photo?"
+
"There." George clasped both delicate hands together and nodded with satisfaction, "Now you look like a true president."
Dubya plucked at the purple silk toga-like outfit nervously, "Ah hardly think--" He began to protest, only to have the slender young man who created the costume shake his head in disapproval and correct, "Don't think. It's not one of your talents."
+
The young girl gazed solemnly at the equally young boy, fingers pressed against the golden Torque that lay around her neck, "You're going to grow up and kill your family," She pronounces, shivering from the horror of the visions that play across her mind.
The boy merely smiles and asks, "All of them?"
+
"Young man, do you have any interest in politics?" Kerry asked the boy at the beach, hoping that he would answer in the affirmative and refresh Kerry's flagging faith in today's youth.
"Yeah. I hate crooked politicians." A grin, sharp and vicious, true-blue eyes squinting slightly against the sun, "You're not one of them."
The boy walked on, and Kerry decided that informal polling could wait for later.
+
"Hon, what do you think of my new t-shirt?" Mai called out as she proudly modelled the 'Keep Your Laws Off My Body' slogan tee she'd bought earlier in the day. Kat made a noise that could have meant anything, really, and didn't even look up from his typing.
Mai sighed, leaned forwards and pulled the laptop screen down to kill her competition. Keeping laws off her body was difficult enough, but getting Kat's hands on her was impossible.
+
"No, you hold it like this!" Mulan corrected Mokuba's hold on the bamboo stick and he grinned sheepishly.
"Thanks, Mulan-san!" He chirped, shifting into a fight-ready stance again. He didn't know where Seto had got his new self-defense instructor from, but he liked her!
+
"A Muggle." Her lip curled with disdain, "How... quaint."
Neko glared at the older woman, struggling fruitlessly against the chains she'd woken up in after suddenly being attacked in an alleyway, "Listen woman, I don't care how quaint you find me. I want my laptop back and out of this loony bin."
Narcissa laughed, and with the fireplace tongs, carefully lifted a strand of Neko's dark hair away from Neko's face, "Don't be absurd. With the House Elf strike, Muggle labor is the new black."
+
There weren't many things in the VR world that Noa couldn't replicate as perfectly as they had appeared in the real world. And some things, he could remake even better than before. Petting Piglet on his head as Noa fed him haycorns, Noa decided this living, friendly Piglet definitely beat his stuffed Piglet toy from the real world.
+
"Pooh, that's carrot jam, not honey!" Rabbit insisted desperately, trying to pull the jar away from Pooh who had managed to get his head stuck in the rather large opening. From inside, Pooh made some rather muffled noises, then licked the bottom again.
He didn't care what it was, because all he knew was that it was tasty!
+
"Interesting costume, Sakuma-sama." Ryuuji comments, looking at the oversized bunny outfit with an arched eyebrow. There's something worryingly cute about how Ryuichi hasn't even made an effort to look sexy.
"Kumagoro-chan chose it for me, na-no-da!" Ryuichi laughed, tossing back another glass of the drink that the tiger-painted boy (dressed only in black leather pants and black body paint) had given him. Eyes already a little hazy from the alcohol, he looked up at the taller teenager, asking curiously, "Have you met Kumagoro-chan?"
"Yes, you introduced him to me when we signed that contract for your new song to be used in the commercials for my latest game." Ryuuji responded, putting an arm around Ryuichi's shoulder and smiling.
Even if the lion couldn't lie down with the lamb, the tiger could lie with the rabbit.
+
Sasuke wasn't afraid of anyone. Except maybe his older brother Itachi. And sometimes his tou-san. And kaa-san, because she could snipe at him. But nobody else! Because he was an Uchiha and their clan was brave.
So when the strange cat-lady smiled at him with her pink eyeglasses, Sasuke simply smiled back.
He didn't care that the people who'd been going to drag him off were now lying on the ground in various stages of unconsciousness; she was pretty and she had saved him. He saw no reason to be scared if he could learn from her instead.
+
"I wouldn't play that card if I were you." Sian remarked conversationally as Seto lay down his card.
Seto narrowed his eyes at her, unable to believe that she as giving advice to him. Sian grinned in return, then slapped another card down on top of Seto's.
"UNO! I win!"
Clearly, this game was more difficult than Seto had originally thought.
+
"Stop right there!" Robin loudly declared, jumping down in front of the miscreant.
Thief King Bakura laughed and looked her over, smoke-purple eyes taking in her brightly colored outfit, "A child from the Pharaoh, are you? Here. Take this for your troubles."
He threw her a shiny golden coin from his loot and escaped into the shadows; her batarang hit the wall where he had been and Steph cursed. Third time this night she'd failed to catch him! Batman was not going to be happy.
+
Heavyarms had been too much of a friend to Trowa for the mercenary to send the Gundam into the sun to burn on its own. A Tigger stuffed toy was left at the console to make sure Heavyarms wouldn't be lonely.
+
Utena's always wanted to be a prince. Princes have knights in shining armor to do their fighting for them. Utena doesn't care about that part. She can fight for herself. She doesn't need a prince.
And she's so focused on that, she leaves herself wide open for a thief to come along and steal her heart.
+
"Stop grinning!"
"But Pharaoh, I-"
"NO. Desist! I will banish you to the Shadow Realm!"
"Phaaaroah! Don't you want to see my-"
"SHADOW BORN, I am not interested!"
"ERECTION!"
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"No. Not like that." Xena corrected Yukari's stance for what felt like the thousandth time to the aching ex-model, and Yukari did her best to keep up. She'd changed her path in life twice before and as the saying went, third time lucky.