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adelagia ([personal profile] adelagia) wrote2011-01-05 09:16 pm

The man with the Midas touch

Fic hypothetical.

If two kick-ass, modern-day, secret-agentesque protagonists somehow got themselves captured, relieved of their weapons and hog-tied to chairs with painful death imminent (after the villain is finished speechifying, obvs), how might said protagonists get out of this situation alive?

I'm not saying I'm writing this; I just want to solve it first before I write myself into a corner. I don't have enough action movies ingrained in my brain to know what to do, and I suspect the amazing power of love between the two characters is of little use. ¬¬

(Also, Merlin does not have his magic, alas.)

[identity profile] cosmo-jenny.livejournal.com 2011-01-06 09:30 am (UTC)(link)
Obvs, the villain and the guards left at some point.
some hand/wrist wriggling frees said hands/arms.
The muscle punches the lonely guard that is tricked into coming into the chamber, so they have a weapon.
They sneak out.

Uhm.... very basic, very plain and simple but that's the usual route, isn't it?
Otherwise, deus-ex-machina, someone comes in and rescues them (Gwaine, Lancelot, Percival)

[identity profile] adelagia.livejournal.com 2011-01-06 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Sounds good, thank you! I have been looking up how to escape from being tied up; my internet history probably looks a little shady right now :)

(I really like the artwork in your icon, btw.)

[identity profile] cosmo-jenny.livejournal.com 2011-01-07 07:04 pm (UTC)(link)
I think there is a lot of stuff out there about how to free your hands from being tied up.
(Plus how you can slip from handcuffs, it involves a broken thumb ligament or something)

Thank you, the artist made a bunch of these upon request and I was lucky to snag a place.

[identity profile] moonlitpines.livejournal.com 2011-01-06 01:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh now I'm going to have to sit on my hands and wait for this. :D

[identity profile] adelagia.livejournal.com 2011-01-06 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Lol, it's going to be a while; you'll probably need your hands in the meantime :)

[identity profile] moonlitpines.livejournal.com 2011-01-06 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
It's okay. They stay cold. A lot.

Oh HELLO Prince Arthur, Hot Ass of Your Icon.

[identity profile] sarea-okelani.livejournal.com 2011-01-07 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't have an answer to your actual question because I suck at that sort of thing (the ropes melt off due to the intensity of their combined hotness?), but I had to tell you that your icon made me lololol. Lucille. <3

[identity profile] adelagia.livejournal.com 2011-01-07 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
HAI THAR! I was just thinking that we hadn't heard from you in a while!

the ropes melt off due to the intensity of their combined hotness?
HA, if only! That would make things a lot easier.

That is one of my favourite icons :)