No True Pair

So, how did it go, right?

I received votes from: anaraine, lucathia, yoshitsune, deadcellredux, roseargent, joudama, darkicedragon, merlose, puimoo, mystiri_1, takerzmuse, sententia, jlsigman, shiegra, and beccastareyes! + my vote, that makes a total of 16 votes! If there's some problem and you voted/tried to vote, but don't see your name on this list, just let me know.

The votes were quite varied! I enjoyed looking them over. All our past mods and creators of prompts should be happy to know that the votes were well spread across all the past prompt sets.

Anyway, 9 prompts were most picked at 6 votes a piece:

1 - 5 and 1 as the main characters in a fairy tale
2 - 1 and 2 can communicate without saying a word
3 - 1/9, in a threesome with any other character from your list
4 - 2 and 6 are in a marriage of convenience
5 - 1 and 5, the price you pay for miracles
6 - 12/5, captivity scenario (kidnapping, prison guard/inmate, etc)
7 - 1 and 2: aphrodisiacs/pollen/aliens made them do it
8 - Only 6 can break the curse afflicting 4
9 - 2 & 5, the waves are so loud

And 8 more prompts received 5 votes each:

10 - 2 has been kidnapped! Is 6 ready to rush to 2's rescue? Or is he/she involved in the abduction?
11 - 5 and 6: they fight crime!
12 - 5 and 6: transformation of some kind (genderswitch? body swap? species shift?)
13 - 4 and 8 share a bed out of necessity
14 - 5 and 8, the language of flowers
15 - 2 owes 3, and uses sex as an alternative form of payment
16 - 7 and 1: It was a dark and stormy night—
17 - 10 and 12 with the title, "Riding out the Storm."

Giving us a definite 17 out of the 28 prompts a regular round requires, so all 17 of these prompts will appear in Round 10! (Yay! \o/)

However, we had 20 different prompts come in at 4 votes (and tons more at 3, 2, and 1, as you might have guessed), so we're going to have to narrow them down.

...Stay tuned for a vote-off post focused around those 21 prompts very soon...!

Here are the 20 prompts that received 4 votes during our initial Round 10 prompt-choosing process:

1 has amnesia -- does 3 try to help, or take shameless advantage of the situation?
1 waking up in 7’s body, and 7 waking up in 1’s.
2 and 6, “Bonfires lit the fields.”
2 has heard the rumors about 4. Now 2 is about to find out if they're true...
5 and 2, not fully human.
6 and 8: an unexpected act of kindness
7 and 9 with the title, "Nothing Like the Sun."
Used to managing alone, 1 is reluctant to work with 2.
3 and 4, “That is a big lizard.”
3 needs help that only 6 can provide
5 and 10 with the title, "The Edge of the Map."
7 and 8, "The Good End" or "The Bad End"
8 and 4: it's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine
The way 2 chooses to comfort 5 is definitely unique to 2...
11 and 7: "I love you."
3 tries on 4's clothes
6 & 7, the warmth of the sun
7 is bailed out by 8—though in return 7 must pay back the debt.
Don't look now, 5, but it looks like 3 is developing a dangerous obsession...
4 and 8, with the title, "Rain"

As we still have 11 more spots to fill in our new list, please choose up to 11 prompts from this list and reply with your vote.

Voting begins now, August 1st, and will continue until August 7th. Hopefully we'll break this list up in some helpful way. (If our results lead to a finished list on the 7th, I will start sign-ups for the next round then. However things go, I'm hoping to get sign-ups for Round 10 started by the 15th of the month.)

Once again, comments will be screened and you need only vote in one location.

Thank you, yet again!