I still prefer the babadook

Scream (2022) - original script draft / Paranoid - Palaye Royale / Scream (2022)

feel free to change pronouns / wording!  spoiler warning.

“ and that’s your biggest worry? ”  

“ i presume the prospect of a viral pandemic keeps you up at night as well? ”

“ you like saying no. ”  

“ billions of puppets with poisoned minds. ”  

“ i was gonna make you birthday pancakes. ”  

“ how old are you again? ”  

“ gonna have to wear diapers soon. ”  

“ you’re still alive, you old fucker. ”  

“ your t-shirt’s inside out. ”  

“ can’t tell you how exciting it was listening to that fucking conversation. ”

“ i was gettin’ worried. ”  

“ i was thinkin’ we’d make some cookies. ”  

“ i don’t know why i talk to her. ”  

“ you locked the door for once, good job. ”

“ you got me a present? ”  

“ i don’t hear anything. ”  

“ that was lame. ”  

“ i put the change back because i’m an honest thief. ”

“ it’s the thought that counts. ”  

“ don’t fall asleep. ”  

“ wasn’t my fault this time. ”  

“ help me. ”  

“ get in the truck! ”  

“ you killed her. ”  

“ we’re gonna be brave, and we’re gonna get outta this. ”

“ are we sick? ”  

“ there’s nowhere to fucking go! ”  

“ i got you. ”  

“ can you run? ”  

“ you keep your eyes on me. ”  

“ we’re gonna get you somewhere safe first. ”  

“ hey! no one told you to move. ”  

“ are you alone? ”  

“ how did you get this? ”  

“ it’s okay. you’re safe. ”  

“ well, the more you shoot people, the harder it is to sleep, i guess. ”

“ you want ‘em or not? ”  

“ fucking fireflies been blowing shit up all week. ”

“ it’s easy to make a mistake in the dark. ”  

“ i’m not asking you to say anything. ”  

“ how about we just let it go? ”  

“ you gonna keep me here? kill me? ”  

“ i give you my word that he won’t hurt you. ”  

“ i’d like to go home and drink ‘til my face stops hurting. ”

“ they’re shooting at us. ”  

“ i’m not a firefly! ”  

“ people are gonna come looking for me. ”  

“ let me out or you’re gonna pay, motherfuckers! ”  

“ i’m not supposed to be here! ”  

“ you can’t be serious. ”  

“ there are worse things than infected out there. ”

“ i got jumped by a couple guys. ”  

“ it’s a miracle you’re alive. ”  

“ it’s a miracle any of us are alive. ”  

“ i was in fedra lockup all day. ”  

“ i need you to take a breath. ”  

“ we’re gonna find out, quietly. understand? ”  

“ i would very much like for you to hurt him. ”  

“ our people are asking what’s going on, and i don’t know what to tell them. ”

“ rebellion takes time. ”  

“ is this real? ”  

“ keep it quiet. ”  

“ you tell me to ‘look for the light’ and i’ll break your jaw. ”

“ you’re not scared. ”  

“ why did you stop them? ”  

“ i won’t tell anyone about any of this, i swear. ”

“ you were safe there until you decided to sneak out. ”

“ why won’t you let me go home? ”  

“ i wasn’t expecting it. ”  

“ you can’t be stupid like this. ”  

“ obviously didn’t take ‘fuck off’ for an answer. ”

“ gimme my knife. ”  

“ it’s our business to know things. ”  

“ you’re the cause of it. ”  

“ we don’t smuggle people, sorry. ”  

“ i know what’s out there. ”  

“ what are they capable of? ”  

“ you trust her? ”  

“ your watch is broken. ”  

“ you mumble in your sleep. ”  

“ i’ve never been on the other side of the wall. ”

“ look how dark it is. ”  

“ but you know where to go, so we’re gonna be okay. ”

“ holy shit, i’m actually outside! ”  

“ you stay close, and you follow my lead. ”  

“ i’m not sick! ”  

“ i should fucking kill you! ”  

“ i apologise about your lunch. ”  

“ is this bite from a human? ”  

“ so they’re still out there… ”  

“ i have spent my life studying these things. ”  

“ i’m not infected. ”  

“ i think what really impressed them was the fact that i didn’t turn into a fucking monster. ”

“ there’s not gonna be anything bad in here? ”

“ better them than us. ”  

“ i’m gonna talk to you like you’re an adult. ”  

“ fuck you, man, i didn’t ask for this. ”  

“ can i have a gun? ”  

“ i’ll have to thrown a fucking sandwich at them. ”

“ they hit most of the big cities like this, they had to slow the spread somehow. ”

“ whatever, i snuck in. ”  

“ you got some balls on you, sister. ”  

“ people like to tell stories. ”  

“ have you heard of books? ”  

“ i don’t know how i was supposed to know that. ”

“ you’re a weird kid. ”  

“ you try climbing ten fucking floors with our knees, see how you feel. ”

“ where’d you learn to do that? ”  

“ no more questions about me. ”  

“ was it hard? like, knowing they were people once. ”

“ you step on a patch of cordyceps in one place, and you can wake a dozen infected from somewhere else. now they know where you are, now they come. ”

“ you’re not immune from being ripped apart. ”

“ from this point forward, we are silent. ”  

“ well, i didn’t shit my pants, so… ”  

“ how about you just take the good news? ”  

“ is it everything you hoped for? ”  

“ our luck had to run out sooner or later. ”  

“ i never ask you for anything. ”  

“ save who you can save. ”  

POCKET POETRY PT. II. an rp meme containing quotes from poetry and literature that i've saved to my phone over the years. feel free to change the language of each sentence as you see fit. part one.

'i killed a plant once because i gave it too much water. lord, i worry that love is violence.'

'also, i wanted to be able to love. and we all know how that one goes, don't we?'

'you have survived so much that no one remembers.'

'i want it to be my fault so i can fix it.'

'be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where i cannot find you!'

'i know my life's meaningful because i'm a good friend. i love my friends, and i care about them, and i think i make them happy.'

'i've gotten so good about not flinching at the sound of your name that people don't know i'd still throw myself, mouth open, into the ocean for the chance to drown somewhere you might see it.'

'how much can you change and get away with it, before you turn into someone else? before it's some kind of murder?'

'i would have died for you, but i never had the luck.'

'i have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine, and the rage the likes of which you would not believe. if i cannot satisfy one, i will induldge the other.'

'your childhood hunger is the one that never leaves you.'

'this is my problem - i want other people to tell me how they feel, but i'm not so sure i want to return the favor.'

'i had a feeling there was something wrong with me. i guess i was a mystery even to myself.'

'the trouble with letting people see you at your worst isn't that they'll remember; it's that you'll remember.'

'some days i am brave, but other days, i almost disappear.'

'horror should have buried me. it didn't.'

'i want to be myself, again. i want to stop knowing everything i know.'

'the life of a body is a nightmare.'

'the ways i sometimes want both to be looked at and to disappear.'

'you listen, and you know you could live a better life than you do - be softer, kinder. and maybe this year, you will be able to.'

'you do not have to be good. you do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. you only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.'

'in the beginning, i was so young and such a stranger to myself, i hardly existed. i had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before i knew at all who i was, what i was, what i wanted to be.'

'as it has been said: love and a cough cannot be concealed. even a small cough. even a small love.'

'out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field - i'll meet you there.'

'you will live as you live anywhere. with difficulty, and grief. yes, you are dead. but what does it matter? you still have to go to work in the morning. you still have to live.'

'it's 4 am, and the smell of cigar is gone. so is the ghost. i should sleep, now.'

'the ache for him is stronger than my anger.'

'i want to speak of something not dead or divine.'

'am i supposed to be grateful to have survived this?'

'i like people too much, or not at all.'

'today, the world looked beautiful again. i'm starting to remember what kept me alive last summer.'

'sometimes i think i must enjoy suffering. but i know i'd really prefer something else.'

'i can't be gentle, or loving, or tender. i have to be strong. what is the cure?'

'i want you to hold the knife, but i don't know what i want you to do: plunge or mercy. i deserve both. i want to hold and be held.'

'i felt both wildly, piercingly glad to be alive, and also like i did not know what to do with the life i now held in my hands. it was as if someone had handed me the moon, and what does one do with the moon? what does one do with a life when one had expected to be dead?'

'self destruction felt unbelievable - until i got older and learned how to make pain feel like home.'

'we can never go back. i know that now. we can go forward. we can find the love our hearts long for, but not until we let go of grief about the love we lost long ago, when we were little and had no voice to speak the heart's longing.'

'i'm strangely tired. not from having talked so much, but at the mere thought of what i still have to say.'

'no one can ever figure out what you want, and you won't tell them.'

'to feel anything deranges you. to be seen feeling anything strips you naked.'

'i lost myself so long ago that i'm hesitant to try to find myself. i'm afraid to begin. existing sometimes gives me heart palpitations. i'm so afraid to be me.'

'i want to be good. i want to navigate this hate in my heart somewhere better.'

'i'm so busy. i'm practicing my new hobby of watching me become someone else. and there's so much violence in reconstruction.'

'sometimes you get so close to someone, you end up on the other side of them.'