dark rise - c.s pacat sentence starters
change tenses/pronouns as needed !! some lines have been edited for clarity / length / ease of roleplaying
tw : death , murder
‘kill me. (name), please. if you ever felt anything for me.’
‘you’ve never really lived at all.’
‘you think I felt something for you? you’ve forgotten who I am.’
‘you shouldn’t have come back here.’
‘none of us are safe. but I think you know that better than any of us. don’t you?’
‘not all that is written has passed, and not all that has passed is written.’
‘everyone who had ever helped me is dead. I didn’t want that to happen to you.’
‘I couldn’t run from what was part of me. neither can you.’
‘no one knows what you are except you.’
‘it feels familiar to you, doesn’t it? as if you’ve been here before.’
‘you may come to wish you had never sought the truth.’
‘dark times lie ahead. but even in the darkest night, there is a star.’
‘kindness is never a mistake. somewhere in the heart it is always remembered.’
‘outside, the world sleeps like an innocent who is not afraid of the dark. but in here we remember. what has come before will come again.’
‘you’re not ready. but which of us is ready for what life asks us to face?’
‘we don’t choose the moment. the moment comes whether we will it or no, and we must make ourselves ready.’
‘i’m just walking. or isn’t that allowed?’
‘whatever you’re hiding, i’m going to find it out.’
‘even those that think themselves powerless can fight with small acts. kindness. compassion.’
‘when the past is forgotten, then it can return. only those who remember have the chance to stave it off.’
‘the dark is never truly gone; it only waits for the world to forget, so that it may rise again.’
‘will you fight with strength, or compassion? will you kill, or show mercy?’
‘I will watch for you, and you for me, and we will fight the darkness for each other.’
‘there’s something you’re not telling me.’
‘time is short. enjoy these moments of high spirits while you can.’
‘you have a habit of being in places that you don’t belong.’
‘we didn’t have much, but we had each other. we were family.’
‘would you go back to that? to not knowing?’
‘better a lion than a lamb to the slaughter.’
‘you’ve been kind. kinder than I thought. you shouldn’t be part of this.’
‘it’s all right. you’re safe. you’re home.’
‘I thought you’d died. I kept replaying the attack, trying to imagine a way that you’d survived.’
‘the only good thing you ever did was leave. but you were too selfish to stay away.’
‘you’ve got a head full of intrigue. you think there’s a spy behind every curtain and a dagger in every sleeve.’
‘they think that I’ve got bad blood. that I’m destined to serve the dark.’
‘I don’t care what they say. you’re good and you’re true. whatever happens, I won’t let them hurt you.’
‘if you’re lying, I suppose you’ll kill me. but for even the smallest chance that you’re telling the truth, I’ll take that risk.’
‘it has to be me. you know that.’
‘I think he wants you because you were the jewel in another man’s crown.’
‘I think what people were is less important than what they are. and what people are is less important than what they could be.’
‘you’re not what I expected.’
‘fathers hold a lot of sway over their sons.’
‘no one else has ever asked me that.’
‘we pay a terrible price. we do it because we must. it’s the only way we can fight.’
‘you show me the kind of compassion that I did not show to you.’
‘(name) was never afraid to die. it’s the half life he feared.’
‘I came for you. maybe at first I thought—- but the moment I saw you, it was like nothing else mattered.’
‘you can’t stay here. if (name) learns what happened—- if he thinks you’re connected to me—-’
‘at the first sign that something is wrong, run. don’t stay as the warnings pile up, telling yourself that (name) is a good man.’
‘let me go. I have to—- have to help them. let me go—-‘
‘listen to me. listen. we don’t know who did this. they might still be here. we’re in danger.’
‘I don’t know what I’m supposed to do.’
‘I told you that there was more than one way to fight. I hope you remember that, when you make your choice. I hope you remember me.’
‘I wish I could give you comfort … instead I must ask one more thing of you.’
‘you didn’t do this. you don’t carry the blame.’
‘this is not our darkest hour. that is still yet to come.’
‘they’re not like that. you twist everything.’
‘you’re like me. we’re the same. you’re more like me than you’re like them. it’s in your blood.’
‘you’ll betray every person you love to serve him.’
‘you were there. did you hear them die? did you watch?’
‘he’s been in love with me since we were eleven. don’t tell me you didn’t know that.’
‘well he’s dead. they’re all dead. because of you.’
‘I keep my promises. i’m loyal to my friends. I told you.’
‘that’s how his objects work. you think you’re using it, when it’s the one using you.’
‘I couldn’t do this without you.’
‘my mother spent her whole life running.’
‘i’m sorry. if it weren’t for me, you’d still have that life.’
‘I wouldn’t want it. not knowing that it wasn’t real.’
‘you’re lying. you’re lying to me. you’re lying to everyone.’
‘you might have fooled the others. you haven’t fooled me.’
‘I know you do it all the time but I’d never killed anyone before.’
‘I was tired of running.’
‘you know, we’re similar, you and I.’
‘magic is our inheritance, yet it has been taken from us.’
‘you think that it’s yours. that it’s owed to you.’
‘my god, what is this? some pitiful boy’s revenge?’
‘I won’t leave you here.’
‘i’m the only one who can buy you the time that you need.’
‘so you know who you are.’
‘I should have killed you.’
‘i’d know you anywhere. after ten thousand years, i’d know you.’
‘he would have hurt you. he would have hurt the people I care about.’
‘it’s not here for me. it’s here for you.’
‘it was never me, (name).’
‘you shouldn’t have come here.’
‘I don’t think you’ll hurt me.’
‘I didn’t think you’d stop (name). I didn’t think anyone would.’
‘believing he still controlled me would have given him pleasure.’
‘my whole life, all anyone’s ever wanted was to possess me. the only one who ever set me free was you.’
‘I lived a half life. it’s like this world was a blur. no one else was in focus. until you.’
‘I didn’t think you’d save me.’
‘I never thought I’d be free to choose my future. but I am.’
‘I don’t want to follow them. i’m here to follow you.’
