All Things Hideous and Divine

Sentence Starters taken from Paul Williams' dark tribute to Faust and Dorian Gray, and love letter to rock and roll. Change pronouns and tenses as needed, and have fun! TW for cussing, death, drugs, mentions of demons, and Faustian bargains.

"If I can't be young forever, I'd rather end it all now!"

"Never sing my music again."

"They want more now. They want much more. They want more than you could ever give."

"Here's the contract. Everything I've said and more is in it."

"The party of the first part gives the party of the second part and his associates full power to do with him at their pleasure. To rule, to send, to fetch, or carry him or his, be it either body, soul, flesh, blood or goods."

"That's a transportation clause."

" I am a professional. I have been in this business a long time. Now if I don't want to do a show, it's not because I got stage fright."

"Can't you feel the vibes in your own house? Bad, sport, real bad."

"I mean, the karma's so thick around here, you need an Aqua-Lung to breathe."

"Now, what a minute. This may be none of my business or anything. But if you're gonna kill her, why do it here tonight?"

"An assassination live on television coast to coast? That's entertainment!"

"You gave up your right to rest in peace when you signed this contract."

"How often is a rock star fried on stage?"

"It's all here. Read it carefully, and then sign at the bottom in blood."

"I know 'drug real' from 'real real'!"

"You trying to tell me you didn't hear that shriek?"

"That was something trying to get out of its premature grave, and I don't want to be here when it does."

"I'm not gonna allow my music to be mutilated by those greaseballs!"

" I can see that you're the devil's pride."

"I'm not a screamer. I'm a singer."

"Do you realize that all of you donated something horrible you hated that is part of you?"

"Oh, I knew I shouldn't be screwing around with a dead man's music."

"This place is possessed."

"I'm your nightmares coming true, I am your crime!"

"I am the evil that you created!"

"an, you better get yourself a castrato for this, 'cause it's a little out of my range."

"I thought I knew you, but I didn't know you at all."

"If I am destroyed, that gaping wound opens. You might say we terminate together."

"Look at them, they've really been entertained. They never want the show to stop!"

"And now we're in business. Together, forever."

"All articles which have been excluded shall be deemed included."

"Your voice, remember? You promised me your voice!"

"All my dreams are lost and I can't sleep."

"Dream it never ends."

"I'm not a screamer. I'm a singer."

"Our love is an old love, baby, it's older than all our years."

"I have seen, in strange young eyes, familiar tears."

"Messy, I know, but it's the only way I can bind you. Tradition. What do you have to lose?"

"Why should I go with you? Don't you hear them down there? Why should I give that up?"

"Each of you must stop and try me, all of you might satisfy me!"

✒️ ┋ ❝ That's disappointing. I would've loved to see one of the little blights be made to dance for my amusement, ❞ he says with a wistful sigh, one that makes it difficult to tell whether he's joking or not. He doesn't rush to clarify. ❝ Oh? Well, I don't have a permit, but I sure do have the WILL! ❞

“Hey. It’s you.”

"Oh, absolutely." Lean. Creaaaak. "Signs are pointing to some serious decay, if that first step is anything. Better pay attention to the floor."

She still doesn't wholly understand the appeal of snooping around abandoned buildings, but hey, Shy lets her talk about dressmaking for hours. Maybe she'll learn something.

Shy likes the dressmaking discussions, really; while there's no chance in Hell she could ever do it, it's almost magical to hear someone's thoughts on their career. When you're skilled in something you love and are separate enough from that passion to make it a career, that puts you in a very rare echelon of people who excel in their work lives. This, though, is a hobby. No way in Hell would anyone pay her to go tramping around abandoned locations, unless they planned on coming back for her real footage after the police investigation.

And my Class of the Titans/demigod/hero oc, Melanie Ahn. She's a descendant of Melampus and her powers are talking to animals and a talent for healing. Which is surprising, considering she's a nihilistic goth girl with a deep distrust for authority. She's Chiron's problem now, and is totally not just going along with everything so she can use her access to godly powers and technology to find her missing sister.