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ALRIGHT this was a dope prompt, thank u so much.

got this done in one sitting but it DID run away from me a little. or like. severely. depending on your definition

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“No, fuck off, stop,” Ava sputters, dragging herself weakly away by the one arm she can move, lower body leaden and stiff. “Don’t touch me.”

Lilith, weirdly to her credit, at least hesitates. She doesn’t actually listen, presumably because hell hasn’t frozen over, but she pauses a moment before continuing her approach towards Ava.

“Calm down,” Lilith says, voice crisp and accented like a Disney movie villain. She steps closer, kicking up dust Ava can taste on the back of her tongue, and leans down, pulling one of Ava’s arms over her shoulders, sliding one of her own arms beneath Ava’s knees, hoisting her upward with complete and total ease. Like lifting a sack of potatoes.

Ava thrashes, as much as she can (which isn’t much), heart thundering in her ears. “I said stop! Lilith!”

“Ow!” Lilith yelps, jerking her head away and scowling down at Ava. “Did you just bite me?”

Mary notices first, covering a chuckle with a half-hearted cough before elbowing Beatrice in the side and nodding towards Mother Superion. Beatrice lifts her gaze to cast an analytical eye on the scene in front of her, and quickly spots the googly eyes attached midway down Superion's cane. She doesn't quell her mirth nearly as well as Mary had, however, and when Superion lifts her cane to gesture at the pair of them, the eyes shake wildly; Mary and Beatrice collapse against each, dissolving into peals of laughter.

@appleciders​ 

Listen... the way Martha’s childhood trauma and her childhood passion have been intrinsically linked is just... God the fact that she was about to start dancing as an adult, and simply could not... the fact that on the island she doesn’t dance, but she kills, and it is such a clear parallel, such a moment of emotional catharsis for her, such an important breakthrough, though also hard and a bit traumatizing in its own right, the killing of something she was holding onto very tightly and had to let go to survive and grow up... 

Martha is the sweetest of the Unsinkable Eight, but she had the most violent/unsafe childhood (that we know of), and that makes for an equally violent/bloody transition to adulthood, and she’s gonna need the others to see that and support her through it, because I don’t want her to give up what is important to her, that intentional kindness and awareness of other beings, which is a choice she gets to make...

9. Dread in my Heart by Mother Mother

42. Love Me Dead by Ludo

thanks for the ask 💖💖💖

🧠 Pick a character, and I'll tell you my favorite headcanon for them.

my #1 mary headcanon is that she'd pick up bits and bobs and trinkets for her faves and sneak the contraband to them if needed. she's got an encyclopedic knowledge of favourite snacks and chocolates and a great gut instinct for what books someone might enjoy

bea develops a dossier on every single person they might feasibly interact with in the swiss town. just to be safe.

+1 bea/avatrice: the first time ava gets bea absolutely tanked bea moves onto a new language with every drink; ava learns each successive language before getting bea that drunk again

3. What is your writing ritual and why is it cursed?

lately it's involved having to psych myself up and then dive head-first into my gdoc only to emerge fifteen minutes later exhausted and covered in blood, rinse and repeat at random times of the day for a couple weeks

8. If you had to write an entire story without either action or dialogue, which would you choose and how would it go?

I'd choose action over dialogue, because I really don't enjoy writing dialogue but I feel like there's so much room to play with body language and physical touch in an action-only fic (and now I'm thinking about Mary and Shannon dead silent and completely in sync clearing a warehouse or something and barely even needing hand signals to know where to step, when to lead, when to follow)

25. What is a weird, hyper-specific detail you know about one of your characters that is completely irrelevant to the story?