#burns study.

aria to vincent @despiterage — "You have a boner right now. You have a boner right now, and we just killed a bunch of people, and your back is literally against the wall. There is something so wrong with you. And you think you're great? Be serious. We have a job to do. You're gonna follow through, and you're gonna do it my way."

SF to AL @petitsdieu — "I do not want to hurt you. I will hurt you, I–What do you want this to be?"

beck to funke @nightrot — "My love is not a little thing. It is a big thing. A big thing still called love."

beck to homelander @rejectory — "I AM—I am good. I am ready. Terrorists, traffickers, people blowing themselves up. I am ready. Have you seen what I can do, even."

beck to houston @jupiterfree — "I am doing this for them, for all of them! And for you! For you! Because it is right, and because I can!"

burns to rex @deficd —"I DID NAWTI DID NAWT I DID NAWT! I'm not a snitch and I'm not a fuckin' spy or a fuckin' lurker or WHATEVAH! I don't know where he went or why he's got a tail and that's the end of it!"

cain to charles @id1eyouth — "What do you want from me, Charles? Do you want to visit my office hours? Do you want to get lunch somewhere with delicious sandwiches? We do not need to be friends."

cullen to ben @kylo-wrecked — "Let us not forget who put whose hands on whom first. I mean. It almost sounds like you're victim blaming right now. Are you? Victim blaming?"

dafne to chris @rassvetiye — "I don't even—I'm not cynical, you know? I'm not. I like people. Oh my god, do I have to be a feminist because of this? I have to?"

dafne to harrison @id1eyouth — "Do you even understand who you're threatening, right now?"

dafne to zachary @id1eyouth — "Hiii! Sorry. Not who you were expecting. I'm the girl coming to cut your hair. Your regular barber had a scheduling conflict, but I come highly recommended. You can give him a call, if you want. I know this is to-ta-lly freaky."

dick to harold @gordiacea — "You'll have to forgive us for the, well, I'll admit it, secretive manner in which we conduct ourselves at our little facility. Protecting my colleagues' innovations and discoveries is of the utmost importance! I do appreciate you signing that document, as it's a necessary sort of formality, but it's rather preliminary—and gives us quite the air of mystery, don't you think? Everyone who steps foot on Site A has to sign it, though. The premises liability clause is just as imperative as the non-disclosure clauses—you wouldn't believe the insurance premiums I'm shelling out on a regular basis! Besides, now we can really get down to brass tacks. I'm sure [Big University] pays the bills just fine, and it's a noble institution, but let me be frank, Doctor: we'd love to collaborate with you. Permanently."

dick to johns @eviji — "Being so dismissive will hardly service you, my good man. You're playing a dangerous game, and I'm not sure you understand the basic rules. You see, my opinion matters, and it matters far more than yours. Hypotheses matter just as much as the data our experiments yield. Do you understand me, Johns?"

dmitri to josephine @ruinaa — ""I see people in a way others can't, with a degree of detail that is maddening. It is what makes me unique. It is, I think, what allows me to recreate them so well. I can also see their potential. I see your potential. I see you conflicted, battling something. Restrained by this life you've stuck yourself in. It hurts, Josephine, to see such a waste."

elijah knight to elijah mercer @midcenturies — "Well, to start, it'd be real nice if we could put an end to these hostilities. After that, I do believe we've got more in common than you think. Do you not believe Jesus Christ died for our sins?"

lila to charles @id1eyouth —

slime texture its good

margot to hara @petitsdieu — "You are here, though. You're—shocked? In shock? Right now, but you won't always be. My first time, it was terrifying. It was self defense, but it was terrifying. But I learned. I adapted. I overcame."

max to johns @eviji — "Who is letting you listen to that British bullshit? Answer me in a plain sentence. Remember how you speak to me."

pyotr to dallas @jupiterfree — "I think if you actually give up on yourself, and on that girl, you will live the saddest, sorriest life that a man has ever lived. And when you die, you will go to hell forever. To be tortured."

stella to lorenza @holyrots — "You deserved good things as soon as you were born."

spirit to becky @scarestress — "I don't need to be better than you. I just need to be there. Does it feel good, or something? Finding ways to make yourself miserable? You look so ugly when you get so worked up."

spirit to delta @graveflwers —"When we die, we don't get heaven or hell. We don't get to let go. We get something in between, forever. And we're not part of our world anymore, but we know what happens on it. We just can't do anything to anybody who made us suffer. You never get to stop feeling—feeling. It hurts forever. It feels like this forever."

spirit to jon @sscarecrow — "Don't you know all of the twenty-year-old girls in the tri-state area all meet up, like, once a month, and we gossip, and we talk about you for, like, hours and hours and hours? We do. We really do. There's a groupchat, too."