Hello Mr Gaiman. I am in year 11, so I've got my English GCSEs coming up, and my only issue is that I have no idea how to start a story. I can write the rest of the story perfectly fine, but I can never figure out how to start it off well. Do you have any advice?
It's ok if you don't respond, but if you do, thank you.
Try to start it in an interesting way that makes people want to go on. A way that, perhaps, asks a question that you need to keep reading to answer, or that will mean something else if you come to it after finishing the story.
Sometimes I write the beginning of the story, the opening lines, last of all.
It can be a fun exercise to just sit and write for yourself first lines of stories that are interesting and make people want to keep reading. They don't have to be any good, and you definitely don't need to know what happens next.
'Everything would have been fine if the Pope had not misplaced the antique silk alms bag containing her birth control pills.'
'The day Julius's mother died was, by no coincidence, the same day that Julius discovered his Jack Russell terrier secretly spoke Italian.'
'The old house squatted on the hill like a toad on the edge of a well, and, like a toad, would occasionally, when unobserved, lumber down from the hill in search of food. It was not choosy. It would eat anything."
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Rules: List the first line of your last 10 fics (posted or WIP) and see if there's a pattern. If you don't have 10 fics, then as many first lines as you do have!
Thank you for the tag @kogarashi-art. I really want to take the opportunity to dive back into the stuff I have written during my DATV journey - and since there's not too much progress atm, I have more First Lines than I have Last Lines to post about.
I'll take the liberty to choose not only First Lines of whole fics but First Lines of chapters as well. And I may or may not interpret the term "line" more loosely (because I'm a rambler)
Gentle invitations to play will be put under the cut.
Here we go:
1.
He barely could keep Rook's body steady in his arm as he dragged her along with him. Her arms and head dangling like a rag doll, almost incapable of holding herself on her own two legs.
From "Trapped in, oh, so many ways" the very first thing I ever wrote for Cara and Lucanis.
2.
„Can't I just add this as an accolade to my resume?“
Lucanis knew there was no way to talk Rook out of this. Because he had promised it.
In a mood, drunken more from victory than the wine everyone had back then.
from "The things you promise" - a silly little oneshot set post final battle.
3.
“Listen to me, Caramella.”
Cara knew it was serious by the way how Viago used her full name and not ‘Cara’ as he usually called her.
She raised her chin in what was supposed to look as brave and courageous as a 9 year old girl - just a little too small and too bony for her age - could muster.
But the way her lips trembled, betrayed her, giving away, how frightened she was.
“I’m listening” she pressed out the words.
From "Hatchlings" - where we meet teeny tiny 9yo Cara as she joins the Antivan Crows.
4.1.
The fact that Caterina Dellamorte, First Talon of the Antivan Crows had simply accepted when he suggested the Cantori Diamond as neutral ground for a meeting she had asked for, told Viago de Riva, that the matriarch of House Dellamorte wanted something from him.
From the 1st chapter of "Bend don't Break" - where we meet Cara as a 15 yo having to move to Villa Dellamorte to live, train and suffer with the 17yo boys Lucanis and Illario under the hard regime of Caterina Dellamorte, the First Talon.
4.2.
“Your bag!”
not a request. It was an order.
4th chapter of Bend don't Break
5.1.
“I can’t believe, you fucking did this!” Sam’s voice was roaring with anger. But when he saw Cara frowning in pain and heard her suppress a painful groan he forced himself to tone the volume down. “You promised me to not go into "the Pit" before I deem you ready. This insanity could have got you killed, damned be the Maker!”
From "Pride goes before destruction", the second scene from my Luchadora Cara series "ThePit"
5.2.
The note was scaringly short and if it was not a weird thing to say, it sounded stern, even a little hostile in his head.
Cantori Diamond.
Tomorrow.
Midday sharp.
No signature, no sigil, not even an initial. Nothing.
From "Summoned", the 4th scene from my Luchadora Cara series "The Pit"
6.
Blood was a common sight in Treviso. Puddles from more or less public assassinations, dripping patterns along the way of Crows, limping back to their hideouts after an intense training or a contract which almost failed.
First time - a oneshot for an ask, describing the first time Lucanis felt comfortable to touch Cara.
7.1.
Cara was already about to call it a night and leave the bar. She had two glasses of wine.
The sweet red one she preferred, well knowing that it was the cheapest, low quality stuff sold in all Treviso and that Viago would punish her alone for ordering it in the first place. But she loved it anyway.
From the "Cara's Tinder" series, Cara's date with Turvi Laidir (@davrinsleftpectoral)
7.2.
The featherlight sensation that she felt when something touched her fiery red curls was enough to make her reflexes kick in.
Cara swirled around on a heel, while one hand leashed out to tightly grasp around the wrist of the culprit.
From the "Cara's Tinder" series, Cara's date with Cornelius Ingellvar (@librivore42)
8.1.
The headache she woke up with was out of this world. Cara groaned and tried to sit up. She failed. Barely able to turn her head, but her sight was blurred anyway so it was of no use to bother trying.
Part 1 - Heart of Darkness (A Warden Cara AU)
8.2.
Cara saw no reason for now, to even try and get up: The door was locked anyway, she was alone, there was nothing inside this shack beside herself and three pieces of furniture and she was too exhausted to even stand, let alone breaking down the door in order to get out.
Part 2 - Heart of Darkness (A Warden Cara AU)
My takeaway from that collection?
I like to jump right into the thick of it with my writing. Often even starting with dialogue. Starting with a bang so to say.
Works especially well with characters like Caterina or Viago to draw the reader (and myself) right into the emotion and the vibe of the scene.
gentle tags under the cut... no pressure of course.
I got TWO tags for WIP Wednesday today and I finally actually did some writing so I'm gonna mix up the two I was tagged in by @luzial and @gefionne because I AM A LAWLESS RAPSCALLION.
Tagging @elfyroot @opal-apparition @theriothag @christeeenith and @vanillastrange who are all under no obligation to use the same format or even do the thing, but I assume would revel in my unhinged joy.
The next thing I'll post will almost certainly be Ch. 11 of Raid Nights, which I'm having a couple wonderful friends look over now. I've shared a couple snippets before and mentioned this elsewhere, but be ye prepared for the smut:
“What do you want to do tonight?” She leaned over the back of the couch, her hair drifting over her shoulder and hanging above him, providing an ample view of her chest from below mostly on purpose. His eyes flitted to the end of whatever paragraph he was reading before he glanced up with a brief double take, his attention clearly redirected.
“I am… flexible. Whatever sounds like fun,” he reached a hand up to run his fingers through her trailing, wavy hair and she gave him a lopsided smirk.
“I’m very aware of your flexibility, sweetie. But I want to know what you’d like to do.”
We all know what he'd like to do. 😏
Now for the other fun part - First Lines. I also have entirely too many WIPs, but it was fun to open them all up and see where they all are. I don’t know that all of them will come to fruition, but it was still a great exercise. So here's the first line from anything I haven't yet posted.
1. Raid Nights - Ch. 11 - WoW/Dragon Age AU Solavellan
As Ellana began to spend more time with Solas, she began to realize her compulsion to play WoW had been much less about an enjoyment for the game than it was a craving for companionship.
2. The Dalish Champion - Part II - Dragon Age Alternate Timeline
As an early riser, Ame’lin was not taken by surprise when the sharp knock came at her door.
3. TBD (The Gym Trainer AU) - Dragon Age Modern AU - Solavellan
There was a moment when he realized, as his elbows locked above him and his arms began to tremble, that he had overestimated how far his recovery had come.
4. A Veiled Heart - Dragon Age Inquisition retelling, Solavellan
Never in my life did I think I’d have the honor of digging into as renown a Dalish hero’s history than that of Inquisitor Lavellan.
5. TBD - Dragon Age AU - Bellassan
“And you think it will work?”
“I know it will work, Inquisitor. What I do not know is whether enough of what once was remains within.”
6. A Moment in Mind - Dragon Age one-shot, Solavellan, Veilguard AU
The knock on the frame of Lavellan's room was nervously loud, and Rook kicked herself at the trembling in her fist.
7. To Be Redeemed - World of Warcraft - Arator/OC
Arator removed his helm as he descended the stairs below Light’s Hope Chapel.
I’d love to hear if anything above particularly piques your interest.
Thank you to @sorrygoldfish for the tag! And know I will be stealing your formatting for this post (so thanks also for that).
Rules: List the first line of your last 10 fics (posted or WIP) and see if there's a pattern. If you don't have 10 fics, then as many first lines as you do have!
I don't actually have 10 fics (I have 9 and then two pieces of artwork), so this will have to do. Working in backwards order from most recent to oldest:
Everything and Nothing to Lose
DATV | Lucanis/Davrin/Neve, M (later E), Lucanis and Illario are Olympic gymnasts and maybe someone tried to sabotage Lucanis career?, 3,744 words (in progress)
It's seven a.m. and Lucanis almost doesn't answer the door.
Short and punchy which is, if you know me, not my typical style. This is the first long form fic I've written in present tense and I feel like, for me anyway, present tense works better with a snappier style. This might just be a personal preference but I always find I gravitate more towards flowery language with past tense (when we get to the Emmrich piece we'll see the exception to the rule lol). I wanted something to evoke mystery and intrigue right out the gate because there is a mystery at the core of this story, even though I'd argue the mystery is not the point.
No Rest in This World
DATV | Lucanis/Rook de Riva, E, Post-Veilguard "what happens next" story where the answer is "being a Crow kind of fucking sucks and maybe it's ruining my life and our relationship", 351,900 words (LMAO)
It ended as it began—a rift in the heavens closed, the skies above Minrathous quelled, and a wolf caged.
This is probably my favorite first sentence. It's very classic me: flowery and vibes-heavy. I'd argue that the first chapter of No Rest is the most stylistically distinct of the whole fic (and thus potentially not a great representation of the fic) because the rest of the fic is NOT quite this stylistic, but I do think it's a nice way to kick things off. It really sets a tone.
Last Call
DATV/DA2 | Lucanis/Rook, E, modern AU rom-com where Rook and Lucanis work at a dive bar version of The Hanged Man and Lucanis is hiding his true identity, 49,877 words
It was easy to lie one's way into a situation.
This one feels a little unfinisehd to me because it's functionally a two-parter with the next sentence which is "It was much harder to keep up the lie." Another shorter, straight-to-the-point sort of line. I really love this one and how you get thrown right into Lucanis' whole let-me-run-from-my-life lie that snowballs into becoming one of the Kirkwall gang.
Where Our Hearts Hunger
DATV | Lucanis/Rook, M, prequel one-shot to No Rest about the aftermath of the Bloodbath quest, 3780 words
Within the rotted hollow of unspeakable carnage a terrible demon fed on the lake of blood.
This is my favorite opening line. We're firmly back in No Rest "vibes win the day" territory and I'm out here throwing around chewy prose like beads at Mardi Gras. I just love how chewy and visceral this line is. Really sets the stage for how they are quite literally sitting next to a giant fucking pool of blood.
The Things We Do For Love
DAI | Cullen/Inquisitor, G, post-Trespasser fluff one shot about fighting over bed space with their pet mabari, 752 words
At the end of a long day, the mabari was not what Cullen had hoped to find awaiting him in bed.
I'm ngl I always forget this fic exists but it's SO cute and this opening line is so funny. The whole vibe of this fic was supposed to be short and sweet, so I wanted to get the reader straight into the mood, and the mood is "this is all very goofy." I think this succeeds.
To Be Seen By Your Eyes
DATV | Lucanis/Rook, T, No Rest prequel one shot about Lucanis' first time at the Lighthouse after his rescue from the Ossuary, 2,797 words
In the absence of darkness was an absence of time.
Shockingly short and punchy for a No Rest story lol. This is another one I really love. There's not really a "plot" to this one shot - it's focused a lot on Rook's initial feelings towards Lucanis - and so I wanted the opening to focus more on where Rook was emotionally in that moment, what sort of thing she was focusing on. I like this idea that she starts off just lost in how strange it is to live in this liminal space where you can't even see the passage of time and how that might change your relationship with time as a very concept. I think in a way that's an interesting framing for the Veilguard romances as having been born from this almost unreal-feeling stolen bits of time.
You Only Feel It When It's Lost
DATV | Emmrich/Rook (nominally), T, Emmrich dealing with the reality of immortality when the last of the Veilguard has died, 2,598 words
The letter comes on the first day of autumn.
Honestly kind of funny that for one of my most descriptive, metaphor-heavy, melancholic fics it would start off with such a simple sentence. Feels almost like a bait and switch lol. Still, I do think it's an effective first sentence as a hook. It's always good to leave a reader asking a question, wanting to know what comes next.
Nothing He Wrought Shall Be Lost
DAI | Cullen/Inquisitor, T, Cullen and Evelyn travel to Ferelden to see his family for the first time in thirteen years, 5,292 words
The Hinterlands - with their cool winds and rocky peaks, covered in a verdant blanket of pine - had played a veritable trick on Evelyn for making her believe a summer in Ferelden would not be as hot and damp as the Maker’s balls.
Here we are with the longest opening sentence yet. Honestly surprised it took this long lol. This sentence feels like such a perfect encapsulation of me as a writer - go in with the descriptive prose then hit them with a joke. I'm a woman of many talents. I do think that this is genuinely quite a good indicator of the tone my writing often takes and how I'm always looking for ways to throw humor into anything I'm writing. I just think if you're not going to find the humor in any situation, what's the point? That's how we get through life.
Where Shall I Begin?
DAI | Cullen/Inquisitor, M, Epistolary fic told in a series of letters between members of the Inquisition, set during the main story, 69,360 words (in progress...theoretically)
Josie,
By the time you get this you will have likely already seen with your own eyes what has happened at the Breach.
As my only epistolary fic this is obviously something of an outlier. This is probably my least favorite in that I don't think it's doing anything particularly interesting, but this was also my first ever fic so I'll give myself a little grace for not coming up with more of a banger right out of the gate. There's better ones in the fic, trust me.
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Verdict? I don't think there's necessarily a clear theme but I definitely seem to like either something a little punchy that asks a question or slips in a joke or I like a very vibes-heavy evocative sentence that doesn't tell you a lot about the story but gives you a sense for how it might feel. Inside me are two wolves.
This was a lot of fun! Tagging @genjyoandgojyoandhakkai @slothquisitor @dracoliskline @mustardprecum @cimmanombagel @armoredinmoonlight @falonwithbenefits @dags-over-caravans @serialsforbellara to join in if you're interested
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Rules: List the first line of your last 10 fics (posted or WIP) and see if there's a pattern. If you don't have 10 fics, then as many first lines as you do have!
Okeedokee let's find a pattern:
It All Comes Back
Dragon Age Veilguard | Neve/Bellara, E, 90s aliens au, 4,330 words (in progress)
Neve doesn't drink anymore.
Each (very short) chapter of this fic opens with a message board post or PM, so I went with the first "actual" line for this one. I'm calling it now, I think the pattern with my first lines is gonna be that I love to start things off with a short declarative sentence that (hopefully) leaves the reader thinking "ok, why?" AKA a hook.
Best Laid Plans of Bisexuals and Disasters
Dragon Age Veilguard | f!Rook/Lucanis, Neve/Bellara, Taash/Harding, Davrin/Emmrich , E, unhinged Valentine's Day romp, 7,552 words (in progress)
"Shouldn't he be better at this sort of thing?"
Dags wrote the first chapter so I went with the first line of ch 2, which we co-wrote. Another short sentence, more interrogative, but the goal is still to leave the reader wondering "ok, who and what thing?" It's also a callback to the first chapter opening line: "He is usually better at this sort of thing." Love a callback.
The World As We Know It
Dragon Age Veilguard | Gen, M, Illario and Lucanis and a world-ending pandemic, 24,348 words (in progress)
Illario leaves the bar early, and it saves his life.
Short declarative sentence! Similar to It All Comes Back, I think this one also sets the tone of the fic as being overall kinda tense. This is as close as I get to a more omniscient 3rd person pov. The rest of the fic, and most of my other fics, are pretty tight 3rd person limited pov, but the "it saves his life" here is something he doesn't know (yet).
A Blind Tasting
Dragon Age Veilguard | f!Rook/Lucanis, E, smut-writing practice, 1,714 words (complete)
A steady stream of tears flows down Rook's cheeks, past her chin, dampening the collar of her shirt.
Longer sentence! I was playing with setting the tone here, wanting it to seem like Rook is sad and Lucanis is ignoring her before it's revealed that she's just cutting onions. I am incapable of writing straightforward sexy smut. There has to be something else going on. Usually hijinks. This is why I'm practicing, to challenge myself or something, idk.
Counting The Stars
Dragon Age Veilguard | Gen, T, pre-VG Illario and Lucanis bond over Viago being a flat-earther, 465 words (complete)
Illario knew the stars that winked above Treviso at midnight much better than he knew the shimmer of its canals at noon.
Another longish one! And much more vibey than I usually start off with. Setting the scene rather than starting with the action. Establishing something about the character before we get into the drunken bullshittery that follows.
Collectors
Dragon Age Veilguard | Gen, T, Emmrich and Lucanis chat about gifts, 419 words (complete)
Emmrich's posture was slumped.
And we're back to the short declaratives. I don't write about Emmrich often, but I feel like he's a man with impeccable posture. So if he's slumped over, something's up, right?
Memory and Truth
Dragon Age Veilguard | Gen, G, Bellara and Lucanis and grief, 343 words (complete)
The lights were still blazing in Bellara's workshop when Lucanis eased the door open with one hand, balancing a cloth-covered dinner tray in the other.
Scene setting AND action, look at me go! This first line is a bit of an outlier compared to the others idk. But I wanted this drabble to feel very cozy but heavy, kinda like a weighted blanket, and I think this line gets us there pretty quickly.
The Way to a Man's Heart
Dragon Age Veilguard | m!Rook/Lucanis, G, Lucanis gives Rook food poisoning, 507 words (complete)
Rook didn't usually look pained when Lucanis asked if he wanted dessert.
I wanted to let the reader know immediately that something is wrong here. Lucanis makes Rook dessert and Rook is thrilled about it, this is canon, everyone who's ever written a Lucanis fic has written a version of this scene probably by now. So here's another "ok why?" opening line.
Tradition
Dragon Age Veilguard | Caterina Dellamorte/original female character, M, comphet Caterina backstory, 788 words (complete)
Caterina Dellamorte has never loved men.
This is tied with "Illario leaves the bar early and it saves his life" for Goldfish's Best Opening Line, imo. I could have called the fic "Caterina Dellarmorte is a Lesbian, Change My Mind" but that felt a little too on the nose, so starting with this statement was the next best thing. The old gal deserves some backstory. Who was she before we met her? Why's she Like That? (Cause she's a lesbian, Harold.)
Just Like Old Times
Dragon Age Veilguard, DA2 | f!Hawke/Isabela, T, a reunion between two old lovers, 711 words (complete)
The Hilt isn't the Hanged Man, but, the way Isabela holds court here, it might as well be.
Hawkebela, my loves! Not my favorite opening line, but I wanted to plop the reader immediately into a place and immediately set some distance--the narrator (Hawke) has more memories of Isabela in the Hanged Man than this place, I wanted that to be clear. So it works, it's good enough.
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The pattern is that I love a short hook? The hook brings you back? (Now I have Blues Traveler stuck in my head.) Do I just start fics like I'm writing a grade school essay and need a thesis statement? 🤔Thematically, I think the pattern is that I like exploring different facets of different types of relationships, and I'm more interested in the canon characters than my OCs. Starting as a Rookanis girly and expanding into other ships (both romantic and platonic) after I got that out of my system has been really rewarding, creatively. I know I'm not the first person to say this, but Gen fics deserve more love! If you've read this far, give me some of your favorite Gen fic recs please!
Just a few gentle tags for the usual folks and if you've already done this pls let me know: @dags-over-caravans, @gatesofminrathous, @gloaminghagette, @genjyoandgojyoandhakkai, @gingervitus, @slothquisitor, @thewyvernrising, @blightwashed, and @adejareve
Tagged by @ratbagjasper and @in-the-drowning-deep! Thank you both, I was looking for a way to stall on work this morning <3
Rules: List the first line of your last 10 fics (posted or WIP) and see if there's a pattern. If you don't have 10 fics, then as many first lines as you do have!
First lines and yapping beneath the cut.
Flowers Amidst Thorns
Dragon Age Veilguard | Rookanis, G–E, Rookanis Week, 8,540 words (complete)
Until the mug came down on the table with a soft tp, porcelain meeting wood with barely more sound than the scratch of the pen across paper under her hands, Rook could not have said with any certainty who or what was in the room with her.
This fic is a series of vignettes I wrote for Rookanis week, and this is the first line of the first one, so it's not really representative of the whole thing? But it really is so them. Throughout the fic there's a lot of careful navigation of the giving and accepting of care, and I think this establishes that clearly.
The Wheel Rut in the Ruined Stone
Dragon Age Veilguard | Gen (so far), T, Varric Succeeds AU, 15,123 words (in progress)
One day, maybe, the world would try to end and it wouldn't be Varric's problem.
Poor Varric. The opening chapter is his POV, but by the end of it something important has snapped, and from there the fic (and the problem) isn't really his any longer. Which is to say, this wound up being a really good thesis statement.
What Remains Besides Rest
Dragon Age Veilguard | Rookanis, E, misery beej, 6,115 words (complete)
His gilded mask was serene and smiling, but the bit of his face visible beneath its jeweled edge was not.
OUGH okay pulling out this line is? killing me. It's actually a line from the trashy Crow/House of Repose romance novel Lucanis is reading, but baby we got some resonance.
A Fistful of Smoke
Dragon Age Inquisition | Solavellan, T, Crestwood divorce, 3,513 words (complete)
Morai has never been a woman given to shame.
My sweet angel. Morai's disbelief and anger is something I really loved chewing on here, considering how completely untelegraphed the Crestwood Divorce is (unless you already Know), and I like opening with this statement as something to be immediately undercut.
Once Called Home
Dragon Age Inquisition | Solavellan, T, Inquisition–Trespasser bridge, 25,483 words (complete)
For over a year, branded by the Fade and beset at all sides by the end of the world, the Inquisitor had done the impossible day in and day out.
My Morai torment nexus magnum opus. Thie whole fic is about the loss of self beneath a title, and opening without her name—yeah :)
when I don't sleep, I dream
Dragon Age Veilguard | Spite/Rook(/Lucanis), E, metaphysical demon sex, 4,411 words (complete)
Her back is flat to the cold stone; her foot is braced up against the opposite wall.
We open with horror dream sex and spiral out from there into metaphysics. idk man, this one didn't ask for my permission or input.
The Measure of a Little Heart
Lord of the Rings (books) | Pippin & Faramir, G, fealty crush post-War, 3,393 words (complete)
Pippin had known the warmth of love all his life, and had learned the deep swell of admiration on the long, strange road with the likes of Gandalf and Strider and Boromir and all, but it wasn't until that dark afternoon high on the Citadel walls, quailing under the fell cry of the winged Black Riders, that he looked at Beregond's brave face and recognized for the first time the gleam of devotion.
There absolutely must have been a moment between Pippin and Faramir after the War of the Ring, so I wrote it. Pippin is just a little guy experiencing the worst week of his life when he meets the best man in Gondor.
Skies Both Dark and Bright
Lord of the Rings (books) | Éowyn/Faramir, G, post-War pre-marriage, 3,069 words (complete)
"In the tongue of Rohan we call it simbelmynë. Everlasting memory—evermind," Éowyn said softly, touching the delicate white petals with long white fingers.
Cheating a little for this one, but I think it needs the whole thing. I have a lot of feelings about trauma and being fundamentally changed and loved as one is, and I put pretty much all of them in this fic.
This Desolate Hope
Lord of the Rings (books) | Gilraen, G, motherhood & widowhood, 600 words (complete)
When she was young and foolish, Gilraen had thought to herself: my father understands nothing of love.
Thinking about Giraen—Aragorn's mother, widowed before Dúnedain considered her age of majority reached—really killed me, so I made it everyone's problem.
Not Today
Fullmetal Alchemist (manga) | Royai, G, Riza as Bradley's hostage, 1,246 words (complete)
Riza Hawkeye sat at her desk, paperwork stacked neatly before her, and thought about the gun in her desk.
:) if I think too hard about Riza Hawkeye and Roy Mustang I start screaming and running laps. Wrote this originally in 2006, and though I wound up editing and adding a fair amount (the original version was only 500 words) this line remained untouched.
I got tagged in the "first line of ten fics" game by the lovely @idkwhatimdoingbutslay so since I only have nine works, here they are:
Sleepover Secrets - 5/?
Violet met Caitlyn Kiramman when she was fourteen years old, and the other girl was just fifteen.
Is It Casual Now? - 5/?
Caitlyn didn’t exactly love dating. It was hard to, when she could easily master almost every skill she attempted, besides romance
‘One Single String of Red Tied You to Me’ -2/2
The strings. Everyone knew about them. Most followed them. Some never dared to.
Regardless of whether or not you chose to accept your fate, they were there. It was a fact of life, like the air they breathed, and the divide between the two cities.
Safe in her Arms - 2/2
When Caitlyn and Vi first moved in together, there was many things Caitlyn learned quickly. For instance, Vi was a very fast eater, as if she was a starved animal, and she would never get more food after that particular meal.
girlfriend - 1/1
Vi was bored out of her mind. The glamour and poise that filled the walls of the Kiramman manor was far from an environment someone like her belonged in
The Comfort You Bring - 1/1
Essentially having grown up in Stillwater, everyday was considered a bad day for Vi.
Seven Minutes in Heaven - 1/1
If you asked Caitlyn, she wouldn’t tell you she hated much. She was happy with school, and got along well enough with her parents. But if there was one thing she hated, it was without a doubt, Violet Lanes.
Empty Without You - 1/1
As Vi woke up, before she even opened her eyes, the first thing she did was roll over and reach for her girlfriend
“Till The Day I Die” - 1/1
Caitlyn had never had any doubts on her relationship with Violet in the 24 years they’d been together
I don’t have a lot of mutuals who write and that haven’t done this yet (btw lmk if you wanna be mutuals!) soo @kaylal-aaa you’re up
