#writerswip

pros: a book

great.

just fucking great.

the rope cut into her wrists, blood pricking into the dry rope. her eyes stung with tears. she wasn’t crying. she’d never cry in front of all these...jokes of human beings. she looked down. no. she wasn’t crying. a sob escaped her lungs. it wasn’t it wasn’t a voluntary sound. but she knew where it came from. 

why am i being killed?

why not...him?

onlookers jeered as another sob escaped her throat. she desperately tried to force them back down but more kept coming until she was sobbing and crying, snot and tears running down her beautiful face. the executioner chuckled as he slipped the rope around her neck, “finally feeling regret for all the men you’ve killed?” he turned to address the crowd, “the bitch is finally sobbing for all the innocent lives she’s ended.” the crowd roared with laughter. lust’s hands curled into fists. her perfect, long, beautiful nails dug deep into her pale plams, more blood trickling down the wrists. her head snapped up to face them,

“you call them innocent? i call them bastards, the lot of them!” the pure rage in her voice shut the crowd up. a deathly silence swept over the crowd like a tidal wave. this small women had just hushed a crowd of hundreds. her hooded eyes flicked to a wealthy looking woman in the front row, “you know, darcy,” the woman paled. this criminal knew her name. the crowd didn’t stir, too afraid to move. you could cut the tension in the air with a knife. lust opened her mouth once more, “your husband is a lousy lover.” she laughed, tears still streaming down her face as the woman fainted. the crowed exploded in rage again. lust simply laughed, “you’ll never catch jack! never! i hope you sleep well at night knowing you killed a desperate young prostitute. i may burn in hell but you’re all coming down with me! you hear me? BURN-” she was cut off as the trapdoor opened beneath her. her lifeless body swung from side to side. 

wrath and greed have a handshake that consists of them trying to tackle each other to the ground first. considering wrath’s strength and greed’s powers, this handshake endangers almost everyone within a mile radius.

mini headcanon:

-name: sloth

 -nationality: spanish

 -born: september 1st 1830

 -gender: male

 -powers: telekinesis

 -personality: sloth is, in a word, lazy. he can’t even be bothered to walk so he constantly floats around everywhere and uses his unstoppable power to lift coke cans into his hand. he doesn’t much care what people think of him or what people think or do at all. he always takes the easy way out but gets let off since he, at least acts, like a child.

 -background: spain was still reeling from the war. poverty was rampant and sloth’s family was no excuse. in 1840, his parents were accidentally killed in a riot and sloth was left alone with his baby sister. with his last dying breath, his father told him to take care of his baby sister. and he did, for a while. but soon stealing food for two and dealing with his sisters constant crying was too much effort for sloth. he threw his baby sister into the sea and watched her drown with a blank expression. eventually karma caught up with him and a few months later, sloth fell into the sea himself and drowned, no-one bothering to help him.

-name: pride

 -nationality: american

 -born: august 6th 1940

 -gender: female

 -powers: extendable claws that can tear through bone

 -personality: oh god that ego. pride could be in the presence of god himself and she’d still think she was the bigger person in the room. to say she has a superiority complex is an understatement. if she isn’t looking in a mirror, she’s eyeing up others with that judgemental stare. she’s very level headed and is almost impossible to piss off unlike a lot of the others. she is content in the fact she is simply better than everyone else.

 -background: 1950’s america. what a time. pride was the daughter of a wealthy business man and life was going great, they had recovered from the wall street crash by now. however, pride did something she shouldn’t. she murdered a man. why she did is unclear but when it came to the trial, she wouldn’t admit it. she claimed all the witnesses were liars and made a right spectacle of herself. she would never admit what she did was wrong. so, in a fit of rage, she decided to take justice into her own hands and murdered his children. she was killed by lethal injection, the youngest person on death row.

-name: envy

 -nationality: french

 -born: january 13th 1771

 -gender: male

-powers: the ability to possess anyone he chooses

 -personality: envy is a snide, judgemental individual. he constantly belittles and undermines others to cover up his own insecurities. he is very jealous and callous and will do anything to knock others down to feel good about himself. he is constantly insulting others and laughing about it.

 -background: it was the height of the french revolution but envy wasn’t worried about that. there was other things to worry about. his brother. a well known and renowned doctor who aided in the rebellion and tended to their wounds. instead of feeling happy or proud of his brother, all envy felt was jealousy. one night in 1989, envy slit his brothers throat. his patients were all in the other room, sock and dying. envy simply locked the door and went about his day. when this was discovered, however, envy was taken away and beheaded alongside the aristocrats he hated.

-name: gluttony

 -nationality: irish

 -born: december 5th 1930

 -gender: male

 -powers: sharp jagged teeth that can rip through steel

 -personality: gluttony is always eating. he’s selfish with his food and often pull it out of nowhere. he’s very thuggish and rowdy, much like greed and isn’t the brightest bulb in the box. he’s very standoffish, always itching for a fight. he’s also very chaotic in the sense that you don’t know exactly how he’ll react to things. -background: gluttony grew up in a poor household in the hills of ireland with his sister, mary-beth. mary-beth was extremely self conscious growing up and her brother didn’t help. in 1948, gluttony had managed to convince mary-beth to stop eating, leaving all the food to himself. however when he was scolded for eating all the food and forced to cut back, it was the worst decision his parents ever made. he decided to turn to the next best thing. his sister herself. in the spring of 1948, gluttony beat mary-beth to death and then ate her, raw. his parents walked in on this and in utter fear of what his son had become, his father stabbed him to death.

-name: lust

 -nationality: british

 -born: february 14th 1869

 -gender: female

 -powers: she can release a gas from her eyes and mouth that cause intense feelings of love towards her.

 -personality: lust os a very flirtatious individual. however, as greed has rather delightfully found out, shes a flirt that can’t handle being flirted with. she’s very unpredictable, having sudden and unnerving mood swings and intense cravings for random things at random moments. it could be sex one minute then sprite cranberry the next.

 -background: lust had, what most would agree, on a tough life. she was abandoned when she was young and raised by a prostitute. she was raised with the idea that women were only meant to be servants to men and to submit to their sexual desires. she grew up with this idea until she was old enough to pursue her mother’s “career.” she became infamous throughout london as one of the most sought after prostitutes. however all this sex spiralled into something else. deviancy. she started doing some rather unsavoury things with her clients. however this just heightened her appeal. until one day, she had a craving for something else. not sex. blood. and she got it. when the ripper murders of 1888 occurred, she snapped. she became a serial killer. the prostitutes revenge against jack the ripper. she began killing her clients after she gave them the best night of their loves before turning it into their worst. she was caught in the act and hanged, unlike the killer she wanted revenge on.