☾ battle born. [ap] ✸

ROLE CALL!

❝ You don’t mind if I record this, do you? ❞

❝ Understand my policy: if it gets out, I’ll break every bone in your body. ❞

❝ It was raining that night, that heavy, thumping rain that means you can’t hear a damn thing. It crashes onto the roof like someone’s jumpin’ on it. ❞

❝ I expected to hear something - shouting, a, a scream, something - but it was still just the rain. ❞

❝ I thought we were supposed to be on the same side. ❞

❝ I’m quite certain they never even went near the hospital. ❞

❝ A power like this, and she’s using it to try and make money. It sickened me. It still does. ❞

❝ I’d never killed anyone before. I didn’t particularly enjoy it. ❞

❝ The human mind is amazingly adept at ignoring things that don’t make sense, that it doesn’t want to see. ❞

❝ I actually do need your help. Can you not be an arsehole about it? ❞

❝ The industry is mainly full of skeptics pretending to be believers pretending to be skeptics. ❞

❝ I think the word you’re looking for is “charlatans”. ❞

❝ Let’s just say the people I worked for take privacy very seriously indeed. ❞

❝ I have no idea how it knew I was there. ❞

❝ It’s fine, it’s – it’s just work, but if there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that you and me? We suck at this whole spy thing. ❞

❝ Nothing about humanity is binary. ❞

❝ Sorry, I, um… it’s been a while since I talked to someone in person? Been spending a lot of time in my own head, you know. ❞

❝ We’ve tricked ourselves into thinking that computers and people have anything in common. ❞

❝ There’s not some secret, sinister underbelly of the internet where, with the right passwords and double-talk, you can hack your way into a black market of assassins, drug lords, and secret forums. ❞

❝ The angles cut me when I try to think. ❞

❝ There’s no feeling, but the no feeling hurts. ❞

❝ Oh, sorry, didn’t mean to disturb you while you were being suspicious ❞

❝ Just stop talking. I’m sick of this, I’m sick of you. ❞

❝ Your experiences? Fuck you, I got eaten by worms because of you! ❞

❝ Truth be told, I hated my job. ❞

❝ Don’t go to sleep. ❞

❝ I thought she was just like me, another weirdo cast off from the world. ❞

❝ She asked me if I had a destiny. ❞

❝ don’t be so dramatic, [Name]. You know how hard it would be to replace you. ❞

❝ You use the beauty inside of you to reach in and pull the beauty out of the object. ❞

❝ This place plays odd tricks with your mind. ❞

❝ I think we’ve said more than enough. I doubt there’s much more words can do for us. ❞

❝ I turned the very real sense of unease into the… the fun sort of fear, like I was just playing at being scared. ❞

❝ We create the world in a lot of ways. I suppose it shouldn’t be surprising that, when we’re not being careful, we can change it. ❞

❝ Biologically, his account of the spiders doesn’t make any sense. Also, apparently, he cried a lot. ❞

❝ I should just leave it. They’re right. But I can’t not know. ❞

❝ You know those friends you have who aren’t really your friends, but you go to the same parties and it’s not enough of a thing that you’d actually avoid each other, so everyone just assumes you’re friends, and you kind of absorb that and even start picturing them there when you think about “your friends” as a group, but deep down you both know you don’t actually like each other, it’s just that it’s actually more effort to not be friends? ❞

❝ It’s not really in the realms of “tragic loss of a young life so full of potential”, but it’s still a long way from “I guess it was his time”. ❞

❝ The moment I die will feel just the same as this one. ❞

battle born: when they break your heart and cause your soul to mourn