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MERMAIDS.

‘  beyond  the  winds  and  past  the  shores,  strange  magic  lurks  about.  ’

‘  will  you  go  to  the  lagoon  with  me  ?  it’s  unsafe  to  go  alone.  ’

‘  they  say  a  siren’s  call  alone  can  drown  a  man  before  she  swallows  him.  ’

‘  quick  !  cover  your  ears.  ’

‘  what  did  you  imagine  as  you  heard  the  song  ?  ’

‘  i  can  feel  a  voice  like  claws  sinking  beneath  my  skin.  ’

‘  one  can  pray  to  the  ocean,  but  the  waters  answer  in  strange  tongues.  ’

‘  careful,  or  we’ll  hit  the  reef.  ’

‘  the  sea-folk  are  flighty  as  their  fins,  and  illusive  as  shimmering  scales.  ’

‘  i  should  like  to  find  myself  a  sailor  fit  for  a  feast.  ’

‘  sometimes  i  wish  there  was  more  than  the  endless  waves.  ’

‘  do  you  see  that  ?  there,  beneath  the  surface  ?  ’

‘  that’s  no  fish,  and  no  woman  either.  ’

‘  what  lies  off  the  edge  of  the  map  ?  ’

‘  the  sea  has  monsters,  but  beauties  too.  ’

‘  i’ve  heard  that  merfolk  make  bargains,  and  trade  in  the  ocean’s  magic.  ’

‘  i’ve  never  seen  a  pearl  like  this  one.  ’

‘  the  ship  will  go  down  if  we  don’t  turn  about  !  ’

‘  what  is  that,  out  there  on  the  rocks  ?  ’

‘  won’t  you  listen  to  my  song  ?  ’

‘  mermaids  love  shiny  things.  keep  a  careful  eye  on  yours.  ’

‘  if  we  hide  in  the  kelp,  we  might  see  them  as  they  pass.  ’

‘  i’ve  heard  the  tales.  to  catch  you  means  to  gain  a  granted  wish.  ’

‘   i’ve  never  seen  your  likeness,  only  heard  the  myths.  ’

‘  come  with  me,  beneath  the  sea  and  foam,  and  be  mine.  ’

‘  some  of  us  live  in  the  ocean,  others  in  rivers  and  streams  and  even  trees.  ’

‘  falling  in  love  with  a  human  is  an  old  tale.  tell  me  a  new  one.  ’

‘  so  you  gave  up  your  fin  for  legs  ?  ’

‘  soon  i  will  be  nothing  but  seafoam.  ’

‘  what  is  a  heart,  but  an  ocean  of  secrets  ?  ’

‘  you’d  let  yourself  be  undone  and  remade  for  someone  you’ve  never  known.  that  is  not  love.  ’

‘  let  your  dreams  sink  to  the  depths.  they’ve  done  you  no  good.  ’

MASQUERADES.

‘  i’ve  never  seen  so  many  unfamiliar  faces.  ’

‘  he’s / she’s / they’ve  been  looking  at  me  all  evening.  ’

‘  would  you  do  me  the  honor  of  a  dance  ?  ’

‘  neither  of  us  need  know  the  other  tonight.  i  prefer  the  mystery.  ’

‘  your  choice  of  costume  is  rather  extravagant.  ’

‘  what  fun  would  it  be,  if  i  took  this  off  ?  ’

‘  i’m  certain  we’ve  met  before.  ’

‘  i’ve  always  longed  for  a  night  like  this.  it’s  something  out  of  a  dream.  ’

‘  won’t  you  come  away  with  me  ?  there’s  a  balcony  just  outside.  ’

‘  i’m  inclined  to  think  we’ve  never  met  before,  and  perhaps  will  never  meet  again  after  tonight.  ’

‘  you  look  like  you  know  how  to  waltz.  care  to  ?  ’

‘  i  must  stand  up  with  someone  this  evening,  and  i  don’t  see  why  it  can’t  be  you.  ’

‘  would  you  stop  staring  so  intently  ?  what  do  you  think  to  find  ?  ’

‘  i’ll  stop  bothering  you  if  you  agree  to  dance  with  me.  ’

‘  please  take  it  off.  i  want  to  see  you.  ’

‘  i’ve  never  been  to  a  masque  before.  ’

‘  it  seems  our  attire  makes  opposites  of  us.  ’

‘  i’ve  never  seen  a  more  hideous  costume  than  that  one.  ’  

‘  i  can’t  stay  much  longer.  you  see,  i’m  not  supposed  to  be  here  at  all.  ’

‘  you’ll  never  know  who  i  am.  ’

‘  people  like  you  always  make  a  fool  of  me.  ’

‘  oh.  i  thought  you  were  someone  else.  ’

‘  i’ll  give  you  three  chances  to  guess  who  i  am.  ’

‘  the  next  time  i  offer  you  my  hand,  you’ll  get  more  than  a  dance  from  me.  ’

‘  i’ve  wanted  to  dance  beneath  stars  like  these  for  as  long  as  i  can  remember.  ’

‘  what  do  you  look  like  ?  ’

‘  that  look  in  your  eyes  tells  me  all  i  need  to  know.  ’

‘  you  won’t  like  what  you’ll  see.  ’

‘  i  recognize  your  voice.  ’

‘  you’ll  know  the  truth  before  the  night  is  up.  ’

‘  i’ve  heard  the  darkest  of  dances  are  the  best  for  falling  in  love  to.  ’

‘  you  don’t  know  it  now,  but  we’re  friends  already.  ’

‘  can’t  we  pretend  a  little  while  longer  ?  ’

‘  it’s  when  the  party  is  over  that  we  learn  to  know  each  other  most.  ’

‘  happily  ever  after  can’t  come  so  easily  as  a  single  night  dancing.  ’

MAGIC.

‘  i’ve  caught  you.  you  have  to  undo  the  spell  for  me  now.  ’

‘  think  carefully  before  asking  for  something  well  beyond  the  reach  of  mortal  power.  ’

‘  i  think  i  know  a  spell  for  that.  ’

‘  i  can’t  help  you.  but  there  are  people  in  other  worlds,  in  the  moors  and  hills  and  trees,  that  might.  ’

‘  you  must  gather  the  necessary  ingredients  for  such  a  potion.  ’

‘  true  love  is  never  the  answer  to  the  riddle.  not  when  so  much  as  life  and  death  is  at  stake.  ’

‘  i’ve  found  and  made  my  way  here  by  right.  you  can’t  deny  me  the  answers  i  seek.  ’

‘  be  warned:  monsters  hide  between  the  trees  and  whisper  in  magic  tongues.  ’

‘  it  always  makes  a  fraction  of  sense  to  be  careful  what  you  wish  for.  ’

‘  i’ve  been  turned  into  an  unsightly  creature,  and  i  need  a  way  of  turning  back.  ’

‘  not  all  magical  stories  happen  in  castles,  or  cottages  in  the  wood.  ’

‘  preposterous.  magic  and  sorcery  do  not  exist  but  in  the  minds  of  superstitious  fools.  ’

‘  get  back  from  that  cauldron  !  it’s  dangerous.  ’

‘  i  don’t  mess  with  things  like  candles  and  the  stars  and  the  moon  after  dark.  it  never  ends  well.  ’

‘  i  am  something  ancient.  my  name  has  been  forgotten  by  mortal  mouths  and  is  found  only  in  their  oldest  texts.  ’

‘  not  all  fairy  helpers  are  kind,  and  not  all  villains  are  ugly,  or  even  cruel.  ’

‘  if  you  want  my  help,  you  must  earn  it.  ’

‘  is  this  something  i  could  learn  ?  ’

‘  i  don’t  want  to  be  ordinary,  and  i  don’t  care  what  the  risks  are.  ’

‘  you  think  to  put  a  curse  on  me  ?  i  will  spend  my  life  defying  it.  ’

‘  stay  back,  witch,  and  keep  your  spells  from  sneaking  past  your  lips.  ’

‘  you  must  chain  a  magician  in  more  than  metal  or  rope  if  you  wish  to  stop  them.  ’

‘  that’s  a  parlor  trick.  show  me  real  magic.  ’

‘  only  you  can  break  the  spell.  it  is  something  you  are  meant  for.  ’

‘  fate  is  nothing  but  an  illusion  placed  in  our  heads,  that  we  might  follow  the  words  of others  and  not  our  own  intentions.  ’

‘  whatever  has  brought  me  here,  i  cannot  turn  back  now.  ’

‘  soon  the  clock  will  strike,  and  nothing  more  might  be  done.  ’  

[ win ]  –  for the sender’s muse to place a hand on the receiver’s neck and rest their forehead against the receiver’s own for a close congrats or excitement at something. [ brush ]  –  for the sender’s muse to give the receiver’s muse a passing touch along the shoulder’s / back as they walk by. [ hold ]  –  for the sender’s muse to hold the receiver’s muse by the face / neck gently and brush their thumbs along their cheeks to get them to focus on them. [ passing confidence ]  –  for the sender’s muse brush their finger’s against the receiver’s muse’s hand, too scared to hold their hand. [ intertwine ]  –  for the sender’s muse to intertwine their finger’s the receiver’s muse and kiss the back of their hand. [ intertwine & kiss ]  –  for the sender’s muse to intertwine their finger’s the receiver’s muse and kiss the back of their hand. [ intertwine & hold ]  –  for the sender’s muse to intertwine their finger’s the receiver’s muse and hold them during an emotional moment to reassure them. [ wrap ]  –  for the sender’s muse to casually wrap their arms around the receiver’s neck and lean on their shoulder from behind. [ palm kiss ]  –  for the sender’s muse to kiss the palm of receiver’s hand. [ hand kiss ]  –  for the sender’s muse to kiss the back of the receiver’s hand. [ lay ]  –  for the sender’s muse to lay next to the receiver and lay their hand in the receiver muses’ hand. [ reassure ]  –  for the sender’s muse to place their hand over the receiver’s in a moment of stress and squeeze reassuringly. [ squeeze ]  –  for the sender’s muse to place their hands on the receiver’s shoulders from behind, and offer a reassuring / affirming squeeze before moving on. [ pluck ]  –  for the sender to pluck a foreign object ( twig / leaf / etc. ) out of the receiver muses’ hair. [ play ]  –  for the sender’s muse to run their hand up the receiver’s shoulder and play with the hair at the base of their neck as a means of comfort. [ rub ]  –  for the sender muse to rub up and down the receiver’s back / shoulder as a means of comfort. [ shoulder ]  –  for the sender’s muse to place a hand on the receiver’s shoulder to comfort them, or stop them. [ hug ]  –  for the sender’s muse to drag the receiver’s muse into a tight hug by the back of the neck, and play with their hair at the base of their neck in order to comfort them. [ shock ]  –  for the sender to recoil a bit in shock at how quick the receiver latches onto them in a moment of high emotion, before returning the affections. [ cup ]  –  for the sender’s muse to cup the receiver’s face, and brush their thumb along the receiver’s cheek. [ hair ]  –  for the sender to brush a strand of hair out of the receiver’s face. [ hair & lean ]  –  for the sender to brush a strand of hair out of the face, and lean in slowly for a kiss. [ cup & kiss ]  –  for the sender’s muse to cup the receiver muses’ face during an incredibly passionate and long overdue kiss. [ what a rush ]  –  for the long long overdue kiss to end, only for the sender to rest their head on the receiver’s, and comment “do you know how long I’ve wanted to do that?” [ no tears ]  –  for the sender to cup the receiver’s face and brush away their tears with their thumbs. [ no tears & kiss ]  –  for the sender to cup the receiver’s face and brush away their tears with their thumbs & kiss the receiver’s forehead. [ stumble ]  –  for the sender’s muse to catch and help the receiver’s muse keep balance. [ shudder ]  –  for the sender to shudder a little at some gentle touch from the receiver. [ nononono! ]  –  for the sender to hold the receiver’s head / face while they’re injured, brush their thumb along their cheeks & refuse to accept that the receiver is dying. [ acceptance ]  –  for the sender & receiver to sit / lay somewhere in acceptance of their ends together. in a final act of closeness, the sender places their hand in the receiver’s own.

for the mun — deep, fun, structural, stylistic questions about your writing craft

✍️ — what’s your favourite part of crafting a scene?

🔍 — what tiny writing detail do you fixate on the most?

📖 — do you write in long flowing paragraphs or sharp, short lines?

💬 — how do you approach dialogue vs. narration?

🧠 — what is one writing rule you break constantly?

🧩 — what’s the hardest thing for you to write?

🎨 — what aesthetic best describes your writing style?

😩 — which trope do you struggle with even though you love it?

🔥 — what trope do you write effortlessly?

🕯️ — what emotional tone do you fall into naturally?

📎 — are you a heavy planner or a “vibes first, sort it out later” writer?

🎧 — do you write to music or silence?

💭 — what’s a line or scene you’re secretly very proud of?

🌙 — do your muses speak easily, or do you drag the words out of them?

⏳ — what’s your writing speed: fast, slow, or “depends on planetary alignment”?

🖋️ — do you prefer descriptive richness or minimalist clarity?

🧃 — what’s your “writer comfort drink”?

🔗 — what theme or motif keeps appearing in your writing unintentionally?

🧵 — how do you weave emotion into your scenes?

dimension 20: neverafter.

the following prompts were taken from neverafter, the fifteenth season of dimension 20, an actual play tabletop roleplaying web series, known for its cast of professional comedians & improv artists, with most of the campaigns taking place in a new setting each time. neverafter was based on fairy tales & fables, set in the eponymous lands as the forces of shadow move across the world, & corrupt the tales within. some prompts have been lightly edited for roleplaying suitability. please note ― these prompts may include mentions of blood, cannibalism, war, death, & other things some might find upsetting, as well as indirect spoilers for the season. feel free to change pronouns & prompts as you see fit !

❛ what shadows now lurk in the lands of the neverafter ? ❜

❛ say hi, intrepid heroes ! ❜

❛ & that is the last time there will be levity. ❜

❛ this tale begins anew in the telling, & with that, there is only one way to begin. ❜

❛ any moment now, my true love will come & kiss me, & help me to escape. ❜

❛ you didn’t say there were going to be thorns, dude ! ❜

❛ please, no, don’t leave ! it’s not safe ! ❜

❛ none who have come have been allowed to pass. ❜

❛ all will be well in the land of dreams, [ name. ] ❜

❛ hello ? is anybody else awake ? hello ?! ❜

❛ once we get to the next town, someone will acknowledge our titles. ❜

❛ you ain’t a monster ? what do you look like that for ? ❜

❛ no. no, no, no, we fixed this, though ! ❜

❛ this is sort of unpleasant talk at the table, is it not ? ❜

❛ i didn’t want to say anything, but everyone’s being a bit rude. ❜

❛ you have heard of what now befalls the realms. giants striding in the land, witches, terrible storms, creatures of the sea … ❜

❛ isn’t there something horrifying about the idea that our lives ended the day we wed ? ❜

❛ what would it look like, everything being good ? ❜

❛ to those who help a transformed [ prince / princess / title ] become themselves again, there is much reward. ❜

❛ oh, fucking christ, i can’t keep this up. ❜

❛ you kind of just threw me in a river & took all my clothes ! ❜

❛ my life became incredible, but you really turned the whole kingdom upside down. ❜

❛ who truly knows the nature of such curses ? ❜

❛ i have a list of my ten best friends, & i just want you to know that you just bumped up four places. ❜

❛ we’ll rest the night, but it’s not safe to stop in the woods for long. ❜

❛ my mom says i need to make more age appropriate friends. ❜

❛ i may have made a second wish kind of quickly ... still hadn’t realized that the first wish was so consequential. ❜

❛ i’m going to find [ name ], & everything is fine, they still love me. ❜

❛ so if, momentarily, i could just stay with you at your castle maybe, for two or three years … ? ❜

❛ what’s your curse ? when did it start ? ❜

❛ my curse, well, without getting too deep into the weeds, i was sort of a spoiled brat back in the day … ❜

❛ i wouldn’t cross a witch if i were you, my friend. ❜

❛ if you could just let me in, i could explain everything. ❜

❛ i don’t have anywhere to go if not here. ❜

❛ you lured me in with your own love ? you fucking scam of a [ man / woman ] ! ❜

❛ did you all sit down to a nice dinner while you presumed i was dead ? ❜

❛ it's not a kind place, & it never has been. ❜

❛ they're very wealthy now, & so they draw many people into their fold to fleece, chew up, & spit out. ❜

❛ my entire kingdom has fallen, so i'm not really in touch with anyone. ❜

❛ you will not be able to withstand what comes for me, so you must remain out of sight. ❜

❛ great & many are the forces that conspire against [ us / me. ] ❜

❛ if it's a game you want, then a game you shall have. ❜

❛ you have been telling many lies, [ name. ] i hope you can manage them all. ❜

❛ is it strange to say, friend, that i feel as though i've met you somewhere before ? ❜

❛ did you just kill that guy ? ❜

❛ i will not stand here & hear that you're a monster. ❜

❛ please tell me how you're a monster, too, so that i don't feel so alone. ❜

❛ i'm sorry, i feel like i'm at a disadvantage. i do not have your name. ❜

❛ do you dream of power, riches, wealth ? to be the cleverest, the fairest, the wisest in the land ? ❜

❛ may i ask a favor only in exchange for what i have shown you ? ❜

❛ none who have ventured there have ever returned, not since the times of shadow came. ❜

❛ a mirror inside there wanted to talk to you. ❜

❛ i don't think we are very good at pretending to be royals. ❜

❛ it seems that it takes a great deal of strength just to hold on to what little we might have. ❜

❛ careful, there's werewolves in there. ❜

❛ there are very few & precious chances left for things to be set to right. ❜

❛ perhaps even some of those ways of setting things to right are themselves doors into traps. ❜

❛ many will offer answers. i would trust your heart, & the heart of your companions alone. ❜

❛ the castle is, i don't know if it's completely fallen, but it was certainly … ❜

❛ i bravely fled when things got dodgy. ❜

❛ my guy, i barely know you. ❜

❛ i think sometimes things that are cool & seem fun up front then get real fuckin' nasty like ten minutes in, so … ❜

❛ i am that type of guy, where, when i walk in you go, that guy's pretty handsome. ❜

❛ fairy blood stains forever. ❜

❛ feels like we’re gonna have to kill them. ❜

❛ this spell is a crass & selfish thing. ❜

❛ i told you i was a liability. ❜

❛ what’s that out in the forest ? ❜

❛ i’m fucking scared right now ! ❜

❛ wow. we’re in hell. ❜

❛ you’ve been touched by fairy magic yourself. ❜

❛ even curses are gifts in their own right. ❜

❛ what do you imagine my gift would have been if it had all not gone so wrong ? ❜

❛ stop using me to hide, they'll kill me ! ❜

❛ don't you want the kind of life i can provide ? ❜

❛ they've taken your true love from you. ❜

❛ magic was never yours, magic is ours ! ❜

❛ tell [ name ] that i did cool stuff so that they love me again. ❜

❛ something that's very important to note in this situation ― i'm little, & i'm small. ❜

❛ the old gods will fight the new. ❜

❛ my little [ name ], they have lied to you. ❜

❛ i don't know what i want. i don't want this ! ❜

❛ will you remember ? ❜

❛ we never should've gotten involved in this, [ name. ] ❜

❛ this is no place for a prince & a princess. ❜

❛ it's not too late for you. ❜

❛ you gonna kill me again ? 'cause if you're going to kill me again, i'll leave right now. ❜

❛ [ name ], it's different now. the world's different now. it's not like it was. ❜

❛ i don't understand why you would fail this egregiously. ❜

❛ you seem disappointed in my gifts. ❜

❛ you seem to think that those powers i've given you were not enough for you. ❜

❛ i don't want to do this anymore. ❜

❛ i would not consider it an unkindness for you to release me from this trap here. ❜

❛ i feel like i've been here before, haven't i ? ❜

❛ it's part of the trickster thing, really. y'know, you die a lot. ❜

❛ i think it seems fun & it seems correct to just fuck it all up. ❜

❛ no one say anything they're not going to be able to take back in the morning. ❜

❛ i'm not a hero. i'm a piece of shit, like you are. ❜

❛ i, for one, think that it is me who should go back & join this grand adventure that now unfolds. ❜

❛ farewell, friend. good hunting out there. keep sharp, keep clever. ❜

❛ everything's always good when we're on our own. ❜

❛ many of the places that are meant to keep us safe are cages. ❜

❛ [ name ], you're a story. ❜

❛ people like you & me, we're not really supposed to know about each other. we're not really supposed to find out how bad of a deal we got. ❜

❛ it's not necessarily fair, it's not necessarily right, but it is what it is. ❜

❛ i don't believe that destiny is unthinking & unfeeling. i believe that destiny is a project, & that there are entities responsible for it. ❜

❛ the times of once upon a time are vast, they are many, but they do not go on forever. ❜

❛ do not take the crimes of those who have manipulated us & put them at the feet of the world. ❜

❛ it's our time to write the story, & we're going to make the world how we want it. ❜

❛ okay, stop being coy & just make an introduction already. ❜

❛ i guess you just make me do really crazy stuff, & that i feel like i need something really noble to justify doing it. ❜

❛ your gifts are monstrous. i don't think i can look at myself in the mirror. ❜

❛ oh god. how am i going to make this right ? ❜

❛ none of this was supposed to happen. ❜

❛ we need to find what has corrupted [ name's / your ] mind, & we need to change [ them / you ] back. ❜

❛ what happened to your dick & balls ? ❜

❛ i think you look good ! … i wasn't flirting with you. ❜

❛ oh, that [ man / woman ] is bleeding. [ he / she ] probably needs my help & / or seduction. ❜

❛ you know, there's a difference between privacy & secrecy. ❜

❛ women love grand gestures, & they matter forever. ❜

❛ i feel like something was pulling me to you. does that make any sense to you ? ❜

❛ i guess all along it was really obvious that i was never royalty, huh ? ❜

❛ well, i wasn't expecting you to crawl your way out of that pit you dug for yourself. ❜

❛ am i charmed or am i frightened ? i don't know, both of them ? ❜

❛ we're all on our own in the dark, little one. ❜

❛ look, i get it. everyone raised you & told you you were gonna be beautiful, & charming, & good at singing & dancing, & now you're a fucking monster. ❜

❛ am i always supposed to be scared ? ❜

❛ it's been pretty dangerous around here. i wouldn't mind going somewhere else for a while. ❜

❛ it was a non - sexual adult sleepover. ❜

❛ they're going to know it was me, aren't they ? ❜

❛ true love isn't real ! don't worry about it ! ❜

❛ i'm going to die alone, & so is everybody else, isn't it great ? ❜

❛ are you hoping to come to my world, or are you hoping that i cross through the doorway into your world ? ❜

❛ i did not summon you to speak to me ! ❜

❛ now you have truly outlived your use. ❜

❛ where'd you go, buddy ? where did you go when i needed you most, my friend ? ❜

❛ you're the only one who lived ! we all fucking died ! ❜

❛ i got a good thing going now, okay ? things are nice. ❜

❛ i don't know if my story is about anything. it just sort of happens to me. ❜

❛ are our stories more susceptible to being corrupted ? ❜

❛ look, what would you have done, okay ? clearly things were not working out. what was i going to do ? ❜

❛ how nice ! everyone loves a fucking underdog ! ❜

❛ i saw this kind of monstrous thing with people crawling under its skin. ❜

❛ i have a very complicated relationship with wolves. ❜

❛ you're my best friend, & i lied to you, & i know how fucked up that is. ❜

❛ they're fine with all the bad things that have ever happened to us. ❜

❛ i'm worried that the reason that bad things happen to good people is because it's a good story. ❜

❛ shouldn't be leaving doors open. not while i'm around. ❜

❛ maybe you shouldn't trust in yourself so much. ❜

❛ it's like every time i fail or have a misstep, i suffer the ultimate consequences, & that doesn't happen to others, & i want to know why. ❜

❛ what was the goal ? why did i have to suffer ? ❜

❛ this is a terrible mistake you have made. i thought you had learned your lesson. ❜

❛ why are you trying to stop me ? ❜

❛ sometimes you need to lie, to save someone, or to keep someone safe. ❜

❛ i should never have made you. ❜

❛ i don't know why, but they want to keep us apart. ❜

❛ you don’t wish for me to have love or friendship or joy. ❜

❛ you always think that you know what's best. there's no room for anything else. ❜

❛ why are you taking this tone with me ? ❜

❛ you have some complaints. i assume they are complaints about things you don't like about your life. ❜

❛ i am trying as hard as i can to get us back to happily ever after. ❜

❛ i understand that there may be issues you have with your story. it does end in happily ever after. ❜

❛ when i am dead, eat of my flesh, & you will be strong enough to wander the woods on your own & return home. ❜

❛ the woodsman is not coming. ❜

❛ something's gone seriously wrong. ❜

❛ so you want us all to go back to the way things were ? ❜

❛ i met death, & death wants me to live ! ❜

❛ what is this barbarism ? ❜

❛ if that had been my childhood, i would want to be at balls every day. ❜

❛ it's insane, it's maddening. i'm going crazy here. why are you cool with this ? ❜

❛ sounds like you were starved for attention from your parents. ❜

❛ do you think that you found true love, or do you think that you just found the first person that could turn you back into what you were ? ❜

❛ it's been a long time since i've been to a ball. ❜

❛ it was never supposed to get this complicated. it was never supposed to get this strange. ❜

❛ you think it's bad now ? i'm cooking something up even worse. ❜

❛ they are not going to, if they are decent, going to allow you to live in misery. ❜

❛ i knew that you were jealous ! you're a spiteful brat ! ❜

❛ there are those who know. i will find out why this has happened. ❜

❛ if you will agree to give me one favor of yours, binding, maybe i tell you why your life is so rotten. ❜

❛ i give you something now which will break you, because you have asked for it, & let this be a lesson to be careful what you ask for. ❜

❛ you made me to be a monster, & i never had a choice. ❜

❛ every bad thing that happened to me was planned from the start. ❜

❛ i don't think i like your story. i don't think i like any stories. ❜

❛ don't fucking sing right now. ❜

❛ it is a foul thing to attempt to eat another creature ― unless, of course, they have done something warranting eating. ❜

❛ tell me, what tale of mine, what manner of my reputation reached you, that you would travel all this way to propose marriage ? ❜

❛ i will not be called brave, for i hid in my house & they in theirs, & they are dead, & i draw breath. ❜

❛ [ name ], take the heat off of me. i can't interact with this guy. ❜

❛ i'm really excited to see how your kids turn out. if it's a boy i bet he'll have his [ mother's / father's ] eyes, & his [ mother's / father's ] stick up his ass ! ❜

❛ i rather think that my soon - to - be spouse takes me for a fool. ❜

❛ you have come in here, & made an offer of love to a very lonely & dangerous person. ❜

❛ it's just, sometimes how chipper & sweet you are just doesn't feel like it's appropriate for the world as it is now. ❜

❛ that was like, exactly what i did not want to see. ❜

❛ no, no, no, no more versions of this story. not here, not this world nor any. ❜

❛ this is the biggest & baddest thing in all of fairy tale, & you want to set it free. ❜

❛ wasn't everything taken from you by this creature ? ❜

❛ you will thank me for what i have done this day. ❜

❛ not lightly do i let anyone place a spell upon me. ❜

❛ sometimes things are too late to be rewritten or undone, but there are more blank pages ahead of us, [ name. ] ❜

❛ i think no one ever asked me if i wanted these rules. ❜

❛ something about the smell of your magic lets me know that there is a beast like me that walks in your shadow. ❜

❛ wishes are dangerous things. ❜

❛ i do hate things that come in threes. ❜

❛ when your last moment comes, i will be waiting. never forget this. ❜

❛ i keep my own counsel, & my ways are my own. ❜

❛ there is no preparation you can make to anticipate what manner they will receive you in, nor what their goals or aims will be if they deign to speak with you. ❜

❛ the god of a thing, the bearer of a thing, the herald of a thing, is not the thing itself. ❜

❛ let's also not, like, sell our souls instantly. ❜

❛ this is someone else making a pact without you having any say in it. this is someone else wielding your power. ❜

❛ i am not here to prevent creatures from seeking the end of another story. ❜

❛ i don't appear in stories that are about me. i don't have stories of my own. ❜

❛ what did you devote your life to before this moment ? ❜

❛ there should be no stopping. rest will only invite the cold. ❜

❛ i am hated in these lands, as i am in most lands. ❜

❛ do we have a story of why the hell we're here ? ❜

❛ they are trying with all of their might to return the world to the path of destiny, a destiny that i, for one, do not agree with, & did not choose. ❜

❛ i had to escape an entire kingdom made of thorns. ❜

❛ we all must become cunning & wise in our time, to survive these worlds. ❜

❛ i know that there is more disagreement amongst them than there is amongst us. ❜

❛ when you don't have any choices, nothing is your fault if anything goes wrong. ❜

❛ the fear that you will make some choice that does some wrong within the world is exactly what your enemies are hoping will stop you. ❜

❛ i would not have chosen to gain this knowledge through the horrors i have endured. ❜

❛ [ name ], stop smelling it with your whole face ! ❜

❛ how did you come to awaken ? how did you come to understand the knowledge above ? ❜

❛ i panicked & offered them my hand in marriage. but don't worry ! nothing happened. ❜

❛ & you can tell, there are so many people here that think that they are the main character of a story. ❜

❛ [ name ], do you promise not to be mad at me ? ❜

❛ [ name ], you are still making a first impression. ❜

❛ what's the difference between destiny & what we think the story of our life should be ? ❜

❛ i asked you a yes or no question. you gave me a mental health assignment. ❜

❛ [ name ], can i just say, i feel like you've gotten creepier as this adventure has gone on. ❜

❛ hey, you know, i do think you're funny, just not intentionally. ❜

❛ my organs don't work anymore, & that was gut punching. ❜

❛ oh, you want a villain ? i'll show you a villain. ❜

❛ if they wanted to kill us, we'd be dead, but they want to control us. ❜

❛ work with, & take advantage of are two very different things. much to consider. ❜

❛ you don't have to carry that shame. ❜

❛ oh god, that was like the worst thing you could've said. ❜

❛ yes, my marriage is in shambles. ❜

❛ witches who moonlight as queens are not my favorite. ❜

❛ oh, [ name ], you are going to eat your fucking words about this place ! ❜

❛ you know there's nothing i love more than a good boy time. you know i used to be the king of the good boy time. ❜

❛ [ name ], we can't do this anymore, man ! ❜

❛ i've known you for two seconds, & you bit me, hard ! ❜

❛ so ideally, how this turns out is you feed me human meat ? that's the ideal scenario for you ? ❜

❛ oh, okay, now everyone wants to listen to [ name ] ! now everyone doesn't want to stab [ name ] ! ❜

❛ are you a witch ? how can you speak to me in my mind like this ? ❜

❛ something about me screaming gibberish makes people realize what matters most to them. ❜

❛ [ name ], you have debased yourself with this vile new form ! ❜

❛ this is what i'm here for, to do the little dumb things. ❜

❛ [ name ], why don't you focus on not drowning ? ❜

❛ this is a trolley problem situation. do you kill yourself or all of your friends ? ❜

❛ [ name ], it's not a time for explosives ! ❜

❛ fuck you, fuck you ! i tried to be your friend ! ❜

❛ there are hard feelings. please, allow me to make amends. ❜

❛ i was trying to angle to get [ name / title ] killed ! ❜

❛ you were in love with … they were literally about to let you die. ❜

❛ i know we're in the middle of the ocean, but even so, that's pretty thirsty. ❜

❛ i think i should've let them stab you. ❜

❛ did you want some whiskey & bubblegum ? i just had some. ❜

❛ is your life supposed to be good ? ❜

❛ it seems kind of hard to be you. ❜

❛ you know, i hear a lot about this true love, & to me, if the love's true, why are they marrying another, & not you ? ❜

❛ i thought there was a chance that things would be gruesome enough here that you would still do the deed & plunge the dagger in. ❜

❛ it's hard to know if [ they're / you're ] actually good, or if [ they're / you're ] just young & hot & look cool with weapons. ❜

❛ i might be happy to give you a word of advice or caution, but i'm not in the habit of doing anything helpful for free. ❜

❛ if it turns out i was helpful, tell them to sing songs of me. ❜

❛ i didn't put them up to this. i know it seems like the type of thing i would do, but i didn't. ❜

❛ i found your body in the other world. ❜

❛ i know that you've been dealing with all of this for much longer than i've been dealing with it, & i'm sorry that i made you do that alone. ❜

❛ i don't know that you've done anything so horrifying that it warrants forgiveness, but i accept the apology. ❜

❛ i think the way i was brought up led me to believe that at the end of extraordinary & unprecedented things, you just sort of float, like a lily pad on a pond. but it never really stops, ❜

❛ there's a whole lot left in that ever after. ❜

❛ if you had never found me, if i hadn't been able to come here, what would you be doing now ? ❜

❛ if i didn't know you were out there fighting, i wouldn't have done it. ❜

❛ i am utterly disappointed. i really thought that you would see reason before the end, & you have not. ❜

❛ you have to figure, at a certain point, even money it's cursed, & it's just not worth the effort. ❜

❛ i think as long as i'm around, the old stories of me will be around, & as long as they are around, nothing can be good. ❜

❛ i know that this is a bleak banner under which we fight. i know that. will you at least think on it ? ❜

❛ you seem to be very troubled with questions of the cosmos & great forces in the world. ❜

❛ you can kneel down on this floor & let me devour you, or i can just do it anyway. ❜

❛ i am not your keeper. you came to this castle freely. you may do as you wish, ❜

❛ everyone you ever knew who told you that they would keep you safe as long as you behaved was already hurting you. ❜

❛ no one else is looking out for anyone. they're all just keeping you in line. ❜

❛ live your life without apology, [ name. ] it is never wrong to tell the truth about what you are. ❜

❛ say it ! if you have something to say, say it ! ❜

❛ hey, i apologize, all right ? i've had a hard time, & i've come out the other side differently than you. ❜

❛ it's an insane social interaction, because you're trying to talk to someone who you're fucking scared of ! ❜

❛ i fucked up ! i told them everything ! ❜

❛ [ name ], i didn't get any information & i think i made them more suspicious ! ❜

❛ i need to eat my feelings ! ❜

❛ really quick, are we going to have to try to break back in here to save our friends ? ❜

❛ i've never hated my own voice more. ❜

❛ our social graces really backfired on us this time. ❜

❛ another world is possible, & we have a different option for moving forward. ❜

❛ i'm going to choke the life out of you, you simpering old fool. ❜

❛ it was a really weird situation, because these were, like, these really high status people, & it felt hard to disagree with them, & really confusing to navigate. ❜

❛ the winter is going to eat [ them / you / me ], so who cares ? ❜

❛ a bunch of hot bitches with cool powers squatting in a dead person's castle ? can we agree that that was weird ? ❜

❛ we have left where my horse brain can go. ❜

❛ if you wish to do it in one night, you could simply talk to the moon & ask her to tell the sun not to rise. ❜

❛ okay, so we rode the fucking wind one time. ❜

❛ lost something very precious, didn't we, [ name ] ? ❜

❛ [ name ], what the fuck ? did you even try to talk to them ? ❜

❛ i tried talking to them ! they said they wanted to eat us ! ❜

❛ excuse you ! stop casting spells on me, very rude ! ❜

❛ heartbreak only makes us better. ❜

❛ many have claimed that for the strength i wield, i must be the child of giants. ❜

❛ this is the best puppet show i've ever been to. ❜

❛ never fear, never fear ! brighter days are here ! ❜

❛ i'll have to kill you. you know that, right ? we're at a point where you just have to be brave, or i have to kill you. ❜

❛ next time i see [ them / you ], i'm going to fucking kill [ them / you. ] ❜

❛ [ name ], do you imagine that life is pleasant with you running away from me ? ❜

❛ wow, you know how to make a [ girl / boy ] feel special. ❜

❛ stop rooting for your child to hit me. ❜

❛ if you loved me, you would understand ! these people revere me ! ❜

❛ you got everything you want in this life, & you look miserable. ❜

❛ i did these things to make people happy ! i did them so they wouldn't think i was a fool ! ❜

❛ i'm a breath away from dying, & i'm running away from it constantly. ❜

❛ i did that for you because i love you. ❜

❛ [ name ], this is what rock bottom looks like ! ❜

❛ you're the last person i know from my kingdom at all. ❜

❛ make this worth it. ❜

❛ why are you just whispering piss to yourself ? ❜

❛ this is another mark against them, that they didn't take you under their wing. ❜

❛ i don't know that the being that put me here fears much at all. ❜

❛ i think that [ they / you ] responded to [ their / your ] pain by trying to destroy everything. ❜

❛ if you want me to be bad, i'll be the worst that you've ever seen. ❜

❛ the harp is a powerful enchanted object. it is capable of lulling great beings into enchanted slumber, but also potentially of awakening those who have been so cursed. ❜

❛ your third wish will kill you. ❜

❛ i'm always wary when i go to sleep that i won't wake up for another hundred years, but that's just how it goes. ❜

❛ shouldn't we just get to make our own stories ? ❜

❛ sometimes it feels like in my social interactions i set up hurdles that other people aren't willing to jump. ❜

❛ the mind loves to take hardships & turn them into puzzles, i find. ❜

❛ this has been fun. but something's going to have to change at some point. ❜

❛ you win your war, & then what ? ❜

❛ i'm going to have so much shit to talk tomorrow. ❜

❛ you can't run away, because you'll be running away your whole life. you've got to stand up for yourself. ❜

❛ what the fuck are you doing ? get out of here ! ❜

❛ to change the world is the stuff of nightmares. ❜

❛ it is a horrifying responsibility to think that because things cannot remain the same, each & every one of us must shoulder some responsibility for how they will become different. ❜

❛ oh, you seem rather upset. is now a bad time ? ❜

❛ i think that what matters now is that we make that sacrifice matter. ❜

❛ i have a feeling i can just take the lead on this one. ❜

❛ i know you choose no side, but still would ask for your help. ❜

❛ what's this you carry with you ? ❜

❛ you are something, i think, very pure. not so much a person. more like a spirit, yes ? ❜

❛ they are eternal, vast, cosmic. everything about our world, they create. do you want to know something, though ? i've watched countless of them die, & i'm still here. ❜

❛ they can take their hands to come in & change something about you. but if you are strong, you go back to the way you were. ❜

❛ a name is a powerful thing to give. how much would you give for a name ? ❜

❛ you know, with a gift, it is the thought that counts, & i like for a gift to hurt to give. ❜

❛ you guys got to get the fuck out of here. you see that thing ? i could fuck it up, but you guys are toast. ❜

❛ okay, well, there's a huge bird over there, & he's kind of freaking me out, so go fuck yourself ? ❜

❛ you're royalty. friends are probably pretty expendable, right ? ❜

❛ what would you be willing to give for what you seek, & would you give it to me ? ❜

❛ i know that you do not know them now, but they are your true love. it is written. ❜

❛ don't you think i want to fall in love ? ❜

❛ it is your duty to accept your destiny. ❜

❛ why do you feel so worthy to have your happily ever after without the sorrows of your own story ? ❜

❛ you want only those sweet things promised to those who suffer. ❜

❛ you think i don't know that you're only cruel to make them look better ? ❜

❛ how are you different from them, & how are they different from you ? ❜

❛ what if you make your own choices, & thanks to those choices, you lead a lonely, desperate, terrifying, & sorrowful life ? ❜

❛ hey, this is a really weird thing & i'm just going to go there. can i give you a hug ? ❜

❛ it is as sad to lose as it is wonderful to have. ❜

❛ you know what the reward for seizing your own destiny is ? you know what all of that freedom gives you ? fear. ❜

❛ all you had to do was tell the truth. now your reward is pain. ❜

❛ i am going to call them here, & when they come, i am going to burst from the world they made to hold me & kill them. ❜

❛ what would you give for a chance to write this story a different way ? ❜

❛ i do fear that if i don't write my own story, it will start writing itself. ❜

❛ you've stepped out to die, [ name. ] ❜

❛ what would you be willing to give to find the path through this place ? ❜

❛ you're just going to waltz into my life & turn it around ? ❜

❛ you are too late. turn from this place. i wish you no harm. ❜

❛ i have another way. all i'm asking is you hear me out. ❜

❛ i know what it means to have something taken away from you, & to feel like you'll never get it back. ❜

❛ i don't want my story to end here. ❜

❛ which side do you wanna be on right now ? ❜

❛ everybody but me is going to die here ! ❜

❛ it would be an honor to die by your hands. ❜

❛ [ name ], it's all lost. the kingdom is gone. our home is gone. ❜

❛ this is the apocalypse. this is the end of everything. ❜

❛ when you look at your destiny & you see that the most important part of your life was something that happened to you, why would you fight to save that ? ❜

❛ everything was a lie before. there is no just, happy ending. things don't just end. ❜

❛ everything, everything cycles & it just, it doesn't have to be the way that it was. ❜

❛ without that situation on top of us, would we ever have been friends ? ❜

❛ i've had just about enough of you wretched creatures ! ❜

❛ i have my mission. i know what must be done. ❜

❛ i expected no one more than you to understand. ❜

❛ i expected no one more than you to want to live. ❜

❛ there is no happy ending for you anymore. there is only what must be done. ❜

❛ you must wake up ! ❜

❛ the world you want, it's not worth fighting for anymore. ❜

❛ maybe you should be paying attention to people other than yourself ! ❜

❛ get your hands off me ! i'm fucking royalty ! ❜

❛ i don't know what you're trying to do. please let me fix this before it's too late. ❜

❛ you know, i always thought that story should've gone my way. ❜

❛ why are you even hanging with these people ? they don't like you, & they're very mean to you. ❜

❛ they don't invite [ you / me ] to anything except when they need [ you / me. ] ❜

❛ do you really want to be the bad guy forever ? do you like that ? ❜

❛ who cares what i want ? ❜

❛ you see what is here ! what is your will in the face of this ? ❜

❛ what's the point of magic if you can't rewrite destiny ? ❜

❛ things have been fucked up, & a lot of that's your fault ! ❜

❛ i die a winner ! ❜

❛ this isn't your fight. it never was your fight. ❜

❛ some things must not be allowed. ❜

❛ i did always find your rudeness somewhat charming. ❜

❛ i was going to destroy them. i was going to stop them from ever hurting us again. ❜

❛ you & me, in our story, we don't learn anything & we never change. ❜

❛ i do love you. ❜

❛ what're you going to do with your destiny ? ❜

⁰⁰¹ . » 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐋𝐊𝐄𝐑 (1972) :

This is the story behind one of the greatest manhunts in history.

This will be the last time I will ever discuss these events with anyone

It's incredible, they begin the gross work on internal organs.

Don't talk about this to anyone.

Why does it say "officially undetermined" under "cause of death"?

Tell me, was there anything unusual about the autopsy?

You know, in the town like this, a murder of one young woman hardly causes a ripple, but then, the ripples started.

Not a footprint in sight, is that physically possible?

Look at her throat! She must have lost an awful lot of blood.

Whatever they're up to, they don't want any help from amateur bloodhounds like us.

Something of a pattern had started to form, and it was ugly.

You could check all the hospitals around the country and see if any of them have had corpses recently like ours, all with a big loss of blood.

Do you believe in vampires, little boy?

The blood was drained very quickly, do you have any idea what could have made these wounds?

There is saliva with traces of blood in the throat wounds...

Is it possible that he killed these women by biting them in the throat to drink their blood?

That's where they keep the blood and the plasma...

Now, this "vampire" stuff is to stay right in this room.

How'd you like to see the killer's face?

[He/she/they] is a creep, with them red eyes and that voice...

What if the killer's a real vampire?

Since the beginning of man's existence, there have been creatures of the night.

According to the legend, the victim of the vampire will ultimately rise again as the living dead.

The coroner said that those bite marks on the throat were made by human teeth, and drank their blood...

I've seen a lot of weird things in my life, but I have never, ever seen anything like this.

I hate to say this…but it looks as if we have a real, live vampire on our hands.

⁰⁰² . » 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐇𝐔𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐑 (1983)

He tore her apart and then he ate her..

Don't you snarl at me, you evil son of a bitch!

I won't use that magic word "immortality"…but longevity is something that's got to be..

Have you found there's a relation between blood type and aging?

We can't quite promise you everlasting life.

I know it's a long time… but it's not the kind of thing that you forget.

I know what's happening to you. I live with your suffering again and again.

[His/her/their] blood cells gradually lost their ability to obtain oxygen.

We're talking about the secret of life and death here.

Forever and ever. Never growing old. Do you remember?

Kill me. Release me from this hell.

Humankind die one way, we another. Their end is final. Ours is not.

The pendant, do you know it was the symbol of everlasting life?

The spooky part is…it isn't human blood. It's stronger blood than ours.

What have you done to me? There's some alien strain consuming my blood!

I've given you something you never dared dream of. Everlasting life.

I drew your blood, and then you took mine. You belong to me.

When the hunger hurts so much then you'll have to feed, and then you'll need me to show you how.

We're damned to live forever…with no release, no end.

⁰⁰³ . » 𝐇𝐔𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐒𝐓 𝐕𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐈𝐑𝐄 𝐒𝐄𝐄𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐒𝐔𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐃𝐀𝐋 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐎𝐍 (2023)

I can't take this anymore. When do we eat him? I'm starving!

Your fangs will come in on their own.

We should be seeing a reaction in the hypothalamus when stimulated by acts of violence.

[He/She/They] just need time. Everyone has their own pace.

I won't be hunting for all of us for the next 200 years!

Hunting for two or for three, what's the difference?

I'll never force [him/her/them] to kill against [his/her/their] will!

You'd tell us if you had dark thoughts, eh?

I won't give you so much as a drop of blood. I promise.

You don't kill them, but you do eat them.

Cadavers don't grow on trees. You have your fangs, you can do it.

Watching a classmate slaughter an innocent animal like that was brutal.

Just because you can't see something doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

Are there retirement homes for vampires?

What happens if you go in the sun?

Crosses shrivel me up like an allergy.

Don't worry, I have a high tolerance for pain.

I thought humans feared death. I think people are just afraid of suffering, or being alone.

What am I doing? You need to feed!

You're a vampire, it's normal for you to kill people!

What's my dying wish? To see the sun for the last time.

I made coffee. Then I realized vampires don't drink coffee. So I drank it all.

I'm gonna be such a creative humanist vampire.

We're vampires. We can do whatever we want.

Not to brag, but your fangs appear every time you feared for my life.

You can't turn people without consulting us!

I'd be happy to drive a stake through [his/her/their] heart.

Nobody's driving any stakes into anyone's heart!

𝕋𝕙𝕠𝕣𝕟𝕙𝕖𝕕𝕘𝕖

a collection of lines from the novella Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher, use as you wish, adjust as needed

You have been following me

I thought you were something more malign.

This is my place. You are in it.

Does the fire trouble you?

How long have you been here?

There is something here I wish to see.

We are not always given the choices we want.

Remember us, and if you can, find your way back to us in time.

If I can make it right, I will.

its a dangerous thing, curiosity

I mostly came for answers. Or maybe just the story.

Enchant him if you can. Kill him if you must.

Tell me at once if this hurts.

I can safely say that in all my life, no one has ever said that to me before.

You are too human.

I was born human, but things happened.

The spell went wrong.

You have not failed yet.

You don't know what you are yet, but I do.

You have to try to be good.

If we live through this, I will tell you everything I can think of.

I've come to keep you from doing harm… and again and again, I've failed.

Perhaps saving my life was merely to cover your intentions.

I am probably doing this wrong again, not feeling something when I should.

You endure this all, without complaint, day after day.

It is only the wicked that are sent to make mischief.

By rights she should be burned at the stake.

I should have killed her years ago.

I cannot do this! I have never killed anything fiercer than a fish!

Sleep and do not wake.

Someone else would do it better.

I won't turn into a beautiful lady at the end of this. This is what I look like.

Can you kill her? I dont mean… that's not a request- that's a question. Do you think you could?

But you couldn't leave here, could you?

I take it that didnt go quite as planned.

I thought I'd know what to do next.

I am probably mad or a fool or enchanted.

I believe you.

I had to stop you! You were hurting people!

Some things can't be fixed.

It should have mattered.

All that love and all that trying should have changed… something.

I'm sorry. I'm sobbing all over you.

Bones heal faster than spirits.

The dead do no harm to anyone.

We are made of cruelty and kindness both.

Welcome home, beloved.

I left without telling him goodbye.

We'll always be here. You're ours and we're yours.

𝐒𝐔𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐍𝐎𝐕𝐀*

Writing / roleplay prompts based on lyrics collected from various songs released by aespa.

tw: sexually suggestive content

❝ The only thing that is immortal is mortality. ❞

❝ Winter eventually gives way to spring. ❞

❝ Let's take a look at it. ❞

❝ I promised myself that I would throw it away. ❞

❝ All these moments are precious. ❞

❝ I am a king. ❞

❝ You made me whole. ❞

❝ I love you and I love you and I love you. ❞

❝ Even if this love won't last forever, so what? ❞

❝ I'd rather spend an eternity with you. ❞

❝ A flower is beautiful, but its bloom is not eternal. ❞

❝ Thoughts of mortality shall no longer bind me to this world. ❞

❝ Something spreading within me. ❞

❝ There’s sweet poison in my bloody veins. ❞

❝ Spreading through my veins, the taste of your sweet venom. ❞

❝ All I need is your poison. ❞

❝ I'll gladly sacrifice myself for you. ❞

❝ It's as if nothing happened. ❞

❝ I know the abyss within me is waiting for me with its mouth wide open. ❞

❝ The pure nape of your neck keeps driving me crazy. ❞

❝ It throws me into an uncontrollable desire. ❞

❝ I've been forgiven so many times, but I’m still a monster. ❞

❝ I dare to long for you. ❞

❝ My heart craves it even though I'm a monster. ❞

❝ What is love? Teach it to me. ❞

❝ In the end, the answer is always only you. ❞

❝ Without you, I'm empty, left with only this darkness. ❞

❝ To me, full of scars, you are the only savior. ❞

❝ You're the only one who taught me how to see myself. ❞

❝ I can only be me when I'm by your side. ❞

❝ I'm not a monster. ❞

❝ I'm scared of every night without you. ❞

❝ I'm sure I'll fall apart. ❞

❝ I’m anxious. ❞

❝ I want you to hold me tight. ❞

❝ I will praise you forever. ❞

❝ Every time I see you like that, tears of ecstasy come to my eyes. ❞

❝ I open those aching eyes and look at you as if I'm possessed. ❞

❝ The more I love you, the more greedy I become. ❞

❝ Drawn by your light, my eyes are blinded. ❞

❝ Give your love to me. ❞

❝ When my surroundings are blurry, only you are clear. ❞

❝ The pain proves you, I don’t hate it. ❞

❝ Without you, I'll fall into the darkness. ❞

❝ Every step I take toward you, I burn with pain. ❞

❝ I can't even resist the desire that drives me. ❞

❝ I want to hold on to you forever by my side. ❞

❝ Will you love me forever? ❞

❝ Even if my eyes are blind, my gaze searches for you. ❞

❝ My sun, you are too far away. ❞

❝ I'm yours right now. ❞

❝ Color my world full of you. ❞

❝ Deep in my heart, in full blossom, I feel you. ❞

❝ I will live to serve you. ❞

❝ I've waited for you from my past life. ❞

❝ I feel it, the fate that binds you and me. ❞

❝ I'm drawn to the pain that spreads sweetly. ❞

❝ Your everything draws me in. ❞

❝ It's hot blood coursing through my veins. ❞

❝ My heart pointed to you. ❞

❝ I turn and run away for fear of hurting you. ❞

❝ I fall down on my knees in front of you again as if I'm crumbling. ❞

❝ Take my hand, put an end to this tragedy. ❞

❝ Don't let me go anymore. ❞

❝ I'll chase you again and again. ❞

❝ I desperately want your everything. ❞

❝ No one knows we got the best seats in this ghost town. ❞

❝ I'm used to waiting. ❞

❝ I've been looking for you since you left. ❞

❝ Got me in heaven, granted for a moment under the moonlight. ❞

❝ They cruelly try to tear us apart again. ❞

❝ In the darkness, I find your light. ❞

❝ You're my whole life. ❞

❝ The more I look, the more amazing you are. ❞

❝ I can't deny my instincts. ❞

❝ Will you forget me again? ❞

❝ If we only have one night, what do you want from me? ❞

❝ Can't believe the sight of you in front of my eyes. ❞

❝ You have a different smile. ❞

❝ Those profound eyes, I look beyond them to find you. ❞

❝ Where is the one that I love? ❞

❝ What has changed? ❞

❝ My heart, my long-held trust, thеy're coming undone. ❞

❝ I'm falling apart. ❞

❝ Let mе protect you. ❞

❝ I barely managed to protect you. ❞

❝ I don't want to lose you. ❞

❝ I don't know what to do. ❞

❝ The chaos, I don't mind. ❞

❝ Baby, come and get it. ❞

❝ Tell me everything you want. ❞

❝ Money, power, fame? There’s nothing you can’t have. ❞

❝ The world is my chessboard. ❞

❝ I'm sick of games that are too easy. ❞

❝ I need something to quench my numbing thirst. ❞

❝ I want to sink my teeth in you. ❞

❝ Let’s play together, you make me so thirsty. ❞

❝ Feel the bite bеtween my jaw, so tasty. ❞

❝ It's no use, I can see all your lies. ❞

❝ I know you're enjoying this. ❞

❝ The more you hide it, the more your heart reveals itself. ❞

❝ The more dangerous it gets, it’s so tasty. ❞

❝ I'll give you everything you want, don't leave me. ❞

❝ I heard your voice in the darkness. ❞

❝ I don’t care what you are. ❞

❝ What's important is that we care for each other. ❞

❝ Your warmth is a ray of light that brightens up my world. ❞

❝ No, I can't live without you. ❞

❝ They would never get it. ❞

❝ I'm losing control more and more. ❞

❝ I am consumed by the flames of blazing lucifer's anger. ❞

❝ I’ve lost you, and I’m turning into a horrible monster. ❞

❝ I’ll repay all the tears you’ve shed. ❞

❝ I don't feel the pain, no, I only feel the cold. ❞

❝ I am a devil. ❞

❝ Wrong or right, it doesn't matter to me. ❞

❝ I just want to be normal. ❞

❝ I guess I didn't have a choice. ❞

❝ My tears have turned crimson. ❞

❝ That day I became a demon no one can control. ❞

❝ If I lost you, I would become a monster. ❞

❝ Why? Why me? ❞

❝ I’ll do what I gotta do to be together. ❞

❝ I’ll burn it all if I have to! ❞

❝ I'll burn for you. ❞

❝ The whole world that abandoned us will turn to ashes. ❞

❝ I burned everything with my fingertips, but I can't get you back. ❞

❝ I'll take any punishment sweetly. ❞

❝ I’m a Lucifer. ❞

❝ You got me moonstruck. ❞

❝ Let me take you to paradise. ❞

❝ I'm so intoxicated, you’re getting more and more into me. ❞

❝ Won't you let me in? ❞

❝ It's an attraction you can't resist. ❞

❝ You make me go crazy over you, baby. ❞

❝ Let me hold you close. ❞

❝ Baby, now you're in my blood. ❞

❝ We bloom at night. ❞

❝ We can take it slow. ❞

❝ I want to feel you until the end of the night. ❞

❝ It'll be gone by morning. ❞

❝ You’ll be gone by morning. ❞

❝ Give me one more kiss. ❞

❝ You’re so sexy. ❞

❝ Make me empty. ❞

❝ I keep feeling uneasy. ❞

❝ I’m going crazy, I miss you. ❞

❝ What a cruel fate, seeing you in my daydream. ❞

❝ The more I want you, the more lonely I feel. ❞

❝ No doubt, you’re my answer. ❞

❝ No worries, I'm alright. ❞

❝ I want you, it’s so painful. ❞

❝ There’s no escaping this daytime thirst. ❞

❝ It's just instinct, all I want is you. ❞

❝ My nerves ease as soon as I hold you. ❞

❝ Lay one finger on me and I melt like anyone else. ❞

❝ If you want me to prove my love, I’ll prove it. ❞

❝ Don’t play games. ❞

❝ We could turn a spark into a flame. ❞

❝ Just say my name. ❞

❝ I’d give you both the sun and the moon if you asked. ❞

❝ I'll make all your dreams come true. ❞

❝ I promise I will be the one who stays. ❞

❝ Would you kiss me? ❞

❝ My one and only, my goddess. ❞

❝ My scars are visible only to your eyes. ❞

❝ I will dedicate all of eternity to protecting you. ❞

❝ I hate it, but I'm overwhelmed with jealousy. ❞

❝ I'm jealous, and I'm going crazy. ❞

❝ My patience will run out. ❞

❝ Is it me or him? Don't confuse me! ❞

❝ I’m going crazy like this! ❞

❝ Don’t test me. ❞

❝ Why are you smiling at him like that? ❞

❝ I've never felt this feeling before. ❞

❝ One day, you suddenly appeared to turn my world all upside down with a bang.❞

❝ It's like time has stopped when I am next to you. ❞

❝ Tell me the meaning of my overwhelming emotions. ❞

❝ I think I’m falling. ❞

❝ You are an anomaly. ❞

❝ I feel like I'm trapped in your kingdom. ❞

❝ I was helpless and captivated at first sight. ❞

❝ I’ll give you my life, my irresistible queen. ❞

❝ I dare to ask you. ❞

❝ You are the only thing I want to protect. ❞

❝ The answer is always yes, sir. ❞

❝ Whatever you want, I will follow you. ❞

❝ Let me satisfy you. ❞

❝ I was arrogant and trapped in my foolishness. ❞

❝ You make me a better man. ❞

❝ Just trust me and follow me. ❞

❝ Can you stay with me a little bit more? ❞

❝ Throw away all your worries. ❞

❝ I just need you by my side. ❞

❝ The instincts I've been holding back are reaching their limit. ❞

❝ Even when I look away, there's no escape. ❞

❝ You provoke me so calmly. ❞

❝ All my senses are drawn to you. ❞

❝ Such a dangerously thin distance. ❞

❝ I crave you too much. ❞

⁰⁰¹ . » 𝐃𝐀𝐔𝐆𝐇𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐎𝐅 𝐃𝐀𝐑𝐊𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐒 (1971) :

[Name], we are different. That is God's gift to us, &. we must never debase it.

It was such a long time ago, but [he/she/they] looks exactly like before

There was not a trace of blood anywhere. Not a drop of it. Nothing.

You actually enjoyed seeing that dead body.

Ah, but you need me. Without me, you'd have no life.

You've seen so many people in all those years. You must be mistaken.

Aren't those crimes horrifying? &. yet so fascinating.

So many people are taking an interest in those murders, but you seemed rather… disturbed.

A girl's death is hardly a source of amusement, [name].

Those murders are rather special, one might say classic.

You know, silly tales about ghosts chased away by garlic… &. vampires shrinking from crosses.

Satan's ritual under a full moon.

A holy king, even a pope drank blood to stay young and healthy. Think of all the bloodshed caused by war.

[She/He/They] believed human blood was the elixir of youth.

What was that? Sounded like a scream.

The balcony. There was someone on the balcony.

What are you doing in the dark?

What's wrong with you? You're white as a sheet.

I always say, one must never be afraid…to look deep down into the darkest deeps of oneself where the light never reaches.

What a soft hand. As soft as silk, as white as sin.

The sun rises in a few hours. Deep in my bones I feel it. The night is dying.

I would like to go with you, [name], but it's too late.

Let the dead bury the dead. I killed no one.

I've seen many a night fall away into an even more endless night.

Who do you think I am, a kind of ghoul, a vampire?

Death seems to follow in your wake. From one place to another.

Don't let the light catch me, [name]. Don't.

⁰⁰² . » 𝐀𝐋𝐔𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐃𝐀 (1977) :

There's nothing to be afraid of. Life must go on.

We have to die. All of us has to die. And there's no way we can avoid it.

Would you like to know how someone will die?

Follow. Don't be afraid. I have many more things in these woods.

Don't believe such a creature. It only tell you lies.

You've come from the dew in the forest &. there they will be waiting for you.

I hear the voices from the past. I feel as if I've been here before.

One can live eternally instead of turning into a little pile of dust.

I live in you. Would you die for me?

I have a dream. The memory of a night.

The devil will find a place inside our bodies &. take our souls away.

We'll make a pact &. seal it with our blood. We'll make them pay.

My body, my soul &. my life belong to you.

It was the devil. As if the devil himself was speaking through [her/his/their] mouth.

They may not be possessed by the devil himself, but at least by one of his evil messengers.

A sixth category devil who hates light. It acts at night, when the shadows protect it.

Holy ritual? This is the most shameful thing I have ever witnessed.

The forces of evil had not abandoned [her/him/them].

It was dead. Yet there was evil inside the body ready to come alive and attack the innocent.

Burn them. Burn the evil.

⁰⁰³ . » 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐃𝐃𝐈𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 (1995) :

I see your vision in the darkness every time I close my eyes.

Sunlight has becomes my enemy. I don't want my friends to see me like this.

The unsaved don't recognize the sin in their lives.

They don't suffer pangs of conscience because they don't recognize evil exists.

They're all predestined to hell.

I haven't been feeling well. They said it's chronic anemia.

It makes no difference what I do, whether I draw blood or not.

I've come to terms with my existence, applying what I've learned to my own being.

This is a graveyard. Rows of crumbling tombstones. Vicious, libelous epitaphs.

I don't even know what you've done. Am I gonna get sick now?

Look what you've done to me! How could you do this?!

The same could be said for all of us, but you see our predecessor doesn't have a name.

The appetite's insatiable. That's what I've learned in the last couple of weeks.

Prove me that there's no evil and you can go.

The mirrors in my house, I had to cover them up. Why do you think that is?

You wanna see something? I'm rotting inside. But I'm not dying.

Look me in the face. Look at the sin in my face.

You know how long I've been fasting? 40 years. I haven't drink blood in 40 years.

You can never get enough, can you? But you learn to control it.

We're the ones who let the dying know the hour has come.

Mankind has striven to exist beyond good and evil. From the beginning.

That's something you ought not to forget. You're not a person. You're nothing.

You thought the first time was difficult? It's a long time till sunrise.

Demons suffer in hell. You can't kill what's dead.

What are you worried about? You're not gonna die.

You were just trying to see if I had left you anything you could eat, anything for a fix.

It satisfies the hunger which evil engenders, but it also dulls our perception so we are helped to forget how ill we really are.

We're not evil because of the evil we do…but we do evil because we are evil.

𝐑𝐃𝐑  𝟐  :  𝐂𝐀𝐌𝐏  𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒  //  colter + horse-shoe  .  an  assortment  of  dialogue  prompts  from  the  various  camp  interactions  in  rockstar's  red  dead  redemption  2  .

"  it  means  a  lot  to  me  .  "

"  no  one  dumb  enough  would  think  us  fool  enough  .  "

"  you  didn't  mean  to  ,  but  you  always  do  .  always  trouble  .  "

"  we  didn't  get  as  far  as  introductions  .  "

"  oh  but  ...  i  am  a  baby  .  "

"  seems  i'll  live  a  while  yet  ...  "

"  i  made  a  goddamn  fool  out  of  myself  .  "

"  a  great  american  western  adventure  ,  that  was  your  pitch  .  "

"  we  aren't  dead  yet  ,  not  quite  !  "

"  we  are  here  now  ,  we  make  the  best  of  it  ,  and  move  on  .  "

"  i'm  not  just  some  two  bit  huckster  .  "

"  stealing  ...  stealing  ...  me  ?  "

"  you  are  a  heartless  little  swine  !  you  really  are  !  "

"  ...  or  what  ?  you'll  start  howling  at  some  other  moon  !?  "

"  you  have  always  been  so  kind  to  me  .  "

" i  may  lack  your  convictions  but  family  is  very  important  .  "

" family  is  all  we  have  .  "

"  i  am  sick  ...  i  think  i'm  dying  .  "

"  you  are  the  bravest  woman  i  have  ever  met  .  "

"  courage  is  in  the  living  .  "

"  i  haven't  got  ideas  above  my  station  !  "

" folk  ,  they  ain't  so  bad  ,  and  its  nasty  out  on  your  own  .  "

"  bored  is  good  .  bored  means  you  aren't  scared  .  "

"  i  used  to  dream  a  lot  .  "

"  just  ...  smile  and  try  to  forget  about  things  .  "

"  i'm  afraid  ,  for  the  first  time  in  my  life  .  "

"  we  don't  have  a  choice  but  to  ride  this  train  to  the  end  of  the  line  .  "

"  you  silly  little  man  .  "

"  nice  tongue  you  got  there  lady  .  "

"  if  it  will  shut  you  up  i'll  try.  "

"  you  deserve  ...  so  much  more  than  i  can  manage  .  "

"  my  company  not  good  enough  for  you  ?  "

"  am  i  being  an  idiot  ?  "

"  you  think  we're  doomed  ?  "

"  that's  the  modern  world  ...  i  think  i  like  the  old  ways  better  .  "

"  i  hear  you  .  but  i'm  not  doing  what  you  say  .  "

"  life  is  the  mess  ....  "

"  the  thing  is  ,  we  all  got  to  die  ...  but  you  have  the  chance  to  live  ...  "

"  love  is  the  thing  ...  the  only  thing  .  "

"  the  truest  of  gifts  is  a  child  .  "

"  thank  you  .  for  saving  me  .  i  owe  you  .  for  life  !  "

"  many  of  life's  most  avoidable  tragedies  stem  from  our  great  inability  at  basic  comprehension  .  "

"  we  always  find  trouble  eventually  .  its  just  what  happens  before  that's  interesting  .  "

"  are  you  an  imbecile  or  are  you  just  pretending  .  "

"  i  thanked  you  already  ?  was  i  not  loud  enough  ?  "

GENERAL 

[ TOUCH ]  for sender to trace one of receiver’s scars 

[ TOUCHED ]  for receiver to trace one of sender’s scars

[ DISCOVER ]  for sender to see receiver’s scars for the first time 

[ DISCOVERED ]  for receiver to see sender’s scars for the first time 

[ CARESS ]  for sender to kiss one of receiver’s scars 

[ CARESSED ]  for receiver to kiss one of sender’s scars

[ SHOW ]  for sender to purposefully reveal their scars for receiver to see 

[ SHOWN ]  for receiver to purposefully reveal their scars for sender to see 

SCENARIOS

[ MEND ]  for sender to treat receiver’s wound which leads to them having to remove an article of clothing resulting in revealing scars hidden beneath

[ MENDED ]  for receiver to treat sender’s wound which leads to them having to remove an article of clothing resulting in revealing scars hidden beneath

[ BLUNDER ]  for sender to walk in on receiver in a state of undress thus seeing their scars for the first time

[ BLUNDERED ]  for receiver to walk in on sender in a state of undress thus seeing their scars for the first time 

[ KISS ]  our muses are having sex for the first time which then reveals sender’s scars to receiver 

[ KISSED ]  our muses are having sex for the first time which then reveals receiver’s scars to sender 

[ BATHE ]  our muses take a shower together and sender looks over receiver’s scars 

[ BATHED ]  our muses take a shower together and receiver looks over sender’s scars. 

WORDS

❝  your scars are nothing to be ashamed of.  ❞

❝  why do you hide your scars?  ❞

❝  i see every mark as something to be proud of,  proof of all i survived.  ❞

❝  can i ask what happened here—  how did you get this one?  ❞

❝  sometimes i get these phantom pains i guess you could say.  little aches and i find them oddly comforting.  because my soul still hurts even if my body is healed.  ❞

❝  i wish i could get rid of my scars.  they’re just reminders of everything i want to forget.  ❞

❝  is it alright if i touch this scar?  ❞

❝  it’s okay—  you can touch it if you want.  doesn’t hurt anymore.  ❞

❝  please don’t touch it.  ❞

❝  you don’t have to tell me how you got it.  i just wanted to see.  ❞

❝  looks worse than it was.  ❞

❝  i want to kill every person responsible for leaving you scarred. ❞

❝  i made sure the people who left marks on me wouldn’t get the chance to do it again.  ❞

❝  woah—  what the hell happened there? ❞

❝  you don’t have to hide them around me.  the scars are just part of who you are.  and i like all of what i see.  ❞

❝  i don’t really like letting people see them.  ❞

(every shade tells a story — of what’s been lost, what’s still loved, and what can’t be washed clean.)

𝐑𝐄𝐃 — the color of love, rage, and survival.

What (or who) makes your muse’s pulse quicken — from anger, from desire, or from fear?

How far would they go for something (or someone) they love fiercely?

What was the last thing they destroyed out of passion?

Do they burn easily — or burn out quietly?

What memories do they associate with blood, fire, and warmth?

𝐎𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐄 — the fleeting hue of sunsets, laughter, and almosts.

When was the last time your muse truly felt alive?

How do they express joy, and how often do they let themselves feel it?

What moment still glows in their memory like sunlight they can’t reach anymore?

Do they chase the light, or hide when it fades?

Who do they laugh hardest with — and when did they stop?

𝐘𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐎𝐖 — the color of warmth, cowardice, and longing for brightness.

What keeps your muse hopeful, even in the darkest times?

How do they react when their optimism is met with cynicism?

Do they pretend to be fine when they’re breaking?

What was their happiest memory — and what happened to it?

Who do they miss when the sun rises?

𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐄𝐍 — the shade of renewal, envy, and the things that grow in silence.

What has your muse been trying to heal from — and how far have they come?

Who do they envy, and why?

What kind of peace do they crave most?

What’s something (or someone) they keep nurturing, even when it hurts?

Do they believe in second chances?

𝐁𝐋𝐔𝐄 — the color of melancholy, clarity, and truth left unsaid.

What sadness do they carry like an ocean in their chest?

Who do they become when they’re alone and quiet?

What does peace look like to them — and do they believe they’ll ever have it?

Whose absence shaped them the most?

What song, scent, or place makes them ache with nostalgia?

𝐏𝐔𝐑𝐏𝐋𝐄 — the color of secrets, dreams, and the ache for something greater.

What parts of your muse remain mysterious even to themself?

Do they fear power, or crave it?

What dream do they keep hidden — too sacred to name aloud?

What truth would destroy them if revealed?

Who do they think truly sees them?

𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐓𝐄 — the illusion of purity, the weight of guilt, the longing for simplicity.

What does redemption mean to your muse — and do they think they deserve it?

What part of them is still untouched by the world?

What did they lose trying to stay “good”?

How do they hide their sins?

Do they ever wish they could start over completely?

𝐁𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐊 — the color of endings, safety, and self-destruction.

What’s something they’ve buried that keeps clawing its way back?

How do they grieve — loudly or in silence?

What part of the dark feels comforting to them?

Who (or what) would they burn the world for?

Do they think the world deserves them — or the other way around?

𝐁𝐑𝐎𝐖𝐍 — the hue of earth, stability, and quiet loyalty.

Who grounds your muse when they start to spiral?

Do they find comfort in routine, or suffocation?

How do they show love without words?

What scent or texture brings them peace?

Who would they build a home for, even if it’s temporary?

𝐏𝐈𝐍𝐊 — the color of softness, devotion, and vulnerability.

Who makes your muse feel safe enough to be gentle?

Do they let themselves love openly, or only in small, hidden ways?

What’s the sweetest thing they’ve ever done for someone?

How do they express affection — with words, gestures, or silence?

Who taught them that love could be safe?

𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐘 — the in-between; the ache of uncertainty.

What does indecision look like in your muse?

What truth do they keep avoiding?

Do they believe people can change, or only fade?

When did the world lose its color for them?

Who makes them feel both safe and afraid at once?

THE  FOOL:  A  cobblestone  bridge  at  dawn.

THE  MAGICIAN:  A  bustling  street  market  under  twilight.

THE  HIGH  PRIESTESS:  A  midnight  masquerade.

THE  EMPRESS:  A  sprawling  garden  in  full  bloom.

THE  EMPEROR:  A  high-rise  office.

THE  HIEROPHANT:  A  grand  cathedral.

THE  LOVERS:  A  secluded  balcony  overlooking  a  bustling  city.

THE  CHARIOT:  A  speeding  train  cutting  through  a  desert

STRENGTH:  A  clearing  in  a  dense  forest

THE  HERMIT:  A  small  cabin  atop  a  snowy  mountain

WHEEL  OF  FORTUNE:  A  crowded  casino  with  spinning  wheels  and  flashing  lights

JUSTICE:  A  dimly  lit  courtroom

THE  HANGED  MAN:  A  deserted  pier  at  sunset

DEATH:  An  abandoned  train  station  at  dusk

TEMPERANCE:  A  quiet  book  shop

THE  DEVIL:  A  lavish  underground  nightclub

THE  TOWER:  A  crumbling  lighthouse  during  a  violent  storm

THE  STAR:  A  lake  under  a  blanket  of  stars

THE  MOON:  A  foggy  forest  path

THE  SUN:  A  sunflower  field  at  golden  hour

JUDGEMENT:  A  forgotten  battlefield  at  sunrise

dialogue starters for first time meetings in historical or fantasy settings.

“forgive my intrusion. have we met before?”

“you walk as one accustomed to long roads.”

“it is rare to find another soul in this place.”

“you bear the air of someone with purpose. may i ask your name?”

“the wind carries your scent of distant lands.”

“you seem far from home, stranger.”

“your robes speak of refinement, yet your eyes tell another story.”

“may i share your fire for a while?”

“it seems fate has led our paths to cross.”

“you handle that weapon with care. a practitioner, perhaps?”

“have you come seeking fortune, or fleeing something?”

“i did not expect company in such a lonely place.”

“you carry a heavy heart. the road must have been unkind.”

“are you a wanderer, or one with a destination in mind?”

“you move with discipline. do you belong to a sect?”

“the way you observe the horizon... what do you see there?”

“i could not help but notice your talisman. a charm for protection?”

“you seem unafraid, even here. that is uncommon.”

“your presence disturbs the silence yet i do not mind it.”

“do you often travel alone, or am i witnessing a rare moment?”

“you look as though you’ve seen ghosts.”

“the stars are kind tonight. perhaps that is why we meet.”

“a name has power. would you share yours?”

“i sense a story behind those eyes.”

“the tea is still warm, if you would sit and rest.”

“do you always meet strangers so fearlessly?”

“you wear no crest or banner, are you unaffiliated?”

“your aura feels… unfamiliar. what manner of cultivation is that?”

“there’s something about you the heavens seem to favor.”

“the world is wide, and yet we cross paths here. curious, isn’t it?”

“your silence speaks louder than words.”

“you carry an old wound. is it battle, or memory?”

“do you seek shelter, or solitude?”

“you’ve seen much, and yet your gaze holds wonder.”

“your voice carries conviction. you must believe in something deeply.”

“even the moon seems to follow you.”

“if i did not know better, i’d say destiny enjoys such meetings.”

“you seem out of place, or perhaps the place is out of time.”

“tell me, stranger. what is it you’re searching for?”

“the night is long. shall we pass it in conversation?”

“your weapon hums faintly. is it bound to your spirit?”

“you don’t avert your gaze. most would.”

“that pendant... it resembles one i once saw in the capital.”

“has the road been kind to you, or cruel?”

“you seem weary, but your steps haven’t faltered.”

“do you believe in omens?”

“you have the bearing of someone who’s seen battle.”

“tell me truthfully, do you trust me?”

“your presence feels... familiar, like a dream i’ve forgotten.”

“you stand as though waiting for someone.”

“if i asked what you’ve lost, would you answer?”

“your hands are steady. a healer’s, perhaps?”

“the forest seems quieter since you arrived.”

“you remind me of someone... though i cannot say who.”

“do you always travel under the moon’s light?”

“you seem untouched by fear. is that wisdom, or recklessness?”

“if we had met under gentler skies, would you still look at me this way?”

“the scent of rain follows you. were you caught in a storm?”

“i wonder, what kind of person leaves footprints like yours?”

ace friendly. please feel free to change pronouns as needed. do not steal. this is original.

this post is 18+, please be responsible.

do they enjoy physical contact? what's their favourite kind? do they have any weak spots? what about hugs?

what's their stamina like? can they go for hours? do they need to rest and hydrate regularly? have they always been like that?

do they enjoy kissing? have they ever kissed anyone? how skilled or experienced are they?

have they ever had sex? do they enjoy it? if no, does your muse have anything they find sensual without it being sexual? things they appreciate without it escalating.

what's one of their fantasies? if they don't have a fantasy, is there any reason?

have they ever been caught during sex? if not, what does your muse think of that risk?

what's their love language(s)? go into depth. what makes those their favourite? does it change depending on the person? what are some little details about what makes your muse tick?

are they into roleplay? if not, why?

are they into bondage? if not, why?

when it comes to climaxing, how easy is it for your muse? if it's difficult, how does that make them feel? do they even bother? why is it easy / difficult?

how does your muse feel about sex generally? outside of whether they enjoy it, do they think it's good, bad, ugly, attractive? would they like to have more or less of it?

is your muse adventurous? does it outside of the bedroom / in public or somewhere they're not supposed to? why do you think that is?

are they vocal? in turn, do they enjoy vocal partners?

are they embarrassed by sex? if so, why is that? if not, where did they get that courage from?

what is their position? dominant, submissive, switch? name any others i haven't listed.

what do they consider the perfect night? candles, a picnic, a dinner at a restaurant... what's the best way to woo your muse on a date?

are they casual lovers or intimate ones? intense or not?

is your muse a controlling lover / partner? in what way?

was your muse's first time a positive one? if yes, what went right? if no, what went wrong? please remember to tag any potentially triggering content. if your muse hasn't had a first time, do they want one?

taken from angela carter's short story. feel free to change pronouns, etc.

there is not much in the autumn wood to make you smile but it is not yet, not quite yet, the saddest time of year.

there is a haunting sense of the imminent cessation of being.

the wood swallows you up.

it is easy to lose yourself in these woods.

though the cold wind that always heralds your presence, had i but known it then, blew gentle around me, i thought that nobody was in the wood but me.

erl-king will do you grievous harm.

there are some eyes can eat you.

how cruel it is, to keep wild birds in cages!

the price of flesh is love.

a little of the cold air that blows over graveyards always goes with you, it crisps the hairs on the back of my neck but i am not afraid of you; only, afraid of vertigo, of the vertigo with which you seize me. afraid of falling down.

i know it is only because you are kind to me that i do not fall still further.

you could thrust me into the seed-bed of next year's generation and i would have to wait until you whistled me up from my darkness before i could come back again.

yet, when you shake out those two clear notes from your bird call, i come, like any other trusting thing that perches on the crook of your wrist.

you sink your teeth into my throat and make me scream.

how sweet i roamed, or, rather, used to roam; once i was the perfect chuld if the meadows of summer, but then the year turned

if i strung that old fiddle with your hair, we could waltz together to the music as the exhausted daylight founders among the trees.

he strips me to my last nakedness, that underskin of mauve, pearlized satin, like a skinned rabbit; then dresses me again in an embrace so lucid and encompassing it might be made of water.

we are like two halves of a seed, enclosed in the same integument. i should like to grow enormously small, so that you could seallow me, like those queens in fairy tales who conceive when they swallow a grain of corn or a sesame seed. then i could lodge inside your body and you would bear me.

your touch both consoles and devastated me; i felt my heart pulse, then wither.

eat me, drink me; thirsty, cankered, goblin-ridden, i go back and back to you.

i go back and back to you to have your fingers strip the tattered skin away and clothe me in your dress of water, this garment that drenches me, its slithering odour, its capacity for drowning.

now the crows drop winter from their wings, invoke the harshest season with their cry.

it is growing colder.

he spread out a goblin feast of fruit for me, such appalling succulence.

i am afraid i will be trapped in it for ever like the poor little ants and flies that stuck their feet in resin before the sea covered the baltic.

there is a black hole in the middle of both your eyes; it is their still centre, looking there makes me giddy, as if i might fall into it.

your eye is a reducing chamber. if i look into it long enough, i will become as small as my own reflection, i will diminish to a point and vanish.

i will be drawn down into that black whirlpool and be consumed by you.

i shall become so small you can keep me in one of your osier cages and mock my loss of liberty.

i have seen the cage you are weaving for me; it is a very pretty one.

i shall sit, hereafter, in my cage among the other singing birds but i—i shall be dumb, from spite

when i realized what you meant to do to me, i was shaken with a terrible fear and didnnot know what to do for i loved you with all my heart

your embraces were your enticements and yet, oh yet! they were the branches of which the trap itself was woven.

in his innocence he never knew he might be the death of me, although i knew from the first moment i saw him how he would do me grievous harn.

i knew from the first moment i saw you how you would do me grievous harm.

although the bow hangs beside the old fiddle on the wall, all the strings are broken so you cannot play it. i don't know what kind of tunes you might play on it, if it were strung again; lullabies for foolish virgins, perhaps.

lay your head on my knee.

lay your head on my knee so that i can't see the inward-turning suns of your eyes anymore.

I am faithful to you, darling.

When you bang on the wall you have to remember you’re on both sides of it but go ahead, yell at yourself.

Some people don’t understand anything.

He’s easy to desire since there’s not much to him.

No one wants to know what’s in his head.

To make something beautiful should be enough. It isn’t. It should be.

You’d break your heart to make it bigger.

Will you defend yourself? From me, I mean.

Let’s kill something.

I prefer to blame others, it’s easier.

All these ghosts come streaming down and I wish I had something else.

We all move forward anyway. Ripples in all directions.

What is a ghost? Something dead that seems to be alive. Something dead that doesn’t know it’s dead.

All thoughts finish themselves eventually.

Can we love nature for what it really is: predatory?

When you have nothing to say, set something on fire.

I wanted to explain myself to myself in an understandable way.

Something’s not right about what I’m doing but I’m still doing it.

The enormity of my desire disgusts me.

Look away but I’m still there.

Want something to chase you? Run.

Take only what you need.

Never finish a war without starting another.

I’ve seen your true face: the back of your head. If you were walking away, keep walking.

The fear: that nothing survives. The greater fear: that something does.

All these things and what to do with them. We carve up the world all the time.

I like dead things. They cannot hurt me.

We like things related to our survival: soup, arrows - they expand the range of the species.

My body is a graveyard.

People like to think war means something.

Let’s admit, without apology, what we do to each other. We know who our enemies are. We know.

There are many loves but only one war.

You will need to comfort him, or we will never be finished with this.

You cannot have an opponent if you keep saying yes.

Its roots in the ground and its branches in the air, a tree is pulled in two directions.

The boy is a bird, bad bird. He falls out of trees.

You cannot get in the way of anyone’s path to God. You can, but it does no good.

Some say God is where we put our sorrow.

In the wrong light anyone can look like a darkness.

What can you know about a person?

Difficult thing, to be scrutinized so long.

Even when I look away I am still looking.

Everyone secretly wants to collaborate with the enemy, to construct a truer version of the self.

How much can you change and get away with it, before you turn into someone else, before it’s some kind of murder?

Why build a room you can live in? Why build a shed for your fears?

There wasn’t much left but it felt like him, wild and scared.

The best part of spirituality is reverence. There are other parts. Some people like to hear the sound of their own voice.

If you don’t believe in God, then who are you talking to?

But truth doesn’t count in law, only proof.

Was I discovered or invented? Feels like I’ve always been here.

Measure yourself against the truth and not the other way around.

Perfect and completely dead.

People don’t learn anything unless they are afraid of being left behind.

Logic is boring because it works. Being unreasonable is exciting.

I am your arrival, there is no refusal, we are here, you see, together, we are already here.

This is also part of the story: how the story changes. This is something I forgot to tell you.

You might like it here. I think that you might like it here.

I tell you these things because I love you.

It’s nothing like I thought it would be and closer to what I meant.

Maybe we will wake up to the silence of shoes at the foot of the bed not going anywhere.

It reminds me of where I was going without you.

You know what it’s like to be alone: gimlets and vermicide. You know what it’s like to be alive, so forgiveness.

You asked me once, What are we made of? Well, these are the things we’re made of.

I turned my ears in all directions. I’ll live alone or in between.

Everyone needs a place. It shouldn’t be inside of someone else.

Your body told me in a dream it’s never been afraid of anything.

I live in big spaces, so I’m left alone in big spaces.

We made ourselves cold. We made ourselves snow. We smuggled ourselves into ourselves. Haunted by each other’s knowledge.

To hide somewhere is not surrender, it is trickery.

I try to guess your trajectory and end up telling my own story.

I surrender my desire to be healed.

Take it or leave it, and for the most part you take it.

Shame comes from vanity. Shame means you’re guilty, like the rest of us, but you think you’re better than we are. Maybe you are.

There is no new me, there is no old me, there’s just me, the same me, the whole time.

Don’t try to make a stronger wind, you’ll wear yourself out. Build a better sail.

You want to solve something? Get out of your own way.

What’s the difference between me and the world? Compartmentalisation.

I hope it’s love. I’m trying really hard to make it love.

I clawed my way into the light but the light is just as scary.

I’d rather quit. I’d rather be sad. It’s too much work.

I mean, maybe it’s better if my opponent wins.

What happens when I no longer want to meet you?

Nothing lasts forever: we know this.

Longing and suffering? Of course, of course. You want it to mean something.

You can disconnect it or you can try to glue it all together.

We could pull it apart, spend our whole lives pulling it apart and have no time left to do anything smart with the pieces.

The sooner you embrace it, the sooner it will leave you.

You are what you cover up.

Noise and more noise. Noise up to heaven.

One wonders why a story like this exists.

I want to give you more but not everything. You don’t need everything.

Someone has to leave first.

He was pointing at the moon but I was looking at his hand.

All this was prepared for me. All this was set in motion long ago.

I stayed as long as I could. Now look at the moon.

Have you washed your face? Your face is still dirty.

Hurry, You only have seven minutes!

Are you coming? Where will we meet?

You don't have to cook anything special, honestly.

Ah, here comes the debt collector.

What happened the other night?

Don't worry, the old hag's not about to die yet.

She's had a crush on him forever.

Could you give me a lift? I'll continue home from there.

You don't need to drink just to keep up.

You have a habit of offering something and then taking it back.

You have no sense of etiquette!

Men and women should have respect for each other.

It's not can't, it's won't!

We could've cooked that same meal for a third of the price..

Come here! The weather's too nice to stay in!

[Name] is taking a long time in the shower...

They're such a happy couple, maybe too happy.

Why are you staring at me?

What were you fighting about?

What? You know nothing about married life.

I feel sick whenever I drink a few tiny cups of wine..

Why don't you go to bed? You have an early train tomorrow.

I'm sorry to bother you when you're so busy..

We're not children, are we?

You always go on about happiness, but it's just anticipation of things.

Oh! You scared me! Were you awake all this time?

This cake tastes really good! I'll buy more next time.

Sorry I haven't seen you for such a long time.

We had a strange visitor this morning...

It's funny how our memories work. I forget about recent things yet I remember everything about my childhood so vividly..

There are so many kids around here now, it's so noisy.

Sandwiches for lunch! Let's eat on the terrace!

The sky's so beautiful here. I can't even see the sky where I live!

How inconvenient. If I were [him/her/them], I'd have come.

We've been dumped because we're fussy, right?

We were such close friends in school. Now we're slowly drifting apart..

Shall we go to the beach later?

I'll tell you when I get home.

I feel terrible. I shouldn’t have asked you to buy it..

How beautiful. What's the occasion?

Are you not going to eat that? If not, I will!

Aren't you asking for too much? You always do this!

Idiot! Stop twisting things around!

Don't lecture me, just mind your own business!

Why did you get so angry? You shouldn’t lose your temper!

I don't know when I might get another opportunity like this...

You have a bad habit of going quiet when you're angry, [name].

What is your favourite sushi?

Please don't be angry with me..

Do you really feel that way about me?

Forgive me, I didn't mean to hurt your feelings.

You must be happy too. I'm really glad for you.

Have you thought this through?

Are you sure you won't be sorry later?

I still can't believe it. It feels like it was a dream.

I don't understand people nowadays.

I had no particular feelings for [him/her/them] but it happened gradually.

It's like when you look for something all over the place…and then you find it was right in front of you all along.

It's different. It's the feeling of being totally at ease with [him/her/them].

If that’s not being in love, what is?

Thank you for everything over all these years.

I wish we could live together forever, ... but that's impossible.