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hcdonists:

with wide eyes, grace reached up to gently touch her cheek, wincing as it made contact. pulling her hand back, she noticed some blood on it. “      oh shit. yeah. i guess i am.     ”

acting on instinct, martine dug some napkins out of her handbag and, folding them tightly, pressed them to the blood on grace’s cheekbone. “hold still,” she said reprovingly, gently cupping the other girl’s face. “I don’t think it’s too bad.”

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bravadcs:

ophelia glanced up from behind the thick book in her hands. “me?” she questioned sincerely, searching the eyes of the girl in front of her. “w-where?” she pressed, her right hand automatically moving up to wipe her nose – there was a good chance she was getting another nosebleed. and she was. 

“shit!” martine exclaimed, her immediate instinct to protect the book - she couldn’t help it, it was bred into her; she reached out with cupped hands, and then let out a squeak of horror as she caught the blood. “oh my god, ew! why did I do that!”

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mathxshghs:

mathias looked down at his shirt. “it is blood.” he couldn’t help but chuckle. “i guess i forgot to change shirts — but no, i’m not bleeding.”

she did a minor double take at him, leaning into his personal space to check the smudge of blood on his shirt. “man,” she said, “that’s some paper-cut, huh.” she didn’t actually want to ask - in her experience, things in brattleboro were always way weirder than they seemed - but the journalistic instinct in her meant she couldn’t back away.

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clffs:

                     with his shift at the funeral parlour over, cliff let out a heavy sigh as he exited the building. it had been a ( L O N G )  day, and he almost resembled one of the dead himself, but it wasn’t without reward. in his hand he clasped a brooch; his suit pocket already containing two bedazzled rings. he had no idea how much they were worth, but he’d soon find out. he tossed the brooch in his hand as he walked, his eyes admiring how it shone in the fading daylight, when he felt himself BUMP into somebody. “watch where you’re walkin’” he spat out, lifting his head to glare at the stranger with icy blue eyes.

martine’s eye was caught by the flashing of the broach in cliff’s hand before he even knocked in to her, and so when he turned to snap at her he found her eyes sharp on his face. there was something about the way he held the glimmering jewel, possessive, that sent her instincts tingling, and so she barely noticed his rudeness. she had a funny feeling that she’d seen such a broach before, on someone in the town - one of the elderly ladies, perhaps. “hey,” she said, frowning. “where did you get that?”

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“is that blood? are you bleeding?”

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BACKGROUND —

Martine was born in Canton, Ohio, which calls itself a city but is more like the middle of nowhere, to a Preacher and his wife. She was raised a good girl - more than that, a perfect girl, with perfect ideals and the morals to match. The pressure her father put on her to always live up to his image and to maintain the trust of the community they lived in was huge, but for a long time Mar saw no issue with it - that was just how he was. She knew, deep down, that she wasn’t the person her father hoped, but she wasted years of her life trying to be.

She went to Ohio State and majored in journalism, even though her father wanted her to stay at home. It was the first taste of freedom she’d ever really had, and it changed her life. For the first time, Mar saw the world as it could be, and she thrived in it. Confident and optimistic, she found herself with a wide circle of friends, all of whom thought her naivety about the world adorable rather than weird, and, well...there were the boys.

It was a boy she moved to Brattleboro to avoid; him, and her parents, who hated the new person she had become. A part of her thinks that her move was to make it easier on them, but the truth was that no state was far enough from Ohio for her. She’d move to the other side of the world if it meant never having to sit in stifled silence at her mother’s dinner table again.

As for the boy - well, he was charming, and oh-so-romantic, and turned out to be almost engaged to a girl he’d been seeing since high school. Martine only found out when she received a furious message on Facebook from the would-be fiancee; as heart-breaking as it was, there was relief in the way she packed her backs and took a flight to the suburbs. At least here she won’t ever have to see him again; there will be no reminders.

And that was when the girlfriend showed up in her basement, dead.

In the last year, Martine has learned fast. She’s been hired by the Brattleboro Express, but is finding that any story she suggests that portrays the town as less than perfect - for example, the recent serial killings - is rejected. She doesn’t go to church anymore, though she lies in her weekly phone-call to her parents and says she does. She buys shitty paperbacks from the local book-store, and then she goes home and tries to coax the ghost in her basement into either telling her what she wants, or just leaving; she’s had no luck with either, so far.

WEALTH —

$  financial :  wealthy / moderate / poor / in poverty ✚  medical : fit / moderate / sickly / disabled / disadvantaged / non applicable ✪  class or caste :  upper / middle / working / street trash / slave / unsure ✔  education :  qualified / unqualified / studying / other ✖  criminal record :  yes, for major crimes / yes, for minor crimes / no/

FAMILY  —

◓ marital status : married happily / married unhappily / engaged or betrothed / partnered / single / divorced / separated ◒  children :  has a child or children / has no children / wants children / verse dependent ◑  relationship with family :  close with sibling(s) / not close with sibling(s) / has no siblings / ◔  affiliation : orphaned / adopted / disowned / raised by birth parents / not applicable

TRAITS  +  TENDENCIES  —

♦  extroverted / introverted / in between ♦ disorganized / organized / in between ♦  close-minded / open-minded / in between ♦  calm / anxious / in between ♦  disagreeable / agreeable / in between ♦  cautious / reckless / in between ♦  patient / impatient / in between ♦  outspoken / reserved / in between ♦  leader / follower / in between ♦  empathetic / unempathetic / in between ♦ optimistic / pessimistic / in between ♦  traditional / modern / in between ♦  hard-working / lazy / in between ♦  cultured / uncultured / in between / unknown ♦  loyal / disloyal / unknown ♦  faithful / unfaithful / unknown

BELIEFS  —

★  faith :  monotheist / polytheist / atheist / agnostic / it’s complicated ☆  belief in divine right to rule: yes / no / don’t know / don’t care ✮  belief in an afterlife :  yes / no / don’t know / don’t care ✯  belief in the supernatural :  yes / no / undecided ❀  philosophical :  yes / no

SEXUALITY & ROMANTIC INCLINATION  —

❤  sexuality : heterosexual / homosexual / bisexual / asexual ❥  sex : sex repulsed / sex neutral / sex favourable / naive and clueless ♥  romance :  romance repulsed / romance neutral / romance favorable / naive and clueless ❣  sexually :  adventurous / experienced / naive / inexperienced /curious / destructive

ABILITIES  —

☠  magical skills :  excellent / good / moderate / poor / none   ≡  literacy skills :  excellent / good / moderate / poor / none ✍  artistic skills :  excellent / good / moderate / poor / none ✂  technical skills :  excellent / good / moderate / poor / none

HABITS  —

☕  drinking alcohol :  never / sometimes / frequently / to excess ☁  smoking :  trying to quit / never / sometimes / frequently / to excess ✿  other narcotics : never / sometimes / frequently / to excess ♣  gambling : never / sometimes / frequently / to excess

THE MUN —

eliza / 21 / gmt: MY SECOND MUSE ALREADY! pls just come and plot with your local reporter, she’s super normal and everything I swear.

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She really is such a child, and though she can be annoying, her warmth is a child’s, her sulking and suffering too.

Harriet Sohmers Zwerling, Memories of Sontag: From an Ex-Pat’s Diary

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