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[ofduskorofdawn]

🍑 send my muse “Someone, somewhere has failed you miserably. You were supposed to be loved, protected and cared for but you never were.“ for their reaction.

[ofduskorofdawn]

[ looks at dash. grimaces. returns to brooding. ] [ Sephiroth and the Remnants joining forces is not a prospect that he cares to consider at present. He would like to be able, at the very least, to close his eyes at some point tonight, even if he does not sleep. ]

[ofduskorofdawn]

"Hm."

It was a lie that the little ninja had told and a daringly blatant one at that.

Not that it mattered.

Just as the excuse she gave doesn't matter.

It doesn't.

If — after several long moments — he just so happens to flip his cloak in such a way, however, that it's... moderately around her, too, it doesn't matter. It just happened to fall that way.

And even if it was intentional, it still doesn't matter. Not really. The practical, former Turk side of him supplies that it's just that they are allies in this — aren't they? — and so it would hardly do for the highly skilled ninja to become sick. [ Or to be so tired that she can't fight. ]

So! If his cloak just happens to land so that it also offers a bit more respite from the cold than her own... very strange cape... Well. It's just a thing that had happened.

He doesn't care. Not about any of this or any of these idealistic fools.

He just doesn't have any choice but to be here so it would be best if everyone is at their best, so they can be done with this sooner and he can leave.

That's all.

@ofduskorofdawn' Are you asleep on me... ? ' { Vincent }

Even if she was, she would never admit it.

Honestly, she had felt more cold than anything else. The kinda cold where it went straight into your bones. Really he’d provided more of a windbreak than anything else. About ten minutes ago she had pulled her legs up under her, wrapped her arms around them and shuffled so she could tuck the edge of the large oversized dirty white moogle under her. Attempting to subtly create some kind of personal warmth tent.

A few minutes later, her head had dipped to the side, slowly buried into his arm as warmth seeped into her, somehow, it just made her feel more tired. Yet, she’d made an effort to make sure her hood was far enough over no one could see her face, she really wasn’t all in the mood to hear about how she should go to bed earlier instead of napping.

Though, her silence might be more of a give away than her face.

He did though, eventually get an answer, “no.” Even if it did sound suspiciously sleepy. “I’m just cold.” The statement was unusually quiet and small sounding for the over exuberant ninja. Who knew, even sometimes the great Ninja Yuffie needed a rest.

[ofduskorofdawn]

"A'ight. No problem. No problem at all," she says and that does have just a hint of the slums to it, though she continues on, seemingly unbothered by the slip.

[ She notes the step back, but says nothing and remains exactly where she is, letting him have his space. ]

"Hey, here's a thought. After you get cleaned up and in some fresh clothes, why don't we get two birds with one stone, hm? I also happen to be one of the medics for our people. Why don't you let me give you a quick look over for injuries?"

She so casually makes the offer, even as she's idly reaching into her suit jacket pocket for a pack of... gum? She unwraps one stick and pops it into her mouth and chews it for a minute in thought before she continues speaking, adding a bit conspiratorially,

"Hells. Might even be able to vouch and get you out of the post-op Science Department check up, yeah?"

Even as she asks that question, she follows it with another when she offers another stick to him.

"Gum? I dunno about you, but I get a little adrenaline high after missions sometimes, takes me a while to work down from it. Gum tends to help me with the excess and the drop, all that nervous energy with nowhere to go."

Is it a truth shared to offer camaraderie? A well-intended lie to the same end? Who is to say? The words are spoken with sincerity, however, and her warm tone remains, unchanged. There is no calculation or guile in her eyes or her expression, only an easy amiability, as though they had been friends for years rather than new acquaintances.

No one ever asks, but the last thing Sephiroth wants is for someone to be with him. He wants to be alone, hidden away and unbothered, until the shaking stops and he feels more like himself. He should be stronger than this.

He should be grateful to be alive, even. He should be grateful that he survived. Many others hadn't.

Too many others hadn't.

Yet Sephiroth so rarely gets what he wants. Resigned, he expects the woman to be someone from SOLDIER to assess his condition, or perhaps someone from the Research and Development department that works with the Science Department to ensure the soundness of their weaponry. Someone who works with Tseng never occurs to him. As if to show he is unarmed and not at risk of attacking, he uses his foot to nudge the sword further away and toward the woman. He isn't allowed to carry weapons in his time off, after all, and he'd rather not get himself into any trouble when all he wants to do is retreat to his room and sleep.

But she speaks to him far too kindly to be anyone from either Science or Research; she speaks to him as if he were a someone and not a something. He doesn't know what to do, doesn't know how to respond to it.

He takes a small step back away from her.

"You may stay," the child soldier answers stiffly, his gaze avoidant. "But I need to get clean." He is polite, detached, just as he'd been taught to be.

"...And I need to report for debriefing soon." He keeps his trembling hands close to his body, not wanting to show weakness or fear.

[ofduskorofdawn]

[ @forthereunion​ continued from here ]

It was the first time, and once his careful fingers had made short work of the buttons of her crumpled work blouse, he paused, suddenly hesitant and something close to shy. “Are you sure?” One hand slipped to her bare hip and rested there, still so painfully restrained. So careful not to take advantage, even though it had been her to first interlock their hands and lead him to the soft white sheets to take rest after the hardest of days in the way that normal people do. Finding humanity in each other’s bodies was only natural, wasn’t it? Human nature. Still Tseng hesitated to toss aside the barriers of colleague, friend, manager; even as his other hand reached so tenderly to ghost across her jaw and her cheek and into her gale of red hair, and he closed his eyes, a prisoner awaiting sentence, as he collapsed his aching back down upon the tossed pillows with a sigh he couldn’t hold back. Then Ariana asked an unexpected question, her own hands brushing over a bullet hole piercing the smooth marble of his chest, and a wry hint of a smile tugged at the corners of his mouth. “This,” Tseng whispered, “is what happens when you don’t move fast enough. When you are not as wary as you should be, and you blunder right in there without thinking or properly checking around the corner.” He let her trace circles in the raised remnants of the stitches. “A disgruntled ex-employee actually had rather good aim, as it turned out.”

                                                                      a lesson on the chest of a warrior @ofduskorofdawn

Outside, in her everyday life in front of her audience of co-workers, she’s all vibrancy and sharp humor with even sharper edges. She’s effervescence and irreverence and a certain amount of wildness. Watching her is like observing a wildfire on that decisive brink between flaring into a natural disaster… or burning itself out and extinguishing. One might expect the same of her here and yet…

Here, with him, she’s soft kisses and even softer touches. Whispered reassurances and the occasional quiet, easy, comfortable laugh.

Fingers intertwined with his and a sparkle to her eyes, a smile in place of her usual smirk, she leads him to the bedroom.

When he asks—Tseng, always so direct, so certain, so decided—if she’s sure, that fire of hers is warmth on a cold night, the warmth of her smile, the warmth of her as she presses against him and gives those reassurances. She’s sure. If she had changed her mind, she would tell him. She promises.

He lies back and she marvels at the sight even as she settles with him. He is a marvel—in so many ways—and she can’t but wonder if anyone has ever before told him.

She almost says it, almost asks, when her gaze finds that scar and she asks a different question instead. Calloused yet gentle fingers trace around it, studying as he explains it. When his story concludes, lips replace fingers, a soft kiss pressed to the scar.

“I suppose living to learn the lesson is better than the alternative…” she murmurs against it with a wry note of her own, blue eyes looking up at him.

And then those kisses trail up from the scar, lightly pressed to the column of his neck, to his jaw, and then to his lips.

Why tell him she’s thankful for a lesson learned when she can simply show him?

[ofduskorofdawn]

@warofthebeasts continued from here

The boy steps down from the transport, bloodied and dirtied, his hand holding too tightly to his sword, and in his eyes, there is the emptiness of a child who is lost to trauma yet holding back because he must.

Finally, a moment alone, and he pries his fingers from around the sword's hilt to let it drop to the floor then, because he does not know what else to do, he unties his hair from its ponytail then sweeps it back up, neater this time.

He is too young. He knows it. Many others know it.

But no one seems to care much, at least not enough to prevent him from being sent out again and again to the front lines as their all-powerful trump card dropped from above like some sort of horrific avenging angel with the face of a child.

Sephiroth's head as empty as his gaze, he stares at his shaking hands, never mind those around him.

It had taken longer than she would have liked to get to the drop off for the transport. Everyone and their mother had seen fit to interrupt her path and by the time she gets to her destination, the transport has long since dropped off those who had returned--in whatever shape they had returned--and the one she had intended to meet is nowhere to be seen.

Perhaps he had needed to report back to Hojo or he had needed to go to medical... but Tseng had told her the boy had a tendency to need to find a place to decompress.

She starts looking first around the drop off point and then broadening her search until finally...

She sees him.

Ariana knows that look. She's seen it too many damn times.

[ From the Turks after a mission that was too much, when everything went horribly wrong or horribly right, but either way there was nothing that they wanted to discuss, nothing they wanted to put into words. ]

[ On Tseng when it's nighttime and it's just the two of them and he could finally remove that finely-crafted mask he wears and admit that he's human--despite ShinRa's best efforts--and the weight of what he carries tests even his strength. ]

[ In the mirror with blood streaks on her face and smeared on her clothing and dried on her hands, feeling hollowed out because she wasn't fast enough, couldn't do enough, couldn't prevent vital crimson from bleeding out and life along with it. ]

It breaks her heart to see a look like that on the face of someone so young.

And he is young. Whatever any of the people who matter around this godsforsaken place seem to think, he is a child.

Slowly, she approaches, her steps careful and deliberate--audible.

[ Now is not the time for stealth or subtlety. ]

"Sephiroth?" she says, stopping a few feet from him and ducking down a bit to put her face better in line of view.

"Hey, Tseng was sent out on a mission, or I'm certain he would have been here," she begins, her voice soft and warm and without even a trace--these days--of the slums where she spent almost a decade of her life.

"Tseng and I work together. We're old friends. Do you mind if I sit with you, in his place? I'm Ariana--though most people just call me Ari."

[ofduskorofdawn]

their team is their family.

(these could be said to a muse outside of the family, or to a muse inside the family! there are no rules. currently amused by the thought of 'muses overhearing other people say 'let me finish winning' abt their game' though)

the family.

"Stop i- sto- get OFF! It's mine!"

"Give us a sec, he's/she's/they're not finished losing."

"Wait, let me finish losing to (name)."

"You know I can hear you, right?"

"Absolutely not."

"No way we're leaving you behind."

"There's no way (name) would do that."

"Yes, (name), you're very handsome/pretty and everyone should be in love with you."

"My mistake. You're handsome and pretty and everyone is in love with you."

"I'm pretty cute, though."

"Don't listen to them. These guys love me."

"We tolerate you."

"Oh, we're not friends."

"Nice of you to show up."

"Glad to see you're making yourself at home."

"Make yourself maybe a little bit less at home, huh?"

"(Name) really likes you, you know."

"I care about them. You hurt them, you answer to me."

"They're a pain in the ass. Not 'my' pain in the ass. Just a pain."

"(Name) is a good kid. Be nice to them."

"No, if (name) says we jump, we jump."

"Do you trust them?" / "You have no idea."

"Don't listen to 'em. They're just jealous."

"You wanna talk about it?"

"You like him/her/them?"

"I'll take a look."

"Sit down."

"You need someone to check you out, you're not gonna do better than (name)."

observer.

"Are you guys always like this?"

"These are the people you hang out with... on purpose?"

"So are you the 'annoying little sibling' or the 'drowned kitten' in this dynamic?"

"Seem like good people."

"These are your guys?"

"So (name)'s good for it?"

"You vouching for them?"

"I can see what you mean about them."

"If (name) told you to jump off a bridge, would you do it?"

"You guys love each other."

"Oh, so you won't mind if I ask (name) their opinion, then?"

[ofduskorofdawn]

Vincent, pre-DoC:

Except instead of Elvis on the record player it's —

😂😂😂

[ofduskorofdawn]

being smart has never stopped me from being a complete fucking idiot

[ofduskorofdawn]

Oops! First Interactions

Send me a symbol for our Muses to meet when the following accident occurs…

♔ - one Muse hits the other while opening a door too fast/forcefully ♕ - one Muse gestures wildly and smacks another passing by ♖ - one Muse shoots the other (non-lethal…probably) ♗ - one Muse trips the other ♘- one Muse drops a bucket of ice water on the other, mistaking them for someone else ♟- one Muse spills something on the other ♙ - one Muse gets thrown into the other during a fight and injures them ♚ - one Muse saves the other from a dangerous situation, only to end up in danger themselves ♛ - one Muse runs into the other with their bike / skateboard / golf cart / etc. ♜ - one Muse attempts to assassinate the other after mistaking them for their target ♝- one Muse accidentally casts a spell on the other

[ofduskorofdawn]

STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS SENTENCE STARTERS.

❝ Uh… What does he/she/they look like? ❞ 

❝ Don’t worry, supreme leader. We’ll take care of him/her/them. ❞ 

❝ Shoot him/her/them, shoot him/her/them now! ❞ 

❝ Quickly, ready, aim, fire! Fire! ❞ 

❝ That’s a lot of smoke for a surrender. ❞ 

❝ Report, what’s going on down there? 224, come in!  ❞ 

❝ The fight isn’t over yet, majesty. ❞ 

❝ I will not deal with those who break their words. ❞ 

❝ In the end, cowards are those who follow the dark side. ❞ 

❝ It was a pity I wasn’t there, my old master. ❞ 

❝ Belief is not a matter of choice, but of conviction. ❞ 

❝ Sergeant, why are you so certain no one will coming? ❞ 

❝ We can’t just turn our backs on them. ❞ 

❝ I know, but the way you said it was all wrong. ❞ 

❝ So which one’s mine, Master? ❞ 

❝ They’ll panic? I’m just beginning to panic! ❞ 

❝ The best confidence builder is experience. ❞ 

❝ Where’s your sergeant-in-command? ❞ 

❝ Your armor, it’s shiny and new, just like you. ❞ 

❝ There’s hope for you yet, rookie. ❞ 

❝ Today we fight for all our brothers back home, understood? ❞ 

❝ Do we take prisoners? ❞ 

❝ You need to search and find that droid right away. ❞ 

❝ No, this is not, I repeat not a rescue mission. ❞ 

❝ This could take a while to bypass. ❞ 

❝ What is the matter with you? Are you trying to get us killed? ❞ 

❝ I was leading the mission and it seemed like a good idea at the time. ❞ 

❝ Go back to the ship and call for help. ❞ 

❝ The ship has been destroyed. ❞ 

❝ To live in fear is no life at all! ❞ 

❝ Let me go and I can give you money beyond your imagination! ❞ 

❝ In the meantime, I have a little gift for you! ❞ 

❝ I’ll give you a merciful death. ❞ 

❝ That power will only consume you. ❞ 

❝ This is how you thank me for rescuing you? ❞ 

❝ Lucky for you, I’m an excellent shot. ❞ 

❝ For all your expertise, this isn’t a very smooth landing. ❞ 

❝ It got knocked out of my hands. ❞ 

❝ You know what would be helpful? A little light. ❞ 

❝ You don’t suppose it was hit by a rock, do you? ❞ 

❝ Looks like I got here just in time. ❞ 

❝ How come I’m the one getting caught all the time?  ❞ 

❝ At least you’re a master… at getting caught. ❞ 

❝ We have no quarrel with you, and we seek no revenge. ❞ 

❝ After everything, you’re just going to walk away? ❞ 

❝ Don’t you think our priority should be escape first, eat second? ❞ 

❝ What happened to the power? I was having fun! ❞ 

❝ Violence breeds violence. It takes two to fight. ❞ 

❝ But is it worth killing for?  ❞ 

❝ How could you do this to your brothers? ❞ 

❝ Fear is a disease; hope is its only cure. ❞ 

❝ Perhaps they are the ones who should be eradicated? ❞ 

❝ We don’t have time for games. ❞ 

❝ We’re not retreating. We’re following orders. ❞ 

❝ But sometimes you get carried away. ❞ 

❝ We can’t just smash through that blockade. ❞ 

❝ You don’t even have a plan?! ❞ 

❝ There seems to be a problem. ❞ 

❝ I’ll hold them off, get that bridge back up! ❞ 

❝ Oh, you can’t imagine the unspeakable things I’ve suffered!  ❞ 

❝ That’s not what I want. Not at all. ❞ 

[ofduskorofdawn]

send ⚠ to pick up/carry my muse

If a multimuse, specify which muse

[ofduskorofdawn]

send ⛓️ to find my muse bloody, bruised and restrained

[ofduskorofdawn]

:: 𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐒 ! ﹝ 𝐎𝐌𝐍𝐈𝐒𝐂𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐄𝐑'𝐒 𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖𝐏𝐎𝐈𝐍𝐓 ﹞

' if you want my bones, i shall give them to you. if you want my heart, then i will gladly hand it over '

' so you want the right over my life and death? '

' even if you manage to save the world, you still won't be saved '

' you will live to the end and be happy '

' i am used to the pain. similarly, i am familiar with death. don't you already know this? '

' every story has a value. it is a story that is interesting to some people and salvation for others '

' what if all this was nothing more than a sweet lie? '

' i only liked the people i liked and saved the people i cared about '

' can't you change your repertoire of greetings already? i almost died for real this time, you know? '

' from the beginning till the end, i was always the one being saved '

' the hurt we inflicted on each other would not be erased '

' so many misfortunes exist in this world, so is there a reason to feel sorrow for every single one of them? '

' even if you do save one world, every other world you have forsaken will drag you down to hell '

' i don't want to be a monster '

' to someone who even lost the traces of loss, no such things as 'loss' existed '

' you know this too, right? the last one to laugh is the winner '

' it's been a while. you are still ugly '

' from the beginning, it was definitely dogshit '

' there is no magic that will heal all wounds just because someone else has a deep wound as well '

' we are life and death companions '

' i have no thoughts of saving you '

' i can kill all of them if i want. therefore, i can save all of them if i want '

' we promised. you forgot? '

' my death isn't a part of your plan '

' if there is no sense of death then the value of life also disappears '

' you want to save this world? it's the same for me, too '

' will i ever get to meet you again? '

' i like you. so don't die '

' i couldn't rage when i wanted to rage. i couldn't be sad when i wanted to grieve '

' you don't know anything so shut up '

' we'll be happy after this, right? '

' maybe, just maybe, i could've endured it '

' i wanted to live longer, even if i was a bit less happy. that's why i was a slave to capitalism '

' it seems to be that you actually enjoy dying or getting kidnapped '

' we can save the world. don't you know? '

' by the way, are you a couple? '

' the one who can save the world... it might be you, not me '

' someone was left and someone was leaving. no matter what was chosen, everyone would always reach their end '

' i'll definitely save you, too '

' do the ones that can't remember anything also forget about their sorrow, too? '

' i don't need a person like you '

' if i forget about everything... i won't feel this pain anymore, right? '

' can you promise not to give up on that goal, no matter what? '

' why, why is it not me, but you? '

' i shall pray that you may continue to exist somewhere, too '

' i remember the first time i was about to finish a book. it was like being deprived of the world '

' none of you will return alive '

' if i couldn't believe in him, who could i believe in the first place? '

' why did you die for us over and over? '

' just because i am a murderer doesn't mean i want to keep killing '

[ofduskorofdawn]

&. 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐝, 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬.

(  you  know  that  dynamic  of  the  emotionally  closed  off  one  &  the  kind  one  they  have  a  soft  spot  for?  yeah,  that’s  the  vibe.  )

said from the lone wolf.

❛ you think you know me, but the truth is, you don’t. ❜

❛ going home isn’t an option anymore. ❜

❛ i’m fine. there’s nothing for you to worry about. ❜ 

❛ do you wish i was different? ❜ 

❛ i just, i don’t want anything bad to happen to you. ❜ 

❛ you deserve better than what you’ve got. ❜

❛ i guess we both lost something we were fond of. ❜ 

❛ i’m not leaving you out here alone. ❜ 

❛ you don’t have to keep me company, i’m fine by myself. ❜ 

❛ coming here to see you is the only place i could go. ❜

❛ i’m afraid of losing you, okay? ❜ 

❛ i know you probably hate me right now, and i get it. ❜

❛ what is with your weird fascination with me? ❜ 

❛ yeah, you keep on telling yourself that bullshit. ❜ 

❛ i didn’t mean to hurt your feelings, i just have a lot on my plate. ❜ 

❛ you’re lucky you got away with only a scratch. ❜ 

❛ if i could be a different person, i promise you, i would be. ❜

❛ people like us don’t get to decide when we’re done. ❜

❛ i’ve never had anything good happen to me when i trusted others. ❜

❛ you won’t survive out there. they tear all good things apart. ❜

❛ i don’t know what’s the truth or what’s a lie anymore. ❜ 

❛ you got guts, i’ll give you that. ❜ 

❛ the more you know, the shorter your life will be. ❜ 

❛ for the first time in years, i felt something that i thought had been lost to me. ❜ 

❛ what you think you’re going through is nothing to what i have been through. ❜ 

said from the soft spot. 

❛ you’re not as bad as everyone says you are. ❜

❛ how is it that you’re never scared? ❜

❛ you think i’m weak because i’m not like you. ❜

❛ you wanted to be left alone, right? ❜ 

❛ how do you make the pain go away? ❜

❛ you shouldn’t smoke, you know. ❜

❛ destroy what is destroying you. ❜

❛ i hope you find the peace you’re searching for. ❜

❛ you know my door is always open to you. ❜

❛ i look at you and my heart breaks because all i see is loneliness. ❜

❛ you’re avoiding the subject and you know it. what are you hiding from me? ❜ 

❛ you’re not at war anymore, you can come home. ❜

❛ it feels like you’ve been avoiding me. ❜

❛ what are you so afraid of? ❜

❛ you shouldn’t be out here by yourself. ❜ 

❛ why do you care? you could have just walked away. ❜ 

❛ i know you. how else do you think i found you so easily? ❜

❛ if it was the other way around, would you have come back for me? ❜ 

❛ i just thought you’d like some company. ❜ 

❛ are you jealous? want me all to yourself, do you? ❜

❛ i knew you had a heart. ❜ 

❛ can you look at me? please? ❜

❛ i don’t think i’ve ever seen you smile. ❜

❛ if you won’t take care of yourself, then who will? ❜

❛ you have something beautiful inside of you. it’s hard for some people to tell, but it’s there. ❜

[ofduskorofdawn]

&. 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐬𝐭𝐲 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬.

(  we  love  angst  on  this  blog,  what  can  we  say.  here’s  some  more  dialogue  prompts  for  you.  a  warning  for  potentially  triggering  themes  below.  )

❛ everything you touch, you ruin. ❜

❛ the only one who gets to kill you, is me. ❜

❛ you can’t make me disappear. ❜

❛ memories are only there to make you bleed. ❜

❛ i don’t need your permission. ❜

❛ don’t shut me out like this. ❜

❛ the less you know, the better. ❜

❛ i won’t stop killing until you kill me. ❜

❛ why is it whenever we see each other, you’re covered in blood? ❜

❛ you think i felt something for you? you’ve forgotten what i am. ❜

❛ the last time we talked, didn’t you say you wanted to kill me? ❜

❛ i felt something loosen in me that shouldn’t have been loosened. ❜

❛ pull yourself together. we have work to do. ❜

❛ stay back, i have a demon inside of me. ❜

❛ let me get closer, i have a hell inside of me where your demon can live. ❜

❛ people like that don’t deserve to live. ❜

❛ just do what you’re told. like you always do. ❜

❛ why do you have to make everyone hate you? ❜

❛ it’s better that you don’t get involved. ❜

❛ i’d do anything to make you stay. ❜

❛ who cares if it bleeds. ❜

❛ is this what you think love is? ❜

❛ just breathe through it. it gets easier. ❜

❛ don’t pretend that you cared about me. ❜

❛ i’m starting to think you like wasting my time. ❜

❛ we wouldn’t be alive if it weren’t for me. ❜

❛ i will never, ever, give you a moment’s peace. ❜

❛ the world doesn’t hate us. but it doesn’t love us either. ❜

❛ it hurts that you still can’t trust me after all this time. ❜

❛ a darkness with voices is better than a silent void. ❜

❛ it’s safer to be feared, than loved. ❜

❛ am i not good enough for you? ❜

❛ a burnt child loves the fire. ❜

❛ i’m tired of dying. ❜

❛ what if you hurt because it feels good? ❜

❛ don’t try to fix me, i’m not broken. ❜

❛ if you want me to die, you can just say so. ❜

❛ you don’t have to be afraid of who you are. ❜

❛ that line disappears once you cross it. ❜

❛ how can i believe you after all you’ve done? ❜

❛ i won’t let you forget about me. ❜

❛ the person you once knew me as, died. ❜

❛ are you going to leave me again? ❜

❛ i have nothing i could offer you. ❜

❛ no one is going to save you. no one can. ❜

❛ maybe you’re / i’m already dead. ❜ 

❛ you have blood on your hands. ❜

❛ what, can’t take a punch? ❜

❛ i’m your mind giving you someone to talk to. ❜

❛ you have to step out of this darkness and let them see you for who you are, like i have. ❜

[ofduskorofdawn]

&. 𝐟. 𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐭𝐭 𝐟𝐢𝐭𝐳𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬.

(  dialogue  prompts  taken  from  quotes  of  various  f.  scott  fitzgerald  works.  feel  free  to  edit  as  you  seem  fit.  )

❛ you are afraid of being in love then? ❜

❛ i’ll kiss you if you want me to. ❜

❛ we’ll survive, you and i. ❜

❛ come and kiss me and let’s forget. ❜

❛ hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you. ❜

❛ i’m not used to being loved. i wouldn’t know what to do. ❜

❛ sometimes i don’t know whether we are real or whether we are characters in one of my novels. ❜

❛ wouldn’t it be awful if we fell in love again? ❜

❛ i’m yours - you know it. ❜

❛ you’ve a place in my heart no one else ever could have. ❜

❛ books mean more than people to me anyway. ❜

❛ you’ve got an awfully kissable mouth. ❜

❛ i won’t forget you. i will promise to remember you always. ❜

❛ if i wait till i fall in love again i’ll just wait forever. ❜

❛ things you’ve just said and forgotten, i’ve put myself asleep night after night remembering. ❜

❛ love isn’t like it is in books. ❜

❛ i’m telling you all of a sudden, but it isn’t new with me. i love you. ❜

❛ i keep the light burning on your desk so i’ll think you’re there when i wake up. ❜

❛ the odd thing is that i’m in love with you anyhow. ❜

❛ won’t you let me lean against your shoulder just the smallest bit? ❜

❛ it’s been very rare to have known you, very strange and wonderful. ❜

❛ it’s sweeter to be alone. ❜

❛ if you’re tired of kissing me, i’d better go. ❜

❛ i’ve formed the habit of liking you. ❜

❛ there’s something between us- a sort of pull. something you always do to me and i to you. ❜

❛ i won’t have to build my love up. it’s up in the skies now. ❜

❛ you’re trying to leave yourself behind, but you can’t. the more you try to run away from yourself, the more you’ll have yourself with you. ❜

❛ i’m sorry i had such a devastating effect on you. ❜

❛ i forgot everything. your lips were so beautiful. ❜

❛ say you love me. say it now — can’t you say it now? even if you don’t mean it? ❜

❛ i still love you. that’s the odd thing. ❜

❛ my god, you’re fun to kiss. ❜

❛ i wouldn’t change you for the world. ❜

❛ it’s all so simple. he loved me and i loved him. that’s all there is. ❜

❛ you’ve fallen for me — completely. you’ve got me in your dreams. ❜

❛ tonight there’s got to be no past or future, no time, just tonight, you and i. ❜

❛ of course you could never love anybody but me. ❜

❛ i’m a lost soul maybe — i don’t feel at all like i ought to feel. ❜

❛ i fell in love with you the first time i saw you. ❜

❛ in my heart i love her all the time. ❜

❛ and what in hell could we ever be to each other? ❜

❛ i realized what was the matter, what had always been the matter — i was deeply and incurably in love with her. ❜

❛ i’m more beautiful than anybody else, why can’t i be happy? ❜

❛ you intoxicated me. it was just as though you were making me love you by some invisible force. ❜

❛ it’s because i love you, dear— ❜

❛ i once imagined you loved me a little bit, if you’ll excuse the presumption. ❜

❛ i loved you once — for a year i thought you were the only person in the world. ❜

❛ sometimes you think you’re so much in love that your love could fill the biggest palace conceivable. sometimes you haven’t got enough to fill one room. ❜

❛ his dark eyes took me in, and i wondered what they would look like if he fell in love. ❜

❛ people fall in and out of love all the time, don’t they? i wonder how they manage it. ❜