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&. 𝐧𝐨𝐬𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬.

(  dialogue  prompts  taken  from  nosferatu  (2024),  directed  by  robert  eggers.  feel  free  to  edit  and  change  as  you  seem  fit.  ) 

❛ come to me. ❜

❛ a guardian angel. a spirit of comfort. spirit of any celestial sphere. anything. hear my call. ❜

❛ you wakened me from an eternity of darkness. ❜

❛ you are not for the living. you are not for human kind. ❜

❛ and shall you be one with me ever-eternally? ❜

❛ come here. there’s nothing to be afraid of. ❜

❛ i wish i could stay, my love. ❜

❛ why have you killed these beautiful flowers? ❜

❛ i must tell you my dream. ❜

❛ i’d never been so happy as that moment… as i held hands with death. ❜

❛ i wish you to have all you deserve. ❜

❛ you mustn’t leave. i love you too much. ❜

❛ i will stay with you until you are fast asleep. ❜

❛ uh, forgive me. i only wish to stay one night. ❜

❛ by god’s name, never speak of that castle. ❜

❛ i banish you, i banish you with garlic. ❜

❛ beware of his shadow. ❜

❛ the shadow covers you in a nightmare. ❜

❛ you are late. the midnight hour has passed. ❜

❛ i wish you to do as i request. ❜

❛ i will be addressed as the honor of my blood demands it.❜

❛ speak not of it again! ❜

❛ take heed what you do. ❜

❛ i might ease your wound. ❜

❛ come by the fire. ❜

❛ your face shows you unwell. ❜

❛ do you ever feel at times as if you were not… as if you were not a person? ❜

❛ look at the sky. look at the sea. does it never call to you, urge you? ❜

❛ you are fortunate in your love. ❜

❛ now are we neighbors. ❜

❛ it is late. you must wish to retire. ❜

❛ i have been enduring the most irregular dreams. i fear i am taken ill. ❜

❛ it is a black omen to journey in poor health. you will remain and well rest yourself. ❜

❛ dream of me. only me. ❜

❛ oh, he’s coming to me. ❜

❛ i cannot resist you, my love. ❜

❛ i am no one. i am his servant. ❜

❛ look, this is a pretty one. his lordship likes the pretty ones… ❜

❛ you are lost in his shadow. ❜

❛ soon i will no longer be a shadow to you. ❜

❛ soon our flesh shall embrace and we shall be as one. ❜

❛ i have not failed your lordship! ❜

❛ embrace me, my boy. i am so rejoiced to see you. ❜

❛ my dear creature, yes, i am he, and i am hither come to help you. ❜

❛ my dreams grow darker. ❜

❛ does evil come from within us or from beyond? ❜

❛ i shall persist to join you every night… first in sleep, then in your arms. ❜

❛ everything will be mixed with abomination, and you’ll be knee-deep in blood. ❜

❛ you are promised to me! ❜

❛ i will end this plague. this devil. ❜

❛ he hasn’t found you. ❜

❛ i feared i’d never see you again. ❜

❛ you shall crave of me nothing. ❜

❛ the bells of dawn shall toll in despair of my coming. and i shall taste of you. ❜

❛ pray, forgive me for all the troubles i have caused you. ❜

❛ i am only glad you have become yourself again. ❜

❛ may i… stay with you tonight? ❜

❛ this creature is a force more powerful than evil. it is death itself. ❜

❛ i have seen things in this world that would’ve made isaac newton crawl back into his mother’s womb. ❜

❛ i have wrestled with the devil as jacob wrestled the angel in peniel. ❜

❛ if we are to tame darkness, we must first face that it exists. ❜

❛ i have felt you crawling like a serpent in my body. ❜

❛ love is inferior to you. ❜

❛ i told you, you are not of humankind. ❜

❛ i am an appetite. nothing more. ❜

❛ i lay within the darkest pit. till you did wake me, enchantress, and stirred me from my grave. ❜

❛ you are my affliction. ❜

❛ i care nothing of your afflictions. ❜

❛ yet even now we are fated. ❜

❛ your passion is bound to me. ❜

❛ you cannot love. ❜

❛ yet i cannot be sated without you. ❜

❛ remember how once we were? ❜

❛ i abhor you. ❜

❛ i will leave you three nights. tonight was the first. ❜

❛ tonight you denied yourself, and thereby, you suffer me to vanish up the lives of those you love. ❜

❛ you revel in my torture. ❜

❛ upon the third night, you will submit, or he you call your husband shall perish by my hand. ❜

❛ till you bid me come shall you watch the world become as naught. ❜

❛ tell me, what is this insufferable darkness? ❜

❛ nothing you can say will shake me, for there is a devil in this world, and i have met him. ❜

❛ i’ve brought this evil upon us. ❜

❛ i sought company. i sought… tenderness, and i called out. ❜

❛ at first, it was sweet. i had never known such bliss. yet it turned to torture. ❜

❛ it was you that gave me the courage to be free of my shame. ❜

❛ he took me as his lover then, and now he has come back. ❜

❛ all my sleeping thoughts are of him every night. ❜

❛ don’t touch me! i am not to be touched. ❜

❛ i’ll be good. i promise. ❜

❛ you could never please me as he could. ❜

❛ yes! take me! ❜

❛ kiss me. kiss my heart. ❜

❛ let him see. let him see our love. ❜

❛ without you, i will become a demon. ❜

❛ you’re safe with me. ❜

❛ keep away from me. i am unclean. ❜

❛ he will murder you if i do not go to him. ❜

❛ kill him i will. he shall never harm you again. ❜

❛ i can weep no longer, for i have no more tears to shed. ❜

❛ the grim reaper wields his heavy scythe with every change of wind. ❜

❛ the monster left you to the wolves, yet you prevailed. ❜

❛ his pull to me is so powerful, so terrible, yet my spirit cannot be evil as his. ❜

❛ we must know evil to be able to destroy it. ❜

❛ you are our salvation. ❜

❛ i bid you, come to me. ❜

❛ your oath re-pledged. so too shall be our flesh. you are mine. ❜

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-rattles my tin can- ships? ships for the poor?

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yes, raythis is a soldier and a knight. but the monks of the order of st. lazarus were healers first and foremost. raythis will take up the sword when he has to, there's no mistake. but he'd much rather spend his time trying to heal and care for the lepers and other sick and marginalized people that he and the rest of his order are responsible for.

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@am4zon said you keep dancing with the devil… one day he's going to follow you home.

ah, the devil. it would be fair to say that raythis is all too familiar with the fear of evil; the way people tremble at mere mention of satan's name. hell is all too real. god is far away in heaven. that's why so many make the arduous journey from home and hovel to the holy land --- to feel closer to god. to feel further from hell. even if only for a brief period of time.

but he cannot escape it even here. the devil has marked him from birth: a lycanthrope, practically a demon in human skin. all his attempts at atonement have made no difference. the sins of his father and mother are now his.

the monk bares his teeth in a grave smile, the expression faltering as soon as it forms. " he already has, i'm afraid, " raythis replies, folding his bandaged hands in the sleeves of his robes. the monk bows his shaved head. already he can feel the moon's influence growing stronger. it won't be long before he shifts again. " but don't trouble yourself with my sins. they aren't your burden to bear. "

SINNERS --- accepting

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watching c.ritical r.ole's new a.ge of u.mbra miniseries and it's feeding me rn

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raythis's parents were not good people. they were minor nobles who treated their servants and underlings like shit. raythis is cursed because they were so desperate for a male heir that his mother turned to dark witchcraft and his father aided her in hiding it from the church. when he was born a werewolf they treated him cruelly and only kept him because they needed a child. once his transformations started, they chained him up away from the public eye. then they were able to have another son naturally and completely disinherited raythis, which is why he decided to leave for jerusalem in the first place. he'll never be cured of his lycanthropy because his parents are the ones responsible for it, and they'll never repent for practicing dark magic or for the way they treated him.

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@metusmorii said “ I know your imperfections.”

the words send a thrill of panic down the monk's spine. no one knows what he is; he's spent so many years hiding the truth of his condition. if anyone discovered his secret, he would be condemned. hunted to the very edges of the earth.

raythis sucks in a breath, a heavily bandaged hand twitches in anticipation of drawing his sword. perhaps, if he was quick enough, he could keep his secret still. but something stays his hand. dark eyes settle on the strange masked man before him. as subtly as he can, the monk inhales through his nose to study the other's scent. there's a faint but familiar sweetness underneath the heavier perfumes and oils; the stench of something decaying.

" perhaps neither of us are what we appear to be, " raythis replies quietly. a bead of sweat rolls from his temple despite himself. " what is it you want with me? "

CONCRETE JUNGLE --- accepting

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all i'm gonna say for sunday is that if you've ever wanted to bone a religious figure... raythis is still technically a monk even if he's pretty much given up on religion at this point.

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This is an oc x canon safe zone.

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Want to ship? Feel free to tell me straight off!

Yes, shipping does need chemistry between the two muses, but if you look at my muse and think ‘You know what, I’d like to ship my muse with theirs!’, feel free to tell me, even before we start threads!

I love having a direction/goal to work the characters towards – when I write fiction on my own, I like having goals and plot points, like romances, family and friend relationships, rivals and enemies.. why wouldn’t I like having the same with RP? RP is just collaborative fiction writing!

There’s no shame in liking ships, or even RPing for ships. There’s tons of people in the world who love to read romance novels, and no one tries to tell them that’s wrong or worse than liking mysteries, or fantasy adventure. Neither preference is wrong, it’s just that – a preference!

So please – if you want to ship, or work towards a ship, in any capacity : romance, family, friends, rivals, and everything in between – TELL ME! I’d love to see what we can come up with together!

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"CONCRETE JUNGLE [THE OST]" BY BAD OMENS PROMPTS *  assorted lines from the album, some slightly reworked to suit a roleplay format, adjust as necessary

isn't it strange to create something that hates you?

i'm already level with god.

i know your imperfections.

baby, i'm the only future you've got.

i'm more powerful every minute.

i am everything that you're not.

happiness is an illusion.

you are nothing more than a thought.

history already forgot.

you've been running from me

i'm here whether you like it or not.

now it's too late for you to stop.

everyone hates you.

i am not alone.

i can't get away from it.

old friends are just a memory that i didn't need.

i can't be saved.

we're bored when we're sober.

what else have we got?

baby, you drive me crazy.

can you hear me through the white noise?

you're lost without it.

i can't think straight.

play with fire and you'll get burned.

it's your turn.

all i did was pull the trigger.

don't ask for my pity when i'm not the only sinner.

i love the look on your face when i'm tempting you.

maybe i'm sick. maybe i'm already dead.

i'm not really scared of what comes next.

keep it real close to your chest.

i like to keep some real bad company.

there's no meaning.

breathe it in.

you know it'll happen again.

i thought i saw you.

follow me home or stay, i don't care either way.

what if i stop breathing?

what could it change?

i never needed you to be anything more than human.

i wanna finally sleep now.

our time was always out of reach.

despite my efforts, i'm still dreaming.

there is nothing else left inside.

you want to hurt me?

you want to take me home?

no use in trying to fight me.

you look lonely and sleazy.

you mean what you say.

turn me inside out.

i adore you.

if i wanna be great, i don't wanna be me.

can you hear me?

i gave you way too many chances.

it wasn't enough.

i still wanted more.

i'll make the same mistakes.

lying is hard, and the truth comes out anyway.

i miss the way you say my name.

will we both go home alive?

i thought i could change.

love's the death of peace of mind.

you come and go in waves.

i'm taking it slowly.

you know they're gone.

what's the difference?

all i know is bad decisions.

i'm only human.

i may never learn from all my mistakes.

everything has a price.

i can try my best to just pretend.

will you drown me out?

i know the pain.

just pretend.

i can wait for you at the bottom.

would you say i'm worthy?

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new character:

raythis konofagos.

son of minor byzantine nobles and cursed to be a werewolf from birth. left home in his 20s to seek penance (and a miracle cure for lycanthropy) in jerusalem. unable to control his werewolf transformations, he spent several years wandering the pilgrim's road attacking and killing travelers. eventually reached jerusalem and passed himself off as a leper (to hide his wolf-like hands and feet) and joined the order of st. lazarus. lost faith in god due to being unable to find a cure for his curse but still holds the title of monk. elevated to warrior monk due to being a nobleman's son with some military training.

notable features include keeping his hands/forearms and feet/lower legs bandaged to hide their wolfishness, limited response to pain and high healing factor, and uneven "loping" gait due to the shape of his feet.

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new character:

raythis konofagos.

son of minor byzantine nobles and cursed to be a werewolf from birth. left home in his 20s to seek penance (and a miracle cure for lycanthropy) in jerusalem. unable to control his werewolf transformations, he spent several years wandering the pilgrim's road attacking and killing travelers. eventually reached jerusalem and passed himself off as a leper (to hide his wolf-like hands and feet) and joined the order of st. lazarus. lost faith in god due to being unable to find a cure for his curse but still holds the title of monk. elevated to warrior monk due to being a nobleman's son with some military training.

notable features include keeping his hands/forearms and feet/lower legs bandaged to hide their wolfishness, limited response to pain and high healing factor, and uneven "loping" gait due to the shape of his feet.

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@clawsextended said “you know i built this fucking thing. really. all the proper modifications were made by me. before me it wasn’t even distributed right for his fat ass.” she changes lanes without thought, stopping at a red as she tilts aside to hold them steady. “remind me to fill it diesel. poor guy’s running on fumes.”

the roar of the bike's engine dies to a steady purr as selina brings it to a stop. cleo is mindful of the way her weight shifts, balancing carefully so as not to tip the bike any further, arms tight around her aunt's waist. the speed is a rush that cleo can't get enough of --- or maybe the thrill of adrenaline is just a temporary escape from everything else.

" you sure it's distributed right for the both of us? " they're both tall, but cleopatra has her father's bulk. all that fur and scale and muscle adds up to a lot of weight on the back of this motorcycle, even if it was originally meant for uncle bruce.

another thought crosses her mind and she plunks her chin on selina's shoulder, watching the light, waiting for it to turn green. " think my daddy would let me get a bike like this? "

fat chance.

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sb: these mice look a little rough, what's your veterinary opinion?

me: they nakey

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PROMPTS FROM SINNERS *  assorted dialogue from the 2025 film, adjust as necessary

i want you to promise right now.

i think that was the best day of my life.

was it like that for you?

you keep dancing with the devil... one day he's gonna follow you home.

drop the guitar, [name].

jump on the work. don't let the work jump on you.

if you don't mind, i'm gonna be late.

i've been working all week.

who are you, babe?

so tell me about chicago.

that's why we came back home.

figure we might as well deal with the devil we know.

don't move.

fuck that. it's gotta be tonight.

look at that sky.

you big enough to take me now, huh?

you keep your eyes open for anybody staring too long.

i'm gonna need you to come sit in this truck right here.

what can i do for you?

i'm trying to help you.

i was doing better before you shot me in the ass.

why are you paying for this?

how fast does this thing drive?

i can show you better than i can tell you.

i seen you somewhere before.

maybe i'll see you tonight.

don't look at her.

you know, i waited for you.

i am your way out.

there's some weird shit going on out here.

i'm married, by the way.

you told me you loved me.

i told you to stay the fuck away from me, too, but i guess you didn't hear that part, huh?

keep your voice down now.

remember falling asleep with your head on my chest, leaving in the middle of the night without a fucking word?

i drank it.

need you to give us a moment.

i'm gonna need you to show some respect.

i don't want your money.

you wanna make me say it?

i thought i could trust them, but they trying to kill me.

just don't let them hurt me no more.

have you seen anyone recently?

i don't think you should be here.

you making any money with that thing?

they hurt you?

so you'll kill for me.

why can't you just say that?

somebody take me in your arms tonight.

you're beautiful. i just want to taste you.

i think you're in the wrong place.

we'll be on our way.

you better enjoy the rest of the night.

i wish in my heart that we'd have met sooner.

we got us a problem.

best thing about me is you.

where the hell you been at?

i'm supposed to walk back?

can i at least get my money?

open up this door. let me outta here.

we're gonna find a way out of this, i promise.

you telling the truth?

they feel the same.

everything's gonna be all right now.

i'll see you soon.

sorry i couldn't keep you safe.

we are connected, you and i, to everything.