#i went a bit overboard on the explanations and obv that is not necessary

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top 5 redacted quotes

@halscafe has brilliant ideas, what can i say.... as always, open tags - but maybe a few no-pressure tags of the top of my head as well?? @autisticempathydaemon @thicchaco @lovelylonerliterature @romirola @starlitangels @glassbearclock - mind if i take a look inside your brain? 👀👀

under the cut because of a spoiler or two - if you haven’t finished imperium: cataclysm - especially ‘Tantum Tyrannus’ - then go and listen to that before you read!

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‘Your Dom Incubus Confesses His Feelings For You’

“Being with you changes what home means. You make home feel like… what happy people mean when they use that word. Aria is a place that I come from. But you are a place where I feel… true.”

this one might not be familiar if you’ve never heard the whole of this audio - i was really surprised that the public release of this audio doesn’t have the ending attached! this audio doubles as gavin’s second BA, and at the end he says this to freelancer - honestly i think this is my favourite big confession audio we have, and i think this says it all 🥰🥰 nothing melts my heart like this audio, and this line in particular, especially because i have a massive thing about gavin and what it means for him to find a place where he belongs?? so this one means a lot to me 💕💕

‘Getting Closer to a Sadistic Demon’

“Do what all good pragmatists do, darling. Compromise. Meet me in the middle.”

VEGA!! oh there are SO many vega moments that could easily be here, but i think this one is my very favourite - i think you already know how much i love it when he calls warden ‘darling’, and the manipulation here is Right There but it’s so, SO good… i love the idea of a  vega and warden who actually get on quite well, and who have a nice bit of back-and-forth going on, so this is right up my street! i just really love vega, both prime and imperium, and i think he’s FASCINATING as both a standalone character and as a driving force in the narrative, so for him? i always have time for him hehe

‘Partying With the Werewolf Pack’

“Thank you for sharing this with me, sweetheart. Yeah, the party, but… I don’t know. Just… this, too. My life. Thank you for being a part of it.”

another disgustingly soft and gooey moment for my favourites list, and of course i can’t forget about lovely milo… his relationship with sweetheart is so wonderful to me, and the delivery on this line is absolutely perfect 🤩🤩🤩 genuine and precious and really, really heartfelt - i can think of nothing better! sweetheart and milo have been together for much longer than a lot of our other couples, so it’s really nice to hear milo having that moment of ‘you’re the person i want to share my life with, and i love that it’s you’ - i think it’s just magnificent 💖💖

‘Tantum Tyrannus’

“Oh, Alexis. You are going to look beautiful on my mantle.”

perhaps this is an… unexpected one? there are a LOT of lines i adore from the imperium - vega’s entire “You can’t. But I can.” and little monologue to lasko at the end of ‘What You Deserve’, vindemiator’s “I’ll find a way. Even if it’s just for a short, precious while. I will.” from ‘One Misery For Another’, etc, etc…  it’s imperium!vincent - and while i do prefer prime!vincent, i think this particular line is done so, so well that i just couldn’t NOT include it! if it wasn’t ridiculously obvious from blood sugar, baby!, i LOVE the imperium solaire clan, and the image alone of vincent holding alexis’ head and smiling as he speaks to it…. bloody, gory, monstrous perfection 😘😘

‘Cuddling Through a Storm With Your Incubus Boyfriend’

“Yes, I am bad. But I’m very good at it. And I’m yours, my love.”

this audio is a bit of a newer one, but honestly i think it’s one of the best gavin audios to date - the whole thing is so unbelievably soft and sweet, and it’s nice to finally have a proper solo gavin fluff audio after so long 🥳🥳 this line in particular has to be my favourite from that whole audio, partly because he is really very charming, and partly because it’s a lovely callback to gavin’s early personality and how he’s changed since meeting freelancer and the rest of the DAMN crew! the arrogant, irreverent incubus who we met so long ago certainly has his appeal, but the gavin we know now is much sweeter and more genuinely affectionate. his relationship with freelancer is still full of teasing and snark but also so much love and devotion - this line really brings that home for me, which is why i love it so much 💕💕💕