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lunariet:

❝ And yet, I truly believe that there is BEAUTY in tedious mundanity, in knowing that it matters not whether it is winter or summer, your life will continue to simply flow in the same direction… Much like a mountain’s stream, unchanging through the centuries. ❞

Her response is undoubtedly biased, birthed from her own personal experiences and from the perception of the world that henceforth followed. Whilst a life underneath the limelights can indeed be wondrous and filled to the very brim with thrills and jolts, it also leaves little space to grow in a healthy manner, especially as far as sentiments and thoughts are concerned: her heart, EVER SO BRILLIANT IN THE EYES OF OTHERS, has ultimately turned into a wintry garden, governed not by love but by loneliness.

Glossed tiers pursue onwards into the vision of an unmistakable moue ; whilst her expression becomes pensive, a turmoil within rages. ❝ I wish I had a REASON to live. For now, I would say that my most immediate goal is to continue making people happy with my art, with everything that I do. ❞ A titter, mellifluous and dulcet. ❝ This must sound really uninteresting, when compared to all the adventures that you have lived. ❞

the same --- forever ? that is what being a soldier had felt like. every day was the same, even if he was sent to wutai to fight, to fort condor to survey units. it was exciting but it wasn’t. it was the same “ thrills ” every day. to go through that again, genesis doesn’t know how he’d cope. he’d just been another one of shinra’s pets.

wouldn’t serving minerva, serving another master, serving the planet be the same thing, in a way ? genesis has no qualms, not really, for he owes the world that much for what he’s done to it ( hey, he can feel bad about his actions ! ), though he’s unsure if it will be much different than acting as a shinra operative. less renown, to be sure. less cameras, less fame. but maybe, just maybe, he’ll do one thing, impress one group of people, and they’ll spin tales and tell legends of him. they’ll never forget him. it’ll make up for what he’s lost ---

“ well, there’s nothing wrong with wishing people to be happy ... ” in her position, genesis knows he’d have reveled more in the spectacle of it all, how people must adore great actors. this ... making people happy business isn’t really him. even when he’d joined soldier it had been mostly to just do something, be something. angeal had followed closely behind, taking the more noble path. ( or had he been in the lead this once ? )

“ generally, i find that returning to your roots helps much with introspection. ” he doesn’t bother to say he’s not disinterested in what she has to say. he doesn’t think it’s a consideration that needs to be made. “ is a part of you being lost to appease others ? questions of that sort help, too, i believe. ”

#* ╯in. ┊ ( my soul‚ corrupted by vengeance. )#lunariet #* ╯threads. ┊ ( my friend‚ the fates are cruel / there are no dreams‚ no honor remains. )#[ god the only time he takes the spotlight off himself ... when things r getting deep ]#[ he's not budging ]#[ can you tell he constantly gets stuck in his own head ]#[ spits out stuff ppl have said to him ]

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more random dialogue prompts ,

“why do you have that look on your face?”

“finish what you’re doing, we have to talk.”

“what have you done to yourself?”

“did you do something different with your hair?”

“it doesn’t do any good to get worked up.”

“when was the last time we had a real conversation.”

“are you in the witness protection program, or what?”

“there’s something wrong with me.”

“no, i don’t hate you.”

“hey stupid.”

“we’re aren’t them.”

“looks like i’ll live long enough to make you pay.”

“you know you’re wrong.”

“i don’t understand, why are you doing this?”

“now, before i say anything, promise me you’ll stay calm.”

“what makes me so special?”

“you have no idea what i’ve been through.”

“you really don’t have to do that, not for me.”

“did you really think you’d get a second chance?”

"how about we don’t do that.”

“i have a lot going for me, but humility is not one of them.”

“you’re the worst.”

“i don’t need you right now.”

“don’t just stand there, looking at me.”

“i thought you were supposed to call me.”

“take my hand.”

“i need you.”

“you’re allowed to need help sometimes.”

“for someone who doesn’t like to feel things, you sure feel a lot of it out loud.”

“when this is all over, i want it to be you and me.”

“why won’t you tell me what happened?”

“you don’t know what this means to me.

“i know it doesn’t make sense.”

“i’m trying really hard to keep it together.”

“i know you’re new, but we do things a little differently here.”

“your voice is putting me to sleep.”

“did you find what you were looking for?”

"you knew and you didn’t even warn me?”

“well, i guess that’s broken.”

“i thought it was part of the act.”

“you think u don’t know you’re only here because they sent you?”

“you promised to call me if you didn’t know what to wear.”

“you can keep a secret, can’t you?”

“how could you do this to me?”

“put the gun down, dearest. i have news!”

“i know you don’t have any reason to trust me, but you need to know something.”

“if you’re here to tell me what happened last night, someone beat you to it.”

“people think i’m weird.”

“i think i’m losing myself again.”

“you can’t be here.”

“i wish you’d come to the funeral.”

“do you know what today is?”

“so, you broke my favourite mug… and you’re breaking up with me?”

“i need to get out.”

“it’s like i’m cursed or something.”

“you are remarkably well-behaved tonight, what have you been up to?”

“you gonna eat that?”

“sir, the pony rides are for children only.”

“i don’t want you to worry about that anymore.”

“we’ll never make it in time.”

“you’d be late for your own funeral.”

“you should have seen it coming.”

“oh, good, you’re here! hold this.”

“why can’t you just be happy for me?”

“on a scale of one to ten, how do you feel about nachos right now?”

“is this how you flirt with everyone?”

“how much longer till we’re there?”

“what have you done?”

“it’s time for you to repay that debt you owe me.”

“where did you get that? who gave it to you?”

“what kind of mother has thoughts like that?”

“i know I haven’t been what you needed, but i’m here, and i wanna help.”

“i never want to hear you say that again.”

“you’re all i have.”

“i know it’s not perfect, but i did follow the recipe this time.”

“i was doing so well until you showed up.”

“don’t eat that! i made it ‘specially for our guest.”

“it’s not that i don’t like my life, it’s that i don’t have the energy to enjoy it.”

“how can you stand this place?”

“don’t take this the wrong way, but you don’t exactly blend in.”

“you need to stop.”

“i don’t like that look, what happened?”

“is that seriously your password?”

“what’s your problem?”

“you had no right to use it without asking.”

“oh, wow, you weren’t kidding.”

“i couldn’t trust my own parents to protect me.”

“i’m surprised you haven’t been arrested yet. wait, no, i’m not.”

“why do you want to help me?”

“ten bucks for that piece of crap?”

“we have to hurry, they’re coming!”

“hey, look what came in the mail!”

“do you want to get a drink or something?”

“please tell me you didn’t eat that.”

“the worst part is you didn’t even notice.”

“if i wanted help, i would have asked.”

“wanna tell me what’s going on with your grades?”

“you need to leave.”

“talk to me, okay? i need to know what’s going on.”

“i do blame you.”

“sometimes life deals you a bad hand, but you can still play your cards right and win.”

“you’re no longer useful to me.”

“i’m not good with sarcasm: if you don’t like me, just say it.”

#* ╯out. ┊ ( legend shall speak of sacrifices at world's end. )

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gen: deeply troubled by what he’s done also gen: i dunno have you considered murder

#* ╯out. ┊ ( legend shall speak of sacrifices at world's end. )#[ worst character in this series i'm signing off ]

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@hedocay said: ‘ he needed a girl, still malleable, one that he could make admire him. ’ she is absolutely talking about her father. it's like she's obsessed with the man or something.

“ sounds like a twat, ” genesis murmurs, hardly giving a glance away from the pages of loveless. he’s trying to do this listening thing --- his therapist had said that if he listened to what people had to say, before considering his own wants and needs, that they’d grow to like him, leading to exactly the sort of affirmation he desires. smart trick, he took the bait --- but it’s terribly hard when, well, it isn’t about him. he’s a little tired of trying to give back in friendships, too ... no, no. minerva would chew his ear out if he didn’t try.

“ hm, well, i don’t know. have you tried committing patricide and burning down your family home ? i’ve heard it gets results. ”

#* ╯in. ┊ ( my soul‚ corrupted by vengeance. )#hedocay #* ╯ask. ┊ ( the arrow has left the bow of the goddess. )#[ um. he's. ... he's my fucked up little meow meow ... ]#patricide //#arson //

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genesis rhapsodos said every one can look pretty but not prettier than me

#* ╯out. ┊ ( legend shall speak of sacrifices at world's end. )#[ hate him ! ]

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@inmydrcams said: ‘ you know how the stories go. interesting things happen only to pretty girls. ’ ( stella )

what was she going on about ? not being pretty ? genesis spares a look to her face, carefully composed even as her words puzzle him. certainly, no one is as good looking as him, that’s for sure, but it’s not as if anyone couldn’t bear to look at her. there’s a barely repressed roll of his eyes.

“ if you don’t like ‘ how stories go ’, write your own. make interesting things happen yourself. ”

#* ╯in. ┊ ( my soul‚ corrupted by vengeance. )#inmydrcams #* ╯ask. ┊ ( the arrow has left the bow of the goddess. )#[ when he's an asshole but at least he responded DKJNSKAJDN ]#[ sorry stella ]

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lvlst · 2 years

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it’s the way that when gen laughs it kinda ? takes him by surprise ? like shock overcomes his face it always comes out in a bark / confused noise and then the rest of him catches up and he’s holding whatever it is back ? he’s not accustomed to anything but forced laughter and that’s usually ... pretty rare, too. it’s not part of the image, so he doesn’t acknowledge that he has this ability to laugh ? just smirks ...

#* ╯out. ┊ ( legend shall speak of sacrifices at world's end. )#* ╯s. ┊ ( in my own salvation / and your eternal slumber. )#[ writing my own canon here but i wouldn't say it if i couldn't see it ]

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@zoxto said: ‘ if you will only cease your talking, i will gladly go. ’

“ cease --- ” a sharp exhale through the nose, a flash of teeth. “ how’d that word find its way into your vocabulary. seems a bit advanced. ” advanced for, maybe, one in elementary school, but, rightfully, genesis had never heard reno speak in such a manner ! come on, it was a little funny, wasn’t it ? he’s only holding himself back from true laughter for the sake of decorum.

“ okay, i’ll shut up. ” mirth betrays him in his tone. “ shoo, shoo. ”

#* ╯in. ┊ ( my soul‚ corrupted by vengeance. )#zoxto #* ╯ask. ┊ ( the arrow has left the bow of the goddess. )#[ the lil laugh in his voice ... ]#[ square enix i'm begging for scraps put that in remake ... ]#[ take it from my brain n put it there ]

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lvlst · 2 years

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𝑺𝑬𝑵𝑻𝑬𝑵𝑪𝑬 𝑷𝑹𝑶𝑴𝑷𝑻𝑺.

↬ THE LANGUAGE OF THORNS, midnight tales and dangerous magic. ( 2017 ) by leigh bardugo.

sentences taken from or inspired by the collection’s dialogue & narration.

+ feel free to change pronouns !

i. AYAMA AND THE THORN WOOD.

‘ love speaks in flowers. truth requires thorns. ’

‘ we all know the story of how the queen becomes a queen. ’

‘ we should leave this place. ’

‘ no doubt it will come and devour us all. ’

‘ the beast will laugh you right out of the wild lands. ’

‘ you know how the stories go. interesting things happen only to pretty girls. ’

‘ is the wood much worse than a garden overgrown with pricklers ? ’

‘ stupid girl ! do you wish to become a monster ? ’

‘ strike me. cleave me in two. ’

‘ you’re as thorny as the wood. ’

‘ there is but one rule in my wood. speak truth. ’

‘ perhaps you might show mercy freely. ’

‘ just eat a bit of the sun to fill the sky, and you will feel empty no longer. ’

‘ what nonsense ! of course that’s not how the story ends. ’

‘ some people are born with a piece of night inside, and that hollow place can never be filled. ’

‘ what do i care for winter ? no season touches this wood. ’

‘ you know the only bargain i will make. ’

‘ sometimes the unseen is not to be feared and those that are meant to love us most are not always the ones that do. ’

‘ bad fates do not always follow those that deserve them. ’

‘ no prince is worth your life. ’

‘ are you so eager to be eaten ? ’

‘ they have told me to return with your heart. ’

‘ you think to love a monster ? ’

‘ a man like you is owed no words. ’

ii. THE TOO CLEVER FOX.

‘ you are doomed to a miserable life. ’

‘ better to be hungry now than to be sorry later. ’

‘ what will everyone say when they see such a face ? ’

‘ we have not gone so soft as that. ’

‘ you think that we will let you live on foolish promises ? ’

‘ you have bested me. that much is clear. ’

‘ will you not free me ? ’

‘ you will have a fine time of it, i can tell you. ’

‘ i can bear ugliness. i find the one thing i cannot live with is death. ’

‘ if you will only cease your talking, i will gladly go. ’

‘ where he went, he bled the woods dry. ’

‘ what’s a bit more blood ? ’

‘ you should leave this place. you are not safe here. ’

‘ with such big eyes, i think you see too much. ’

‘ will you not tell me what troubles you ? ’

‘ why do you stay with him ? you’re pretty enough to catch a husband. ’

‘ just because you escape one trap, doesn’t mean you will escape the next. ’

‘ first i must find my courage. ’

‘ few can resist the sight of a pretty girl crying. ’

‘ the trap is loneliness, and no one escapes it. not even me. ’

‘ in the wood, even songbirds must be survivors. ’

iii. THE WITCH OF DUVA.

‘ there was a time when the wood ate girls. ’

‘ be back before dark. the trees are hungry tonight. ’

‘ who can say what shapes an appetite ? ’

‘ this is my home, you can’t just send me away. ’

‘ don’t be foolish. there’s plenty of light. ’

‘ well then, come help me stir the pot. ’

‘ i will warn you just this once. go. ’

‘ you cannot come and go from this place like you’re fetching water from a well. ’

‘ hope made me stubborn. ’

‘ stay there and keep quiet. i don’t need rumors that i’ve been taking girls. ’

‘ i will not have you bring a monster to my door. ’

‘ you know that you are welcome to remain here with me. ’

‘ i will follow her. i will peck out her eyes. ’

‘ believe me. say you believe me. ’

‘ dark things have a way of slipping through narrow spaces. ’

iv. LITTLE KNIFE.

‘ it is dangerous to travel the northern road with a troubled heart. ’

‘ if you are lost in your own thoughts, you may find yourself stepping off the path and into the dark woods. ’

‘ she was beautiful from the moment of her birth. ’

‘ why must i be the one to hide ? ’

‘ do you think i am so foolish or so cruel ? ’

‘ water only wants direction. it wants to be told what to do. ’

‘ always you have done my bidding, but what good are you to me now ? ’

‘ soon i will be very rich, but will i have a good man ? ’

‘ that is a question for the river. ’

‘ your tongue is not fit for my true name. ’

‘ will you come with me, and be bride to nothing but the shore ? ’

‘ she was terrifying in her beauty, bright like a devouring star. ’

‘ remember that to use a thing is not to own it. ’

‘ should you ever take a bride, listen closely to her questions. ’

v. THE SOLDIER PRINCE.

‘ this is the problem with even lesser demons. they come to your door in velvet coats and polished shoes. ’

‘ you will find great love and more gold than you could wish for. ’

‘ he’s a charming fellow, but most unusual, and peculiarities seem to follow him. ’

’ it seemed harmless at the time. ’

‘ he needed a girl, still malleable, one that he could make admire him. ’

‘ this is pleasant. this is enough. ’

‘ are you my soldier ? are you my prince ? ’

‘ i have not come to fight, only to talk. ’

‘ wanting is why people get up in the morning. it gives them something to dream of at night. ’

‘ i am perfectly real. ’

‘ she loves you, though, and that will make it harder. ’

‘ best not to ask. i think the answer would please no one. ’

‘ we can stay forever in the land of dreams. ’

‘ kiss me. take me from this place. ’

‘ i sent you to die a hundred times. ’

‘ i eat the wonder in their eyes. ’

‘ you were an idea in my head. you were nothing, and to nothing you will return when i think of you no more. ’

‘ you wanted only that i might live. you would sacrifice your own life to make it so. ’

‘ are you my darling ? are you mine ? ’

vi. WHEN WATER SANG FIRE.

‘ you wish to strike a bargain. ’

‘ make me someone new. ’

‘ this is the problem with making a thing forbidden. it does nothing but build an ache in the heart. ’

‘ easy magic is pretty. great magic requires that you trouble the waters. ’

‘ no one expects me to accomplish anything. ’

‘ i can smell your ambition like blood in the water.’

‘ i know that you should keep it like a secret, not shout it like a curse. ’

‘ yes. i can imagine it all. ’

‘ you are worth more than that. you should not have to earn him. ’

‘ hope rises like water trapped beneath a dam, higher and higher, in increments that mean nothing until you face the flood. ’

‘ there is no pain like the pain of transformation. ’

‘ take your pleasures as you will. ’

‘ come, and i’ll tell you all you wish to know. ’

‘ he made me dream of things i cannot have. ’

‘ i do not care for dancing. ’

‘ look into the mirror, and try to deny it. ’

‘ you have never been like the others, and you never will be. ’

‘ we were not made to please princes. ’

‘ i am not quite mortal either, and i have many lives to live. ’

‘ i wouldn’t care if you were part human or part frog. ’

‘ my voice is not enough. ’

‘ you know i was never strong. ’

#* ╯out. ┊ ( legend shall speak of sacrifices at world's end. )#[ i meant this one. i reblogged the wrong one ]#[ here too ]

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lvlst · 2 years

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ew :/// just realized i’ve been writing gen for a week

#* ╯out. ┊ ( legend shall speak of sacrifices at world's end. )#[ disgusting ]

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lvlst · 2 years

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thinking about how genesis trains by fighting against the hardest setting in the training room ( the one that activated for some reason when zack was in it & ai sephiroth almost wrecked his shit ) and he’s figured out how to work around the ai but the real deal is something else ... also if anyone found him like that he’d literally die and explode at them and destroy the evidence. so he goes at night.

#* ╯out. ┊ ( legend shall speak of sacrifices at world's end. )#* ╯s. ┊ ( in my own salvation / and your eternal slumber. )

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“ to become the dew that quenches the land to spare the sands, the seas, the skies i offer thee this silent sacrifice. ”

#* ╯in. ┊ ( my soul‚ corrupted by vengeance. )#[ i'm just thinking about the irony of the final line he chose for loveless ]#[ he really didn't understand it until the last possible moment ]#[ thanks zack couldn't have done it w / o you <3 ]#[ if anyone wants to reply to this i don't mind ]#[ this is definitely set around vii or after ]

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ENEMIES TO LOVERS, LOVERS TO ENEMIES AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN

“ you really expect me to believe a word you’re saying. now? after everything you’ve done. ”

“ do you really think i’m humble enough to ask for your help if i wasn’t truly fucking desperate? ”

“ you’re either really desperate to be coming to me, or you think i’m a lot stupider than i am. ”

“ face it, i know you better than anyone else. ”

“ somehow, out of everyone. even my own damn friends, you know me more. ”

“ i’ve seen parts of you no one else will ever understand. i see who you are. what you are. and i think you should stop making yourself smaller to make the world comfortable. ”

“ we’re nothing alike. i’ll never be like you. ”

“ why are you asking me for help? ”

“ you’re the only person who isn’t going to treat me with kid gloves right now. ”

“ you’re the only person who i know will let me do what i need to do without trying to talk me out of it. ”

“ i don’t understand what happened to us…why didn’t you trust me? ”

“ i’ve been in your shadow long enough. this isn’t about you. it’s about me, for once. ”

“ i’m not a project for you to finish. i’m not here to be part of your little savior complex. so stop trying to save me. ”

“ why didn’t you kill me? when you had the chance? ”

“ if you were going to kill me, you would have done it already. so, what do you want from me? ”

“ i think this is the first we’ve had a full conversation that didn’t involve you insulting me. ”

“ you’ve never held back from telling me the truth before. that’s what i’m counting on now. ”

“ i don’t hate you. i pity you. ”

“ i don’t hate you. i admire you. i always have. ”

“ i’d rather you hate me than be apathetic. hate means you still care. ”

“ please— just let me help you. ”

“ i don’t think you’re a monster. not really. i just think that’s what you tell yourself to feel strong. ”

“ i know you don’t believe me, but i’m trying to help. and i could actually do what i need to if you’d stop questioning me. ”

“ i’ve always been able to tell when you’re lying. ”

“ well actually, i came here to fight. but it looks like you’ve had a shit enough day it kinda feels like i’d be kicking a puppy. ”

“ no— please don’t cry. i’m…not good with the crying. ”

“ if we’re about to talk about feelings i’m out. ”

“ we could have had a future, you know. i wanted to do this with you. but you ruined it. ”

“ why are you really here? ”

“ i remember giving you this scar. you were so goddamn stubborn. ”

“ i love you. but that doesn’t change anything. ”

“ i don’t think you’re evil. i think you’re just lost. and alone. and you don’t know anything else. ”

“ it’s too late for me. ”

“ it’s not to late. i don’t believe that. ”

“ i’m just here to make sure you don’t get yourself killed. ”

“ i’m just not ready to tell the others about us. they won’t understand. ”

“ you’re the only one who has ever really understood me. ”

PROMPTS:

♡ for one muse to kiss the other with a knife to their throat

☁ for a fight to turn into a kiss and/or sex

❧ for our muses to be forced to take shelter together

❦ for our muses to be forced to share a bed

♥ for one muse to unexpectedly save the other’s life

☂ for one muse to spare the other’s life

✘ for one muse to get hurt protecting the other

✔ for one muse to catch the other in a vulnerable moment and have sympathy

☼ for one muse to see the other hurt and get angry

ϟ for one muse to take revenge on someone for hurting the other

✐ for one muse to do something hard/morally grey so the other doesn’t have to

☾ for one muse to open up about their motivations to the other

✄ our muses having angry sex

¶ our muses having desperate, passionate sex

❀ for one muse to confess their feelings to the other

► for one muse to injure the other and immediately regret it

▼ for one muse to heal the other after being the one to injure them

◄ for one muse treat the others injury caused by a third party

💀 for one muse to hold the other while they die

#* ╯out. ┊ ( legend shall speak of sacrifices at world's end. )

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