hi all !! i promise i’m not ignoring anyone’s threads specifically, ily all i just got done the ones i did and wanted to be active, i’m planning on doing the rest of them the second i have time. 

elijah.

@ofsylvias

                            HE HAD BEEN ON HIS OWN SINCE THE DISAPPEARANCE , and that’s how he preferred it. it meant that he did not have the ability to let anyone down, as there was no one that he could. he had girlfriends before, ones whose hair decorated their head as halos, ones whom had attempted to rip out the ache that had laid dull in his chest, ones who had reached in only to find that he did not have a heart to break. still, he found comfort in the walls of humans. a sick twisted need to be nestled close to the warmth. It didn’t make him feel so cold. “ alright, murderer? ” his words drawl, skimming past plumped lips. he enjoyed her, swallowed her whole, - chewing the frayed remains that had become of her. the bones that the others had left behind. “ oops, - sorry, i forgot you’ve been acquitted. doesn’t mean you’re any less of an outsider, you wanna get matching tattoos? or, are you sick like the others? ”

HER INDEPENDENCE WAS DIFFERENT than his. Not selective and unkind, with attentive eyes and cutthroat anger — but lonely. Hers was more self centered, less vindictive and more judgemental. It was lonely at the top, she would remind herself. You’ll be lonely your whole life. And so: she made friends, she loved and cared for people, she tried her best to be liked. But most of it, aside from a those select few with love and care, was hollow. She had always been tired, she had always been sad: but she had been glowing externally. Now, she was dull. She was EMPTY. “ Yeah, you can get ASS, and I can get ... ” Probably not to finish that sentence. Eyes flick over to him, and she almost offers a flask, solidarity in solitude. But then she remembers he’s being a dick, and takes another long swig herself. “ I’m not sick, no. Come here to cough on me, or just be a laugh riot ? ”

dani.

“Wow, they really got to you.” she looks over her, clearly she’d been too drunk to walk straight. But drunk people had no filter. They spoke the truth. Dark and deep truth that they otherwise would filter out and protect from the world. Pack mentality. It was real. But so was the human desire to ‘fit in’. To be seen in the best light. As much as people hated to admit it, part of them had always been influenced by how they were perceived. It mattered. “Is that why you’re drunk right now? Because the world is fucked up? Because what it takes for them to care is for you to die?” she approaches, her hand asking for the flask where the words wouldn’t. “I never thought you killed anyone. In fact, anyone ask me, I’d say the sun shines out of your ass. Even now — that you can barely stand,”

SHE LAUGHS. Not meanly, not towards Dani, but perhaps towards herself. The sun didn’t shine anywhere near Sylvia anymore, least of all ... “ I’m drunk because it’s better than being sober, ” She says, and though it sounds like she’s joking ... the answer is surprisingly candid. She feels better like this — she feels better DETACHED. “ And let me tell you, if you told me fucking .... three weeks ago ? That you thought ... ” She smiles, but it’s absent. “ ... the sun shone out of my ass ?  I would have taken the compliment. But now. ” Another swig of the flask the carries with her and eyes cloud. “ But now. ” She repeats. 

minnie.

          &. OPEN / anyone

    ╰ ☆ *ﾟ ╯ FEET  DIPPED  IN  THE  WATER  ,  HER  EYES  ARE  widened  and  unblinking.  a  blanket  of  stars  covers  the  lake  and  her  figure  ,  darkness  wrapping  around  her  thin  frame  like  she  belongs  with  the  shadows.  if  she  stays  ,  if  she  doesn’t  move  and  ceases  her  shallow  breaths  ,  perhaps  she’ll  wither  away.  guilt  dances  along  her  skin  ,  the  SILENCE  of  the  lake  resonating  ironically  LOUDLY  in  her  ears.  red  is  stained  on  paled  cheeks  ,  coughs  wracking  up  her  chest  and  a  sheen  layer  of  sweat  giving  her  a  moonlit  glow.  it’s  HER  FAULT  ,  as  usual.  she’s  an  instigator  ,  the  one  who  pushes  buttons  and  creates  chaos.  if  not  for  her  ,  they’d  still  be  peacefully  accusing  three  people  of  hurting  ben.  now  ,  they’re  in  actual  chaos  and  she  feels  like  patient  zero.  the  dock  creaks  behind  her  and  she  keeps  her  head  turned  toward  the  lake  ,  weighing  the  option  of  jumping  into  the  lake  to  save  everyone  the  trouble.  ‘  i  wouldn’t  get  too  close  ,  if  i  were  you.  ’  her  voice  is  scratchy  ,  rough  unlike  her  natural  smooth  tone.  she’s  supposed  to  be  at  the  hospital  ,  but  she’d  rather  drown  in  the  lake  than  get  put  into  quarantine  –  especially  now.  what  better  place  to  pass  than  underwater  ?

SHE FEELS LIKE MAKING A MESS. Sylvia has never been a destructive person — not even to herself, up until recently. But now, something angry sat in her center, like it was waiting for an opportunity to fuck something up. Like if she passed on the suffering, the weight would be less on her shoulders. She didn’t want to hurt other people, not really; she just wanted to hurt less. “ I don’t even know what the fuck is going on, ” Eyes were bloodshot, and tired, and her feet dragged on the ground. She’d left the wake early, walking down the streets of dead end suburbia until she fell asleep on – of all places, a bench. Not really where Sylvia ever thought she would be. 

dylan.

   the darkness is shadowed in a voice tainted in vodka  ,  it’s practically suffocating  .  his gaze is automatically filed to her stumbling step  ,  and the fine edge of the staircase dipping below her  .  his heart beats a little faster  ,  he stench of insults doing nothing for his very apparent focus  . “yeah  ,  i know —-   fuck me  .” it’s saturated in sarcasm  ,  but the curse word felt slightly foreign between them for him  —-   he rarely curses  ,  but fuck seemed to be the favorite word  ,  if he had to choose one  .  maybe they had that in common too  . he stepped forward  ,  more like a leap  ,  gasping the hook of her wrist just before she took another stumble  .  he hates physical anything  ,  so the mere jump of faith  ,  trying to keep her from slipping  ,  stewed in his chest with morality  .  he’d jump out of his own skin  ,  just to keep someone that hated him  ,  from hurting themselves  .  “there’s no such thing as god  —   and the only person punishing you  ,  is yourself  .  now move  –” a soft bellow of a sigh  ,  trying to switch their positions  ,  trying to lead her away from the current spot  .  “come here-” a pause ,  brows raise in warning  .  “sylvia–” another pause  ,  not sure what to say  ,  or how to act  ,  other than he couldn’t let her fall  .  “you’re going to hurt yourself  .” 

SYLVIA JUMPS BACK — thankfully back smacking against the pole of the railing and not a single step to the left, giving her a leap down the staircase. His words twist her face, contorting drunken complacency to something angrier, more distraught — but eyes don’t change. There’s no fire in them. She looks sad, and lost, and ... almost scared.  “ Fuck you, ” She repeats, like it’s word of the week and she has to pick a quota. Arm jerks away from his in a delayed reaction, and she mumbles through another rant, gripping tightly onto the railing. “ So I’m God then. My own. And I could just — ... ” Bottle clanks to the ground absently, leftover liquor spilling onto the carpet. “ Maybe I want to punish myself. Huh ? Didn’t — didn’t think of that ? ” She doesn’t notice that her eyes are pooling with tears. God, she thinks she’s gonna be sick. “ Maybe I just want more to drink.  Or ... or  maybe — maybe I want to get hurt. Maybe I want to die. ” Words are raw and painful and she doesn’t know she’s saying them until a sob chokes out of her throat, messy and angry and childlike. 

layton.

“So is getting wasted part of the dress code or you just being extra as usual?” he smirks, looking her over as if he of all people had any right to judge. “Not to be a dick but this whole look is really — unbecoming.” a dick thing to say for someone who didn’t mean to sound like one. But he was high. Seeing Saint and Ari dance around each other with palpable tensions sent him outside to look for Kenzie, when he failed to find her he’d entertained a joint and then a beer and then another joint. Filter was no longer in his possession, and neither was giving a shit. “Well, unbecoming on you — I can pull it off. Share the flask, I’ll help you remember how to walk.” @ofsylvias 

USUALLY, SHE LIKED LAYTON. Usually, she could handle the half-cutting comments, the wit bounced back and forth in debate both friendly and academic. She liked it, she thrived on it. Usually. But what exactly about any of what was happening was usual ?  “ Eat shit, Castillo. ” She mumbled through another swig. She was lonely out here, and maybe if she was half as drunk or half as depressed, she would have been thankful. But she’s all the way, so it’s different.  “ Like — like you’re ... ” Speak, Sylvia. Fight through the fog. “ Like you’re so much better. You’re high. You reek. ” 

esme.

&&. sylvia.

her footsteps were light as ever as she padded up the stairs , quiet and to herself in a house that she no longer lived in . sleeves pulled over her palms , hands that were once sucked into latex as she and layton cut and prodded … ben lying still on a metal table before them . she still felt sick , and twenty - four hours had passed . without sylvia . so she quietly made her way over to check and see if anything was better , if maybe she’d walk into a room that was painfully organized and find the blonde , bright eyed as ever , ready to go . but maybe that was just too hopeful for this world . “ sylv ? ” her voice rang out in the most tender way , knuckles tapping lightly on the door . she didn’t want to do this alone , and sylvia had always been someone steady to lean on , one of the toughest girls she knew , “ i’m about to head out to this — … ” she couldn’t say it . wake . “ thing . are you — … ” she pushed the door open , face falling as she leaned against the door frame , “ please tell me you’re going — … ” i don’t want to do this without you . — @ofsylvias

SHE WAS DRUNK. This was, of course, the usual course of action for the time spent since the twenty-first of August. Since the world ended — bottles clinked and people laughed, though fear struck their hearts — she was good then. The world was changing, and she was scared: but it was merely temporary. And then ... Benjamin Walley. Even before accusations and mud-slinging, news of his death had caused her to heave over porceailin toilet seats, tears blurring her eyes for someone she barely new. That was — perhaps, the moment it became real. It was not a fantasy, or a vacation from the stressors of life. It was HELL, and they’d created a new ring. Then of course, she’d fallen. Not in the same was as Ben ... but truthfully, it might as well have been. Sylvia Preston was dead. At least, the real Sylvia. The one with a bright smile and shiny hair and a 4.0 GPA. Now what was left was a husk. So when the door opens, and eyes reddened from tears crack open from her spot on the bed, she groans. Her head is pounding, and the vodka bottle on the floor next to her bed is a good indicator of why. She’s dressed for the wake already, a non-verbal answer to Esme’s question ... but dress is wrinkled, and she reeks of alcohol. Already. “ Mhm. I’m just — ” She sits up, eyes still half cracked. “ What time is it ? ”

frankie.

for her this wake meant something different than just ben’s passing, sure she was going to pay her respects but she didn’t know the boy before this all happened, this meant there was someone among them that was capable of causing such a thing to a person, perhaps there were more but for now they only knew of one. frankie looks to the blonde beside her, she let her lips settle in a gentle smile a slow nod to respond to the first question that was cut short once she heard the rest “ i’m fine. ” she pulled her hair away from her face and turned her body to the other “ you don’t seem so hot yourself, are you okay ? ”

SHE DIDN’T WANT TO BE HERE. She didn’t want to be anywhere, but here especially, at the wake of Benjamin Walley. She wanted to be in her bed — passed out or close to it, not wallowing in her own guilt and horror and shame. The shame was the worst part: of watching as the fabric of her life, so carefully and artfully stitched together, was torn to shreds. She was so ashamed to exist — so ashamed to be Sylvia Preston. For once fractured, for once, imperfect. And forever more: BROKEN. “ Doesn’t matter, does it ? ”   She says, which is a perfect way of showing she isn’t. Eyes are glassy, and they don’t quite focus correctly.   “ I wouldn’t tell you if I wasn’t anyway. ”

𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐓 𝐐𝐔𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐒 ( 4/? ) – minnie hates sylvia. 

feat. @waldbins & @ofsylvias

Sometimes he looked at her and thought, Gosh, I wonder what’s underneath all that anger, all that hard glossy armor ? Maybe there’s just an innocent, wounded little girl in there who wants to come out and play and be loved and get happy. But now he wondered if maybe that little girl was long gone, or if she’d ever been there at all. What was under all that armor, all that anger ? More anger, and more armor. Anger and armor, all the way down ...

1x01//1x10

dylan.

   he’s home earlier than expected  ,  not able to be around that many people for too long  —–    it made his bones crack  ,  and his mind fuzzy  .  so he’s here  ,  and he’s heard her stumble through the house for the past thirty minutes  ,  the puking in the bathroom until there was nothing left  ,  and he doesn’t know what to do — truly  .  he’s never been one for helping people through anguish  ,  he could barely help himself  .  but he’s better now  ,  even if it’s just a slight change in the way he talks  ,  the way he walked or stood  ,  it’s subtle but noticeable nonetheless  .  “hey-” it’s quiet  ,  and he’s stopped in the hallway  ,  and he still looks semi decent  .  his hair isn’t a mess  ,  he’s still wearing the black slacks  ,  and a white button up that was without a stain in sight  .  it’s the least he could do —–  not showing up like a total fucking jackass  .  he could at least  ,  in the very least  ,   look the part of someone who was grieving  . his shoes though  ,  imported and italian leather  ,  were stuck back downstairs  ,  and replaced with black socks  . he’ll inch closer  ,  and god  ,  he couldn’t tell if she was swaying  ,  or if he was avoiding getting hit with a bottle  .  lips pursed  ,  and he pushes curls back  ,  and out of his face  .  “are you jewish?” what a stupid question  ,  but to be fair he didn’t know what to say  .  he’ll gently tug the bottle from her grasp  ,  it’s nearly empty  —-   jesus christ  .  “i think we should probably …   get you to bed  .” 

𝐒𝐇𝐄  𝐂𝐄𝐑𝐓𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐋𝐘  𝐈𝐒  𝐒𝐖𝐀𝐘𝐈𝐍𝐆, and it only increases when she jerks away from him, bringing the bottle with her. Her head is pounding, everything is blurry — she feels like she’s going to hurl any second. But in all honesty: it feels so much better than being sober. Physical pain, being out of control ... for someone that’s spent so much of her life trying to be in it, release is as ironic as it is theraputic.   ❛  Fuck you,  ❜  She mumbles, and it sounds like a REVELATION. Oh yeah, I don’t like him.  ❛  Why are you — why are you asking me about my fucking RELIGION, Dylan? I think god is a fucking pussy. If he wasn’t, he’d be smi— smit ...  ❜ She stumbles backwards, teetering dangerously close to the top of the staircase leading back downstairs.  ❛  .... Smite me right now. So yeah.  ❜   If it’s to Dylan or god, not even Sylvia is certain.  ❛  Fuck you. I’m not even TIRED.  ❜       

daniela.

@ofsylvias — closed **

Daniela hated funerals, or wakes, or pretty much any gathering involving dead people. They were sad and held more actors than your average Oscars Awards. So she smoked, outside, in the cold, by herself, trying her hardest not to laugh at crying peoples faces. “A week ago nobody knew this guy existed and now suddenly everyone’s his best fucking friend? Good to know even with the world gone people still give a shit about maintaining their ridiculous facades.” another hit from the joint as she eyed the girl next to her. Not that they ever spoke, Dani had had a mild crush on her but nothing so intense as to make her insane enough to actually approach her. “Well at least someone seems to be having fun. Nice dress, really goes well with the flask there…”

𝐒𝐇𝐄'𝐒  𝐁𝐀𝐑𝐄𝐋𝐘  𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐍𝐄𝐃  𝐓𝐎  𝐓𝐀𝐊𝐄  𝐀𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑 look at the girl before the flask is brought to her lips again — she’d switched back and forth all night, little metal container and actual, physical bottle ... depending entirely on how much she wanted to humiliate herself.   ❛  No one cared about who the FUCK knew him when I — when I ...  ❜  Words trail off, as if she can’t quite tell what she wants to say in drunken haze.   ❛  No one ever gives a fuck. It’s — it’s this stupid fucking pack mentality. No one thought Jamie was this ... this — irredemably evil piece of shit before he said he killed Ben. On accident. No one thought I was a killer until they accused me. Like the fucking Witch Trials or something — and, and no one thought Benjamin Walley was ANYTHING until he was a corpse.  ❜   Words are cruel, and the corner of her mouth is curled into a snarl, but FUCK IT. She doesn’t even know what she’s saying. Another sip. 

𝐒𝐇𝐄'𝐃 𝐀𝐋𝐖𝐀𝐘𝐒 𝐁𝐄𝐄𝐍 𝐆𝐎𝐎𝐃 𝐀𝐓 𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐓𝐎𝐍𝐆𝐔𝐄. But that was then — and now was different. Now, she didn’t care — or she wasn’t careful. She wasn’t wholly lucid, she didn’t really comprehend the damage that she could leave — she’d been to careful in whatever past their was to be aware of her effect. Cruel words, unkind thoughts ... they were tiny, to her, especially with lips around a bottle and eyes ringed with lack of sleep. Though she might look a wreck — the girl next to her looks sadder, more despondent. And so: she offers her first ... semi kind words of the night.    ❛  You feeling okay  ? ❜  A beat.  ❛  You look fucking miserable.  ❜  ( @frvnkics  )

𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑  𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒  𝐖𝐀𝐒,  𝐈𝐓  𝐖𝐀𝐒  𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐓. Whatever this wake was, whatever this new world they found themselves in — it was wholly, definitively, and entirely bullshit. GOD, how she hated it. Hated life, hated everyone, hated herself. It wasn’t boiling, angry, lava-like distaste burning underneath. It was cold, and it was lonely — she wanted no one near her. She wanted to be nothing and nowhere. Bullshit. And that’s why she’s outside the wake now, sitting on a curb, black fabric only skimming skinned knees. She’d run home, breathless — luckily only a block from her house — not wanting to make a scene in front of everyone else, and fallen twice. She’d thrown up on the front lawn, then again in the toilet once she’d reached the bathroom. But now — she was back, bottle of vodka held tightly in her hand, lifted back to her lips once more. Perhaps it’s a moment of kindness as she sees figure walking past, perhaps she’s too far gone to remember she’s supposed to hate him. ❛  Hey  ! DYLAN  ! Fucking ... mazel tov, right  !  ❜  Bottle is lifted into the air, beckoning him.  ( @ofcarmichaels​ )

minnie.

         &. SYLVIA / @ofsylvias

    ╰ ☆ *ﾟ ╯ HEAD  HELD  HIGH  ,  MINNIE’S  BEEN  LEFT  alone  for  the  time  so  far.  people  apparently  don’t  react  well  to  her  knives  for  eyes  and  acidic  words.  their  condolences  so  far  have  only  been  met  with  various  versions  of  ‘  fuck  off’s  ’  and  signature  glares.  she  wishes  things  would  go  back  to  how  they  were  ,  where  people  didn’t  speak  to  her  unless  spoken  to  and  where  they  didn’t  all  treat  her  like  she’d  break  at  any  second.  didn’t  they  know  who  she  was  ?  a  familiar  blonde  head  brings  a  curl  to  her  lips  and  she  swallows  down  a  swollen  lump  in  her  throat  ,  striding  through  the  crowds  toward  the  one  person  who  might  break  her  back  into  her  old  habits.  ‘  MORBID  ,  huh  ?  ’  she  asks  nonchalantly.  ‘  this  wake  probably  isn’t  doing  MUCH  for  people’s  morale  –  but  i  guess  you’re  pretty  GLAD  that  your  name  is  finally  cleared.  ’

𝐒𝐇𝐄  𝐖𝐈𝐒𝐇𝐄𝐃  𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓  𝐈𝐓  𝐖𝐀𝐒  𝐇𝐄𝐑  𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐀𝐃. Perhaps it was wrong of her — to crave release in that way, to think of someone lying cold and lifeless in the woods, and wish that they could trade places. Not out of empathy — but out of empty. Out of seeing how life drained from Ben had a profound effect on the town, and she can’t help but think: she wouldn’t have. At least not now, with silence and anger and abrasiveness replacing bright smiles and handed out pamphlets, and everything Sylvia had always wanted to be. WHO WOULD REMEMBER HER ?  Who would ponder her loss, who would cry ?  Numbers were limited, she was sure, and part of her almost thinks it’s what she thinks she deserves, to be there instead of Ben, more than what she wants: if she was so easily broken, how could she defend being whole in the first place ?  She wished it was her instead. And so when Minnie speaks to her, she can’t help it: she can’t help but raise her voice an octave, inappropriate for such a setting — but she doesn’t notice, not with vodka on an empty stomach and a heart cracked beyond repair.  ❛  Yeah — yeah, Minnie, of course that’s what I’m thinking about. Me. Me, I’m gonna sit here, and make someone dying all about how I feel. Because we’re all so cool and emotionless like you, Minnie. I’m — I’m — I’m not even doing anything to you.  ❜  Words are chopped up into stammers, and slurred, and she can’t even think before she speaks.  ❛  It’s a fucking wake, don’t be a cunt to try and get over it. I don’t — I don’t even get why people like you. Or, or — or why you’re on the fucking council. You’re a bitch.  ❜  Maybe a little much for minimal words Minnie has said to her, but she doesn’t notice or care. 

newt.

@ofsylvias

newt had already drowned a drink of his own, another one poured and in his hand already.  he didn’t handle death very gracefully – wakes even less so.  the boy rarely even drank so to see a cup in his hand should come to a surprise to anyone.  however so, sylvia might not be as much of a surprise as himself, but anyone drinking at a wake was really a true surprise.  “so, why are you drinking?” he questioned the other, trying his best to be polite.  

𝐄𝐘𝐄𝐒  𝐀𝐑𝐄  𝐆𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐘  𝐀𝐍𝐃  𝐀𝐁𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐓, and it’s unclear if that’s just how she is now, or if that’s the alcohol talking. She’d shown up drunk, she’d been sitting by the limited supply offered to them. More refreshment than tool, though no one could tell her that. Vodka and whiskey, and — her head is so foggy, and if there wasn’t the clarity of sadness, her entire mind would be a blur. She can’t help but scoff as the question is asked, gentle tone clearly intended as politeness.   ❛ Why the FUCK do you think I’m drinking  ?  ❜  It’s mean and it’s angry and he doesn’t deserve it — but then again, why does she have to suffer if she can’t expel it ?   ❛  Because I’m gonna try and host a toga party  ? Because I’m looking forward to a sick game of beer pong, standing on a table and taking my top off  ?  ❜  She didn’t like who she was anymore. How she could feel cruelty slipping off her tongue, how she could feel the gears turning in her mind, trying to harm instead of help. HAD SHE EVER BEEN AS GOOD AS SHE’D WANTED TO BE  ?