a comprehensive list of scenarios

feel free to combine multiple prompts or add  “ + reverse ”  to switch roles !   for reference, the one sending in the prompt is the one committing the action.

1.  GUEST :  for one muse to offer the other a place to stay. 2.  STORM :  for both muses to find shelter from a severe storm. 3.  MEDIC :  for one muse to show up at the other’s doorstep injured. 4.  SURPRISE :  for one muse to come home and find the other already inside. 5.  TRIP :  for both muses to road trip or travel together. 6.  BABYSIT :  for one muse to help the other home while they’re drunk. 7.  INSOMNIA :  for one muse to find the other still awake at 3am. 8.  AMBUSH :  for both characters to come under attack by the same enemy. 9.  DANCE :  for one muse to ask the other to dance at a party. 10.  STRANDED :  for one muse to help the other who’s stranded on the road. 11.  SERVICE :  for one muse to cover the cost of something for the other. 12.  SAFEGUARD :  for one muse to save the other from being hit by a vehicle or from some other life-threatening event. 13.  DAZE :  for one muse to wake somewhere and find the other hovering over them. 14.  STOWAWAY :  for one muse to find the other hiding on the same ship. 15.  TAXI :  for both muses to share the same taxi ride. 16.  MAKEOVER :  for one muse to help the other with a new outfit or hairstyle. 17.  LIFEGUARD :  for one muse to rescue the other from drowning. 18.  DISASTER :  for both muses to work together to escape a fire, flood, or other disaster. 19.  TRANSIT :  for one muse to sit next to the other on a public transport. 20.  SPRAIN :  for one muse to carry the other after spraining their ankle. 21.  EMPLOY :  for one muse to be hired as the other’s bodyguard, tutor, assistant, etc. 22.  QUEST :  for one muse to help the other with a task in exchange for compensation. 23.  SOOTHE :  for one muse to calm the other during a panic attack. 24.  RECOVER :  for one muse to return the other’s lost belonging. 25.  UMBRELLA :  for one muse to share their umbrella with the other on a rainy day. 26.  HEAL :  for one muse to nurse the other back to health from a sickness or injury. 27.  NIGHTMARE :  for one muse to comfort the other after a nightmare. 28.  REUNION :  for one muse to run into the other again after a long time. 29.  PRIZE :  for one muse to win the other a prize at a carnival. 30.  NUDE :  for one muse to walk in on the other while they’re changing. 31.  BED :  for both muses to wake in the same bed, naked or fully clothed. 32.  TRAIL :  for one muse to notice the other has been following them. 33.  EVADE :  for one muse to pull the other into an alleyway to escape their pursuer. 34.  THIEF :  for one muse to confront the other after having something stolen by them. 35.  CAUGHT :  for one muse to walk in on the other singing / dancing. 36.  FESTIVE :  for both muses to decorate for a special occasion. 37.  PRESENT :  for one muse to give the other a  (birthday)  gift. 38.  WEARY :  for one muse to wake up after falling asleep on the other. 39.  CAPTIVE :  for one muse to hold the other against their will. 40.  SNAP :  for one muse to yell at or push the other out of frustration. 41.  SLEEPOVER :  for one muse to stay the night at the other’s place. 42.  TRESPASS :  for one muse to trespass on the other’s property. 43.  BREAK-IN :  for one muse to discover the other robbing their place. 44.  MERCY :  for both muses to come across an injured animal. 45.  UNKNOWN :  for both muses to wake and find themselves in a strange place. 46.  ACCOMPLICE :  for one muse to assist the other at the scene of a crime. 47.  ASTRAY :  for both muses to take a detour and lose their way. 48.  RELAX :  for both muses to share a hot tub or hot spring. 49.  MUSE :  for one muse to model for the other’s art project. 50.  ACCOMPANY :  for one muse to give the other an extra ticket to an event. 51.  SALVAGE :  for one muse to retrieve the other’s belongings from a thief. 52.  MEAL :  for both muses to prepare and share a meal together. 53.  CEMETERY :  for one muse to find the other at a gravestone. 54.  REFUGE :  for one muse to shelter the other from enemies. 55.  ARRANGED :  for both muses to date or marry out of convenience. 56.  FAVOR :  for one muse to owe the other a favor. 57.  VACATION :  for both muses to book the same hotel on vacation. 58.  DEFEND :  for one muse to save the other from one or multiple assailants. 59.  CATCH :  for one muse to return the other’s pet that escaped. 60.  RESTRICTED :  for both muses to sneak into someplace they’re not supposed to be.

made myself mythical, tried to be real.

indie bg3 companion, imagined by xan.

i suppose i love this life, in spite of my clenched fist.

Time Is A Mother, Ocean Vuong // The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky // The Cow, Ariana Reines // Ask Polly, Heather Havrilesky // October, Mary Oliver // Dead Stars, Ada Limón // Night Walk, Franz Wright// Xenotransplantation, Sam Sax // Angels In America, Tony Kushner // Take Me With You, Andrea Gibson

for @shestrying

hello everyone <3 i've been feeling a little burnt out on percy so i took a mini break, focusing on my bg3 companion oc ( @sporefound ) but i am planning on typing a few of my drafts up in the next few days <3 thank you for your patience w/ all my drafts & everything simmering in my inbox

" & on a bad day, looking for a new life, he gets on a horse and rides away, far from the familiar. He puts on a smile, dons a new name. Breathes in his new life...breathes out the old. But still a poison lingers in his chest. Still the air tastes of ozone. "

teeny tiny psa: the last few weeks I've been picking up more shifts at work because a) the hours are available & b) I've got an exciting trip coming up & it won't hurt to have extra money for it. my semi-absence hasn't been because I Want to, I just have to be real about what I'm capable of with the energy I have. This being said, I am occupied with family stuff & must eventually sleep today though depending on how the sleep lines up I'm gonna try to work on some drafts I've been scribbling about in my notebook.

HADESTOWN. ( 2 / ? ) roleplay starters of anaïs mitchell's hadestown. feel free to edit according to scenario / pronouns.

LIVIN' IT UP ON TOP.

on the road to hell, there was a lot of waiting.

she's never early, always late.

these days she never stays for long.

good things come to those who wait.

i'm an outdoor girl.

are you wondering where i've been?

brother, when you're down, you're down.

when you're up, you're up.

let's not talk about hard times.

pour the wine, it's summertime!

right now we're livin' it.

who makes the summer sun shine bright?

who's doing the best she can?

let me tell you something that my mama said to me.

you take what you can get, and you make the most of it.

who says times are hard?

brother, pass that bottle around.

to the patroness of all of this, [ name ]!

ALL I'VE EVER KNOWN.

i was alone so long, i didn't even know that i was lonely.

out in the cold so long, i didn’t even know that i was cold.

this is how it's always been.

all i've ever known is how to hold my own.

now i wanna hold you, too.

for a moment i forget just how dark and cold it gets.

i don't wanna ever have to let you go.

i don't wanna go back to the lonely life.

i knew you before we met and i don’t even know you yet.

all i know is you’re someone i have always known.

say that you’ll hold me forever.

say that we'll stay with each other and it will always be like this.

WAY DOWN HADESTOWN.

that was not six months!

better go and get your suitcase packed.

guess it's time to go.

did you ever wonder what it's like on the underside?

but those who go they don’t come back.

down there, it's a bunch of stiffs.

brother, i'll be bored to death.

gonna have to import some stuff just to entertain myself.

takes a lot of medicine to make it through the wintertime.

where do you think they come from?

an eye for an eye!

you're early.

i missed you.

A GATHERING STORM.

he came too soon.

he came for her too soon.

it's not supposed to be like this.

this is how it is.

hey, where are you going?

touched by the gods is what he was.

i have to finish the song.

finish it quick!

the wind is changing.

there's a storm coming on.

we need food.

we need firewood.

did you hear me? [ name ]?

EPIC II.

his loneliness moves in him, crude and black.

he thinks of his wife in the arms of the sun and jealousy fuels him and feeds him.

with a million hands, he builds a wall.

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thinking about percy going from not showing much affection because of how he was raised to falling into casual affection w the people he loves

his jaw is set with an indignant glint in his eyes. being back in the city had done plenty to set him on edge. he felt like a ghost, sifting through a life already lived. looking for the threats he'd never seen in that life. there were, however, other threats he had always been aware of. it was strange to pull from those memories now, when he had reforged & reshaped himself once & then a second time for good measure ( in part, due to her. shared survival was a thing to be celebrated. ) the corner of his lip twitches when he realizes secret knows she doesn't have to do this alone.

" you never know what you'll find down there, " it could be a warning if he didn't sound so delighted. he'd spent his childhood exploring every part of the city he was told to stay away from. curiosity was definitive of his nature. it had gotten him in trouble on occasion but… trouble was their business now. after all they had survived, after all they had done… he doubted there was anything under the city they couldn't take on.

" i know, " he pauses for dramatic effect, " we won't find anything unmanageable if we work together. it can't be worse than anything else we've had to kill to get here. "

🥀 i'm obviously coming with you . @xbadnews fillory & further.

"percival." as soon as the admonishing address was out of her mouth, secret remembered just who she was dealing with, and that there was little-to-no point arguing him with. there was a secondary feeling, too, that she'd actually rather quite like company, and percy's, no less. besides, he had some memory of the city that secret was sorely missing.

"i just need to get," she rolled her eyes upwards, not the first time she's alluded to emperor in such a manner (not that it mattered, he was always in her mind), "- off my back about seeing his old hideout. i think the best entrance is through the sewers by basilisk gate..." secret trailed off. her knowledge of the sewers was worse than her current recollection of the city, which was ironic in a way she wasn't entirely cognisant of. "i think." she cleared her throat, trying to hide the self-doubt. "shouldn't be too bad, just the two of us to find out what kind of jars the guy kept his brains in, y'know?" a small smile told percy that she was biting her tongue against the phrase what's the worst that could happen?

cont. || @triickst

where vax tries to avoid percy's gaze, percy wants to look at him. to see the raw & beautiful thing they had created together, terrifying as it was. but the terror was half the fun, percy mused. adrenaline & hard to manage hearts were a reminder that they were still horribly, wonderfully, incredibly alive & it was a high that percy wanted to get lost in.

he's sure life would be easier if he could put his mind to rest, for even a moment. the spaces in between his too-quick thoughts were often filled with thoughts of vax. the way the morning light caught his eye, the way his body fit so nicely against percy's, the feeling of his lips pressed against percy's too-sensitive neck. ( percy is unable to stop the sincere groan that crawls from his lips, needy. )

" easy? " his voice catches on the word, breathless & cracked. he can't help but let his hands wander - he needs to touch. he needs to feel vax under his hands, he needs to hold onto some part of him. one of them finds a firm place on vax's back, drawing him closer. the other one goes for a desperate handful of ass, though it's hardly enough to satisfy him. he was sure he would be chasing vax for the rest of his life.

" this is agony, " he confesses, reveling in vax's pull on him. good thing he likes to suffer.

this is what it's like to play b.g3 w me

the air was still thick with the scent of magic & gunpowder & gore, still buzzing with the energy of a hard-won battle. he had spotted vax struggling to keep his balance, blood smeared across his face. there was no time for thinking. there had been no room for guilt. percy had closed the distance between them, sliding his arm around vax to offer support. he could be mad at percy later but for now, all he had to do was make it. ( some part of percy knows he could have kept himself up but the same part knows he shouldn't have to. )

❛ the moment i knew i'd no choice but to love you. ❜ ( @triickst from vax ) it's bittersweet to hear it spill from vax's lips. percy knows it's the truth, the truth he craved.

despite the anger, the frustration, the distance between them… vax still cared for him. not only that, be he loved percy. percy wants to be happy, but he knows better than to take comfort in the searing confession. guilt returns to him instead, reminding him. he had hurt vax, he had gotten vex killed & it had reminded everyone ( himself included ) that trusting him was dangerous. whether he was navigating traps or intricacies of the heart, someone would end up hurt. the high of survival didn't change any of that.

" don't say something you'll regret later, " the air in percy's lungs catches, containing a swell of hope that threatens him. he tries to keep himself in check, pushing to swallow the innate draw he feels towards vax. but he just can't help himself, " i might want to believe you. "

❛ my life was a storm since i was born. how could i fear any hurricane? ❜ || @astrummorte

percy's gaze softens, though his expression remains taut. a bit serious, rooted in thought. it was true; aryin's life had been more than a storm, something larger, something greater. the hardships that they had faced were borderline impossible to overcome. yet, they had a talent for redefining storms & redefining the impossible.

in many ways, they were the hurricane they alluded to. they caught glimpses of reality through sheets of rain, the wind relentlessly blowing in their face. but no amount of bad weather could stop their pace, despite how difficult it was to see.

" you're one of the bravest people i've ever met, " percy says honestly, carefully. it's a compliment at it's core, but it's also cautionary statement. he understands what it is to walk the line between the concept of self & the experience of it. dipping in & out of whatever reality they existed in that day, not quite processing that it would be the same one they did tomorrow. caught in waves of self without ever truly being pulled out to sea, " i'm not saying that you're afraid of the storm. i'm saying that you shouldn't navigate it on your own. "

hozier lyrics, unreal unearth edition

❛  your reflection can't offer a word to the bliss of not knowing yourself. ❜

❛  no closer could i be to god or why he would do what he's done. ❜

❛  what you live in, it finds a way to live in you. ❜

❛  your heart has such darkness. ❜

❛  i wanna be gone. i wanna run so far, i'd beat the morning. ❜

❛  before the dawn has come, i'd block the sun if you want it done. ❜

❛  let all time slow. let all light go. ❜

❛  i don't need to know where we begin and end. ❜

❛  i'd still know you, not being shown you. ❜

❛  the first time that you kissed me, i drank dry the river lethe. the liffey would have been softer on my stomach all the same. ❜

❛  some part of me must have died the first time that you called me baby. ❜

❛  some part of me came alive the first time that you called me baby. ❜

❛  these days, i think, i owe my life to flowers that were left here by my mother. ain't that like them? gifting life to you again. ❜

❛  oh, to share the space with simple living things infinitely suffering but fighting off, like all creation, the absence of itself ... but anyway. ❜

❛  some part of me stayed alive each time that you called. ❜

❛  whatever keeps you around, it keeps you around. ❜

❛  when i was young i used to guess, are there limits to any emptiness? ❜

❛  how could you think i'd scare so easily? ❜

❛  my life was a storm since i was born. how could i fear any hurricane? ❜

❛  i would do it again if i could hold you for a minute. ❜

❛  what good would it be on the far side of things? ❜

❛  i would not change it each time. ❜

❛  heaven is not fit to house a love like you and i. ❜

❛  i feel lighter than i have in so much time. ❜

❛  how could i fall when i am lifted by every word you say to me? ❜

❛  if anything could fall at all, it's the world that falls away from me. ❜

❛  if you need to, lean your weight to me. ❜

❛  if we fall, i only pray, don't fall away from me. ❜

❛  i'm starving, darling. let me put my lips to something. ❜

❛  you can't buy this fineness. ❜

❛  we can celebrate the good that we've done. ❜

❛  we had nowhere to go and every desire for going there. ❜

❛  i heard once, it's the comforts that make us feel numb. ❜

❛  it was just our turn being blamed for a world we had no power in. ❜

❛  i haven't felt it since then. i don't know how the feeling ended. ❜

❛  i know being reckless and young is not how the damage gets done. ❜

❛  we knew what our love was worth when we had nothing. ❜

❛  i miss when we did not need much. ❜

❛  you were steering my heart like a wheel in your hands. ❜

❛  all i needed was someone when the whole wide world felt young. ❜

❛  hold me like water or hold me like a knife. ❜

❛  you and i burned out our steam chasing someone else's dream. ❜

❛  how can something be so much heavier but so much less than what it seems? ❜

❛  you only feel it when it's lost. getting through still has its cost. ❜

❛  if there was anyone to ever get through this life with their heart still intact, they didn't do it right. ❜

❛  we didn't get it right but we did our best. ❜

❛  knowing that everything will end should not change our plans. ❜

❛  all things end. ❜

❛  there are some things that no one teaches you that come natural as a dream you didn't know that you were in. ❜

❛  the awful things we do to make the head go quiet. ❜

❛  you may never know your fortune until the distance has been shown between what is lost forever and what can still be known. ❜

❛  i don't wanna be anything but i would do anything just to run away. ❜

❛  go look another way. ❜

❛  look, i wanna be loud. so loud, i'm talking seismic. ❜

❛  i will not be great but i'm grateful to get through. ❜

❛  the memory hurts but does me no harm. ❜

❛  the moment i knew i'd no choice but to love you. ❜

❛  there's a part of me, i'm afraid will always be trapped within an abstract from a moment of my life. ❜

❛  you know, the distance never made a difference to me. ❜

❛  so, i thought you were like an angel to me. ❜

❛  it ain't the being alone. it ain't the empty home. you know i'm good on my own. ❜

❛  so much of the living is the being unknown. ❜

❛  do you know i could break beneath the weight of the goodness i still carry for you? ❜

❛  there are some people who are better unknown. ❜

❛  darkness always finds you either way. ❜

❛  after this, i'm never gonna be the same and i am never going back again. ❜

like this for a short lyric-based starter

SOFT(ish) ANGST PROMPTS

“  i thought you were gone.  for good. ”

“  you left and—  i thought you weren’t coming back.  ”

“  i miss you.  i know i’m not supposed to,  but.  i just had to see you.  ”  

“  please don’t scare me like that again.  i can take a lot of things,  but not losing you.  ”

“  i can’t even take the very thought of you getting hurt.  ”

“  you could’ve gotten yourself killed! you could’ve— fuck!  you scared the shit outta me.  ” 

“  yes.  i am telling you what to do.  i’m telling you not to pull something like that again because—  ‘cause fucking hell.  i care about you.  okay? ”  

“  i found myself driving home and then.  well i was on my way here.  ‘cause i guess…you’re still my home.  ” 

“  please,  tell me why you’re upset.  tell me who did this?  ”

“  you don’t have to come over here and take care of me you know.  i can clean up my own messes.  ”

“  don’t talk.  just get the fuck over here and hold me.  ”

“  loving you is like having my heart just out in the world.  outside of my body walking around.  every time i see you hurting,  it kills me.  ”

“  i made you cry.  and i hate myself for that.  i swore i wouldn’t be one of the people who left you hurting.  ”

“  you really hurt me this time.  but i want to let go of that.  i really do want to forgive you i’m just scared you’ll hurt me again.  ”

“  i know you’re mad at me right now,  but i’m the one who’s here.  let me be here.  let me help.  you can be angry later.  ”

“  i’m here now.  i know i wasn’t before.  but i should’ve been.  and i’m not going anywhere.  i’m not gonna let that happen again.  ”

“  it’s time to come home now.  ”

“  that’s enough.  you’ve got your revenge.  let’s go.  ”

“  i know you’re hurting.  and i can’t fix that.  but i can refuse to let you hurt alone.  ”

“  i’m never letting go of you.  i missed you so fucking much.  ”

“  look at me,  you’re safe.  and you’re not alone.  and i’ll never let you be alone again.  you understand?  ”

“  i broke my promise to you once.  i’ll never do it again.  ”

“  i don’t need you to go white knighting and fix all this.  i just want you here.  with me.  that will make me feel better.  ”

“  just stay still and let me hold you.  ”

“  you don’t have to hide your tears.  let it out.  then we’ll move on,  together.  ”

“  i just.  needed to talk to you ‘cause.  somehow you always know what to say.  ”

“  don’t bury your feelings.  sadness.  hurt.  rage.  feel it.  acknowledge it so you can decide what you want to do with it.  not what it will do to you.  ”

“  i miss your smile.  and not that sad one you try to fool everyone with.  the real one.  the one you used to show me.  ”

“  come here.  i’m taking care of you tonight.  and you’re gonna let me.  ”  

1) our muses reunite after sender thought receiver was dead. 

2) our muses reunite after receiver thought sender was dead. 

3) sender shows up at receiver’s house drunk after they’ve broken up. 

4) receiver shows up at sender’s house drunk after they’ve broken up. 

5) our muses are on bad terms but reunite after one of them nearly dies. 

6) sender finds receiver crying and approaches,  clearing the tears with their hands while demanding to know what happened. 

7) receiver finds sender crying and approaches,  clearing the tears with their hands while demanding to know what happened. 

8) our muses haven’t been speaking,  but sender rushes to take care of receiver after they’ve been injured or fell ill. 

9) our muses haven’t been speaking,  but receiver rushes to take care of sender after they’ve been injured or fell ill. 

10) sender hurt receiver in some way,  which led to receiver doing something reckless and sender shows up to stop them/or deal with the aftermath. 

11) receiver hurt sender in some way,  which led to sender doing something reckless and receiver shows up to stop them/or deal with the aftermath.

12) our muses are in a fight,  but cuddle anyway because they don’t like sleeping alone. 

13) receiver wakes sender from a nightmare. 

14) sender wakes receiver from a nightmare. 

15) sender wakes up in the hospital and finds receiver at their side,  who is in the same clothes as the day they were admitted because they’ve refused to leave their side. 

16) receiver wakes up in the hospital and finds sender at their side,  who is in the same clothes as the day they were admitted because they’ve refused to leave their side. 

17) our muses are currently on the outs,  but receiver goes through something traumatic and sender pushes past their friends to get to them. 

18) our muses are currently on the outs,  but sender goes through something traumatic and receiver pushes past their friends to get to them.