FIRE TOUCHED

and we were burning colours on a rainy day. — brigid martin. assisted by jana.

[persephonememes]

* (  EVERMORE ALBUM BY TAYLOR SWIFT /  SENTENCE PROMPTS.

These may have been edited for clarity or length or to better apply for roleplaying.

willow

❛ The more that you say the less I know ❜

❛ Wherever you stray I will follow ❜

❛ I’m begging for you to take my hand ❜

❛ I come back stronger than a 90’s trend ❜

❛ Wait for the signal and I’ll meet you after dark ❜

❛ Show me the places where the others gave you scars ❜

❛ I should’ve known from the look on your face ❜

❛ Every bait and switch was a work of art ❜

❛ That’s my man ❜

champagne problems

❛ Your heart was glass, and I dropped it ❜

❛ I dropped your hand while dancing left you out there standing ❜

❛ Now no one’s celebrating ❜

❛ I can’t give you a reason ❜

❛ This dorm was once a madhouse ❜

❛ I never was ready, so I watch you go ❜

❛ Sometimes you just don’t know the answer till someone’s on their knees and asks you. ❜

❛ She would’ve made such a lovely bride, what a shame she’s stuck in her head. ❜

❛ You won’t remember all my champagne problems ❜

gold rush

❛ I don’t like a gold rush ❜

❛ I don’t like anticipating my face in a red flush ❜

❛ I don’t like that anyone would die to feel your touch ❜

❛ Everybody wants you ❜

❛ Everybody wonders what it would be like to love you ❜

❛ I don’t like slow motion double vision in rose blush ❜

❛ I don’t like that falling feels like flying till the bone crush ❜

❛ What must it be like to grow up that beautiful? ❜

❛ The coastal town we wandered round had never seen a love as pure as it ❜

❛ You know it could never be ❜

❛ My mind turns your life into folklore ❜

❛ I can’t dare to dream about you anymore ❜

❛ At dinner parties I won’t call you out on your contrarian wit ❜

‘tis the damn season

❛ If I wanted to know who you were hanging with while I was gone, I would’ve asked you. ❜

❛ So we could call it even ❜

❛ You could call me “babe” for the weekend ❜

❛ The road not taken looks real good now ❜

❛ The holidays linger like bad perfume ❜

❛ You can run but only so far ❜

❛ I escaped it too, remember how you watched me leave ❜

❛ But if it’s okay with you, it’s okay with me ❜

❛ I’m missing your smile ❜

❛ We could just ride around ❜

❛ Sleep in half the day, just for old times’ sake ❜

❛ I won’t ask you to wait, if you don’t ask me to stay ❜

❛ The heart I know I’m breaking is my own ❜

❛ It always leads to you and my hometown ❜

❛ You could call me “babe” for the weekend ‘tis the damn season ❜

tolerate it

❛ I notice everything you do or don’t do ❜

❛ If it’s all in my head tell me now ❜

❛ Tell me I’ve got it wrong somehow ❜

❛ I know my love should be celebrated, but you tolerate it ❜

❛ I take your indiscretions all in good fun ❜

❛ I polish plates until they gleam and glisten ❜

❛ While you were out building other worlds, where was I? ❜

❛ Now I’m begging for footnotes in the story of your life ❜

❛ I’m always taking up too much space or time ❜

❛ You assume I’m fine ❜

no body, no crime

❛ We meet up every Tuesday night for dinner and a glass of wine ❜

❛ It smells like infidelity ❜

❛ No, there ain’t no doubt ❜

❛ I think I’m gonna call him out ❜

❛ I think he did it but I just can’t prove it ❜

❛ No body, no crime ❜

❛ I ain’t letting up until the day I die ❜

❛ I’ve cleaned enough houses to know how to cover up a scene ❜

❛ They think I did it but they just can’t prove it ❜

❛ I wasn’t letting up until the day he died ❜

happiness

❛ I see this for what it is ❜

❛ I was dancing when the music stopped ❜

❛ In the disbelief I can’t face reinvention ❜

❛ I haven’t met the new me yet ❜

❛ There’ll be happiness after you ❜

❛ I would’ve loved you for a lifetime ❜

❛ When did your winning smile begin to look like a smirk? ❜

❛ When did all our lessons start to look like weapons pointed at my deepest hurt? ❜

❛ I can’t see facts through all of my fury ❜

❛ You haven’t met the new me yet ❜

❛ There’ll be happiness after me ❜

❛ There is happiness in our history ❜

❛ I can’t make it go away by making you a villain ❜

❛ I pulled your body into mine every goddamn night now I get fake niceties ❜

❛ No one teaches you what to do when a good man hurts you, and you know you hurt him too ❜

dorothea

❛ Do you ever stop and think about me? ❜

❛ I got nothing but well wishes for ya ❜

❛ This place is the same as it ever was ❜

❛ It’s never too late to come back to my side ❜

❛ Are you still the same soul? ❜

❛ Are you still the same soul? I met under the bleachers ❜

❛ They all wanna be ya ❜

coney island

❛ If I can’t relate to you anymore then who am I related to? ❜

❛ Did I close my fist around something delicate? ❜

❛ Did I shatter you? ❜

❛ Sorry for not making you my centerfold ❜

❛ Lost again with no surprises ❜

❛ It gets colder and colder when the sun goes down ❜

❛ What’s a lifetime of achievement? ❜

❛ I pushed you to the edge but you were too polite to leave me ❜

❛ Do you miss the rogue who coaxed you into paradise and left you there? ❜

❛ Will you forgive my soul? ❜

❛ Will you forgive my soul when you’re too wise to trust me and too old to care? ❜

❛ Sorry for not winning you an arcade ring ❜

❛ Close your eyes ❜

❛ Did I leave you hanging every single day? ❜

❛ Did I paint your bluest skies the darkest gray? ❜

❛ When I got into the accident the sight that flashed before me was your face ❜

❛ The sight that flashed before me was your face when the sun goes down ❜

ivy

❛ Your touch brought forth an incandescent glow ❜

❛ My pain fits in the palm of your freezing hand ❜

❛ Your opal eyes are all I wish to see ❜

❛ I’d live and die for moments that we stole ❜

❛ It’s a violent blaze in the dark and you started it ❜

❛ It’s the fiercest fight of my life and you started it ❜

❛ You started it ❜

cowboy like me

❛ Dancing is a dangerous game ❜

❛ I’m never gonna love again ❜

❛ I’ve got some tricks up my sleeve ❜

❛ Takes one to know one ❜

❛ Never wanted love, just a fancy car ❜

❛ I could be the way forward ❜

❛ You’re a bandit like me ❜

❛ Never thought I’d meet you here ❜

❛ It could be love ❜

❛ You’re a cowboy like me ❜

❛ I know I’ll pay for it ❜

❛ Forever is the sweetest con ❜

long story short

❛ I tried to pick my battles til the battle picked me ❜

❛ I fell from the pedestal ❜

❛ Long story short, it was a bad time ❜

❛ Long story short, it was the wrong guy ❜

❛ Now I’m all about you ❜

❛ I’m all about you ❜

❛ I always felt I must look better in the rear view ❜

❛ When I dropped my sword, I threw it in the bushes and knocked on your door ❜

❛ But if someone comes at us, this time I’m ready ❜

❛ No more keeping score ❜

❛ I just know there’s more ❜

❛ I wanna tell you not to get lost in these petty things ❜

❛ He feels like home ❜

❛ Long story short, I survived ❜

marjorie

❛ Never be so kind, you forget to be clever ❜

❛ Never be so clever, you forget to be kind ❜

❛ What died didn’t stay dead ❜

❛ Never be so polite, you forget your power ❜

❛ Never wield such power, you forget to be polite ❜

❛ The autumn chill that wakes me up ❜

closure

❛ It’s been a long time ❜

❛ Seeing the shape of your name still spells out pain ❜

❛ It wasn’t right the way it all went down ❜

❛ Yes, I got your letter ❜

❛ Yes, I’m doing better ❜

❛ It cut deep to know ya, right to the bone ❜

❛ I know that it’s over ❜

❛ I don’t need your “closure” ❜

❛ Don’t treat me like some situation that needs to be handled ❜

❛ I’m fine with my spite ❜

❛ I know I’m just a wrinkle in your new life ❜

❛ You’re reaching out across the sea that you put between you and me ❜ but it’s fake and it’s so unnecessary ❜

evermore

❛ I’ve been down since July ❜

❛ I replay my footsteps on each stepping stone trying to find the one where I went wrong. ❜

❛ I was catching my breath, staring out an open window ❜

❛ I had a feeling so peculiar that this pain would be for evermore ❜

❛ I can’t remember what I used to fight for ❜

❛ Can’t think of all the cost and all the things that will be lost now ❜

❛ When I was shipwrecked I thought of you ❜

❛ In the cracks of light I dreamed of you ❜

❛ In the cracks of light I dreamed of you and it was real enough to get me through ❜

❛ I had a feeling so peculiar that this pain wouldn’t be for evermore ❜

[ardentelle]

name.  brigid nolwenn martin. title.  her grace, duchess nolwenn of sevir. age.  23 years old. current locations.  odalis,  ianthe  /  heranal’s,  flag ship of the royal fleet  /  sevir,  mazarine. home estate.  the ducal palace on sevir, mazarine’s third biggest island, as it is traditionally the estate of the head of the minister cabinet,  which is a position brigid wound up with over a game of cards. current position.  crown princess of mazarine  ( due to her brother being childless )  /  member of the royal council  /  minister of trade  /  delegate to the assembly of island kingdoms. relationship status.  single.

when she was born,  brigid was the eighth in line for the throne,  and her parents were convinced that their youngest’s life was set to be one of choices  ---  only that when brigid was seven years old, the royal family, safe for brigid who had classes and the crown prince who had come down with a cold,  was wiped out when an assassin blew up the part of the grandstand from where they were watching the annual boat race.

for crown prince corentin,  it meant that he became king before he was ready and that he became king of a wounded country and with much of the royal advisers just as dead as most of the royal family.  for princess brigid,  it meant that the choices she was promised suddenly were all gone.  no matter,  she began to make her own choices weeks after the funeral --- her brother had been promised a supportive family and she was still there.  it was difficult,  but the oldest and the youngest of house martin clawed their way out of hell --- corentin hired the best tutors he could find because he was not just left to raise his little sister,  he was also raising his heiress.

by age sixteen,  brigid was part of the royal council and had a  ( then )  unofficial seat in her brother’s cabinet.  a year later, she became her kingdom’s delegate to the assembly of island kingdoms.  brigid got used to earning responsibilities instead of simply being given them due to her bloodline.  the government of mazarine got used to operating with the smallest royal family of all kingdoms in the area  ( which meant that it became custom to send high-ranking officials in place of royals to many official meetings ),  and to take the necessary measures to ensure their safety however they could.

while brigid was deployed to ianthe to represent mazarine,  she was not sent as its princess but rather as its minister of trade as new trade agreements were more important in the eyes of her colleagues in the cabinet than her finding a husband.  at the same time, her brother has asked her to notify him of any eligible bachelorettes in his age group as nowadays, mazarine is stable and marriage no longer seems reckless to him.

[sunbathe]

@nahwah_

[approvers]

by Adanethel

[ardentelle]

‘ ‘ Don't you ever get tired of that? ’ ’ marcus asked, in an undertone, watching as brigid beamed back at a stranger passing her. ‘ ‘ You're so kind, sometimes it seems like you don't even realize you're doing it. ’ ’  ------ sent by @marspirited​

they had this conversation before, she reminded herself as she shrugged and looped her arm through his. there were a few conversations like this, ones that kept recurring, not because anyone expected a new answer, conversations they repeated because some things did bear repeating. it was like how frédéric said that even if a good choice did not pan out, it was still a choice worth making, once every five years or so. elena --- responsible for quite a few of those exchanges --- might see worth in repeating the same thought over and over, in voicing it so it sunk in better, so it settle deeper into the bones; she was the type to learn best like this. and for brigid, too, there was something safe about how sometimes, there were questions she would always know the answer to.

do you ever get tired of being kind? no. do you ever get tired of loving them? no.

her hand curled softly into his hair, glad to find it free of the product frédéric had insisted on using the last time they had seen each other face - to - face. ‘ ‘ i don’t think i’ll ever grow tired of being kind, no, ’ ’ she responded quietly. ‘ ‘ ---at least not as long as you don’t grow tired of buying snacks for our walks. ’ ’

they both knew well that snacks aside, there were things that could extinguish her kindness like a breeze a candle, things that turned her face moonwhite with unspeakable anger, things that did not need a mention, that did not need to be summoned like unwelcome ghosts ------ even brigid knew little of kindness at the sight of a dear friend bloodied and beaten, hanging onto life by a silken thread. 

[ardentelle]

nathan hawethorn.

The examination of Franklin had gone surprisingly smoothly and quickly considering the cat could be a fiend. Nathan appreciated things going smoothly and quickly for time was money after all. He knew that Franklin was glaring out of his box. The mongrel would probably be angry at him for taking him to such a place. Great. Now they were on their way to get the bill for the examination and he prayed it would be acceptable. Dr. Martin had handed him a couple of papers with information about taking care of cats as well which were for free. Thankfully. 

“ It’s uncanny, how you guessed that i do ski occasionally. “

she liked to think of easier things --- winter vacations were much more fun to consider than the fact that she had not seen elena  ( or heard from her )  in years. winter vacations meant that everyone was there, that everyone was healthy enough to make the trip  ( and that frédéric had no broken leg that soured the mood )  and that for a week or two, everything else could be left behind on their desks, no matter how important they would deem it normally.

‘ ‘ lucky guess. ’ ’ she winked as she flipped through the stack of papers she had to sign, pinching the bridge of her nose. this, she could do in her sleep, she had done this so often that it was almost sad, and that hardly meant that she enjoyed it very much. ‘ ‘ we’d usually go to whatever snowy, mountainous area that was closest --- do you have any preferences? ’ ’

[annajoganiyan]

[ardentelle]

nathan hawethorn.

“ Canada is a nice place. I like the snow. The country as well as the border areas have some nice landscape as well. “ not to mention the smuggling jobs he’d done across the border over the years. Or the times where he had fled across the border. With safe houses at his disposal he found the country rather enjoyable. 

“ And the … Franklin can spend as much time outside as he wants to. I’ll certainly not lock him into my apartment. I think he values his freedom as a street cat but that doesn’t mean he’d turn down a dry and warm place to crash in. Smart guy. “ He was about to call him cat but caught himself. Nate took his eyes off the box to smile at the attractive vet. 

‘ ‘ he’d be a fool to turn down a home, but he still wants his independence --- i know a lot of humans much like him, ’ ’ she nodded solemnly as she flipped open the clasp to retrieve the cat in question. in her time  ( both as a veterinarian and, well, before ),  she had been scratched by more than one discontent cat and by now, she expertly avoided the claws, instead handling the grumpy animal deftly. ‘ ‘ gotcha, ’ ’ she muttered to herself as she waited for franklin to calm so that she could continue her examination.

scratching the cat behind his ears, she looked back at his owner. ‘ ‘ i love the snow so it was part of why i went, ’ ’ she said conversationally, pretending that she was not holding an unhappy animal though franklin settled down more and more as she spoke. ‘ ‘ a couple friends from university and i would go skiing over christmas break whenever we could. do you ski? or are you more of a snowboarder? ’ ’ 

[ardentelle]

nathan hawethorn.

“ Franklin. “

 it was the first name that came to mind. He had never bothered to name it and hadn’t actually planned to do it. But of course she’d need a name. 

Nathan hoped the shots would cost significantly less because he had no intentions of spending any more of his hard earned cash on this animal than was absolutely necessary. And even then he did it with reservations. This had been a bad idea. He considered the normal amount she had given him and thought that maybe the industry was abusing people’s unhealthy obsessions with their pets to some degree at least. This was uncalled for!

“ where did you work before? “

‘ ‘ i’ve worked almost in canada, before --- small city, nothing like here, ’ ’ brigid said as she moved towards franklin’s carrier, humming under her breath as she heard the cat’s dismay, dismay about being inside such a small space, about not being free. it did remind her of elena, she was always so antsy on planes. ‘ ‘  i hope he’s all right and doesn’t have to stick indoors; i think this gentleman will ruin your home if you don’t let him out, ’ ’ she added. 

letting her hand rest against the top of the carrier, she waited for a few beats, until the cat --- until franklin pressed his nose against it. ‘ ‘ so, mr franklin, ’ ’ she said calmly as she hooked her finger beneath one of the clasps, ‘ ‘ i hear you have a temper, but please don’t make this harder than it ought to be, yes? ’ ’

[phantomemes]

rp sentence starters using lines from r.h. sin’s work , whiskey words and a shovel I  part one / part two / part three

“ you’re always coming back. ” “ you fear you’ve been replaced. ” “ it was your love that caused all this. ” “ it was you that made me this way. ” “ suddenly, being heartless was better than being heartbroken. ” “ we have found ourselves. ” “ i wish changing my heart was as easy as changing my mind. ” “ and they wonder why the good know so much pain. ” “ the snow makes the cemetery look alive. ” “ the heart takes too long to figure out what the mind already knows. ” “ i learned to live without you. ” “ just a funeral held in memory of the person i was. ” “ you deliberately destroyed me. ” “ what was there to love? ” “ i now know that i was in this alone. ” “ i find myself pretending to be fine. ” “ my smile is usually a mask. ” “ you’ll think i’m weak. ” “ it’s easier said than done. ” “ you’re always alone whenever real shit occurs. ” “ all of this is all of nothing. ” “ you’re full of pain, but filled with fight. ” “ the idea of getting married scares me. ” “ i have nothing more to offer than myself. ” “ i don’t really recognize the person i’ve become. ” “ a year can change a lot. ” “ you no longer deserve my thoughts. ” “ i am ashamed for having given in to your pleas. ” “ i want to dance with you. ” “ my spine has been weighed down by a life of despair and disappointment. ” “ how brave it is, to love completely. ” “ i’ll try for you, because you’re worth it. ” “ sometimes nightmares are people. ” “ being alone brings me closer to peace. ” “ you’ve become like a prison. ” “ i’m planning ways to escape you. ” “ i remember everything i don’t want to. ” “ i struggle to comprehend your inability to love me as much as i loved you. ” “ you’re relying on a broken mirror. ” “ i’ll rebuild without you. ” “ loving you meant that i didn’t love myself. ” “ tomorrow will be even harder. ” “ i’ve accepted my fate. ” “ you took what you wanted. ” “ i am trying to find myself under the rubble of my own heart. ” “ i’m tired of pretending it doesn’t hurt. ” “ i was wrong about you. ” “ the truth always rises to the surface. ” “ they’ve gotten what they wanted from you. ” “ heartache made me so fucking unforgiving. ” “ in you, lives a love that most people won’t be able to comprehend. ” “ they’re no longer good for you. ” “ you can’t find love in places filled with hate. ” “ who will understand my scars? ” “ i just want to stop thinking about you. ” “ i hope those lies burn your lips. ” “ i barely recognize myself anymore. ” “ my most dangerous habit is overthinking. ” “ this was never meant to work. ” “ i’d like to learn you. ” “ i’d like to love every part of you. ” “ you struggle to fit in places where you don’t belong. ” “ you’re only here because your friends wanted to go. ” “ love me when things are bad. ” “ love me through my imperfections. ” “ never apologize for burning too bright. ” “ i was willing to drown for them. ” “ shallow compliments have no meaning. ” “ i yelled because i actually cared. ” “ i only argued with you because i gave a fuck. ” “ i should have been a bit clearer about what i was asking for. ” “ no one wants to be alone. ” “ there is loneliness in being with the wrong person. ” “ and i continue to burn. ” “ it hurts like hell. ” “ i accept you as you are. ” “ you’re still beautiful to me. ” “ you were only meant to be temporary. ” “ slowly, death crept up behind me. ” “ holding onto you was killing me. ” “ i nearly lost my damn mind. ” “ i can love you, but only from a distance. ” “ some people are more lovable when they’re not around. ” “ you’re a sinner, i’m your accomplice. ” “ a moment of weakness doesn’t define your strength. ” “ i won’t miss you. ” “ one day you’ll understand. ”

[theroncharlize]

Anne Hathaway as Jules Ostin in The Intern (2015)

[ardentelle]

nathan hawethorn.

Just great. A second appointment. It did make sense that even as a vet she needed to make a living too. But he was starting to regret having come here for just some stray. Perhaps he would simply never appear to that second appointment. Nate kept glaring at the pet carrier as he tried to remember any strange behaviour on the cats part. He came up empty handed. 

“ He seems aggressive but that’s more an indication of a bad personality than physical sickness. How much will it be for the shots? “

Nate took his eyes off of the carrier to eye the doctor warily as he got out his old well worn leather wallet. 

ah, there it was. the shiver of a frown that ghosted over her own face --- she did so hate it when she did not have the answer to a question, and she had never figured out if that was because her circle of friends  ( shoot, she had to email lena, lest she wanted to incur fury once the other would inevitable track her own )  was far too competitive in some fields. and in pub quizzes. ‘ ‘ i actually have no precise answer for you, ’ ’ brigid admitted grimly as she washed her hands thoroughly, searching her mind for an answer she would prefer to give. ‘ ‘ i’m kind of new and someone else handles the billing process, but i can give you an estimate? ’ ’

slipping her hands into gloves, she tapped her hand against the counter, counting patiently to fourteen before she continued to speak. ‘ ‘ assuming that the poor dear hasn’t seen a vet, ever, where i worked before, it would be around two hundred bucks. i believe it’s less here, we get some donations from some rich heiress who is very invested in animal health. and well, --- the temper has been noted, ’ ’ she added with a laugh. ‘ ‘ what’s his name? ’ ’

[ardentelle]

“Think I hear the river.”

this was good news. neither of them could want to be late to the picnic --- frédéric was hosting and while he was not the kind to get upset over people being late, being late meant that all the best snacks were already gone. and well, while brigid would not want to speak for seth, she surely hoped that there would still be croissants by the time they got there. and whatever else freddie and lena had composed while she had been out at work.

‘‘ excellent, just perfect, ’’ she said as she reached for seth’s sleeve and pulled him along as she hurried through the thinning crowd of tourists --- this was thankfully not a corner of the city that was recommended by tour guides, ‘‘ if we are sending you off tonight, i can’t deliver you late to the picnic. who knows when you’ll next get proper food. ’’

* meme / accepting

[holyisthenameofmyruthlessaxe]

Alive Together; ‘In the Thriving Season’ by Lisel Mueller

[ID: love grows by what it remembers of love.]

[interwar]

Elgin Marble

[fadensonnen]

In the dark times, will there also be singing? Yes, there will be singing. About the dark times.

Bertolt Brecht, “Motto”

[lustingupon]

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