List of “my guards are down in a way I never thought they would be, and that scares the shit out of me” prompts
Requested by: getyoursorryasstomine
Request: Hey Jo! Hope you’re doing well! If you’re taking prompt requests, can you make some where character a (a more guarded person) feels their walls coming down around character b and it scares them?
(I’m so sorry for being a year late on this, I have not been fulfilling any requests for a LONG while simply because I lost the drive for writing prompts in general and it hasn’t fully come back yet)
Character A’s in the middle of telling Character B about something they’ve never told anyone else before, when they suddenly come to a halt and go, “Wait, but why am I okay with telling you this even though I swore to myself I’d never let anyone know about this?”
Character A having an internal meltdown when they realise their guards are slowly lowering for Character B, terrified of being hurt again. But Character B has never given them a reason to doubt them.
“But what if they end up being someone I can’t trust? What do I do then?”
“I genuinely thought I’d never trust anyone again but here we are.”
Slowly over time, Character A starts to realise just how much they’ve changed—how much more they’re willing to let Character B in than at the start.
“What if you’re not the right person to trust?”
“Then I’ll do everything I can to make sure you know I am the right person to trust—through and through.”
Vulnerability has never been Character A’s strongest suit, but doing this with Character B—being vulnerable with them is almost as easy as breathing, and that feels equally terrifying as it is freeing.
“You make it so easy for me to just… be me when around you. I kind of hate it.”
“You only hate it because you’ve never done this before. No one gave you that safe space before, and I'll gladly be that safe space if you'd allow me.”
“You know it’s okay to be yourself around me, right?”
“I know, I just… There are days when I find that so hard to do, even when around you.”
It’s in the little moments which reveals how much Character A is okay with Character B receiving parts of them they would not give to other people.
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