THE AGE OF HEROES.

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݁ .⠀ ✩ THE LAST OF THE BUGS. part two of a collection of dialogue prompts from noah kahan's album the great divide: the last of the bugs. some liberties taken to better fit the overall rpc, adjust as you wish. WARNINGS FOR: mentions / insinuations of drugs, alcohol, and depression.

i would ask you how you’ve been, but it’s all over the internet.

if you’re looking for an autopsy or a half-assed half-apology, you picked the wrong time to make this call.

it’s not irrelevant that you stopped taking your medicine.

but it’s cold.

i don’t know, i’m alone.

there ain’t no shame in calling it quits.

you’re a ghost.

you’re poison spreading into my lungs.

i ain’t holding my breath or any faith at all.

i’ll pray for you, be in pain for you.

i’ll leave the porch light on.

you act like we just sit up here and wait for you to reappear.

i want to see you lose it.

i want to hear you say it.

i want to know the dark that i share a brain with.

do you still have a heart or did somebody steal it?

i’m far too tired to watch you lie.

another thing we don’t talk about anymore.

don’t worry, i won’t bring it up.

when i ask about the past, you deny it.

we’re both exhausted for different reasons.

i used to care to know your secrets.

you said you got a guilty conscience, but i ain’t ever seen it.

you can scream at me when i come home.

i always wish you well.

it’s gone to shit without you.

it was shit before, but at least i had you.

there ain’t nothing to report.

i’ve been taking your advice.

if i see one more cybertruck, i swear to god i’m gonna floor it.

i need somebody here to talk me out of things i can’t undo.

saw the world from up close, it ain’t much to look at.

i can’t make myself whole, most days i’d be lucky just to get half.

you’ve seen me in places so low, you can recognize when it’s real bad.

i used to hate the silence.

used to make me think about the old days.

i love you and i can’t fake that for a moment.

we go way back.

tell me that i have substance, that i’m important.

i’m always trying to run from what i’m known for.

gambling with the sun on which one of us dies young.

i ain’t afraid to hold the gun.

wipe your hands and wash your face.

you can fuck up all you want and blame it on your dad.

i want to be you, but i don’t want to be that.

where i’m from and what i’m worth have gotten too damn intertwined.

fuck it, i might even disappear.

i hope you’ve had a decent time.

gonna be rich in our own way.

i swear you’re gonna get it, kid.

they didn’t look scared at all.

tell me when it feels like you can’t escape me.

i’m just happy you still call.

some things live forever, even when they die.

everyone looks happy in a photograph.

i’m always on my own.

maybe i’m manic again.

i think this time i’m out for good.

this ain’t mine anymore.

i made too much goddamn noise.

i’m done staring at the void.

i was high when i met you.

life was something to get through.

we’re too old for both of us to keep howling at the moon.

oh my, what a time to be alive.

tell me, love, if the devil ever comes, to make good on the debts that i owe.

tell the stories i would tell.

make a few of your own.

i was afraid you might wake up and remember who i am, and what i’ve done.

i grew up with a feeling that what’s good must be fleeting.

some will never know they’re beautiful until the crowd points it out for them.

i’m on alien ground.

i’m an astronaut, you’re the moon.

even god is trying to warn you, all this ain’t for you.

i’m an aging wolf who lost the taste for blood.

i’m gonna lose you either way.

everybody’s asleep,  let’s talk about it.

you’ve been the best five minutes of a shitty year.

we’re so alone most of the time.

where do we go when we die?

i wouldn’t mind right here.

you told me how unfair it is, that i have what i have and you got what you got.

i’d give it all back if i could, i cannot.

i hated the way i made it all about me.

every day from back then is like a bad dream.

hey, that’s us.

you and i will be found.

we ain’t far from my house.

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݁ .⠀ ✩ THE LAST OF THE BUGS. part one of a collection of dialogue prompts from noah kahan's album the great divide: the last of the bugs. some liberties taken to better fit the overall rpc, adjust as you wish. WARNINGS FOR: mentions / insinuations of drugs, alcohol, and depression.

if the trees started talking, i bet you they’d only talk shit.

we never do anything real.

i thought getting older meant knowing it’s too late to try.

i tried getting sober.

i swear i did better this time.

everything you see out here will die.

it’s a matter of time.

anything you need, i will provide.

i’m going off my medicine.

god forbid i hurt someone.

i’d hurt anyone i could.

i’m the trouble ahead.

have you ever stared directly at the sun?

forgive me if i jump.

are you leaving?

it gets harder to see me the closer you try to look.

i’ll be long gone before the anger comes.

i hope you’re moving on.

i just live here.

you’re the one.

i was working on a plan to disappear completely.

but you’re here, and we’re so grateful you are.

you’re gonna fix it.

we’re fragile.

you’ve always been so tough.

you know that i miss you.

you always come running back whenever i ask.

i hate to drag you back here.

i think [...] really lost it.

i can’t stand the nights.

make [...] talk.

make it stop.

we’re drowning here.

can you come home?

i think we had everything. until now, i just didn’t know it.

we’ll be strangers in the morning.

how sad, left to rot alone like that.

i’m glad you left, but you’ll be back.

call me when it goes to shit.

i swear i won’t tell anyone.

i don’t mind being your dead end.

i’ll keep rooting for your downfall.

i hope you open up to someone kind, and they hold it all against you.

they’re turning your house into a parking lot.

go ahead and call the cops.

i tell it the way that you told me.

i still hear your name from some of the locals.

always placed you for the leaving type.

i called you, but i ran out of words.

your love is like an open flame.

it’s been a damn near-perfect day.

people grow up and then move away.

in the interest of time, we’ve got a whole lot to waste.

i never ask for much.

i can’t keep on starting over.

are you good at staying still?

will you up and leave, or will you be there in the morning?

all love must leave.

i’ll be good.

i’ll be fine.

i can laugh about it.

i can’t recall the last time that we talked.

we ain’t friends.

i’m high enough to still care if i die.

you know i think about you all the time.

it must have been bad for you back then.

i hope you settle down and marry rich.

i hope you’re scared of only ordinary shit.

they only shoot the birds who cannot sing.

you’re bouncing off the walls.

i tried to heal your wounds.

if a lie turned true, a lie it would still be.

at least i got soul still, even if i’m in a bad place.

i’m glad you got your act clean.

you’re showing up like bad news and leaving like a bad dream.

we get along just fine.

you stumble around like a ghost.

help me if it helps you sleep / leave / lie.

we both had the courage to leave.

i’m willing and able if you’ve got a bone to pick with me.

i’ll stay here until the morning.

we can’t fight like we used to fight.

look at you leaving again; it’s all you know how to do.

the world belongs to you.

they all say you’re a light; all i see is shadow.

i’ll see you again in six months.

if i call you out, i’m an asshole.

i tell the truth when i drink.

so, come home.

i wish you could know me.

i wish i could know you much more sometimes.

leave it all on the table.

you always went looking for an easy way out.

turns out that you’re still an asshole.

it ain’t our fault that you aren’t suddenly somebody else.

i’m half as drunk as i thought i’d be by now.

even when you’re not here, it becomes about you.

i’d beat your ass ‘til the morning.

i’ve been running all this time.

if i never see you again, you could be anything i want.

won’t you stay gone?

there ain’t nothing else here worth catching up on.

i’ve got a feeling that won’t go away.

the doctors are calling it “just moving on”.

no one gets to talk shit but the ones you’ve shit on.

it can all be the way that it was.

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݁ .⠀ ✩ DO YOU SEE ME? a collection of dialogue prompts from the happy fits' album lovesick. some liberties taken to better fit the overall rpc, adjust as you wish.

i think i love you.

do you see me now?

it’s been a hard time.

i tried to not want you.

i dream when i’m awake.

i’ve got no choice.

there was time before we met.

one more night of overtime.

i’ve got bills to pay,  and i’ve got mouths to feed.

i’m so moody.

you caught me by surprise with this helpless feeling.

everybody wants you.

i cannot afford to love.

i can’t get my mind off loving you.

i’m in love with everything you do.

help me,  please,  from falling faster.

there’s no stopping this disaster.

won’t you say you love me too?

what’s the deal?

it’s a very short life with no appeal.

you drive me crazy all the time.

get out of my head.

it’s such a cruel power.

i’m gonna break one of these days.

it’s a little messed up.

you’re stuck on my mind,  sweet like honey.

do you want my love?

come and break my heart into a million pieces.

get out of my house.

we’ve been talking for hours.

why is every little move romantic?

you’re holding on ‘til the bitter end.

you’re all i think about at night.

i want your hands here,  on my hips.

i want to live forever in your kiss.

no one can help me through this mess.

i wish that i could just forget.

i get so love drunk on myself,  why should i want somebody else?

i want to peel off all my skin.

escape this hell you put me in.

you don’t love me cause you don’t need me,  and that’s alright.

god is just a witness to my misery relapse.

i’ll just be lonely 'til i die.

maybe one day you’ll be impressed.

when i met you,  i was just a boy and not a man.

all my life,  i thought i’d be the same.

i’m bound to break tradition.

baby,  i’m a piece of shit.

i got what i deserve.

i don’t want to be your enemy.

when i burned it down,  i didn’t mean to take you too.

your clothes fit me better.

i’m gonna miss you.

tell me you want to just stay here with me.

i could stare at you for hours.

wait until i’m old and gray.

it feels so wonderful to dream at all.

we’ll make it up as we go along.

will you treat me the same?

you can’t have a rainbow without a little rain.

just imagine all the joy in this world without a little pain.

how did we get so dull?

how did we get so drunk and high again?

how did we get so old?

i’m stuck here,  dreaming of your hands around my neck.

i want you to break my heart.

have i lost myself again?

go back to the start.

go back to the space you grew in my heart.

i feel the karma coming.

i still think i love you.

i’m so lost without you.

i can barely breathe.

can we even make this better?

as a hopeless romantic,  i’m bracing for the fall.

you’re every thought i’m having.

can you disappear?

maybe we could lose ourselves and run away.

is this an illness or a romance?

we could talk about the weather.

i had my whole life together,  then you tore it into parts.

no going back to the way it always was.

i feel the black hole reaching for me.

will [ … ] come back?

hell,  i don’t know.

you’re so violent.

why do you hide?

show me you’re human.

it’s been a while since i’ve seen you prove it.

i do not know you anymore.

all i want is to hear you again.

i miss the heat.

you’re mad at me.

space.   that’s all we need.

you were wrong about me.

it was wrong of me to promise.

it was wrong of me to waste.

i wasn’t brave.

i could always play it back.

i want to be with you again.

i want to tell you everything.

there's a child, and it's screaming.

can you show [ … ] to the door?

you get what you paid for.

i swear i could dream that you were the one.

i want to say how sorry i am.

i’m a coward.

i am useless.

i tried,  but i can’t make it out.

i remember.

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݁ .⠀ ✩ PRODIGAL CHILDREN. a series of dialogue prompts from the oh hellos' through the deep, dark valley album. some liberties taken to better fit the overall rpc, adjust as you wish.

we were born in the valley of the dead and the wicked.

it's where we laid him down.

we were born in the shadow of the crimes of our fathers.

blood was our inheritance.

no, we did not ask for this.

will you lead me?

i was young when i heard you call my name in the silence.

like a fire in the dark.

i came down to the water and i begged for forgiveness.

we were fleeing for our lives.

i was sleeping in the garden when i saw you first.

you broke the dark and my whole earth shook.

bones of my bones and flesh of my flesh.

you were the brightest shade of sun i had ever seen.

your skin was gilded with the gold of the richest kings.

you woke the world inside of me.

you will surely be the death of me.

how could i have known?

child, i'm afraid for your soul.

these things that you're after, they can't be controlled.

this beast that you're after will eat you alive and spit out your bones.

she'll string you along and she'll sell you a lie.

there's nothing but pain on the edge of a knife.

there is no courage in flirting with fear to prove you're alive.

i've seen the true face of the things you call life.

death, she is cunning and clever as hell.

she'll eat you alive.

i was born the second child with a spirit running wild.

they saw trouble in my eyes.

they were quick to recognize the devil in me.

i was born a restless child.

i could hear the world outside calling me.

heaven knows how hard i tried.

the devil whispered lies i believe.

can you hear it hanging on the wind?

can you feel it underneath your skin?

you've got to go on, further than you've ever gone.

you've got to run far from all you've ever known.

i ran like a speeding train.

cut my hair and changed my name.

only had myself to blame for the company i was keeping.

curse my restless, wandering feet.

all the love you gave me wasn't enough to keep me.

i stole from my father.

there wasn't any water in the wishing well.

bent my knee to many kings.

for my soul, he made an offer.

to the dust again i fell.

that devil's got ahold of me now.

it's a long way out to reach the sea.

i'm sure i'll find you waiting there for me.

just meet me in the middle of the road.

hold me like you'll never let me go.

but you are far too beautiful to love me.

you wage your wars against the one who adores you.

you'll never know the treasure that you're worth.

i've never been a wealthy one before.

i got holes in my pocket burned by liars' gold.

i think i'm far too poor for you to want me.

you don't know what you've got until you're gone.

it's a nasty habit, spending all you have.

if you're doing all the leaving, then it's never your love lost.

brother, forgive me.

we both know i'm the one to blame.

when i saw my demons, i knew them well and welcomed them.

father, have mercy.

i know that i have gone astray.

when i saw my reflection, it was a stranger beneath my face.

i'll come around someday.

i was born at the hands of the potter.

i was torn from the start.

i was born at the dawn of our folly.

i was young and stubborn to the bone.

as i took from the tree that was rotting.

i took my chance and bit down deep.

the weight of the world was crippling.

now i'll hide my shame with woven leaves.

i was wrong.

i'm so, so sorry.

i knew you'd never forgive me.

i have made mistakes, and i continue to make them.

the promises i've made, i continue to break them.

all the doubts i've faced, i continue to face them.

nothing is a waste if you learn from it.

the sun does not cause us to grow. it's the rain that will strengthen your soul.

it will make you whole.

we have lived in fear.

our fear has betrayed us.

we will overcome the apathy that has made us.

we are not alone in the dark with our demons.

my heart, how can i face you now?

we both know how badly i have let you down.

i am afraid of all that i've built fading away.

i was young and naive.

i was told there's only one road that leads me home.

the truth is a cave.

i'll seek it out until the day i die.

i was bound and determined to be the child that you wanted.

i was blind to every sign that you left for me to find.

the truth became a tool that i held in my hand.

i wielded it but i did not understand.

i was tired of giving more than you gave to me.

but in the silence, i heard you calling out to me.

still, you lead me.

never leave me.

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݁ .⠀ ✩ EXTRAORDINARY AND NORMAL. a series of dialogue prompts from florence and the machine's everybody scream album. some liberties taken to better fit the overall rpc, adjust as you wish.

get on the stage.

i call her by her first name.

i tried to stay away.

but i always meet you back in this place.

you give me everything.

i feel no pain.

i break down, get up, and do it all again.

it's never enough.

you make me feel loved.

i can come here and scream as loud as i want.

here, i don't have to be quiet. i don't have to be kind.

look at me run myself ragged.

how can i leave you when you're screaming my name?

i will come for you in the evening.

i'll make you sing for me.

i can take up the whole of the sky.

aren't you so glad i came?

protect me from evil.

what has it done to me?

i crawled up from under the earth.

with each bedraggled breath, i knew i came back from the dead.

i'll show you how it's done.

i'll show you what it takes.

to conquer and to crucify, to become one of the greats.

i keep a scream inside of my chest.

i've killed everyone i ever kissed.

each name is a stain upon my lips.

that song is not about you.

got everything i thought i wanted.

did i get it right?

do i win the prize?

do you regret bringing me back to life?

i did my best.

my childhood dream made flesh.

it's so like a woman to profit from her madness.

why did you dig me up for this?

you'll say it's all pretend.

but i've really done it this time.

you could have me if you weren't so afraid of me.

it's funny how men don't find power very sexy.

do i drive you crazy?

i lied down with death.

show me the way this feeling leads.

can i keep all this beauty forever inside?

i tore off my nightgown and ran naked through the town.

i ran to the ancestral plane, but they all showed up drunk and insane.

which way should i go?

child, how would we know?

a stranger came to my door.

i have many, many miles yet to cross.

we've been waiting to meet you.

it's only a matter of time.

i can feel something deeper down.

after all, there's nobody more monstrous than me.

memory fails me.

am i so different?

i do not recognize my face.

i do not find worthiness a virtue.

i no longer try to be good.

it didn't keep me safe like you told me that it would.

come on, i can take it.

give me everything you got.

the seasons change, the world turns.

i'm trying to live, but i feel so damaged.

all shall be well.

miracles are often inconvienent.

a prayer is a spell.

i am changing and becoming something else.

i wanna call you on the telephone.

my resolve is sinking like a stone.

i guess it's just something that never goes away.

i'm stupid and i'm damaged, and you're a disaster.

when you walk into the room, none of it matters.

baby, i just buckle.

i know it won't work.

make it ache, make it hurt.

i'm still hanging off the buckle on your belt.

you closed the door and left me screaming on the floor.

i let you walk all over me, honey.

you make me think my therapy is a waste of money.

oh, god, i thought i was too old for this.

i should be over this.

i'm not better than this.

show me what i'm worth.

sometimes my body seems so alien to me.

i grow restless and hungry.

you're so good looking, it's obscene.

some things, it seems, are catching up with me.

my love, i have to tell you.

i kissed them all and let them drown.

creature from the deep, do i haunt you in your sleep?

you said i would be nothing, but look, i'm really something.

you've seen through the pain.

have you changed?

do i terrify?

it's the old religion humming in your veins.

you wonder why we're hungry for some kind of release.

i'm so tired of being careful.

give me something i can crush, something i can kill.

i'm afraid, don't let it find me.

but you can't outrun yourself, you see.

i'm powerless, don't remind me.

i went to find the hidden folk.

they gave me gowns and riches.

no, i did not sleep.

what i thought was a night was a thousand years.

it was made from me.

all the love that came my way, i found a way to push away.

i don't want to be afraid anymore.

i don't want to run from love like i have before.

you have a bigger ego than you think you do.

let it be us.

i know how to fall in love.

i thought i was kind.

i tried to do something that i thought was real life.

it's so much harder than it looks.

i just got bored.

let there be love, let there be light.

running back to the only love i could ever control.

call in a vision of my daughter.

i used to think i knew what sadness was.

i was wrong.

am i a woman now?

the air smells of fruit and smoke.

i try and control what i can.

you can have it all.

when the wind blows, you can hear it.

love was not what i thought it was.

it crept up on me despite myself.

peace is coming.

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݁ .⠀ ✩ OF RABBITS AND WOLVES. a collection of dialogue prompts from yaelokre's hayfields ep. some liberties taken to better fit the overall rpc, adjust as you wish.

i can hear the song of the ____.

i can sing a fear or a malady.

i drown deep in the wonder.

where do we go when the river's running slow?

where do we run?

the cats kill one by one.

enough for the hunt to go awry.

run, little rabbit.

where have you buried all your children?

tell me, so i say.

like your heart that was so eager to be hid.

you can't keep them all caged.

they will fight and run away.

mother, tell me.

like the stories that you keep inside your head.

you can't keep them all safe.

they will die and be afraid.

they'll be far and fly away.

a rake of claws against the mirror.

where does a mind like yours wonder?

you choose to weep.

the hound is humming you a lie, or a lullaby.

i'm stuck in the middle of a forest made of flesh and bones.

they're all scared of a lost little boy who has lost his heart.

fear's not enough, they have to tear him apart.

follow the scent of iron sinking deeper into corpses rotting.

they can't hear you talk about every little thing.

it clicks and it clatters in corners and borders.

they will never hear me here.

listen to croons and a calling.

i'll tell them all the story.

sing me the tale of the harpy and the hare.

hear the prattle of the birds flying our way.

will you stay to listen to me sing?

seeker, do you ever come to wonder if what you're looking for is within where you hold?

will you leave a trail for them to follow?

a path you'll soon forget.

how do i begin?

beneath the grove is a heart that's still in slumber.

you can remain.

will you stay and tell a tale?

would you want to tear it down to see better?

foolish dreamer, be awakened.

do not walk to where you were.

listen to the willow, listen to the sound.

listen to my voice, you should hear me now.

be still, be steady, and be.

how do you begin when the earth is ever changing?

home is where we are now.

home is where you are.

home is where i'm standing.

i'll be staying.

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݁ .⠀ ✩ REPLAY ROT. a collection of dialogue prompts from songs i've had on repeat lately, no rhyme or reason. some liberties taken to better fit the overall rpc, adjust as you wish.

give me your eyes.

i need sunshine.

your blood, your bones, your voice and your ghost.

we've both been very brave.

wait for the scary day.

we both pull the tricks out of our sleeves.

but i'll believe in anything.

and you'll believe in anything.

i'd share a life.

i'd take you where nobody knows you, and nobody gives a damn.

i could take another hit for you.

i could take the salt away from your eyes.

so changeable and such a lovable lamb to me.

there's nowhere to go but on.

heart on my sleeve, not where it should be.

the song's out of key again.

take it slow.

take it easy on me.

shed some light on me, please.

it's the dirtiest clean i know.

nothing will drive them away.

we can beat them, just for one day.

we can be heroes, just for one day.

you can be mean.

i'll drink all the time.

we're lovers, and that is that.

nothing will keep us together.

we kissed as though nothing could fall.

we can be heroes.

maybe we're lying, then you better not stay.

it's the terror of knowing what this world is about.

there are days it never rains, but it pours.

i turned away from it all like a blind man.

can't we give ourselves one more chance?

why can't we give love?

love's such an old fashioned word.

love dares you to care for the people on the edge of the night.

love dares you to change our way of caring about ourselves.

this is our last dance.

how can you just leave me standing alone in a world that's so cold?

maybe i'm just too demanding.

maybe i'm just like my father, too bold.

maybe you're just like my mother, she's never satisfied.

why do we scream at each other?

i never meant to cause you any sorrow.

i never meant to cause you any pain.

i only wanted to see you laughing.

i never wanted to be your weekend lover.

i only wanted to be some kind of friend.

it's such a shame our friendship had to end.

you can't seem to make up your mind.

things aren't black and white.

remember twenty-four?

now isn't that a laugh?

just trust me, you'll be fine.

you take the man out of the city, not the city out the man.

how'd it feel to take the light from my life?

i'm a sucker for looks.

you asked for it, here it is.

i think you're scared of being basic.

i don't want your money, i don't care for fame.

i guess i'll thank you and spite your name again.

how can i convince myself to stay?

that work just won't do itself.

you doubt me now?

i'll just wait another day.

thought that you were on my side.

lonesome is a state of mind.

the ___ i love is gone.

is this how the world is?

it'll always be like this?

everybody knows that walls have ears.

what's the use of your backbone if you never stand upright?

i'll be on my way.

who are they to say what the truth is anyway?

i believe that with each other, we're stronger than we know.

it isn't for the few to tell the many what to do.

where is the treasure inside of your chest?

where is your pleasure, where is your youth?

[chosenstars]

݁ .⠀ ✩ SEASONS OF LOVE. a collection of dialogue prompts from jeff buckley's grace album. some liberties taken to better fit the overall rpc, adjust as you wish.

this body will never be safe from harm.

touch my skin to keep me whole.

if only you'd come back to me.

i don't want to weep for you.

i'm blind and tortured.

i'm there in your arms.

i love you so.

the welts of your scorn, my love, give me more.

it's you i've waited my whole life to see.

it's you i've searched so hard for.

there's the moon, asking to stay.

it's my time coming, i'm not afraid.

i'm not afraid to die.

drink a bit of wine, we both might go tomorrow.

it reminds me of the pain i might leave behind.

so easy to know and forget with this kiss.

i'm not afraid to go, but it's going so slow.

this is our last goodbye.

i hate to feel the love between us die.

it's over.

just hear this and i'll go.

you gave me more to live for.

this is our last embrace.

must i dream and always see your face?

why can't we overcome this wall?

baby, maybe it's just because i didn't know you at all.

please, kiss me.

kiss me out of desire and not consolation.

you know it makes me so angry.

i know that in time, i'll only make you cry.

was the voice unkind in the back of your mind?

maybe you didn't know ___ at all.

i lost myself on a cool, damp night.

i was hypnotized by a strange delight.

it makes me see what i want to see.

when i think more than i want to think, i do things i never should do.

i drink much more than i ought to drink.

it brings me back to you.

i feel unsteady.

listen to me, i cannot see clearly.

where's my love?

why is everything so hazy?

let me sleep tonight on your couch.

i remember the smell of your simple city dress.

oh, that was so real.

we walked around 'til the moon got full.

i never stepped on the cracks 'cause i thought i'd hurt my mother.

i couldn't awake from that nightmare, it sucked me in and pulled me under.

but i'm afraid to love you.

you don't really care for music, do you?

well baby, i've been here before.

love is not a victory march.

there was a time when you let me know what's really going on.

all i've ever learned from love was how to shoot somebody who outdrew you.

it's not a cry that you hear at night.

maybe i'm too young to keep good love from going wrong.

you're on my mind.

i'm broken down and hungry for your love.

where are you tonight?

you know how much i need it.

i'm too young to hold on.

too old to just break free and run.

sometimes, a man gets carried away.

much too blind to see the damage he's done.

___ has no one.

i'll wait for you, and i'll burn.

will i ever see your sweet return?

will i ever learn?

lover, you should've come over.

it's not too late.

my body turns and yearns for a sleep that won't ever come.

it's never over.

my kingdom for a kiss upon your shoulder.

all my blood for the sweetness of your laughter.

you're the tear that hangs inside my soul forever.

maybe i'm just too young.

this wound is bleeding day and night.

your fantasies are broken in two.

did you really think this bloody road would pave the way for you?

crown my fear your king at the point of a gun.

where is the love in what your prophet has said?

i feel afraid and i call your name.

i hear your words and i know your pain.

i walk the streets to stop my weeping.

you'll never change your ways.

don't fool yourself.

you were heartache from the moment that i met you.

my heart feels so still.

i'm trying to find the will to forget you, somehow.

your love is a rose, pale and dying.

my heart is frozen still.

your love was a joke from the day that we met.

tell myself over and over that i won't ever need you again.

[chosenstars]

݁ .⠀ ✩ THE END STARTS NOW. a collection of dialogue prompts taken from part I of matthew stover's revenge of the sith novelization. some liberties taken to better fit the overall rpc, adjust as you wish.

the dark is generous.

there isn't a [ ... ] alive that can out[ fly/fight/etc ] you.

sorry, was that out loud?

i know what you're thinking.

easy for you to say.

why am i always the bait?

i'm running out of tricks here―

i can feel your jitters from all the way over here.

i should have been here.

everything dies. in time, even stars burn out.

you want to save everyone. you always do. but you can't.

you're going to get us both killed!

i hate it when they do that.

all right, it's a trap. next move?

you don't know what friendship is.

it is fatiguing, to play the villain for so long.

anticipation is distraction.

hope is as hollow as fear.

there is no other [ ... ] that i'd rather have at my side right now. no other man.

[ name ], behind you―!

this is not a problem.

gentleman ― a term i use in the loosest possible sense ― you are my prisoners.

this time, we do it together.

why do you find that difficult to believe?

you weren't so particular about bloodshed on [ ... ].

don't even speak her name.

now, there's a coincidence.

my my, the boy has some power after all.

i'm twice the [ ... ] i was last time!

my powers have doubled since we last met.

i sense great fear in you.

you are nothing but a posturing child.

aren't you a little old to be afraid of the dark?

don't fear what you're feeling, use it!

rage is your weapon.

i...i couldn't stop myself...

i shouldn't have done that.

you did well, [ name ].

it was wrong.

your revenge was justice.

revenge is never just.

you promised we would never talk about that again.

i have always kept your secrets, have i not?

but they also never had a hero like you.

you can save them. you can save everyone.

this is a rescue mission; your safety is my only priority.

i will never be safe while [ name ] lives.

don't panic. i can get us out of this.

um, have i missed something?

hang on. we're in a bit of a situation here.

it seemed like a good idea at the time―

no need to get defensive.

this is not the best plan we've ever had.

this was a plan?

i thought we were smarter than this.

so you get your way, after all.

i'm not gloating. i'm just...savoring the moment.

you have appointments with death.

we're trapped.

[chosenstars]

݁ .⠀ ✩ 𝒀𝑶𝑼 𝑪𝑨𝑵 𝑯𝑨𝑽𝑬 𝑰𝑻 𝑨𝑳𝑳 / 𝑨𝑵𝑫 𝑳𝑶𝑽𝑬. part eleven of a collection of prompts from florence + the machine's album. adjust as you wish.

i sit in salt water.

call in a vision of my daughter.

light a candle.

place my grief upon the altar.

a bird in my hands.

a flower, a song.

i used to think i knew what sadness was.

i was wrong.

a piece of flesh.

a million pounds.

am i a woman now?

the crescent moon.

the air smells of fruit and smoke.

the season is ripe.

i stay in the house.

try and control what i can.

i fell the world slip through my hand.

you can have it all.

dug a hole in the garden and buried a scream.

a bright red tree, shining with jagged leaves.

when the wind blows you can hear it.

tree grows tall.

can't cut me down.

love was not what i thought it was.

it crept up on me despite myself.

it was not a love song.

it was something else.

more like surrendering to something.

and more like resting than running.

peace is coming.

more like an animal crawling deep into a cave.

a romance novel heroine being swept away.

[chosenstars]

݁ .⠀ ✩ 𝑴𝑼𝑺𝑰𝑪 𝑩𝒀 𝑴𝑬𝑵 .ᐟ part ten of a collection of prompts from florence + the machine's album. adjust as you wish.

in every book in the house, notes from you fall out.

all the love that came my way, i found a way to push away.

i don't wanna be afraid anymore.

i don't want to run from love like i had before.

you put your headphones in so you didn't have to talk to me.

you have a bigger ego than you think you do.

slide down in my seat so as to not threaten you.

let it be us.

let it be home.

i know how to fall in love.

i do it constantly.

i fall in love with everyone i meet for ten minutes at least.

but then comes the work.

the resentments and the hurt.

i thought i was kind.

i tried to do something that was real life.

it's not like what i've seen in tv shows.

it's not like what i've read in books.

it's so much harder than it looks.

there isn't much applause.

it required practice, dedication.

i just got bored.

we discussed something called compromise.

fuck it, i might as well give music by a man a try.

let there be love.

let there be light.

let there be a quiet day and an easy night.

let me put out a record and have it not ruin my life.

let it not be a spotlight standing alone.

running back to the only love i could ever control.

[chosenstars]

݁ .⠀ ✩ 𝑫𝑹𝑰𝑵𝑲 𝑫𝑬𝑬𝑷. part nine of a collection of prompts from florence + the machine's album. adjust as you wish.

through bramble and briar, under ash and oak.

i went to find the hidden folk.

they gave me gowns and riches.

cut gold thread with their teeth.

every night i went to see them.

no, i did not sleep.

every cup they brought to me, you know i did drink deep.

drink deep.

my eyes began to hollow, my skin began to fade.

what i thought was a night was a thousand years.

what i thought was a sip was a thousand tears.

but still, they said drink deep.

the thread that they spun was a woman's hair.

the gowns stitched from her tenderest flesh.

the cup that they brought up to my lips.

i realized i drank of myself.

yes, it came from me.

it was made from me.

still, i drank deep.

[chosenstars]

݁ .⠀ ✩ 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑶𝑳𝑫 𝑹𝑬𝑳𝑰𝑮𝑰𝑶𝑵. part eight of a collection of prompts from florence + the machine's album. adjust as you wish.

and the old religion humming in your veins.

some animal instinct starting up again.

i am wound so tightly, i hardly even breathe.

you wonder why we're hungry for some kind of release.

so tired of being careful.

so tired of being still.

give me something i can crush, something i can kill.

a lightning strike, a fallen tree.

i'm afraid, don't let it find me.

you can't outrun yourself, you see.

i'm powerless, don't remind me.

it's the old religion.

but the urge remains the same.

freedom from the body, freedom from the pain.

it's your troubled hero back for season six.

when it's at its darkest, it's my favorite bit.

watch me crawl on hands and knees and scratch at the door of heaven.

and i'm powerless, i know, don't remind me.

[chosenstars]

݁ .⠀ ✩ 𝑲𝑹𝑨𝑲𝑬𝑵. part seven of a collection of prompts from florence + the machine's album. adjust as you wish.

sometimes my body feels so alien to me.

i quiet it down by watching tv.

i grow restless and grow hungry.

the water rises up around me.

you're so good looking it's obscene.

i put my fist into my mouth and scream.

some things, it seems, are catching up with me.

i should really stop watching.

all of my peers, they had such potential.

my love, i have to tell you.

i kissed them all and let them drown.

just another drunken groupie.

when your hand reached out, i just pushed you down.

well, do you see me now ?

a creature from the deep.

do i haunt you in your sleep ?

so tender as i caress your cheek.

did you know how big i would become ?

so glamorous and ravenous.

there's nothing you can do.

some things, it seems, are catching up with you.

do you see me now ?

you said i would be nothing, but look, i'm really something.

you've seen through the pain.

have you changed ? well, so have i.

do i terrify ?

[chosenstars]

݁ .⠀ ✩ 𝑩𝑼𝑪𝑲𝑳𝑬. part six of a collection of prompts from florence + the machine's album. adjust as you wish.

i want to call you on the telephone.

i made a thousand people love me.

now i'm all alone.

my resolve is sinking like a stone.

what would i even say ?

i guess it's something that just never goes away.

a crowd of thousands came to see me.

you couldn't reply for three days.

cause i'm stupid and i'm damaged.

and you're a disaster.

when you walk into the room, none of it matters.

oh, baby, i just buckle.

my resolution is in tatters.

i know it won't work.

make it ache, make it hurt.

keep me a secret, choose someone else.

i'm still hanging off the buckle on your belt.

you closed the door and left me screaming on the floor.

i can't take it anymore.

i let you walk all over me.

you make me think my therapy is a waste of money.

drink it down.

haunt your city.

falling for anyone awful who tells me i'm pretty.

i blocked your number but you didn't notice.

oh god, i thought i was too old for this.

i should be over it.

i'm much too old for this.

but i'm not over it.

i'll still be here.

[chosenstars]

݁ .⠀ ✩ 𝑷𝑬𝑹𝑭𝑼𝑴𝑬 𝑨𝑵𝑫 𝑴𝑰𝑳𝑲. part five of a collection of prompts from florence + the machine's album. adjust as you wish.

the body in bloom.

the falling leaves, the fallen fruit.

the rot and the ruin.

the seasons change, the world turns.

in a house in the woods on the edge of town.

bury it deep, swallow it down.

downloading revelations of divine love on my phone.

i'm trying to read, but getting distracted.

trying to live but feeling so damaged.

and all shall be well.

miracles are often inconvenient.

a prayer is a spell.

i packed my bags, and i got in the car.

a pilgrimage to wherever you are.

april comes with its blossoms beaten by the rain.

the hope and the horror, singing daffodils again.

clothes of silk and satin, lace and leather.

the one pink ribbon that holds me together.

and now i am changing, becoming something else.

a creature of longing tending only to myself.

licking my wounds.

well, healing is slow.

it comes and it goes.

a glimpse of the sun then a flurry of snow.

something is gained when something is lost.

the world turns.