[dominaelumine]

❝ 𝖨𝖳 𝖦𝖤𝖳𝖲 𝐃𝐀𝐑𝐊 𝖶𝖧𝖤𝖭 𝑰 𝖲𝖠𝖸 𝖨𝖳 𝖣𝖮𝖤𝖲 ❞  ✧  —   independent, private tandy bowen (dagger!)  from marvel’s cloak and dagger (2018-2019), marvel comics, and my own imagination. mcu critical & crossover friendly! 21+ (minors do not interact). penned by eva, (she / her), 24 years old. 

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[dominaelumine]

sorry for another slow period, I’m on holiday this week! hope to get to some replies at the weekend.

[castlewyvern]

Cloak & Dagger artwork by Daniel Murray

[mcflymemes]

PROMPTS FROM THE STAR WARS - THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK SCRIPT *  assorted lines from the 1980 SCRIPT written by lawrence kasdan and leigh brackett (so it might not be accurate to the actual film), adjust as necessary

i've finished my circle and i haven't picked up any life readings.

i'm heading back to the base.

i'll see you shortly.

what's the matter? you smell something?

it's going to be difficult to spot approaching ships.

you're leaving?

you're an extraordinary fighter. i hate to lose you.

well, don't get all mushy on me.

you said you were going to stay. what happened?

don't give me that look.

you're so terrified of your own emotions.

you want me to stay because of the way you feel about me.

i respect you. you're a bold fighter, maybe not the brightest...

you're imagining things.

i say you came running after me because you were afraid i was leaving you without even a kiss.

believe me, you could use a good kiss.

i've had it with your noble mission.

we'll meet again. maybe you'll have grown up a little by then.

i'll see you in hell.

you must survive, [name].

come on, buddy, you aren't dead yet. give me a sign here. don't do this, [name], it's not your time.

we haven't got much time.

nice of you guys to drop by.

we have a visitor.

whatever it is, it isn't friendly.

i'm afraid there's not much left.

now don't panic. we don't know that.

i think we've found them.

how do you know it's them?

does it still hurt?

what would you think if i went away for a while?

what do you mean, you took care of that?

that's two you owe me, junior.

i don't know what he's talking about.

you must have gone completely out of your feeble mind.

we must hold them off until all our ships are safely away.

don't worry. you haven't seen the last of us.

let's get out of here before we become permanent residents.

it's no good! i can't see!

i don't know if there's anyone left alive in there.

someday you're going to be wrong, and i just hope i'm there to see it.

you don't have to do this to impress me.

if you said you thought coming here was a bad idea, i'm beginning to agree with you.

being held by you isn't enough to get me excited.

i must admit there are times i don't understand human behavior.

i'm looking for someone.

hey, that's my dinner!

my hands are dirty.

why are you trembling?

i happen to like nice men.

we've discussed this before.

i will not fail you. i'm not afraid.

that is why you fail.

it's not my fault! i can't understand it!

i'm still not sure what you've accomplished.

not bad, hot shot. not bad.

i feel cold.

i always said you were a gentleman.

sorry, am i interrupting anything?

would you care to join me for a little refreshment?

once you've made this decision, i cannot interfere.

i was worried about you.

i've done what i can for you.

show yourself, or do you fear me?

you'll find i'm full of surprises.

i'll die first.

you are beaten. it is useless to resist.

[nylovebug]

tandy's hands drop at the sound of her name, her movement becomes more fluid, she looks around with eyes capable of actually focusing, and when she speaks it sounds more like tandy—that calculating quick mind already forming a plan and turning out instructions for andie to follow.

what if they followed you to your home?

tommy. andie goes still, this time, her breathing coming in faster. tandy might be wrong, but she might be right, too. and andie doesn't live alone. "i don't live alone." it's as close to a plea right now as she can get with panic starting to choke her. "i have to-" there's an aborted half-tutm to leave. she needs tandy to signal that it's okay to go because andie won't leave her here. (even if tandy is capable, more capable than andie, she's responsible now for all of this but also for being tandy's friend. she won't leave her alone.)

selfishly, she wants for tandy to come with but the words won't come. she can't ask that; andie won't pull tandy away from her own crisis. there should be a way that she can hold this all together—put tandy's home back in order like every detail hasn't been carefully picked through and then haphazardly discarded, and ease the burn in her heart that says her uncle needs her, now, but there isn't.

[dominaelumine]

ah, shit.

if tandy is being honest with herself, she threw out the suggestion mostly to stop andie from looking at her. not that she wants the other girl to panic- in fact, she was hoping the suggestion would be shrugged off, that andie in actuality lives alone. ha. as if anyone but the uber rich of new york city afford that luxury.

tandy is pretty good in a crisis. meaning that if someone else is having one, she's fine- as long as she isn't at the eye of the storm, she can weather just about anything. it doesn't matter if she's dying- she can detach, untether, step outside of herself and into someone else's problems.

"alright, let's go. fuck this-" tandy sweeps an arm over the ruined church, "I don't even want to look at this right now. let's go."

[65ths-arch]

“well,” his head picks up, eyes scanning around the cafeteria space at all the people who occupy it— twelve and thirteen citizens indistinguishable in the sea of jumpsuits. tandy has a point. the district is creepy during the day. “the lack of clones is at the very least unsettling. trust me.”

he bites into his toast. "cause of this place?" it's not a superstition he's heard, or one he would've expected, but his curiosity is certainly piqued. "back home you did everything in odds on ships-- you brought everything in odds... threes, fives, thirteens too." it was mostly superstition, but it became so natural for supply loads. if asked, he'd probably instinctively reach for an odd amount of whatever was needed.

"everything is a bit surreal, tandy. everything."

[dominaelumine]

"nah, not because of here. something else, I think... before the districts and the capitol," tandy presses a hand to the side of her face, trying to think. she's not really hungry. she's not been eating much of anything recently. "I think... maybe it had something to do with some old religion? my dad told me about it once-"

thirteen gathered together to dine...

"-ugh, I can't remember exactly. he probably didn't even know," that's her dad all over- over-promise, under-deliver, "maybe they were tempting fate with thirteen districts."

she likes to think of finnick on the water- despite her own aversion to it.

"yeah, I know. I didn't mean..." to trivialise? to simplify? "do you ever think... I don't know... that survival isn't the better option?"

[dominaelumine]

not to be arrogant or anything but I reckon I could create a good Sherlock Holmes adaptation

[dominaelumine]

two routes we can go down. dev patel holmes and riz ahmed watson. ft. sanjeev bhaskar mycroft. fundamentally has to be a version of my favourite acd story: the speckled band.

alternately. john heffernan holmes and david jonsson watson. ft. toby stephens mycroft. 10/10 would kill a hound of the baskervilles.

[dominaelumine]

not to be arrogant or anything but I reckon I could create a good Sherlock Holmes adaptation

[darehearts-archived]

❝ we can help each other. and get that gun out of my face. ❞

❝          how  do  i  know  you’re  one  of  the  vigilantes  running  around  the  city  and  not  someone  else       ?          ❞       Jim’s  voice  is  a  flat,       wary  note  as  he  confronts  the  woman,       his  hand  gripping  the  gun  with  a  firm  resolve.       the  encounter  has  taken  an  unexpected  turn,       &       he's  cursing  himself  inwardly  for  not  being  more  circumspect.       operating  in  space  has  perhaps  imbued  him  with  a  sense  of  overconfidence,       which  is  an  oversight  he  didn't  anticipate  becoming  an  issue  back  on  Earth.       a  moment  of  tense  silence  hangs  between  them  before  he  concedes  albeit  grudgingly.       ❝          fine     .  .  .       if  you  wanted  to  kill  me,       i’d  probably  be  on  the  receiving  end  of  your  'light  show'  by  now.          ❞       with  a  measured  motion,       he  adjusts  the  setting  on  his  phaser  to  stun  before  lowering  it.       then,       he  slips  it  back  into  its  holster.       ❝          all  right,       i’ll  go.       my  name’s  James  Kirk.       i  work  for  S.W.O.R.D.  and  you  just  scared  away  the  one  person  who  had  a  lead  for  my  mission.          ❞

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[dominaelumine]

"if I were anyone else, you'd already be dead," tandy says, eyeing the gun with a half-grin. bold words for a five-foot-two blonde with nothing in the way of muscle tone, but she packs more of a punch than her appearance suggests.

after a tense moment of silence, the man with the gun concedes.

"look at us, already agreeing on something," tandy says, clapping her hands together. tiny sparks shed from her fingertips, dissipating to nothing in the cold air. she's more relieved than she lets on- she doesn't like dealing with unknown quantities, and that's what he is. unknown.

james kirk. S.W.O.R.D. the former doesn't ring a bell, but the latter does: "you work in space?" cool aloofness briefly cracks to reveal childish excitement, "cool. what are you doing down here?"

oh, he's on a mission. how grand and important. at the accusation, the shutters come back down over her face. "well, I'm sorry, but you were going to get your ass kicked. you obviously need somebody who knows their way around here. what's your mission?"

[isbrilliant]

"nutmeg wholesaler," she repeats. she does a little gesture towards her, just to drive the entire thing home. "i'll tell you what, i've never once looked at anyone who tried to talk to me in the street. i don't care if they're an environmentalist or the ceo of tesco's."

any time she has stopped to talk, it's ended in trouble. to be specific: alien related trouble.

she tosses her head back with a groan. "you did make us signs. we're going to get in so much trouble."

[dominaelumine]

"that's my whole point! no one looks at anyone trying to sell something, so we'll go completely unnoticed. there's no one more unwanted than an annoying person," tandy says, in her best all-knowing voice.

they're lucky to live in such a self-absorbed era, really. no wonder all the strangeness of the universe mostly goes unremarked upon.

"you can either have 'no bees, no earth'," tandy says, brandishing one sign at donna, "or you can have 'planet murderer'. it depends how aggressive you want to be." the protest is about oil leaking into a local nature reserve... except, as donna and tandy suspect, it might be something worse than oil.

[mcflymemes]

PROMPTS FOR TELLING A BIG SECRET *  assorted dialogue, adjust as necessary

when you have a moment, we should talk.

there's a lot you don't know.

i'm not who you think i am.

i lied about a lot of things, but i never lied to you about how i felt.

i had a feeling you would ask me about that someday.

i'm not actually [name].

you should probably sit down for this.

before i say anything, i need to make sure you're ready to hear this.

everything you've ever known is a lie.

i was given strict instructions not to tell you what happened.

do you want to know the truth about what happened to your parents?

when i tell you the truth, you'll hate me.

after all this time, i think you deserve to know the truth.

i've been keeping a lot from you.

if you don't tell me the truth, i'm leaving.

stop lying to my face.

they didn't tell you what really happened to your parents.

it's time for you to hear the truth.

everyone knows you're special.

i think i should tell you something.

i'm honestly not sure how to go about telling you.

they haven't always been honest with you.

remember that? that was a lie.

you'll figure it out sooner or later. might as well be the one to tell you.

that was never real.

i'm tired of the lies. i want the truth.

was that the truth, or just another lie?

was any of this real?

you're not actually one of them.

i don't think you can handle the truth.

give me an honest answer for once.

you wouldn't believe me if i told you.

you're different than the rest.

where have you been sneaking off to?

you want me to tell you everything? fine.

don't say i didn't warn you.

you told me you were going out. why did you lie?

what lies have you told me?

some things are best left unsaid.

ignorance is bliss, you know.

they never told you what really happened to [name].

you'd be better off not knowing the truth.

you've never been told the truth about what happened.

i think it's time you were told the truth about your parents.

there's something you need to know.

i can't keep a secret from you.

were you lying to me this whole time?

what have you been keeping from me?

you're not actually from there.

there's something else i need to tell you, something you're not gonna like.

promise me you won't hate me when i tell you.

i can't believe you've kept this from me.

i think i deserve the truth.

if you can't tell me everything, at least give me a hint.

so that's what you've been keeping from me this whole time?

who told you to lie to me?

when were you planning on telling me the truth?

i think i can trust you with this.

[packing-it-up]

366 characters in 2020 (in no particular order)

#92 ❣ Tandy Bowen (Cloak and Dagger)

[dominaelumine]

driving (theory) test today lads. brain go brrrrr 🚗

[dominaelumine]

I passed!! just the practical test to go

[dominaelumine]

driving (theory) test today lads. brain go brrrrr 🚗

[princessnamora]

Olivia Holt as Pam Miller in Totally Killer (2023)

[mjpeters]

MARVEL’S CLOAK & DAGGER | 2.01

[mcflymemes]

"YOU'RE THE ONLY PERSON I CAN TURN TO" PROMPTS *  adjust as necessary, send 'reverse' for the reversal of action prompts

DIALOGUE PROMPTS

i'm sorry if this is a bad time, but i need your help.

this is a matter of life and death.

trust me, if i could go to someone else, i would.

i know you don't owe me a thing, but i'm desperate.

this is the last time i ask you for help. i promise.

please don't make me do this by myself.

you're the only one who knows how to do this.

all right, all right, i'm sorry! now will you help me?

i didn't know who else to turn to.

this was the last place i wanted to go.

you know what i'm dealing with. you have all the answers.

please. this is worse than i imagined and i need your help.

you promised them you'd help me.

can we put our feelings aside? i really need your help.

i won't ever ask you for help ever again.

would you just listen to me for two seconds?

i'll explain everything. please come back inside.

i hate this just as much as you do.

i ran out of options.

i don't know how else to ask you.

you're the only person who will listen to me.

you've got to help me out with this.

this is my last chance.

just help me with this, and i'll be out of your hair for good.

i wouldn't come here for nothing.

you're the only person i can rely on.

i trust you to help me.

you helped them. why can't you help me? what makes me so different?

look. put our pasts aside and just help me, would you?

you're my last resort.

it all hangs in the balance.

this is do or die.

you promised me you'd help if it came down to it.

are you busy? i could use your help.

ACTION PROMPTS

[ stormy ] sender arrives at receiver's doorstep soaking wet

[ bloody ] sender arrives at receiver's doorstep bleeding and injured

[ call out ] sender calls out to receiver to help them in a moment of grave danger

[ text ] sender texts receiver asking for them to swing by and save them from a bad or awkward situation

[ call ] sender calls receiver in a time of need

[ wait ] sender is waiting in receiver's house when they come home, there to plead their case and ask for receiver's help

[ find ] sender locates receiver after hours of searching and pleads for their help

[ shout ] sender shouts receiver's name, desperate for help

[ panic ] sender approaches receiver in a panic and tries to explain to them what's going on

[ hide ] sender hides behind receiver's body

[ stranger ] sender desperately asks receiver, a stranger, for help with something

[ reluctant ] sender reluctantly asks for receiver's help

[ refuse ] sender refuses to help receiver