rules! if you want MORE particulars you can find the longer page here
i'm going to be particular with who i choose to engage with. with material as dark as SH, i need to be wary about which ooc temperaments i'm bringing into my bubble. please don't take any offense if i don't follow back or softblock, it has nothing to do with you and everything to do with me. if i'm on the fence, knowing youve read my rules across the board is a good way to tip me over positively.
duplicate friendly. james clones are fantastic elements to make him suffer more, my favorite job
multis please specify muse <3
i stick to small text and sentence spacers but will use regular no space if you ask
james' history and timeline have been organised by me, they may not match perfectly with other interpretations but this is mine. i take elements of later games but largely keep canon compliant to SH2
james is lowkey a well meaning misogynist and struggles with being like. a normal human being. interactions will reflect that
on that note i am afab / queer and an extremely trans-inclusive super feminist. terfs eat nails and go away IDGAF
i will hold affiliates but largely no exclusives.. YET. and if i do those would be either maria or mary blogs since their relationship is so integral
non maria/mary shipping is totally open (ask first!) BUT it will nawwwt fix james. he's going to be either: diabolical (maria ending), drowning in self loathing while cheating on his wife (precanon), just generally kind of a grumpy asshole (precanon pre mary), drowning in depressive sorrow and single fatherhood for an asshat kid (leave ending), et cetera. james doesn't identify as bisexual and never will, but he does have Some feelings to the matter he's ignoring
similarly smut is also going to be present in text form here (non-text form on the sideblog). i think so many of james' problems center around sex that it needs to be included. HOWEVER. i cant guarantee it'll be good for anyone involved.
content is edited and made by me, but source elements will be linked in a baseline post i will put out soon. since a lot of elements, including the biography, are my own writing, avoid taking anything directly.
i don't think james is a villain. i don't hate him, and while your muse can, i dont know if we can engage successfully if you do
youre entitled to soft or hard block me if the content of this blog isnt right for you
i only rp with mutuals, and you are free to like this post once youve read the rules/carrd
dm me if you wanna plot anything! i dont want to say im plot based but i appreciate a good stepping off point
RESOLVE, HATEFUL RESOLVE. it's been following at your feet this entire trek, through every dislocated piece of vertebrae, through every brainstem-shattering fall. your ears ring. television static has invaded your cerebral, and frankly โ you're having a hard time remembering why this was a bad idea at all.
you're so damn tired. isn't this what every tired man wants, at the end of the day, to collapse into his wife's arms? what does it mean, that you trudged back through endless infested hospital corridors to check on her, what does it mean that you took on so many beastly swings to protect her? when you doubled back in the labyrinth to watch her hum through the cell bars? just to look at her? just to hope she'd say something, anything?
you don't push her off. your hands come up unbidden, curling around her shockingly delicate wrists. mary's wrists, mary's hands, every night huddled in on the couch while your back ached and she spared you a hand to clutch while she hummed and read. if you say no, you know the fight will come. you know she'll lash at you with that same sharp tongue your wife swore she never had. ( maybe she didn't. maybe it was the illness, degrading her self as much as it did her body. it is too late to ask. )
you stare at maria, open, wanting. how long has it been, since anyone looked at you like that? three years, or maybe three hours : the prison cell she'd reached out to you through. something shaped like her, anyway. you think you get it. this place has trapped her in as surely as it's trapped you. despite everything, you understand mary better now than you ever did, before. suffering hardens a person. makes them angrier, more irritated at writhing nurses than afraid. you look at her eyes, flickering between a blue and a brown, between a maria and mary. with your right hand, you reach for her face, just to make sure โ and she is warm. warmth, isn't that the only thing you want? need? your body, traitorous, imagines everything she says. a life of no mistakes. you can't fail with her. if she dies, you'll try again, and again, and again. you'll find her in silent hill. you'll take her home with you, to a bed you haven't shared in eons. a miracle : the illness is gone. until it comes back. you're exhausted. you hear your voice like it comes from another man, dead, ragged. you can't remember to blink. โ i did kill her. and maybe i'll kill you, too. โ
โ i just want you to stop pretending. i know you tried, but you're not mary. โ you brush aside that lock of hair in her eyes like you've done it a million times ( you have ) and sigh, staggering back, sitting heavy on the strange, misplaced iron bed. you're still watching her, a little surprised that your hand hasn't left its grip on her wrist. โ you're something else. something ... made for me. i see that now. i really don't want to fight you, maria. โ
โหโน ใ คa collection of loose quotes taken from various characters from hades (supergiant games). these quotes are from the first game of the series. writing/roleplaying prompts. from fluff to angst! feel free to edit as you see fit, especially since some are gendered.
โ iโm leaving. try and stop me. โ
โ that could have gone better. โ
โ why canโt you just stay? โ
โ i wish you could come with me. โ
โ youโre coming with me. โ
โ i have to take you back. โ
โ but for you, i will be making an exception. โ
โ whewโฆ theyโre gone. โ
โ now, come on, we got places to be! โ
โ may the fates favour your journey. โ
โ oh you know, iโd rather have my eyes put out, but thanks for offering! โ
โ if onlyโฆ โ
โ you should be ashamed of yourself, and learn your place. โ
โ ahh, so you are taking pity on me, then? โ
โ iโm sorry that it has to be this way. โ
โ youโre late. โ
โ will i see you soon? โ
โ did you miss me? โ
โ iโm home. โ
โ weโre heading home. โ
โ youโฆ came back? โ
โ i hope i didnโt keep you waiting very long, did i? โ
โ is something wrong? โ
โ i canโt believe this. โ
โ iโm in your debt. โ
โ thereโs going to be payback, you know. โ
โ โฆ damn you. โ
โ this is for you. โ
โ do you remember me? my name isโah, nevermind. โ
โ iโm not who you think i am. โ
โ keep following that heart of yours. โ
โ to hell with this place! โ
โ fear is for the weak. โ
โ oh, look at you, you poor, poor thing, youโre hurt! โ
โ youโre such a sweetheart. โ
โ you brought this on yourself. โ
โ no need to thank me, mate. โ
โ please, i donโt want to do thisโฆ โ
โ you donโt have to do thisโฆ โ
โ only the best for you. โ
โ i hope youโre right. โ
โ gods grant me strengthโฆ โ
โ that is the worst idea i think iโve ever heard. โ
โ do you understand how little sense that makes? โ
โ look what i found! โ
โ somethingโs changed about the beating of your heart. โ
โ no wonder they donโt like you. โ
โ wish i could be there to see your face. โ
โ iโll earn your favour yet. โ
โ how bad could it be? โ
โ hello there, handsome. โ
โ โฆ this is the cheesiest thing iโve heard from you. โ
โ what has gotten into you? โ
โ blood and darkness! โ
โ lucky for you, iโve no pride like many others here. โ
โ itโs over. iโm sorry. โ
โ go. away. i wonโt repeat myself. โ
โ i knew your heart was true. โ
โ letโs kiss and make up! โ
โ mischief, me? oh please! โ
โ i donโt know how you can stand this kind of thingโฆ โ
โ you tried. thatโs what matters. โ
โ a man after my own heartโฆ โ
โ why wonโt you give up? โ
โ ever so stubborn, arenโt you? โ
โ life and death, one and the same. โ
โ youโre running from yourself. again. โ
โ what do you want from me? leave me alone. weโve nothing to discuss anymore. โ
โ i cannot bring myself to stay upset with you forever. โ
โ the truth is iโm a lover, not a fighter. โ
โ i have to see her! โ
โ so how goes wilful disobedience of late? โ
โ you think all these gifts will make things go back to the way they were? โ
โ weโre older nowโiโd hope weโre wiser, too. โ
โ i have to go. โ
โ we were having such a good time! โ
โ time is up. โ
โ youโre so reckless. โ
โ thank you for always keeping me on my toes. โ
โ your luckโs run out. โ
โ i donโt know why i bother with you, honestly. โ
โ may i call you my friend? โ
โ iโd like to make a toast, to you! โ
โ no need for special thanks. โ
โ iโve some memories iโm not quite ready to give up on yet. โ
โ iโll break your heart. โ
alive again oops. i will be ( slowly ) getting through replies i owe, but do feel free to send in ask memes or hit me up if you'd like a starter (even if we have other threads going) <3
sometimes i think of a younger, more hopeful james, scouring library books and medical texts just hoping, hoping, that he'll find something with an easy answer, something obvious, something that'll fix mary right up so they can go back to the life they had.
@f1ndher said: โit doesnโt do any good to get worked up.โ
" What the hell would you know?" Billy questioned. " Because I think that would be fun. Have you even tried to fight any of these things or do you puss out?" He looked around, eyes landing on a thick pipe. He picked it up and swung it in his hand. " Hell yeah. Let's do this." Was he even questioning what these were or what was really going on? No. Billy was kill first ask questions later. These clearly weren't humans so it was fine. He could get away with it and he had plenty of tension to burn off. " I have a knife on me too."
NERVOUS, UGLY ANTICIPATION. you're not a fighter, not really, never have been. a bad punch that missed, in a barfight you weren't even part of : that's as close as you've ever been to real violence. โ a knife! what โ you're acting insane. these things... you don't even know if they can die. โ
you twist your hands together, watching the young man pick up your dropped pipe. your palm still buzzes from the impact of using it, dropped next to a still nurse that would've already slashed at your throat open if she hadn't been dealt with. the handgun weighs heavy in your pocket ; you take a step back to retain the distance between the two of you. โ i'm sorry, i'm not โ i need to do this alone. โ
a comprehensive post about how all three of those present in silent hill together (james, angela, eddie) have forms of trauma that allow the other to play alternating, negative roles within the other person's silent hill. james representing well-meaning but useless school counsellors for eddie, representing dismissive and dangerous men for angela, so on
similar post on sh2 remake and the combat and what that means for what each monster represents for james (mentioned in the bio but the nurses being stronger and catching his melee weapon and being more aggressive because theyre stronger women who can call him out yk)
an elden ring verse where james, initially a tarnished, falls into being an avid follower of fia out of a vague thought that he can bring mary back through deathbed companion nonsense
chainsaw man verse </3 i gotta catch up... i miss writing makima
generic supernatural horror verse where james as a man who killed his wife becomes haunted by her ghost
evil within verse to fulfull the cool jacket middle aged widower gamer trinity
thinking about how james would fit into silent hill 3... heather muses psst i'm a bit stumped here since her story is fairly well rounded on its own
more mary metas given that james is a profoundly selfish and weak willed asshole that does What He's Supposed To but mary still insists that he's a wonderful person. mary the type of mf to post a tiktok complaining about james getting himself an xbox for HER birthday and then coming on to defend her man because 'you cant know everything based off fifteen seconds guys". but also less jokingly a more thoughtful discussion on how her terminal illness was extra awful because her husband sucked balls
MARIA!!!! MARIA๐๐๐๐๐๐ my goat my gorgina ๐ iโm trying to practise rendering more and Iโm rlly happy with how this turned out!!
