FLOAT LIKE A BUTTERFLY. SCREAM LIKE A BANSHEE.

[fatecalled]

#fatecalled // is an ( almost ) exclusively original character multi-muse blog spanning various fandoms, original settings, and genres. semi-private with low activity and aesthetics, this is a 21+ only blog which will contain mature and potentially triggering content. please guard your own peace and curate your own experience and block if necessary. written by dinah ( 38, she/her, pst ).

obsessed with: coming soon

general rules, info, and muses under the covers.

don't be shitty ( bigots get blocked )

expect low activity, but high enthusiasm

making graphics and fussing with fancy formatting is exhausting for me so you won't find it here

extremely oc-friendly

ship-positive

triggering content will not be tagged ( consider this your warning )

this blog is not follow for follow

rules can and will be updated and changed as needed

current muse list. updating slowly.

baldur's gate/dungeons & dragons: aridani spira ( tav ) | college of creation bard/cleric of ilmater . mephistopheles tiefling ( pinterest x. ) #hallowhymn

hemlock ( alt tav ) | archfey warlock/circle of spores druid . asmodeus tiefling ( pinterest x. ) #bloomrot

maelyrra acollessi ( the dark urge ) | divine soul sorcerer . high elf ( pinterest x. ) #redtender original characters:

coming soon.

[mythshire]

✦ ⋆ 𖤓 ⋆ ✦ 𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐎𝐃 𝐎𝐍 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐒𝐋𝐄𝐄𝐕𝐄 ··· a collection of injuries tended in silence, pain worn like armour, the intimacy of being seen at your worst. genre: hurt and comfort, angst, romance, drama.

• You're bleeding through your shirt. Don't tell me you're fine. • How long have you been walking around like this? • I'm not going to hurt you. I just need to see how bad it is. • You should have told me the moment it happened. • Hold still. I mean it. Hold still. • This is going to sting. Bite down on something if you need to. • You've been hiding this for days, haven't you. • Who did this to you? I need you to tell me who did this. • Stop being brave for five minutes and let me help you. • I've seen worse. I've also seen men die from worse, so let me look at it. • I found the bandages in the trash. You want to explain that? • Don't you dare apologize for bleeding on me. • Your hands are cold. That's not a good sign. • I'm not angry. I'm terrified. There's a difference. • Come into the light. Let me see your face. • You should have stitches. I know you won't go. So sit down and let me do what I can. • You're white as a sheet and still trying to stand up straight. • I could hear you in the night. I didn't say anything. I'm saying something now. • Don't look at it if it makes it worse. Just look at me. • It's not weak to let someone see you hurt. • You came to me. Of all the places you could have gone, you came here.  • Lay back. You're not getting up until the color comes back to your face. • I'm not going to ask what happened. Not yet. First let me fix what I can. • You've been holding your left side since you walked in. Think I didn't notice? • This is going to leave a mark. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. • I've patched up a lot of people in my time. None of them scared me like you do right now. • You could have died out there. You could have died and I would have been the last person to know. • Sleep. I'll be right here when you wake up. I'm not going anywhere. • You're allowed to make a sound. Nobody's watching. • I need you to stay awake for me. Just a little longer. Talk to me. • You're lucky the cut wasn't deeper.  • Stop apologizing for needing help. Stop it right now. • I've seen what it looks like when someone's used to this. That's what scares me most about you. • Tell me your name. Tell me what day it is. Stay with me. • You're going to be alright. I promise you.  • You went back out there after this? With this? • Nobody takes care of you, do they? That ends tonight. • I've been gentle with you. I need you to be honest with me in return. • You're safe now. You're here, you're safe, and I've got you. Just breathe.

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꒷꒦꒷꒦༉‧🕯️‧₊˚.THE DARKNESS SEEMED TO BREATHE . . a collection of HORROR ROLEPLAY SENTENCE STARTERS based on horror films. genre: horror, thriller, mystery, crime.

Who's there?

Who are you? What are you doing in my house?

Please put the lamp down. I mean you no harm.

Show yourself!

What are you talking about? Who are you?

I am a ghost. I am a ghost. I am a ghost.

You can't leave the room abruptly without closing off with me.

Can you repeat to me what we are doing?

I'm dead. I was murdered in this room.

Murdered by whom?

A demon. It had a look of utter malevolence on its face.

An evil hell-bent on killing me, staring at me from two dark caverns.

I am the medium to the family that owns this house.

You are a ghost and you are haunting their house

You are a ghost and you're haunting my own house.

[Name], how long have I been dead?

I can't tell you that, [name].

So, I am a ghost. And you're trying to get rid of me.

Why can't I see you?

I remember meeting you for the first time. I thought you were a ghost.

I remember you asking me how I died.

That's usually where the story ends.

Can the family see me? Are there any children?

I'm the only one who can communicate with you.

Are they adversely affected by my presence?

They still feel your presence, [name].

That's what the family witnesses. That's why they hired me.

I was about to clean and now I'm dead.

Do you see how this is perplexing to me?

What did you do before you came in here?

Hauntings are nothing more than emotional imprints in time.

Well, if haunting is nothing more than imprints in time, shouldn't the living be able to haunt a house, as well?

I just don't know how to answer that question.

I feel like I just woke up from a dream in which I was alive.

You can't leave this room without closing off with me.

Before you leave, you have to walk through me.

It's different for every spirit. Every soul has a different solution.

Have you banished many spirits?

I wouldn't call it banishing, I'm guiding you into the next place.

I've guided every spirit I've met.

I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

I still feel like I'm waking up from a dream.

You used that the last time to calm me down.

What is it about that song?

I told you that the only way for me to jog your memory is if I repeat something that you specifically taught me.

Don't apologize. I'm used to it.

My family left me in this house, you know. To die,

Are you sure I can't just leave this house?

You're just passing through a memory.

What if I would open that door and leave this house, never to come back?

I've never done that or allowed any of the spirits to do that.

Perhaps I'll be like one of those legends in which a lady haunts the roads and lakes.

You don't really want that, do you?

I don't expect you to believe this, but I'm more concerned with guiding you to where you have to be than the well being of this family.

What's the worst that can happen, [name], honestly? I'm a ghost.

No spirit has ever told me that it was unpleasant.

People are often afraid of what they don't understand.

What's that noise?

Shh. It's just the machine getting warm.

Please! I'm scared!

I died. I died right here in a pool of my own blood.

I can't. The pain is too strong.

My mother used to tell me that I had a demon inside of me and that I needed to be exorcised.

I don't know. I would black out and before I knew it, 10 minutes would've passed. And terrible things happened.

I remember waking up from a blackout and my hand was wounded and bleeding.

My father wanted to take me to the doctor, but my mother just wanted to throw me in a lake.

It didn't dawn on me until three days later that they weren't coming back.

They left me here to die. They left me here to die.

I understand what it's like to be different. Believe me.

You and I are not unlike each other. You have to trust me.

I'm pretty sure that I trust you.

What should be happening right now?

Usually, you see a light and I guide you into it.

I see no light. And I can still hear you.

I know you're not ready to walk into the light.

In my experience, after spirits close off with me, they can freely walk about without any memory loss.

I just don't know if it's a good idea.

I screamed. I screamed out of fear.

I'm often terrified of night myself.

I've seen night and I've seen blackness.

This was nothing, and I've never experienced anything more frightening.

You become tremendously conscious, you can see each of your memories as they've been imprinted in time.

I'm in my bedroom and there's no one here.

Have I no memories implanted here?

Are you telling me that these are all nothing more than reflections of myself?

One of them looked right at me and another one heard me, I think.

It… it was pure horror staring at myself.

I'm scared to see what happens in this room.

I don't… I was murdered in this room. I don't know if I can handle seeing that.

You were not stabbed repeatedly by a man nor a monster.

You weren't killed by a man. You killed yourself.

You stabbed yourself repeatedly on that rug in this room.

I was killed by a man in this room. I know what I saw and I know what I felt!

You saw yourself in every room in this house except this one.

You're talking to a disembodied voice, and I converse with dead people.

I can see myself in every room in this house but this one.

I don't know why any of this is happening.

When you killed yourself in this room, you released not one soul, but two into this house.

You may have released two souls when you died, but they are still two halves of the person who lived.

I can't guide you into the light without your other half.

If I released two souls into this house, why haven't I seen him?

Why do you think you blacked out when you were alive?

How long has it been since you've spoken with me?

I have no memory of what may have frightened me here.

I never went there. I'll never go there.

This is a house for the living, not the dead.

Seek the light. Go to where you belong.

I've lived in your body for my entire life, living your insipid existence, hearing your futile pleas for answers…

I had to answer to your stupid name as it was called, lashing out whenever I could.

I tried to escape you, but you kept me at bay.

I've been called a demon and a monster, and yet I'm the victim.

I hoped for release when I killed you.

I hoped for freedom and light and all I attained was a prison…

For this reason, I sought you. For your death, I yearn.

Your god is dead!

No, I don't want to die!

Are you doing it? Are you guiding us?

I'm frightened. I don't know what to do.

I'm scared. There's no light. Everything's going dark.

Everything will be fine. I am a ghost. I am a ghost.

[fatecalled]

push / >:3 carver and maven because i have v v old needs

Despite her height, Maven hit like a battering ram. The bulk of her guardsman armor clanging unceremoniously against his templar issue as she drove her shoulder into his midsection and shoved him with all her might from the path of a lash of lightning. The ground where Carver once braced now little more than rubble. Pride with its head thrown back and great maw stretched wide in a roar that shook the stone around them.

" Big — big one . . . " she panted, picking herself and her discarded sword up, " I didn't know they made them so big. Why didn't they go over that in the Chant? " One blood-spattered gauntlet reached out to help hoist him to his feet. Only a moment to catch a breath while the remainder of her unit intercepted the abomination. "Are you alright? Where are all of these things coming from?! "

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hospital / i would like some rhino and evie uwu plz... plz treat his woondz

" Good morning, sunshine. "

Judging by the dim light beating helplessly at the dark corners of the room from the lantern at the bedside, there was neither morning nor sunshine to greet him. Instead it was Evelyn, gold hair piled high on her head and streaked suspiciously with what might have been soot, looming over him with curious, calculating eyes.

She smiled, but it was tense at the corners, still unsure there would be cause to smile if those eyes didn't focus properly. " I need you to look right here, okay? " A finger cut a path across his line of sight to settle in front of her nose. " You took a hell of a hit the other day. "

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i don’t want you to be alone. / can i interest sylvi in some robb???

He stank of chivalry.

Considerations for propriety and her safety should have been comforting — especially when she found herself in the clutches of the cold and barely hospitable North for the time being — but all she wanted to do was get farther away. Leave him and his good intentions in her wake. " I've done quite well for myself thus far, my lord. I can continue to manage alone. "

The managing was probably a stretch in reality however. The fur mantle of her threadbare cloak pulled tightly to her as she trudged through the muck and mire, flushed nose stuck in the air. Still, careful not to stray too close to the main road lest she tempt another trample by horse and rider like the one that had their paths crossing in the first place. " Now run along. "

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“When I said scars are kinda sexy, I didn’t mean you should get one right away…” / mr glenn rhee at penelope !

The laugh was a pitiful thing. A sob repurposed hastily in an effort to save what little face she had left. To not spurn the kindness Glenn offered during a time when the world felt bereft of any gentleness. " Does it really look that bad? " Was it as horrible as it felt? Each heaving breath sending a burst of white hot heat down her back.

Only once they'd managed to roost securely atop the fire escape, kept well above and away from the grasping hands and moans down below, Penelope gingerly shrugged herself out of the backpack and jacket she wore. She didn't have the same grace Glenn did when it came to jumping fences and a frayed bit of chain-link had sliced right through the thin fabric and into the soft flesh of her shoulder blade.

" I've got the kit in my pack. One sec. " It didn't take too long the fish the small Rite-Aid first aid kit from the bottom of her pack. Its weight enough to tell her they were running low even before she passed it behind her. " Give it to me straight, doc. Can the shirt be saved? "

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let me get you something for the pain. / evelyn and ms jessica jones pls :'))

" No, no it's fine. " Evie tried to pull herself from the squeaky desk chair that seemed just as eager to get away from her. Wheels groaning in protest as the it nearly rolled its way out from under her before the sharp pain in her ribs forced her to slouch back into it. It was not fine. " Really . . . just give me two — okay maybe ten — seconds to catch my breath and then I'll be out of your hair. " Which looked quite nice today, she noticed. Happy to finally let her ever-meandering thoughts focus on something that wasn't her insides frantically trying to stitch themselves back together. " A hero's work is never done, after all. "

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“ i wish i could take the pain away. ” -  #becamehim @seekjoy   ( x )

She had long since ceased being startled when the familiar mumble came from beside her.  

Cole, perched nimbly astride the parapet to her right, had taken to haunting her up here when she had thought she might find a moment alone between the tireless demands of the Inquisition.  How he sat, one leg dangling heedlessly over the edge with toes pointed to the stone courtyard stories below, as if he had been waiting for her all along.  She might have spared a worry for what might befall him should even the smallest gust cut through and knock his scrawny frame to the cobbles below if she thought it would affect him at all.

Maybe if she gave him a nudge just to satisfy the curiosity . . . no, no.

The thought batted away like the intrusive nuisance it was, a desperate, if not a bit morbid, distraction. Sava braced her forearms against the rough stone wall and leaned heavily upon it. Below them, the courtyard outside their small chantry was full. Mourners for the soldiers who had made their way back to the bosom of Skyhold only to succumb to their wounds, congregated together to share in their grief. 

Up here, the cries were taken away by the wind off the mountain, and didn’t ring so sharply.  She hadn’t yet found the stomach to face them and offer condolences. How could she? When she was the who might as well have put them in the pyre herself. She was the Inquisitor after all.

“ That’s a foolish wish. ”  Her voice was gruff. Probably more than it needed to be. “ The pain makes you stronger. ”  The pain was a lesson. One she had been taught long before such things as the Inquisition and the Breach and . . . whatever Cole was.  “ It reminds you what you’re fighting for. ”

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vilifyme​:

𝚂𝙾𝙼𝙴  𝚂𝙰𝙸𝙳  𝙸𝚃  𝚆𝙰𝚂  𝚄𝙽𝚂𝚄𝚁𝙿𝚁𝙸𝚂𝙸𝙽𝙶,    how the city had called for blood and he, like a specter, had appeared  to see who shed it.    an unannounced arrival that put nobles in a spin and begged for silence once the echo of lord cousland’s boots had neared.    kirkwall..   this rotten little pustule at the edge of the vinmark mountains    —    so close to a monument of blood and death he could recall the stink of it rolling over the waking sea as a boy.

          and her at the center of it all ;    savo’d expected more.

for a champion, she was unremarkable.    no taller than expected..   nothing so fantastical as to rival what he’d seen in his ventures.    a woman, somehow both   separate   and blended in with the rest of the ilk who swarmed her.    lapped at her heels with false gratitude if ever he’d seen it.    recognized how it felt familiar and scoffed loud enough to interrupt.

“  if you were truly thankful, you would make yourself scarce,  ”        something about the blood.    tell a man his is superior and he’ll straighten to let it flow its course unhindered by a slob’s slouch or the wear of a day’s work.    and more, like this one, would puff his chest when he turned..   a cock on the walk till a cast shadow cut the illusion and disinterest abandoned so much bluster.    fed a gaping mouth dust.

          “  you wear kirkwall well,   hawke.  ”

There was a time, not very long ago, that she would have reveled where she found herself tonight.  Sheathed in gold and silk.  Rubies at her throat.  The finest Orlesian vintage in her cup. And eyes — all eyes — on her.  The new scion of House Amell.  Putting their tarnished family name back into the mouths of the Free Marches high society.  A far cry from the rapscallion with skinned knees and big dreams she’d left behind in Lothering. 

If only mother and father could see her now.

Would they see slight hitch in her gait?  The gray creeping prematurely from her temples? The hollowness behind kohl-lined eyes?  Or would they see what everyone else saw?  The accomplished, sophisticated, revered Champion who danced and dined with the same people who had spat on her all those years ago.  A detail conveniently forgotten now as they all clamored for her attention — or her favor. For whatever they could wring from her next until her eyes had glazed over and mind wandered until she hadn’t noticed the incoming stranger until he was upon her.  Sending Lord Whoever-He-Was scurrying off to preen for someone less important.

Her lips curved around the polished brim on her wineglass, already smudged with crimson.  “ My hero. ”  She didn’t need to hear the hushed murmurs buzzing around them to know they were the focus of attention.  Heedless of the dozens of pairs of eyes watching a calculated exchange, as Marian offered him a curtsey and a hand gloved in black silk.  She didn’t need a herald to know exactly who he was.  Lord Savo Cousland’s likeness circulated to prominently in the twilight of the Blight she would have recognized him most anywhere.  “ To what does our fair city owe the privilege of this visit? ”  

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“It’s bleeding quite badly.” / :3 ok but meredith and marian around act 2 what with the qunari and such :333

" Oh, that? " Nonchalance couldn't quite mask the quiver. Couldn't smooth down the frayed nerves that left her hands rattling as they silently waved Anders and the others away before they could even begin to venture closer. Best to keep him, specifically, far beyond the notice of the Knight-Commander standing over her, whose pale hair was damp and clinging to sharp cheekbones Marian has the most unusual urge to reach out and brush away. " It looks worse than it feels, I assure you. "

And it certainly did not look good. Blood wept from the gash in her thigh and down the leather trousers that may have finally met their match. Forced her to favor her weight to the left before even that knee began to buckle and she sunk heavily down on to the marble steps. No worry of maintaining appearances now that the surviving nobility had been shepherded off to the Chantry to recover from their ordeal.

Leant back on her elbow, Marian's hand fumbled to unfasten the buckle at her waist and tug it free. " Perhaps, you could tell me if my brother yet lives or if he has finally succeeded in getting his foolish arse killed. " It took some finessing but she managed to loop the belt above the wound, but found her grip wanting, bloody fingers falling away. " Sod it. "

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vilifyme​:

tucked away, out from under a sun that’d burned for years, the itch was less obvious.   it lost itself under armor’s smother, stifling what’d arched ‘neath his skin, threatening to break free in visual confession.   what’d bled red into his eyes and through the fine veins at his lips the longer samson strained a smile more genuine than she’d have liked.

old friends, they weren’t, perhaps, but the familiarity was welcome.   a face he needn’t squint at to remember the slighter details of.   the brightness in eyes older than a foggy memory had painted them, but still holding shine.   a gloss that faded out in the reflection his shadow stole from them.   dark and ominous and all those things he’d been accused of by pointed fingers who still lapped the chantry’s nectar so devout.   still believed in the safety a circle promised..  still trusted ideal justice he’d known, now, for years, had always been a hoax.   the pretty lie to bend their knees.   at the foot of an absent maker she’d sat as steady as she did here, awaiting the company of a true god.      “  ‘s funny, isn’t it ?  ”

candle light flickered behind his movements, lyrium dancing swirls of red against sharp angled cheekbones and a now docile expression.   a man willing to listen, were she capable of the same.   a first enchanter in her own rights   —   and, for what ?

“  we’re all equal now,  ”      degenerates and criminals, chased into pockets of wilderness not unlike this hollow.   where stones could double as stools and that crick in his neck felt ever the more pronounced without something rich to indulge in.      “  all of us down ‘ere in the dirt, rottin’ together..  that maker’s lookin’ like a real arse, ain’t he ?  ”

The Inquisitor told her it was a waste of her time.  

Looking at Samson now . . . his once capable hands — a templar’s hands — gaunt and dangling carelessly from where wrists rested on rusted iron bars.  The skin of his brow ashen and beaded with perspiration that trickled slowly down to the fine point of his nose.  The twist of cracked, bloodied lips supposed to what?  Broker some small sense of understanding between them?  To remind her there was still a man beneath this wretched, hollow thing he had allowed himself to become?

Tallulah wondered if, perhaps, the Lady Adaar had been right.

“ The only arse I can see from here is you. ”  The only rot to tell of trying to claw its way out of his flesh.  Why she kept her distance, poised just beyond reach of gnarled hands, worried if she strayed too close he would infect her too.  Because even behind bars and a ravaged vessel and countless warnings . . .  it sang to her.  Peered into the darkest parts of her and beckoned her with crooked finger.  Easy to see how it could bewitch even the most steadfast.  To see how its trickery could even overcome the likes of Meredith, whose willpower had been considered unwavering when she had reigned within the Gallows.  

But she would not be seduced.  She would harden herself against the wiles of red lyrium and thus harden herself against him as well.  Whatever pity she might have harbored pushed down, deep into the core of her, before it had a chance to betray her.  Summoned steel into a spine that had only just begun to remember the feel of it.  A First Enchanter without a Circle.  A lady of House Amell clad in naught but linen and wool.  

“ The Maker had nothing to do with you being on that side of those bars.  That honor seems to be all your own. ”  A clipped sigh. A pause before she continued.  “ I don’t understand, Samson.  After everything in Kirkwall, after getting your shield back . . . you let it all go. ”  Was it frustration coloring the disdain in her words?  It certainly propelled the sharp drag of a wooden that she lowered herself upon, ankles primly crossed and fingers laced in her lap.  Prepared to sit as long as he was willing to indulge her in hopes of unraveling just where it had all gone so horribly wrong.  “ Why? ”

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but also maybe 04 for zev and a mahariel of ur choosing uwu xo

04. — salve // #WIITHKNIVES (@vilifyme)

"Where is he?" Iloen descended upon the camp like a fury of locusts — thrumming with rage that would have sent lesser men shrinking into their tents to avoid being swept up in it. Blood caked her face and leathers — some certainly hers, however most had the distinctive hue of darkspawn ichor — and there was a prominent limp in her gait, but she let neither distract from her quarry.

Leliana made a half-hearted attempt to intercept, but the Dalish deftly avoided her and circled the campfire Alistair was pointedly engrossed in diligently stoking. Eyes trained on a familiar tent. It's flap pulled back, the shemlen mage was preparing to enter when Iloen hissed, "Leave him!"

Wynne had more sense than to protest, hands lifted in silent surrender as Iloen ducked past her and into clutch of the tent. Pitched just tall enough to afford her the benefit to loom, she did just that. The Dalish archer stood over the form stretched out, wounded but alive, on the bedroll before her. Zevran the sole recipient of the ire that bubbled behind clenched teeth and quivering fists, balled at her sides.

It was there she stood for a long moment. Glowering down at him with flinty green eyes that scoured for any sign of mortal injury. Only once she was satisfied he wasn't going to give way in the next few moments did she speak. "Don't you ever do that again." Calmer now for what it was worth, Iloen's demand was thick with something she had yet to acknowledge. Something heavy that sat in the pit of her belly and made her palms slick.

Finally, she knelt beside him. Wiping her hands on the flattened grass before digging into the satchel at her hip and producing a small wooden box. Its contents a mystery until she pulled the needle and sinew from it. "I let you live so you can help me kill my enemies. Not put yourself between them and me."

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“we can talk through the door.” / :O and then there's daryl and pene pass him some leaves leaf gorl B)))

“The door... sure.” If she were being honest it felt more like talking to a door. Made of steel. Cold and sealed tightly shut. Not that she could blame him in the slightest after what had happened. What they — she — had allowed to happen. “That’s fair, I suppose.”

Penelope could still smell the gunfire and the smoke from the fire fight. Could still hear the shouts of Woodbury’s citizens calling for death — his death. Could still feel the fear seizing her spine, rendering her powerless to move or speak even to try and save a man’s life. To Pene...she was just as bad as the rest of them.

Which is why she hadn’t protested when they took her captive not far outside the gate. She could still feel the barrel of the rifle from where it jammed between her shoulder blades. Arms raised high in the air, weaponless and compliant, but desperate to be as far away from Woodbury and her shame as possible. 

So they put here in this cell, door thick and solid, with a little window her head could nearly peek through if not for the fogged, fractured glass. A precaution, one of them had told her and she didn’t protest — waiting for the verdict they would hand down. What to do with this Woodbury defector. Was she a spy? Was she sent to dismantle them from the inside? Had they known her they would have laughed, but she didn’t begrudge them their suspicions. Only wished they would make their decision before she froze to death in this dark cell.

“I’m Penelope. I was there...the other night. When you — when they... did what they did. I wanted to tell you how sorry I am for what happened.”

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[ corner ] / :33 shane & evie xo

He’d done this before.

Evie’s breath hitched in her throat as Shane filled the space around her, forcing her to back up into the collapsed drugstore shelf — tripping as she went along as one toppled shelf collided with the back of her calves. He knew how to corner a person — to make himself large and insidious and force his opponent into a defensive position. He knew how to make her feel small, weak. Shane seemed to suck all of the air and light of the room, leaving her half crouched under the canopy of his body, as she frantically tried to right herself to little avail. Heart hammering in her chest, Evie made an attempt to dip under the arch of his arm and put some distance between them.

“It was just a question, Jesus Christ!” However, apparently the wrong one if the glaze across his eyes was any indication. Her question about just who “Rick” was tipping him over the knife’s edge he’d been walking since they left camp that morning. “You can shout someone’s name in your sleep for three nights in a row and not expect someone to ask about it!”

[fatecalled]

my heart’s broken. / negan & lulu lololol

“I very much doubt that.”  The words might have come across nonchalant if they didn’t still have the bite of seething anger underneath them.  Her attention focused solely on ripping the feathers from the decapitated chicken pinned between her knees rather than at the leather jacket wearing gargoyle looming over her. “You lack the —” Rip. “— required parts.”  

It was all a game to him. Negan strutting around as king of his hollow castle, swinging his bloody scepter and enjoying the show his subjects made as they genuflected and cowered at his feet. Negan. Courting her as another one of his many queens with nothing more than salacious words and veiled threats. 

Rip. Rip. Rip.

Tallulah shook the feathers that stuck to her fingers off into the bucket with the others, heedless of the wispy few that peppered her dark hair save for the one that seemed to flutter in front of her face and was nearly inhaled up one furled nostril. Not quite the stoic and unflappable picture she had wanted to paint as she batted the offender away, but glowered up at him nonetheless. “Now did you come here for something or do you just plan on harassing me?”

[fatecalled]

“ this will be your destruction. ” / frooom.. rude~ mayhaps~~~???

@vilifyme​ / #benignrites ( x )

“ Well . . . that sounds a little harsh. ” Not to mention a little terrifying coming from the stoic Turk — looking particularly inscrutable behind those fancy shades. The grim set to his mouth giving away absolutely nothing for her imagination to latch on to. Nothing to give her the impression that he was anything but deadly serious. Her attempts at conversation consistently met with clipped, one word answers or pointed silence didn’t daunt her though — nothing daunted a Turk, after all — not even her mentor’s chilly demeanor.  “ It was just a question. ”

Questions she should have probably known better to ask, but to Evie there was no such thing as too much information. How else was she to observe all the angles of an assignment if everything was kept locked up behind Shinra’s precious need-to-know basis? Intel eked out like a miser reluctant to part with his gil. 

The war between Wutai long over, but when the orders came down to investigate a possible sect of Wutai rebels, stirring up rumors of rebellion, in the south Shinra was apt to do little more than point a Turk at it to make it go away. They didn’t care whether it was true or not — only that others might perceive it to be. More than enough to warrant swift and decisive action. 

“ If it helps us substantiate or disprove the claims, why wouldn’t we just try talking to them first? ”