[grotesks]

GROTESKS:     a mutually exclusive  &.  permanently low activity multi-muse writing blog maintained by wren,  31,  any prns,  central timezone.

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀¹⁾ carrd. ²⁾ prompts.

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[grotesks]

❝ is it bad that i'm making friends with my demons? ❞

* ♡ ・ sc, @aratsaka: mackenzie verona.

[grotesks]

❝ why do you get to decide what's best for me? ❞

* ♡ ・ sc, @anoffering: itachi uchiha.

[laetia]

[pagoe]

This is the path I walk. Not you or anyone can change that.

— Sasuke Uchiha

[grotesks]

my place was never in this world [ . . . ] like you, i sought and longed for something i could not quite name. but in you, i found it. ♡ a private &. selective multi - muse, by wren (31, any prns).

[grotesks]

❝ i don't think of you as only human. you're the strongest person i know. ❞

* ♡ ・ sc, @angealics: angeal hewley.

[grotesks]

❝ you could shut up any time now, you know. ❞

* ♡ ・ sc, @yuorhonor: zack fair.

[grotesks]

❝ i could have done something. i could have been here. ❞

* ♡ ・ sc, @dawnmantle: riku.

[heartslight]

he wonders if he’s missed the appropriate moment for a proper introduction. logic dictates that they were beyond the stage of strangers, considering the connection shared— sora was xion as much as xion was sora was roxas was ventus was kairi was namine was was was——— wrong. the logic was wrong / they had fought for the right to individuality, after all. who was he to crumble the foundation @grotesks found herself standing on? and besides, they shared more in common than threaded memories; pawns on the board, destroyed by the heart they champion. ❛ i never got the chance to really meet you. ❜ to put a name to the blur. ❛ i’m sorry i disappeared before we could properly talk. i hope twilight town’s been treating you well! ❜

[grotesks]

is there ever a right time to meet someone who is every reason for your existence? is there ever a proper way to navigate such a thing when you faded into nothingness just so he could thrive? xion doesn't have the answers, but she does know this — whatever connection they may have goes beyond a common bond. that matters more to her than any proper introduction could. she is herself, most days. but she is also him, is roxas, is kairi, is everyone she has ever known and loved even for a heartbeat. she is less memory, more girl now. but it's still a learning curve. she doubts she will ever shine as bright as those who came before her, but she can be as welcoming as the twilight. ❝ it's okay. we're meeting now, aren't we? ❞ they've met, they haven't met. they're somewhere in-between, and maybe that's okay. a slight incline of her head. ❝ it's home. it treats me better than it ever has. ❞ she has a home. friends. she hopes that in time, whatever it is that lies between she and sora can be called friendship, too. ❝ and you? are you well? ❞

[resourcesinblue]

DEATHLESS.

the following prompts were taken from the novel deathless by catherynne m. valente, an american novelist & poet. the novel was loosely based on the tale of koschei the deathless, incorporating other elements of russian mythology, & setting it against the backdrop of the russian revolution. feel free to change the pronouns / prompts as you see fit, but be warned – below the cut, it’s quite long !

❛ the service of your body is not yours to give as you please. ❜

❛ you probably won’t survive. ❜

❛ go. run. don’t look behind you. ❜

❛ i have come for the girl in the window. ❜

❛ i will never be without information. ❜

❛ i will see him with his skin off before i fall in love. ❜

❛ if the world is divided into seeing & not seeing, i will always choose to see. ❜

❛ secrets are jealous things, permitting no fraternization. ❜

❛ no, it’s not like that, when magic comes. ❜

❛ magic does that. it wastes you away. once it grips you by the ear, the world gets quieter & quieter until you can hardly hear it at all. ❜

❛ the sight of it bruised my heart so that i cannot think about anything else. ❜

❛ i’ll be so quiet, i’ll never talk again. ❜

❛ keep me & obey me, for i am your husband, & i can destroy you. ❜

❛ i shall be clever, & i shall not let him go. ❜

❛ it is a new world, & we do not wish to be left behind. ❜

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[yuorhonor]

𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧, 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐞⠀⠀⸻⠀⠀a private & selective portrayal of zack fair by aries ( they/she, 25+ ). this blog is crisis core [ '07 ] compliant, technically. read pages for more info. ♡ & ↺ are appreciated!

[grotesks]

❝ coming from your mouth, it all seems so simple. ❞

* ♡ ・ sc, @iryonin: sakura haruno.

[grotesks]

❝ there's no trust when you keep secrets. ❞

* ♡ ・ sc, @planetcry: sephiroth.

[grotesks]

alice being a smoker is so hot to me

[rosephantoma]

her silence is worrying, at first. a long buried fear creeping in, its bony fingers curling in a vice grip around his heart. why would she want to be near a monster, after all? isn't it to be expected, that she would pull away? someone like her, sunlight and nightingales, hopeful and gentle even despite the horrors of humanity she's faced ... why would she choose darkness and misfortune? but then he feels the warmth of her hand, the slight tension of her grasp, and his attention lifts in something between surprise and disbelief. a doubt lingering, no matter how badly he wants to simply accept this.

still, he allows her to uncurl his hold, to take his hand and move it. her inquiry in response, the way she so instinctively tries to anchor him to the present, both answered with a furrow of brows and gaze falling back to the table.

a sigh, soft but from somewhere deep within. tired, so tired. ❝ even ... if i'm the very evil you despise more than anything else? one hand of the abyss you struggled so desperately to escape? ❞ surely, he thinks, the whole truth will be what pushes her away.

he may believe the ends justify the means. that seeing her well, whole again is all that matters. but he knows better than to think she would agree. would forgive him for the hand he'd had in her suffering. to think he deserves it, even. ❝ the reason you felt trapped, again, after years of freedom? i wouldn't blame you, alice, if that changed your mind. how could i ever blame you? ❞

[grotesks]

in truth, alice has felt trapped in different ways her entire life. whatever orpheus has done, whatever he will do, it is nothing new to her. her memory comes and goes, sometimes. oftentimes she wonders if she ever escaped the cage she was enclosed in by villhelm, and whatever has happened since is all a figment of an overactive imagination that she never grew out of. for all she knows, she is still strapped to that chair and the grinding of metal will wake her soon. her thumb finds the scar on his hand, and she presses inward, gently. it's to ground herself more than it is him. ❝ even then, ❞ alice says, her voice so soft it hardly registers to her own ears. perhaps there is part of her, a part that she will always try very hard to ignore, that will never forgive him. there is an even smaller part that may hate him, but they are both such small, insignificant pieces of herself that she cannot even put a name to. so, why should they matter?

❝ i've always been in a cage, one way or another. our home was a cage. the asylum. melbourne. even now, i still feel trapped. freedom is something i doubt i'll ever truly get, and even if i did... what would i do with it? where would i go that i don't have to look over my shoulder at every turn? it doesn't matter, orpheus, because i'm always going to be waiting for the worst to happen again. ❞ she doesn't mean for it all to tumble out in such a way. but with each word, her grip tightens a little more. it isn't meant to cause guilt or grief, either; it's a series of simple truths. her apartment was booby-trapped, rigged to stop anyone sent her way. she hardly recognizes herself in the mirror most days, so used to a different mask of the woman she had to be that she doesn't know how to be alice anymore.

has she ever been alice, or did that girl die long ago? so many names, so many faces. what chance does the mad girl of doom have?

she doesn't let go of his hand, but she can't bring herself to meet his gaze again. ❝ if i'm going to be trapped still... if i am going to be a caged bird for the rest of my life, i would at least like a say in who is holding the key. ❞

[grotesks]

i really want to get this blog going, finally, so consider this a one-liner call! ♡ please specify muse!