you can't run from the shadow;

but you can invite it to dance. original character • held by venus

[nightingeal]

# 𝑵𝑰𝑮𝑯𝑻𝑰𝑵𝑮𝑬𝑨𝑳 🕊️ mutuals-only modern urban fantasy original character with alternate universes for arcane, resident evil, star wars, final fantasy xiv, final fantasy xvi, exandria, araman 🙵 more !

˗ˏˋ 𝑵𝑨𝑽𝑰𝑮𝑨𝑻𝑰𝑶𝑵. ´ˎ˗  carrd ♡ prompts ♡ verses ♡ calls ♡ headcanons ♡ muse relevant ♡ aesthetics ♡ worldbuilding ♡ permanent interest call.

𝑬𝑽𝑬𝑹𝒀𝑶𝑵𝑬'𝑺 𝑭𝑨𝑽𝑶𝑼𝑹𝑰𝑻𝑬 𝑬𝑴𝑬𝑹𝑮𝑬𝑵𝑪𝒀 𝑪𝑶𝑵𝑻𝑨𝑪𝑻 🙵 𝑫𝑬𝑨𝑻𝑯'𝑺 𝑺𝑷𝑬𝑪𝑰𝑨𝑳 𝑳𝑰𝑻𝑻𝑳𝑬 𝑷𝑹𝑰𝑵𝑪𝑬𝑺𝑺.

˗ˏˋ 𝑺𝑷𝑬𝑬𝑫-𝑫𝑰𝑨𝑳. ´ˎ˗  byanyan 🙵 lctibule ♡ blessedrulers 🙵 soulfulempathy ♡ crestfallens ♡ xbornhungry ♡ harpersoath ♡ likemosaic ♡ magicxecustos ♡ memovia ♡ rcsfield 🙵 aidcneus 🙵 zcdiark 🙵 ourobros

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[frostwill]

critical role sentence starters !!!

so… we’ll talk later.

why won’t you stay down and die with dignity?

no. no further.

this is not over. it can’t be.

try not to have too much fun without us.

i have this blink candle. it’s formed from various animals that blink.

it’s so rare that we’re actually given the opportunity to be honest about everything. we might as well try it once and see if we like it.

you know i’m in love with you, right?

you seem… like a person. and that’s great.

those are coins! you’re not making it rain, you’re making it hail!

i’m killing someone, hold please.

your secret is safe with my indifference.

my heart is someone else’s.

do not go far from me. if we are out of earshot, you are too far from me.

um, i don’t know if it’s the food you made or the fact that we’re going to die tomorrow, but i want to kiss you.

i was all kinds of fucked up a few weeks ago.

you’re all kinds of fucked up all the time. we all are. and that’s why we’re together.

i just want to let you know… i am possibly the worst person you’ve ever met.

i think i kind of hope… not necessarily to hurt you or harm you, but i hope that one day… that you can know just how awful i can be.

you can curse, it’s okay. you killed one of us.

i think i’ve always been in love with the idea of you.

i was only gone for thirty seconds!

i encourage violence.

i can give you the means to protect them.

i do not want to die who i am. i’d like to live long enough to be someone else.

you’re on your own, fuckface.

a volcano is - is nature’s candle!

sometimes people go and they don’t come back.

do you spice?

so we’re going to kill everyone that we see in the next ten seconds.

i don’t want to be here if you’re not.

i told you before. no one kills you but me.

he traded his life!

i don’t have very many things that i care about and i don’t have anything that cares about me.

i’m great! well, not really, but i’m just going to pretend i’m happy so everybody can be okay!

i’ve been in a barrel for an hour. i fell asleep in there!

yes. i heard. it was the only thing i heard.

don’t cry. i’m just a little cold.

i bury my shame.

i should have told you. it’s yours.

forgiveness - that’s the key, isn’t it? it’s the only way to really grow.

your hair’s a mess. sit still.

you are my heart. you are me. you are my other half. you are welcome with me always.

you don’t always have to put on a brave face, dear.

we’re friends, right? are we friends?

i know we don’t always agree and i know i can be unkind, but… you know you’re family, right?

i’ve had a terrible thought. and it is sort of my business to have terrible thoughts.

take me instead.

we walk towards glory.

that’s mine! that’s mine!

did it choose me because i was broken, or did it break me?

please bring him back to me.

you think you care about me?

this was always supposed to happen, wasn’t it?

i love you. if i can find you, i will. if not, stay alive.

if he’s gone i won’t be the same.

i’d watch your moral panic all day, it’s delightful.

in many ways you are my total opposite. but you are also my best friend.

i made a choice. this is my family.

i forgive you. but i cannot let you leave.

please. please. i love him as much as you do.

fix him. fix him!

i like this family. i’d like to keep it.

i want you to know that you are like a brother to me.

talk about my sister again.

it’s been a while since we’ve had one of our depressing chats!

i can’t have you gone. i need you here.

i think we’re very broken people. but i think together we’re much greater than the sum of our parts.

don’t ever fucking do that again.

you didn’t die. but you did! but you didn’t. but you did! and then you didn’t.

i don’t want any of this! i don’t want any of this.

i’ve just had a near death experience and i’m craving some lasagna. 

you know, you’re getting weirder.

you and i are very different.

i’ve killed two of those who’ve wronged me and nothing is better. nothing feels better. nothing is avenged.

call me “child” one more goddamn time!

if you’re lucky, you die last.

some people have no sense of fucking honor!

i’ll take my clothes off if it’ll inspire us.

thank you for believing in me.

you’ve never done anything for me! never! you’ve never risked anything, you don’t know me!

everyone else believes in you. why shouldn’t you?

how many fingers am i holding up?

what’s the first letter of the alphabet? this you know.

yay! teamwork!

you fucking died!

don’t touch me right now! i’m not - don’t touch me!

i’m going to go get a sandwich.

you had us all very worried.

your reckless impulses will get you killed!

i’m done with gods. they will not help me. perhaps you will. 

this is too fucking much.

come here, you shithead.

it has been an honor.

screw you! i want my final words with you to be indignant and irritated.

you’re the face i saw when murder entered my heart.

i’m undecided about you.

never forget you’re my favorite. and i’m so sorry.

i’m not leaving him.

you’re a better man than you believe.

feel like making a home here?

you’re an idiot and i’m very proud of you. don’t do that again.

sound off if you’re alive.

it’s not going to work.

[honest2godd]

Send in 📜 and I’ll use this incorrect quotes generator using your muse and my muse. (Please specify how many muses//which muses for multimuse blogs!!)

[soulrph]

𝐏𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐃 𝐀𝐆𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐓 𝐀 𝐖𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐓𝐒.

lads if i ever have to type “pin against the wall” ever again in this lifetime, it’ll be too soon, but i really hope you enjoy these!! if you think of more that you would like to be added, let me know! please do NOT add more in the reblogs, it is VERY likely that i can and will be making a second part to this list! now go drink some water and i hope y’all enjoy the memes!

LAST EDITED: 01/06/22

[ KISS ]:     sender pins receiver against the wall and kisses them passionately.

[ ANGER ]:     sender pins receiver against the wall out of anger.

[ CHALLENGE ]:     in a motion designed to challenge the receiver’s authority, sender pins receiver against the wall.

[ TRAINING ]:     during a sparring match, sender ends up pinning the receiver against the wall.

[ HEAT ]:      while in the middle of a make-out session, sender pushes the receiver up against the wall, unwittingly heating things up even more.

[ SHIELD ]:     in order to protect them from physical harm caused by a third party, the sender shoves the receiver against the wall and shields them with their body.

[ COVER ]:     while hiding from persecutors, sender pushes the receiver against a wall and uses their body to hide the receiver’s face from view.

[ HIDE ]:     while on the run, the sender hastily grabs the receiver and pins them against a wall that’s hidden from public view to avoid being seen.

[ STOP ]:     in order to stop the receiver from walking away, the sender guides them back and pushes them against a wall.

[ FIGHT ]:     while in a physical fight, sender shoves the receiver against the wall in an effort to gain the upper hand.

[ RESTRAIN ]:     sender pushes the receiver back against the wall to stop them from physically fighting the sender.

[ STEADY ]:     sender gently catches and guides the emotionally distressed receiver against a wall in order to physically steady them.

[ CLOSER ]:     while pinning the receiver against the wall, sender glances down at their lips, suddenly aware of how close they are to one another…

[ THROAT ]: sender pins the receiver to the wall by placing a hand or forearm against their throat.

[ FRONT ]: sender shoves the receiver against the wall so that the receiver’s front is pressed against the wall.

[ WHISPER ]: sender pins the receiver against a wall in order to whisper something into their ear (either a secret or in a manner of seduction).

[ FEAR ]: in order to frighten or intimidate the receiver, the sender shoves them back against a wall, positioning themselves so that the receiver can’t get out.

[ HUSH ]: as a means of getting the receiver to stay quiet, the sender covers their mouth and ends up shoving them into a wall in their urgency.

[ FALL ]: while pinning them against the wall, a brief tussle results in the sender and receiver falling over, with the sender pinning the receiver to the ground.

[ DECEPTION ]: while pinning them against the wall during a public fight, the sender uses the close proximity to secretly reveal that they’re still on the receiver’s side.

[ POWER ]: sender unexpectedly uses their powers to push and pin the receiver against the wall.

[turnpage]

𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐃 𝐌𝐄 💭  𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝚨 𝐓𝚮𝐎𝐔𝐆𝚮𝐓 𝐌𝐘 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐄 𝚮𝚨𝐒 𝚮𝚨𝐃 𝚨𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐒.

[nightingeal]

˗ˏˋ 𝑶𝑶𝑪. ´ˎ˗ 🍒 im liking memes i intend to send to people, and wanna be here in earnest to set up a queue this weekend, so ! hit the ♡ if you want memes, multis please specify !

[nightingeal]

˗ˏˋ 𝑶𝑶𝑪. ´ˎ˗ 🍒 im liking memes i intend to send to people, and wanna be here in earnest to set up a queue this weekend, so ! hit the ♡ if you want memes, multis please specify !

[venusposes]

you bear the burden and fight on, kicking and screaming until your last breath is spent!

[nightingeal]

and we shall speak again.

🐦🌙 @zcdiark

[nightingeal]

˗ˏˋ 🕊️ ´ˎ˗ – @aidcneus

❝ not ignorant, no. ❞ while elinor had learnt how to tame herself in front of the scions, at least a little, it wasn't a skill he had perfected, and emet-selch had proven himself observant. no, the warrior of light was under no illusions that every excruciating emotion was plain to see. an idle thought crossed his mind, a wonder if the ascian could shed some light on her feelings where she was struggling. she doesn't shy from his formidable stance, shoulders straight and stubborn, feet unmoving, looking up at him, jaw set. frustrated, defiant, and something else.

❝ but you're not indifferent, either. ❞ he reads her like a book, aloud for her to be … ashamed ? but she isn't, even has he grips her face and weaponises her loyalty to her friends, to her cause. even as her hand comes to his wrist, elinor is unsure whether it's to keep it there or remove it. so her own grasp rests there, against his glove, instead.

❝ what they don't know, won't hurt them. and i doubt you're likely to fill them in. unless you're planning on letting the exarch know over tea ? facing thancred's questions on why you allow me to stay. ❞

emet-selch moved her. observation goes both ways, and for all his infuriating bravado and performance, elinor can see the loneliness behind it. her cause was immovable, but as she sees things, there was no reason why that couldn't include him.

[nightingeal]

💌ㅤㅤ@aidcneus : " You think you know me? You don't know anything. " ( elpis.... 👀 ) ㅤ ㅤ˗ˏˋ 𝑴𝑬𝑴𝑬. ´ˎ˗

elinor is so tired of being calm and in control. he wants to bite back, wants to lay everything out on the table, unravel herself in her grief and rage before him. she had spoken the truth, despite her better judgement, but had held back, kept personal nuance to himself on the same idea that saying anything was a bad idea. everything he had doubled down on, everything she had believed of the man she had killed was being proven correct in this moment. and here he was, rubbing salt in the wound that even in what the shards would regard as a victory, she had failed.

❝ i know more than you give me credit for, hades. ❞

held together by responsibility and compassion alone, elinor's voice is still soft as she stands firm on her point. his heart aches as her eyes lock onto him in all his outrage.

❝ but you do not know me, so you cannot know that i do know. i have known. even in the darkness. i don't say this to taunt you, but to ask for a little patience. with me. please. ❞

she has never been a subtle creature, but the waver in his voice as she pleads ( for him ) for his understanding frustrates her, knowing that nothing is hidden. bracing herself that he wouldn't know, nor care, for her mountainous mourning, yet still he takes a single step closer to him.

[zcdiark]

❝ apologies are of little use. you needn't offer them to me. ❞ elidibus counters plainly, half-lidded eyes trained on the summoner before him. what's done is done, and whatever elinor thinks of him or believes him to be is of no consequence now.

the pivot to explore the crystarium gives him pause; he'd seen the general layout well enough to navigate during his time playing the role of a certain fallen warrior, but.. to explore it like one of them? his stomach rumbles, causing a frown to pinch between his brows. having a physical body of his own, having a functional need, isn't something he remembers. it's uncomfortable in a way he can't place.

❝ fine. I imagine there is something you wish to show me? ❞

[nightingeal]

❝ i beg to differ. ❞

there's a tension in the room, rising in elinor's throat, suffocating as he tries to navigate the conversation, clipping her words. elinor envied the lack of emotion that elidibus held, her own, as always, ready to tear her apart.

but not everything is hidden from her, and elinor is going to seize the opportunity with both hands: if he knows anything, it's food and the power it holds.

❝ a many number, yes. we should start at musica universalis, though. ❞

there's a stall there that sold a hot and sour soup that, frankly, elinor had been craving since her last extended visit to the first. the weight of information long dead regarding the man that stood before her made it feel like a risk to even try. but it wouldn't be the first instance of elinor's stubbornness breathing life into things that should remain buried.

[mythshire]

✧˖°⚔️°˖✧ 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 𝐈𝐒 𝐀 𝐁𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐋𝐄𝐅𝐈𝐄𝐋𝐃 ··· a collection of enemies to lovers, rivalry and surrender, violence as intimacy, fury & desire roleplay sentence starters. genre: romance, tension, power dynamics, slow burn.

You think you're so much better than me, don't you?

Stop looking at me like that.

We're on the same side now, whether you like it or not.

I'd rather die than work with you.

You're the last person I wanted to see today.

Don't you dare act like you care about me now.

I know what you did. I know everything.

You've always been my enemy, but you've never been my equal.

Why does it feel like you're the only one who actually sees me?

I don't trust you. I'll never trust you.

You're insufferable, you know that?

We can't keep doing this—pretending we don't feel it.

I've spent half my life trying to destroy you.

God, I want to hate you so badly right now.

You make me want to scream.

I didn't save you because I like you. I saved you because I had to.

We're not friends. We'll never be friends.

You don't get to be vulnerable with me now, not after everything.

I've imagined killing you a thousand different ways.

Why do you always have to be right?

I hate how much space you take up in my head.

You're my rival, not my—whatever the hell this is.

Don't touch me. Don't you fucking dare.

I know you better than anyone, and that's the worst part.

You've ruined me for anyone else, and I hate you for it.

I'd burn the world down before I let you win.

You look at me like I'm the villain, but you're no hero either.

I can't do this. I can't want you and hate you at the same time.

You're the only person who's ever challenged me.

Stop pretending you don't feel this too.

I've never wanted to throttle someone and hold them this badly before.

We're going to regret this in the morning.

You think you know me? You don't know anything.

I didn't mean to fall for you. This is a mistake.

You make me feel like I'm losing a battle I didn't even know I was fighting.

I swore I'd never let you get close to me.

Why does fighting with you feel better than being happy with anyone else?

You're dangerous. To me. To everything I've built.

I hate that you're the only one who makes me feel alive.

This thing between us—it's toxic. We're toxic.

You've always been the thorn in my side. Now you're under my skin.

You betrayed me once. How do I know you won't do it again?

I've spent years building walls to keep you out.

We're playing with fire here, and we both know it.

You're my competition, my nemesis, my—fuck, I don't even know anymore.

I never wanted this. I never wanted you.

[zcdiark]

the words cause elidibus to jolt, a subtle flinch across his features. his fingers twitch at his sides, then curl into fists. the tremble there is faint.

❝ I do not— ❞ it seems elinor has thrown him for a loop, his body stiff and a furrow deepening between his brows. his eyes snap to the warrior of light before him and, for just a moment, he looks like that same young man that collided with her in another time. gentle, boyish, startled. then it's gone, and the cold wall returns.

❝ no. no. ❞ he's shaking his head, chin lifting as if in an act of defiance. ❝ I am elidibus, emissary. do not confuse me for anything else. ❞

[nightingeal]

if elidibus thought her expression pained before, it's nothing to the heartbreak that flashes across her face. not his words, but the way he looked at her. a brutal confirmation he didn't need that she was talking to the same man. and that he had caused him more distress.

❝ i'm sorry. ❞

the reflex to apologise had been fighting how inappropriate an apology would be, but she's not strong enough to beat it back now, in the echoes of the themis that didn't hold her at arm's length, and an ancient ache he couldn't put words to.

whatever your name is, you're still themis to me. said once before, and more true now than ever, elinor does her best to bring himself back to the current conversation. whether or not she's going to try and scale the wall between them wasn't in question: she had wanted to find a way to save him before meeting themis, held compassion for him even as he masqueraded as ardbert; he kidnapped y'shtola; as he vowed to kill her. elinor doubted he would let her, however.

❝ i am not confused, i'm clarifying, is all. . . . would you like to see the crystarium ? ❞

[zcdiark]

elidibus' eyes finally lift towards elinor, so shockingly bright, otherworldly under the constellation-light of the ocular. his expression is ever blank, cold and detached in a way that feels incorrect for such gentle, youthful features.

❝ ask. ❞ comes his blunt reply, tone low and even as it often is nowadays. his demeanour isn't hostile, it never truly is, but there's a wall up between them. one that feels like a considerable mountain to scale. ❝ what more could you possibly take from me. ❞

[nightingeal]

the  pained  expression  he  had  questioned  deepened,  more  questions  springing  up  at  his  words,  gut  instinct  to  find  a  way  to  fix...  what  she,  technically,  had  broken. not  that  she  had  any  reasonable  way  to  do  so.  elidibus'  eyes  are  unsettling;  she  should  flinch  at  his  gaze,  but  elinor  holds.  his  words,  however,  furrow  his  brow  and  twist  her  stomach.

❝  should  i  refer  to  you  as  elidibus,  or  would  you  prefer  themis  ?  ❞

she  pauses,  breaking  their  gaze  to  glance  around  the  room,  eyes  drawn  by  chance,  and  then  lingering,  on  the  portal  behind  them.  but  her  attention  couldn't  linger there.  he  shortens  the  distance  between  them,  movement  slow  before  stopping  a  few  yalms  from  him.

[zcdiark]

unprompted starter for @nightingeal ♡

❝ why do you look at me so? ❞ elidibus stands before her, his hood down around his shoulders in a rare display. for the first time in a millenia, he's wearing his own face— not that he'd recognise his reflection were he to see it. 

though he's no longer chained to the tower, he stands in the center of the ocular, his body a little stiff. distinctly inhuman. the doors have been opened, but where else would he go? what could possibly be worth seeing outside?

❝ you look at me as if it pains you, yet I am the only damaged one here. ❞

[nightingeal]

while  she's  able  to  hide  how  frantically  thoughts  race  through  his  mind,  it's  impossible  to  disguise  that  she  is  thinking.  about  lahabrea,  the  version  of  him  she  had  met  in  eorzea.  the  way  he  had  taken  thancred,  possessed  her  oldest  friend.  she's  thinking  about  ardbert,  and  the  way  elidibus himself had posed as him in a similar manner.

as  they  stood  in  the  ocular  with  the  light  hitting  a  face  both  freshly  &  anciently  familiar  to  him,  she's  not  struggling  at  all  to  consolidate  elidibus  and  themis.  

❝  is  it  so  strange  to  think  your  hurt  hurts  me? . . . i have a question, and i'm unsure as to whether you'll like my asking it. ❞  

he  has  more  than  just  the  one  question,  but  this  one  is  more  pressing,  and  the  others,  he  may  not  have  the  answers  for.  

[venusposes]

[nightingeal]

🐦🌙 @zcdiark