⎈ ┆ ❛ CONQUISTA

MONA GRAVES ┊23┊ pirate captain ☠ MELINOË ☠ goddess of ghosts, nightmares & madness I want you to understand that my MALEVOLENCE is just a way to win. I want you to know that being KIND is overrated. I want to watch you lose control. I want to watch you...

[griffinsclarke]

[melinioe]

Melinoe moodboard-

Daughter of Hades and Persephone, Goddess of Ghosts, Bringer of Terror

[nightmareonhelmst-blog]

[littleladylockwood-blog]

“You’ve threatened to invade my dreams, and now you’re following me,” Nemesis hummed, wagging her finger at the other. “Is there something you want from me, Mel?” She seemed curious as to what the woman was doing, but had no intention of giving up her own destination. “I’m going this way, and you’ll be going that way. I’m sure you can find someone much more interesting to stalk.”

[nightmareonhelmst-blog]

“As much as I would love to be tailing prettier faces tonight, I am afraid I have found myself in slight need of your assistance-- that’s if you can spare a moment of your time to humor me... or would you rather not keep your secret lover waiting for much longer?”

[incorrectknb]

I don’t know how to apologize, so… Unfuck you. Or whatever.

Aomine Daiki, trying to apologize.  (via incorrectknb)

[nightmareonhelmst-blog]

“I wasn’t stalking you,” Melinoe insisted, but the amusement which coiled itself in the corner of her lips seemed to state otherwise. “I was out for a stroll... in the shadows... coincidentally towards your heading-- but now that you mention it, I am curious. Where are you heading, anyhow?”

[hearthouses]

hell is c o m i n g

[indy-greek-rp]

The woman didn’t seem particularly interested in him, and because of that, he felt a little put off. Normally, he preferred to stay unnoticed, to slink through the trees and stay in the shadows. He rarely enjoyed his visits into town, and when he did it’s because he was meeting someone that made his time worth wild. However, with this strange woman, he felt a small sadness that she didn’t know who he was, even though he had to say he didn’t know her. There was just something deep down that wanted her to know him, and to tell him who she was. “I don’t know.” It was the truth. He couldn’t answer her question. He had no reason to want her to tell him. No reasonable explanation. “I remember you, but I don’t.” Again, not a reasonable explanation. “I want… to apologize. But I don’t know what for, and so I will not.” 

[nightmareonhelmst-blog]

Her features softened, not out of sympathy nor out of any sudden feeling of warmth and forgiveness but out of surprise. What would this stranger have to apologize for? They’d never met, and he had never done her wrong. Not in this reality, at least.

‘Why do you insist on harming innocent people. Do you get some sick pleasure out of it? You could torment anyone in the world. Those that have killed, or caused pain. Those that have lied or cheated through life. And yet you pray on those that have almost nothing left. Those that see peace as their only escape.’  Words said to her in a dream and yet, as she began to recall them again, a boiling anger and sense of unfairness crawled beneath her skin; a voice had awoken, her own voice, screaming from the dark, dusty corners of her mind: 

It’s exactly what they all did to you, and your brother never dared to speak up against them for your sake.

Mona tried bringing herself back to the present and finding some composure. She’d spent so long in this dank dungeon that she was beginning to think it was taking its toll on her sanity, and this stranger’s sanity as well. She leaned in a little closer until her face was almost protruding past the bars that surrounded her, and then she spoke, her words subtly coated with a fury that was much older than the very stones that now incarcerated them. 

“I would not accept your apology regardless.”

[openlylesbian-deactivated201709]

–but no no no I DON’T WANT TO BE LOVED, I DON’T WANT TO BE FORGIVEN, LET ME REDEFINE GOD INTO SOMETHING I CAN BECOME

from TELL ME WHAT COLOR THE SUN REALLY IS // h. yenna kim (via openlylesbian)

[nightmareonhelmst-blog]

“¿Qué te pasó? ...You look like you have just seen a ghost.”

[indy-greek-rp]

As Noah walked through the dungeons, he didn’t bother looking around him. This wasn’t where they were truly going to keep him for more than a day or two, and he had no intention of getting comfortable. This whole thing was ridiculous, and he was going to let Arthur know exactly what he thought of the situation when he was released. 

As he was put in a cell, he stood stoically in the center, his arms by his sides, his eyes finally moving to take in his surroundings. He couldn’t have cared less about what his cell looked like though because the second his eyes caught sight of the woman across from him in another cell, his eyes widened. It was her. The woman from his dreams. He took a step forward, the bars stopping any more progress as he said, “Who are you?”

[nightmareonhelmst-blog]

Mona hardly noticed the new inmate until he spoke up, and even then it took her a few seconds to realize he wasn’t a ghost trying to speak to her. His voice was much closer, and much more tangible than the others, and so she turned her head to face him despite herself. She recognized his face right away, and it brought back images from a nightmare she had only a few nights prior. The dream felt painfully familiar, as did the man standing in the cell across from her and so it was rather difficult for her to write this off as a mere coincidence, especially since she was an incredibly superstitious woman, in touch with the supernatural and acquainted with workings of fate thanks to her sister. For all she knew the dream might have been an omen, a warning that this man would soon come into her life and bring nothing good along with him. She never had dreams about the future before though. That was always Ana, but Mona had yet to come up with a better explanation. She finally cut off her wandering thoughts and the long silence between them by narrowing her eyes in suspicion at the stranger, “What’s it to you?”

[discowing]

[nightmareonhelmst-blog]

@itsgonnacostyou @littleladylockwood

[nightmareonhelmst-blog]

Mona didn’t have it in her to pretend she was keeping herself together, nor did she have the will to be as snippy and hot-blooded as she usually was. All she had left was her numbness. It was the only think keeping her from truly breaking even after going through several rounds of questioning throughout the last few weeks ( most of which didn’t end well given her refusal to give up information ) and even after accepting the fact that her sister wasn’t coming to save her. 

She sat limply with her back against the bars of her cell, staring at the moldy cobblestoned wall in front of her for what might have been hours. She saw the shadows dance about in the corners, feeling their heavy presence and their need to communicate with her, but she still refused them, humming an old shanty to herself repeatedly so she’d always recognize what was her own voice and what wasn’t.

[dailypawnee]

[lilies-and-opium]

[sendmeablessedsoul-blog]

[Melinoe in Light Pink]

“We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them.”

[pamela-nereida]

“Then if that is the truth, I hope that you never find your own peace. I hope you find someone who genuinely enjoys watching you writhe in fear,” she mimicked the other. Being awoken from the few good dreams she had didn’t do much to put Pleione in the mood to empathize. “Or rather, let you find all the happiness in the world and then have it taken from you and just when you find the pain dulling, let nightmares remind you of what you’ve lost and take your joy from that.”

[nightmareonhelmst-blog]

The goddess’s unexpected harshness caught Melinoe off guard, maybe even hurt her feelings-- if she even still had those to hurt-- but she wouldn’t allow herself to feel threatened by her nor show how unsettled she felt by Pleione’s malevolent wishes. “So much disdain over one ruined illusion,” she giggled after a moment of silence passed between them. “...and they call me dramatic. I wonder what you’d say if I actually harmed you or someone you loved like a real monster.”