Person A and Person B sneak away from their friends because they kept teasing them about how they should have already had their first kisses. They kiss each other in the end(definitely because they wanted to, for so long)."
"Your lips are so soft."
"You taste so good." (A bit sexy, this one lol)
"You're so red, are you okay?"
"I can hear your heart beating, relax."
Person B takes Person A on a date, as "friends". But they later end up confessing their feelings and making out.
Person A is nervous when Person B leans in, so they back away a bit. Person B tells them that 'it's okay, we don't have to do this if you're not-', but before they can finish, Person A kisses them.
Person A end up confessing their feelings when they are drunk, they didn't expect Person B to reciprocate their feelings. A has difficulty believing them, and B kisses them to prove it.
First kiss as childhood best friends(who were separated), and then first kiss as adults.
"How are you so good at kissing?"
"Did we really just do that?"
Blushing and kissing again, until their lips are swollen.
i have to say that at first i wasn't too sold on the (then still fanon) idea of a professor ending because of gale's own prior anecdote about being irked by his previous students and their inadequacies.
i thought it might not be a good fit for him as far as professions go.
but reading the epilogue files, i have come around on it.
i think it's just one more way in which he's really grown into himself, become content with who he was in the past, the mistakes he made and what he has learned from them, and the person he wants to be in the future:
Player: You? A teacher? I'd hardly say you set the best example for impressionable young wizards...
Gale: I think it makes perfect sense.
devnote: Surprised you wouldn't recognise this, a tiny bit offended you don't trust him to do this
Gale: Who better to warn of the perils of misusing magic than someone who was once only a wayward sneeze away from destroying a mid-sized settlement?
devnote: playing up to his past a bit, you can imagine this is how he acts with his students
Tara the Tressym: Don't remind me of those terrible times, Mr Dekarios. My blood pressure has only just recovered.
a few more cute banters & things we learn about gale and his new teaching position:
tara swipes at students who fall asleep in gale's classes, which he himself doesn't mind. he, too, slept through some of them (like his calishite lessons):
Player: Perhaps that's a good thing. I'm sure they're far better students than I was...
Gale: Ah, so you still remember our little lesson?
devnote: A little bit bashful, it was a vulnerable moment for him
Gale: 'Teaching' you was hardly an effort at all. Not like my present cohort of apprentices.
devnote: Complimentary, pulling the thought back to the teaching element after getting lost in the memory of the moment
Gale: They try their best, of course - when they can manage to stay awake.
devnote: Not upset by this - he slept through his fair share of classes as a student
Tara the Tressym: The cheek of them! Nothing a well-placed swipe from Tara can't fix, though.
2. gale offered to teach more subjects than illusion via simulacra:
Player: Only a professor? With your expertise, I'd have thought you could teach every kind of magic going...
Gale: I did offer, as a matter of fact.
devnote: Secretly glad the player thinks so highly of him
Gale: However, the Blackstaff insisted I couldn't teach every subject, nor could the simulacra of myself I offered to create for that purpose.
devnote: Reluctantly accepts that this was the right decision
Gale: So, I've settled for teaching the art of illusion. Magic to confound the senses, to render the impossible into reality, and to allow expression of that most magical attribute of all - imagination.
devnote: Selling it a bit - he wants to make sure you appreciate how cool this is
3. gale has told his students about the player's adventures and will invite a player to be a guest lecturer:
Player: I found the love of my life. I'd say I'm pretty happy.
Gale: And I couldn't be happier for you. A fitting reward for the sacrifices you made in getting here.
Gale: I've told my students plenty of tales about our escapades. You're something of a hero to them, you know.
Gale: I'd be delighted to introduce you to my current cohort - as a guest lecturer, perhaps? I'm sure they'd have plenty of questions for you.
Player: It would be my pleasure.
Gale: Excellent. I knew you wouldn't be able to resist the allure of sharing your expertise.
Gale: Of course you'll be most welcome to stay with me in my tower-
Tara the Tressym: Ahem.
Gale: My apologies, Tara. That would be our tower.
4. his students find him somewhat intimidating due to his backstory with mystra and the orb:
Gale: Well, that was quite lovely. I'm glad you're as pleased to see me as I am you.
Gale: I have to say, I'm quite grateful to just be 'Gale' for the evening.
Gale: I fear my students find me somewhat intimidating, due to my erm, explosive former reputation. I seem to put the fear of the gods into them.
devnote: He plays up to his reputations a bit, so he isn't overly surprised
Gale: Or the fear of Mystra, to be more specific.
Gale: I surrendered the Crown of Karsus to her, as I told you I would. And in return, she cured me of the orb at last.
Gale: Even now, I struggle to put the feeling into words. It was like exhaling for the first time, after holding my breath for so very long.
Gale: Of course, I haven't clarified with my students that the orb is no longer a threat. The legend of my explosive capabilities is an excellent means of controlling a classroom. Too good, if anything.
5. he wants to teach his students that there is fun in studying magic:
Gale: I spend most of my time trying to convince them how much fun the study of magic can be, but it'd be easier to crack a smile on an intellect devourer than some of my pupils...
devnote: Despairing a little, doesn't understand why they aren't all as passionate as he was
Player: Or on a mind flayer, perhaps...
Gale: Smiling may no longer come easy to you, but I've seen how your tentacles twitch at my jokes. Even the ones I'm not entirely certain I was trying to make...
devnote: Last sentence a tiny bit self-conscious, aware that people sometimes find him ridiculous.
Gale: Still, I hoped my students might be a little more open to the playful side of such magic.
romance protagonist pairings that really get me...
teammates/bandmates... everyone ships them together but no one knows
childhood best friends who know everything about the other and have always been there for each other, but never put two and two together (everyone else did though!)
rivals who had inexplicable beef, had some event bring them together (can range from project to freak accident, lowk anything works), and then realizing that there was way more to the other than they initially expected (romance ensues)
^^orrr academic/athletic rivals who subtly push each other to get better and end up having to be on the same team/assignment/etc
they both secretly yearned for each other (at the same time, but never realized!), lost contact, and then reunited, realizing that the feelings never left (and discovering that it was never truly unrequited)
people who are deeply misunderstood; the rest of the world eager to place them both in boxes they don't feel like they belong in, and their desperate search for each other and themselves resulting in the greatest love story of all time (mic drop)
^e.g. being labelled as "soulless," workaholics, overemotional
the best friend's brother. every freaking time. he's a bit older, a bit smug, and a bit... gone for you??? my god.
hear me out. nepo babies. old money. i love me a good gossip girl moment - wdym you're only dating her bc your father is trying to get in on her family's merger..?
the gut-wrenching, soul crushing fwb to relationship pipeline. queue "casual"...
i might make a part two. idk yet. but as always, if you have a specific post you would like to see, submit to my "ask" box here!!! otherwise i don't know what you guys want to see... and i fear my brain isn't big enough for this
(pick a quote + a feeling + a trope ! let’s see what fic you end up with.)
author's addition: this lil build-a-fic is inspired by @scealaiscoite ’s adorable idea ! her prompt lists are literal perfection. go stalk her blog pls she’s the best ever 🧸
— a quote !
☆ “stop smiling like that. it’s distracting.”
☆ “you make it really hard to stay just friends.”
☆ “why does it feel like a goodbye?”
☆ “you’re blushing.” — “no i’m not.”
☆ “just friends don’t look at each other like that.”
☆ “i missed you. that’s all.”
☆ “you remember the little things. that’s what gets me.”
☆ “tell me to stay. and i will.”
☆ “my hand fits so perfectly in yours. it's like i'm made for you”
☆ “do you want me to leave?” — “no. i want you to stay forever.”
☆ “i think i knew it was you. even back then.” — “then stay.” — “but that's the thing. i don't know if i know you anymore.”
☆ “i don’t know how to stop wanting you.”
☆ “this means something. don’t pretend it doesn’t.”
☆ “you’re not just anyone. you’re you.”
☆ “if we kiss now, everything changes.” — “i know but that's a risk i'm willing to take.”
☆ “i’ve been in love with you since the night we met.”
☆ “tell me it meant nothing. lie if you have to.”
☆ “i was easy to leave, wasn’t i?”
☆ “you don’t get to miss me now. you lost that right when we broke up.”
☆ “say something. anything. please.”
☆ “i loved you. that should’ve been enough.”
☆ “i wish i didn’t remember everything.”
☆ “don’t look at me like you still care.”
☆ “i’m tired of pretending this doesn’t hurt.”
☆ “you said forever. i believed you.”
☆ “if you didn’t mean it, why did you say it?”
☆ “you chose them. you always do.”
☆ “i don’t hate you. i just wish i’d never met you.”
☆ “you let me go like i was nothing.”
☆ “please don’t make this harder than it already is.”
☆ “are you sure? cause whatever this is it doesn’t feel like love.”
☆ “it’s always been you. i just didn’t know how to say it.”
☆ “say that again. i dare you.”
☆ “you really don’t see it, do you?”
☆ “i think i like you. like, like like you.”
☆ “do you always look at people like that?”
☆ “you make it really hard to think straight.”
☆ “oh my god. you’re blushing.”
☆ “this means something. don’t pretend it doesn’t.”
☆ “i should’ve kissed you when i had the chance.”
☆ “you’re not helping. you’re being pretty. it's distracting.”
☆ “you make me nervous in the best way.”
☆ “every time you look at me, i forget what i was saying.”
☆ “just admit it. you like me.”
☆ “if you don’t kiss me right now, i might explode.”
☾ only one bed
☾ mutual pining
☾ fake dating gone real
☾ friends to lovers
☾ strangers to almosts
☾ found family
☾ rivals with tension
☾ the “oh” moment
☾ confessions at 2am
☾ sunshine x grump
☾ forbidden
☾ hurt/comfort
☾ secretly in love
☾ reunion after years
☾ accidental domesticity
☾ slow burn
☾ “just friends” denial
☾ second chances
☾ love letters never sent
☾ childhood friends
☾ exes
☾ soulmates who don’t believe in fate
☾ enemies on the same side
☾ sleep talking confessions
☾ one falling first, the other falling harder
☾ patching up wounds with shaky hands
☾ “who did this to you?”
☾ dancing in the kitchen
☾ jealousy over nothing (but also everything)
☾ late-night phone calls
☾ caught in the rain
☾ almost kissing but someone interrupts
☾ waking up next to them
☾ fixing each other’s tie/collar
☾ taking care of them while they’re sick
25 writing prompts compiled from Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare:
[Please feel free to use! I would love for you to tag me if you post any writing pulled from or inspired by this list so I can read all of your amazing work! <3]
Image: Gustav Klimt, The Death of Romeo and Juliet (detail), 1886–7.
"These violent delights have violent ends..."
"Don't waste your love on somebody who doesn't value it."
"Parting is such sweet sorrow..."
"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs..."
"I am fortune's fool..."
"Under love's heavy burden do I sink."
"You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings and soar with them..."
"...dreamers often lie."
"It's easy for someone to joke about scars if they've never been cut."
"Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorns."
"I must be gone and live, or stay and die."
"Give me my sin again."
"Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied..."
"...where two raging fires meet together, they do consume the thing that feeds their fury."
"I have a soul of lead, so stakes me to the ground I cannot move."
"I love someone. She doesn't love me."
"Some grief shows much of love, but much of grief shows still some want of wit."
"There's no trust, no faith, no honesty in men..."
♡ “who is he?” “just an old friend.” “friend? does he know that?”
♡ “are you jealous?” “jealousy is an egregious and shallow emotion for weak minded individuals.” “oh, you are jealous!"
♡ “jealous does not begin to describe the gravity of my emotions.”
♡ character A running up to an old friend and pulling them into a hug, while the colour drains from character B’s face.
♡ “jealousy doesn’t suit you, (nickname)” “have you seen me? everything suits me.”
♡ “i have nothing to envy, you looked completely disinterested with her, no spark in your eyes as you looked at her.” “how would you know what that looks like?” “because you used to look at me like that.”
♡ character A dances with character B’s nemesis unknowingly.
or
♡ character A purposefully dances with character B’s nemesis to get a reaction from character B’s sullen and stoic self.
♡ “it should not take seeing me with another man to realize you want me.” “i have always wanted you. but it has never mattered what i wanted, it is what you want. what do you want?"
♡ “you look rough.” a perfect description of the character who just watched the love of their life go on a date with someone else.
♡ “the two of you looked cute, you're always welcome to find me when you realize you’re not one for settling.”
♡ “so you don’t love him?” “no, i love him because he is my friend but i’m not in love with him.” “i don’t follow.”
-:"Look me in the eyes when you say you hate me" Enemies to lovers dialogue prompts:-
By @me-writes-prompts
"That's it? That was your big entrance? God, I expected so much more." "Oh, did I disappoint you? That's delightful!"
"You don't often see trash walking around." "Wow. You don't often see a corpse talking either." "I'm not a corpse." "You will be."
"You know, I heard that you got taller. I'd say it's the opposite. Still can't reach my shoulders." "No? I can reach your cheek though. With my hand. If you'd like a punch."
"Is this your new hobby? Walking around the campus at midnight?" "At least I have a hobby. You on the other hand..."
"Did you miss me?" "..." "I can tell you missed me by your smile." "It's a scowl, you idiot."
"You think you're so clever, don't you?" "Yeah, and I can see that you're stupid."
"We could've ended up dead back there! What were you thinking?!" "About what kind of matching grave stones we could have."
"You think you're so high and mighty? That everyone is scared of you? What exactly would they be scared of? Your blue eyes, beautiful smile, your pretty face?" "I--"
"When was the last time you showered? You stink." "Then how come you're still standing close to me?"
♡ character running out into the storm, swiftly followed by their enemy.
♡ "i can't want you, and yet i do. gods, i want you."
♡ both characters are drenched to the bone but neither breaks eye contact as they match scream for scream.
♡ “would you stop being so stubborn and come back inside?” “you don’t have to be here.” “i am wherever you are.”
♡ “please just go back, you will catch a cold.” “i am not going anywhere without you.” “why?” “why do you think?”
♡ character A shivers in the rain and then mid argument character B shrugs off their coat and puts it on character A.
♡ “would you honestly rather walk through a thunderstorm than speak with me?” “i would rather walk through a thunderstorm than be reminded you don’t care for me.” “care for you? we are far past just caring.”
♡ “your lips are blue.” “careful, it almost sounds like you care.”
♡ character runs out of their wedding, unable to marry someone they do not truly love. their supposed enemy who was waiting just outside follows them into the storm.
♡ “why did you follow me?” “why do you think? for someone who is so incredibly brilliant, how do you not know?”
♡ character A’s yelling is halted by character B pulling them in and whispering, “you are gorgeous when you’re mad.” “i’m covered in water.” “just gorgeous.”
♡ “why did you come back?” “you hate storms.”
♡ “i hate how much i can’t hate you, i want to hate you. why can’t you just let me hate you?”
⭑ “are you okay? no fever? i’m a little worried with the lack of daggers to my throat recently.”
⭑ “you’re not hurt, are you?” “no, obviously not.” “that’s unfortunate.”
⭑ he liked her in ways he couldn’t explain, so he hated her instead.
⭑ he hates that he knows she fiddles with her ring when she’s nervous, and that her seashell necklace was given to her by her late grandma, and that she hides it underneath her shirts so people take her seriously.
⭑ “my brain just goes blank when i try to find a solution.” “huh. interesting.” “what is?” “didn’t know you had one.”
⭑ heated argument turns into make out session
⭑ “despite how we feel about each other i wouldn’t leave you for dead.” “how romantic.” “i take it back.”
⭑ forced proximity
⭑ one of them is egotistical and sure they’re always right which riles the other one up to constantly point out their mistakes
⭑ “you come to me. when shit goes down you come to me, you don’t fucking run away from me.”
⭑ “if we don’t get out of this alive—” “shut up, you do not love me.” “i was going to say thank god.”
⭑ “is he losing a lot of blood?” “yes.” “i love it when the universe is on my side.”
⭑ eye contact that one of them breaks just to hit the other one in their leg
⭑ one of them is a walking encyclopedia of fun facts and constantly remind the other that what they’re doing will one day kill them: you shouldn’t smoke, being on your phone for too long causes immense radiation, brushing your hair with that type of brush is harmful.
⭑ “if we don’t get out of this alive—” “that’s not funny, we could actually die this time.” “i love you.”
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