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In 1633, Japan closed its borders to the outside world. Citizens would never see a white face, nor any face that was not Japanese. A child born mixed race would be considered less than human. Pitiable. Impure. Monstrous. From these times rose a legend. Of revenge. - An Indie roleplay blog for Mizu from Netflix's Blue Eye Samurai. By Rain.
. 𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐒 / 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐂𝐀𝐍𝐎𝐍𝐒 / 𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐍𝐒 / 𝙴𝙳𝙸𝚃𝚂 . . RULES below the cut
HOUSE OF THE DRAGON SEASON TWO SENTENCE STARTERS
❛ Duty is sacrifice. It eclipses all things, even blood. All men of honor must pay its price.
❛ War is coming, to the whole of the realm.❜
❛ I am indebted to you. ❜
❛ I'm afraid. ❜
❛ We should've just killed her when we had the chance. ❜
❛ When the king speaks, Your Grace, all hear it. ❜
❛ I find myself wondering...do we pursue the same end? ❜
❛ You must accept that the path to victory now is one of violence. ❜
❛ Did you think I would wither in your absence? ❜
❛ You only blame me because your true enemies are out of reach. ❜
❛ She holds love for our enemy. That makes her a fool. ❜
❛ I promise you, you will have all the vengeance that you seek, but you must keep a grip on your impulses. ❜
❛ Do anything but what I ask, and I'll bleed the whole lot of ya. ❜
❛ The gods punish us. They punish me. ❜
❛ This is not the time for blind accusations. We'll know who did this soon enough. ❜
❛ I will not be seen as weak. ❜
❛ Sometimes, we have to pretend. ❜
❛ I cannot trust you. I've never trusted you, wholly, much though I wished to, willed myself to. But now I have seen that your heart belongs only to you. ❜
❛ You think me some kind of monster. ❜
❛ You're pathetic. ❜
❛ We can afford no further mistakes. ❜
❛ You are mad. Mad! You cannot think that I did this! ❜
❛ You would send me to my death. ❜
❛ I would remind you only that when princes lose their temper, it is often others who suffer. ❜
❛ I see all your great adventures have done nothing for your looks. ❜
❛ For too long, I made it my aim to be of consequence. But now, I see that was the wish of a child. ❜
❛ I wish to spill blood, not ink! ❜
❛ Instead of judgment, you display impetuousness, and diminish us in the eyes of our enemy! ❜
❛ Fuck dignity! I want revenge. ❜
❛ They wish now not for the good of the realm, but for the petty satisfaction of vengeance. ❜
❛ Soon they will not even remember what it was that began the war in the first place. ❜
❛ There is no war so hateful to the gods as a war between kin. ❜
❛ I'm as fearsome as any of them. ❜
❛ You showed me grace when you could have withheld it. I'm not often surprised. ❜
❛ I cannot promise to make you happy. But I ask you: make this sacrifice willingly, for all of us. ❜
❛ If you've not yet surmised, you are welcome here. ❜
❛ Sin begets sin begets sin. ❜
❛ If dragons begin fighting dragons, we invite our own destruction. ❜
❛ Do not coddle me. Grant me at least that dignity. ❜
❛ Sadness is a condition of motherhood. ❜
❛ You have as much claim to grief as anyone. ❜
❛ Tales take on a life of their own, like weeds. Unless they are tended. ❜
❛ Always coming and going, aren't you? And I have to clean up afterwards. ❜
❛ You will die in this place. ❜
❛ I have been, at times, unkind, but never untrue. ❜
❛ You must go before you are discovered. ❜
❛ Your mother must've been very beautiful. ❜
❛ You should've burned them when you had the chance. ❜
❛ Is there no honor left in this world? ❜
❛ This is a better death than a traitor deserves. You should thank me for it. ❜
❛ I will not be made to look a fool in front of my allies and enemies. ❜
❛ I believe it is a sin to deny your appetites. They are what make us fully alive as mortal men. ❜
❛ If I may be so bold, you have not seemed yourself of late. ❜
❛ I've barely had the hours to grieve one tragedy before suffering the next. ❜
❛ I've come to know the face of tortured rest well enough. ❜
❛ Do you think simply wearing the crown imbues you with wisdom? ❜
❛ You have no idea the sacrifices that were made to put you on that throne. ❜
❛ What would you have me do? ❜
❛ Do simply what is needed of you: nothing. ❜
❛ Where have you been, these last days? You vanished without so much as a word.❜
❛ There are those who have mistaken my caution for weakness. Let that be their undoing. ❜
❛ If you die, all is lost. ❜
❛ The horrors I have just loosed cannot be for a crown alone. ❜
❛ Do you take issue with me? ❜
❛ I can sit still no longer. I must act. ❜
❛ I did not think they would be so eager to die. ❜
❛ I need them alive. I came here to raise swords, not corpses. ❜
❛ Will you goad me? When your bread and shelter now depend on my pleasure? ❜
❛ I mislike feeling powerless. ❜
❛ I do not know my part. The path I walk has never been trod. ❜
❛ What you cannot do, let others do for you. ❜
❛ There is more than one way to fight a war. ❜
❛ I do not wish to stand alone. ❜
❛ Has your loyalty faded? Or does it flourish only at night and flee the sunrise like a moth? ❜
❛ What we must do now is... terrible. ❜
❛ This is not war. These are crimes against the innocent, that any upright man would repudiate. ❜
❛ And once again, in the name of power, it's the weak and the women who must endure. ❜
❛ Was it worth the price? ❜
❛ I caution you, boldness is one thing, but overconfidence… ❜
❛ You have the impetuousness of youth, and its arrogance, neither of which is to be desired in a king. ❜
❛ Have the indignities of your childhood not yet sufficiently been avenged? ❜
❛ To claim a dragon, you must also be prepared to die. ❜
❛ You can't possibly still be angry about this. ❜
❛ You weren't going to bid me farewell? ❜
❛ It is your way, is it not? When something does not please you, you run. ❜
❛ There are older things in this world than you or I, or living memory. ❜
❛ You are not the player, but a piece on the board. As am I, for that matter. ❜
❛ It is my fault, I think, that you have forgotten to fear me. ❜
❛ It was worth the risk, no matter the outcome. ❜
❛ The enemy without may be fought with swords. The enemy within is more insidious. ❜
❛ Do you take me for a fool? ❜
❛ Oh, you make an art of provoking me. ❜
❛ Stop wasting your life waiting for something that'll never come. ❜
❛ I'm sure you did your best. ❜
❛ They will underestimate you, and this will be your advantage. ❜
❛ If the gods call me to greater things, who am I to refuse them? ❜
❛ Nothing is clean here. ❜
❛ The order of things has changed. Why not embrace it? ❜
❛ It does seem to me that you've made rather a mess here. ❜
❛ I don't need their love. I need their swords. ❜
❛ Mind your tongue. ❜
❛ I mislike all of this. ❜
❛ It seems you need us more than we need you. ❜
❛ So, what was the fucking point in all this then? ❜
❛ It's best to live, I think. However you do it. ❜
❛ You are not alone. ❜
❛ Will you prepare to face such an enemy? Or will you stay here and make yourself easy? ❜
❛ If you hinder our efforts through sloth or unreadiness, I will see you hanged, and your body fed to the dogs in the street. ❜
❛ You've arrived just in time to see my new army. What do you think of it? ❜
❛ This place will have you barking at the moon. ❜
❛ We must all make our sacrifices. ❜
❛ 'Tis no longer our rule that is threatened, our very lives. ❜
❛ Perhaps all men are corrupt and true honor is a mist that melts in the morning. ❜
❛ The dragons dance, and men are like dust under their feet. ❜
❛ We march now toward our annihilation. ❜
❛ There will be time enough to see which one of us is a coward. ❜
❛ There are omens here for those who seek them. ❜
❛ It's all a story and you are but one part in it. You know your part. ❜
❛ I am meant to serve you, and all of these with me, until death or the end of our story. ❜
❛ Be strong. You know you are just. ❜
❛ History will paint you a villain. ❜
❛ I am at last myself, with no ambition greater than to walk where I please and to breathe the open air. To die unremarked and unnoticed and be free. ❜
❛ You speak as if from a distant dream. ❜
❛ Come with me. ❜
❛ My part is here, whether I will or no. It was decided for me long ago. ❜
Mizu at any given time misses Swordfather way more than she's willing to admit.
"I can stay quiet if you wish, but usually talking makes the time pass faster. Plus, you'll get to know a bit more of the culture of these parts."
She pouted, then turned her back to the other. "It's a folk tale. The white snake."
Mizu has to wonder if she looks like a child to the other, because she had not been told a bedtime story since she was very small. Did always enjoy the tails Swordfather would spin by the fire during storm filled nights.
The white snake. That name alone peaks the ronin's curiosity enough for her to set up right. So these people have legends of their own. She thought.
“ I'm listening ”
I pinpoint the exact moment Taigen fell in love
Just look how proud he is of her for not taking the deal. It's not a coincidence that from this point onward he lowkey acts like a protective boyfriend.
"I could tell you a story, if you'd like. You seem determined to be miserable while resting. Perhaps I can make it a little less unpleasant."
“ I get the feeling you're going to tell it regardless of how I answer”
I need you all to understand how insane it is that Mizu literally almost dying and being overpowered by hundreds of men is placed adjacent to when she let herself be intimate with the man who would eventually betray her. The way those scenes were cut was intentional in the way that yeah, Mizu was just reminiscing of her old life in how she became the ‘monster’ she thinks she is, but it’s also how it implies that IT FELT THE SAME TO HER. Being vulnerable has ALWAYS led to life or death ultimatums, so much so that now she associates them all together. Revenge or love, what’s the difference? Are they not the same? She doesn’t have the luxury of allowing herself that intimacy, because the love has always been tainted by betrayal and that betrayal has always led to bloodshed; her or them.
Mizu when Fowler (a guy who has baby skeletons lining his cellar) tells her he's not the worst of her potential dads :
seasons | WINTER IN FEUDAL JAPAN
a period of japanese history which was ruled by shoguns
requested by @anon
@thatboomerangguy: “We can take the scenic route; we're not in a rush.”
MAKING DEMANDS / Always accepting.
Once read in an old scroll an air nomad say something along the lines of 'Listen to a man long enough and he will tell you all his secrets' If there was any truth to that then she must know everything about Sokka by now, as the man rarely shuts up.
Today she had done well to ignore his numerous attempts at what she thinks was mean t to be humor. A streak that comes to an abrupt end when she hears him say 'We're not in a rush' Jaw clenching stop dead in her tracks, spinning around to meet him head on.
“ Who are 'we'? ” Asks with a scowl, in the most masculine sounding voice that could be mustard. One could practically see the steam coming off of her breath. “ I did not come all this way to sightsee ” Just being in the Fire Nation made her skin crawl. The sooner she settles her business here in the better.
#character development
@ktsnloulan : we all make mistakes, sometimes for bad reasons, and sometimes for good ones.
VIKINGS (2013-2020) / Always accepting.
The ronin sat in the corner, bruised, bloody, and small. So small in fact that it felt as if she could sink through the wall she was leaned against, into nothing. Oblivion would be preferable at the moment. Unfortunately for the her she still very much corporeal, and so her sulking did not gone unnoticed.
Weary blue eyes look up over top tinted lenses at her charge. The girl looked mostly unscathed, if there was a silver lining to be found in all of this supposes that was it. The ronin looks back down, to blood stained hands, still ever slightly twitching with leftover adrenaline. Such an abominable sight made it impossible to find any comfort in Shisu's words, and causes her to take them closer to heart that was likely intended. “ I am not the good kind of mistake ” The solemn ronin tells Shisu.
✱ ˚｡⋆ ↪ MAKING DEMANDS ... [ REMASTERED ] ( a collection of various original dialogue prompts centered around posing requests / demands. adjust phrasing / gendered terms as necessary. )
memorize my coffee order, already!
quit fidgeting, you look suspicious.
stop comparing yourself, it's pointless.
give yourself a minute, [ name ]. you need rest.
don't move ... a single muscle.
can you teach me how to do that?
order room service – let's be lazy today.
pull out your ID, they card everyone here.
pack light, we'll be walking for awhile.
stop second guessing yourself.
don't say another word.
show me what you've been working on.
we're already late, can you hurry?!
we don't have time for this, [ name ].
just take the compliment, okay?
don't you dare just leave me here.
quit being so stubborn about this.
relax, i've got everything handled.
turn up the music! i love this song.
take my jacket, i'm not asking.
give me your hand, let's take a walk.
order whatever you want, it's my treat.
stop picking fights when you're tired.
meet me tonight ... our spot.
loosen up, quit being so serious all the time.
stay awake, you might have a concussion.
just let yourself be happy for once.
you have to stop sabotaging yourself.
tell me why you're really here.
drop your [ weapon / gun / knife ]!
quit trying to change the subject.
just breathe with me for a minute. in, out.
follow me and stay close.
just be yourself, [ name ]. that's all i want.
call me when you get home safe.
don't beg, it's pathetic.
stop trying to fix everyone else's problems.
can you [ tie / zip ] this for me?
stop lying to me. tell me what you did.
put that down, you don't know what it is.
tell me what you're thinking right now.
stay quiet until i figure this out.
tell me something i don't know about you.
come dance with me.
get out of my sight.
wear the [ item ] i bought you tonight.
take my arm, those heels look dangerous.
let me drive – you can enjoy the scenery.
can you stop hovering?
wait ...! hold still, i want to take a picture.
keep your hands where i can see them.
stop pretending you know what's going on.
find a first-aid kit. quickly!
you can't tell anyone what you saw.
take a nap, i'll wake you for dinner.
keep your voice down, they'll hear us.
don't you dare lie to me.
take the scenic route, we're not in a rush.
tell me a story from when you were little.
answer your phone when i call you.
give me your jacket, i'm freezing.
don't get yourself killed.
tell me what you see when you look at yourself.
tell me what you see when you look at me.
stop being so modest about your achievements!
leave them to me, just go.
just admit that you love me.
just admit that you hate me.
come here, let me look at you.
don't listen to them, they don't know what they're talking about.
[ name ], don't make me do this.
drop your [ weapon ].
stay here and wait for my signal.
don't just sit there, move.
take this and run, don't let anyone have it.
pretend you're my [ partner / gf / bf ].
don't look , you'll give us away.
stay with me, don't drift off.
stop pretending like you care.
go make sure the coast is clear.
take this with you. it's a good luck charm.
don't tell anyone about this.
if anybody asks about today, lie.
stop looking at me like that.
tell me you love me.
just kiss me, already.
talk to me in [ language ].
keep your eyes on the road.
stop crying and calm down.
give me one chance to explain.
come with me. there's so much we could do.
wear the [ dress / tie / item ] i gave you tonight.
show me how you like to be touched.
hold my hand.
kiss me, make it look real.
look at me. how many fingers am i holding up?
[ name ] ... will you marry me?
just slow down for a minute. what's going on?
take a deep breath, you need to calm down.
get out of here, [ name ]!
draw your weapon.
go rest. i'm not asking.
take a step back.
keep your promise for once.
quit assuming you know what i'm thinking.
give me a straight answer.
be polite to our guests.
look me in the eye and say that again.
put your feelings aside for a moment.
keep close to me.
here, let me see that.
look up at the sky.
run ... run and don't stop!
get out of here, i don't want to see you right now.
stand up, this isn't over yet.
close your eyes and count to ten.
keep your head down and keep moving.
[ name ], let me past.
listen carefully to what i'm about to say.
don't just stare, come in.
stop laughing, this isn't funny.
take this and hide it from me.
don't make a sound.
the sidewalk is slippery, give me your hand.
quit causing problems everywhere you go.
just admit that you don't know what you're doing.
stop right there, i mean it.
don't say that name aloud.
just trust me, okay?
stop acting so childish.
call the police. now.
tell me you love me, even if it's not real.
take a good hard look.
stop the car, [ name ].
let me walk you to your [ door / car ].
almost done, just give me five more minutes!
don't make eye contact.
stay out of trouble.
let me see that beautiful smile again.
just do it already, we've waited long enough.
hold me tight, and never let me go.
finish what you started.
tell me what you know.
quit being so melodramatic.
just stay away from me.
turn around. slowly.
don't be scared.
put it down before somebody gets hurt.
stop pretending , i'm tired of the pretending.
grab me my [ item ], will you?
don't make assumptions.
put this over it to stop the bleeding.
get to safety! i'll be right behind you!
stay the night, i hate sleeping alone.
wipe that look off your face.
keep an eye on them.
look at yourself in the mirror.
eat. you haven't touched your food in days.
* VIKINGS (2013-2020) PROMPTS ,
warriors don’t show their heart until the axe reveals it.
the world is changing and we must change with it.
some men lust for women, and others lust for gold, but i only lust to please the gods.
if nothing is real, we must still act as if it was.
we have lost more knowledge than we ever had.
power is only given to those who are prepared to lower themselves to pick it up.
it is always a strength to know the weaknesses of your friends.
your power resides in your prestige.
we cannot control our fate, we must accept it.
what was once true and real, is suddenly no longer true; no longer real, and sometimes we have to accept that.
we all make mistakes, sometimes for bad reasons, and sometimes for good ones.
it is one thing to use a weapon, but another to kill.
the space between life and death, that’s where we are the most alive.
life is not a walk across an open field.
we never really change, we just think that we do.
the mind is a far better warrior than the sword.
you and i both know the outcome of this battle has already been decided.
we live to fight another day.
the more complicated a person is, the more interesting he is, but at the same time: the more dangerous he is.
we all live in the past, although some people don’t understand that.
all of my life, and all of your lives, have come to this point.
the only way to tell if something is real is to sail there.
there is nowhere else to be but here.
the lure of an imaginary land, traveling somewhere that doesn’t exist? of course i’m coming.
all roads lead to the throne.
to be here now is the only thing that matters.
the gods are man’s creation to give answers that they are too afraid to give themselves.
i never forget anything.
you will look better if you have something to believe in.
fame won’t make your small kingdom any bigger.
to everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under the sun.
i have no interest in peace; peace is a dirty word.
if the gods don’t protect me, then who can?
family isn’t everything, in the end, we are born alone and we die alone.
i desire to live a totally different kind of life.
what’s important is how we deal with suffering, how we deal with the truth.
i am old enough to know that you can never say for sure what someone else will do.
what is real today might not be real tomorrow, but sometimes we have to help it to shift.
as long as my brother is still alive, he is not defeated.
you emerge from the womb with only one thing on your mind, how to die.
you couldn’t kill me if you tried for a hundred years.
when you hear thunder, it’s only thunder.
it is the way of prophecy.
i’ve seen enough of war, i have seen enough of death.
the truth can be a bad choice for a wise man.
you are a great man, but even great men make mistakes.
how the little piggies will grunt when they hear how the old boar suffered.
don’t waste your time looking back, you’re not going that way.
life is all about change, is it not?
man is the master of his own fate, not the gods.
there is an illusion of power that induces inside you a kind of madness.
the gods will always smile on the brave women.
a king must be prepared to do the most terrible things against all conscience if he wants to survive.
words are fine, but they don’t win battles.
it’s not a matter of negotiation, it’s always a matter of blood.
hatred must never take the place of love.
sometimes the real truth is hidden from all of us, beyond the accidents of time and place, and has to be revealed.
nothing is so complicated, only thinking makes it so.
i have had enough of compromising with the men in my life.
you made a decision, live with it, believe in it; otherwise, how can i ever respect you?
you don’t need a title to be a leader.
what is it about the word king that makes even reasonable people behave like idiots?
i was never the usurper, always the usurped.
now I know I’m the chosen one.
we are always the same. We just pretend to change.
stones are much easier to wear than earth.
i would sup with the devil if he would show me how to achieve my earthly goals.
a hostage of the highest value is the safest hostage.
your death is on its way.
that is always the danger, to do the right things for the wrong reasons.
bad news travels a great deal slower than good news.
i am tired of fighting.
yes, we will all die. but not necessarily when the bandits attack us.
the man i once was would have dug this spade just deep enough into your skull to make you unconscious.
do you see this? are you watching this? this is our dream.
i am done with the humans.
you need to believe in yourself, or you’re not fit to wear that crown.
if you are afraid, then you are already dead.
the gods abandoned you a long time ago.
nothing is ever permanent, everything is always changing.
i need you to help me put my armor on one last time.
what is the point in trying to find a new land, if we behave just the same as we did in the old one?
we should never forget our past, ever.
life is a journey; we are borne ceaselessly into the future.
there is no way you can win.
life is about suffering, there’s no escape from it. that’s the truth.
i can hardly remember his name even now.
the world is more important than we are; we should take care of it.
power is always dangerous: it attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
wherever you go, i will go too. whatever you do, i will do too; even till the ends of the earth, even to the ends of endurance.
if we don’t change, we fall behind.
the gods never had children with humans.
"In the heart of the fire, we found the strength to carry on, to rebuild what was lost, and to emerge stronger than ever before." - Shirley Hazzard
" Mama. They came for me, like you said. The bad men. It was my fault. I'm sorry I'm a monster, Mama. I'll avenge us, Mama. I swear it, If it takes all my life. If it takes my death. I swear it, Mama. I swear it."
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