raphael santiago

Independent RP Blog based on Freeform's Shadowhunters & C.C.'s The Mortal Instruments. Private & Selective. Written by Addy

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there were several really good raphael moments & i have motivation! :)

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             “I likely should not be here,” Raphael said quietly from where he leaned in the doorway, arms crossed over his chest. “But I heard that you and the others eradicated half of the threat, and I could not resist the opportunity to tell you ‘job well done.’” It was a poor excuse, but after their earlier conversation was interrupted, Raphael could hardly return to skulking about the Du Morte, wishing he had handled her admission of affection differently, as he had been doing for weeks. 

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like for an episode based starter! 

there were several really good raphael moments & i have motivation! :)

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KNOWING YOUR PARTNER CAN POTENTIALLY MAKE WRITING TOGETHER A LOT EASIER. REPOST. DON’T REBLOG.

– BASICS.

•  NAME: addy •  PRONOUNS: she / her •  SEXUALITY:  -shrugs- •  TAKEN OR SINGLE:  i’m in a long-standing relationship with my couch.

– THREE FACTS.

1. i’m an English teacher. 2.  3. I have a little chihuahua who is my world

– EXPERIENCE.

•   HOW LONG (MONTHS / YEARS?): errrr-- ten years, give or take? •   PLATFORMS YOU’VE USED:  livejournal, dreamjournal, AIM, forums, Tumblr, KIK, discord, skype •   BEST EXPERIENCE: probs meeting @eloquated!

– MUSE PREFERENCES.

•   FEMALE OR MALE: i’ve written Mercedes from Glee and Sun from Sense8, but the rest of them have all been guys? why? i have no idea. i need to write some more ladies, for sure. •   FLUFF, ANGST OR S.MUT:  angst. almost always. •   PLOTS OR MEMES:  mmm, it depends!  •   LONG OR SHORT REPLIES:  again, it depends. sometimes i write so much i scare people, & sometimes i suck.  •   BEST TIME TO WRITE: --- any time, as long as there’s coffee. •   ARE YOU LIKE YOUR MUSE(S): like Raphael? i like to be in control of my life. & sometimes i get jealous or insecure & do stupid things.

TAGGED BY: @werethekennedys

tagging: Meeeh, feel free? 

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i’m sorry for disappearing for so long! i forgot to mention that i was going to florida, & i was gone for like, ten days or something like that! but i’m back, & all caught up, so i’ll be around. :)

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werethekennedys:

       There had been discussions as to whether or not the other cabinet members should be told or not about the disappearance of Valentine, and of course the decision had fallen to Alec and Isabelle had stepped forward as a representative. Her chest had tightened at the thought, yet here she was, stood in the Hotel once again. “I’m here on Institute business, Raphael. The cabinet members have a right to be informed about what’s happened,” she replied, voice never wavering, stance stoic and professional. She had to be professional. “Valentine has escaped.”

          Raphael listened, uncomprehending. This had to be some sort of ploy, some ridiculous plan on the Clave’s part -- surely they had not actually allowed Valentine Morganstern to escape. But Isabelle’s face was deadly serious, and there was a definite aura of concern about her person. And somehow, over the course of their ill-considered romance, Raphael had learned to read her too well to believe his own hopeful thoughts. “Mierda!” he swore, turning to pace an agitated circle around his office. “How did this happen? I thought you were transferring him to Idris so that it would not!”

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@werethekennedys || episode starter

           “Isabelle, this is not a good time.” Raphael had successfully avoided the woman since the last Downworlder cabinet meeting, and yet, after a long day of trying to save Simon Lewis from himself -- after an admitted lapse in judgement -- here she was. As beautiful and untouchable as ever. “You should not be here.”

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@neharah || episode starter

           “I am not going to apologize,” Raphael said firmly, standing outside the boathouse that Simon had made his own. “However, I will -- admit that I was rather blinded by my jealousy of your new ability, when I turned you away. I have been living this cursed existence for nearly a century, and the the sun --” The older vampire trailed off, unwilling to share too much of his own desires with someone who had had made his alliances very clear. “The police have been encouraged to forget your name, and they are aware that Daniel Quinn was the murderer they are looking for. You should not have any further problems in the quarter.”

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#stophurtingraphaelsantiago

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In the dead of night strange things happen. (x)

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various starters

❛  you’re a weapon and weapons don’t weep.  ❜

❛  hurt me once, I’ll kill you twice.  ❜

❛  never trust a survivor until you learn what they did to stay alive.  ❜

❛  death is the only god that comes when you call.  ❜

❛  I am teeth. I am royal. you are nothing to me.  ❜

❛  the sun will rise and we will try again.  ❜

❛  we’re just kids. we aren’t supposed to be heroes.  ❜

❛  I like my women like I like my Absinthe: bitter and intoxicating.  ❜

❛  what doesn’t kill me better run.  ❜

❛  she wasn’t looking for a knight. she was looking for a sword.  ❜

❛  don’t dehumanize bad people, because it’s their humanity which makes what they’ve done so terrifying.  ❜

❛  she isn’t just pretty. she is otherworldly and vaguely threatening.  ❜

❛  magic is not good or evil. is a knife evil? only if the wielder is.  ❜

❛  I don’t want your crown. see, I’ve come to burn your kingdom down.  ❜

❛  they broke my wings. they forgot I have claws.  ❜

❛  all that blood was never beautiful, it was just red.  ❜

❛  what do you do when there’s no hero in the story? simple. you kill the monster and crown yourself.  ❜

❛  how terrible it is, to love something that death can touch.  ❜

❛  you may not be interested in war, but it is interested in you.  ❜

❛  I feel divinity in my bones like aching. like fire.  ❜

❛  you make me feel and I don’t like it. I want it to stop. now.  ❜

❛  you are losing my interest and that is very dangerous.  ❜

❛  she will burn your kingdoms down, herself with it, if it means your ruin.  ❜

❛  it’s okay to be scared. it means your about to do something brave.  ❜

❛  she looks like divine absolution.  ❜

❛  I will not be another flower, picked for my beauty and left to die. I will be wild, difficult to find and impossible to forget.  ❜

❛  be careful with words. they can be forgive, but never forgotten.  ❜

❛  you not wanting me was the beginning of me wanting myself.  ❜

❛  I’m tired of fighting. for once, I want to be fought for.  ❜

❛  never run back to what broke you.  ❜

❛  I was quite, but not blind.  ❜

❛  your gut knows what’s up. trust that bitch.  ❜

❛  we all eat lies when our hearts are hungry.  ❜

❛  do not judge my story by the chapter you walked in on.  ❜

❛  I’m just a girl, standing in front of a salad, wishing it was a donut.  ❜

❛  you can miss something but not want it back.  ❜

❛  you can’t save people, you can only love them.  ❜

❛  I came, I saw, I made it awkward.  ❜

❛  we buy shite we don’t need, with money we don’t have, to impress people we don’t like.  ❜

❛  you’re always one decision away from a different life.  ❜

❛  my brain has too many tabs open.  ❜

❛  I’m not saying I hate you, just that you’re like the Monday of people.  ❜

❛  there’s no ‘we’ in fries.  ❜

❛  apology accepted, trust denied.  ❜

❛  death and I have been scandalously intimate for some time now.  ❜

❛  life happens. coffee helps.  ❜

❛  I am mine before I am ever anyone else’s.  ❜

❛  I rely a bit too heavily on alcohol and irony.  ❜

❛  very early in my life it was already too late.  ❜

❛  is that a threat or are you flirting with me.  ❜

❛  was the use of force necessary in completing your objectives?  ❜

❛  I’ll let you drag me to hell if it means you’ll hold my hand.  ❜

❛  I do bad things, and I do them very well.  ❜

❛  you drink too much, you cuss too much and you have questionable morals. you’re everything I ever wanted.  ❜

❛  they will kill you, but first they will have to catch you.  ❜

❛  drugs might kill you but they’ll never break your heart.  ❜

❛  good girls are just bad girls that haven’t been caught.  ❜

❛  a pretty face doesn’t guarantee a pretty heart.  ❜

❛  no airbag, we die like men.  ❜

❛  true evil is, above all, seductive.  ❜

❛  it takes more courage to suffer than to die.  ❜

❛  you must be lucky to avoid the wolf every time. but the wolf? he only needs enough luck to catch you once.  ❜

❛  justice is vengeance in prettier packaging.  ❜

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warlockeyes:

      usually  magnus  would  evade  admitting  such  a  weakness  to  anyone  he  couldn’t  completely  trust ,  and  even  then  he  would  redirect  or  deflect ,  making  the  other  feel  better  without  ever  actually  explaining  what  had  been  bothering  him  in  the  first  place .  alec  knew  some  of  what  his  problem  was  but  he  didn’t  know  that  magnus  wasn’t  sleeping  or  that  his  demons  were  haunting  him  more  than  he  could  possibly  understand .  the  admittance  to  raphael  had  been  a  way  of  magnus  to  just  admit  to  himself  that  he  had  a  problem  –––––  not  that  he  was  expecting  raphael  to  do  anything  about  it .

      this  one  thing ,  magnus  was  sure ,  he  could  trust  his  friend  with .  the  warlock  sighed  and  he  tried  not  to  let  his  weariness  show  on  his  features  as  he  offered  the  vampire  a  weak  smile .  ❛      i’m  not  sure  that  you  can ,  i’m  not  even  sure  why  i  told  you .      ❜  

             Raphael had many skills. He was a talented logistician, he could view problems -- in most cases -- without allowing emotions to complicate what must be done. He was almost coldly intelligent, and had few qualms about sacrificing the one for the good of the many. After all, he was already damned -- and his people depended on him. Being comforting, however, was not one of Raphael’s strengths. So he stayed quiet for a moment, trying to find words that did not sound like useless inanities. 

           “I suspect you told me because you needed to tell someone,” he suggested, settling himself on the sofa next to the warlock. “Because I am sensing that you have been keeping all of this to yourself.” Raphael could not make Magnus’ memories stop haunting him, nor wipe away the trauma of torture. He was, though, a reasonably good listener. “Though I will say that I doubt you will find relief at the bottom of a bottle --”

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— Shadowhunters Soundtrack  |  1/?

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Angsty and Dark Sentence Starters

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“Please, you’ve got to help me! I think he/she’s dead!” “It hurts…” “No, don’t touch me!” “You’re a monster!” “I’m the monster? What about you?” “They’re coming after me.” “I never wanted you to get hurt.” “I trusted you.” “Please don’t do this. Please.” “I don’t believe you.” “Why can’t you just believe me?!” “I never loved you.” “Let me go!” “If you scream, it’ll be worse.” “If only someone loved you…” “I’m not sorry.” “They want to hurt me!” “Don’t try to fix me.” “I don’t feel anything.” “If you say a word, I’ll slit your throat.” “Are you threatening me?” “I hate you.” “Did you honestly think I ever cared?” “This is wrong.” “You’re dying.” “I’m dying.” “It was all an act.” “[insert name] is dead.”

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warlockeyes:

⟢ ‹‹  RAPHAEL SANTIAGO.

     a  frown  darkened  the  warlock’s  features  and  magnus  deliberated  on  how  much  to  tell  raphael  before  deciding  that  their  history  allowed  for  a  little discretion  on  raphael’s  end .  ❛      you  know  that  valentine  managed  to  escape  in  my  body  for  a  short  time ,  well  what  you  don’t  know  is  that  during  that  time  while  i  was  trapped  inside  that  man’s  body ,  i  was  tortured  by  imogen  herondale  and  very  nearly  died .      ❜  he  paused ,  his  brow  furrowing  as  he  spoke  again .  ❛      i  was  forced  to  relive  some  very  painful  history ,  due  to  their  runes .  i  haven’t  slept  more  than  three  hours  consecutively  since .      ❜

       In the privacy of his own mind, Raphael could admit that he had not expected such honesty. Magnus was a master of deflection and redirection, and more than once, the vampire had found entered a conversation attempting to learn some personal information from the warlock, only to leave feeling better about himself, instead, and his question unanswered. The earnest response scared Raphael, more than anything else.

       “Magnus --” Raphael stalled, words failing him. The horror of being constrained to a body not one’s own, tortured, nearly killed -- there were not words to ease that terror, nor the protective instinct that Raphael felt for this man who had, over the years, become his family. The idea that anyone could confused Magnus’ soul for that monster’s made Raphael burn with anger, but anger would not allow the warlock to rest. So he schooled his expression and reached out to rest a cold hand on Magnus’ shoulder. “Can I help?”