#mistrustful

[margotlovessally]

🍯🔮🪽A gun-shy dragon🪽🔮🍯

[howifeltabouthim]

If you knew half the tricks and ruses played upon me, you would not wonder at my suspecting all the world.

Ellen Wood, from East Lynne

[howifeltabouthim]

Wary of men, they expected nothing much from them, save disturbance.

Tanith Lee, from White as Snow

[howifeltabouthim]

I don't trust these house parties. One never knows what is in store.

Mary Balogh, from Snow Angel

[howifeltabouthim]

He was in love with her—there was no doubt about that. But he had never believed in romantic love and did not trust it now. The intensity of these feelings could not last beyond a few days or weeks at the most.

Mary Balogh, from Snow Angel

[howifeltabouthim]

I've been deceived too often; I've ceased to form attachments, to permit myself to feel attractions.

Henry James, from The Portrait of a Lady

[miqojak]

does your muse usually take the lead in relationships? / is there someone your muse has a crush on, but who you don’t actually have a ship with?

Answered the first one, so I’ll copy it over - It really depends! She prefers a push-and-pull dynamic; that’s when you know she’s genuinely interested on some level. Sure, she enjoys when people do as she says and suffer her bullying and commands…but that marks a person as her lesser, in her mind. She’s not pursuing anyone that she sees as ‘beneath’ her. That said, she enjoys sharp minds, and sharper wits; and of course, those with an ego to match her own. Which means she’s not always going to be ableto take the lead, and that’s okay (…sort of. She’ll probably angrily pout about it.). As for Jak and crushes - she doesn’t tend to get crushes, in the traditional sense, I guess (not yet, anyways). She actively scoffs at the word - but I don’t know if she genuinely understands how romantic attraction works, or is ‘supposed’ to work. She’s been physically attracted to people, and admires the minds of a couple people; she’s not immune to lust, and if she gets attached to people, it manifests in unusual ways. It’s primarily a compulsion, a need to understand. She’s an emotionally stunted person - used to wearing the masks, and going through the motions without it meaning anything. That’s changing, albeit slowly.I don’t know, really - there’s still a lot of folks I’m trying to set up RP with, so Jak can meet more people. I guess as yet, there’s a couple people whom she’s a bit fascinated with, but no one I don’t have some sort of ‘ship’ with, yet? There’s definitely new acquaintances she wants to follow up on, but anything even resembling a ‘crush’ would take some time to develop. 

[warcraft-shenanigans]

Sally Whitemane, Scarlet Monastery