the shadows always surround us

❝ Have you ever wondered what would happen were we to walk away from all that we have known––away from these shadows––and choose to make a brighter world? ❞ Clea of Marvel. Independent. Private. Selective. Heavily Headcanon-based. Written by Walden.

[tomakeabrighterworld]

Welcome to my blog for Clea from MARVEL!

RULES // MEMES

Think you’ve seen me before? Or you’re someone wondering what blogs are mine?

I try to post this update every now and then because, as some of you know, I am a Disaster™

My current blog list (whether the blog is currently active or the muse is LOUD and I would like to get them rolling) is below the cut.

MISCELLANEOUS DISNEY/DREAMWORKS

@roidestruands { Clopin } @heretherebedevils { Captain Hook } @alivingdarkness { Kozmotis Pitchiner / Pitch Black } @ohfieryautumn { Lady Pitchiner / The Autumn Spirit } @fullxofxwonder { Nicholas St. North } @hopeandnewlife { E. Aster Bunnymund }

TOLKIEN, MYTH, and FANTASY (canon and original worlds)

@naughtbutdreams { multimuse for original and Tolkien muses; main } @beautymarred { Thranduil } @whoshallbeking { Thorin Oakenshield } @ofthedeathdance { Tristan of Arthurian Lore } @glamglitterandgoblins { Jareth, the Goblin King } @onlyxthexchosen { multi for the SciFi show Sanctuary, includes literary figures }

ONCE UPON A TIME IN WONDERLAND

@lovebeyondproof { Alice & Cyrus; main }

PRIDE & PREJUDICE

@onlytolerable { Elizabeth Bennet } @perfectlyamiable { Mister Bingley }

MARVEL

@theonceandfutureloki { Loki, including some variants; main } @tomakeabrighterworld { Clea; main } @maybetoomanytimes { Peter B. Parker of Into the Spider-Verse; main } @mygiftandmycurse { Peter Parker of Raimi’s Spider-Man verse; main } @masterofthemysticarts { Doctor Stephen Strange of Raimi’s Spider-Man verse } @thewarriorking { Xu Wenwu; main } @spiritxofxvengeance { Johnny Blaze }  @livinginshadows { original Marvel character } @siehattenkeinennamen { Erik Lensherr } @morethanashield { Steve Rogers } @mygiftandmycurse  @abidinganger { Bruce Banner; main } @timeslidingsonuvabitch { Cable } @toavengedefeat { multimuse for Marvel and DC characters } @veritasxomniaxvincit { Sigyn } @misterxdoctor { Doctor Stephen Strange } @arashikagesteel { GI JOE’s Storm Shadow }

STAR WARS

@untilnolongerprofitable { Hondo Ohnaka; main } @lightinhersmile { Salju of Black Spire Outpost } @nowandtilthespire { multimuse for residents of Black Spire Outpost }

[ There are other Star Wars, but these are the loudest at present. I also have several OCs, Cobb Vanth, Migs Mayfeld, Maul, Kit Fisto, and several others. If you have any interest in any of those, just let me know as they may perk up with plotting! ]

QUEEN OF THE SOUTH

@violenceistheanswer { James Valdez; main } @notagamblingman { Taza } @beingacabronisachoice { Boaz Jimenez } @theheartbeatofnola { Marcel Dumas } @hernameiswar { La Reina } @heknowssomebody { miscellaneous characters } @whosthecaptainnow { King George }

MISCELLANEOUS CHARACTERS

@ratherbeconsideredwrong { Mycroft Holmes of Elementary; main } @theoriestosuitfacts { Sherlock Holmes of BBC’s Sherlock } @thegirlsleuth { Nancy Drew } @thecleverestadversary { Irene Adler of RDJ’s Sherlock Holmes } @fatalstatistics { Le Chiffre of Casino Royale } @amonstrousphantom { The Phantom of the Opera } @buscarparamivida { fandomless original character } @ariverofdarkness { Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs of Miami Vice } @menofresolve { miscellaneous characters from film and television } @thelegendarywest { multimuse for Wild West characters } @demmedxelusive { Sir Percival Blakeney, baronet / the Scarlet Pimpernel }

VIDEO GAME & ANIME CHARACTERS

@thecopycatninja { Hatake Kakashi of Naruto; main } @ryujinnokenwokurae { OVERWATCH’s Genji Shimada } @alchemicassassin { FORTNITE’s Midas } @ofthewolftribe { Koga of InuYasha } @inwantofaheart { Kagura of InuYasha }

[tomakeabrighterworld]

I was finally able to watch Multiverse of Madness and so I am here.

Plotting call?

[tomakeabrighterworld]

You write for QoTS? AWESOME! It's the most underappreciated fandom...but anyway, what attracted you to Clea?

@dhampiravidi

I do, in fact, write for QotS. I write James Valdez, Taza, Boaz Jimenez, as well as some OCs tied to James. One of my friends @duskregrets / @spirekept / @mysterietwin also writes Teresa Mendoza and I love them for that. Though, they should. They were the one who got me into the show.

As for Clea, I stumbled across her in a comic arc for Doctor Strange and became quite interested in her, though I've largely spun my own take to adapt her into the MCU.

Thanks for the question!

[richietoaster]

Are you a “can’t write dialogue” writer or a “can’t describe anything” writer

[tomakeabrighterworld]

supremestrangeness​:

“No one currently,” He cleared his throat, glancing about the room as well, like an awkward teenager, not entirely sure what to do with his hands.  He settled on scooping a drink from a passing waiter. “So I guess here we both are. At a party like normal functional people.”

Not that he’d been doing any real partying, it was always all work with him, it would seem. “I think I saw Wanda here, somewhere,” He offered in an attempt at polite small talk, if only to prove he did indeed sort of have friends too, “I see her at No-Doors sometimes.”

“If we’re being more specific, one of us is mingling like a normal functional person, and the other one is placing wards and trinkets about the room that everyone else may enjoy their evening,” she retorts, giving him a Look. 

Though… it isn’t a rebuke. Not really. Merely a statement. A fact. A ‘I still see you’ whether she truly intended to be so transparent or not.

But she looks at him and she sighs and there is an almost fondness when she shakes her head.

“Why don’t you go mingle now, Stephen, and leave this to me? I can manage such spells just as skillfully as you. Even the Sorcerer Supreme deserves to enjoy time among his friends without such duties.”

[invademyinbox]

send me — BUMP IN THE NIGHT! —

for my character to react to hearing scratches, screams or otherwise unnerving sounds while trying to get to sleep.

[tomakeabrighterworld]

Portrayal: We’ve only just started writing together, but I really love your Clea so far!! A wonderful balance of dignity and vulnerability, and I apologize for my horrible gremlin of a sorcerer for breaking her heart. <3 You’re fun to plot and chat with, and I’m excited to write more with her and Peter B, both!

how's my portrayal?

@supremestrangeness

Thank you! I'm fairly new to Clea but I do absolutely adore her and I'm glad that those things are coming through well. I'm not so new to Peter B (just started a new blog for him to get a fresh start), but I'm glad that you're enjoying him as well! I am also very much looking forward to continuing to write them with your Doctor Stranges, with what we've already plotted and whatever may come in the future. It's certainly been fun so far, and I really do appreciate how kind you've been and for you tolerating my rambling messages! xD Thank you so much!

[infinityrph-deactivated20230819]

hey…how’s my portrayal? ♡

[tomakeabrighterworld]

dxctorstephenstrange​:

Stephen found himself in awe of the kind and curious woman standing before him and Wong.  Her proper mannerisms, her uniquely stunning eyes, her pale features all came together to create someone who was quite mesmerizing.

“It’s a true pleasure to meet you, Clea.  I’m Doctor Stephen Strange,” he introduced himself, as she had said she didn’t know his name.  “You can call me Stephen.”

Out of the corner of his eye, Strange noticed Wong’s arched eyebrow at the question about Dormammu.  Indeed, it was curious that she was so fascinated about the means by which the Master of the Mystic Arts had stopped him from consuming Earth and all of humanity.

“I…bargained…with him,” Stephen explained.  

“I possessed the means to trap him and myself within a neverending time loop if he refused to leave Earth and humanity alone.  As powerful as Dormammu was, even he could not resist the forces of time itself.”

Stephen chose, wisely, not to mention that he was no longer in possession of the Time Stone, as he didn’t want word of its absence reaching Dormammu within the Dark Dimension.

@tomakeabrighterworld​

“Stephen…” she repeats, committing the name to memory. And that he would have her to address him so informally rather than by either of his titles!

Which is, of course, the other point that had struck her in regards to his introduction. Not only a sorcerer, but a physician as well! How skillful and learned he must be to possess both such occupations! How many years he must have studied! How powerful he must be for it!

And to be so clever as to trap Dormammu in such a way that even he must yield to the will of another, to be compelled away from even that which he most wanted…

For a long moment, she simply stares at him with wide eyes, amazed by what she has heard of his deeds, how much more amazing they seem to know the details of them.

"To be able to manipulate time itself… you must be a truly great sorcerer indeed, perhaps the most powerful to exist…”

Surely there are none who could be stronger… could there?

“What you have done is… beyond the comprehension of my people. Where you saved your world, there were none among my people with the power or ability to oppose the Dread One, and those who attempted it were slain or enslaved ages ago, before even my birth. All I have ever known before traveling to your world has been darkness. All that my people have known since his reign began is subjugation and suffering…”

She draws a step closer then, expression so very earnest.

“I have come here to ask your aid on behalf of my people. Please, Stephen, you are the only hope that we have…”

[tomakeabrighterworld]

supremestrangeness​:

He had been crouched, half under one of the snack tables, setting out a bowl of some sort of milk that was definitely not from a cow, carefully applying the particular spice-combination he had brought in a vial tucked in his pocket, concentrating on keeping his hands steady enough to not make a mess.

It was that voice suddenly piping up behind him that he jumped, cursing some ancient god as he bumped his head on the underside of the table, nearly knocking over one of the multi-tiered plates of treats above him.

Scurrying out indignantly, he scrambled to his feet, front of his suit splashed with the odd-smelling concoction. “Clea! Well, yes, but that’s…” He cleared his throat, “He insisted it would be good for me.” 

Shifting awkwardly, he wove a hand, the stain sizzling off of his suit as though boiling away. “You, er… here with anyone?”

She… perhaps feels… marginally guilty for startling him that much. She hadn’t thought he would almost upend the table. Or spill… whatever that is on his suit.

Yet, before she can offer her assistance to make amends… he magics the stain away and deflects the attention from himself with a question that she can’t decide if it is curiosity based in self-interest or an inflammatory jab in the dark to see if he can hit a mark.

With Stephen, it could be neither or both.

She doesn’t quite want to believe it to be the former, if only for the sake of her poor heart.

She doesn’t want to assume the latter lest she unfairly accuse.

She turns her head away from him, as though simply to look around at those gathered around them.

For a date? Or a friend? Or anywhere else to be?

She will let him wonder for a moment––long enough to be certain of herself––before she gives answer.

“No. I simply chose to venture here in the hopes that I might visit with old acquaintances and friends…”

Then she looks to him once more, that strange violet gaze so entirely focused on him, as though by sight alone she might divine what is happening in that brilliant mind.

“And you? Is Wong the only one who drove you from your Sanctum? Or has someone else tempted you from your tomes and your duties?”

[tomakeabrighterworld]

grab-an-idea​:

Doctor Strange Sentence Starters

“That ritual will bring you only sorrow.”

“Hypocrite!”

“Status, _____?”

“This isn’t a time for showing off.”

“What about ten minutes ago when you called the wrong time of death?”

“You had a second opinion. What you needed was a competent one.”

“I have a strict policy against that. I call it the ____ policy.”

“Well good, I’m glad something’s names after me.”

“Everything is about you.”

“What did they do?”

“No, please, it’s all I have left.”

“You’re looking for _____?”

“Might I offer you some advice?”

“Forget everything you think you know.”

“I know how to reorient the spirit to heal the body.”

“You’re talking to me about healing through belief?”

“You think you see through me, do you?”

“Why are you doing this to me?”

“He looks alright to me.”

“Who are you in this vast multiverse, Mr./Mrs./Ms./Miss./Mx. ______?”

“I wanted the power to defeat my enemies. You gave me the power to defeat my demons.”

“I’m fluent in google translate.”

“Thank you for the books, the horrifying story, and the threat upon my life.”

“You can beat a river into submission. You have to surrender to its control and use its power as your own.”

“Silence your ego, and your power will rise.”

“____ told on me?”

“No more questions.”

“Fight like you life depends on it.”

“They should put the warnings before the spells.”

“I came here to heal my _____. Not fight in some mystical war.”

“It’s strange.”

“You don’t know how to use that, do you?”

“People think in the terms of good and evil. When the true enemy is time.”

“What were you stabbed with?”

“Keep me alive, will you?”

“Stop, you’re clearly in shock.”

“I really do have to go.”

“I’ve seen what I’ve always seen. Your overinflated ego.”

“You lack imagination.”

“You lack a spine.”

“This was a mistake.”

“I came you broken, lost, in need. I trusted you to be my teacher and you fed me lies.”

“I tried to protect you.”

“His/Her/Their eternal life is not paradise, it’s torture.”

“What are you doing?”

“You’re dying!”

“You have to return to your body, you don’t have time.”

“Time is relative.”

“I’ve prevented countless terrible futures, and after each one there’s always another.”

“You always excelled, but not because you craved success, but because you feared failure.”

“Arrogance and fear still keep you from learning the greatest lesson of all.”

“Sometimes you have to break the rules to serve the greater good.”

“Only together do you have a chance of stopping _____.”

“Death is what gives life meaning. To know your days are numbered, and your time is short.”

“You’d think after all this time I’d be ready, but look at me. Stretching one moment into a thousand. Just so I can watch the snow.”

“Are you ok?”

“I don’t understand what’s happening.”

“I have to go away now.”

“I guess there are other ways to save lives.”

“I don’t want you to go.”

*walks out of a portal like a badass*

“You’re on the wrong side of history ____.”

“_______ was his/her/their fault.”

“You told me once to fight like my life depended on it because one day it might. Well, that day has come.”

“I can’t fight them alone.”

“The ____ has already fallen.”

“The spell is working. We have a second chance.”

“Get up and fight.”

“We can finish this.”

“Isn’t it beautiful? A world beyond time, beyond death.”

“_____ I’ve come to bargan.”

“Yes, but everyone on ____ will live.”

“Pain’s an old friend.”

“No, but I can lose again, and again, and again, and again, and again forever. And that makes you my prisoner.”

“Set me free!”

“What do you want.”

“It’s everything you ever wanted.”

“You know you really should have stolen the whole book. The warnings - the warning come after the spells.”

“We did it by also violating the natural law.”

“Look around. It’s over.”

“You still think there will be no consequences?”

“The bill comes due. Always a reckoning.”

“We must be ready.”

“We’ll be ready.”

[tomakeabrighterworld]

@supremestrangeness​ continued from here

There was something about the Winter Solstice, perhaps it was the way the moon effected the Ley Lines, the temperature, the collective psychic fear of the cold and dark that Humanity built up over the centuries, but there was always something to be on the look out for. Things in the dark winter night, preying on the wicked and innocent alike, depending. Things that inspired ancient traditions like the Krampus or Mari Lywd. Things older and more nefarious.

Being at a company holiday party did not stop the Sorcerer Supreme from his vigilance. As the party bustled on, Stephen was skirting about the place, setting odd trinkets, charms, offerings in various places, looking weirdly out of character in his cheap suit, cloak of levitation casually wrapped around his neck like a scarf. The important thing was, for once, he had actually shown up.

She’s more than a little surprised to see him here––of all places––if she is honest. 

Always he had seemed so uninterested at best and outright reclusive at worst when it came to such social gatherings. Too much distance, she suspects. Too much space between him and his fellow heroes, because, regardless of how much Stephen might respect and care for them, they do not exist within his reality.

They could never even begin comprehend why he’s going about the party––as they chatter on about who is wearing what and gifts they have so secretly acquired for someone or holiday antics gone awry––placing anything he might that would protect their revelry, to protect them and keep any dark and sinister powers at bay, looking as though he expects that at any moment something might go so terribly wrong…

That was what she had done for him, once upon a time. Understood.

Now, it takes her ages even to approach him, and even then, she can only seem to work up the nerve to do so if she at least convince herself that she has the opportunity to give him a good scare by suddenly appearing behind him.

“… You surprise me, Stephen,” she begins and somehow she thinks her voice is close enough to neutral. Or maybe she’s lying to herself. Who is to say? 

“I hardly would have expected to see you here. Did Wong insist that you were to leave the Sanctum that he might have a silent night?”

[maybetoomanytimes]

No spoilers but, to anyone who has seen the No Way Home, if you’re interested in knowing what characters I’m going to pick up from it––because, you know, it’s me and I can’t NOT––just let me know, because I am setting up the blogs right now. 

[tomakeabrighterworld]

Dangerous Loyalty RP Starters

"It scares me what I'm willing to do for you."

"I don't care about anyone else, you're all that matters to me!"

"You know you can't refuse me anything I ask of you."

"You know I'd never refuse anything you asked of me."

"Say the word and I'm yours forever."

"If you love me as much as you say, then prove it."

"It's time that you proved your loyalty to me."

"I'll serve you forever if you'll allow me to do it."

"What will it take to make you go back on your oath of loyalty?"

"Will you trust me with the rest of your life?"

"My life is in your hands."

"You're going to take this gun, you're going to pull the trigger and you're going to shoot them. And do you know why? Because I told you to do it."

"I'd die if you asked me to."

"You would die if I asked you to."

"I could stab you in the heart and you would still come crawling back."

"You can do anything you want to me, I don't care!"

"I'll take the fall for you."

"I want you to take the fall for me."

"I could never act against you, not even to defend myself."

"My safety isn't important! You're what matters!"

"If hurting me is what makes you happy, then I'm only happy to indulge you."

[seth-lael]

DOCTOR STRANGE APPRECIATION EVENT | DAY 3 Favourite Location

[thememesource]

❝ casablanca ❞ ( 1942 ) sentence meme

Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.

I stick my neck out for nobody.

Oh, he’s just like any other man, only more so.

But what a fool I am talking to a beautiful woman about another man.

I have no conviction.

I love you so much.

Oh, it’s a crazy world.  Anything can happen.

Kiss me as if it were the last time.

You despise me, don’t you?

Where were you last night?

Will I see you tonight?

How extravagant you are, throwing away women like that.

When it comes to women, you’re a true democrat.

I like to think that you killed a man. It’s the romantic in me.

But everybody’s having such a good time.

I’m not fighting for anything anymore except myself. I’m the only cause I’m interested in.

Here’s looking at you, kid.

I wish I didn’t love you so much.

Each of us has a destiny - for good or for evil.

And remember, this gun is pointed right at your heart.

Where I’m going, you can’t follow. What I’ve got to do, you can’t be any part of.

Round up the usual suspects.

I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. 

[rarerpmemes]

❝ ░ INDIANA JONES; STARTER SENTENCES.

❛ You’re not the man I knew ten years ago. ❜

❛ It’s not the years, honey, it’s the mileage. ❜

❛ What a fitting end to your life’s pursuits. ❜

❛ I don’t know, I’m making this up as I go! ❜

❛ You want to talk to God? Let’s go see him together, I’ve got nothing better to do. ❜

❛ Come on! Show a little backbone, will ya! ❜

❛ Snakes. Why’d it have to be snakes? ❜

❛ You can’t do this to me, I’m an American. ❜

❛ I can only say ‘I’m sorry’ so many times. ❜

❛ I oughta kill you right now. ❜

❛ Not a very private place for a murder. ❜

❛ Didn’t any of you guys ever go to Sunday school? ❜

❛ Let us hurry. There is nothing to fear here. ❜

❛ Well, _____, at least you haven’t forgotten how to show a lady a good time. ❜

❛ I’ve learned to hate you in the last ten years! ❜

❛ We never seem to get a break, do we? ❜

❛ Oh, my friends! I’m so pleased you’re not dead! ❜

❛ Please, sit down before you fall down. ❜

❛ Now… what shall we talk about? ❜

❛ It’s a transmitter, a radio for speaking to God. ❜

❛ Your persistence surprises even me. You’re going to give mercenaries a bad name. ❜

❛ Look at this. It’s worthless - ten dollars from a vendor in the street. But I take it, I bury it in the sand for a thousand years, it becomes priceless. ❜

❛ Hey, what happened? You don’t look very happy. ❜

❛ Shoot them. Shoot them both. ❜

❛ If they knew we were here, they would have killed us already. ❜

❛ Wow! Holy Smoke! Crash landing! ❜

❛ Hold on to your potatoes! ❜

❛ What kind of a name is that? Is it short for something? ❜

❛ Nothing shocks me. I’m a scientist. ❜

❛ Are you trying to develop a sense of humor or am I going deaf? ❜

❛ You’re gonna get killed chasing after your damn fortune and glory! ❜

❛ I keep telling you, you listen to me more, you live longer! ❜

❛ I hate the water… and I hate being wet… and I hate you! ❜

❛ What a vivid imagination. ❜

❛ You know how to fly, don’t you? ❜

❛ Ah, dessert! Chilled monkey brains. ❜

❛ There are two dead people in here! ❜

❛ It’s okay, kid. It’s me. ❜

❛ I had bugs for lunch. ❜

❛ I burned by fingers and I cracked a nail! ❜

❛ So what are you supposed to be, a lion tamer? ❜

❛ I’m allowing you to tag along. So why don’t you give your mouth a rest. Okay doll? ❜

❛ Ooh, what big birds! ❜

❛ You lost today, kid. But that doesn’t mean you have to like it. ❜

❛ He chose… poorly. ❜

❛ I’m like a bad penny, I always turn up. ❜

❛ Our situation has not improved. ❜

❛ Is there anyone here who speaks English? Or maybe even ancient Greek? ❜

❛ And in this sort of race, there’s no silver medal for finishing second. ❜

❛ How dare you kiss me. ❜

❛ Dance on your own time, will you? ❜

❛ Unshackle me. I’ll give you a big hug. ❜

❛ You know, for an old man you ain’t bad in a fight. ❜

❛ One of the scorpions just stung me! Am I gonna die? ❜

❛ Good thing we’re not grave robbers. ❜

❛ I took Spanish. I didn’t understand a word of that. What was it? ❜

❛ How much of human life is lost in waiting? ❜