I adore the romantic trope of “whatever universe, my soul will find you.”
Tag: endless list of prompts and aus
Congratulations, genius. You convinced your best friend, the Protagonist, not to marry the story’s Love Interest, and instead go off and have awesome adventures with you forever. But in doing so, you pissed off the Author.
After the third bandit ambush, the Unnecessary Character waits until the Protagonist falls asleep to turn an accusing look at the sky.
“Hey,” the Unnecessary Character says, jabbing a finger stupidly at the non-sentient array of stars, “you quit it. You quit it right now.”
The Unnecessary Character, henceforth known as TUC so as not to waste too many letters on them, looks rather rough. Their hair is a tangled mess from the swallows who’d mistaken the horrendous strands as nesting material.
“I know that was you,” TUC hisses. “Swallows use mud and spit to make their nests, not twigs.”
TUC is unaware that they actually look like dirt, just terrible, smelly dirt.
“This is a lot of unnecessary anger,” TUC says to the sky. “You’re the one who thought Ally needed a friend and now you’re mad that I’m being a friend to her? Josiah was a creep, you know. Maybe you think he was charming, but he’s borderline abusive. No, scratch that. He was straight up abusive.”
TUC’s main weakness has always been the inability to see the big picture. They don’t know that the Love Interest would do anything for the Protagonist, up to and including battling the dragon that would inevitable be coming to the castle.
TUC pales until they begin to resemble watery porridge. “The what?!”
Their voice is shrill and stupid. The pitch of it nearly wakes the poor, exhausted Protagonist who’s had it rough these past few nights with TUC waylaying her with their idiocy.
“Let’s…let’s swing back to the dragon later,” TUC says. They pinch the bridge of their nose, trying to ease the headache thinking so hard has given them. “Look, Josiah wanted to keep Ally in the castle, okay? Like, all the time. She’s an adventurer, dude, not a stay-at-home wife. And have you already forgotten how Josiah locked her in the dungeons when those rebel forces tried to break in? And then just forgot about her in the aftermath until she broke out?”
It’s not surprising that TUC has misinterpreted that lovely and gallant action. Ally is a lady, forced to work hard all her life to support her mean family. She needs someone to take care of her so she can finally be happy.
“Her mean–they were poor!” TUC says, missing the point completely. They direct a hideous look at the sky. “No, I’m not missing the point! Everyone in her family was worked to the bone, not just her! They all had to work insane hours just to pay taxes! Taxes, may I remind you, that Josiah and his father set!”
a villain flirting with the hero 😏
1) “Oh, you’re so golden,” the villain purred. “All I can think is how good you’d look utterly wrecked. Dirtied up.”
The hero swallowed, eyes wide.
2) “Are you going to put me in handcuffs? Tell me how bad I’ve been? Punish me to the full extent of the law?”
“Stop it.”
“Make me.”
3) “Look at you, all cute and righteous. I love this aesthetic you have going on.”
“I’m not righteous, I’m just right!”
“Of course, I’m still going to have to stop you. A pity really. The way you handled my men was exquisite, but all good things must end as they say. En garde then, hero?”
4) “You don’t have to do this, please,” the hero said.
“Ah, but when would we ever spend time with each otherwise? I think I’d miss you too much.”
“You can’t be serious.”
“You’ll never know.”
5) “All this saving the world, you’re going to make me jealous.”
“Maybe you should help me then so we can back to our regularly scheduled feuding.”
“Well, only because you’re pretty.”
A depressed guy moves into a haunted house with 7 demons, each corresponding to a deadly sin. But, they’re all trying to help him get back on his feet; Pride helps with self confidence, Lust helps him get laid, etc.
I would watch the crap outta this like wow
Envy: “Glut, back off the guy, okay?”
Gluttony: “I’m just saying he could stand to gain a few pounds! I made spaghetti!”
Sloth: “After we eat, it’s gonna be time for a nice nap. We’ve earned it!”
Pride: “Damn right we did!”
Just imagine the Catholic Church making a statement regarding this new tv show.
Wrath does nothing but encourage him to punch assholes.
“You deserve better! That was YOUR parking space!”
“He’s like three hundred pounds of muscle, Wrath.”
“And you are 165 pounds of RAGE!”
Wrath’s advice isn’t great, but he means well.
Greed spends his days trying to help him manage his budget and put money on the side
“Bro check this out i’ve got the sickest retirement plan, technically it’s tax evasion i guess but fuck those guys, right?”
This is the most hardcore sequel to Inside Out.
H O R R O R . P R O M P T S
- “I just got back from the cemetery.”
- “I swear I just saw someone… or something looking in my window.”
- “I know I closed the damn closet door, but it keeps opening! Please tell me this is just some kind of joke you keep pulling.”
- “What’s behind you in these pictures…?”
- “Apparently like 20 years ago, some girl slaughtered her family in the basement.”
- “I think there’s something about this house that you’re not telling me.”
- “I keep hearing noises coming from the attic…”
- “I know what I saw, and whatever is in the basement… it’s not human!”
- “I didn’t have time to see what it was! I just got the hell out of there!”
- “Whose grave were you bringing flowers to…?”
- “The
electricity guy said there was absolutely nothing wrong – and yet, the
lights always flicker on at 2am. Explain that to me?”- “Why don’t you spend the night in that house ‘alone’, then try to convince me that you don’t believe in ghosts.”
- “Y-you don’t understand, he didn’t have a face!”
- “I had a dream that I killed you.”
- “Ah, yes… the room you’re staying in. It’s a paranormal hot spot, apparently.”
- “I keep hearing whispers at night… I-I can’t sleep!”
- “There was something else in there with me, I’m not going back to that house.”
- “Come on, it’s just an urban legend…”
- “Are you trying to tell me I’ve been sleeping in a dead girl’s room!?”
- “I keep getting the feeling that someone is following me.”
- “Don’t panic… but I think there’s someone else in the house.”
- “I can still feel her/his ghost, and it’s killing me…”
- “There’s something growling in the basement… could you, uh… check it out for me?”
- “Can you just… can you please check the closet?”
- “P-please… put the knife down.”
- “I bought this haunted ring on eBay!”
- “No, no, no – run!”
- “I
didn’t forward one of those freaky chain letters and now I keep hearing
the laughter of children coming from my hallways at night.”- “The dead are all around us…”
- “She’s dead! She’s dead and yet I keep seeing her, everywhere!”
- “There’s something breathing under the bed…”
- "You can’t tell me you don’t believe in ghosts after all we’ve been through.”
- “I saw something I wasn’t supposed to see, something… that wasn’t supposed to be here.”
- “Maybe an exorcism is in order…?”
- “I woke up, and it was j-just… staring at me.”
- “He was there, then like a second later he literally vanished! I saw it happen!”
- “I like the ghosts here… they keep me company.”
- "You can’t honestly tell me you’re in love with a dead girl.”
- “Wasn’t someone murdered in this house? Why are we here?”
- “If dying means being with him/her, kill me. I’d be happier that way.”
- “Ghosts aren’t real. You need help.”
- “…what do you mean we didn’t talk last night? You came over, you were here.”
- “You saw something you weren’t supposed to see. And now… now you know what has to be done.”
- “I’m pretty sure my toaster’s haunted.”
- "What’s wrong with you? You look like you’ve seen a ghost.”
- “Don’t! Don’t you dare open that door!”
- “I visited his/her grave for the first time today…”
- “Something terrible happened here, didn’t it?”
- “Wh-why do you have a knife…?”
- "You’re all bloody, what happened!?”
- “You know that book from The Evil Dead? Yeah, well… I’m pretty sure we found something pretty damn similar to it.”
- “You’re bleeding…”
- “How can you not see it…? I’m dead! I’ve been dead for years!”
- “I’ve always wanted to see you choking on your own blood.”
- “I’m sorry, I’m busy Friday with the… funeral and all.”
- “I’ll never forget the sound of his screaming.”
- “From the looks of it, the afterlife is a lot more fun than this.”
- "Legend has it that you can still hear her crying for her lover in the dead of night.”
- “I want to be dead, too.”
- “Well don’t you look lovely, all covered in blood.”
- "Whoa – wait! Please don’t go down there… let’s just get out of here, please?”
- “You played with a Ouija board!?”
- “Me and some friends played with a Ouija board the other night… and things have been a little strange since then.”
- “There’s so much negative energy in this house… do you know if someone died here?”
- “You’re always hanging out in cemeteries… and yeah, it’s kinda creepy.”
- "They just don’t believe like they used to…”
- “I will haunt you until the end of time.”
BOOK STARTERS VOL.27 ( PHANTOM OF THE OPERA ) ( GASTON LEROUX )
- ❛ If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me. ❜
- ❛ All I wanted was to be loved for myself. ❜
- ❛ I have tasted all the happiness the world can offer. ❜
- ❛ Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? ❜
- ❛ You have a heart that can hold the entire empire of the world. ❜
- ❛ Look, I am not laughing now, crying, crying for you. ❜
- ❛ Tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead. ❜
- ❛ You are afraid of me! And yet I am not really wicked. Love me and you shall see! ❜
- ❛ Are people so unhappy when they love? — Yes, when they love and are not sure of being loved. ❜
- ❛ Your soul is a beautiful thing. No emperor received so fair a gift. The angels wept tonight. ❜
- ❛ Blood!…Blood!… That’s a good thing! ❜
- ❛ Now I want to live like everybody else. I want to have a life like everybody else. ❜
- ❛ You will be the happiest of women. And we will sing, all by ourselves, till we swoon away with delight. ❜
- ❛ I should be as gentle as a lamb; and you could do anything with me that you pleased. ❜
- ❛ I am going to die of love, I am dying of love. That’s how it is. I loved you so. I still love you so. ❜
- ❛ I am dying of love for her, I tell you! If only you knew how beautiful she was when she let me kiss her. ❜
- ❛ He fills me with horror but I do not hate him. How can I hate him? ❜
- ❛ Holy angel, in Heaven blessed, my spirit longs with thee to rest. ❜
- ❛ Nothing is colder or more dead than my heart. ❜
- ❛ I had loved an angel and now I despise a woman. ❜
- ❛ Our lives are one masked ball. ❜
- ❛ Why do you condemn a man whom you have never met, whom no one knows and about whom even you yourself know nothing? ❜
- ❛ He would commit murder for me. ❜
- ❛ If I don’t save her from the hands of that humbug, she is lost. But I shall save her. ❜
- ❛ We will go from here together or die together. ❜
- ❛ Your fear, your terror, all of that is just love and love of the most exquisite kind, the kind which people do not admit even to themselves. The kind that gives you a thrill, when you think of it. ❜
- ❛ Destiny has chained you to me forever. ❜
- ❛ You must never ask me that. ❜
- ❛ Are you afraid that you will change your mind? ❜
- ❛ You must come and fetch me in my dressing room at midnight exactly. ❜
Phantom of the Opera and its adaptations sentence starters
Leroux:
“The angels wept tonight.”
“Tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead.”
“All I ever wanted was to be loved for myself.”
“You are afraid of me! And yet, I am not really wicked.”
“He/she fills me with horror and I do not hate him/her.”
“She/he is singing tonight to bring down the chandelier!”
Kay:
“Hell is full of burning bridges.”
“None of us can choose where we will love.”
“There is no better way to raise a demon in my mind then to tell me something could not be done. Impossibility was not a concept I acknowledged.”
“Let me paint him a rainbow.”
ALW:
“The Angel of Music sings songs in my head.”
“You have come here for one purpose, and one alone.”
“I remember there was mist.”
“Is this what you wanted to see?”
“I was just fourteen and soaked to the skin!”
“Why have you brought me here? We must return!”
“His/her eyes will find us there. Those eyes that burn!”
“Forget this waking nightmare.”
“Yet in his/her eyes, all the sadness of the world.”
“All I want is freedom, a world with no more night.”
“I must go, they’ll wonder where I am.”
“He/she was bound to love you, when he/she heard you sing.”
“But why is it secret? What have we to hide? You promised me!”
“You were all that mattered.”
“So it is to be war between us.”
“What I once used to dream, I now dread.”
“Go now! Go now and leave me!”
2004:
“No one would listen.”
“No one but her/him heard as the outcast hears.”
“Learn to find your way in darkness.”
“Who will be there for you, comfort and care for you?”
“Learn to be lonely.”
“Laugh in your loneliness.”
Love Never Dies (AU):
“The moments creep, yet I can’t bare to sleep.”
“All agleam, like a dream.”
“Every fantasy set free.”
“Starting soon upon our stage, the performance of the age.”
“Is there music in your head?”
“What a child. Full of life! Full of you…”
“Help me through this sadness.”
Love Never Dies (OLC):
“Are you ready to begin? Are you ready to get on? You’re about to start out on the journey of your life.”
“It’s a fun house where the mirrors all reflect what’s real, and reality’s as twisted as the mirrors reveal.”
“I should’ve known that you’d be here.”
“I should’ve known it all along.”
Alonso and Tilford musical:
“Pity her/him, ____. She/he couldn’t bare to look at her/his own child.”
“Any kindness that we receive is a blessing.”
“Whatever you want me to be, I can be.”
“What twisted measure of human worth condemns a child at birth?”
“Come what may at morning light, the world is yours tonight.”
“Skin deep, poison in the mirror.”
“You fool the world with your thin veneer, but you’re not worth the salt in my tears!”
“Pain is proof that you’re alive.”
“Through it all, what truth is left behind, someone cared enough to break your heart.”
“The love you never had will haunt you like a shadow. So close, but when you reach there’s no one there.”
Ken Hill:
“While floating high above, I hear you speak my name.”
“We’ll share paradise.”
“If only you could weep for me like that.”
“In time you will learn to love me, I know it.”
“Share with me my dark domain.”
“Oh, free me from this dark despair.”
“Weave your magic spell.”
“How dare she!”
“We are finished. Our love is over! I say it’s over… Ended!”
“I did weep for you, once.”
“Out of pity, ___, not love.”
Yeston and Kopit Phantom:
“Why was I born to this grave?”
“Not a day I’ll rest ‘til that voice is found.”
“Well, that’s obviously something she doesn’t know.”
“Well, someone should tell her!”
“What has happened to your sense of humour?”
“You were the only one, my only chance of happiness.”
“I wondered how long it would take you to tell me it’s true.”
“What did you think of it?”
“It could’ve been better.”
“There was a time I thought I was only dreaming.”
“I went through that phase to.”
“This place is mine!”
“Here, where fables come alive.”
“She is as innocent and natural as a rose.”
“You are music, beautiful music, and you are light to me.”
“I will find a way, through fear and doubt.”
Charles Dance miniseries:
“I know what to do about it. I’ll kill them both!”
“What kind of horror are you leaving me in?”
“The gods smiled when they imagined you.”
“She is the reason I was born.”
“I was born so that she could save me!”
“Do you find that apt?”
“You are magic, too, I think.”
“Magic is my friend. Magic cannot hide from me.”
“Hat, do you think? Formal touch?”
“Do you like these woods of mine?”
“One can get quite hopelessly lost in these woods if one does not know the path… Or have a guide who does.”
Rosen and Schierhorn Phantom:
“I am whatever you want me to be…”
“I am perfect spirit, imperfect man/woman.”
“I’ll always love you, I’ll never leave.”
“I will always be your fulfillment and you’ll always be my desire.”
“If you are the creator of such beauty, why have you forsaken the world?”
“What do they know of beauty?”
“We’ll leave the world to its madness. We can live in bliss, alone.”
“Here nothing is missing, nothing is gone.”
Robert Englund slasher Phantom:
“Love and music are forever.”
“Everyone dies, I just choose the time and place for a few.”
“You’re a thing from hell!”
“And you sir/madam, are hell bound!”
Claude Rains Phantom:
“Hear the bells ringing soft and low, bringing peace through the twilight’s glow.”
“Night has begun.”
“Who would pay any attention to a baritone and a detective?”
Spooks:
“What does a chicken say when it lays a square egg?”
Mystery Legends:
“One day, God willing, I would have my revenge.”
“You were the light in the darkness of my existence.”
literally one of my favorite romance tropes of all time is character a is a really notorious gang leader/well known feared ruler of some kind etc and no one dares cross them or talk back to them etc because they won’t make it out alive but character b can literally get away with saying whatever they want and everyone knows it’s because they have character a wrapped around their finger and character a is gentle with character b and everyone wouldn’t dare laying a finger on character b because then character a would literally chop their head off
“Oh, bite me,” they snapped.
It was probably the wrong thing to say to a vampire in the middle of an argument.