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“When you texted me about coffee – and by the fucking way, fuck this touch screen bullshit – I thought you meant getting coffee.”

Could dead men be hung over? He felt like he was. Or maybe it was just his standard grumpiness.

He’d forgotten coffee was code. Or – maybe it wasn’t? You try remembering everything when you barely understood how a cell phone was not, in fact, science fiction bullshit.

“What fucked up beastie are we harpooning this time, then? Not my area. No background information on it. Did read about a bunch of missing people though. Related?”

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“ i know what i saw.”

Howl took off the sunglasses that hid his inhuman, pupiless silver eyes and raised both eyebrows at the young woman before him. He hadn't been being particularly careful, banishing. He never bothered. Spend long enough in a hole and you find yourself utterly unconcerned with 'consequences'.

"Maybe you did see something. But no one is gonna believe you." He scented the air, head canted to the side like a listening hunting hound. "I'd get out of here, darling, because there's about to be a lot more to see, and I don't have a great track record keepin' people alive."

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*: ･ﾟ✧   malevolent ( netflix film )

feel free to change pronouns, etc!

“ did you hear that? you heard that, right?”

“ did you sneak in before? rig some pulley system to make her move?”

“ i cannot get them to stop screaming.”

“ you can’t joke about that.”

“ scary shit has happened in that house.”

“ my dead ___, she won’t leave me alone.”

“ you really wanna go there?”

“ she scratched her eyes out because she couldn’t handle reality.”

“ all you’ve done is judge me, about how i’ve dealt with it. or didn’t deal with it.”

“ i’ve been trying to make this work, but you don’t make this easy.”

“ they’re going to kill me.”

“ they know where we live.”

“ that’s where they found the bodies.”

“ you said you heard screaming?”

“ is it true that you murdered all those ___?”

“ i wish i’d seen the signs earlier.”

“ the newspapers called him a monster.”

“ you saw something. what was it? what did you see?”

“ i’ll believe you if you tell me.”

“ something’s here.”

“ who sings for the dead only?”

“ she wants us to follow her.”

“ can you sense a presence?”

“ it’s my ankle. i heard something pop. oh, fuck!”

“ okay, i know this sounds nuts…”

“ ever since that day, i’ve been… seeing things.”

“ i know what i saw.”

“ you’ve fucking lost it, man.”

“ you actually believe in this shit, now?”

“ i’m not crazy, this is real!”

“ it’s not real, is it?”

“ i want you out of here, immediately.”

“ it is real. everything.”

“ you can’t control the unseen, okay?”

“ pack up. we’re getting the fuck out of here.”

“ i don’t even think you’re a freak.”

“ you can see me.”

“ did you see her?”

“ but we’re supposed to stick together!”

“ it’s okay, it’s okay, we’re gonna get you up. it’s okay.”

“ who did this to you?”

“ please, no! please, please! no, no, no!”

“ you need to wake up, okay?”

“ who took him?”

“ i could not risk having the ___ at my door. not again.”

“ hold still.”

“ this part is very tricky. hold still.”

“ it’s quiet time now.”

“ i’m so sorry. i’m so sorry i couldn’t help you.”

“ look at what you have made me do.”

“ please let us go.”

“ you know i cannot do that.”

“ no. don’t you fucking touch him! no!”

“ he’s the only thing i have left!”

“ shh, shh, shh, hold still.”

“ i’m not letting anything happen to you, i promise.”

“ he was all i had left!”

“ i’m gonna go get help, okay?”

“ it’s a curse.”

“ there’s nothing you could’ve done.”

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A Howl Snippet from the Nanowrimo. I’m sure you all can tell this wont end well. For context, Alan was Ben’s son. 

Howl stood abruptly. “I need to get back down there then.”

Benjamin’s grip turned to steel. “Not yet. Kat?” 

She jumped. “Yeah?”

“I need to talk to Howl alone for a minute.”

Kat gave the both of them a narrowed eyed look, then sighed explosively and slouched out into the hall, taking her acrid scent of sadness and anger along with her. Howl sat back at Benjamin’s side, guts crawling. “What is it?”

Benjamin stared directly into his eyes. Just then, they had a lot in common. With his cataracts, he didn’t seem to have any pupils either. “I need you to know I forgave you for getting Madeline killed a long time ago.”

For the second time, Howl went still. “Ben, you don’t have to --”

“Hush,” he said. “I’m not done. I forgave you for it, Howl, but I didn’t forget. I want you to promise me something.”

He frowned. “Of course, anything.”

“Promise me you won't involve Kat in any of this.”

“I think Kat is probably gonna make the choices she wa--”

Showing greater strength than a man on his deathbed should, Benjamin yanked him closer. “Promise. Me. You’re a good man Howl, but people die all around you and I wont have it happening to my granddaughter, do you hear me?”

Howl swallowed, and gently put his hand over the one fisted clawlike in his shirt. “What happened to Alan, Ben?”

Benjamin closed his eyes, as if in pain. “Promise me, Howl. Please.”

Softly, he promised. 

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✧ — ⋆   𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐌𝐄𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐓𝐒 .

some  ideas  for  first  meeting  prompts  that  may  help  break  the  ice  between  characters .  feel  free  to  amend  contexts  &  roles  where  required !  violent  &  alcohol  related  prompts  present . 

[ BAR ]  :   for  your  muse  to  join  mine  at  a  bar  [ DINER ]  :  for  your  muse  to  join  mine  at  a  diner / restaurant   [ SAVE ] :  for  your  muse  to  step  in  to  save  my  muse  in  a  fight  [ FAKE ] :  for  your  muse  to  pretend  to  know  my  muse  in  public  to  save  them  from  a  difficult  encounter [ RUN ] :  for  your  muse  to  grab  my  muse’s  hand  and  tell  them  to  run  [ STEAL ]  :  for  your  muse  to  try  to  steal  from  my  muse  ( pickpocketing ,  in  their  home  etc  –  feel  free  to  specify  context ! ) [ STUDY ] :  for  your  muse  to  join  mine  to  study / read   [ PICNIC ] :  for  your  muse  to  join  mine  on  a  picnic  [ FIRST  DATE ] :  for  your  muse  to  meet  mine  for  a  first  date   [ BREAK  IN ] :  for  our  muses  to  break  in  somewhere  together  [ ATTACK ] :  for  your  muse  to  try  to  attack  mine  ( specify  context ! ) [ DANCE ] :  for  your  muse  to  invite  mine  to  dance  [ PAY ] :  for  your  muse  to  pay  for  my  muse’s  item(s)  ( specify  context ! ) [ TAXI ] :  for  our  muses  to  share  a  taxi  ride  somewhere [ CAR ] :  for  your  muse  to  jump  in  my  muse’s  car  and  tell  them  to  drive [ LOCKED  OUT ] :  for  your  muse  to  be  locked  out  of  their  apartment  &  to  ask  for  help  from  mine  [ DIY ] :  for  your  muse  to  ask  mine  for  help  with  diy  in  their  home  [ DARE ] :  for  your  muse  to  approach  mine  on  a  dare [ PATCH ] :  for  your  muse  to  help  mine  with  an  injury [ COMFORT ] :  for  your  muse  to  comfort  mine  [ SWIM ] :  for  your  muse  to  throw  mine  into  the  sea /  a  river /  pool  ( specify ! ) [ RESTRAINED ] :  for  our  muses  to  be  tied  up  together  [ CRY ]  :  for  your  muse  to  find  mine  crying   [ KIDNAP ] :  for  your  muse  to  kidnap  mine [ DRUNK ] :  for  your  muse  to  look  after  mine  while  drunk  [ ZOMBIE ] :  for  our  muses  to  be  caught  in  a  zombie  attack  together  [ TRAPPED ] :  for  our  muses  to  be  trapped  somewhere  together  ( stuck  in  a  storm ?  kidnapped  together ?  dodgy  lock  on  a  door ? )  [ WARN ] :  for  your  muse  to  warn  mine  of  incoming  danger [ COFFEE SHOP ] :  for  your  muse  to  join  mine  at  a  coffee  shop  /  café [ WORK ] :  for  your  muse  to  help  train  mine  on  the  first  day  of  their  job  [ ROOMMATES ] :   for  your  muse  to  be  my  muse’s  roommate  ( feel  free  to  specify  whether  in  a  college  or  a  regular  setting ! ) [ BOOKSHOP ] :  for  our  muses  to  meet  in  a  bookshop  [ EVENT ] :  for  our  muses  to  meet  at  a  charity  event   [ FUNDRAISING ] :  for  our  muses  to  team  up  to  raise  money  for  charity  ( feel  free  to  specify  potential  ideas ! ) [ COMPETITORS ] :  for  our  muses  to  be  rivals  in  a  competition  [ KARAOKE ] :  for  our  muses  to  sing  karaoke  together  [ MUTUAL  FRIEND ] :  for  our  muses  to  meet  through  a  mutual  friend [ STOOD  UP ] :  for  your  muse  to  join  mine  on  a  date  after  noticing  that  they  have  been  stood  up [ MISSION ] :  for  our  muses  to  meet  on  a  mission  [ UNDERCOVER ] :  for  your  muse  to  approach  mine  while  undercover [ MUSUEM ] :  for  our  muses  to  meet  at  a  museum  [ ABANDONED ] :  for  our  muses  to  meet  in  an  abandoned  building  [ STARGAZING ] :  for  our  muses  to  meet  while  stargazing  [ ROOFTOP ] :  for  your  muse  to  find  mine  on  a  rooftop 

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*: ･ﾟ✧   dexter season one episode one starters.

feel free to change pronouns, wording, etc. as needed!

“ tonight’s the night.”

“ you’re mine now, so do exactly as i say.”

“ what do you want?”

“ i want you to be quiet.”

“ you have to listen… do what i say.”

“ it’s horrible. isn’t it? isn’t it?”

“ OPEN YOUR EYES AND LOOK AT WHAT YOU DID!”

“ look or i’ll cut your eyelids right off your face.”

“ stop! that never helped anybody.”

“ please, you can have anything.”

“ please, you have to understand.”

“ trust me, i definitely understand.”

“ see, i can’t help myself either.”

“ i have standards.”

“ i don’t know what made me the way i am.”

“ i don’t know what made me the way i am, but whatever it was left a hollow place inside.”

“ people fake a lot of human interactions, but i feel like i fake them all. and i fake them very well.”

“ they’re both dead now.”

“ i didn’t kill them. honest.”

“ you’re different, aren’t you?”

“ i found the grave.”

“ there were a lot of bones in there.”

“ i’m a very neat monster.”

“ [name], are you there?”

“ i need you here, okay? please? pretty fucking please with cheese on top.”

“ you better be a cop.”

“ where the hell do you keep your gun?”

“ any suspects?”

“ how does someone so dumb get so much power?”

“ she knows how to play the game. you could take a lesson.”

“ you can’t get so emotionally invested.”

“ what can i do to help?”

“ can i bounce some ideas off of you later? you know i always get smarter when i’m talking to you.”

“ you just need a little more confidence.”

“ you’re making me smarter already, see?”

“ it’s hot as hell out here.”

“ so… why are you here?”

“ there’s no blood here.”

“ it’s the weirdest thing you ever saw.”

“ i can’t think. i have to get out of here.”

“ where are you going?”

“ i wish you’d stop that.”

“ it’s one of those mating rituals which i really don’t understand.”

“ how’s the family?”

“ see you at the next bloodbath?”

“ never miss a party.”

“ ha-ha, you’re a sick bastard.”

“ and thanks for the fucking doughnut.”

“ never leave home without my rubber gloves.”

“ so. anything new?”

“ one of these days you’re gonna tell me.”

“ i like doing it. maybe i can help out. it fills my nights.”

“ you have a morbid sense of fun.”

“ just don’t get me fired.”

“ just like me… empty inside.”

“ where the hell you been?”

“ you’re giving me the fucking creeps, you know that?”

“ fuck you.”

“ look at the blood spatter, look at the patterns. it tells a story.”

“ there’s always a sacrifice.”

“ animals don’t like me.”

“ have you ever wanted to kill anything else? like a person?”

“ why didn’t you?”

“ i don’t understand sex.”

“ when it comes to the actual act of sex, it’s always just seemed so… undignified.”

“ vanilla, chocolate and strawberry… which one do you think melts faster?”

“ will you be back?”

“ needless to say, i have some unusual habits.”

“ normal people are so hostile.”

“ just stay right there.”

“ i’ll be right back.”

“ will they catch him soon?”

“ i’m sorry. i don’t think i want to.”

“ what have i done now?”

“ i can explain.”

“ you and i had an understanding.”

“ you come to me, you tell me, and we deal with it together.”

“ there’s blood on this knife!”

“ are you sure? are you telling me the truth?”

“ i thought we had this under control.”

“ you still don’t remember anything from before?”

“ what happened changed something inside you.”

“ i’m afraid your urge to kill is only going to get stronger.”

“ you’re saying i’ll be like this forever.”

“ how can it ever be good?”

“ you’re saying… you’re saying they deserve it.”

“ remember this forever: you are not alone and you are loved.”

“ it’s a waste of time.”

“ she’s dumber than the boat people. throw her a fucking raft.”

“ i could be wrong.”

“ you should try it sometime, you need a life.”

“ don’t make me hit you.”

“ what are you thinking?”

“ why the hell is that important?”

“ i’m pretty sure i covered all my tracks.”

“ what’s your thing, psycho?”

“ it’s okay. i don’t want to upset anybody.”

“ you’ll be the hero.”

“ i have an idea. something in a different direction.”

“ i’m watching you, motherfucker.”

“ no security guards. that’s good.”

“ i’m not sorry.”

“ i was worried. i didn’t know what to do.”

“ would you like to come in?”

“ i don’t want to lose you.”

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Ben Barnes as Logan Delos in Westworld: Reunion.

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With our family, William, everything is business.

1.04 'Dissonance Theory'

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Jesus, I can't believe I let you talk me into this shit. 40K a day to jerk off alone in the woods, playing white hat.

1.03 'The Stray'

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Just a reminder that Ruth is an awesome character and a very good boi 🖤❤️

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