#red dead redemption sentence starters

[pupzophrenic]

Heres my little roleplay ad then,

Im Jesse or Pupzo! (he/they)

im 17, looking for 17+ roleplay partners. temporary arrangement or long term! (or just mutuals with common interests)

Im also open to join in with existing groups if a certain character is wanted!

- i highly prefer to do MxM fandom ships, but i can also do fandom x oc. **I also do no ship!! I am very open to just general stories and platonic or familial relationships!!**

- I like to do more than one rp at a time usually, at least 2 or more but 1 is completely fine

- i can be semi-lit to novella depending on the detail, but i try to match my partner (heck Im a writer, I can do it all)

- I do have a few ocs and characters that i prefer to be and i do have my own examples. I would let you know who i play best and provide example and such

- I have plenty of plot and starter ideas of course

- I like lore and detail, and i need replies to be 5+ sentences. I am dyslexic, and apologize in advance if something gets confused by me >_<

- A bit of an extra request but I would also appreciate if we could have a friendship outside the roleplay as well, casual conversation even… I like mutuals

(anything else you may have questions about please ask in my DMs, they are open:) )

Fandoms Im most interested in:

- DC (mostly Batman and the Justice League characters and their families)

- TMNT (about any media)

- Marvel (mostly Avengers and Xmen, but I also LOVE Moonight, Venom and Spiderman, my Marvel knowledge is a lot more surface level than DC) (I have also recently seen Deadpool and Wolverine and would love to do a rp between the two)

- Supernatural (im just starting season 4, but im bingeing!!!)

- Sonic The Hedgehog

- Hannibal (specifically NBC Hannibal)

- Madness Combat

- Ultrakill

- Final Fantasy (depending on the game)

- Red Dead Redemption

- TWD (ive only finished up until season 9 and seen a bit of the Daryl Dixon show. I dont plan to watch further than season 9 or look into the other spin offs)

- Splatoon (IM BEGGING)

- Cookie Run (I only play Kingdom!)

- Hades (Supergiant games)

- Lego Monkie Kid and Lego Ninjago

- God of War

- TF2 (fair warning I tend to take a more serious tone with the characters lol)

- Cult of the Lamb

- Breaking Bad

Ive got some miscellaneous ones too‼️

DMs open for further talk!

(As a side note I prefer to rp on Discord, but Tumblr dms is also welcome!)

[kunselxsoldier]

“ let’s push on a little bit.”

Red Dead Redemption 2 Sentence Starters:

He made it sound so easy, and look so easy too.

Up the steep slope towards Mt. Corel and without even a hint of the incline affecting him, Sephiroth lead the way for their small contingent. Lengthening his stride to match the taller man's, Kunsel nodded back at the troops beginning to lag.

"We need to pace the newer guys, some of them aren't used to the incline or altitude."

[abetterwor1d]

“You’re bleeding pretty bad.” (from Val)

Red Dead Redemption 2 Sentence Starters / No longer accepting

ㅤWith a dismissive grunt, Arthur responds to the man, " I'll be fine, " His nose got busted during a little bar fight (which he is not sure how it started). With his large shoulders hunched over, he sits slumped on the saloon's stoop. " I've faced worse, survived worse. "

[vincememes]

rdr2 starters

change pronouns as needed. all quotes were taken out of context from the game.

❛   greek myths are best in explaining the very punishment that imbue our daily existence.  ❜  

❛   prometheus gave us light, and warmth, and eternal damnation.    ❜  

❛   and the awareness of our isolation for everything holy.  ❜

❛   it’s enough to make a man drink.  ❜  

❛   you know... it's not too late to repent.   ❜  

❛   in that case, i'm sure there's priests who will happily take your confession.  ❜  

❛   when i go, i hope they cover my grave with roses.  ❜  

❛   when i die, i just want to be buried with friends. ❜  

❛   face me to the west so i can watch the setting sun & remember all the fine times we had. ❜  

❛   reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.  ❜  

❛   i’ve lived a bad life.   ❜  

❛   we’ve all lived bad lives. we all sin.  ❜  

❛   forgive me, but... that's the problem. you don't know you.  ❜  

❛   whenever we happen to meet, you're always helping people and smiling.  ❜  

❛  i had a son... he passed away. ❜  

❛   i had a girl who loved me... i threw that away.  ❜  

❛    my momma died when i was a kid.    ❜  

❛    my daddy... well, i watched him die. and it weren't soon enough.  ❜  

❛    life is full of pain. but there is also love, and beauty. ❜  

❛   be grateful that for the first time, you see your life clearly. ❜  

❛    perhaps you could help somebody? helping makes you really happy. ❜  

❛   there is nothing to be afraid of.  ❜  

❛   take a gamble that love exists, and do a loving act. ❜

❛ killing in cold blood, revenge, we all do bad things, but...  ❜  

❛   listen to me. when the time comes... you gotta run and don't look back.  ❜  

❛   ...we ain't both gonna make it.  ❜  

❛   it would mean a lot to me... please.    ❜  

❛    all you can do now is decide the man you wanna be, for the time you have left.  ❜  

❛    i ain't looking for forgiveness... it ain't about that. ❜  

❛   don't forgive me... just take the money and get outta here, please.  ❜  

❛    i know i ruined your life. i suffer for it every day.  ❜  

❛   but... don't let yourself get killed for... for pride.  ❜  

❛   i’ve seen it kill too many folk.  ❜

❛   maybe when your mother is done mourning... i'll keep her in black, on your behalf.  ❜  

❛    maybe we should cut you open and count the rings of whiskey.  ❜  

❛   you speak as if killing is something i cared about.  ❜  

❛   look, just do one thing or another...not be two people at once. that's all i'm saying.  ❜  

❛   you was the sweetest little thing we ever saw...and the saddest.  ❜  

❛   it feels like... like our luck has turned... you know... and it ain't turning back.   ❜  

❛    be loyal to what matters.  ❜  

❛   you and me, we ain't decent... but those folk... they was.  ❜  

❛   this whole thing is pretty much done.    ❜  

❛   we're more ghosts than people.  ❜  

❛   despite my best efforts to the contrary... it turns out i've won.  ❜ 

❛  we can’t change what’s done. we can only move on.    ❜  

❛   i gave you all i had... i did.  ❜  

❛   i wish things were different.  ❜ 

[katesmemes]

feel free to change any pronouns, etc. || may contain some nsfw!

“You’re the only one I can rely on to stay strong right now.”

“We got fire and shelter-- that’s a start.”

“I never thought I’d be so pleased to see your face.”

“Knew a feller-- got bit by a dog; died an hour later.”

“Thanks for coming for me.”

“Y’know, we’re gonna need to come up with a better story for that scar.”

“So, freezing, bleeding, starving, damn near getting eaten to death, ain’t good enough for you?”

“You always said revenge is a luxury we can’t afford.”

“You know I got your back.”

“Is that any way to greet an old friend?”

“You’re always one with the jokes, aren’t you?”

“I just don’t want anymore people to die.”

“Sounds like he has more than enough to share.”

“Get to work, but stay out of trouble.”

“I’ve seen shit with more common sense than you!”

“You’re my favorite parasite. No...ringworm’s my favorite parasite-- you’re my second favorite parasite. I lied... Ringworm, then rats with the plague, then you.”

“I’ve got an unfortunate face.”

“You won the fight already-- surely that’s enough?”

"I could do with a break from this place.”

“I fear you don’t know how to help anyone excepting yourself.”

“Only the feeblest of men take jobs in the government.”

“Please send him my worst regards.”

“[Name] wouldn’t know sadness if it died in is bed.”

“It’s about time that you started to earn you keep.”

“Why do you have to speak so much? It’s...incessant.”

“Looks like I’ve turned into the goddamn errand boy.”

“You ain’t as tough and dense as all that.”

“That’s not how you are.”

“Well, maybe you don’t know me as well as you think you do.”

“How did someone even come up with them words?”

“I ain’t chopping vegetables for a living.”

“I’m sorry, [Name], was there insufficient feathers in your pillow?”

“I ain’t afraid of dying.”

“I ain’t here to rob you, though that seems easy enough.”

“Think of it as payback for [Name].”

“I ain’t in the revenge business, [Name].”

“I swear he talked the whole way and never actually said a damn thing.”

“He somehow manages to be both lucky and unlucky at the same time.”

“You should’ve taken the money.”

“You know me; I like to make friends in low places.”

“You mess up-- it’s just one of them things; I mess up-- I’m the prize idiot.”

“You are a man of profoundly limited intelligence.”

“Well, of course, it’s probably a trap...but what’ve we got to lose finding out?”

“Okay, just keep calm until I give you a reason not to.”

“Oh, my dear and trusted friend, with you watching over, I would walk into hell itself.”

“I dream too big; I care too much-- that’s my problem.”

“All you do is complain when things don’t work out-- except when it’s your goddamn fault.”

“If you ain’t gonna be civilized about this...”

“I don’t expect you to understand this, but I have never been more proud of you than I am right now.”

“This place ain’t no such thing as civilized-- It’s man so in love with greed he has forgotten himself and found only appetites.”

“He makes my skin crawl... Some swarthy cocksucker... You know what I mean, friend?”

“If you’re a girl without means in this world, life is very scary...”

“She didn’t love enough, I guess... Or I wouldn’t change.”

“In these books, life seems so simple, but, in reality, I... I can’t make head nor tail of it.”

“Oh, I see that kindly face of yours and I know, for the right inducements, a gentleman such as yourself could be mighty kind.”

“Oh now, you keep saying that, but you don’t mean nothing by it.”

“She is driven by forces I scarcely understand...”

“That’s what love has done to her, I guess.”

“We each got....fifteen dollars. Oh, and a quarter... Don’t forget the quarter.”

“If there’s a problem, it’s for me.”

“I thought you wasn’t getting involved.”

“We are gonna be harvesting mangoes in Tahiti.”

“You better be right about this one...”

“Have some goddamn faith.”

“I am bending over backwards to make a future for us!”

“There simply isn’t a reality in which we do nothing, and get everything.”

“I think he’ll be okay-- if he don’t get a fever.”

“Well, he definitely lacks a certain charm.”

“Don’t you ever leave love aside, [Name], it’s all we got.”

“I possess things you will never understand.”

“Every plan is a good plan if we execute it properly.”

“I’m just trying to stay real about all this.”

“That is one of the most beautiful acts I ever saw.”

“An insect bit you or something? ‘Cause you gone, friend.”

“I will do whatever it takes for us to survive.”

“I still ain’t sure what you’re saying, [Name].”

“This feller is really beginning to try my patience.”

“Nobody knows who you are-- not even your goddamn father.”

“We’ll find each other eventually. We always do.”

“My fair heart jumps for joy when I set eyes on you, [Name].”

“You can see why he has such a high opinion of himself.”

“I’ll wipe that goddamn smirk clean off your face.”

“You could’ve cleaned yourself up a bit.”

“I didn’t realize I was here to impress anyone.”

“Strangeness, I can handle-- It’s the normal business of life I can’t seem to get a grip on.”

“You’re an idiot, but you’ll always be my friend.”

“Well, of course I’m your friend, but...you ain’t always fair with me.”

“If I was fair with you and a good person, I’d have had you hanged a long time ago.”

“So, shut up, and act like a gentleman... or at least try to for once in your brainless life.”

“It’s sort of beautiful, in a gaudy, and tasteless way...”

“Quite ridiculous, but somehow very amusing.”

“You can see why folks don’t wanna come around here-- Ain’t exactly a welcoming place.”

“I don’t owe you nothing!”

“I loved you, you goddamn bastard!”

"She knew the rules, [Name]-- What the hell is wrong with you?”

“You think I wanted to shoot her?!”

“I don’t know anymore... I’m not sure if I even care.”

“Well, the best thing is rest and getting somewhere warm and dry, and taking it easy.”

“We can’t change what’s done; we can only move on.”

“He didn’t have a choice, He was good and he did good.”

“I understand if you don’t wanna help me, but... but... I think of you often.”

“He’s quite the character; I think you’ll like him.”

“Y’know... I’m impressed. You’ve really stepped things up, ain’t you?”

“Hey, we didn’t know if you was even coming back.”

“You have a real habit of stating the obvious, [Name].”

“What the hell is wrong with you? I only left you an hour ago. You can’t stay out of trouble for one goddamn hour?”

“You got that poor bastard killed for his troubles-- I kind of liked him!”

“Insist all you like; ain’t happening!”

“Well, I ain’t the crying sort, but, I’m real grateful!”

“This better not be no stupid revenge mission, [Name].”

“It’s just a simple social call.”

“So, what are we gonna say to him, that needs to be said?”

“This ain’t making a lot of sense, [Name].”

“Business doesn’t give two figs about feelings, sir. Not two figs.”

“Your impudence will be our undoing, sir.”

“Don’t play dumb and superior at the same time, [Name].”

“Feels like the whole world’s closing in on us.”

“Do you know who you’re talking to?”

“I think it’s a real bad idea.”

“See, I’m starting to think that you’ve gone soft, [Name].”

“So I was thinking, you go play dead, and I’ll take care of ‘em.”

“You play dead and I’ll cover you.”

“Nice shooting back there!”

“I could use a drink after that.”

“Listen... I know we ain’t always seen eye to eye, and...you find me irritating and a threat...and I like to annoy you...but right now I need better from you, [Name].”

“I ain’t the bad guy you think I am, [Name].”

“There’s a big picture here, [Name].”

“I feel like you should take your woman and child and get lost.”

“it’s that or...well, I don’t see no way outta this.”

“When the time comes, you gotta run and don’t look back.”

“That just ain’t how I wanna die.”

“You rally think that’ll draw attention away from us?”

“Y’know, all that ever mattered to me was loyalty. It was all I knew-- It was all I ever believed in.”

“I’m seeing things a lot more clearly now.”

“I wish things were different... But it weren’t us who changed.”

“You don’t seem yourself somehow...”

“Surely this can be done without killing anyone?”

“We shoot fellers as need shooting, we save fellers as need saving, feed them as need feeding.”

“It’s been quite a while since we helped anyone, but ourselves, and even you know that.”

“I have a plan, you just have to trust me.”

“This is exactly the distraction we need.”

“Hey. Hey-- you know I wasn’t gonna let it come to that.”

“I guess I don’t know what I know no more.”

“May God, in his infinite wisdom, have mercy upon your soul.”

“My whole life, I have tried to fight change.”

“Y’know, you and me... We’re more ghosts than people.”

“I miss him every day... every moment.”

“They turned me into a monster.”

“You’re the best man I’ve known.”

“I think I need to be alone for a bit.”

“Sometimes the correct path, the bravest path...is the least obvious, and also the gentlest.”

“My whole life I have tried to bring peace.”

We can talk if you want to, but don’t feel like you have to.”

“I should not have let you do this for me.”

“I hope you can find peace within yourself.”

“He’s a man who, not so long ago, I would have found weak and pathetic. Now I see as wise and thoughtful, and sensible.”

“We must act with due caution.”

“A failed man is often the most dangerous.”

“Hey, show some goddamn respect!”

“You’ll know when I ain’t showing respect.”

“I had a plan... I still have a plan!”

“I am tired of this constant dissent, long tired of it.”

“I’m gonna try and save him.”

“You’re quite the hero, ain’t you?”

“Come on... Don’t doubt me no more.”

“You saved my life more than once... To give mine for yours...it’s as it should be.”

“Everything is coming together exactly as I planned.”

“I’m afraid I have to insist.”

“Of course, pal... Whatever you think is best.”

“He insists upon it... Insists...”

“Don’t talk to me you son of a bitch.”

“Do it my way, honey. It’s for the best.”

“I’m gonna get you outta this bullshit if it’s the last goddamn thing I do.”

“It would mean a lot to me... Please...”

“You don’t know how much I’ve longed to do this.”

“All there is-- winning...and losing...”

“In the end, despite my best efforts to the contrary, it turns out I’ve won.”

“I gave you all I had... I did.”

“I tried in the end... I did.”

“I ain’t too proud to do nothing.”

“I love you. Don’t you forget that-- not ever now.”

“You stop acting like a goddamn storybook hero, will you?”

“I guess I was dreaming a little. At least give me that.”

“I did what I had to do to protect you.”

“I thought you was dead.”

“You know, speaking in monosyllables don’t make you seem interesting, it makes you seem stupid.”

“I never thought she was a smart woman, but this makes me think maybe I was wrong.”

“No, you’re stuck with me; seems I’m stuck with you.”

“Let’s just hope things don’t turn out like last time.”

“Now, you used to be decent company, but now, you’re worse than a snake with a toothache.”

“Get some self-respect you miserable sack of shit.”

“I just need a bit of peace and quiet from your incessant yapping.”

“That’s kind-- unlikely to be taken up, but kind.”

“You always did have that fine way with words.”

“Do you wish I was more like you?”

“There’s a lot of ugly in this world, but there sure as hell is a lot of beauty.”

“Ain’t you just the leading authority on everything?”

“Sometimes, you just don’t know how things are gonna turn out.”

“I think I’m gonna ask her to, uh, marry me.”

“I never took you for a romantic.”

“It’s been ages since we spent any time together.”

“I hate to break it to you, but you ain’t that much to look at.”

“Why you being so courteous?”

“You’re acting kinda...funny.”

“You know, you’re not very nice to me.”

“Oh, I’m nicer than you deserve.”

“What’re you doing with that arm?”

“I thought you might be cold.”

“You’re acting real strange...”

“Will you marry me?”

“Shut up, you silly man, and kiss me!”

“You’re bleeding pretty bad.”

“I don’t like it...I love it. It’s home.”

[frontierbound-archive]

Peaky Blinders Sentence Starters (still accepting)

@bountyman​ said: ❝ he’ll wake up. granted he won’t have any teeth left but he will be a wiser man for it. ❞ 

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“Truth is, some folks just don’t deserve teeth.” Samuel laughs, staring down at the man who, in their company, dared announce that all bounty hunters are scoundrels just as cheap and crooked as the outlaws they capture, then started threatening the other customers with his colt.

Bending down, Samuel relieves the gentleman of his wallet, slipping out the dollars and placing it back.

“Good schoolin’ don’t come cheap.” He smiles, digging his elbow into Randall’s ribs and pointing back to the Saloon they’ve just exited. “Guess drinks are on old gummy here.”

[jamsmemes]

(     *     RED DEAD REDEMPTION 2 PROMPTS   !    

feel free to change pronouns as needed  !

❛  we’re thieves in a world that don’t want us no more.  ❜

❛  guess about all i got left now is doubts. doubts and scars.  ❜

❛  they’re chasing us hard. because we represent everything that they fear.  ❜

❛  don’t try anything stupid and we won’t do anything unkind.  ❜

❛  if we have to fight, we fight. if we have to run, we’ll run.  ❜

❛  if we must die, we’ll die. but... we’ll stay free.  ❜

❛  if they so much as put one bruise on him, i swear...   ❜

❛  i’ll bring the fires of hell on them myself.  ❜

❛  the people are happy and well fed. i think perhaps we’ll be okay.  ❜

❛  running scams, robbing banks, screwing over the rich and horrible.  ❜

❛  most of us grew up hungry and scared and alone. one way or another.  ❜

❛  i believe there’s winners and losers... and nothing else besides.  ❜

❛  living free out here, like this... i wouldn’t have it any other way.  ❜

❛  nobody’s taking nothing from me ever again.  ❜

❛  you’re playing a dangerous game.  ❜

❛  i had real suffering and i lost everything, my vocation, my faith, my family...  ❜

❛  people call me lazy. i’m not lazy. just don’t like working. there’s a difference.  ❜

❛  gentlemen, i think i’ve got something good.  ❜

❛  it’s a nasty world out there, and it’s catching up with us.  ❜

❛  i swear half of you would just rot in your own filth if nobody kept you in check.  ❜

❛  did you catch the bad guys?  ❜

❛  how can romance ever be silly? it’s all we have.  ❜

❛  just leave it to me. i can talk a dog off a meat wagon.  ❜

❛  i wish i had acquired wisdom at less of a price.  ❜

❛  maybe life ain’t such a thing to cling to so tightly.  ❜

❛  we’re more ghosts than people.  ❜

❛  be loyal to what matters.  ❜

❛  i discovered i had a heart because it was broken.  ❜

❛  oh, you fool, you sad deluded fool.  ❜

❛  torn in two by different ideas of who you were, and it turns out you weren’t neither.  ❜

❛  i possess things that you will never understand.  ❜

[gilliesmemes]

   𝐖𝐇𝐘 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐒𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐋𝐃𝐍'𝐓 𝐃𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐊    !     /    sentence starters pulled from a red dead redemption 2 video titled ‘why john and arthur shouldn’t drink.’ some lines may have been edited for better use.   change pronouns and whatever you need to suit your characters  

❛ there he is, the man with the goddamn plan ! ❜  

❛ are you the woman i got with child ? you’re a little older... hehe, more boring too. ❜  

❛ oh my darling, oh my darling, oh my darrrlling clementine ~ ! ❜  

❛ sonuva bitch . oink oink .  ❜

❛ don’t look at me  ❜  

❛ i’m drunk, so what ?  ❜  

❛ what are you gonna do ? too late to stop me now. ❜  

❛ how’d you get that scar again ?  ❜  

❛ you’re drunk AND picking a fight ? ❜  

❛ hey, i just forgot.  ❜  

❛ careful i don’t step on ya. always under my feet. ❜  

❛ you’re a lazy bastard ... and a drunk. ❜  

❛ i can’t be quit of you, can i ? ❜  

❛ oh suzanna wont you cry for me, i come from alabama with a banjo on my knee ~  ❜  

❛ you freeloading old panderer.  ❜  

❛ you are four sheets to the wind, knock it off.  ❜  

❛ creepy old sack of shit. ❜  

❛ if it isn’t the angel of misery. removing all the joy from our lives.  ❜  

❛ i think its best you lay off the drink. ❜  

❛ hey come on, she hasn’t done nothing. ❜ 

❛ it’s best to ignore him when he’s like this, dear. ❜  

❛ c’mon , stop sleeping .  ❜  

❛ calm down i’m just playing, i’m just kidding, ain’t that serious. ❜

❛ you leave that dog be. ❜  

❛ have you even spoken to another human or just the little voices in your own head ? ❜  

❛ don’t carry on with him like that.  ❜  

❛ you really love yourself, don’t you ?  ❜

❛ y’know, everyone laughs at you, just being honest. ❜  

❛ stop annoying me, woman. ❜  

❛ i see you judging me ❜  

❛ don’t be like your father, son.  ❜  

❛ oh, i’m ready to beat on your skull.  ❜  

❛ i think i’m drunker than you .. if that’s possible. when you’re sober you’re probably drunker than this. ❜

❛ everyone hates you.  ❜  

❛ awh, shut up. ❜  

❛ i think we made some enemies. ❜  

❛ did somebody lose an idiot ? ❜  

❛ look at this dumb donkey. ❜  

❛ shut it, you’re drunk. ❜  

❛ you’re wrong. i’m worse than you think. ❜  

❛ you’re a boring bastard sometimes and by sometimes i mean all the time. ❜  

❛ its a walking talking moron.  ❜  

❛ strange kid ... real strange. ❜  

❛ i better drink up before you finish it all.  ❜  

❛ yeah well , look’it you ! ❜

❛ you drink for ten men and shave for twenty. ❜  

❛ you ever miss your days as a working girl ? ❜  

❛ you sound like you’re half fit to fall over. ❜  

❛ hey, hey what did i say ?  ❜

❛ no wonder he keeps trading in for a younger model. ❜  

❛ just drink and be merry, wont you ?  ❜  

❛ look, if i don’t ignore you, i’m going to hit you. ❜  

❛ you live in a dream world. ❜  

❛ smile. your face wont crack . ❜  

❛ when did you get so sour ? ❜  

[foxwar]

@yoursmary​ said: what a mess we’re making of things. red dead redemption 2 sentence starters  ,  accepting.

“you mean - my mess, that by extension, you’re now a part of,” is gentle, but he means it, glancing from the ground up at mary. he’s always tried to keep his affairs with the gang separate from mary, at least a layer of division between them, but at some point the gang had started to consume him entirely. is there even an arthur morgan that is not subservient to the van der linde gang? most of all, to dutch? 

when he looks at mary that’s easy to believe, but now - the chaos of the past few weeks, of barely escaping guarma and seeing her old man again, who still looks at him with the same disdain in his eyes from all those years ago despite how he’s withered away - there’s no denying it. he can’t keep idealizing her, can’t keep the polished image of her on a pedestal as some kind of fantasy he can take out whenever shit goes awry. not anymore.

a big hand covers one of her own. 

“oh, mary - if i knew what was good for either of us, i would’ve turned you down when you first asked for my help. milton and ross wouldn’t know you, wouldn’t know remotely what you mean to me, wouldn’t be able to hurt you - but i’ve always been selfish, haven’t i?”

[sharp-teeth-and-archived]

notsoinnocentlittleangel asked : “Do it my way, honey. It’s for the best.” (Sean)

Red Dead Redemption 2 Sentence Starters / @notsoinnocentlittleangel​ -- accepting

           𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬. Fingers curled the edges of the paper, creating a white curl that pressed itself against the unpigmented map. Charcoal pencil rested against his index finger, black stains covered his hands and stained the paper outside of the drawn circle around Tall Trees.

           ❝ Don’t get your knickers in a twist, I know what I’m doing. ❞ His idle hand waved away her concern. Of course Sean knew what he was doing. He wasn’t just some dumb kid who took everything that fell in his lap. He looked into the stagecoach, traced the routes, and he made damn sure there wasn’t going to be any guards that they couldn’t handle. The man who gave him the lead hasn’t let him down yet, and every lead he took on from him ended in a boatload of money to bring back to camp.

           Sean even did more research on this carriage than he would on any other stagecoach. A price this stage had, there wasn’t going to be anything like it in weeks, he reckoned.

           ❝ You think some other carriage carryin’ two thousand dollars is just going to spring up out of thin air? It’d be a waste to not at least try. ❞

[blainewarblcr]

RED DEAD REDEMPTION STARTER SENTENCES

@timidstrcngth​ sent:  “ wait… i don’t understand.”

   “Okay. Well, tell me what exactly you’re finding confusing and I’ll try and explain it a little better.”

[abetterwor1d]

“I think it’s a real bad idea.” (from Radek)

Red Dead Redemption 2 Sentence Starters / accepting

ㅤ" I think we don't have a goddamn choice, " Arthur grunts, his response dripping with annoyance. The Night Folk were growing in numbers, snatching poor souls who journey through the bayou, taking everything they own, including their lives. But unfortunately for the pair, they had to move and move quickly through the swampland - the law hot on their tail. His gun is pulled out of his holster, cocked and ready to shoot , " C'mon. We gotta move. Now. "

[woeblades]

“ you’re always one with the jokes, aren’t you?” for elysia from her thieves' guild big bossy anji

RED DEAD REDEMPTION 2 SENTENCE STARTERS

“ oh yeah! wanna hear another one? “

clearly, elysia couldn’t hear the mild discontentment in her boss’ undertone.

“ okay, how do you separate sailors in the khajiiti navy? “

a pause.

“ with a hammer and tongs! “,

the young half elf finally blurted out and laughed hysterically, pretending to wipe away a tear at her own joke.oh, she was so hilarious.

[zilvervos]

❛ just leave it to me. i can talk a dog off a meat wagon. ❜ Claude

Red Dead Redemption 2 Sentence Starters | ACCEPTING

      “Good. You’ll need it.”

      They hadn’t spent much time together yet. Claude’s partners in crime tended to change from time to time, but often they would pick up the same task, as long as his targets didn’t grow suspicious of him. 

      “They’re exceptionally stiff-necked, so you’ll have to be solid -- convincing. Dress like it, talk like it. If this doesn’t pull through, we’re both fucked.”

[frontierbound-archive]

SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS SENTENCE STARTERS. (no longer accepting)

@forgedwild​ said:

❝ You’ve eaten too many hallucinogenic cactuses tonight, Sam ❞

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The arena is packed, the crowd wild, standing and waving, jeering and cheering - an overwhelmingly loud cacophony that is almost deafening in its fervour.

Samuel’s hands grip hard as he rides the bull, a giant beast that violently bucks and brawls as it tries to throw him from its back as the crowd hoot and whoop their encouragement. Regardless, Samuel maintains his hold, shifting in time with the animal, swaying to and fro and hunkering down when it looks like it’s about to kick.

Glancing around the arena, he can see the worried expressions on the rodeo clowns faces who clearly think he’s about to be thrown. As he leans left, nearly slipping, he catches sight of the bull pen; it contains only one other bull, one even bigger than the one he’s riding, one that looks surprising like...August Wilder? When it talks to him, in a voice that sounds a lot like Gus’, admittedly Samuel can’t help but burst out laughing. The sound of his own laughter seems to continue even when he’s ceased laughing, a unsettling echo that strangely changes in pitch and tone as the bright colours of the rodeo arena start to bleed into one another, melting away to be replaced with the mutes hues of the desert at dusk.

Looking down, Samuel finds he is wearing nothing but his Long Johns and is sat atop a large, smooth bolder, one he was presumably riding like a bull only a few short moments ago. Glancing to the side, he can see his clothes drifting off into the distance, clearly thrown one by one on his journey here. How did he get here?

Turning, he sees August standing with a smile on his face, a smile unlike any he’s ever seen on the Blacksmith’s face before and it’s only then that he’s finally able to process the man’s words.

“Guess so.” He admits with a sheepish blush. Finally stepping up off the rock, walking practically bow-legged as he stumbles off to retrieve his clothes.

[lilyaltamira]

I wanted to make a starter post about the origins of the fic and my notes on how it has been to write it so far.   It might be very long and boring for other people to read but I find it useful

THE ORIGINS

Honestly and probably unsurprisingly it started as an author insert thing for me. During COVID lockdown I played Red Dead Redemption 2 like it was my full time job and felt very attached to the characters. Being bored and lonely I found myself imagining my interactions with them and where I would fit if I was part of the gang.

It's still fair to say that it's an author insert - Lily and I are incredibly similar, we share many personality traits and certain specific details about her life and backstory are true for us both.  She has evolved from just being “me” though, and I’m more comfortable with her as a separate entity.  She makes decisions and mistakes that I (hopefully) wouldn't make (and probably vice versa).  

I wrote random scenes as they occurred to me, never with any intention of posting anything, and then had the idea of how to structure it as a whole piece and where I wanted Lily to end up.  I ended up writing the Guarma and Beaver Hollow sections before I’d fleshed out anything else, but it was useful for me to be able to go back and see how my initial writing to fit into those parts.

Writing these chapters also made me realise how Dutch and Lily’s dynamic is just as important as Lily and Arthur’s, although I had no idea when I started that I was going to end up loving writing for Dutch so much.   That’s where I started to get excited about what I was writing and thought about sharing it online.

THE ACTUAL WRITING

I haven't written anything in an extremely long time (since I was in school).   Worse than not writing though is that I haven’t even been reading, even though I devoured books when I was a kid.   I've struggled a lot with depression and the motivation to do either has not been there.  I’m really glad to be writing again, but I’m struggling sometimes.

As I started writing this and becoming more excited about my ideas I started to make notes about what I was trying to achieve and I found it hugely helpful.   I started seeing big improvements which was a huge motivator and getting excited about imagery and metaphors that made sense on many different levels.  

I thought it might be helpful for me to share some of these thoughts here, so if there are any readers of this fic they get that insight (I get a kick out of that stuff from other writers), and even if I don’t have any readers I may at least continue to improve.

Maybe it’s weird to publish a fic knowing there are improvements that I want to make, but I guess I don’t really feel like I have the skill to fix it all.   So here are some things that I’m not currently 100% happy with:

My grammar and punctuation needs work.  Short sentences.  Absurdly long sentences with 50,000 commas, I can’t get the hang of semi-colons, why do I break up chunks of writing with - and then - and then another - is this really distractingly bad?

I often feel like the writing slips into a chaotic, anxious internal monologue, which wasn’t a conscious decision. but I feel like it suits Lily because that’s how she thinks.   I don’t know if this really makes sense to do or if it’s super annoying.

I work in theatre and I think in scenes and dialogue.   I really made a conscious effort to be more descriptive and to find other ways of saying what I want to say but it’s so hard.  I think I need to read more.

I think partly related to this is that I struggle between scene changes and find myself writing a lot of stuff that serves no point, it’s just me trying to figure out how to get to the next part

I feel like sometimes the writing can be super literal and just exists to push on a story without much flair, and then I dip into a metaphor. 

It makes sense to me to write from Lily’s point of view most of the time, but sometimes I dip into other people’s points of view and it’s very inconsistent.  I don’t know if this works as a reader, but it’s convenient as a writer.  As I was editing I tried to pull more of Arthur’s thoughts out but it still feels very imbalanced.

Sometimes I feel like I need to write what happens in an in-game mission, if Lily is present, or if Arthur’s perspective feels important.   In some ways it has been a useful exercise (what is better/worse about the way I re-write those scenes to the way that i write other elements).  I really struggle doing this sometimes and it’s a lot less enjoyable trying to convey an existing scene in my own way.

I wish I was better at writing Sadie! 

I want to state the obvious all the time.   It’s very hard for me to let the reader connect the dots or read between the lines.  I want to make sure that they know exactly what I’m trying to do.

I cannot edit.  I need to learn to edit.