coatls | [open | meme] "alice isn't dead" sentence prompts

How To:
this meme is a little bit different from the usuals you see on bakerstreet, but those of you who have experience with tumblr RP will recognize the style! the general idea of it is this: you pick one or more sentence prompts for your character to say to another character. there are two main ways i picture this going down:

Version A:

1. post your character with a blank top-level like normal bakerstreet memes.
2. other people pick a prompt for their character to say to yours, and tag you with it — with or without scenarios attached.
3. you thread from there in whatever style and scenario you'd like!

Version B:

1. pick one or more prompts you feel suit your character.
2. post your top-level with those prompts (with letters or numbers assigned to each prompt) — with or without scenarios, up to you!
3. other people choose a prompt to reply to.
4. you thread from there in whatever style and scenario you'd like!

of course, if you think of another way to use the prompts that you like better, you're welcome to do it that way! for example, you don't have to use the prompts as something your character says... but rather as a leading prompt for the scenario!

it's also worth noting that there's nothing forcing you to use a prompt as-is — if you wanna change up the phrasing a little bit, change up pronouns, whatever, go for it! and feel free to do a li'l OOC threading to discuss ideas for scenarios or ask about information if needed!

have fun, y'all!

The Prompts:

“This wasn’t a nightmare. What I remember most about it was how real it was. ”
“Who am I — at this point in my life — to talk about unreality?
“I don’t have to explain myself to you… but I will.”
“Good people deserve good things.”
“It’s dangerous out here.”
“Want to see something funny?”
“There are times I hate you more than any of them.”
“So much of what I’ve seen is beautiful — more than you would think. Even the worst things.”
“We are nothing if not absurd.”
“This was not something that he had to do in order to survive… it was a demonstration.”
“The darkness is vast here. It really has a depth to it. Keeps going.”
“He wants me to know he’s following me.”
“I thought you were dead! I really did.”
“I couldn’t think of another reason you would vanish like that. Just gone.”
“I mourned you.”
“I never loved anyone so hard. From my goddamned gut. So screw you for that.”
“I don’t think the world passes through here.”
“I don’t think the world has been to this town in a long time.”
“It won’t help, though. We are helpless.”
“Nothing ever is a surprise to you, is it? You always know everything.”
“So, my wife isn’t dead. That’s good to know. That’s new information.”
“Every relationship, no matter how long, no matter the history, is temporary. Separation is never a surprise.”
“Are you doing this? Are you doing this to me?!”
“I don’t know what this means. I only know that it’s meaning does not include me. I am not necessary to it.”
“Freedom can be good or bad. There can be terrible freedom.”
“You freed me and I didn’t ask you to. I didn’t want you to.”
“I want our lines to cross one more time.”
“You may think you’re free, but you’re not. You are not free of me.”
“You know I can’t resist a bad joke.”
“What was that? What the hell was that?!”
“You know that I get scared. It doesn’t stop me from doing what I need to get done, but I’m scared pretty much all the time, just of living — of life — of going on with the day to day. ”
“Oh, god, am I being condescending? I am, aren’t I? Shit.”
“You miss me?”
“Where would you even go that I couldn’t follow?”
“There’s not a person in this world who would help you.”
“I could take a big bite of you right now and it would be over. I could devour you.”
“If I had to come talk to you, then you’ve been asking the wrong questions.”
“My advice is ‘stop asking the wrong questions’.”
“I can’t go home. ‘Home’ isn’t a place, ‘home’ was a person! I can’t go home.”
“They let me off with a warning, I guess. I guess it’s a warning I’m going to ignore.”
“Is this the world you left me?”
“What is this world you’ve left me?”
“Hey, help me with this, would you?”
“I shouldn’t judge. No one should. We all do lots of things we shouldn’t, though.”
“Turns out that I didn’t know what you were thinking at all.”
“Are there wild cows?”
“Of course ‘we’ don’t talk. I do. You vanish.”
“I love cruise control more than I love most of my family members.”
“You’ve made yourself a mystery, now.”
“Time moves, but we stay still. We only like to think that anything is ever changed.”
“Was I a fool?”
“When it was just the two of us, it wasn’t like being alone. But it also wasn’t like being with another person. It was something in between.”
“You thought you had good reasons to lie.”
“You were lying to me.”
“What was worth my trust? And what was worth the life we had together?”
“There are far worse thing than men circling these roads.”

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Kyoko doesn't know what it is about Drifter, but it seems like they have a lot of conversations like this. The kind that cut close to the bone, even if they started out talking about completely other things. This one... She's especially not sure how it came around to this. Admitting, even if between the lines, that she doesn't exactly live a life a lot of people would approve of.

She frowns darkly into her box of pocky, half-empty already. The last time she talked about this... well... It's not like it went well. She'd think she'd eventually learn that telling people the truth about herself doesn't ever work out the way she wants it to. But here she is, looking at doing it again. What the hell is wrong with her?

"Yeah, well." She buys herself some more time by sticking a couple of fingers into the box and spending more time rooting around for a pocky stick than she actually needs. "Some people like to act like they're above all that." Wait, no, that isn't what she wants to be saying, either. She doesn't want to dredge up her unfinished business with Mami or Sayaka any more than she wants this conversation to go badly. Her frown deepens and she bites through the pocky when she meant to just hold it between her teeth. She stews for a moment, despite herself, as she desperately casts about for something else to say. "But I don't care. I learned my lesson. I'm going to live my life the way I want to."

"Well, if that ain't the truth."

Drifter's accent is always a little folksy in every language he learns, because usually to learn it he goes to find a little village, lives there for long enough so that people start going, "Why isn't he going gray?" And then moves on again. He's not good in big cities; like now. Sticks out like a sore thumb.

"I reckon some people are. But I ain't one of 'em, and there's no shame in that. They wanna take on the burden of being holier than thou? It only ends one of two ways, and that's either dead? Or giving them what they want."

Them. Drifter doesn't know if it's the same Incubator or a different one that contracted with him. He does remembering starving to death, desperate, on his deathbed and filled with anger and spite that the world had put him in this place. About three hundred years ago or so his Kyubey stopped talking to him. It pulled something, something that got them both out of a labyrinth, and then it went silent.

All the damn things look alike, though. How the fuck is he supposed to be sure?

"I knew a guy like that. Everybody called him 'Saint' 'cause he had that kinda aura about him. Strong and noble type. Big Cossak motherfucker, too. Then the motherfucker got talked into a crusade, met up with another one of our like, tried to chase him into a labyrinth and got his ass stuck.

"Probably too stubborn to give up in the end, that guy. But I am bettin' there ain't more than four, five of us of my type left." Somehow, in the span of this conversation, in gulps and fast chomps his gone through three sticks of dango. "And two of them stuck like in that time witch's hellspin. Monsters are puttin' y'all in a world of hurt."

He might be bitter. Moreso 'cause these girls didn't deserve nothing like that.

Edited 2020-04-25 02:31 (UTC)

[open | meme] "alice isn't dead" sentence prompts

[1] idk what kind of setting, i just love their CR

Puella AU