who did this to you ? (For Cordelia?) @aestheticdriven / give me my favourite trope !!
MATTHEW'S HANDS WERE WARM AND COMFORTING AND CORDELIA COULDN'T HELP IT but to be amused as her own thoughts tried to distract her from the pain. It was not unusual for Nephilim to be harmed doing their duty, and she was sure that this wasn't the worst injury she would ever have, but still, she ached from her shoulder where ichor and her own blood seeped through the fabric of a once pretty blue gown. That would teach her for using pastel colours, she supposed. ❝ A Naga, and a very angry one. She went that way- ❞ The injured huntress waved in the general direction, but she raised a slightly bloodied hand to keep Matthew from leaving. ❝ -I caught her off guard and she didn't like it. Caught me off guard, too, as you can see. We both got a hit in on one another. ❞
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@aestheticdriven said: "Here, take my jacket"
from some meme || always accepting
She shivered against the chill air of the autumn evening. It had been awhile since she had been on patrol since there was a distinct lack of demon activity, and she hadn’t realized until the rune wore off how cold it really was. So when Matthew offered his jacket, she took it gratefully and pulled it tight around her shoulders. “Thank you, Matthew. That’s very nice of you.”
Matthew had been in her life for as long as she could remember. Lucie had harbored a crush on him when she was younger though it had waned as she’d gotten older. Matthew was like a storm; unpredictable. “Where have you been?” she asked. Lucie could smell the alcohol about his person and frowned faintly.
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Chain of Gold Quote Rp Meme
inspired by @aestheticdriven
“Perhaps I should send for my cat.”
“That's everyone's dream, isn't it, really, instead of many who give you little pieces of themselves - one who gives you everything.”
“We do not get to choose when in our lives we feel pain,"
“All misery passes. Humanity is drawn to light, not darkness.”
“Beauty could tear at your heart like teeth,”
Someone to be inspired by. Someone to know their secrets. Would you like to be a muse?"
“No, I could be their hero.”
“You could sin in your sleep.”
“There is no better distraction in this world than losing oneself in books for awhile.”
“Haven’t you heard? All the stories are true.”
“We don’t always love people who deserve it.”
“Is this your list of conquests?”
“The most interesting women are always the most whispered about.”
“People are only invincible in books,"
"But at least we can always pick up a book and read it anew. Stories offer a thousand fresh starts.”
“I wonder sometimes if it is easier to be brave when one is young, before one knows truly how much there is to lose.”
“The romance is never over.”
“You decide the truth about yourself. No one else. And the choice about what kind of person you will be is yours alone.”
“We do not wait to be saved by others. We save ourselves.”
“Let it be peace between us. You can pour the rest of the port on my head.”
“I feared your parents would not have considered it the kind of tale suitable for a young lady’s ears,”
“I am his sister. I do not appreciate being overlooked.”
“Memories can be bitter as well as sweet.”
"Tell me the name of the shadow that is always hanging over you. I can become a shadow. I could fight it for you.”
“Drink, and you will sleep; sleep, and you will not sin; do not sin, and you will be saved; therefore, drink and be saved.”
“Several words, if it will make you feel better?”
“Sometimes grief and worry must take the form of action.Sometimes it is unbearable to sit and wait.”
“There are girls who need someone to dance with them and tell them they look pretty, and I cannot do it all on my own.”
“Is it my dancing? Is it me personally?”
“Well, fear not. I do not dislike you. I hardly know you,”
“You don’t need a portrait. You are young and beautiful,”
“Men are not beautiful. Men are handsome,”
“We’re trying to distract him! It’s been a very emotional day!”
“Why have you blocked this door? I demand to know what’s going on!”
“we suffer for love because love is worth it.”
“Flee if you will, children. If not, we could play Ludo when the romance is over.”
“Nobody’s ever tried to seduce me at all,”
“The cruel will always spread rumors,
“Surely if you do not think, you cannot be interesting.”
“Not every bit of a good story is true,”
“Sometimes you have to stand back and let people do what they are good at, even if it seems like madness at the time.”
“Do not confuse conditioning with a native inability.”
“Men like the idea of a woman they can rescue.”
“You are a very attractive ghost,
“It means unusually pretty. Oddly beautiful. It denotes having a face with character.”
“Pretty-ugly? She’s not ugly!”
“No one ever just wants to have tea,Tea is always an excuse for a clandestine agenda.”
"People can be awful when they're in love.”
“But we suffer for because love is worth it.”
“People become locked in bitterness sometimes,and they wish to find someone, anyone, to blame for their grief.”
“Many choices were not easy-they were near impossible, and there was no point hating poeple who were forced to make them.”
“I did not raise you to be horse thieves and scallywags,”
“Thank you for letting them borrow the carriage to come and get me,”
Because you are a child - a silly and beautiful child, who touches fire because it is lovely, and forgets that it will burn him.”
“That's everyone's dream, isn't it, really? Instead of many who give you little pieces of themselves-one who gives you everything.”
“The point of stories is not that they are objectively true, but that the soul of the story is truer than reality. Those who mock fiction do so because they fear the truth.”
“Do not let those who cannot see the truth tell you who you are. You are the flame that cannot be put out. You are the star that cannot be lost. You are who you have always been, and that is enough and more than enough. Anyone who looks at you and sees darkness is blind.”
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An Inconvenient Attraction || Lucie and Matthew
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The party was in full swing. Lucie had spent some time watching everyone dance, taking notes on how the skirts swished, and where the men placed their hands upon the dip in their partner's lower back. She had focused on the way that the couples looked at each other, trying to figure out exactly how those gazes differed from the friends that were simply providing one another company.
When she'd decided that she'd taken quite enough notes, she scanned the faces of the gathered. Her own brightened when she saw a familiar head of blonde hair. She slipped between the bodies, forging a path to her brother's friend.
"Math," she said once at his elbow.
Lucie nudged him with her hip, partly out of the childish desire to annoy him, and partly to see if she could feel the tell-tale hardness of a flask.
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THEIR HOME OFTEN FELT ALIVE WITH LAUGHTER AND THIS WAS NO DIFFERENT AN OCCASION. With Jamie snoozing in a chair after a rather long and exhausting solo mission, it had been Matthew and Cordelia who were laughing together late into the night, talking and discussing their next trip to Paris and where they were going to take their husband on adventures through the city of love.
Despite the nature of their first trip to France together, the conversation had turned slightly to the silken dress that she'd worn that fateful night. The gifted silks that Matthew had provided, the beautiful gowns that had shown Cordelia off for who she truly was. Thinking of that evening, of the passion they'd shared many nights since, was enough for Daisy to start talking lower, her eyes hooded and filled with heady temptation.
Positioning herself on Matthew's lap, she drew her second husband's face to her own and kissed him the way she'd kissed him that night, desperate and hungry until they were both gasping for air. Kissing him to remind him that he was as much the world to her as Jamie was to both of them. Kissing him to show him that passion between them would never die and that they could have more fun once again in Paris.
kissing each other breathless with cordelia / @aestheticdriven
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The last open starter was based off of @aestheticdriven’s Tea Room Flash Friday prompt: “Does your muse collect anything and why?”
Riona collects ink, especially by making it herself, but also by bartering it in the community’s trading center. She likes to see how others make ink as much as she likes to make it. It feels more personal to use ink she’s made herself, and she loves to see that effort for her writing.
In human AUs, Riona also does the writer thing of collecting notebooks. She doesn’t make her own ink, but she does like to get different kinds of ink and quills; it feels more personal to her than pens (though she’s a Pilot G2 .07mm kinda girl). It helps her after her kidnapping and torture to write & journal by hand, so she finally makes use of her notebook hoard.
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James has several annotated copies of Oscar Wilde’s books. Not simply because they are well written and he is an avid reader, but because Matthew is fond of them. He has several noted places of fashion and food to help understand Matthew better even if he acts clueless a lot of the time.
To help Matthew deal with his drinking, James had commandeered several books from the institute library that he hides in his room.
After everything, Cordelia and James both find themselves collecting sweets of different kinds to tempt Matthew when he comes over instead of alcohol. It’s like a souvenir from their travels. No matter what, he will be one of the most important people in their lives
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