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The Toy's favorite Child
Notes: This is the first time I'm doing such thing so I'm really nervous XD I didn't know what to put into the background of the drawing so I didn't put any. Maybe I'll edit it soon. Do forgive me for my shading, I'm still learning(trying to)
Synopsis: After starting to live in PlayCare, one creature you became friends with grew a liking to you...
Warning: PLATONIC, headcanon + little story, reader is 12-14 years old, reader is a chill teenager
It's been a year since you got into the PlayCare, passing through the security with laid-back face and leaving the staff confused. They kept you because you seemed useful for them...
You were quite chilly and relaxed, reserved and smart. Also, because of your personality you were almost the same with Cat Nap from cartoons. Maybe that's why you became quick friends with Smiling Critters. With most of them, at least...
The big purple cat was almost never appearing like others from his party. And this interested you.
After a week or so you finally met him face-to-face. You were as calm as always, but your heart was pounding from excitement. You said 'hi' for politeness and introduced yourself, waiting for him to do the same.
Guess what? His face didn't even shift. He continued staring at you with his dead eyes.
After understanding that you won't get an answer from him, you tried to talk about something else.
But he disappeared in blink of an eye.
You were quite disappointed, but you still had the same urge to get to know the living toy better. You knew it'll be a long while...
It was worth 3 months to make him sit and listen to your rambling for 10 minutes. It was worth more months to make him spend at least an hour with you. It took even longer for him to let you stay near him and sleep, leaning onto the puppet. But it was worth the pleasure you get from his warmth and company.
Even though you never heard him talk, it's enough for you to be near him. It's good to talk about any nonsense which randomly comes to your mind and have a listener who won't judge you. It's also good to take a great nap in his fur or stay in complete silence, thinking of your own thing.
The staff, of course, sooner found out the relationship between you and the purple cat puppet.
They tried to use you to their own benefits and new information, but instead you composed some lies which sounded like truth to tell them(Cat Nap helped you a little sometimes, nodding or shaking his head if the lie sounds truthful or not).
When the scientists were starting thinking about taking you for the test next, Cat Nap started to monitor you to make sure you won't end up in the Game Station.
It definitely wasn't him who knocked out the staff members right behind your back. It definitely wasn't him who let out some scratching noises in Home-Sweet-Home. Also, of course, it definitely wasn't his sharp gaze you felt on your gut 24/7.
You liked to use the hair brush on the purple furball. It doesn't move away so you can say that he's at least neutral to your activity(we don't talk about his really quiet purring).
[Now. The small story]
It was a normal day like any other one. More specifically, night. However, this week was quiet strange: the staff members of Playtime Co. except the workers from the PlayCare appeared more often in front of you. When they started talking about 'test', they randomly passed out because of the red smoke. You knew it was one of the Smiling Critters you were hanging out with for a while, but you didn't know why was he doing it.
You were currently sitting with your back leaning against the living cat plush, brushing your companion's tail you gently patted with your free second hand. The only thing that bothered you in that peaceful time was the fact that the purple cat wasn't purring at all. It was staring at you with its dark eyes. Sooner after, you finally asked him about this:
— Is something wrong, Cat Nap?
It didn't answer. Instead, the living toy just stared at you with expressionless eyes, not moving an inch. You weren't intimidated by the stare at all, so you just continued brushing the long tail. You weren't hoping for an answer anyway, but still a small, almost impossible dream was remaining in your heart.
The silence was broken by the raspy, low voice coming out from Cat Nap's voice box.
— The Prototype... Will Save Us.
You flinched.
Wow...
This is the first time he ever said something to you. It was surely a progress for your friendship.
You stared at him with wide eyes for a moment before shifting your attention back to the tail. You shrugged with your shoulders, your face had a relaxed smile.
— I don't know who the Prototype is, but if they helped you somehow, I think they're my saviour too. You're like a home to me.. I can't even imagine what would it be like living without you here!
You chuckled, patting the fluffy tail while Cat Nap looked at you with the same stare. However, something in his eyes changed... Maybe his gaze gained a little more... softness?
He stared at you until you fell asleep on him again. A few minutes of him sinking into his thoughts have passed, the toy putted his head on his paws, wrapping his tail around you like a blanket and soon enough closing his eyes. You would call it the same night-time scenario with Cat Nap in the next morning, because you didn't know that he was comfortably purring, nuzzling himself into your warmth last night...
Notes: OH MY GOD I DID IT :D I'll maybe do part 2, but without promises
Anyways, thank you for wasting your time reading my first-ever-made English fanfic. Do write me some comments about my errors if you find any, I will appreciate it since it'll improve my writing skills.
Have a nice day/evening/night!😘
#poppy playtime x reader#poppy playtime#poppy playtime 3#cat nap#cat nap x reader#platonic#child!reader#fluff#own work#own drawing#first post
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Adaar, Tal-Vashoth; the Herald of Andraste
#dragon age inquisition#herald of andraste#playing dai for the first time this week#having a great time#dragon age#qunari#inquisitor adaar#inquisitor#da:i#artwork#own work
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The Adventures of Stardust and Cosmic. Script 4. Part 10 - 12
I was just working on this story and the update came out! Jouska really brings this script to life! Latest part. and the series!
Scripts below if you want to read them too. <3
The Adventures of Stardust and Cosmic. Script Part 4 (chapters 10-12)
By Domini Moonbeam
10.
[Cosmic waking up on the ship]
[disoriented] St-Stardust?
Are you okay?
[groans] How did you get me back on the ship?
Wait…How did we take off? I thought I locked you out of the controls.
Since when?
You sneaky shit… [sitting up, pained sounds]
Did you…patch me up? That’s not bad work.
No, I’m not thanking you, I’m just saying it’s not a bad patch job. Did they teach you how to close a bullet wound at the same school where you learned to hack ship controls?
…I can’t tell if you’re joking.
Whatever. [getting up] I’m still covered in paint… I’m gonna go clean up.
No, I’m not saying you should have given me a sponge bath. I’m just saying I’m going… [door whoosh, walking down the hall]
[Stardust following. Cosmic groans]
Yes, I’m still mad at you.
Yes, because of that! I can’t believe you put yourself between me and a gun. You could have died. Nothing is worth… [stops, groans] I don’t think this partnership is working.
[snaps] I said it’s not working, Stardust.
Yeah, we get along great, that’s the problem. You’re going to get me killed or I’m—[can’t say it]
Stop. I don’t… I don’t care about you. And if I did, I wouldn’t be hauling your ass toward danger, would I? What sort of asshole would that make me? What sort of person would that make me…
[deep breath] Okay. We’re only a week away from the goal. We’ll make it. We’ll get the loot, hopefully get your cousins off your tail, and then we’ll go our separate ways, just like I said. If it’s the sort of stash you think it is, it’ll be plenty for you to get your own jet and hightail it wherever you want to go.
That’s not funny. Knock it off.
No, you don’t.
No. I meant what I said, Stardust. You’re a bounty. I shouldn’t have let you think otherwise. This…you and me…that’s not a thing.
[sighs and repeats] Friends… No. I don’t want to be your friend. Look at the shit you stir up.
Yeah, I said that but you’re more trouble than you’re worth.
[huffs a laugh] Shit, that’s a hell of an ego. I guess I should have expected that from a primer. Of course, you’d think you’re worth it.
No, I don’t. The only thing I care about it my payday and my skin. I don’t need a partner or a friend or… I don’t need you. I don’t need anyone.
[bursts] You’re going to leave either way! [cringing] You don’t belong out here. You’re not a mercenary or a bounty hunter. You’re just a spoiled rich kid playing at crime past the edge for thrills. You’ll get over it and go home to the prime eventually.
[sighs] That’s not the same. Your family is a completely different sort of criminal element, and you know it.
What?
You…
Stop it. You don’t mean that.
[Stardust stepping closer, voice lower] Stardust…
[sighs, so close] I wasn’t scared…
I’m not lying…
[Stardust kisses Cosmic]
[softer, conflicted] Why did you do that?
Don’t say that… Don’t. You can’t.
[another kiss]
Damn it… [Cosmic kisses Stardust, grumbles] You make bad choices, Stardust…
Yeah, this is one of those bad choices. I’m a bad choice.
[huffs a thin laugh] You’re cracked if you think that.
[kiss] You taste like paint… [smirking a little despite himself] I wasn’t complaining.
The what?
The score is not one point five to six now! You did not save me. I saved you. It’s my point. I literally pulled that merc off of you.
Are you seriously reminding me about the human shield incident already?
Yes, it’s still too soon. It’s been less than an hour!
So what if you dragged me back to the ship? You think I haven’t had to wake up and crawl back? I told you, I’ve had worse.
Fine. It’s a scratch. No points for either of us.
[longer pause, ship sounds]
[smirking] …Are you suggesting we clean up together?
I don’t think I’m in danger of passing out again. You patched the gunshot wound, remember?
I mean… Yeah, I’d hate to drown in my shower. That’d be a stupid way to go.
Stardust…Are you trying to seduce me? You know that won’t change my mind, right? You’re still on your own as soon as I get my hands on my half of that treasure.
I’ll call it treasure if I want to.
It is too.
Wait. Do you think arguing is flirting?
You are terrible at seduction…
[laughs] I could definitely do a better job!
No! That first time you stole my gun was a fluke. I wasn’t seduced, I was confused.
Absolutely not. Go use your own shower. [smiling] I can’t trust your motives.
I didn’t say it wasn’t tempting… I said I can’t trust why you’re doing it. You might just want to steal my jacket again. Or my gun. Or my ship.
[thinking] I guess that could be worth the risk…
Okay, Stardust. I’ll call your bluff. [door whoosh] Come on in. I’ll get that paint out of your hair and you can make sure I don’t faint from blood loss in the shower.
[Stardust stepping inside, the door whooshing shut, closer, quieter] Really?
[laughs] Yep. The worst at flirting…
[kiss]
[sighs] Okay. Not the worst.
11.
[hum of the ship, space sliding by outside]
[in bed, watching the stars]
Of course, my room has a window and a real bed.
Your room is a cargo hold when I’m not transporting…well, human cargo. [laughs a little] I guess it’s still a cargo hold. That’s why all the meal bars and protein shakes are in there. Did you think I put them there just for you? That room belongs to them! You’re the guest.
[stretch of quiet, space sounds]
Hm… Roll over again? I want to get another look at that map.
[laughs] Why would I be tricking you? You’re already in my bed. I’ve already seen everything…
[repositioning. Looking at the tattoo] Hm… Yeah, the map has moved a little more. It’s getting closer to the destination. I wonder what it’ll look like when we get there. It’s moving ink, so why not give us little fireworks or something when we reach the treasure?
Knock it off, you know it’s treasure.
Even if there isn’t an X and we don’t have to dig it up, it doesn’t make it not treasure. I don’t know why you refuse to call it what it is. Loot. Bounty. Booty. [laughs]
You mean, will it disappear after we find it? I don’t think so, Stardust… I’ve never known any moving ink to vanish on its own. If it bothers you, we could try to find someone to get rid of it. Once the treasure is already found, you won’t have to worry about someone trying to use it to get there.
…No, you’re right. They wouldn’t necessarily believe us that we’d already found it.
It’s not a bad tattoo. It’s beautiful work.
Stardust…[smiling] are you falling asleep?
Yeah. You can sleep here if you want. I mean…tonight. Not like, every night. Don’t try to steal my room.
[stretch of quiet]
[quieter, serious] You know this doesn’t change anything, right?
No. And we were not partners before we slept together. We’re not partners. We’re just… working together for the time being.
No, I don’t.
Nope.
I meant what I said.
Yes, I did.
I—[groans playfully] Stop it! How do you turn everything into a petty argument?
Yes, you— [stops when he realizes they’re doing it again] You’re evil.
[quiet hum of space and the ship]
[smiling] And how do you still have paint in your hair? I thought we got it all out…
Hm? Why do you want to know that?
[laughs soft] Are you trying to say that my life story is sure to be so boring that it’ll knock you out?
No. They weren’t. The only time my parents were ever on a spaceship was when they were being shipped out to the edge to colonize a new mining settlement. They used to say that I was born looking up… I think they just said that because they’d realized I’d have to go eventually. So, they told me I’d always wanted to be an adventurer and eventually I believed it.
The mines dried up sooner than the corporations expected. They stopped prioritizing the settlement. We’re far out, you know? It was close to the edge and that costs to maintain. When they finally decided it wasn’t worth it, they just stopped coming—stopped paying the mercenaries to guard the colony. Pirates and worse started to set up shop real quick after that. It’s still there, the last planetary settlement before the deep.
Hm? Oh, no, it was just me by then. I got on the first ship that would take me. Scariest ride of my life. That ship was a wreck, barely holding together, and we were packed standing inside it for hours. I can still remember the way it creaked and shook, like it was going to come apart and we’d all just be flushed out into space.
We made it to the nearest station. The captain we’d all paid, tried to double cross us by selling us to a skin ship. I was lucky that some of the others were armed and would rather go down shooting then get on that other vessel. It turned into a firefight right there in the station and we scattered. I stowed away on a big cargo ship and got out of there.
Oh, I definitely got caught, but by then we were away from the station and those cargo ships can’t waste time turning back. I guess they could have jettisoned my ass but the captain felt bad for me. I was barely more than a kid. He said he was short-handed so I could work for my food and board.
I was trying to get to the prime. [huffs a small laugh] I’m probably lucky I never made it. What would I have done there? They probably would have put my ass back on a ship running cargo out here.
…Yeah. [smiles] You’re right. If I’d gotten myself one of those legit long-haul jobs, who would have been out here to save you from those pirates?
I wouldn’t go that far.
Shut up and fall asleep already.
12.
[space sounds]
[muffled] Stardust!
[distant alarms sounding and then an impact shudder]
[muffled] Stardust!
[Stardust running to the bridge, door whoosh, ship shudder]
[ship] L-Class yacht closing in.
Get in that seat and buckle up!
Your cousin.
I’m pretty damn sure, Stardust. Aside from the fact that no one else out here has a chrome yacht armed to the teeth, he did have the courtesy to call before he started trying to blow out our engines.
[ship control sounds, impact shudder]
I said buckle up!
We’ll go through that debris, fly close to the asteroids and see if we can lose them… That yacht is huge, maybe we’ll get lucky and they won’t want to take the hits going through. Not sure we can hope they’ll break apart but who knows, maybe we have some luck left…
[ship control sounds]
Here. You have access to the guns. Shoot them if they get in range.
I know it won’t do much against their shields but it’s not like we’re just going to give up.
Really, Stardust? You want a breakdown of the conversation, right now?
[groans] He said I could hand you over and walk, or we’d both get a bullet. Now fucking shoot something!
[ship sounds, muffled gunfire]
Fuck… They’re blowing through the debris… It’s not even slowing them down.
We can’t outrun them. The only reason they haven’t blown us to bits is because they need you alive.
[ship] Exiting debris field.
There’s a gas cloud not far from here… Maybe…
[ship] L-Class yacht is too close for safe—
[ship shuddering, hit by the yacht]
They’re ramming us…
[ship alarm in background]
They’re not outfitted to grab and board us. I think they’re trying to disable our flight. If we’re floating dead, they’d have plenty of time to figure out how to get you out.
[ship] Hull damage to starboard side. Maintenance required.
[scoffs, sarcastic] Yeah, thanks ship, I’ll get right on that.
[another hit]
Fuck!
[Stardust unbuckling]
What are you doing? Sit back down! You’re going to get hurt!
What? No!
[Cosmic unbuckling and getting up]
Stop! We’re not doing that.
[worried and frustrated] …No, we can’t get away, but maybe we could…
[pause, Stardust talking]
[stubborn] I am not trading you.
I said no, Stardust. I’m not ditching you.
I’m not saying it wouldn’t work! I’m saying… I’m saying I won’t do it.
Maybe if we pretend to surrender… They can’t kill you until they get to the treasure.
[groans] Do not argue with me about calling it treasure right now…
We could wait until they dock with us and then—
[desperate] I know it’s not likely to work, Stardust, but what other options do we have?
No…No, I can’t do that.
I…I just can’t…I can’t!
[following them to the escape pod]
Stardust stop!
[ship] Escape pod activated.
Stop. [close] Just… Wait.
[ship hit again, alarm in the background still going off]
We’re only a few days out from the target, Stardust… Once they find it, they’re going to kill you.
We can keep going until they either back off or smash us apart… You don’t have to do this.
[ship shudder]
Fucking forget what I said! I’m telling you to stay.
You weren’t just a payday, okay? Now get back in your seat and—
[frustrated] Stardust—
[shudder a breath] Yeah, we almost made it…
They’re going to kill you. Don’t do this. Don’t go.
[pause, alarms and ship shudder background]
Three days…That’s a bad plan.
No, the tracking nanites are still active but they might be able to detect and eliminate them.
Fine. Fine! Yes. I can find you. Three days… I will find you.
[pod door whoosh]
[ship] Preparing escape pod.
[impact shudder, alarms, his shaking breath]
I am going to find you, Stardust.
Yeah… Because you’re my bounty. I told you I wouldn’t let you go without getting my cut, right?
I will find you. Just… try to stay alive until I do.
[door closes]
[ship] Escape pod release.
#audio script#sci fi romance#jouska#stardust and cosmic#dominimoonbeam#own work#ride or die in space#defying gravity universe#clover down#<3
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I only want to dance with you, Lance.
Going soft on me Keith?
Fic underway!
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LOVE LEAVES SCARS: INTRODUCTION
Synopsis: In which! Due to a letter calling her to go back to Texas Verity Rosewood goes back to the place she spent years trying to forget. While she is there, she tries to reconnect with the people she left. Her family, friends, and especially the person she loved most.
[L.L.S Masterlist] [M. Masterlist] [G.H Masterlist]
Case file #1:
[Name]: Verity Rosewood
[Nickname(s)]: Veri
[Age]: 20
[Date of birth]: August 22, 2000
[Gender]: Female
[Sexuality]: Bisexual
[Eye color]: Brown eyes
[Hair color]: auburn
[Height]: 5'6
[Playlist]: Top of my school 【Katherine Lynn-Rose】 Pov 【Ariana Grande】 You're on your own kid 【Taylor Swift】 Brutal 【Olivia Rodrigo】 Little Miss Perfect 【Write out loud】Lose you to love me 【Selena Gomez】 All I want 【Olivia Rodrigo】 Dollhouse 【Melanie Martinez】 Be myself 【Why don't we】 I wanna be yours 【Arctic Monkeys】 Consequences【Camila Cabello】 Mess it up 【Gracie Abrams】 Control 【Halsey】 Elastic Heart【Sia】Applause 【Lady Gaga】 Thumbs 【Sabrina Carpenter】 In my mind 【Lyn Lapid】 Happier than Ever 【Billie Eilish】 Not strong enough【Boy genius】 If Only 【Dove Cameron】
Case File #2
[Name]: Grayson Hawthorne
[Nickname(s)]: Gray
[Age]: 19
[Date of birth]: August 23, 2001
[Gender]: Male
[Sexuality]: heterosexual
[Eye color]: pale gray
[Hair color]: blonde
[Height]: 6'0
[Playlist]: Looking at me【sabrina carpenter】Can I be him【James Arthur】Labyrinth 【Taylor Swift】Daddy Issues【The neighborhood】Ador You【Harry Styles】If I killed someone for you【Alec Benjamin】Man of the House【Marilyn Hucek】Money, Power, Glory【Lana Del Ray】I bet in losing dogs【Mitski】Angels like you【Miley Cyrus】Surface pressure【Jessica Darrow】People Watching【Conan Gray】I ain't perfect【IV of spades】Mistakes like this【Prelow】Mirror ball【Taylor Swift】Favorite crime【Olivia rodrigo】Feelin good【Michael Bublé] Lay all your love on me【ABBA】All of the girls you've loved before【Taylor Swift】Set fire to the rain【Adele】
Verity Rosewood
—The one who absquatulated
"I never wanted to leave, but I had to. For me."
Being the heir of the Rosewood family, Verity has been training and learning how to manage her family's company even at such a young age. She went to different kinds of classes, may it be public speaking classes, business management, dance classes, and many more. She had to be different, to be perfect. The pressure of being the best and perfect heir was exhausting, but she had her friends, right? The Hawthorne brothers have helped her cope with all the pressure and stress her family and everyone else pressed on her. She thought she could handle it, but everyone had their breaking points.
Grayson Hawthorne
—The Heir Apparent
"And that made me hate you even more."
Grayson had been considered as the "Heir apparent" of the family for as long as he remembered. As a Hawthorne, he was taught many things, and that included never showing emotion. He had to learn how to not cry or show signs of weakness. Being one of the oldest siblings didn't help with that at all. In fact, it just added even more pressure on him. Having to be the older and more responsible brother out of the rest. It was difficult. Trying to make yourself look as if you're not broken. He is broken and hurt, yet he makes sure not to show anyone even a second of his true emotions. He was not raised to be like that.
Verity + Grayson
—The never ending story
"In this toxic and suffocating world, we had each other."
The friendship of the Rosewood and the Hawthorne family has lasted for years now. So Verity being friends with the Hawthorne grandchildren was no such mystery. The group was always seen together during classes, tea time, playing outside on the grounds, or even skipping classes together. They were inseparable, but there were 2 children in the friend group that were much closer with each other than the rest; Verity and Grayson. The two consider each other as their safe places, the person who brings comfort to each other. Due to the pressure of their families, both of them really understood each other and considered one another as the place that they could bring down their walls and become their true selves. They felt safe, comforted, and peaceful in the presence of each other. Because for once, they felt as if they had one place they didn't have to pretend as if they're perfect.
[Playlist]: Back to December【Taylor Swift】Play date【Melanie Martinez】Tattoos forever【lauv】Love song【Why don't we】Make you mine【Public】Somebody to you【The Vamps】You and I 【One direction】That way【Tate McRae】Runaway【Aurora】If the world was ending【JP Saxe, Julia Michaels】Your name hurts【Hailee Steinfeld】Why's you only call me when you're high【Arctic Monkeys】Talk too much【Coin】Overdrive【Conan Gray】The one that got away【Katy Perry】House of memories【Panic! At the disco】Back to you【Selena Gomez】Midnight Memories【One direction】Still the one【One direction】Lover【Taylor Swift】The way I love you【Taylor Swift】Favorite crime【Olivia Rodrigo】I love you so【The walters】WYD now 【Sadie Jean】Somewhere only we know【Keane】Afterglow【Taylor Swift】Kiss it better【Rihanna】Kidult【Seventeen】No one can fix me【Frawley】Fall for you【Sarah Kang, Jesse Berrera】Remember that night【Sara Kays】
#Inheritance games#the inheritance games#grayson hawthorne x reader#grayson hawthorne#grayson hawthorne x fem!reader#grayson hawthorne fluff#Grayson hawthorne imagine#grayson hawthorne story#grayson x reader#inheritance games x reader#own character#fanfiction#own work#grayson hawthorne angst#hawthorne#grayson#grayson hawthorne x oc!reader
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Wisent at rest
pencil sketch, 2021
#own work#artists on tumblr#Bison bonasus#wisent#European bison#bison#Bovidae#bovids#mammal#animals#animal art#nature#art#pencil#pencil study#pencil sketch
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Atarashi Gakko!! (mizyu) 新しい学校のリーダーズ
b5 pen
#welcome home#my artwrok#concept art#art#original art#artists on tumblr#atarashii gakko#illustration#illustrator#own work
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Well out of 30 warriors, my client wanted at least 10 to run up front, bar the guns. They are done in the same style as the gunline I posted a few days ago. As always C&C is welcome. Hope your all having a great day.
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WIP intro: saints and pearls
genre: litfic, coming of age
pov: 1st person retrospective
setting: very very small valley town in southern bc. (i hear you. ur saying “but you’ve never been to canada !!!” no. you’re right. but i feel its Vibes within me). it’s an isolated, fundamentalist christian sect founded by a prophet in the 60s who claimed to be the living word of god, succeeded by his son. the year is between 2013-16, i sense.
themes/aesthetics: god, divinity & power, devotion & worship, girlhood & motherhood, innocence, sin & corruption, desire & temptation, resurrection & rebirth, truth, lies & false prophecy. identical grey houses, the sun setting through a wire fence, girls in white dresses cycling down an empty road, mountains in the distance dusted with snow, a town with no traffic lights, screaming and hearing no echo back.
cws: christian fundamentalism, cult, deeply patriarchal society, death, implied murder, disappearance / missing person, children in implied danger.
logline: when her mother vanishes, fifteen-year-old opal returns to live with her father in the isolated religious sect she grew up in. as she tries to find the truth about her mother’s disappearance, she becomes entangled in a sinister love affair with her father’s young new wife & the struggle to succeed the sect’s ageing prophet.
literal logline: opal’s reputation era takes an unexpected turn when she comes up against siblings as weird about god as she is
synopsis & characters under the cut <3
synopsis:
When her mother disappears, fifteen-year-old Opal chooses to return to the isolated sect she and her mother fled two years prior. But when she returns to Virtue, things have changed. Her father, Franklin, has remarried to a young new convert: the alluring, saintly Neeve, whom Opal is irresistibly drawn to. What’s more, the mounting health problems of the sect’s ageing prophet are set to kickstart the race to replace him in earnest at any moment.
The family are intent on ensuring Franklin’s accession as the next prophet, and Opal suspects they know more about her mother’s disappearance than they’re telling her. There’s a simple solution: gain Neeve’s trust and use her to find out what the family are hiding—yet Neeve’s magnetic zealotry only pulls Opal in closer, and their intoxicating relationship threatens to derail Opal’s quest to expose the truth.
Meanwhile, Opal’s rebellious flirtation with Warren, Neeve’s cunning older brother and Franklin’s main rival for the prophethood, opens the door to escape from her family’s control—and the opportunity for long-awaited revenge against the man and church who terrorised her childhood.
As Opal becomes entangled in the struggle to become Virtue’s final prophet—a deadly web of plots, fanaticism, and false prophecy—she draws closer to uncovering the dark secrets she’s sought all along about her family and community. But, with disaster edging ever-closer, Opal must confront the truth about herself, and her own hunger for power: is she really any different from the people she seeks to destroy?
this is not my Best Work unfortunately bc it does not accurately capture the goals, conflict and stakes but i will not be rewriting it again actually ! sorry ! i have suffered enough !
characters:
there are too many … more than listed here and that was not my intention
opal lauritzen
15/16, narrating the story probably in her 20s although unspecified.
delighted to unveil my very own unhinged teenage girl protagonist
she’s a little bit Scary !!
morally challenged, if you will
homosexually charged rivalry with neeve
fundamentally on a silly little mission to be adored & worshipped but she’s taken on a side quest (finding out who killed her mother)
she’s so remember my name by mitski coded. she needs someone to remember her name, something bigger than the sky…how many stars will she need to hang around her before she can finally be all done, somewhere like heaven?
everyone is a means to an end for her, apart from her adopted sister, runa (aged six), her bestie. can’t hate a child.
neeve lauritzen/sloane
17/18
neeve is playing chess while everyone else plays chequers
vegetarian (this is very important to her character like … after everything eating meat is still where she draws her moral lines in the sand. and i respect that!)
actually not as evil as opal thinks she is in the beginning. she does actually want to be friends.
she plans to name her baby cinnamon or cherry or similar. maybe moon. she’s silly and goofy like that
she’s fighting demons (comphet) and losing
alicent hightower … is that you ???
warren sloane
20/21
looks so much like austin abrams in my head
if neeve is playing chess … warren is playing monopoly
Charismatic Leader. manipulation is his thing
he’s mastered the female gaze but in a bad way
college dropout for sure. that stem major was so hard he became a creationist and joined a cult
franklin lauritzen
early 40s
opal’s father
a villainous little villain if ever there was one
wants to be the next prophet-leader So Badly it’s kind of embarrassing xx
he’s like low-key an incel he really hates to see women succeed
truly needs to get a life outside of terrorising teenage girls
runa caraway
6
opal’s adopted sister and also biological cousin
really need to develop her as a character but she’s basically an infant
fundamentally she reminds opal of her childhood self, creating Guilt and Conflict
asa and calvin lauritzen
20ish & 17ish
opal’s older brothers
they really Really hate each other xx
accidentally set them up as cain and abel so i’m now going to have to follow through on that foreshadowing
father paul
late 20s
token outside world character
this random catholic priest who becomes very concerned about opal after her mother goes missing
he wants to Fix opal and she knows this and very much enjoys pretending to be a damsel in distress around him
not really sure what purpose he serves in the story apart from a nice scene in a church (with candles !!) in chapter one
he gives her his number so i think she’s going to call him every now and then for a pep-talk
i think he’s going to try to stage an intervention for her later actually
betsy
15ish
opal’s slightly unhinged school friend
true crime girlie
i can’t explain her she’s best seen in action
like when opal and runa come to stay with her family when annora disappears she’s like .. exciting !!!! do u guys want to see my if i go missing folder !!!!! let me get all the true crime twitter girlies On to this !!!!
i might make her detective dreams come true later in the story so stay tuned xx
lux
15ish
opal’s childhood best friend in virtue
now betrothed to asa, opal’s oldest brother
retired from golden sunshine new career in false prophecy
newest addition to the cast but the story holds terrible things for her i fear
ask to be added to the taglist <33
#saints and pearls#wip intro#writing update#wip update#own work#this took so long to post oh em gee#sorry
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Is it a rivalry? Is it justice? Or is it love?
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the form you see is perception, analog collage, 2023
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For a friend
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To The Edge - 13
This work is mine and I do not give consent for my works to be used, copied, published, or posted without my permission. I am sharing chapters as I work on this story but it is copyrighted material that I plan to rework and publish when completed.
story tags: scifi romance, hijinks in space, rogues learning to trust, violence, blood, guns, death, explicit language, so much kidnapping,
Works organized and easily found over on the patreon. <3
TO THE EDGE - CHAPTER 13.
Stardust had never told anyone before, not even Contessa. It was the sort of secret that would get people killed—that already had. It wasn’t even their secret, not originally, but it certainly felt like theirs now.
It had all happened before they were even born. Stardust’s mother, Theo Solinoh, had been the great-great granddaughter of Galileo, the galaxy’s most powerful and notorious crime lord. The family-owned and ran three of the seven corporations of the Solar Court and had their fingers in a couple of the others. They wouldn’t be satisfied until they had everything, until every corporation and every last family in the SC was aligned with theirs.
Five houses of Solinoh blood all bent the knee to Galileo and reached toward that unifying goal for the family name.
All five, except for Stardust’s.
They were a defiant line of tragic attempts to escape their own bloodline ever since Massimo Fairvell first left Galileo and took their daughter, Layla, with him. He would swear off the crime lord and all her family time and again, only to come back when the credit ran dry.
His daughter tried to walk the line between her parents for a long time, tried to be a part of the family but not be involved in their work. Even after her father died in a curious case of drowning in his pool, she didn’t cast doubt. Layla Solinoh Fairvell had wanted peace. She had wanted to believe her mother wouldn’t go that far, wouldn’t hurt them. But then the family lured Layla’s heir to their table and she let them go because she thought the blood in their veins meant something—that it made them safe. Massimo, named for their grandfather, died in an explosion resulting from a mysterious engine malfunction.
The family started referring to executing one of their own as a Massimo Curse.
That was the true moment of the divide, when a quiet attempt to separate themselves from the other Solinohs became a war.
For nearly a hundred cycles, involving two more generations of Solinoh, companies rose and fell, and assassination attempts, espionage, and biological warfare became a part of monthly reports.
It got so bad that other feuds in the family broke under the strain and no one was safe, not even Galileo.
Stardust’s parents had realized that there was no way out if the war continued, but no way to surrender either. Solinohs could not surrender to anyone but Galileo herself and if they did that, she would surely execute them all.
So, Stardust’s parents did the impossible. They acquired something, some piece of information, so damnable that even Galileo had balked and when the dust settled after the latest Solinoh family feud, the great crime lord ended the war. She pretended it had never happened—that she had no interest in her daughter or the rest of the Fairvells one way or the other. She must have ordered the others to do the same, because in all of Stardust’s life, their cousins had never been anything less than polite… until they found out, of course.
Somewhere in the galaxy, there was information that Galileo would give almost anything to keep hidden.
“Let me get this straight…” the cosmic bounty hunter said.
They were still sitting on the floor beside the emergency pod, Stardust between his sprawled legs but turned a little to catch his reactions out of the corner of their eye.
“Your parents had blackmail material on your grandmother, the scariest person in the known galaxy, and that’s how your branch of the tree got out of the family business…”
They nodded. “Yeah.”
He nodded too, dragging a hand over his head and trying to absorb everything. “They hid that information, along with a small fortune in case of emergencies, somewhere in nebula 7352, and put a map in moving ink on their kid’s back? Making you a target for all of the worst people, should anyone find out about it?”
Stardust almost argued that it wasn’t really a target for all the worst people, only Solinohs and the truly stupid would think they wanted their hands on that blackmail. Stardust’s own parents had lived in constant paranoia that Galileo would one day decide to torture the location out of them.
Eventually, their father had left the prime to hide out in Eaton Space, as though Galileo’s reach would end at the borders of the Solar Court, and their mother went into hiding. Neither had thought to take Stardust with them and by the time Stardust ran, it was too late. Galileo might not be hunting, but some of the cousins had found out about the blackmail material.
Rory laughed, the sound of it startling Stardust out of their grim thoughts. He had tears forming in his eyes. Had the information broken his mind? “No offense, Stardust, but your parents were assholes.”
They blinked and then exhaled a laugh too. “Yeah.
“So, someone figured out about the map?”
They nodded. “Genesis and Tansy, definitely.”
“Your cousins…right. The ones handling the bounty to bring you home safe… Do you think your grandmother knows?”
“If she knew, she would have sent a dreadnought and probably Calico or Fatima, definitely not Genesis.”
Cosmic sighed. “No. Yeah, that makes sense. They would want the blackmail material the same as your parents did. At least that’s something in your favor…”
Stardust dragged a deep breath. It didn’t feel like anything was in their favor right now. Genesis in his yacht was just as bad as Calico in a dreadnought at this point.
Cosmic looked at them. “Is there some way to just, tell them what the map says and stay out of it?”
They sat straighter, fighting the urge to shift their back farther away from him—like he might see the map through their shirt and jacket. What did it matter if he did now? He was just as screwed as they were. “I don’t know.”
He laughed. “What do you mean you don’t know? It never occurred to you to try?”
“I wouldn’t know what to tell them. I don’t know what the map says.”
“Oh.” His smile fell. “Oh, shit. You can’t see it. And…you couldn’t ask anyone to look either since if they realized what it was…yeah. No, I get it.” His chin dropped when he turned his thoughts around. Stardust sighed, actually feeling better just having someone else to commiserate about this. And then his gaze cut up to them again, something curious there. “But I mean, I know and I’m right here… Do you mind if I get another look at it?”
They shouldn’t be surprised he wanted to see it, but they were.
“Well, I mean I am neck deep in this mess with you now, aren’t I?”
Stardust winced. There was no way around that.
“I can’t turn you in for the bounty without getting killed and it doesn’t sound like your cousins are going to stay in the prime and wait for you to be brought back to them either,” he said, like he was considering his options, but they were pretty sure he wouldn’t turn them in now even if he could get the bounty. He reached for their arms. “Okay. I’m taking the cuffs off of you… Try not to steal my ship again, Stardust.”
They stretched their hands out toward him so he could get a look at the metal bindings. “I promise I’m done with mutiny,” they said, not entirely sure they meant it, but wanting him to believe it.
The bounty hunter grinned. “No offense, but your promises don’t really mean shit to me anymore.” He opened a small panel on the wrist and pressed something, the cuffs popping open.
“You sure you want to see the map? You can still say you haven’t,” Stardust offered, stomach twisting. He was going to get killed for this. It wasn’t fair but they weren’t sure they could get him out of it. Best case scenario, the cousins might forget about him after it was all said and done.
Rory shook his head, rolling one hand in the air. “Let’s get a look at this thing. Jacket off…”
Stardust rolled their eyes but shrugged out of the jacket, setting it on the floor. They shifted to sit with their back to him again, hesitating.
“Shirt too, Stardust,” he said, waiting.
They’d never considered letting anyone see the tattoo until he got a glimpse while patching them up in the med room.
“Are you really getting shy now?” he asked, smiling around the words. “I saw you naked just the other day… You know, before you stole my gun and my ship, made me tase myself, taped me to a chair, tased me again, and then made me drag you back here in a box.”
“You could have let me out of the box,” they countered, heat rising to their cheeks.
“You didn’t make me drag the box… yeah… great, Stardust. You’re right. You’re totally innocent and we’re complete strangers. Take off the damn shirt. If I’m going to die over this tattoo, I’d like to get a better look at it.”
With a groan and a roll of their eyes, they sat forward again. “Fair,” they conceded.
They both sat there, unmoving, for another few seconds. Stardust dragged another breath and then grabbed the hem of their shirt and lifted it up over their head. They put it down on the jacket to keep from clinging to it. They weren’t shy. They weren’t scared. But this was… different.
The air was cold on their skin, but his eyes felt like points of heat.
“It’s…just a map of the nebula. I mean, it’s amazing ink but it’s just…Huh.”
They tensed at that pause, stretching to look back over their shoulder at him. “What?”
“It’s different than last time I saw it. It’s…closer. I guess we’re flying in that direction. I wonder if the closer we get to the nebula the closer the map gets to wherever it’s leading…”
“It moved?” Not just the sweeping swirls of ink but actually moved? “Like zoomed in?”
He nodded, gaze still fixed on their back. “Is it okay if I touch it?”
Stardust blinked and then whipped their head forward before he could meet their gaze. They shrugged, heart beating faster despite all their efforts to pretend they didn’t care when they said, “Sure.”
#to the edge#ride or die in space#sci fi romance#own work#audio script to novel#the adventures of stardust and cosmic#writblr#clover down#dominimoonbeam
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A dumb meme I made at 2am after playing Hogwarts legacy and seeing these babies.
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