Theemptyislost - Lost In The Empty

Things I want to know about my fellow writers!

Tagged by @discordsmuse thank you!!

I'm tagging @onlycambions, @sky-kiss, and @chaosteddybear (I apologize if you have been tagged already) and anyone else who wants to join! No pressure at all!

Last book I read: 

Just finished The Cruel Prince via Audible by Holly Black - moving on to Mary by Nat Cassidy - I am hoping to move to actual books once everything settles down. So far I can only get bedtime stories as I work through all the projects.

Greatest literary inspirations: 

Still Edgar Allen Poe and Dante Alighieri in terms of writing and poetry. I am more of a huge horror movie fan or darkish fantasy movies. I don't read actual books very much.

Things in my current fandom I want to read but I don't want to write:

Modern AU Raphael fics

Things in my current fandoms I want to write but I think nobody would be interested in them but me: 

Just extended fics on the HM bs. (But once again the character just keep bouncing in my head - it may never happen, even if the bones for Raph/haarlep and the Ast/Tav fics are fleshed out. I am bad with commitment.) Expanding past the 4 chapters for Don't Wake Up and a Yurgir/Haarlep/Tav/Raphael oneshot fic

You can recognize my writing by:

irritating tropes and extra details sprinkled with dashes and italicized words. Usually darker with bittersweet or unhappy endings.

My most controversial take (current fandom):

Still standing by Haarlep pulls the strings or at least seduces Raphael into giving them behind the scenes free reign.

"Raphael hides nothing from me, can deny me nothing....aside from what he keeps in his safe." <- I just go crazy with that.

My top three favorite tropes: 

Enemies that are occasionally lovers (hate f***), but remain enemies. All the while, sometimes saving one another or begrudgingly teaming up because they both have a weird unspoken "only I can k*ll you" pact. / Devil Pacts / Traumatized MC working through their woes in the worst ways

What’s your current writing mood (10 – super motivated and churning out words like crazy, 0 – in a complete rut): 

Moving up the scale to a 5/6 - real life always finds a way to squash it though.

Share a random frustration:

Lack of quiet time/personal hobby time.

Bit off more than I can chew this first portion of the year. The lack of sleep and coffee only diet with one meal a day is catching up.

Don't Wake Up Ch 2

HEED the tags on the site

“Your thieving will be the death of you.” Her new fiend flung her off their shoulders.

Tav found herself bouncing on a plush mattress.

Hues of red, gold, and rich browns covered most surfaces. The aged stone walls were polished and intricately marbled – lavish. A tranquil trickling, like a small fountain, played in the room. The hint of added humidity made her struggled breaths less taxing. The decrepit crypt air was replaced with the layered aroma of luxurious oils and fresh linen – a hidden trace of incense and sex.

A high-pitched squeal broke the sensory spell.

Her fiend’s eyes snapped to the small squeak that came from the opposite end of the room. They glared, snatching a pouch from thin air, and chucking it in the direction of the sound.

‘Relax.’ The silky voice whispered in her mind.

Tav caved easily to the command. She flopped backwards; head tilted back as delayed reflexes tried to track the pouch’s path. Lazily pushing her head into the soft bedding and arching her neck to look at the source of the squeak. Secretly relishing the feel of extravagance cushioning her. Her raw awareness picked up every thread of silk and velvet brushing along her skin with each tiny movement.

The dueling toxins lulled her into a torrid, druggy state of ecstasy.

A small scantily clad maid caught the sack. The sound of coin sliding against coin jingled through the suite.

“I just fixed those!“ She complained, face twisting with irritation. Disgusted by their ruined appearances. Pink irises flicking from the fiend to Tav, squinting at the fiend for a second longer than what would be considered polite.

Haarlep

The personal incubus of the Raphael

My PS5 gameplay shot edited in photoshop

15 Lines Tag

RULES: share 15 or fewer lines of dialogue from an OC, ideally lines that capture their character/personality/vibe. Bonus points for just using dialogue without other details about the scene, but you’re free to include those as well.

tagged by @atrueneutral - thank you <3

Tagging: @adevilyoudo @dark-and-kawaii, @discordsmuse - anyone else can chime in. no pressure at all.

Lines without context in event order of this OC's life.

“Since when do you care what the other’s think?”

“I am sure you have better things to do with your time – rabbits to stalk in the night?”

“Do you have a preference in…genre?”

“Don’t you have anything better to do than pet me?”

“Did I say something wrong?”

“Then feed.”

“Besides, if we go too far, there is always Raphael’s absurdly expensive bath.”

“You have some nerve.”

“You will make the time you narcissistic bastard.”

“What exactly are the terms of my contract?”

“What makes you think I want to be…retrieved?”

“That was all for you!” .... “You wanted power!” .... “All I ever wanted was – “

“Doesn’t quite compliment the sulfur and brimstone the same way.”

“You are very pretty.”

“Kindly,” .... “Fuck you.”

ehhh, she is a bit more introspective - but when she speaks she is a menace.

15 Lines Tag

RULES: share 15 or fewer lines of dialogue from an OC, ideally lines that capture their character/personality/vibe. Bonus points for just using dialogue without other details about the scene, but you’re free to include those as well.

Thanks, @pricemarshfield for the tag! <3 I bet everyone is unsurprised that we're doing this with Tav from HWBASK. It was interesting perusing the story because her actions tend to speak louder than her words lol.

Tagging: @theemptyislost, @sassyandsodone, @sky-kiss and anyone else! Ignore this if you've done this already or don't want to!

Lines behind the cut!

“It was unintentional, I assure you.”

“I, admittedly, got a little overzealous and made a bit of a game out of it.”

“Today didn’t go how I imagined it would.”

“Make it ten, and I’ll get you to like me more in the back room.”

“Say ‘please’.”

“Ass.”

“Are you also leashed by a master, ordered to keep me out of where I wish to go, or shall we talk business?”

“Tell Raphael if he ever tries to dance with me, I’ll break his toes.”

“I’m being secretive, and I know how frustrating that is, but I can’t tell you what’s going on and, frankly, I don’t want to. You’ll hate me, and I don’t want you to hate me…”

“I didn’t intend on you being here, and I’m sorry that you are, but I’m glad to see you, Kass. I’ve missed you.”

“No. You’re going to stay here and stay out of my way. You shouldn’t even be here…”

“This is unhealthy, whatever this is, and, honestly, it’s unwise of me to have come - you’re a devil.”

 “But command me to eat, Archdevil Supreme, and I shall engorge myself, if only so that I might have the honor of retching all over your House of Hope.”

“It’ll be free. Right, Mol? For my troubles.”

“I fucking will. It will be easy - after all, you’re only a cambion.”

“Before I go do what must be done, there’s another debt that must be paid."

Okay. This is technically 16, but I stared at this for ten minutes hemming and hawing so pretend it's 15.