10 things for 10 people meme!

[lorentzian]

Just a quick little ditty of a meme to break up all the other plotty stuff going on. :) (Stolen and slightly modified from Vatheon!)

10 Things for 10 People

→ Post with your character ICly saying ten different things to ten different people.

→ Or eight things to eight people, or five things to five people. There's no hard or fast limit.

→ You can say things your character wants to say, things your character refuses to say, thoughts or beliefs about other people, secrets...

→ But you can't say who those people are! No naming names.

→ (Example: "I've always liked you, but I can't tell you that.")

→ React to everyone ICly. Make guesses or reassure or whatever. And have fun!

Comments

[herotypical]

1. You've shared a lot with me. That took oodles of courage, but I'm starting to think there's still something you haven't said. It's cool. I'm patient. I can wait.

2. I wasn't just saying it for the sake of saying it, y'know. But you're welcome all the same.

3. I have to be more careful around you. I'm starting to over-relate; it'd be impossible not to. That's probably more dangerous for you than it is for me.

4. Admirably, you put on your bravest face every day -- but I've known you the longest and it tears me apart to imagine you might be lonely. Can't I set you up with a nice girl? It's not too soon. I promise.

5. You do so much more than just keep me trendy. You give me perspective. I just don't know how to explain it to you in a meaningful way.

6. Maybe I envy you and your publicity. But that's stupid, right? 'Cause underneath it all, you're just as screwed up as I am.

7. I love you. I-love-you-I-love-you-I-love-you. Maybe if I say it enough, you'll be the one guy who doesn't leave.

8. Sometimes, I get scared that other people won't approve of how deeply I trust you. Proper big-time shame and fright. But then I think about how comfortable I feel around you, and...

9. There are things about me you maybe deserve to know, now. Every day that I know your secret -- but you don't know mine -- I feel more and more cowardly. But I just can't say it aloud. I'm not strong like you are.

10. You'd be good for me -- in some hypothetical world where I wasn't a mess and you were a little older and we didn't have so many eyes on us. But I'll have to settle for being besties. Friends have more fun, anyways.

and bonus 11. I will kill you. How's that for a gift?

[markofthewise]

That would be some hypothetical world, huh...

[Maybe that version of Luceti with the cheerleader Buffy and the Avatar Sokka.]

[herotypical]

Are you sure you could manage it? I have a lot of red in my wardrobe.

[ that date was awful. ]

[jewitch]

...It's okay, Buffy. I'm okay.

And it...might be a little too soon.

[herotypical]

...You're allowed to rebound, y'know. The next thing doesn't have to last forever. You're not locking yourself into a contract.

Especially not here.

[all7seas]

They'll have to knock me out and drag me, you know. All those bloody wild horses.

[herotypical]

...Sounds inconvenient. And painful.

[all7seas]

Aye. I'd likely have to feign my own death in order to sneak back to you beneath the gaze of their watchful eyes.

[herotypical]

So -- these horses are both wild and evil.

[all7seas]

'Course they're evil, buggering up somethin' so...



Good.

[herotypical]

Oh.




I love you.

[all7seas]

I love you too, sweet Annie. With all my black heart.

[herotypical]

You know, every time you say that I just imagine the most actually literally black heart and it's really gross.

[all7seas]

Well I expect it MIGHT be. I've never opened myself up to check.

[herotypical]

You bleed red. So I think it's safe to assume...?

[ be romantic, buffy. stop talking about the guy's actual heart. ]

[simplestgift]

None of that. You're one of the strongest people I know.

[herotypical]

There's strength. And then there's strength.

[simplestgift]

I...don't understand.

[herotypical]

I can bend the barrel of a shotgun. I can survive the end of the world. But...you put yourself out there, Archie. You hold your heart before you and...

[ and angel had once told her the same thing, long ago. but now she's not so certain it applies. this job has made her hard. ]

And you do things I could only dream of doing.

[simplestgift]

Don't be silly.

[He hesitates.]

It...took years. Takes years, I suppose. Don't hurry yourself.

[herotypical]

How many? Just about how many years? 'Cause I've been known to run out of those...

[ but then again? so's archie. ]

[simplestgift]

With Horatio...I'm not sure it counts, because everyone else knew. I thought it didn't make a difference if he knew. After him, the next person I told was Dawn.

[herotypical]

Dawnie...

[ she chews at the side of her thumbnail. ] There are things I wish I could go back and tell her myself. She always found out in the worse ways...

[simplestgift]

I...didn't want her to learn through some experiment or another. And she deserved to know the disaster she was entering into.

[herotypical]

See? More strength. Right there. I spy it.