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Things I need to add in to people's stories eventually. “Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.” “Will you fight? Or will you perish like a dog?” “…Then I shall face God, and walk backwards into hell.” “…I’d strike the sun if it insulted me.”
 * any crystal is a banishing crystal if you throw it hard enough
 * always carry ibuprofen and a switchblade. don't do drugs alone.
 * "you won't live to see it." person dies. "who won't live to see it????" screaming at corpse
 * "miss me with that ‘weapon accuracy’ shit. im shooting everything. im laying down cover fire. im shooting the walls. im shooting my teammates. im shooting myself. mAXm5351xjU.jpg accuracy is 100% yall just dont know what im aiming at"
 * "do you bleed?" *throws robot into wall*
 * one character pressing their face against glass, the other pressing their hand against that same spot from the other sideUnnamed.jpg
 * "spectral megafauna" just giant white animals?
 * "she's fictional" "soon you will be too"
 * remember that you can't save everyone / remember that you have to try
 * "i think it is good to warn people in advance about the Unnamed (1).jpgmstances that will cause you to bite them and i think that having given that warning it is good to follow through when the time comes" "the rattlesnake is an admirable creature whose virtues we should emulate"
 * "the wolf only needs enough luck to find you once"
 * "when they catch you, they will kill you. but first, they must catch you."
 * "kid, get off the ground. Spit your blood and bare your teeth; go down a savage, go down fighting."
 * all my flowers grew back as thorns
 * when he smiled it was toothy and fake and when he laughed it was a cacophony of metallic hollow sounds that reverberated through his small body and chilled the bones of those who knes this was not the boy they used to know.
 * a tongue that cuts like razorblades on whips
 * we're prehistoric because everybody's got a bone to pick
 * "Why should I apologize for the monster I've become? No one ever apologized for making me this way."
 * Judge me if you want, we are all going to die. I intend to deserve it.
 * "Nobody mapped oblivion"
 * "They sent me because I don't exist"
 * I don't believe in anything, I'm just here for the violence.
 * An axiom that looks like a skeleton
 * We've replaced our heroes with martyrs, and now there's too many martyrs.
 * "I stopped being a kid the day you sent me down here to die"
 * Never trust a survivor until you find out what he did to stay alive.
 * "I don't give my hardest battles to my toughest soldiers," Oz said, leaning fowards, "I create my toughest soldiers through my hardest battles."
 * "Respect existence or expect resistance"
 * "You Won't Believe This False Hope"
 * Voice made of teeth
 * I am their weapon
 * It's a story of sacrifice and betrayal, and of good people dying in stupid, pointless ways.
 * Dragon graveyard?
 * Dragons growl very deep, so low it's not so much a sound as a sensation. You can feel the vibrations in your spine.
 * one day you'll be face to face with whatever saw fit to let you exist in the universe and you'll have to justify the space you've filled.
 * you dont think you deserve to be saved?? / I put myself in this position and I deserve to die?
 * “Please save me! I’ll do anything for you!” “Then perish.”
 * “i am a monument to all your sins” is such a fucking raw line for a villain it’s amazing that it came from halo, a modernish video game, and not some classical text or mythos
 * #kip: *slams a Fantasy Energy Drink* the gods can neither save nor stop me
 * What’s their greatest fear and most vulnerable physical spot
 * This is the face of the literal gods.
 * "However, how much damage could you do to a dragon if you don't even hit it? The answer is no damage."
 * The lowest layer of hell is frozen. just like space. frozen space.
 * This is one of the creatures who's learned to beg for forgiveness.

Villain Stuff
I think it’s really important to talk about how different people have different power fantasies.

For example: I would argue a lot of fandom conflicts re: villains come from people being unable to see that their fantasies, which put them in control of a narrative (and all three of these are designed to give the author or reader control of the narrative in different ways) are someone else’s horror stories.
 * For some people, the idea of someone redeeming a villain is a power fantasy.
 * For other people, the idea of a villain being defeated is a power fantasy.
 * And for other people, the idea of a character owning their villainy is a power fantasy.

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“Shh, it’s alright,” the villain said. “You’re doing beautifully and I’m so proud of you. But that’s enough now. It was cruel of them to make you fight me - you could never have won. It’s not your fault.”

The ancient and powerful villain may have had a calm and gentle face as he spoke, but he was furious, not at the hero, but the gods for continually sending kids and teenagers to fight their battles.