Jackal Spent All Her Points In Intelligence And None In Wisdom Thats All Imma Say

I just can’t unsee furry jackal and that’s the only way I imagine her in dialogues

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WAIT JACKAL IS SHORT????

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obsessed with people who stan side characters it’s so funny like you’ll see them talk endlessly about count gobbledegook IV and then you go to wikipedia and find out they’ve been in five episodes total across a 300 episode series

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i make fun of jackal. a lot. because she makes choices that deserve to make fun of, as well as being a truly awful person currently so there’s no regret in making fun of her. but she is, actually, a fucking genius. her strengths just do not lie on the battlefield. it’s in science and experimentation.

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this is it under the cut and im not okay.

jackal smokes because i saw one (1) fanart of her and i went too feral.

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@elluellegend​ said: Now you're making me think of a smol version of Jackal in said cardboard box and now I feel sad for her ty--

jackal pre-fatui / world serpent:

jackal post-fatui / world serpent:

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THE DIM AFTERGLOW COULDN’T LIGHT UP HER AMBER EYES THAT HAD BECOME DULL. SHE HATED TO SEE THE SUNSET.

independent dr. leila cleo / jackal. adopted by mak / kai.

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jackal smokes because i saw one (1) fanart of her and i went too feral.

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“fight club” (1999) sentence starters

Send me one to see how my muse reacts.

Trigger warnings: violence, murder, depression

“The first rule of ______ is: you do not talk about _____. The second rule of ____ is: you do not talk about _____.”

“Hit me before I lose my nerve.”

“Fuck what you know. You need to forget about what you know, that’s your problem. Forget about what you think you know about life, about friendship, and especially about you and me.”

“When you have insomnia, you’re never really asleep… and you’re never really awake.”

“Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need.”

“I found freedom.”

“You can swallow a pint of blood before you get sick.”

“I’d fight Gandhi.”

“If you don’t claim your humanity, you will become a statistic.”

“People are always asking me if I know [name].”

“Never been in a fight. You?”

“I don’t even have to come into the office, I can do this job from home.”

“We’re a generation of men raised by women. I’m wondering if another woman is really the answer we need.”

“You wanna see pain? Swing by First Methodist Tuesday nights. See the guys with testicular cancer. That’s pain.”

“My dad never went to college, so it was real important that I go.”

“Ah, flashback humor.”

“I didn’t create some loser alter-ego to make myself feel better. Take some responsibility!”

“Hitting bottom isn’t a weekend retreat. It’s not a goddamn seminar. Stop trying to control everything and just let go!”

“All right, if the applicant is young, tell him he’s too young. Old, too old. Fat, too fat. If the applicant then waits for three days without food, shelter, or encouragement he may then enter and begin his training.”

“With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels.”

“Look, the people you are after are the people you depend on. We cook your meals, we haul your trash, we connect your calls, we drive your ambulances. We guard you while you sleep. Do not fuck with us.”

“I don’t wanna die without any scars.”

“Listen up, maggots!”

“Fuck Martha Stewart.”

“For a second I totally forgot about [name]’s whole controlled demolition thing and I wondered how clean that gun is.”

“I know everything you do, so if you know I know.”

“You met me at a very strange time in my life.”

“I’ll bring us through this. As always. I’ll carry you - kicking and screaming - and in the end you’ll thank me.”

“It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.”

“The things you own end up owning you.”

“This is your life, and it’s ending. One minute at a time.”

“[Name], I’m grateful to you; for everything that you’ve done for me. But this is too much. I don’t want this.”

“More than one side? You’re Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Jackass!”

“Motherfucker! You hit me in the ear!”

“All the ways you wish you could be, that’s me. I look like you wanna look, I fuck like you wanna fuck, I am smart, capable, and most importantly, I am free in all the ways that you are not.”

“You’re not your job. You’re not how much money you have in the bank. You’re not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. You’re not your fucking khakis. You’re the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.”

“What would you wish you’d done before you died?”

“Our fathers were our models for God. If our fathers bailed, what does that tell you about God?”

“…We’re the same person.”

“Is that your blood?”

“I can’t believe he’s still standing.”

“He was a decent man, and we’re not gonna bury him in the fucking garden!”

“Three minutes. This is it - ground zero. Would you like to say a few words to mark the occasion?”

“I know this because [name] knows this.”

“You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you. He never wanted you. In all probability, He hates you. This is not the worst thing that can happen.”

“Self-improvement is masturbation. Now, self-destruction…”

“If you wake up at a different time in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?”

“Whoa, whoa, whoa! Okay,  you are now firing a gun at your imaginary friend near 400 GALLONS OF NITROGLYCERINE!”

“It’s cheaper than a movie, and there’s free coffee.”

“Is that what a real man is supposed to look like?”

“Lord knows what they charged.”

“I look around, I look around, I see a lot of new faces.”

“Listen to me, I’m giving you a direct order. We’re aborting this mission right now.”

“With insomnia, nothing’s real. Everything’s far away. Everything’s a copy of a copy of a copy.”

“You’re going to call off your rigorous investigation. You’re going to publicly state that there is no underground group.”

“Why would anyone want this shit job?”

“We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.”

“On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.”

“These guys are going to take your balls. They’re going to send one to the New York Times, one to the LA Times, press-release style.”

“[Name], what the fuck is going on here?”

“It’s called a changeover. The movie goes on, and nobody in the audience has any idea.”

“I want you to hit me as hard as you can.”

“Life insurance pays off triple if you die on a business trip.”

“[Name] is dead. They shot him in the head!”

“When people think you’re dying, they really, really listen to you, instead of just…”

“Why do people think I’m you?”

“Yeah, you’re sorry, I’m sorry, everybody’s sorry, but… I can’t do this anymore. I can’t. And I won’t. I’m gone.”

“Get the fuck out of here, you’re fired!”

“This isn’t a real suicide-thing. This is probably one of those cry-for-help things.”

“You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You’re the same decaying organic matter as everything else.”

“I haven’t been fucked like that since grade school.”

“Losing all hope is freedom.”

“I’m not [name]!”

“We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives.”

“I ask you for one thing, one simple thing.”

“Fuck damnation, man! Fuck redemption! We are God’s unwanted children? So be it!”

“If I didn’t say anything, people always assumed the worst.”

“People do it everyday, they talk to themselves… they see themselves as they’d like to be, they don’t have the courage you have, to just run with it.”

“I have a better solution. You keep me on the payroll as an outside consultant and in exchange for my salary, my job will be never to tell people these things that I know.”

“[Name] had bitch tits.”

“You’re the worst thing that’s ever happened to me.”

“That’s, um… That’s an interesting theory.”

“Well, what do you want me to do? You just want me to hit you?”

“Get out of your apartment. Meet a member of the opposite sex. Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you’re alive.”

“I feel like destroying something beautiful.”

“This isn’t love, it’s sport fucking.”

“It could be worse. A woman could cut off your penis while you’re sleeping and toss it out the window of a moving car.”

“I see all this potential, and I see squandering.”

“Why would anyone possibly confuse you with me?”

“[Name]’s philosophy of life is that she/he/they might die at any moment. The tragedy, she/he/they said, was that she/he/they didn’t.”

“How much can you know about yourself if you’ve never been in a fight?”

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hellbade : senua’s sacrifice   sentence starters  change tenses/pronouns as needed !!  some lines have been edited for clarity / length / ease of roleplaying tw :  death ,  mental health ,  suicide ,  blood mention

‘there will be no more stories after this one.’ 

‘the dead don’t always lie still here. this is not a place of rest.’

‘you might try to ignore it, turn away. but it’s always there, just out of sight where you are the most vulnerable.’ 

‘bravery only means something to those afraid of death.’ 

‘there’s no going back.’ 

‘are you scared? you should be scared.’

‘I was just hiding. I find I live longer that way.’

‘you listened when everyone else laughed.’ 

‘you can’t just wish things away.’

‘you. you took him from me.’ 

‘I’ll give you what you want. I won’t resist anymore. just give him back.’ 

‘the darkness does not bargain. it does not reason.’ 

‘the hardest battles are fought in the mind.’ 

‘this is the price you pay for seeing things differently.’

‘once you gaze into that relentless darkness, all that lurks within it … can see you too.’ 

‘it’s like crossing into another world that looks the same but feels different … an imposter world.’

‘those who make it back are forever changed.’ 

‘just because you cannot see the threat, doesn’t mean it’s not already here.’ 

‘do you know what it’s like to leave everything behind?’

‘when darkness speaks, it changes everything. turning home into a foreign land and loved ones into strangers.’ 

‘exile makes sense when you realize you were never really home in the first place.’

‘I was so naïve to think that I could banish it myself.’ 

‘I wish you could have seen my home before these dark times.’ 

‘you have the sight. just like I do.’ 

‘there is nothing wrong with seeing the world the way you do.’

‘you cannot overcome suffering if you refuse to look at it.’ 

‘defy the gods, (name)! find your own path, like I found mine.’

‘my god(s) abandoned me! I am alone!’ 

‘to survive … I did things. bad things. like you (name), the man I once was died.’

‘you say your world has collapsed? good. let it collapse and have the courage to shed your tears.’ 

‘I wouldn’t have made it without you.’ 

‘this darkness takes everything. everyone.’ 

‘we can fight this together. side by side, we always do.’

‘this is my battle. I must face it alone. away from here.’ 

‘I believe in you. you know that.’

‘just promise me that you will come back to me. I want you to say it.’ 

‘I will come back to you, I promise.’ 

‘(name) is getting stronger! you must stop him!’

‘remember your training.’ 

‘in the end, we all fall. even the gods have their time. yet still we go on. why?’ 

‘be ready to face horror in the eye, like I have, to find your answers.’ 

‘when the illusion of self is shattered, you simply cease to be.’ 

‘you can feel it, a stranger in your own body, an impostor … and nothing is the same ever again.’ 

‘did you think that I would let you go?’

‘I’m not ready to die.’

‘do you still hear his screams?’ 

‘they can break you, but not your promise.’

‘even death won’t keep you apart.’

‘you fought for your dream, now there is no way to win.’ 

‘you ran from it but brought it nearer.’ 

‘you will walk into the lair of the beast, look it in the eye and you will go to war.’

‘this is your mission. this is your quest. there is nothing else left.’

‘why suffer the past when there is a new road ahead? the only one that makes any sense.’ 

‘what are you doing? you’re showing weakness! you’re not a warrior, you’re a disgrace!’

‘they say dreams are visions of our memories, thoughts and fears as seen by our inner eye. but what if each of us is always dreaming?’ 

‘did you really think you could win? how could you be so stupid?’

‘go on, feel sorry for yourself because there’s no one left to do that for you.’ 

‘if you’re too much of a coward to fight then go ahead and end the suffering.’

‘maybe you’re already dead.’

‘there will be times that you will feel alone and exhausted, like a strange little fish swimming against the tides of the big ocean. but have the faith to let go and let the tide carry you away. because the whole ocean if your home and it does not ask you to swim against it.’

‘the gloom lifted, and for the first time in years, I felt a ray of hope.’ 

‘you want to believe it’s real but it’s a trick.’ 

‘it only takes an instant. fear swallows you before you have a chance to make sense of it. and darkness becomes a part of who you are.’

‘there’s no going back to how things were. there’s nothing left to go back to.’

‘you will die here. and all your suffering will have been for nothing.’

 ‘i’ll find you, my love. I promise.’ 

‘it’s so strange that we go to such lengths to bury death, something so very ordinary, inevitable.’

‘it’s as if we conspire to hide death because we have no answer for it.’ 

‘when death comes, and it forces itself onto our friends or loved ones, then comes the reckoning.’ 

‘if you go down there, no one can save you.’ 

‘that voice, it’s not (name).’ 

‘I can see the darkness in your eyes.’ 

‘no boy is going to save you, no one can.’

‘you cannot escape the darkness. your curse will make everyone suffer. their blood is on your hands!’ 

‘you’re tired but you have to keep going.’ 

‘this is wrong, this has to be wrong.’ 

‘they say that I’m cursed. what if they are right?’

‘they’re afraid of what they can’t see. like children afraid of the dark, they make up stories to fill the void. that doesn’t make them true.’

‘you have to step out of this darkness. let them see you for who you are, like I have.’ 

‘without you this darkness has made me a monster.’ 

‘the world once seemed so simple: black and white, darkness and light.’

‘the truth of life is revealed when we can face death without fear.’ 

‘how can the gods understand us if they refuse to die themselves?’ 

‘what if this is pointless?’ 

‘it makes sense in your mind but it does not make sense in the real world.’ 

‘maybe this is the price paid for the gift that the gods have granted you. the gift that makes you so very special in my eyes. just another part of the person I love.’

‘your eyes were open but you were … gone.’

‘I heard your voice. you brought me back.’ 

‘you found your own way back. all you needed was a little help. a little hope.’ 

‘you will pay a price for this.’ 

‘do you see it clearly now (name)? the suffering you’ve caused.’ 

‘you have blood on your hands.’

‘why must they pay for your heresy?’ 

‘why are  you fighting for someone who is already dead?’ 

‘I can’t fight it anymore!’ 

‘you said it, I have blood on my hands.’ 

‘I didn’t say that, you’ve done nothing wrong.’ 

‘who do you trust? him or me?’

‘do you still believe in me, (name)? in us?’ 

‘you don’t have to do this on your own anymore.’ 

‘silence is lonely.’ 

‘how will you save (name) if you are too much of a coward to step into the shadows?’ 

‘your sword is useless here.’ 

‘do you remember that darkness, (name)?’ 

‘I wont give up. I’m not going to rot in here!’

‘if I had stayed, I wouldn’t have survived.’ 

‘it was my mission to make you hate, to hate this darkness with a passion so great, it would focus your mind on the quest.’

‘all this time I’ve wanted to protect you from the truth that would have destroyed you a long time ago.’

‘I won’t stand in your way. you will not survive what is in there.’ 

‘I’m not here to fight my past. I’m here for (name).’ 

‘I will fulfil my vow, whatever the cost.’ 

‘that is our gift and our duty. I’m not going to look away in fear anymore.’ 

‘we’ll all die someday.’ 

‘I don’t want to die.’ 

‘if you don’t want to die with me, then leave me alone.’ 

‘there is nothing to go back to.’ 

‘it’s not like the old stories, is it? the noble warrior facing evil in search of victory and honor. clear dividing lines.’ 

‘it’s as if it knows true torment lies within memories you cannot defeat. cannot escape.’ 

‘don’t see me like this. turn away, (name).’ 

‘I remember it clearly now.’ 

‘fuck the gods! you did this!’ 

‘you created this darkness so you could hide behind it!’

‘only suffering brings salvation. it is the way of the gods.’ 

‘it was all a lie! you are a lie!’ 

‘look at you. running forward but moving backwards to wallow in your miserable past.’

‘I tried to save you from yourself.’ 

‘what can you do to me that you haven’t already?’ 

‘let go of your battle. let go of redemption. let go of (name).’ 

‘let go of your battle. you’ve done enough.’ 

‘you’re killing yourself.’ 

‘is that what you want me to believe? after all you’ve done to me?!’ 

‘you’ve crawled into me to confuse me and deceive me!’ 

‘you will have to kill me because i’ve got nothing left. no fear, no hate. no quest. nothing.’ 

‘you will have no power over me.’

‘a life without loss is one without love.’

‘the longer you hide from it, the longer the shadow grows, until all you can see is darkness.’

‘when our time comes, we must look death in the eye and embrace it as a friend. only then can we let go of our fear, and emerge from our darkness.’  

‘do not mourn the waves, the leaves, the clouds. even in darkness the wonder and the beauty of this world never leaves us. it is always there. waiting to be seen again.’

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