No One Has Ever Looked More Beautiful Than Her In This Scene

anyway

ELETHEA + HIGHEVER & GWAREN.

thea IS ableist towards herself and WOULD "undo" her amputation and be "normal" again if she could. miss girl is obsessed with being perfect, and being an amputee is not part of that equation to her.

kisses him on his mouth

elethea: people always ask me how i pronounce my name is it “ella-thea” or “uh-lee-thea” and i always tell them the same thing. how dare you speak to me.

"On March 15, 1498, according to the reports of the Ferrarese ambassador in Venice, [Lucrezia] gave birth to a boy who was christened Giovanni (Juan), in memory of her beloved brother, the murdered Duke of Gandía. The official bull declared that the child, delicately described therein as 'the Roman infant' (infans Romanus)." — The Borgias and their enemies 1431-1519 by Christopher Hibbert

the bog wife.

dialogue prompts from the bog wife by kay chronister.

don't tell me you didn't see it.

things are coming to their natural conclusion.

can't i please make you something to eat? you'd feel better.

____ loved you most.

you won't get the heart of me. that's somewhere you can't reach.

you having a panic attack?

i don't even know what home will look like.

i've never known you to say anything you didn't mean.

how is it sacred, if you're not afraid of it?

you can sleep with me, if you want. like we used to.

i know i used to annoy you. i won't now. i promise.

just do whatever you'd do if i weren't here.

saying something enough times won't make it true.

did you ever fall in love, when you were out there?

make coffee. make a lot of it.

i don't always do what i'm told.

there's no way to start but to start.

it's not healthy, what we're doing.

one down, the rest of our lives to go.

only the rich can afford to be sick nowadays.

would you read to me?

no one has to know.

i'm glad you're still alive.

i'm okay. i'm not going anywhere.

you from around here?

you feel so far away now.

i want you to tell me things. i want to know everything about you.

what? why aren't you saying anything?

where else would i go?

i don't want strangers to come here.

night is always the most precarious time.

you know how babies are made, right?

just say it. what do you think happened?

i keep thinking of things i want to tell you about.

are you really going to lecture me?

aren't we still a family?

you can come with me. i'll take care of you.

do you not get that we are separate people?

i thought i was doing what i had to.

i need you to see something.

you will not survive not changing.

soon i will be unrecognizable to you.

i will still be here, but not like before.

have you ever heard anything i've said?

why aren't you angry?

i know you think i'm a tyrant.

i've been hanging on for so long, i'm afraid of what would happen if i ever let go now.

none of us know how to take care of ourselves.

you ended up stronger than the rest of us.

sometimes it doesn't seem like you can hear me.

i've never not been alone.

i don't want to be lonely anymore.

where were you, before?

you've been changing for a while, now.

i need to be someone else.

🐝  *  ―  𝑭𝑶𝑼𝑹𝑻𝑯 𝑾𝑰𝑵𝑮 𝑺𝑬𝑵𝑻𝑬𝑵𝑪𝑬 𝑺𝑻𝑨𝑹𝑻𝑬𝑹𝑺.

❛  you will not fall. i will not allow it.  ❜ ❛  i could torch him if you like. but you do seem attached.  ❜ ❛  you're making us look bad. stop it.  ❜ ❛  i chose him for his inability to relent.  ❜ ❛  at least i didn't let you fall to your death.  ❜ ❛  but i will not run. i wouldn't be standing here if i'd quit every time something seemed impossible to overcome.  ❜ ❛  the right way isn't the only way.  ❜ ❛  justice is not always merciful.  ❜ ❛  the reason we'll never be anything more than friends isn't because of your rules. it's because you have no faith in me.  ❜ ❛  i'm used to functioning in pain, asshole. are you?  ❜ ❛  in the darkest moments, it is our light that shines the brightest.  ❜ ❛  fear is not the enemy, but rather the catalyst for growth and bravery.  ❜ ❛  the only limits we have are the ones we set for ourselves.  ❜ ❛  courage is not the absence of fear, but the willingness to face it head-on.  ❜ ❛  going for blood today, are we, [name]?  ❜ ❛  i don't deserve you. but i'm going to keep you all the same.  ❜ ❛  there's nowhere in existence you could go that i wouldn't find you, [name].  ❜ ❛  you look all frail and breakable, but you're really a violent little thing, aren't you?  ❜ ❛  defenseless women have never been my type.  ❜ ❛  even when i'm not with you, there's only you.  ❜ ❛  there is no me without you.  ❜ ❛  i've been yours for longer than you could ever imagine.  ❜ ❛  i know exactly who and what you are, [name].  ❜ ❛  we're all broken in some way, but that doesn't mean we can't find beauty in the cracks.  ❜ ❛  if i get my hands on you, really, honestly get my hands on you, i don't know if i'll be able to stop.  ❜ ❛  she exists and i get turned on. i've come to accept that particular truth over the last year.  ❜ ❛  fuck, i'm never going to get enough of you, am i?  ❜ ❛  not that i wouldn't climb the man like a tree if presented with the right set of circumstances.  ❜ ❛  let me guess, you could smell my perfume. isn't that what always gives the heroine away in books?  ❜ ❛  do you boys just want to whip it out and measure? it would be faster.  ❜ ❛  hope is a fickle, dangerous thing. it steals your focus and aims it toward the possibilities instead of keeping it where it belongs - on the probabilites.  ❜ ❛  you can't make me fall in love with you and then die.  ❜ ❛  none of this is worth it without you.  ❜ ❛  i'm so wildly in love with you that i can't imagine what my life would look like without you in it. and i probably shouldn't have said that, but if we're doing this, then we're starting from a place of complete honesty.  ❜ ❛  you never considered that it was you i couldn't stay away from?  ❜ ❛  you turned oranges into a weapon, [name]?  ❜ ❛  you're going to be the death of me.  ❜ ❛  have you always been this tall?  ❜ ❛  no one stays friends forever, [name]. eventually those closest to us become our enemies in some way, even if it's through well-intentioned love or apathy, or if we live long enough to become their villains.  ❜ ❛  i need you to survive this, even if i hate that i still love you.  ❜

NOW THATS BRYCE COUSLAND...

back to my roots (grey/white/blue color scheme) who want me