This Is Gonna Hurt, Child Plz, I Love You But You Should Know Better

Noin, after Zechs sacrifices himself: Now let us send him off with a traditional ballad

Noin, crying and playing Toxic by Britney Spears: it’s what he would have wanted

Sentence Prompts

“Are you even listening to me?”

“Where are your pants?”

“I laugh because I hurt inside.”

“Please refrain from shooting her, we need her for later.”

“You look like an open autopsy.”

“That’s french for ‘go away’.“

“You know, I would help, but making fun of you is so much more satisfying.”

“No, you silly goose, it’s magic!”

“Put me down!”

“How much did someone pay you to wear that?!”

“What did you just do?!”

“Stop filming me, moron!”

“It was all me, by the way.”

“Look at this, ACTION ROLL! They’ll never see it coming!”

“You know ‘give me a warning’ means let me know BEFORE they come in here!”

“I’d say I’m sorry, but I’m not.”

“I may have mildly panicked…”

“Ooo, that must’ve hurt!”

“I am very, very bad under pressure!”

“Shut up, it’s fine, just chill, we’re fine, I’m fine, everything is cool, everything is good! We’re chill, nothing is happening and I am not freaking out, not at all, we’re FINE.””

“Now, not to be forward, but I love you.”

“I’m 72 different flavors of done with you.”

“Hey, on the ground there it says you’re a gullible shit.”

“It’s do or die, most likely die.”

“No it’s ‘Protect and Serve’ not ‘Get Rekt and Swerve’.”

“You make me smile.”

“Liam Neeson would do it.”

“Jail can’t stop me.”

“It’s four o'clock, don’t you think you should fuck off?”

“I remain confused.”

“As the wise Scooby Doo said; “Ruh Roh”.”

“I don’t know about you guys, but I feel fabulous.”

“Can someone shoot him?”

“Well this isn’t at all like High School Musical.“ 

“Quick, blend in!”

“At the moment, it seemed like a good plan, obviously it was not.”

“Well obviously nothing is going on here!”

“Can I help you?”

“Don’t be intimidated by my bloody and battered figure.”

“Is your name Bob? You look like a Bob.”

“KILL ME! KILL ME IN THE EYES!”

“Well that was unsettling.”

“Don’t judge me, but I may have murdered someone.”

“Why is there a picture of Steve Buscemi in your bathroom?!”

“My budget is 5 dollars, what are your recommendations?”

Instructor H: Don’t worry, you’ve got everything you need to defeat them.

Quatre: The power to believe in myself?

Instructor H: No, a Gundam.

Instructor H: Annihilate them.

Duo: Insane that spiders don’t immediately die when you hit them with something the size of a shampoo bottle

Duo: Like if you whacked me with a Ford Explorer i’d obviously be dead instantly. Am I just a pussy?

Heero: Yes

Words to replace said, except this actually helps

I got pretty fed up with looking for words to replace said because they weren’t sorted in a way I could easily use/find them for the right time. So I did some myself.

IN RESPONSE TO Acknowledged Answered Protested

INPUT/JOIN CONVERSATION/ASK Added Implored Inquired Insisted Proposed Queried Questioned Recommended Testified

GUILTY/RELUCTANCE/SORRY Admitted Apologized Conceded Confessed Professed

FOR SOMEONE ELSE Advised Criticized Suggested

JUST CHECKING Affirmed Agreed Alleged Confirmed

LOUD Announced Chanted Crowed

LEWD/CUTE/SECRET SPY FEEL Appealed Disclosed Moaned

ANGRY FUCK OFF MATE WANNA FIGHT Argued Barked Challenged Cursed Fumed Growled Hissed Roared Swore

SMARTASS Articulated Asserted Assured Avowed Claimed Commanded Cross-examined Demanded Digressed Directed Foretold Instructed Interrupted Predicted Proclaimed Quoted Theorized

ASSHOLE Bellowed Boasted Bragged

NERVOUS TRAINWRECK Babbled Bawled Mumbled Sputtered Stammered Stuttered

SUAVE MOTHERFUCKER Bargained Divulged Disclosed Exhorted

FIRST OFF Began

LASTLY Concluded Concurred

WEAK PUSY Begged Blurted Complained Cried Faltered Fretted

HAPPY/LOL Cajoled Exclaimed Gushed Jested Joked Laughed

WEIRDLY HAPPY/EXCITED Extolled Jabbered Raved

BRUH, CHILL Cautioned Warned

ACTUALLY, YOU’RE WRONG Chided Contended Corrected Countered Debated Elaborated Objected Ranted Retorted

CHILL SAVAGE Commented Continued Observed Surmised

LISTEN BUDDY Enunciated Explained Elaborated Hinted Implied Lectured Reiterated Recited Reminded Stressed

BRUH I NEED U AND U NEED ME Confided Offered Urged

FINE Consented Decided

TOO EMO FULL OF EMOTIONS Croaked Lamented Pledged Sobbed Sympathized Wailed Whimpered

JUST SAYING Declared Decreed Mentioned Noted Pointed out Postulated Speculated Stated Told Vouched

WASN’T ME Denied Lied

EVIL SMARTASS Dictated Equivocated Ordered Reprimanded Threatened

BORED Droned Sighed

SHHHH IT’S QUIET TIME Echoed Mumbled Murmured Muttered Uttered Whispered

DRAMA QUEEN Exaggerated Panted Pleaded Prayed Preached

OH SHIT Gasped Marveled Screamed Screeched Shouted Shrieked Yelped Yelled

ANNOYED Grumbled Grunted Jeered Quipped Scolded Snapped Snarled Sneered

ANNOYING Nagged

I DON’T REALLY CARE BUT WHATEVER Guessed Ventured

I’M DRUNK OR JUST BEING WEIRDLY EXPRESSIVE FOR A POINT/SARCASM Hooted Howled Yowled

I WONDER Pondered Voiced Wondered

OH, YEAH, WHOOPS Recalled Recited Remembered

SURPRISE BITCH Revealed

IT SEEMS FAKE BUT OKAY/HA ACTUALLY FUNNY BUT I DON’T WANT TO LAUGH OUT LOUD Scoffed Snickered Snorted

BITCHY Tattled Taunted Teased

[babysitting Mariemaia]

Quatre: What are you guys up to?

Mariemaia, pouring tea: Playing tea party.

Quatre: Oh how nice!

Duo, throwing the teapot into the pool: I’m not paying these fucking taxes!

This is the most accurate description I’ve ever found, thought it was worth spreading ❀

What would completely break your character? losing his family

What was the best thing in your character’s life? his wife and daughter

What was the worst thing in your character’s life? losing his home multiple times

What seemingly insignificant memories stuck with your character? 

Does your character work so that they can support their hobbies or use their hobbies as a way of filling up the time they aren’t working? to fill the time he’s not working

What is your character reluctant to tell people? who he’s married to

How does your character feel about sex? always up for it

How many friends does your character have? 7-10 really close ones

How many friends does your character want? he has all he needs

What would your character make a scene in public about? his daughter

What would your character give their life for? his wife or daughter

What are your character’s major flaws? guilt/shame-based personality that feeds his insecurities

What does your character pretend or try to care about? PTA meetings

How does the image your character tries to project differ from the image they actually project? he’s a lot more insecure than he lets on

What is your character afraid of? losing his family

What is something most people in your setting do that your character things is dumb?

Where would your character fall on a politeness/rudeness scale? somewhere in the middle? He knows how to behave but he’s prone to misbehavior 

Things you should know about each of your characters

These are what I would consider to be the most basic, bare-bones questions of character creation.

What would completely break your character?

What was the best thing in your character’s life?

What was the worst thing in your character’s life?

What seemingly insignificant memories stuck with your character?

Does your character work so that they can support their hobbies or use their hobbies as a way of filling up the time they aren’t working?

What is your character reluctant to tell people?

How does your character feel about sex?

How many friends does your character have?

How many friends does your character want?

What would your character make a scene in public about?

What would your character give their life for?

What are your character’s major flaws?

What does your character pretend or try to care about?

How does the image your character tries to project differ from the image they actually project?

What is your character afraid of?

What is something most people in your setting do that your character things is dumb?

Where would your character fall on a politeness/rudeness scale?

One very common mistake among beginning writers is to write “Verbing, she verbed” when it would be better to write “She verbed and verbed.”

For instance, take this sentence:

Unlocking the door, she got into the car.

Taken at face value, this sentence tells you that she got into the car even though she was still in the process of unlocking it. That’s impossible. You need to unlock the door first, and only then can you get in the car  Here’s how that sentence should look instead:

She unlocked the door and got in the car.

Somebody said that this is nitpicking. You can see it that way, I suppose. But you can also see it as a choice between writing something else than what you meant to, or simply saying what you mean. And isn’t that choice fairly easy?

Duo and Hilde having a conversation about cause and effect, and about being allowed freedom to choose their own fate. She said that the beginning of colony people losing their smile is Operation Meteor when the actions of the gundam pilots dragged them all into direct confrontation with the earth government, the reason why colonies are about to be attacked. The gundam pilots were never be chosen by the majority of the colony dwellers, they actually self-appointed to do 'missions for the sake of the colonies'. In a way not only they're stealing the colony people's agency about how to deal with the Alliance's threat but also dragging-forcing many people in the colonies, civilians included, to become directly involved with the war.

Sometimes overprotectiveness could be perceived as patronizing arrogance and playing God with other people's life. This bring into question about the actual motivations of the gundam pilots, something that not might not even themselves fully realized or dared to examine closely. If this is real life scenario then there would be a tangle between selfishness and unselfishness no matter how the motivations be verbalized.