girlsfest | Round 1: Quotes

Each prompt should be centered around words that have already been said.

Possibilities include a quote of any kind:

Existing works (books, poetry, TV shows, movie scripts, video game scripts, song lyrics, articles)
Speech (celebrity, netizen, anonymous)
Anything else that fits!

Example:

Characters/Ship: ITZY Ryujin/Chaeryeong
Tags: alternate universe - fantasy, ryujin is marceline chaeryeong is pb!!
Prompt:

Marceline: I dreamed about you while I was in my poison coma. I was all old and withered, and you were still nice and pink.

Princess Bubblegum: You think I'm nice?

-- Adventure Time 7x12, "Stakes Part 7: Checkmate"

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RULES

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CONTENT
Prompts and fills have to center around K-pop girl group member(s). This includes:

All active and former girl group members
Female soloists
Female members in co-ed groups
Any female idol or trainee affiliated with K-pop (e.g. GP999 contestants, AKB48 members who featured in Produce48)
Slash, gen, het, and trans works are all accepted as long as they involve at least one girl group member

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Characters/Ship: Any
Tags: canon compliant, no major character death
Prompt:

Blow all my friendships
To sit in hell with you
But we're the greatest
They'll hang us in the Louvre

- Lorde, The Louvre

FILLING

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[FILL] still I fall

Characters/Ship: Aespa Winter/Karina
Tags: idolverse, predebut, shared trauma
Permission to Remix: Please ask
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REMIXES

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Characters/Ship: TWICE Dahyun/Nayeon
Tags: Soulmate AU, Fantasy mythology au, vibes
Permission to Remix: Yes
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I might not be the right one
- Daft Punk

If they were soulmates, Dahyun wouldn't have to carry Nayeon's dying body to the lake.

The leaves on the forest floor crackle and crunch under Dahyun's hurried steps. It's dangerous to stumble, with her warden heavy on her back, but Dahyun has no choice but to run to the clearing as fast as she can, as carelessly as she can.
She'll make it. Nayeon always makes it. The war cries faded into the distance long before Dahyun realized it; but the longer they take, the more likely it is that their pursuers will catch up.

Nayeon's breath is shallow on Dahyun's neck, warm and wet blood seeping into the back of Dahyun's shirt. If they were soulmates, Dahyun could heal her open wound with a kiss.

If they were soulmates—gods, if they were soulmates. Dahyun wouldn't even be on this wild goose chase. Nayeon wouldn't have had to join her on this endless quest, wouldn't have had to take the spear aimed at her heart. Dahyun wouldn't have had to find her soulmate to save the world and almost lose Nayeon in the process.

Dahyun all but stumbles headlong into the clearing. The canopy of the forest opens to a burning lilac sky, clouds drifting across the still surface of the lake.
Sunset of another day, another day of this hellish prophecy. Dahyun falls to her knees, drapes Nayeon on the ground so that her hand touches the wet soil. They’re not soulmates, so the mercy of the gods will have to do.

The air is quiet and still. Dahyun cards a hand through Nayeon’s hair, matted with soil and blood. The mercy of the gods will have to do; otherwise, the world is as good as dead.

Nayeon gasps in a breath. Her eyes flutter open, irises a brilliant electric blue. “Dahyunnie.”

Mercy. Dahyun takes her hand, presses her palm against her own cheek.

It comes crashing down in an instant: the fear that Dahyun could have lost Nayeon for good, the relief that she hadn't. Grief, unwarranted, forms in Dahyun's mouth as murmured sobs and clouds her eyes with tears.

“Easy,” Nayeon whispers, wiping Dahyun's eyelid with her thumb. The water of the lake is working its magic; the wound on Nayeon’s rib closes, color returned to Nayeon's skin. Electric blue irises fade back into their lovely brown. “Don’t cry like that over me.”

Dahyun thuds a feeble fist against Nayeon’s chest, and is met with a grunt. Nayeon is okay; she shudders in a breath. “You don’t get to say that.”

The look in Nayeon’s eyes hurts more than cuts and bruises. “Dahyun.”

“Don’t.” Dahyun opens her fist, cradles Nayeon’s face. “Not when I almost lost you.”

“Dahyun–”

“No.” Dahyun’s words come out choked. “No. Let me have this.”

Nayeon’s lovely brown eyes say everything: I want this. I can’t have this. I can’t have you. Instead she shakes her head, says something else. “We can stay here.”

The forest behind them is quiet. Dahyun can’t sense the pursuers as well as Nayeon can, even in this weakened state. “Shouldn’t we move?”

“I don't sense them coming after us.” Nayeon tries to sit up, winces with the effort before dropping back down on the water's ledge. The look in her eyes is both victory and defeat. “Let's stay. I don’t think I can move, anyway.”

The mercy of the gods, or a relinquished bribe. “If we can really rest,” Dahyun says, “let’s rest.”

The gods and their prophecies be damned; Dahyun can't do this alone.

“We can.” Nayeon stretches her arms. “C'mere.”

Dahyun falls into Nayeon's embrace.

screams....i really love how ill-fated this is and yet the love..the love!!! the frustration is so palpable in the way this was written and so beautifully at that. +im a sucker for the magical elements as well like the lake and how soulmates can heal each other T_T Nayeon’s lovely brown eyes say everything: I want this. I can’t have this. I can’t have you. Instead she shakes her head, says something else. “We can stay here.” aagh everything is so gorgeous thank you for writing!!!

Round 1: Quotes

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