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

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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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Characters/Ship: Itzy Chaeryeong/Ryujin
Tags: major character death, characters doing bad things, and killing each other, possession(?)
Permission to Remix: Yes
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Chaeryeong knows how she’s going to die. It will be Ryujin, and it will be her own fault. She’d made peace with that years ago. The only hard part now is not letting that get in the way of her life.

They hadn’t know what they had woken up then. All they’d wanted was power. The rest of them had gotten it without the monster. Only Chaeryeong’s palms itch to close around a neck. It was still a game to them. Chaeryeong watches them laugh and peel off their sweaty rubber masks as they empty their bags after a job. Chaeryeong wishes she could laugh along.

She can sate it sometimes—the need—with a stranger in a bathroom, gurgling and choking as Chaeryeong lowers them softly to the floor before taping an “Out of Order” sign to the door.

But not always.

—

She wakes up with her hands closed around Ryujins throat. Again. She scrambles backwards off the bed, hitting the floor hard when her legs get tangled in the sheets.

Chaeryeong picks herself up off the ground, staring down at her hands as if they had betrayed her. She wonders for a second if getting rid of them will stop this from happening. She knows it won’t. Next time, it would be her teeth around Ryujin’s throat instead. It’s her mind that is the problem.

She looks around at the other girls, all sleeping quietly on their own beds and she lets out a breath she didn’t know she was holding. Then she sees the reflections of Ryujin’s eyes in the dark and she freezes.

Ryujin stares back at her, seemingly just as frozen. It’s too dark to tell if she’s scared. She should be—Chaeryeong is. Then, carefully, slowly, Ryujin pulls the sheets back onto the bed before laying back down and closing her eyes. Chaeryeong wishes she knew what Ryujin was thinking.

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It ends like this:

Chaeryeong struggles under Ryujin, clawing at her forearms as Ryujin closes her hands tighter around Chaeryeong’s neck. The edges of her vision go in and out, and there’s an awful pressure behind her eyes, like she needs to cry, but she can’t. Chaeryeong supposes she doesn’t really deserve it.

She wishes she could see Ryujin’s face. But she’s wearing her mask again. The $5 generic ghoul mask they’d picked up from the halloween store when they had started this whole thing. Chaeryeong’s own is only a few feet away. She pats at the ground, seeing if she can feel it. She doesn’t want Ryujin to see her like this. She wonders if Ryujin would let her feel her neck as she dies. She knows she won’t.

this really tickled my brain, i love the doomed protag thing you did with chaer. i too wish i knew what ryujin was thinking!

the monster possession? thing is so intriguing i wonder if ryujin was possessed too and what happened after waahh... She wishes she could see Ryujin’s face. / She doesn’t want Ryujin to see her like this. <- i really like this thank you for writing!!!

Round 1: Quotes

[FILL] hands around her neck

Re: [FILL] hands around her neck

Re: [FILL] hands around her neck