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[babydxhl]

"But it's not really real, is it?"

independent mary dahl / baby doll from btas. penned by bri (they/them). est. 2013.

#i sleep

[babydxhl]

baby doll + killer croc.

#sr. #</3

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“Send me ❀ for an aesthetic moodboard representing our muses’ relationship.”

— ( Specify muse and a color scheme if desired! )

#;;meme

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“all those little lies just make the truth feel worse.”

sentence starters | still accepting.

"Oh, don't start."

Sometimes anger is like friction, like static electricity, prickling on the skin and waiting to spark.

Mary sets her glass down on the coffee table, steps away, feels the breeze from the open patio door ruffle her hair and her clothes. Disgust mixes with the irritation mixes with the uppers and the antipsychotics and the liquor in her bloodstream like the world's most implosive cocktail.

"You pick and you pick and you pick at me, all fuckin' night." She presses both her hands to her face and then scrapes her palms back through her curls, back turned to Zsasz. Her therapist in Arkham — sad, nervous man, big glasses, like a drawing of a mole in a children's book — tells her she needs to separate herself from situations. Count to 10. Walk away. Turn the other cheek.

She's too confrontational for this advice to ever stick.

"You know what?" she says after a beat, and spins on her heel to look at Zsasz again, gesturing with one index finger. "You're obsessed with telling everyone else how they're lying to themselves. And maybe I am, but God, at least I have an ounce of self awareness. At least I'm not so Goddamn smug and self-righteous that I can't figure out when I don't like the truth."

#sanguinesalvation #;;ask. #ITCHIN for a fight

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A pause. Mary watches the lights go past over the highway. It's not guilt, this feeling. One life to save her own. Hamlet had said it. Why, this is hire and salary, not revenge. It is, instead the hiring that sparks a vague discomfort in Mary Dahl; the idea that she will owe River anything after this pricks at the nape of her neck.

"A million," she says, and nods once to confirm it. "Good."

Coming back down the expressway and into the underground extinguishes the light for one breathless beat before it returns as a thin fluorescent running parallel to the asphalt. Mary settles back in her seat, wipes some imagined speck from her cheek, scrapes her hair back with her fingertips.

"We'll drop you home. How will you let me know when it's done?"

Sounds like she's got that base covered well enough... A single head it is, then. But tiny pebbles of mild disappointment well upon her chest, nonetheless. It's unavoidable really. One less life is one less payment, is one less nefarious purchase from those darkest reaches of the city's underbelly.

Ah well... Best direct focus to the task that's confirmed at-hand. Mary doesn't like it when she catches her mind drifting wayward.

"Have I ever disappointed you? Aside from in social situations, I mean."

"I'll do it for the million you were 'supposed' to give him, I find the irony of it all kinds of hilarious. If you want, I'll even tell him you'd found a better way to spend your money as he breathes his very last!"

One long leg crosses the other, River shrugs. "What do you say, Mary-dear, sound good?"

#redhemlock

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She turns on her heel and makes for the door with the brazen confidence of someone used to everyone else matching her pace, or — at the very least — used to demanding it of them. The air outside is crisp, the street a transient kind of busy. All cast-down eyes and hurried, purposeful steps, the skittering behaviour of Gotham's survivors.

Mary looks at the car idling by the kerb. The driver looks back at her. He's only a vague silhouette behind the tinted glass, but she sees him nod at her, rest one palm on the wheel. "Drivin' or walkin'?" she asks Basil, scraping her hair back from her face with the tips of her fingers. "You said you wanted the air."

He merely snorts. Mary held her liquor damn near as well as he did, and that was saying quite a lot given both matters of their drastic size difference and his own generally wacky physiology. The cane he's carrying drops from the crook of one arm and subsequently unfolds with a bright, sharp shink, its end settling on the weathered wood of the bar floor. Hell, he'd have let her touch him without complaint. She was about the only person who could get away with it, anyhow. Basil has known her for long enough to pick up on that energy in an instant. He motions towards the entrance with a hand; there's enough of a chill coming in through the poorly-patched crack in the window so as for him to feel it. "What a coincidence, my dear. So do I." There's something unnerving about his smile, and maybe there always has been. "Now, shall we officially take our leave? I find it's getting a tad stuffy in here."

#oncegreatness

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meme call. like and I'll raid your meme tag to send things x

#;;ooc. #i be lurking let me send love to you all

[babydxhl]

marycore soz

#;;ooc. #tbd.

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Village of the Damned (1960) dir. Wolf Rilla

#;; famous and dumb at an early age { aesthetic }

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@kingofthewebxxx their vibe

#;;ooc. #sorry had to do it #kingofthewebxxx

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MAKEOVER :  for one muse to help the other with a new outfit or hairstyle

(in honor of mary’s birthday ❤️)

scenario sentence starters | still accepting.

"Your music sucks," Mary declares, with all the snottiness of someone half her age, and reaches across the vanity to snag the bottle of deep purple nail polish.

The peeling label says Royal in cracked gold lettering; she shakes it haphazardly in one hand, the other tapping fingertip-light at Tiffany's arm near her temple. "Don't melt my hair off."

It feels like playing dress-up doll. Porcelain skin and nylon hair.

Mary feels the curling iron heat close to the crown of her head, sets the nail polish down, taps her still unpainted fingernails on the tabletop in time with the thrumming music. The ring of yellow bulbs around the mirror reflect back on the whites of her eyes.

"You're bein' sweet to me, huh?" Mary's fingertips snag Tiffany's sleeve; there's a possessive little note to the gesture, the kind of entitlement that colours almost everything Mary does. A giggle bubbles its way out of her throat. "Or you just feel sorry for me."

#;;ask. #bloodybcrbie #mwahhhh

[babydxhl]

guys wake up I'm being so serious rn

first year in a while I did NOT forget that mary's birthday is tomorrow applause for ME

#;;ooc. #Mary's birthday and new laura palmer behind the scenes photo same day like a treat just for me

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a comprehensive list of scenarios

feel free to combine multiple prompts or add  “ + reverse ”  to switch roles !   for reference, the one sending in the prompt is the one committing the action.

1.  GUEST :  for one muse to offer the other a place to stay. 2.  STORM :  for both muses to find shelter from a severe storm. 3.  MEDIC :  for one muse to show up at the other’s doorstep injured. 4.  SURPRISE :  for one muse to come home and find the other already inside. 5.  TRIP :  for both muses to road trip or travel together. 6.  BABYSIT :  for one muse to help the other home while they’re drunk. 7.  INSOMNIA :  for one muse to find the other still awake at 3am. 8.  AMBUSH :  for both characters to come under attack by the same enemy. 9.  DANCE :  for one muse to ask the other to dance at a party. 10.  STRANDED :  for one muse to help the other who’s stranded on the road. 11.  SERVICE :  for one muse to cover the cost of something for the other. 12.  SAFEGUARD :  for one muse to save the other from being hit by a vehicle or from some other life-threatening event. 13.  DAZE :  for one muse to wake somewhere and find the other hovering over them. 14.  STOWAWAY :  for one muse to find the other hiding on the same ship. 15.  TAXI :  for both muses to share the same taxi ride. 16.  MAKEOVER :  for one muse to help the other with a new outfit or hairstyle. 17.  LIFEGUARD :  for one muse to rescue the other from drowning. 18.  DISASTER :  for both muses to work together to escape a fire, flood, or other disaster. 19.  TRANSIT :  for one muse to sit next to the other on a public transport. 20.  SPRAIN :  for one muse to carry the other after spraining their ankle. 21.  EMPLOY :  for one muse to be hired as the other’s bodyguard, tutor, assistant, etc. 22.  QUEST :  for one muse to help the other with a task in exchange for compensation. 23.  SOOTHE :  for one muse to calm the other during a panic attack. 24.  RECOVER :  for one muse to return the other’s lost belonging. 25.  UMBRELLA :  for one muse to share their umbrella with the other on a rainy day. 26.  HEAL :  for one muse to nurse the other back to health from a sickness or injury. 27.  NIGHTMARE :  for one muse to comfort the other after a nightmare. 28.  REUNION :  for one muse to run into the other again after a long time. 29.  PRIZE :  for one muse to win the other a prize at a carnival. 30.  NUDE :  for one muse to walk in on the other while they’re changing. 31.  BED :  for both muses to wake in the same bed, naked or fully clothed. 32.  TRAIL :  for one muse to notice the other has been following them. 33.  EVADE :  for one muse to pull the other into an alleyway to escape their pursuer. 34.  THIEF :  for one muse to confront the other after having something stolen by them. 35.  CAUGHT :  for one muse to walk in on the other singing / dancing. 36.  FESTIVE :  for both muses to decorate for a special occasion. 37.  PRESENT :  for one muse to give the other a  (birthday)  gift. 38.  WEARY :  for one muse to wake up after falling asleep on the other. 39.  CAPTIVE :  for one muse to hold the other against their will. 40.  SNAP :  for one muse to yell at or push the other out of frustration. 41.  SLEEPOVER :  for one muse to stay the night at the other’s place. 42.  TRESPASS :  for one muse to trespass on the other’s property. 43.  BREAK-IN :  for one muse to discover the other robbing their place. 44.  MERCY :  for both muses to come across an injured animal. 45.  UNKNOWN :  for both muses to wake and find themselves in a strange place. 46.  ACCOMPLICE :  for one muse to assist the other at the scene of a crime. 47.  ASTRAY :  for both muses to take a detour and lose their way. 48.  RELAX :  for both muses to share a hot tub or hot spring. 49.  MUSE :  for one muse to model for the other’s art project. 50.  ACCOMPANY :  for one muse to give the other an extra ticket to an event. 51.  SALVAGE :  for one muse to retrieve the other’s belongings from a thief. 52.  MEAL :  for both muses to prepare and share a meal together. 53.  CEMETERY :  for one muse to find the other at a gravestone. 54.  REFUGE :  for one muse to shelter the other from enemies. 55.  ARRANGED :  for both muses to date or marry out of convenience. 56.  FAVOR :  for one muse to owe the other a favor. 57.  VACATION :  for both muses to book the same hotel on vacation. 58.  DEFEND :  for one muse to save the other from one or multiple assailants. 59.  CATCH :  for one muse to return the other’s pet that escaped. 60.  RESTRICTED :  for both muses to sneak into someplace they’re not supposed to be.

#;;meme

[babydxhl]

SHIRLEY TEMPLE in NOW AND FOREVER (1934) dir. henry hathaway

#;;myedits #;; the oldest i ever was { fc: shirley temple } #shirlssss #traditional gifset for mary's birthday

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first year in a while I did NOT forget that mary's birthday is tomorrow applause for ME

#;;ooc. #first year in a while I have not been in the TRENCHES and forgotten until the last minute

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starter call.

#;;ooc.

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i forgot the first comic mary was ever in was li'l gotham and like. they understood her I won't lie they got the VibeTM

#sr. #they understood her #never forget