#how'd this quiz know about all my temperature motifs?

[ghostoffuturespast]

What Does Your Heart Look Like?

I don't have any internal organs anymore so did this quiz for Stinky Grandpa V. Link to quiz here.

Thank you for the tag @shimmer-like-agirl! <3

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iced over, out of the sun

Your heart is very lonely, isn’t it? Is your fortress of ice self-made? Are others afraid of you, or are you afraid of them? Are you afraid of hurting them, or of being hurt? Vulnerability and connection can be frightening, but that’s no reason to shy away from their light, to tuck yourself small into corners, to build up frigid walls to keep yourself from feeling. You will heal when you allow yourself to draw closer to the flames and thaw.

She didn't fully understand it back then; the words themselves. Their meanings or origins. But she did come to know the furnishings of her house well. The angry keel and pitch of raised voices, the shattering of porcelain and glass, the cuts and bruises hidden beneath the opulence of fabric. The narrowed gazes of unmet expectations whenever she dared to look up.

Those were the things she had come to know in her house.

She'd never be like her mother. Never be like Vivianne. So, she stopped trying. It was easier that way. Not having to think about amounting to anything. Not caring. Wondering when the food in her belly would stop making her nauseous. Wondering if the place she slept at night would ever keep her warm. Wondering if a house could ever be a home.

That's what she told herself.

But then she cared too much when the blood pooled on the tile of the kitchen floor. When the bathtub flooded and water spilled over the edges. She cared too much about that house being empty. When there was no one home.

Nowhere to shelter, V just got used to the cold.

#cyberpunk 2077 #tag you're it #character studies #oc: valerie hye jin li #otp: so it goes #stinky not fresh #my grandpa v #cw: domestic abuse #how'd this quiz know about all my temperature motifs? #okay got a little carried away with writing... #writing #fan fiction